CHANGE IN CONTACT DETAILS....DR. HARESH BAROT - GANPAT UNIVERSITY

[Haresh Barot]

Dr. Faculty Friends, 

Kindly Contact me on following mail id now onwards....

barot...@yahoo.com

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Associate Professor
V. M. Patel Institute of Management,
Ganpat University
Mehsana - Gandhingar Highway
Kherva -Mehsana (North Gujarat)

[pummy sinha]

Dear Faculty Friends,

There is a grim problem that is faced by many of us ,as faculty members of various business schools.The issue is that despite having good & highly qualified faculty,sincere about teaching,students do not bother to come to the class.They turn up directly at exam time,of course writing nonsense in the papers, yet getting through.

I  am requesting you  to suggest ,on the basis of you experience , what measures can be taken to bring the students to the classroom?  

Regards,

Dr.ShaliniI Sinha

Head of Department

Department of Management Studies

NRI Institute of Information Science & Technology

Bhopal

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[k c Mishra]

Well Dr Sinha,      it is not that we all teach well,  may be we all have EQ and experience.  Also commitment is lacking totally with most of us.Mushrooming growth of B-Schools force us give good marks to show good pass %  and also survive in the market. Please strictly value answer papers , may be you take one hour  to value one   answer script.Most notable is we have opened the gate and result is undeserving  elements are coming to studying MBA   with virtually negative aptitude.  

To take a PG class please prepare for three hours and then take a class.Have clear vision for your B-School with strict discipline , rest will be al right.

Dr Mishra

Bangalore

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[srivastava]

Dear Prof

1.Floow the university and UGC RULE which says no exam if attendence is below 70 %

2.Students attend the class if teacher is strict and director of B-schooll is strict.Have surprize test and quiz and presentation

3.If you do that you will have 100 percent results

dr.r.k.srivastava

Prof and hod

Sydenham management institute

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[Evangellos Dedoussis]

You are not alone Dr Sinha!

 

Since long time ago I stopped taking attendance in class. What I do, instead, is that day one in a new term to explain to students that I treat them as adults making informed decisions in life including to attend/not classes. Of course, I stress all the benefits of attendance and explain that, other factors being equal, those who attend tend to outperform those who do not. So, if they come to fail a course because of poor attendance, they will have only themselves to blame.

I reinforce this message once a month or so via e-mails. Other than this I do nothing.

What I have noticed is that there is insignificant difference in attendance whether students receive credit for it or not.

 

Best regards

 

Evangellos Dedoussis Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management P.O. Box 28282, Dubai - U.A.E. DL : +971 4 318 3302 T : +971 4 399 9000  Ext. 302 F : +971 4 399 8899 E : ededo...@aud.edu www.aud.edu

 

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Dear Faculty Friends,

[sailaxmi gandhi]

Sir,

1.Strict attendance (both theory and practical if you have) with 80% eligibility to sit for the exams.

2. Recognizing the student with 100% attendance with a certificate (given along with highest rank certificates at the time of graduation, etc.)

Best wishes,

 

Dr.Sailaxmi Gandhi    Ph.D.Nursing
Assistant Professor,
Department of Nursing,
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Bangalore 560029
Karnataka  

[Nirmala Joshi]

Dear Faculty friends,

In such cases we need to be very strict-  1. Don't allow them to write exam when attendance is below 75%. 2. Set question paper from what you had discussed in the classroom - not from the standard Text books. If your content and delivery is good, they will come automatically without imposing any rule/ punishment. 

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Dr. Nirmala Joshi

Research and MET SEVA Head,

MET-IOM, Mumbai

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[Amardeep]

The key is to know your students well on name basis and engage them with your deliverable connected with their short attention span in class & outside the class.

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[hod Economics]

Without carrot-n-stick policy you can do nothing. For eligibility of sitting for an exam in a paper or course some minimum percentage(say 80 per cent) of attendance should be made mandatory-no excuses to be accepted. For internal assessments (class tests etc) surprise tests should be arranged. In my department this works in spite of having strong political party backed student union.

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[Steven J Dekrey]

At HKUST we used a 75% attendance requirement to get course credit.  After the policy, problem solved.
SJD

[Suresh Palsodkar]

Dear All,

After being in the education field for more than 40 yrs,I feel that poor attendance of students in classrooms is a result of multiple factors which combined together, create the problem.The list of factors and probable solutions can be as follows.

1)Poor carriculam  framed at University level which is a result of compromises on individual abilities of the elected  board  of studies members.Solution is to give the job to a nominated body of academicians in the true sense.

2)Good governance at University and college level is lacking.Solution will be to make Principals/Directors and Vice chancellors more accountable through strict measures by amending their service conditions.

3)Teachers working in a protected environment are least bothered about the poor attendance.Many times, superiors ask them to show fake attendance sothat University requirements are fulfilled.Solution lies with us only.

Dr.S.G.Palsodkar

Pune(M.S.)Ph. 9850174794

[prithvishankar]

I agree with Dr. Mishra's advise on evaluation of answer papers, and I do implement it....I teach Statistics and the Operations paper in the first year. People who do not attend classes regularly fail to attempt and write sensibly. I attempt to do justice to each and every student sincerely and justly. Though checking may bring student's anger against you, if you hold your groung they start respecting you and in the repeat attmept they take seriously and come out with good performance. Our senior management is very supportive of such measures to impart quality justification to the education.........at least those who pass out  should be able to do well in the interviews and compete at least, if not get all the job offers ! That also spreads good image.

I understand, there are a large majority of students who would like to carry home a good score in mark sheets, to show it to their parents as a return of investments at least, if not secure a good job due to their own weakness and deficiencies! There may be many among us , willing to oblige in order to maintain a good image among students this way and keep their popularity on the top! But students are smarter also to bite then at their back and show little respect for those who are not good teachers and mentors! Please discourage that!

regards,

Dr.P.S.Raychaudhuri
Deptt of Management,
Jamia Hamdard University,
New Delhi

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[prithvishankar]

Yes, Prof. Sarkar is correct ; we also implemented the same thing with strict discipline and it does work! Infact, surprise internal tests and taking average of all internal assessments binds them to quite an extent. However, you need to control the potential disturbance creators and disinterested students in the class, tactfully!

I am surprised to learn about the potential audacity of the present political party backed student's union. In our times in 1983-1988, at Calcutta University's College of Science and Technology, there was political party backed students union , but that was restricted to hardcore believers......though they tried to influence at times but the effect was very marginal!

regards,

Dr.P.S.Raychaudhuri
Department of Management,
Jamia Hamdard University,
New Delhi.

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[prithvishankar]

Yes Madam, I also endorse your methodology. I have been practicing it and they have to  follow the class, if they want to gain practical insights and question papers reflect application oriented topics with business implications!

regards,
Dr.P.S.Raychaudhuri
Deptt of Management,

Jamia Hamdard University,
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[Hazim Mulic]

Dear Dr. Shalinil Sinha,

 

Your question is of great importance for efficient teaching at university. So I took time to give a modest contribution to this theme.

 

In late 1980s I started teaching at the university in former Yugoslavia. Already in my first year as a lecturer I noticed that students often did not attend the lectures unless they are required to attend classes according to regulations of the Statute of the Faculty. I was really surprised because in my student time you have to come erlier if you want to find a place in the classroom. There were no formal obligations to attend classes. Obligation of presence was mandatory only for practical exercises.

Why most of us were so eager to learn as much as possible in classrooms? First, it was time after WWII and there were shortage of textbooks. Second, a student who does not fulfill all obligations required cannot enrool the next semmester. There were no exceptions!

 

To get back to this topic: as the number of student in classes has been constantly decreased during years the university administration issued a regulation that students who missed more than 20% of the lectures cannot enroll the next semester. This rule had substantially increased the number of students in classrooms, but my impression was that this did not increase the benefit of lectures in the same proportion. Students who came to classes only to fulfill the obligation were not concentrated on ongoing lecture. It was obvious: some would read newspapers (now they would use smartphones),  others whispered among themselves and so disturbed the others who have attentively listened to a lecture, and the like. The whole atmosphere in class was not favorable for efficient lecturing so that the lecturers would lose their motivation for good presentation. The final consequence was worse knowledge on exams and increasing number of failures in exams.

 

Some of the reasons for above described students' behavior from psychosocial point of view:

In recent decades, each new generation has been growing up under conditions of better and better living standard. Children have more or less been raised by americanized model of permissive upbringing – for (unfounded) fear of psychotrauma in childhood parents strive to meet all children's desires and allow them to behave the way that them (children) fits. I personally disagree with the attitude that "every unfulfilled wish is psychotrauma for a child and it has an adverse effect on its psychological development". Besides, by filling their children's wishes parents are trying to "buy" the sympathy of their children.

Every child want to feel comfortable and play carefree. That is why most of children resist getting any task or obligation. With such a permissive upbringing young people grow up with the already-formed mindset that life is "fun and games" and that the fulfillment of obligations (for instance, diligently learning and fulfillment of all other obligations during their stay at the university) does not belong to their duties. From early childhood the attitude that "society" is obliged to provide them a comfortable life has been implanting in their minds. In this way so called the "entitlement generation" has been created first in US but it has been spreading quickly around the world.

The term "entitlement generation" has been established (first in US, no wonder). What is entitlement? A simplified definition refers to a notion or belief that one (or oneself) has a right to some particular reward or benefit. No hard work required, it is enough to be alive and, as someone said, so to grace the planet with your presence. What a nonsense! The concept of human rights has been distorted to the level of a caricature.

But, unfortunately,  millions of youngsters around the world believe they are already entitled to live comfortably without their own efforts for work and overtaking responsibilities. India is not an exception and it can be expected more and more young people with such a belief which does not contain even elementary logic. Although there are still millions of poor people, there are also more and more families with good living standard that can support their young members financially and provide livelihood although they are not employed. In such a favorable conditions where to find motivation for hard work (at the university and elsewhere) and renunciation of personal desires. Most of these young people are not aware of this pitfall into which their parents pushed them unconsciously, ie. acting in good faith.

 

Overtaking responsibility for their behavior and actions young people must acquire during their studies. In this sense, the university administration must issue clear regulations on the obligations of students during the study and sanctions for those who break the rules. Sanctions must be rigorously applied without exceptions. But it can be expected that the administrations of private universities would be very reluctant to apply sanctions, fearing the reaction of students that can be manifested in their moving to another university. Such events could jeopardize the survival of these universities.

 

Another area for motivation of students to attend classes is in the domain of lecturers. They have to make their lectures really interesting and useful for listeners. By using modern techniques (slides, audio-video equipment, etc.) each lecture can be made ​​more interesting. Of course, lecturer's verbal skills also play an important role in keeping the audience's attention during lecture.

 

In conclusion, the question "what measures can be taken to bring the students to the classroom?" is simple, but the answers are very complex. I tried to give some explanations concerning such a behavior of students using knowledge from psychosocial studies and my personal experience as a university lecturer.

 

I hope this could be helpful in solving this important problem.

 

Regards,

 

Hazim Mulic, MD. PhD.

Professor of Neuropsychiatry

Croatia

hazim...@inet.hr

 

 

 

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[Farhang Mossavar-Rahmani]

I do not know about situation in India so please forgive me if my statement does not make sense. In the US we believe that at master level, they should not be forced to do anything. In our assessments we use questions about class participation. If we see problems then we will try to find out why they do not want to come to the class. There can be many reasons. May be the class is not as valuable as professor thinks that it is. May be they feel that they are learning and in fact wasting their time or …

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Dear colleagues, if we discuss this as a general problem it is ok. But we are discussing this as a specific problem pertaining to the institute/college where we are working ( we are giving address details at the end of the mail). Are we not exposing the negative points of our institute on the internet and whereby damaging the image of our institute. I believe it is unethical. May I request our learned friends to discuss this as a general Problem? Prof. Sai

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[Ketan Gandhi]

This indicates student's dis-engagement from learning process. Students, faculties, institutes, corporate companies all are responsible for this outcome. As various posts have mentioned several reasons and seems most of faculties advocating attendance compliance as solution. If symptoms are not correctly identified, actions can't solve problem. Since the question is to share measures, wish to suggest followings for management program. These are tried & tested measures in various b-schools in 9 countries I conduct learning sessions;

1. Faculty members responsible to teaching management life cycle - Faculty members responsibility is not only for taking lectures, but for entire teaching management cycle. Planning a course, planning a class, facilitating session, evaluating students, giving one on one feedback & counseling, own teaching evaluation. 

2. Change focus from professing & teaching to learning experience - Students of age groups between 20-25 don't find lectures, ppt presentations, one way professing very engaging. Adopt action learning/problem centered method like case method, simulation, games, group work, projects etc. for most of the syllabus. Higher education learning responsibility must be on participants, specially in management programs and role of faculty members should be as facilitator. Learning experience can only be good, if both sides are aiming for it. (Refer my blog on shift toward participant centered method 

http://kgguruji-managementeducation.blogspot.in/

3. Change evaluation of students - From 100% on theory exam to 20% on exam and 80% for class participation, activities etc. If university rules need to be changed, they need to be changed for management education. 

4. Follow adult learning techniques & teaching method, mix them with traditional classroom interaction- Adults don't learn like children. Adults are more discerning in what they are willing to learn, more questioning, and more resentful of being told what to learn. They need to see more clearly  ho what they are being asked to learn will benefit them. Adult resist change. They are engaged only, if they see there is an application of learning in real life. In current system, by the time they come to know about importance, it's 3rd & 4th semester, campus placement time etc. so it's too late. Adults want to learn only, if they really feel need to learn & want to learn.  

5. MBA program is not for all - MBA program is not for all graduates. Since number of seats are more than no of students appear, very one get admission. Before admission, students, parents should explained why they wish to join this program and what this program can do for them. Students who wish to accelerate their learning, wish to become entrepreneur, who wish to build professional network, who wish to develop interpersonal skills find MBA program much more useful & better compared to students who are only seeking job and pay package or only a social status. There is no alternative of learning by doing in industry, however, MBA program can be a simulated industry learning environment & having more industry interaction it can bridge the gap. 

6. Value addition - When students don't find value addition by faculty members over & above BOK of subject, their respect towards faculty starts fading. Faculty should add lot of value in learning sessions and should use very little time in reproducing what is already available in book or internet (unless it is absolute necessity for topic under discussion)   

7. Create opportunity for students to volunteer in extra curricular activities - Students of b-schools more engaged when they get opportunity to lead or participate in planning, organizing, executive events, quiz, competition etc. where they learn a lot by participating & volunteering. 

8. Use of technology - Faculties to use technology in knowledge transfer process-Using internet, social media faculty can build community of learners, forms groups to communicate, ask & engage them pre & post class.  

9. Align cultures - There are three major cultures felt at b-school. Student culture, faculty culture, Institute culture. Learning begins & ends with students. The characteristc they bring to classroom affect what they learn & how they learn. People have different learning style, different educational and professional backgrounds & different interests, each of which will share their learning. Student's general level of motivation and their motivation towards particular subjects may also be different. Student's motivation for study will be part a reflection of the other demands on their time, energy & curiosity. Collectively, students create a "student culture" depending on their number & diversity and the expectations that they have a well as expectations placed on them. This may or may not support teaching objectives of institute. 

10. Learning style - As we know people have different learning styles. People process information in one of three dominant ways- some preferring to hear it, some preferring to see it, and some preferring to experience it. Effective faculty will recognize that there are probably all three types in any one class room and will work to include audio, visual, emotional & activity components in their classes. Many times instructors fail to recognize this fact and reduce effectiveness of learning by do not allowing variation in student's cognitive style and try to teach all as one and follow one style. 

11. Faculty's personal characteristics as instructor mold student's learning experience - These characteristics include faculty's mannerisms, personality, values, techniques of punishment & praise, ability to explain & ask questions, and many other factors. Instructors need to recognize this and modify habits & approaches to reach broadest range of learners. 

If faculties are not ready and able to change, how can we expect students to change?   

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[vasanthi reena williams]

Good Morning and thanks for initiating a very important discussion.

I have been an academician since the past 20 years and have worked in several educational institutions. YES, I see these things happening, but not in every institution............ It happens only in those institutions where the management does not have a good administrator. As rightly pointed out by  Dr Shalini Sinha , the faculty are good but when students get the support from the management, then there is no use in appointing good faculty, organising programmes etc. In the end the course suffers because such students may get through but would find it difficult to get jobs of their aspirations. This will affect  admissions........still the management feel , pleasing students is more important ( which is short lived) than thinking of long term consequences.
Dr Prabajit Sarkar seems to have good support from his management and I congratulate him . Please continue the good work.

regards

Dr. Reena

[supriya biswas]

Poor attendance in classes has turned out to be a global crisis!

In non residential colleges, this is very common. 

One way to overcome this crisis is to introduce good incentive for attendance or adequately rewarding students with more than 65% attendance in a public function. This can be taken up on a monthly or half yearly basis, of course monthly basis seems to be more effective.I can recall, back in the 60s in my school days, our school used to award 'attendance prize' to one student in each class.

 Other factors for improving process and quality of teaching can be carried out in parallel. 

However, if the universities debar a student from taking the exam failing to maintain requisite attendance, then the problem would be nipped in the bud.

Furthermore, I feel that the conventional way of class room teaching is soon going to fade out. Education and training is going experience sea change shortly. It is going to be more of 'Learning from home' than 'Learning from classroom'. History would be best judge of my statement!

Best Regards to all of you 

Dr (Mr) Supriya Biswas

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[Bharathi S Gopal MBA Ken]

At Christ University, students are required to have 85% attendance. Besides there are lot of co-curricular and extra curricular activities that keep them busy in the campus.

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[Sripathy Karur]

Dr Shalinil Sinha,

I go for teaching in different B schools. One of the B Schools do not allow the students for exams, if they do not have 75% attendance in each subject. They will have to appear the next semester.

As suggested by Mr. Steven at HKUSt should also work. The fact remains, most of the managements do not want to fail candidates, because they think their school credibility is at stake if they are strict on these grounds. I know many are passed and given min pass marks, even if the students do not submit the assignments!!

The management is always concerned about low scores! It is unfortunate.

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[supriya biswas]

I feel the same - you cannot bring the horse to the water. 

The attendance problem is a syndrome by and large with Tier 2 and 3 B Schools where admission takes the driver's seat. Comprising outlook regarding parameters of intake is also responsible for such poor attendance. There may be some honourable exceptions,  but had it been the case with everybody, this point would not have cropped up. 

Besides, I reiterate, it is predominantly the situation with non residential colleges. Threats and disciplinary actions might create chaos. As Professor Rahmani rightly pointed out this cannot be forced on an adult student. Student faculty gaps can be worked out, motivations like recognising the regular students can bring some changes.

Dr Biswas

Kolkata  

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[HR]

Very True, I completely agree with Prof. Sai.

 Saxena 

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[ARUN B K]

Prof. Supriya, Prof. Shalini Sinha,Prof.Reena and all others,
Thanks for the insights. Don't you feel the prevailing confusions in macro-environment due to our earlier leaders at the centre who aimed in amasing wealty as the destination of life is also a contributing factor?
With Kind Regards
Prof.Arun B.K.
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[prithvishankar]

Dear Dr. Biswas and esteemed members,

Yes, debarring them from exam is a solution; we do implement.

But not at the cost of quality teaching, delivery and relevance of subject topics. We do that too. In fact the inter linkage between the various courses are also stressed upon to make the subjects more relevant and impressed upon why they should study? I teach QT , and I take practical examples with managerial implications that is relevant to Marketing, Business research/ survey  HR and Finance and Projects? Otherwise, I myself discuss with them and question in front of the students, why should you study QT?

As regards, to learning from home, I do not undermine that. However, I am sure it is not going to replace totally or going to be as effective as face-to-face classroom teaching! World over, in business , emergence of videoconferencing/ skype etc. has been useful, but it has not replaced and is not that effective as face to face negotiation , whether in marketing, HR counseling sessions or Financial dealings! they are used where distance cannot be covered in quick-meeting situation!

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[Saadi Hassan]

completely agree with Farhang. Attendance should not be used as stick

Zafir

[Ravi Pratap Singh]

Dear all concerned,

Good medicine is not always palatable or tasty. Creation of internal urge and external pressure
for students is essential to ensure their responsible behaviour. But role of quality of syllabus,
proper ambience and relations and worthiness of teaching methodology cann't be ruled out. Poor
attendance is gradually becoming more n more serious with the skin surfaced, over-confident,
money-minded,materialist and over smart genre of so called professional students which needs to
be controlled before it becomes irrepairable. But we needn't depend just on negative measures.
Student, teacher and system oriented strategies have to be synergised.

Regards,
Prof. R. P. Singh
Commerce and Management,
DDU Gorakhpur University
Gorakhpur


On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:53:40 +0530 wrote

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Dear Dr. Biswas and esteemed members,

Yes, debarring them from exam is a solution; we do implement.

But not at the cost of quality teaching, delivery and relevance of subject topics. We do that
too. In fact the inter linkage between the various courses are also stressed upon to make the
subjects more relevant and impressed upon why they should study? I teach QT , and I take
practical examples with managerial implications that is relevant to Marketing, Business research/
survey HR and Finance and Projects? Otherwise, I myself discuss with them and question in front
of the students, why should you study QT?

As regards, to learning from home, I do not undermine that. However, I am sure it is not going to
replace totally or going to be as effective as face-to-face classroom teaching! World over, in
business , emergence of videoconferencing/ skype etc. has been useful, but it has not replaced
and is not that effective as face to face negotiation , whether in marketing, HR counseling
sessions or Financial dealings! they are used where distance cannot be covered in quick-meeting
situation!

regards,
Dr.P.S.raychaudhuri

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UNIVERSITY

From: supriya...@hotmail.com
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To: sgpal...@yahoo.in
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Poor attendance in classes has turned out to be a global crisis!
In non residential colleges, this is very common.
One way to overcome this crisis is to introduce good incentive for attendance or adequately
rewarding students with more than 65% attendance in a public function. This can be taken up on a
monthly or half yearly basis, of course monthly basis seems to be more effective.I can recall,
back in the 60s in my school days, our school used to award 'attendance prize' to one student in
each class.
Other factors for improving process and quality of teaching can be carried out in parallel.
However, if the universities debar a student from taking the exam failing to maintain requisite
attendance, then the problem would be nipped in the bud.
Furthermore, I feel that the conventional way of class room teaching is soon going to fade out.
Education and training is going experience sea change shortly. It is going to be more of
'Learning from home' than 'Learning from classroom'. History would be best judge of my statement!
Best Regards to all of you

Dr (Mr) Supriya Biswas
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On 1 Jun 2014, at 14:00, "'Suresh Palsodkar' via exclusivembaglobal"

wrote:

Dear All,After being in the education field for more than 40 yrs,I feel that poor attendance of

students in classrooms is a result of multiple factors which combined together, create the

problem.The list of factors and probable solutions can be as follows.1)Poor carriculam framed at
University level which is a result of compromises on individual abilities of the electedboard of

studies
members.Solution is to give the job to a nominated body of academicians in the true sense.2)Good
governance at University and college level is lacking.Solution will be to make
Principals/Directors and Vice chancellors more accountable through strict measures by amending

their service conditions.3)Teachers working in a protected environment are least bothered about

the poor attendance.Many times, superiors ask them to show fake attendance sothat University

requirements are fulfilled.Solution lies with us only.Dr.S.G.PalsodkarPune(M.S.)Ph. 9850174794

On Saturday, 31 May 2014 11:57 PM, Amardeep wrote:


The key is to know your students well on name basis and engage them with your deliverable
connected with their short attention span in class & outside the class.

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 2:07 PM, pummy sinha wrote:


Dear Faculty Friends,
There is a grim problem that is faced by many of us ,as faculty members of various business
schools.The issue is that despite having good & highly qualified faculty,sincere about
teaching,students do not bother to come to the class.They turn up directly at exam time,of course
writing nonsense in the papers, yet getting through.



I am requesting you to suggest ,on the basis of you experience , what measures can be taken to
bring the students to the classroom?

Regards,

Dr.ShaliniI SinhaHead of DepartmentDepartment of Management StudiesNRI Institute of Information
Science & TechnologyBhopal

With Best Regards,
Amardeep SinghHyderabad,AP-INDIA

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[hod Economics]

Dear All

Further to my earlier suggestion: carrot-n-stick. Students of the present generation often do multi-tasking -legally or illegally register in two different courses -masters in Economics and  MBA or CA (say) or just go to some tutorial home for preparation of  competitive examinations - NET, SET TOEFEL, GRE, IAS IPS IFS etc.  Or simply do social networking till the dead of night and sleep during the morning. So they cannot wake up early to attend a class scheduled at even 11 AM.  This has nothing to do with bad teaching or good teaching. For a good teacher even an average student can prepare almost photo-copy of the class lectures and others just do 'xeroxing' of the the exercise books. There is a flourishing photocopying business around many universities for 'dissemination of knowledge' through this mechanism. A bad teacher will dictate notes from some yellowish papers and some will copy on the spot. Others will do re-copying. Furthermore only a small number of teachers (good or bad) will take the risk of doing mass massacre in the examination through setting up tough standard questions and/or through strict answer-script evaluation. Whoever does that may get a  good rebuff from the authority. It also reveals your 'poor' teaching skill (whatever be the actual skill you possess).  It is more true in a private college or institute where education is a commodity - you are there to sell it. Students are your customers and so they can do no wrong.  In public universities often student union can condemn you and start agitation against you or against the authority backing you. This is the general mechanism of  degradation of the educational system.

This summer I was in Cambridge and talking with some professors of that university. When I mentioned that student bodies of my university are agitating against our rule of 60 per cent attendance  they were surprised: why not 100 per cent attendance?

If we take a lenient view about attendance, the very basis of setting up a campus for university or institute will be at stake. If we feel that  students don't need to attend the classes we don't need teachers and non-teaching staff.  Then we don't need a building, a campus  -everything should be  online or just a counter to collect fees and award various degrees and a rented covered ground  to hold the examinations (if at all these are needed. Course materials , MCQ questions and answer keys will be prepared by some experts (who will be paid) - some IT people will set up the mechanism for checking the answers and  preparing report card for degree.  This could be the last nail in the coffin of our academic pursuit.

Best

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In India kindness is always mistaken for weakness. cutting line between license and liberty is very thin and students cannot understand at that age given the affluence of the families. I think the colleges are right in withholding the halltickets. bye and good for now.

[JItendra Kumar]

Dear Faculty Friends....

I am a faculty for not many years but as a student I consider myself quite experienced and what can be drawn from this experience combined is that students should be engaged in classrooms not imprisoned. A classroom is full of confident, overconfident and sometimes nervous students who came from different backgrounds and if we look our attendance records we will find that mostly overconfident or nervous students are the absentees....and most of the times we failed to understand this and address it....On the part of Institutes the basic problem is that most of the institute feared that their results will get affected if they go strict on students on attendance, internal exams etc. which in turn affects their admissions...and all this happen on the cost of student's career and quality of education......

With Regards
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Jitendra Kumar
Lecturer
Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad

[Dr.L.ANITHA 1418]

Dear All

In our university, we have stipulated 85% as the minimum attendance requirement for the students of MBA for the last one year and we are following the mentoring system (1 mentor for 30 students).  The attendance is marked online and if a mentee is absent for 2 days consequently an SMS is automatically forwarded to the parents and also the mentors.  This really works and almost all the students have more than 85 percent attendance in both the semesters.  The mentors meet their mentees every week in the mentor hour included in the regular time table (Usually during the last hour on Wednesdays) and discuss the problems of their mentees and take action to solve the problems.  Any indiscipline in the class room will be reported immediately to the mentor by the respective class teacher and he or she will decide on the course of action in consultation with the class teacher and the HOD/Director.

Regards

Dr.L.Anitha, M.A., M.Phil., M.B.A., Ph.D.,
Associate Professor
Karunya University Business School
Karunya University
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Ref last para. Pune univ already has a computerized exam system for engineering. I think the weight age for that is around 40 marks ( not sure ). 

This will make students read. One can have long answers also and marks can be given by computer also

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I dono to write big passages, but even then am giving a try.

 

First, student should sit inside the classroom only for a maximum of 3 hours out of 24 hours psychologically. They can input a skillset of maximum 300 * 6 pages per semester and apart from this everything should be practical. So considering attendance is unfit for a student.

 

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[gyanesh sinha]

Dear Sir/Madam,

It is general view that onus of making the class room learning process interesting on the teacher only. The fact that when a student takes admission in the college, it is his/her interest to study and and attend the class. If a teacher can make even one student to understand the topic well, this means that teacher has ability to teach. Question mark should be on the learner's ability to learn, not teacher's ability to teach (because teacher is able to make at least one of them to understand the topic).

Blunder by the management of college (of B & C grade institutions):

1. Management always questions teacher's ability to teach, but they never questions student's intention/attitude to learn. Management always asks how much a teacher putting extra effort to make student understand the subject well. But they never take even a little pain to ask from student that how much they are working hard to understand the subject.

2. In order to make the class interesting, teacher tries to simplify the topics and in majority of cases, compromises on the quality. In order to make student understand the subject, they try to come down to the level of student. But this is a very wrong practice and it must must be stopped. The reason that, in this method, teacher does not raise the level of student. Instead, teacher should maintain the high level of standard and let student try to reach to that level. 

3. In order to attract student to class, many teacher's make the classroom as a hub of entertainment, where students enjoy and feel that the corporate world is the same as entertaining. So teachers put too much effort and students do nothing and simply enjoy (No value addition). In fact students should feel pained, confused and uncomfortable so that student should became restless in the search more knowledge and put as much as possible extra effort to learn more.

Above explain why professionally qualified graduates/post graduated are getting salaries at par with simple graduate students. Because, management wants that classes should be like an entertaining cinemas where teacher (as actor/actress) are putting all efforts and student are just enjoying and doing nothing.

In India, the best day of education will be one When teachers will be playing (ACTING) least and students will be made to work hardest. So there is need to create HIGHEST LEVEL OF COMFORT ZONE  for STUDENTS in the class to understand the complexity of real corporate life.

Dr. Gyanesh Kumar Sinha

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Call for PAPERS AND REVIEWERS and chair the session

2nd Asia Pacific International Conference On Changing Business Practices in current environment

Date: 8th – 9th  January,2015

Venue: Government of Maharashtra’s Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education Affiliated to UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI, INDIA

Conference Mission: The Mission of the Conference series is to act as a vehicle to help build a global movement dedicated to capturing, spreading and nurturing good practices in business Conference  Theme:   Changing environment requires a new approach to problems in business scenario. Role of business research in providing the solution in current environment will be the main theme of the conference.    Objectives of the conference are: ·         To provide a special forum to present and discuss research on Changing Business Practices in Current Scenario. ·          To facilitate research based knowledge among academicians and practitioners.   This will be only achieved through multi-disciplinary research based on idea generation and discussion. The objective is to bring about richness in discussion by encouraging domestic and international contribution.    At the 2015 conference there will be a strong focus on the relevance and application of behavior change practice and science. Also, new learning’s in the fields of Marketing, IB, Finance, Business statistics, IT and business practices.

[hod Economics]

Thank you Dr. Gyanesh Kumar Sinha for such a bold statement. I endorse what you wrote.  Teaching Economics and similar type subjects is not live cast of a mega TV serial (where an occasional visitor will quickly catch up the stereo-type story). An occasional visitor (after doing all kinds of multi-tasking) may not understand what is being taught.  So a teacher has to enforce a strict discipline regarding class attendance and attentiveness. But often authority under the pressure of student union and/or political party becomes lenient and teachers are made scapegoats.

Dr P Sarkar

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[ORS Rao ICFAI]

Current generation of students are smarter than those of the earlier generations. If the teacher is good, they attend his/her classes and skip balance classes ,

even on the same day. An effective teacher is one that creates interest in the subject, motivates the students to learn and makes them think .

Every teacher has to introspect  on his/her teaching effectiveness and how much value add he/she is doing in the class , before expecting all the students to

attend his/her sessions. Leave aside students, our own children / grand children will not listen to us ,if we are not good teachers.....  

 

Regards

Prof ORS Rao

Vice Chancellor

ICFAI University, Jharkhand

[Lokesh kn]

Dear Faculty friends,

 i am planning to do PHD in finance, can you  please suggest some topic

Thanks & Regards

Lokesh

[Thiagarajan TVS]

Dear Friends,  Fri 20th June, 2014 0530 hrs

Good Motning!

190/14 Meditate To SurviveThe Ordeals!

1. Do we desire to help our colleagues,friends, relatives

'and strangers?  This is the golden chance to help all

of them when God is coming down heavily on the humanity

for  a great change in each one of us that we resisted with

great relish! There are millions of people on our soil and

elsewhere who have no idea of God`s intention and intense

actions and who will have no idea of what to do when jolted

by the events. Now the onus is on each one of us to guide

every one we come across, contact and communicate

with.

2. If the emerging news day after day is unsettling, what will

happen when we are faced with the reality? Events now seem

to be like a tide not allowing us even to grin and bear. How good

it will be if God accepted our wealth allowing us to live in our own

way!  How comforting it will be if God tells us in advance  that

He has forgiven all of us for all the sins we committed in our

journey! How nice it will be if God counsels not to gossip any

longer to carry on with our routines! How jubilant we will be

if God advocates us any other step other than meditation!

Meditation is not the prescription of any individual. It is the

dictum of the Universe, God, to be a universal the

regardless of race or religion!

3.Why is He so harsh on us when we propitiated Him in many

temples? Why is He so relentless and ruthless in unleashing

all His tools? Why is He demonstrating all His powers at one go?

Why did He not tell us in advance to read the books that contained

his warnings? Can He not have mercy on His children? Does it

mean that biological father has no role to prevent the action  of

world`s one Father?  If God is one and Father of the world is one,

why did we accept the education that there are numerous Gods

and that biological father is more important than the world`s one

Father?

4. Answer to all these questions came from different sources, at

different times and in different books! The earnings and enjoyment

dulled us to decipher the answers.  Every one of us thought that

quoting scriptures is enough to engage ourselves in routines. We

also opined that if we have good academic qualification adding

more knowledge from different sources is not materially important!

No one dinned into our ears that each one of us has to be

individualistic. No man was told to follow the four seasons strictly

No man was told that he should not be pleasure-conscious

throughout his life! Nor did he bother about what ideas crossed

his mind, how important they are  for instant action and how

relevant they are at the time! His monumental blunder was to

be one among the crowd as it was Herculean for him to shake

off  the herd mentality regardless of his age!

To continue........Sl No.2

NOTE: Please read the following, the second part, with great interest. Also read another report  below.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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PART TWO

(in continuation of 19th June 2014)

   

As for me, I'm more certain about this looming crisis than I've been about anything else in my life.

I am literally afraid for my family's future, and I have taken drastic steps to prepare for what I know must inevitably happen next.

I know that debts don't just disappear. I know that bailouts have big consequences. And, unlike most of the pundits on TV, I know a lot about finance and accounting.

And this is all coming to a head much, much sooner than most Americans think.

Of course, the most important part of this situation is not what is happening... but rather what you can do about it.

In other words... Will you be prepared when the biggest financial crisis in America in more than 50 years, hits?

Don't worry, I'm not organizing a rally or demonstration. And I've turned down every request to run for political office.

Instead, I want to show you exactly what I'm doing personally, to protect my family, and to protect and perhaps even grow my money, and how you can prepare as well.

You see, I can tell you with near 100% certainty that most Americans will not know what to do when commodity prices – things like milk, bread and gasoline – soar. They won't know what to do when banks close... and their credit cards stop working. Or when they're not allowed to buy gold or foreign currencies. Or when food stamps fail... or their Social Security checks come to a halt.

In short, our way of life in America is about to change – I promise you. In this letter I'll show you exactly what is happening, and why it is inevitable.

Again, you can challenge every single one of my facts and you'll find that I'm right about each allegation I make.

Then, I hope you'll take action for yourself.

Will you act now to protect yourself and your family from the catastrophe that's brewing right now in Washington D.C.?

I hope so. And that's why I wrote this letter.

I'm going to walk you through exactly what I am doing personally, and what you can do as well. I can't promise you'll emerge from this crisis completely unharmed – but I guarantee you'll be a lot better off than people who don't follow these simple steps.

But I'm getting ahead of myself just a bit.

Let me back up and show you in the simplest terms possible what is going on, why I am so concerned, what I believe will happen in the next 12 months, and exactly what is going to happen when this devastating new law takes effect, later this year...
 

The Greatest Danger
America Has Ever Faced?

I believe that we as Americans are about to see a major, major collapse in our national monetary system, and our normal way of life.

Basically, for many years now, our government has been borrowing so much money (very often using short-term loans), that very soon, we will no longer be able to afford even the interest on these loans.

Again... I say these things as an expert in accounting and financial research.

You may not think things are THAT BAD in the U.S. economy, or that our government spending is not "that bad," and I don't want to overwhelm you with numbers, but consider just one simple fact...

Every single hour, of every single day, the U.S. government spends about $200 million that it doesn't have.

Yes, that's every hour of every single day... 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including Sundays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and every other holiday.

For a point of reference, consider that in just two months, the government borrows more money than the combined annual profits of the 100 biggest publicly traded companies in America. 

That's absolutely incredible, isn't it?

Again, every hour of every single day, we are spending $200 million we don't have.

Does that sound sustainable to you?

Yet, you'll rarely see this fact reported anywhere else.

Like I said earlier: You can challenge every single one of my facts and you'll find that I'm right about each allegation I make.

Before you do that, however, I recommend you take a look at just one simple chart...

This will tell you all you need to know about the likelihood of massive changes in the very near future. This will tell you whether or not things are really "normal" in America today.

The chart I'm about to show you shows you the simple, nominal, increase in the size of the United States' Central Bank's balance sheet. I'm talking, of course, about the Federal Reserve, which controls the money supply in America. This chart shows that what has taken place is something straight out of Weimar Germany... or the last 20 years in Zimbabwe. This kind of gross, out-of-control experiment with our money has never happened before. No one can predict the exact outcome. Not me. Not anyone else. But it sure as hell isn't "normal." And it's sure to be a disaster.

************

 

FUBAR II: China must import more water than the US imports oil

by Simon Black

on June 17, 2014

 

In one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted of China’s bubblicious property market, Professor Gan Li at Texas A&M University estimates that there are a whopping 49 million vacant homes in China right now.

As a percentage, this is twice the vacancy rate that the US housing market experienced at the peak of its recent bubble… suggesting that China has a rather painful housing collapse in store.

This should be a brutal blow to the economy given that housing comprised 15% of GDP last year. And the slowdown is already apparent.

In fact, China’s president Xi Jinping uncharacteristically announced a ‘new normal’ recently, declaring the heady days of 10% GDP growth to be over. His vision of China is moderate growth and less stimulus.

But I’ve identified a far greater problem for China… one that few people are talking about. And frankly I’m not sure they can fix it.

We discussed yesterday that China does not have the capacity to feed itself. By the estimates of one state official, the country’s agricultural imports require more land to grow than the entire land mass of California.

The reasons are simple. For one, China doesn’t have enough fertile land in production to support its population’s growing food demand.

Theoretically this is fixable. With a bit of time, patience, and technology, barren soil can be rehabilitated In other words, China doesn’t have enough enough productive land capacity to support its population.

But the far greater issue is China’s massive freshwater deficiency.

Chief Economist Qian Keming of China’s Agriculture Ministry summed it up by telling the audience at the Third China International Agribusiness Forum:

“Fresh water resources are only 2100 cubic meters per capita, which is only 28% of the world’s average level.”

and

“The shortage of [water for agricultural irrigation] each year is about 30 billion cubic meters. China imported about 148.6 billion cubic meters of water in 2013, which was equivalent to 38% of China’s agricultural water.”

Here’s that number in perspective: China water imports of 148.6 billion cubic meters last year handily exceeded the 569 MILLION (0.569 billion) cubic meters of oil that the United States imported.

Water is THE critical resource in agriculture. Without it, you’re not producing. This makes China’s deficiency a long-term headwind to their food production dilemma.

It’s not something they can import their way out of either, because all of this comes at a time of flat (and even declining) yields, particularly from the world’s largest food exporter… which just happens to be the United States of America.

After decades of growth, grain yields in the US have topped out. Farmers have managed to extract all that the earth is capable of providing.

Many developing markets are no help either. Most people don’t realize that Africa, despite its legendary agricultural potential, is actually a net importer of food.

So between the supply constraints and the constantly growing demand, it’s clear where this trend is going.

The BEST possible scenario to unfold is rising food prices. The worst case could be shortages.

All of this is potentially destabilizing. History shows that while human beings will put up with a lot of sacrifices at the behest of their governments, starvation is not one of them.

This approaching ‘food crunch’ is the reason why agriculture is THE investment for the next decade and beyond.

But more importantly, it’s another gigantic nail in the coffin for the status quo. And there are plenty more.

Nearly every ‘developed’ western nation is bankrupt. Most major central banks are insolvent… and they’ve created bubbles everywhere. The century-old monetary experiment is starting to draw to a hasty, inevitable conclusion.

Meanwhile apathy is at high tide. You can see it in voting booths and streetside revolutions around the world– people are sick and tired of the status quo… of thieving politicians… of war… of getting spied on… of being told what they can/cannot put in their bodies.

They’re finally now starting to wake up and demand real changes– not just changing the players in charge, but changing the game itself.

Politicians will fight with every resource they have to maintain the status quo. But in conjunction with the fundamentals of food, the confluence of all these forces together is more than any system can possibly withstand.

It might not be today. It might not be this decade. But at some point in our future, there will be a complete reset in the way society organizes and governs itself.

Just make sure you’re wearing your seat belt.

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On Thursday, 19 June 2014 2:08 PM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Thurs 19th June, 2014  0630 hrs

Good Morning!

189/14 Delusions And Illusions!

1.That individual`s life and  nations` economies

have gone haywire now are the offshoots of

delusions and illusions. Delusion is a disorder

to accept the reality and illusion is a false impression.

We are so strongly griped by delusions as well

illusions today that we cannot readily accept the reality.

It is a scourge in our existence, and we have resigned

to it as our fate! Can we accept failure as our fate?

2. When we don't  read numerous books authored

by many and when we don't  have the desire to expand

our knowledge through our own experience , the belief

that we tenaciously cling to is inevitably a barrier for

growth  We could manage to live with delusions as well

as false beliefs in the past. Now the Universe is telling

the humanity as a whole through the reality that it is no

longer possible. Napoleon Hill said in one of his books

that Nature keeps the humanity in a state of flux and

that the humanity has to "adopt or perish":!  This is

now being enforced with great force.

3. Our body is an illusion. It has no power on its own; it

cannot act on its own. However well designed a car may be

it can run only with petrol. Likewise, we may adore our

body; we may abuse our body; and we may treat it like a

machine. Yet we don't know that we are doing all this at

the cost of our own life. . We don't know what life is all about

and the magnificence of life force in us. We cannot rely on

our academic education to change our false beliefs. Academic

education has been designed to earn  well and through earning

enjoy well. The earning and the enjoyment have made us myopic.

There is no way to correct this myopia because delusions and

illusions  have overpowered us!

4. That sexual energy of man is only for sexual pleasure is another

illusion  that we could never overcome despite living in the digital

age. Qualification and status might have fostered a thought to 

project ourselves to be superior in our communication and 

conduct but without bringing a change in the illusions that plague

the society. Perpetuation of delusions and illusions remained  our

great penchant to be perennial in our sufferings. To get rid of

all the delusions and the illusions, God, whose existence is still not

known to many, .is bringing about a thorough change  that men

and women could have brought about if they exerted themselves

to explore the enormous potential of their mind!  

NOTE:

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS 

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Write Down This Date:July 1st, 2014
 

On this date, U.S. House of Representatives Bill “H.R. 2847” goes into effect. It will usher in the true collapse of the U.S. dollar, and will make millions of Americans poorer, overnight. You now have just several months to prepare...

Dear Fellow American,

Hello. My name is Porter Stansberry.

Fifteen years ago, I founded Stansberry & Associates Investment Research. It has since become the largest firm of its kind in the world. Today we have more paid subscribers than many of America's most popular newspapers, including Barron's and Investor's Business Daily. We specialize in financial research, and serve hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers in more than 120 countries.

You may know of our firm because of the work we did over the last several years – helping investors avoid the big disasters associated with Wall Street's collapse.

We warned people to avoid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, General Motors and dozens of other companies that have since collapsed.

We even helped our subscribers find opportunities to profit from these moves by shorting stocks and buying put options. To my knowledge, no other research firm in the world can match our record of correctly predicting the catastrophe that occurred in 2008, and the rebound that has occurred since then.

The video presentation we created four years ago, to explain the financial crisis, and our thoughts on what would happen next, has become the most-watched on-line financial video in history, as far as we can tell.

But that's not why I created this follow-up presentation.

I reference our success and experience with Wall Street's latest crisis because we believe there is an even bigger crisis lurking –something that will shake the very foundation of America.

And we believe it will accelerate at an extremely rapid pace, beginning in 2014, because of a devastating new law, about to go in effect.

Very shortly, I'll explain more about the exact time and day this is all set to occur... and what it's all going to mean.

I know that to most people, the situation seems to be getting better in America. Stocks have recovered all their losses. Real estate has rebounded. Unemployment and bankruptcies have dropped. But here's the thing:

The unfortunate reality is that we are actually in a much more dangerous and precarious place today than we were six years ago.

And that is why I've spent a significant amount of time and money in the past few months preparing this presentation.

In short, I want to talk about a specific event that will take place in America's very near future... which could actually bring our country and our way of life to a grinding halt.

This looming crisis is related to the financial crisis of 2008... but it is infinitely more dangerous, as I'll explain in this letter.

As this problem comes to a head, I expect there will be a near-complete shut-down of the American economy. Life as we have known it for more than 40 years will essentially cease to exist. Our governments on both the Federal and State level will shut down. Banks will not open. Businesses will at least temporarily shutter their doors. I expect we'll see martial law, enforced by the U.S. military.

Believe me, I don't make this prediction lightly and I have no interest in trying to scare you.
 

I'm simply following my research to its logical conclusion.

I did the same when I tracked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's accounting. Also with General Motors, Lehman Brothers and the rest. And when I began giving this warning in 2006 no one took me very seriously... not at first. Back then, most mainstream commentators just ignored me.

And when I presented my case and exposed the facts at economic conferences, they got angry. They couldn't refute my research... but they weren't ready to accept the enormity of its conclusions either.

That's why, before I go any further, I have to warn you...

What I am going to say is controversial. It will offend many people... Democrats, Republicans, and Tea Partiers, alike. In fact, I've already received dozens of pieces of hate mail.

And... the ideas and solutions I'm going to present might seem somewhat radical to you at first... perhaps even "un-American."

My guess is that, as you read this letter... you'll say: "There's no way this could really happen... not here."

But just remember:

No one believed me four years ago when I said the world's largest mortgage bankers - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - would soon go bankrupt.

And no one believed me when I said GM would soon be bankrupt as well... or that the same would happen to General Growth Properties (the biggest owner of mall property in America).

But again, that's exactly what happened.

No one believed me in 2011 when I said the crisis would cause "riots in the streets." Then came the protests in Wisconsin, and the Occupy Wall Street movement all over the country.
 

And that brings us to today...

The same financial problems I've been tracking from bank to bank and from company to company for the last six years have now found their way into the U.S. Treasury. I'll explain how this came to be. What it means is critically important to you and every American...

The next phase in this crisis will threaten our very way of life.

The savings of millions will be wiped out. This disaster will change your business and your work. It will dramatically affect your savings accounts, investments, and retirement.

It will change everything about your normal way of life: where you vacation... where you send your kids or grandkids to school... how and where you shop... the way you protect your family and home.

I'll explain how I know these events are about to happen. You can decide for yourself if I'm full of hot air.

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On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 9:49 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,      Wed 18th June, 2014 0630 hrs

188/14 Power Of A Nation!

1. If an economy is healthy, every citizen will be happy.

If an economy is mismanaged by the politicians who are

in power, the whole country will suffer. The misery of every

nation on this planet now is an unequivocal reflection  of

mismanagement by all at the helm of  a nation`s affairs.

Alibis and accusations are part of mismanagement. When

they do not know how to manage or do not know how to

correct the mismanaged country, alibis and accusation are

the first aid. They don't say what they can do ; instead

they say what the other party has not done. They don't

know now what await them!

2. The citizens of the world including their leaders are in

slumber till now to realize  the  end of Kali Yug sooner

to be ushered by a new Yug called "Age of New spirituality"!

Actions to dismantle the deep rooted edifice are afoot

are not known to the majority nor do we as mortals of

some importance consider the severe weather conditions

as serious threat to the civilized world!  How a sinking

economy can sink other economies is still beyond our

grasp now. Our academic education has its own limitations.

The education has fostered a thought that will not allow

us to be different!

3. Can power of a nation be gauged through the size of

the population ? Can we assess the strength of a nation

by the number of Universities and outputs of such

Universities? Can we assume that the number of billionaires

as a barometer to assess the strength of a nation? Or

Should a nation have number of B Schools to be superior

to all other nations?  Time and again parameters are

changed to project a country vis a vis other nations. To

be powerful, is there a gestation like a pregnant woman ?

What we  don't  expatiate in the classrooms, in the

business environments, in the conclaves and conferences

is: "what you  do to others will come back to you"!

4. Power of a nation should also be judged the way

it takes the beatings from the Universe constantly with colossal damage to properties and businesses! In

2012 there were 600 tornadoes in a month decimating

homes and business houses. It takes only 30 seconds

to level the homes. Hailstorms too inflict heavy damages

to properties. The weight of a hail varies. The largest was

1.02 kg that hit Bangladesh sometimes in 1980s. It is quite frequent in USA now.  The whole Eastern side of USA is constantly facing the wrath of the Universe. What did Jesus Christ say: "The Kingdom of God is within you"! When will Americans and Europeans discover this?  Reading the

scriptures several times a day does not make us realize

the God in each one of us. Action alone produces the

results, and that is what God is doing now!  We believe

in the action in a corner of a house. Elsewhere, we  are

content with reading and listening!  America is a powerful 

nation to bear the severe beatings from the Universe! 

Should we look for lessons from them? Undoubtedly  YES!

NOTE: Pl read the following reports

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Cost Of Damages caused bt Hailstorms Date:   10 & 16 May 2010 Place:  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA Cost     Damages from the first storm  caused an estimated $595  million (USD) damage, and the  second storm was expected to  be around the same, total around $1 billion in damages.[23]
Date    12 July 2010 Place   Calgary, Alberta, Canada Cost    The hailstorm that pounded  Calgary on July 12 eclipsed the record originally set in 1991 , with insurable damages totaling  at least $400 million,[24] agricultural crop damage. The storm brought hail as wide as 4 cm (1.6 in). Date   28 April 2012 Place  St. Louis, Missouri, USA Cost    Series of hailstorms amount to 2nd costliest in U.S. history  at estimated $1.6 billion in insured losses[26] ****** ******************************* ****************************************

17 June, 2014

Rare and deadly double tornado rampages through Nebraska

PILGER, Neb. (AP) — A powerful storm with tornadoes ripped through northeast Nebraska on Monday, destroying more than half of the tiny town of

Nebraska Tornadoes Turn Deadly As Twisters Sweep Through State

Pilger, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring at least 19 people, hospital and emergency officials said.

The National Weather Service said dual twisters touched down within roughly a mile of each other. Emergency crews and residents spent the evening sorting through demolished homes and businesses in the community of about 350, roughly 100 miles northwest of Omaha.

"More than half of the town is gone — absolutely gone," Stanton County Commissioner Jerry Weatherholt said. "The co-op is gone, the grain bins are gone, and it looks like almost every house in town has some damage. It's a complete mess."

Victims were taken to three regional hospitals, and at least one had died from unspecified injuries, hospital officials said.

Jodi Richey, a spokeswoman for Faith Regional Health Services in nearby Norfolk, said one person died and 16 others were being treated at the hospital. Hospital officials initially described those patients as being in critical condition, but said later that some had been released after treatment.

The Stanton County Sheriff's Office confirmed late Monday that the person killed was a 5-year-old child. It didn't specify the child's gender.

One was transferred to a trauma center in Omaha, while others required surgery, said Dr. Doug Dilly, who was in the emergency room when patients arrived.

Providence Medical Center in nearby Wayne treated three tornado patients, including two who had lacerations, said hospital spokeswoman Sandy Bartling. Two were released Monday evening, and the third patient was in stable condition, she said.

Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger estimated that 50 to 75 percent of Pilger was heavily damaged or destroyed in the storm. The local school is likely beyond repair, he said.

"It's total devastation," Unger said.

Authorities said the first tornado touched down around 3:45 p.m. and downed several power lines before it leveled a farmhouse. Four people were trapped inside.

While local crews removed them from the debris, a second tornado was spotted southwest of Pilger, according to the Stanton County Sheriff's Office. Shortly afterward, the town suffered a "direct hit" that leveled several buildings, including the Fire Department building, the sheriff's office said. Several people near Main Street in Pilger suffered critical injuries, including the child who later died.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman declared a state of emergency, and the National Guard was preparing to assist local emergency responders and help with the cleanup. Heineman and officials with the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency were expected to arrive Tuesday morning.

Pilger was evacuated for the night, and the Nebraska State Patrol closed all roads into town. Most residents made their own arrangements, but some were taken to a shelter at Wisner-Pilger Jr.-Sr. High School in nearby Wisner.

About a dozen residents had arrived at the makeshift shelter by 9:30 p.m., and school officials were expecting more to come later, said Wisner-Pilger Schools Superintendent Chad Boyer. The shelter will remain open to residents for as long as needed to offer food, water, showers and cots, he said.

"I just have to use one word — devastation," Boyer said by phone from inside the school. "It's a tremendous loss all around the town. Certainly, our thoughts and prayers are with the community."

He said Wisner-Pilger Middle School, located in Pilger, was heavily damaged by the tornado, but he hadn't seen it up close.

Tornadoes also caused damage in Cuming and Wayne counties, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency said in a news release.

"We are still in a response mode in these communities," said Earl Imler, NEMA's operations officer. "We are collecting damage reports from local officials on the ground."

Officials won't know the intensity of the storms until late Tuesday at the earliest, after crews have examined the area, said Barbara Mayes, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Valley.

Mayes said the dual tornadoes were unusual because both appeared to have roughly the same strength. In most cases, she said, one tornado tends to be larger and more powerful than the other, and the bigger cyclone grows stronger as the smaller one weakens.

"It's less common for two tornadoes to track together for so long, especially with that same intensity," she said. "By no means is it unprecedented. But we don't see it often."

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service also tracked a tornado near the town of Burwell, in central Nebraska. Mayes said they had not received reports of damage.

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On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 10:28 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,  Tues 17th June, 2014  0630 hrs

Good Morning!

187/14 Confluence Of Events - A Spectre?

1. Is humanity bracing up for confluence of events

conspiring to cripple the civilization? Can humanity

afford to relax and be in reverie? Is the preparedness

for survival of ordeals arising out of Nature-unleashed

tools contingent upon the pronouncements of scientists?

Has each one of us been created  without  mind? Even

in this digital age how outdated we are is camouflaged

by the insignificant events that invite our attention!

2. We are moving into the future with great rapidity to be

engulfed by unanticipated events. Andy Grove, former

CEO of Intel said: "Anticipate the unexpected"! Is it so

easy as he articulated this expression? Starvation in

South Sudan will lead to the death of 50,000 children

this year ! El Nino appears to be a big threat to throttle

economies. It is already seen in Australia. Deflation

stagnated Japanese economy  for two decades. EU

nations are now struggling to avoid this scenario.

3.  No country is immune to the threat from the Universe,

but America is in far more vulnerable position than any other

country on this planet. Sudden turn of events will surprise us

as well as shock us without recourse to any remedial recipe.

We are so proud of our qualification, status and wealth we

possess that tools unleashed by God are of no relevance,

at least for the moment. PM Modi has taken stock of economic

situation, and now he plans to administer shock therapy to

revive the economy.

4. To add to existing woes, the weather forecast is that there

will be series of hurricanes, typhoons starting from July.

Relentless and ruthless weather continues to ravage the

eastern coast of America while the West of USA  is parched  forcing the ranchers to sell off their cattle. Couple of years \ago people in a small town in severe  drought-experiencing Texas

had to drink their sweat and urine. All the pains and problems people have to go through due to ignorance of God in them. Science has not made any headway to head off the crises

now. If scientists don't believe in existence of God, why do

people need to look up to them? We have assumed that

we were born to earn and enjoy to the brim without knowing

who the Father is and who needs to be our partner in all the

ventures!

NOTE:  Please read the following reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Solar Flares Disrupt Communications on Earth, Could Send Shockwave on Friday the 13th

 

Jun 11, 2014 4:34pm

The sun has had three major solar flares on its surface in the past two days that have affected communications on Earth and could send a shockwave through Earth this Friday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The “solar events” caused brief blackouts in high frequency communications when they struck, twice on Tuesday morning and once this morning, all between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. EDT.

Three X-class flares erupted from the left side of the sun; the first two from left occurred June 10, 2014, and the last occurred June 11, 2014. (Goddard/SDO/NASA)

Solar flares are bursts of radiation on the sun’s surface. The disturbance to Earth’s atmosphere can disrupt GPS and communications signals, according to NASA.

One of the flares created a “coronal mass ejection” that actually could come into contact with Earth on Friday, according to NOAA. The ejection is essentially a huge cloud of plasma that could hit the Earth and cause a shock wave, affecting communications systems. If an ejection were to hit Earth on Friday, scientists expect it would only cause a minor geo-magnetic storm, according to NOAA.

The flares were observed by NASA, which posted stunning photos and videos of the events on its website.

A solar flare erupts on the surface of the sun, June 10, 2014. (Goddard/SDO/NASA)

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Forecast Of Storms This Season

The Global Weather Center has issued a forecast for the 2014 West Pacific typhoon season, which anticipates “near-normal numbers.” The forecast also noted, however, that “the onset of El Niño will intensify the storms that develop in this basin.

“With roughly 28 tropical storms, 18 typhoons and 5 super typhoons predicted for the West Pacific basin this season, 

The  long-range forecast team foresees coastal China and the Philippines to be at the highest risk for significant impacts from either tropical storms or typhoons,” the report said.

The  forecast said  “five to seven significant impacts are expected for both coastal China and the Philippines, Japan will also need to remain on high alert as meteorologists expect more storms to make landfall on the island nation this season.”

Senior Meteorologist Dan Kottlowski noted that last year “there were only one or two significant impacts on Japan, but this year we expect storms, at least in the later part of the season, to re-curve before reaching China. So, Japan may be impacted more this year than in the last few years.” For the 2014 season, Japan can expect approximately four to six significant storm impacts.

“While storms moved east to west last year, frequently impacting the Philippines, Taiwan and China, this season Taiwan can anticipate between three and five significant impacts.

“Although the number of potential impacts differs per country, Kottlowski expressed that not every storm is going to necessarily have separate impacts, as one storm can affect more than one place. This season, the onset of El Niño in late summer or early fall will influence the opportunity for tropical development in the basin.

“This year we are expecting an El Niño during the summer and a full El Niño pattern during the heart of typhoon season,” Kottlowski said. “What that does is create more opportunity for tropical [storm] development in the West Pacific.”

He explained that unlike the effects in the Atlantic basin, “the arrival of an El Niño reduces the wind shear across the West Pacific. During peak typhoon season from late July through October, warm ocean water, combined with a lower wind shear, give tropical storms a better chance for development.

“We believe this season will be a little more active compared to last and that there will be more intense storms this year,” Kottlowski said.

It was  also explained that “with strong westerly winds expected to be farther north this season, storms may often re-curve before reaching China and Taiwan. Despite re-curving, however, the Philippines will still be vulnerable for multiple impacts.

“Last November, Typhoon Haiyan hit the island country becoming the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing more than 6,000 people and leaving parts of the country completely leveled, including Tacloban. While forecasting the strength of potential typhoons far in advance is nearly impossible, it’s not out of the question that another strong typhoon could hit the Philippines again this season.”

“A lot of times slow-moving tropical storms can cause very heavy rainfall that can cause major flooding,” Kottlowski said. “It doesn’t take a strong typhoon to cause major damage.”  Tropical storms can drop anywhere from 254 millimeters (10 inches) to 508 millimeters (20 inches) of rain.

It was also noted that “typhoons can induce storm surges, a pile-up of water that moves ahead and along with a typhoon and rises quickly before crashing along the coast, which can wash away entire neighborhoods. Typhoon Haiyan demonstrated the power of a storm surge in November 2013, nearly washing away Tacloban, Philippines. Damaging winds are yet another dangerous element of typhoons that can induce extensive damage to affected areas.”

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On Monday, 16 June 2014 9:08 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,  Mon 16th June, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

186/14  Governments Are Hungry For Money!

1. There are many things we cannot learn in B-Schools,

and the one that we can learn only when we are close

to the top management of any entity or work as Ministers,

and that is the art of papering over the perils of an economy.

Lying is a great art that is not easy for everyone. The lies

are so rampant today all over that we don't know what is the

truth. Can any B-schools  teach this? Lies will trap us to

lament when impacts of lethal tools employed by the Nature

are felt

2. Our PM has now found out the truth after a fortnight of his

oath in the Presidential palace that our economy is not in good

health and that it needs to be administered with bitter pills. What

Pranab Mukherjee as former FM could not do and delayed to do,

will now be done to the chagrin of every denizen of this democracy. People and politicians alike are not updating their knowledge on current developments globally!  For dailies

and TV channels weather conditions pale into insignificance because they don't know yet  how weather conditions will inflict greater damage and destructions  to the economies than the policies of the Governments! So, masses will continue to be misguided to prolong their slumber!

3. Today, bankrupt Governments all over the  world will

bank upon our banked amount, and that is what is happening

in Australia and USA. Tomorrow, they can pass any law to

instruct the employers to deduct 40 percent of salary of each

employee! Governments need money when they can hardly

collect taxes from people who are not employed in an

economy reeling under slump. In USA marijuana is being

legally sold to collect more revenues. In my earlier

write up under the caption "DOs and DONTs" I said

that banks will no longer be safe to bank our hard

earned money.

4. Signs of worsening situations are on the horizon all

over. EU nations are expected to be in the grips of "deflation"

as opposed to  "inflation" causing stagnation of economies.

We need to read this situation in conjunction with weather

conditions that will remain  the greatest threat from the

Universe! The impregnable power of tools that are unleashed

by God has a message to all the citizens of the world: "adopt

or perish"! We might  have debated for centuries on the

existence or non-existence of God; we might have relied on

scientists to educate us on God!; we might have lazed around

without learning anything about God. Today, we need to

willy-nilly  recognize the God in each one of us to befriend Him

through meditation - a must we can  ill-afford to overlook!

NOTE: Please read the following reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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California Leaders Beg for Relief from Drought

Jun 9, 2014

SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - With California facing its worst drought in decades, farmers, environmentalists and government officials begged lawmakers Monday to invest in projects to shore up the state's water supply.

The demands from Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, The Nature Conservancy and Northern California water districts are an effort to help break a deadlock in the state legislature over how to prevent future water shortages.

The demands range from environmental restoration work for rivers and wetlands to building new reservoirs.

"My own family's ranching business has felt firsthand the impacts of not having enough water," said Stan Van Vleck, a rancher who is also the chairman of the law firm Downey Brand, which specializes in water-related issues. "As a direct result of the ongoing drought, we've had to sell 90 percent of our cattle."

California Governor Jerry Brown declared the state's drought to be an emergency last January, committing millions to help stricken communities and temporarily easing protections for endangered fish to allow pumping from the fragile San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta.

Brown is hesitant to ask voters to approve the sale of billions in bonds to finance new projects after pushing them successfully last year to raise taxes. Democrats and Republicans, meanwhile, are fighting over what types of projects should be funded.

A water bond is already slated to go before voters in November, but at $11 billion it is unpopular, so lawmakers are trying to develop a new one to replace it on the ballot.

Rice farmer Bryce Lundberg, sweat running down his face in 104 degree heat outside the state capitol, said he would prefer a scaled-down measure that includes funding for a long-planned reservoir near Sacramento as well as environmental restoration for wetlands and streams that have been harmed by drought and over-use.

As if to emphasize the extent of the problem, just hours after the group demanded action, the state ordered cutbacks in water use from a tributary of the Sacramento River.

State Senator Lois Wolk, a Democrat and author of the main bond proposal in the senate, said in a statement she would add the group's suggestions to her bill, which must pass by June 26 to make the November ballot.

“I will be amending my (bill) today with the aim of replacing the current and highly controversial water bond now on the November ballot with a consensus measure,” Wolk said.

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Science Graphic of the Week: Map Shows Half of the U.S. Suffering Drought Conditions

  05.15.14   

It’s not just California’s problem. Nearly half of the contiguous U.S. is experiencing abnormally dry or drought conditions right now. The worst spots shown in the map above, colored in a deep red that represents “exceptional drought,” are in California, Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. But the entire west and southwest are suffering.

The map is based on a report from May 6 provided by the United States Drought Monitor that includes data on climate, soil and water collected from more than 350 sources. It looks like our pals at NASA’s Earth Observatory worked their magic to make the map more attractive and easier to read with a better ramped color scheme and less obtrusive state boundaries.

As scary as the map is, it doesn’t convey the true severity of the situation because the impacts are cumulative from several years of drought, particularly in the southwest centered on Northern Texas. You can compare the last 10 years of conditions in May in the animation below.

It’s worth a visit to the United States Drought Monitor to check out all the current and historical data they have for everything from soil moisture and snow pack to crop conditions and fire danger.

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Maps: U.S. Drought Monitor. Animation: WIRED Map Lab

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On Sunday, 15 June 2014 10:33 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Sun 15th June,  2014  0630 hrs Good Morning! 185/14 Democracies Will Demoralize The Denizens! 1. What Founding Fathers of democracies aimed at is different from what current elected representatives do. We have voted them to power to empower us to engage in fields where each one of us has expertise to eke out our existence. But there is a disproportionate gap of how politicians have evolved over the year through the refinement of their tactics and ruse they employed to get glued to the power and how we evolved and we are expected to evolve as citizens of democracies. 2. We never learnt to differentiate between materialism and spiritualism, and we all opined that materialism is far better and far easier to embrace to perpetuate our ignorance and ill-conceived steps. As experts we all promoted pet theories that smacked of honesty. We knew well that the hardest route to success is honesty! The penchant to be dishonest propelled us to be innovative in our approach and actions. We could never have an iota of thought that honesty is not the route to richness. 3. We also did not that the wealthy and wicked and also wicked wealthy have the power to influence those in authority to make laws that can enrich them further. None of us in the world could think that God,  our Creator, has scrutinized every action of every citizen of this world with a fine tooth-comb. Having seen the routes we followed and the ruse we employed to catapult ourselves in the ladder of our life, the same Creator is coming down heavily on each one of us to turn towards spiritualism - the most arduous route to reach the other pinnacle of life that we can hardly envision now.   4. If you read the article after this write up, you will be shocked, nay swooned as well, as to how democracies are desperate to drain your deposits in the banks! Earlier, Governments in Europe were using taxpayers` money to bail out the failed banks. Later, last year, they have found a way to confiscate depositors` money to the extent of 40 percent! Our hard earned money  in the banks is no longer safe until we wake up soon to be vigil every day. Perhaps, we don't know yet what happened in Cyprus last year. In times of looming and crippling crisis that will sink the economies in the days ahead, we need to educate ourselves constantly and educate others as well to have an educated guess. NOTE: Please read below the  reports and an article. attentively 2. . PM is hinting at bitter economic pill as recovery will take time! Regards, Thiagarajan TVS PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts, please do not hesitate to say NO; I will honour your wish. ****************************************

14 June 2014 Last updated at 11:25 Storms leave homes without power in Berkshire and Oxfordshire Several buildings were struck by lightning causing fire to break out Hundreds of homes are without power and train travel is disrupted after storms hit Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Torrential rain, thunder and lightning swept across parts of both counties in the early hours. Scottish and Southern Energy said lightning strikes to overhead cables had knocked out power supplies to 400 homes in Reading and 144 in Oxford. Engineers were expected to restore power to all of the affected properties by 16:00 BST. Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service said it was called to about 50 storm-related incidents shortly after 01:00. Crews dealt with two roof fires caused by lightning strikes in Wokingham which took about three hours to put out. A property in Calcot, Reading was also hit. Firefighters rescued a number of drivers who broke down in floods. In Oxfordshire, three buildings in Chilton, Goring and Oxford were set on fire by lightning strikes. No-one is believed to have been injured. The lightning strikes overnight caused disruption for trains between Didcot Parkway and Reading after the signalling equipment was damaged. ************************

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Drought-Stricken Texas Town Turns To Toilets

May 06, 2014

        

 

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After three years of drought, the water has receded from a dock at Lake Arrowhead State Park near Wichita Falls, Texas.

The city of Wichita Falls, Texas, may soon become the first in the country where half of the drinking water comes directly from wastewater.

Yes, that includes water from toilets.

The plan to recycle the water became necessary after three years of extreme drought, which has also imposed some harsh restrictions on Wichita Falls residents, says Mayor Glenn Barham.

"No outside irrigation whatsoever with potable water," he says. "Car washes are closed, for instance, one day a week. If you drain your pool to do maintenance, you're not allowed to fill it."

Barham says residents have cut water use by more than a third, but water supplies are still expected to run out in two years.

So the city has built a 13-mile pipeline that connects its wastewater plant directly to the plant where water is purified for drinking. That means the waste that residents flush down their toilets will be part of what's cleaned up and sent back to them through the tap.

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For some citizens, that's a little tough to swallow.

"I think it's gross," says Wichita Falls resident Marissa Oliveras. "I mean, it's recycled wastewater that we could possibly be drinking."

Oliveras isn't the only Wichita Falls resident who says she plans to switch to bottled water. At Gidget's Snack Shack downtown, customer Kira Smith also plans to spend extra money on bottled water when the recycled wastewater begins to flow.

"The thought of it definitely grosses me out," Smith says. "I'm sure that they would clean it and filter it up to standards, but I think just the idea would be — it's sort of a mindset kind of thing, you know what I'm talking about?"

The mayor insists the water will be clean and safe, and the city has undertaken a massive education campaign to explain the science behind the process, known as direct potable reuse. Several other Texas cities are pursuing the process. One small hamlet started recycling wastewater in 2011, but not on the scale that's being done here.

Some people unceremoniously call it "toilet-to-tap," but the city official overseeing this process, Daniel Nix, says that's not really how it works.

"The vast majority of water that enters a wastewater plant did not come from a toilet," he says. "They come from sinks, and bathtubs, and washing machines and dishwashers."

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Australia Seizes 360M From Dormant Bank Accounts And All 50 U.S. States Are Doing This Too

 June 12th, 2014

 

Do you have a bank account that you don't actively use or a safe deposit box that you have not checked on for a while?  If so, you might want to see if the government has grabbed your money.  This sounds absolutely crazy, but it is true.  All over the world, governments are shortening the time periods required before they can seize "dormant bank accounts" and "unclaimed property".  For example, as you will read about below, just last year the government of Australia seized a whopping 360 million dollars from dormant bank accounts.  And this kind of thing is going on all over America as well.  In fact, all 50 states actually pay private contractors to locate bank accounts and unclaimed property that can be seized.  In some states, no effort will be made to contact you when your property is confiscated.  And in most states, the seized property permanently become the property of the state government after a certain waiting period has elapsed.  So please don't put money or property into a bank somewhere and just let it sit there.  If you do, the government may come along and grab it right out from under your nose.

In this day and age, broke governments all over the globe are searching for "creative ways" to raise revenues.  In Australia for example, the time period required before the federal government could seize a dormant bank account was reduced from seven to three years, and this resulted in an unprecedented windfall for the Australian government over the past 12 months...

The federal government has seized a record $360 million from household bank accounts that have been dormant for just three years, prompting outrage in some quarters amid complaints that pensioners and retirees have lost deposits.

Figures from the Australian Security and Investments Commission (ASIC) show almost $360 million was collected from 80,000 inactive accounts in the year to May under new rules introduced by Labor. The new rules lowered the threshold at which the government is allowed to snatch funds from accounts that remain idle from seven years to three years.

The rule change has delivered the government a massive bonanza with the money collected in the year to May more than the total collected in the past five decades combined.

Most Americans are not going to be too concerned about this because it is happening on the other side of the planet.

But did you know that this is happening all over the U.S. as well?

For instance, the waiting period in the state of California used to be fifteen years.

Now it is just three years.

And when California grabs your money they don't just sit around waiting for you to come and claim it.  Instead, it gets dumped directly into the general fund and spent.

If you do not believe that California does this, just check out the following information that comes directly from the official website of the California State Controller's Office...

The State acquires unclaimed property through California's Unclaimed Property Law, which requires "holders" such as corporations, business associations, financial institutions, and insurance companies to annually report and deliver property to the Controller's Office after there has been no customer contact for three years. Often the owner forgets that the account exists, or moves and does not leave a forwarding address or the forwarding order expires. In some cases, the owner dies and the heirs have no knowledge of the property.

And it is not just bank accounts and safe deposit boxes that are covered by California law.  The reality is that a vast array of different kinds of "unclaimed property" are covered...

The most common types of Unclaimed Property are:

Bank accounts and safe deposit box contents

Stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and dividends

Uncashed cashier's checks or money orders

Certificates of deposit

Matured or terminated insurance policies

Estates

Mineral interests and royalty payments, trust funds, and escrow accounts.

And when a state government grabs your property, the consequences can be absolutely devastating.  The following is an excerpt from an ABC news report from a few years ago...

San Francisco resident Carla Ruff's safe-deposit box was drilled, seized, and turned over to the state of California, marked "owner unknown."

"I was appalled," Ruff said. "I felt violated."

Unknown? Carla's name was right on documents in the box at the Noe Valley Bank of America location. So was her address -- a house about six blocks from the bank. Carla had a checking account at the bank, too -- still does -- and receives regular statements. Plus, she has receipts showing she's the kind of person who paid her box rental fee. And yet, she says nobody ever notified her.

"They are zealously uncovering accounts that are not unclaimed," Ruff said.

To make matters worse, Ruff discovered the loss when she went to her box to retrieve important paperwork she needed because her husband was dying. Those papers had been shredded.

And that's not all. Her great-grandmother's precious natural pearls and other jewelry had been auctioned off. They were sold for just $1,800, even though they were appraised for $82,500.

And some states are even more aggressive than the state of California in going after bank accounts.

In a recent article, Simon Black noted that the state of Georgia can go after "dormant bank accounts" after just one year of inactivity...

In fact, each of the 50 states has its own regulations pertaining to the seizure of dormant accounts. And the grand prize goes to… the great state of Georgia!

Georgia’s Disposition of Unclaimed Properties Act sets the threshold as low as one year.

In other words, if you have a checking account in Georgia that you haven’t touched in twelve months, the state government is going to grab it.

So much for setting aside money for a rainy day and having the discipline to never touch it.

As economic conditions get even worse, the temptation for governments all over the planet to grab private bank accounts is going to become even greater.

We all remember what happened in Cyprus.  When the global financial Ponzi scheme finally collapses, politicians all over the world are going to be looking for an easy way to raise cash.  And our bank accounts may be one of the first things that they decide to confiscate.

So please don't keep all of your eggs in one basket, and check on all of your accounts in regular intervals.

In this day and age, it pays to be diligent.

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On Saturday, 14 June 2014 10:18 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,Sat 14th June, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

184/14 Don't Ignore The  God In You!

1. We might have ignored many things in the past.

Without being aware of that we are ignorant, we

could have also argued vociferously and vehemently.

We also did not know that ignorance caused sufferings

and struggle. We also did not  know that that ignorance

was due to shunned opportunities to deepen our knowledge!

We never knew that we remained happy with all our

ignorance!

2. Forgetting how the centuries went by and how the

mortals of yesteryears lived in luxury or poverty, how

illiterate or literate they were , how they navigated their

life and that  of others with nuisance or niceness, we

must not now forget that we need to be different henceforth.

We need to remember that we have a God in each one

of us. He is the Creator who created each one of us,

who cared for each one of us born of any background,

who guided us throughout our life regardless of where

we lived or lazed, and who is still giving us a chance

to embrace Him to lead different life in a heavenly earth

that we could not carve on our own despite gifts of

extraordinary nature we were born with.

3. If Mumbai roads were flooded with sea water on

Thursday, the 12th inst, it is a wake up call again  to

seek HIm. Sea levels, a great threat again, are rising

all over the world, and the sea water corrodes all metal

parts of a car, and makes the walls of buildings

vulnerable to collapse. . Sea water can contaminate

the stored water on the ground. Yet, let us not forget

that how selective and systematic God is in His actions!

It is too early for us to gauge the gravity of situations

that will engulf the entire world.

4. Texas, USA - drought-prone area for the last three

years,  went through100 degree F temperature

continuously for 100 days. People are committing suicide

in USA and Europe where recession and austerity

measure are strangulating them. Economic crisis is

looming large and experts thrust upon us the untested

theories as a panacea to move ahead. Americans`

mania for analysis has no match, and they swing into

action to seek relevance and reasons for all the God-

unleashed actions of which they have no knowledge!

NOTE: Please read the following  reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts,

please do not hesitate to say NO; I will honour your wish.

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Europe's economic crisis is getting worse not better, says Caritas report

Survey shows increase in the number of new poor in seven countries and challenges the official European Union discourse

Thursday 27 March 2014 19.16 GMT                 

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The Caritas report says that as a result of economic measures Greece's political scene has become increasingly toxic. Photograph: Nicolas Koutsokostas/ Nicolas Koutsokostas/Demotix/Corbis

Far from being over Europe's economic crisis is getting worse with disturbing levels of poverty and deprivation being noted among children and youth, says a report compiled by the Catholic charity Caritas.

The survey, conducted over the course of the past year, not only challenges the official discourse – that Europe is on the mend – but documents a dramatic rise of a class of new poor in the seven EU countries worst hit by the policies of austerity.

"We in Brussels keep hearing that the economic crisis is over," Thorfinnur Omarsson, a spokesman for Caritas Europa said in Athens where the network of Catholic relief organisations released the report. "These findings not only doubt that the crisis is over but show it is the poor who are paying for a crisis they did not cause."

The 114-page inquiry into the human cost of the crisis focuses on Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain. In all of these countries, it claims, there is deepening inequality with growing numbers suffering from poverty and social exclusion. In Ireland – depicted as the poster child for austerity – income inequality soared between 2009 and 2010 with the top 20% earning five times more than the bottom 20%

In Cyprus – the last country to be rescued by the EU and IMF when its banking system came close to collapse last March – poverty levels among older people have more than doubled in the past year. At 29.3% the Mediterranean island now has the worst rate of poverty among citizens aged over 65 in the 28-nation bloc.

"More and more Cypriots are coming to get food and support," says Michael Hadjiroussos, a Caritas volunteer. "I've seen people arguing over spending €2 on a coffee. Not that long ago we were prosperous. A situation has emerged that not even those who predicted the crisis would have foreseen."

In Greece, where Europe's debt crisis erupted in late 2009, people have watched helplessly as ever more austerity has been imposed in pursuit of a remedy that even today remained elusive, the report said. "On the contrary, the medicine that sought to cure the disease is killing the patient," it said. As a result, the country's political scene had become increasingly toxic "with despair leading to support for extreme right-wing parties, who are nostalgic about fascist ideologies, a crisis that also has the potential to undermine all the institutions that Europe has worked hard to establish."

It is the emergence, however, of a new poor – especially young graduates attempting to enter the labour market – that the network claims is one of the most troubling side-effects of the crisis.

In Portugal, Spain and Greece there has been a dramatic rise in youth unemployment with people, who would not usually consider themselves poor, having to turn to charities for support. An entire generation, it predicted, faced the prospect of poverty in older age.

"What we are seeing is growing inequality and the appearance of a whole class of new poor," said Artur Benedyktowicz who oversees social policy at Caritas. "It's an increase that is not tracked by statistical agencies because very often these people are too ashamed to ask for social benefits but they come to us because we are there on the ground."

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12 June 2014 Last updated at 00:09

Recession 'led to 10,000 suicides'

People queuing for jobs in the US as youth unemployment soared

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The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides, according to figures from UK researchers.

A study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, showed "suicides have risen markedly".

The research group said some deaths may have been avoidable as some countries showed no increase in suicide rate.

Campaign groups said the findings showed how important good mental health services were.

The study by the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine analysed data from 24 EU countries, the US and Canada.

Unemployment, repossessions and debt

It said suicides had been declining in Europe until 2007. By 2009 there was a 6.5% increase, a level that was sustained until 2011.

It was the equivalent of 7,950 more suicides than would have been expected if previous trends continued, the research group said.

Deaths by suicide were also falling in Canada, but there was a marked increase when the recession took hold in 2008, leading to 240 more suicides.

The number of people taking their own life was already increasing in the US, but the rate "accelerated" with the economic crisis, leading to 4,750 additional deaths.

The report said losing a job, having a home repossessed and being in debt were the main risk factors.

However, some countries bucked the trend. Sweden, Finland and Austria all avoided increases in the suicide rate during the recession.

One of the researchers, Dr Aaron Reeves, of the University of Oxford, said: "A critical question for policy and psychiatric practice is whether suicide rises are inevitable."

'Policy potentially matters'

He told : "There's a lot of good evidence showing recessions lead to rising suicides, but what is surprising is this hasn't happened everywhere - Austria, Sweden and Finland.

"It shows policy potentially matters. One of the features of these countries is they invest in schemes that help people return to work, such as training, advice and even subsidised wages.

"There are always hard choices to make in a recession, but for me one of the things government does is provide support and protection for vulnerable groups - these services help people who are bearing the brunt of an economic crisis."

Andy Bell, of the Centre for Mental Health, said: "The study says what we feared for some time: that unemployment, job insecurity and many other factors associated with the recession are associated with poor mental health and suicide.

"It reminds us how important it is to respond to that need and take preventative action where we can, and that primary care is properly resourced and able to identify people who are at risk."

Beth Murphy, of the charity Mind, said: "Since 2008, we've seen an increasing number of people contact the Mind Infoline concerned about the impact of money and unemployment on their mental health.

"Redundancy and other life circumstances brought about by the recession can trigger depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts for anyone, whether they have previously experienced a mental health problem or not.

"For some people, these factors can become so difficult to cope with that suicide may feel like the only option."

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On Friday, 13 June 2014 9:17 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,  Fri 13th  June, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

183/14  Seek Souls And Sources Now!

1. What is not static in our life is education. But

we tend to put a full stop when our goal is pleasure-

oriented , physical needs being the focus. What

we loathe is failure, and failure does not make us

fathom the cause to comprehend a different design

awaiting us to advance. If Dr. Abul Kalam was failed

in an interview for IAF pilot post , there was a different

design for him. The design was to become President

of India. When God chooses to shape a man through

failure to steer a different life, no one on earth can stop

His design!!

2. Is everyone disposed towards learning day after day ?

Is everyone in the same standard of life to  learn and

leverage the learning? As individuals, no uniform

opportunity is designed by the Creator because to

learn from one another , everyone has to be different!.

If Jack Welch,former CEO of GE America said that

"speed kills the competition" , how many of us can

acquire the speed despite all attributes to succeed?

The required result eludes us when there is no speed,

and lack of speed is a great weakness in almost all

entities, private or public!  But in our analysis of failure,

if we do,  lack of speed is not taken cognizance of!

3. Procter and Gamble, US based MNC has a policy: 

 "all ideas have to be boiled down to a page". Every

aspirant to appear for IAS examination has to learn

through practice how to condense 1500 words passage

into 500 words, also called précis writing. One`s general knowledge is also tested to know the meaning and usage

of words like "stationary and stationery, practice and practise,

dual and duel,, coma and comma" . We also learn from

CEOs of America:" to do common thing uncommonly well",

"What we know is not as important as what we do with what

we know",, "words create images, arouse emotions and cause things to happen"(applies mainly to written communication)!

4. Yet, God, our Creator, devises different routes to root out

the learning that is no longer useful to an individual!  He has

the knack to make an individual seek knowledge and know-how.and to raise  the learning curve. To make an illiterate

man as a literate one in seconds , He says: :" I don't call

the qualified; I qualify the called"! What else He does:.

He prepares an individual for years before entrusting him

with a task that is unparalleled and unattainable by anyone

else! To know Him well, journalizing daily journey should

remain our unfailing task.

NOTE: Please read below my earlier write up on "Can

Teach Speed?, and a report.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts, please

do not hesitate to say No; I will honour your wish.

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Dear  Friends,        Fri 8th Oct 2010 0700 hrs

 

Good Morning! 

Can we teach speed?

 

"The smallest deed  alsays exceeds

of the grandest intentions" - Anonymous

 

My calling compelled me to focus on the functioning

of managers at all levels,  and it has been a  year-long

study of  strengths and shortcomings of managers

employed in  private outfits I was dealing with.  While

the former contributes to the growth, the latter constricts

it. Here , what is more striking is that strengths do not

seem to spot and seize  the opportunities . When the

opportunities knock at their doors, their lackadaisical

approach remains a drawback for achievement

of targets.

 

We think of training of managers at every level and in

every field of a corporate entity. Employees at all levels 

may wear immaculate dress, speak impeccable English, 

travel in a car with or without chauffeur, ensconce  

themselves in an air-conditioned place;  have their

business cards embellished with alphabets. but  if they

dont have the agility  to convert the opportunities into

business, the company they work for loses colossal

revenue. Possessed skills or acquired skills through

training are of no use if they dont rise  to the occasion.

 

The agility is not there bec there is some knowledge-gap

Nor is there a system in place to plug the loopholes. A way

to lose enormous revenue-earning opportunities  is lack o

speed . My  constant telephonic confabulations with managers

during the last six months  reveal this shockingly serious

malaise. afflicting the Corporate entities.

 

Recently a week-long contacts with managers of a private outfit

did indicate  that they lacked the knowledge  that is required to 

handle their job and the speed to clinch a deal. Even though the

outfit enjoyed monopoly of their  product they manufacture, the

lost  busines  worth Euro 200,000.to an international competitor,.

The higher-up, who was in the know of goings on, remained an

onlooker.

 

Unlike domestic marketing, international marketing demands

speed, experience and knowledge. Admittedly, majority of

managers in many corporate outfits are short on all the three.

How can we expect a country`s export to grow phenomenally?

Mere product knowledge alone is not enought; they have to be

in the know of trade terminologies used universally.

 

Upshot:  if our knowledge is not current, we can  acquire with speed

for the task on hand , providing we know the source, and have the

ability to ask right questions. If speed is lacking, neither can we acquire knowledge nor can we clinch a deal. Such opportuniites are lost

now and ever!! Can we give training on speed? The answer YES and NO.

 

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Europe's economic crisis is getting worse not better, says Caritas report

Survey shows increase in the number of new poor in seven countries and challenges the official European Union discourse

Thursday 27 March 2014 19.16 GMT                 

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The Caritas report says that as a result of economic measures Greece's political scene has become increasingly toxic. Photograph: Nicolas Koutsokostas/ Nicolas Koutsokostas/Demotix/Corbis

Far from being over Europe's economic crisis is getting worse with disturbing levels of poverty and deprivation being noted among children and youth, says a report compiled by the Catholic charity Caritas.

The survey, conducted over the course of the past year, not only challenges the official discourse – that Europe is on the mend – but documents a dramatic rise of a class of new poor in the seven EU countries worst hit by the policies of austerity.

"We in Brussels keep hearing that the economic crisis is over," Thorfinnur Omarsson, a spokesman for Caritas Europa said in Athens where the network of Catholic relief organisations released the report. "These findings not only doubt that the crisis is over but show it is the poor who are paying for a crisis they did not cause."

The 114-page inquiry into the human cost of the crisis focuses on Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain. In all of these countries, it claims, there is deepening inequality with growing numbers suffering from poverty and social exclusion. In Ireland – depicted as the poster child for austerity – income inequality soared between 2009 and 2010 with the top 20% earning five times more than the bottom 20%

In Cyprus – the last country to be rescued by the EU and IMF when its banking system came close to collapse last March – poverty levels among older people have more than doubled in the past year. At 29.3% the Mediterranean island now has the worst rate of poverty among citizens aged over 65 in the 28-nation bloc.

"More and more Cypriots are coming to get food and support," says Michael Hadjiroussos, a Caritas volunteer. "I've seen people arguing over spending €2 on a coffee. Not that long ago we were prosperous. A situation has emerged that not even those who predicted the crisis would have foreseen."

In Greece, where Europe's debt crisis erupted in late 2009, people have watched helplessly as ever more austerity has been imposed in pursuit of a remedy that even today remained elusive, the report said. "On the contrary, the medicine that sought to cure the disease is killing the patient," it said. As a result, the country's political scene had become increasingly toxic "with despair leading to support for extreme right-wing parties, who are nostalgic about fascist ideologies, a crisis that also has the potential to undermine all the institutions that Europe has worked hard to establish."

It is the emergence, however, of a new poor – especially young graduates attempting to enter the labour market – that the network claims is one of the most troubling side-effects of the crisis.

In Portugal, Spain and Greece there has been a dramatic rise in youth unemployment with people, who would not usually consider themselves poor, having to turn to charities for support. An entire generation, it predicted, faced the prospect of poverty in older age.

"What we are seeing is growing inequality and the appearance of a whole class of new poor," said Artur Benedyktowicz who oversees social policy at Caritas. "It's an increase that is not tracked by statistical agencies because very often these people are too ashamed to ask for social benefits but they come to us because we are there on the ground."

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On Thursday, 12 June 2014 9:46 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,     Thurs 12th June, 2014 0630 hrs

Good Morning!

182/14 Light At the End Of The Tunnel!

1. We have heard numberless times that 

"saying is easier than done". How true it is!

How eager we are all to become consultants!

The definition of a correspondent of Fortune

Intl is: "Consultants are the ones who tell you

how to make love without having made love to

anyone"; Consultants are the ones who tell you

how sick you are even though you are not"..

2. For God, struggle is the pre-requisite for success,

because struggle teaches a lot more than what

we can learn in a classroom. No woman can deliver

a baby without a labor pain, and here God does

not distinguish between two women. Nor does He

tell us or signal us in advance how distant or near

the success is!  Having created every mortal of

this world, He knows  how to shake each one to

shape. He never defines the duration of struggle

nor does he guide us  in advance where the

remedy lies. But He monitors our struggle moment

to moment without fail.

3. How can we reach the end of  the tunnel? While

it is easier to frame a question, how difficult it is to

have an answer How magical and mysterious God

is not known to mankind! Does God shake every

individual uniformly? Does He shape everyone

uniformly? Does He provide opportunities uniformly

to every mortal?  The answer to these questions is

a blunt "NO"! God has a different CV for every individual

and the CV He has does not display what academic

qualification an individual has acquired to glorify

himself!

4. Life`s crucibles are afoot for every mortal of this

world now to reach the end of the tunnel. In fact,

under the current circumstances that God is creating

people will not know whether they are in the tunnel or

elsewhere. To wriggle out of struggle in the tunnel to

see the light at the end , man has to switch over from

the virtue of impatience he fondly guarded to another

virtue of patience. Impatience might have worked with

woman when seeking her warmth, but it will not work

with God! God teaches all of us totally different from

how everyone around brain-washed us!

NOTE: Please read the following reports to update

yourself on God`s actions!

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts, please

do not hesitate to say NO; I will  honor your wish

,.

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Deadly Storms Hit Germany, Threat Continues Into Wednesday

June 10, 2014; 9:04 PM

The blazing heat building across central Europe is setting the stage for a severe weather event that will last through Wednesday.

A cold front slicing into what is proving to be the hottest air mass so far this year is putting areas from eastern France to western Poland and northern Italy at risk for violent thunderstorms.

Thunderstorms, some severe, developed across western and northern France before spreading into Belgium, Netherlands and northwestern Germany on Monday.

The strongest thunderstorms produced damaging winds, hail and blinding downpours. According to the Associated Press at least six people were killed during the storms on Monday, including three who were seeking shelter in a building when a tree fell onto it. Firefighters rescued six others from the damaged building.

Branches of trees cover parked cars in a street in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, Tuesday June 10, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Caroline Seidel)

The severe weather danger shifted east from Denmark into Germany, Switzerland and eastern France through Tuesday evening. This would put Copenhagen, Denmark, Hamburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, at risk.

Tuesday's severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and downpours are expected to be more numerous across Denmark and northern Germany and more localized in nature elsewhere.

Regardless of the coverage area, it takes only one severe thunderstorm to cause damage to a home or community. Residents are also urged to remember to move indoors as soon as thunder is heard; you are then close enough to be struck by lightning.

On Wednesday, the corridor from eastern Germany and western Poland to northern Italy and southeastern France may become the target of a few severe thunderstorms.

Setting the stage for the impending severe weather is the heat that will bring the highest temperatures so far this year across most of central Europe.

Temperatures on Tuesday soared into the lower 30s C (86-92 F) from southern Germany into the Czech Republic and southern Poland.

Following the stormy weather, more seasonable temperatures are expected to return for the second half of the week.

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Mosquito virus hits thousands in Haiti

Chikungunya fever causes victims severe pain for several days and chronic swelling of joints. Last updated: 10 Jun 2014 03:01

A virus carried by mosquitoes is immobilising thousands of people in the Caribbean.

The illness is rarely fatal but it’s raised particular concern in Haiti, which is already fighting a lethal epidemic of cholera.

Chikungunya fever has been a common illness in Africa and Asia.

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On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 10:09 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Wed 11th June, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

181/14  Industries Awaiting Obituary!

1. What is priority today is to pay undivided attention

to the weather conditions all over the world because

weather conditions will sap the economies to sink

faster. Yet, America will remain a great nation to guide

all nations on this earth to get to the bottomless pit!

All our education and wealth have no meaning today

if we don't understand who God is and what He is doing

today to transform the world topsy-turvy !

2. All our rites and rituals are of no use if we don't try to

comprehend the complex nature of the Universe. Complex

nature of the Universe eluded everyone`s understanding

to invite setbacks and sufferings of inexplicable nature.

Knowledge of God should have remained the primary

subject of all schools all over the world but we projected

ourselves to be superior when we added more alphabets

after our name, became more experienced , became

aged, and climbed the higher rungs of career ladder.

These barriers assumed far more importance than

spirituality that was defined to be confined to routine

rituals.

3. Incisive analysis being not our strength , we will not'

be able to gauge the grave situation that await the humanity

as a whole in the days ahead.  Our education from any

source did not tell us the origin of our ideas. To spawn ideas

of astonishing nature also needs a qualification, and the

qualification  needed is acquired by sitting in one`s own

abode! When creating homo sapiens, God made everything

simple but men of all hues acquired the ability to complicate

the simplicity. The brain-washed mortals cannot easily

accept the simplicity!

4. Meditation is the apt route to spirituality as it brings

metamorphosis of magnificent nature in men providing

they conform to the disciplines of  extraordinary nature.

Cocooned and complacent as we are now, comprehending

the complex nature of tools that are being unleashed by

God is still a far cry. Of the many, one question we need to

ask: Will there be doctors in the heavenly earth of the future?

If medical  profession will remain on the wane, will there be

numberless pharmaceutical manufacturers all over the world?

When God has created each one of us with a medicine of

mind-numbing nature to keep the diseases at bay, where is

the need for doctors? 

To continue........Sl NO. 2

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Médoc Properties Devastated by Hail Storms

10/06/14

© AFP | Vines were severely damaged by Sunday night's storm

Bordeaux vineyards are hit by severe hail storms once again.

By AFP with Wine Searcher staff | Posted Tuesday, 10-Jun-2014

Close to a thousand hectares of Bordeaux vineyards were hit by hailstorms on Sunday night, with the northernmost part of the Médoc, close to the Gironde estuary hardest hit.

The damaged Bordeaux vineyards were mainly in the villages of Prignac, Blaignan, Ordonnac and Saint-Yzans. Blaignac was the worst affected with damage to around 680 hectares (1680 acres). Village officials are now requesting assistance from the French government.

Related stories:

Severe Hail Turns Bordeaux Vineyards Into "Wasteland"

Hail-Hit Bordeaux Growers Protest Over Lack of Aid

Although it was the vineyards that bore the brunt of the storm, emergency services were also called to assist with three flooded winery cellars.

The hail, with stones the size of pinballs, wrecked some vineyards entirely, others only partially. The wood on newly planted vines was damaged so badly that they will be unable to produce a crop even next year. 

The storms hit mostly small, family-owned estates that dominate this part of the Médoc, and few of them are insured against storm damage.

Vineyards in Cognac were also badly affected by hail and by gale-force winds.

Parts of Cognac were hit badly in early August last year and an even greater area of Bordeaux was damaged by hailstorms, completely destroying nearly 7000ha (17,300 acres) of the eastern Gironde, mostly in the Entre-deux-Mers district. At that time it was estimated that fewer than 20 percent of growers affected had hail cover.

In March this year demonstrations by growers protested the level of government aid, which amounted to five million euros (US$6.75m), but was estimated at less than 3 percent of the losses incurred.

In May, an auction of top wines from prestigious Bordeaux estates, organized by wine consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt, was staged to help their hail-stricken neighbors but raised a disappointing $57,755, less than half the amount hoped for.

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10 June 2014 Last updated at 11:44

Germany storms: Six dead in North Rhine-Westphalia

Essen and Oberhausen were hit by heavy rains and thunderstorms

Six people have been killed in violent storms which battered cities in western Germany overnight.

In the worst incident, three died when a tree fell on a garden shed in Duesseldorf where they had sought shelter, emergency services said.

Cyclists were also killed by falling trees in Cologne and Krefeld and a sixth person died while clearing a street in Essen.

The storms ended a heatwave that lasted throughout the Whitsun weekend holiday.

Some of the worst disruption was in Duesseldorf where transport was badly hit

Police said two men and a woman were killed when a garden shed was destroyed by a tree

Public transport was badly hit in much of North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday morning, and authorities urged people to avoid Duesseldorf, where trains, roads and the airport were all affected.

During the night, emergency services removed the bodies of three people from a garden shed in the city. Three other people who had taken refuge in the shed were injured, two of them seriously. Several others were hurt elsewhere in the city.

Streets in Duesseldorf were blocked by fallen trees and there was damage to overhead power lines. The tram system was reportedly suspended.

There were traffic jams on 270km (165 miles) of the region's roads during the morning rush hour, local broadcasters reported.

Winds of up to 150km/h (93mph) were recorded at Duesseldorf airport on Tuesday night and the storm was continuing to move north-east, towards areas north and west of Berlin, forecasters said.

"We must reckon that the total damage will run into double-digit millions," North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger told German media. "That was one of the worst storms to hit (the region) in the past 20 years."

Lower Saxony to the north has also suffered heavy damage.

Temperatures of up to 36C (97F) were recorded in Germany at the weekend, the highest ever recorded for the time of year.

The heatwave brought record temperatures in parts of Germany during the holiday weekend

The storm was set to reach other areas of Germany later on Tuesday

Five of the deaths were caused by falling trees

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On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 5:31 PM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Sun 8th June, 2014  0700 hrs

Good Morning!

178./14 Grim To Grieve!

1. Handful of Americans brought their country on

top in the field of business on standards and strategies.

The businessmen across the world became agog and

listened with gaping mouth. What strategies  one followed

at the middle and lower level were  different from what

strategies people at the top level followed. One of the

strategies that  remained the practice was  the opposite

of honesty. This started hitting the headlines when Pluto

started transiting in Capricorn in 2008, and till now all

malpractices termed as strategies at the top level are

coming to the surface.

2. Honest way was not  the quickest route to raise wealth

regardless of what strategies and systems we follow. To

escape from the dragnet of laws and lawmakers when

dishonesty courses through the veins, closeness to 

lawmakers is the only way. To know the truth , one must

read Fortune  Intl Magazine and Time Magazine. Corruption\

is part of any democracy in the world regardless of how

one refines the language as a ruse to defend, and no

democracy can boast of being immune to this.

3. The severe drought in California should draw our attention

for regular analysis as God`s impeccable strategy has no

match to what is contrived , couched and committed for implementation by the elite class!  All strengths and strategies

of men are under severe scrutiny. If Warren Buffet made

mistakes in investments, the language he used was: "it was

an unforced error"!  Recently, Amway chief was arrested in

India, but an American said that his arrest will arrest the

investments in India! What it means that malpractices by

a national should go unnoticed!

4 Regardless of how we  steered our journey in personal

and professional life, God`s actions to change the humanity

as a whole will remain uncomfortable, nay grim ! Our lack

of knowledge of God and our inability to conform to His dictum

for the transformation of the world from the ground up will

lead to a condition that will be worse than what one witnessed

in great depression days of 1930s. For God, America is the

main focus, and our focus too should remain on America as

other countries have shaped themselves well to be vulnerable

to collapse.

NOTE: Please read the following reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Uncharted Territory in California Drought: Difficult Decisions Weigh on Ranchers

March 08, 2014;

Drought-stricken California fields. See larger image below. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Wally Skalij, Pool)

Despite a few recent rounds of rain, extreme to exceptional drought maintains its tight grasp on the state of California.

The year 2013 went down in the record books as the driest ever for the state. Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency on Jan. 17, 2014, as a result. The minimal rainfall has had significant negative ramifications on the landscape. Due to this, agriculture and livestock in the state have taken a large hit, which could have economic impacts in the years to come.

(Graphic/USDA)

Almost half of the fruits and nuts grown in the United States come from California. The state leads the country in the production of many different crops, including almonds, artichokes, grapes, kiwi, olives, peaches, pomegranates, rice and walnuts.

In a University of California Davis study, led by Leslie Roche, postdoctoral researcher for the Department of Plant Sciences, the California Cattlemen's Association was surveyed to see how the drought conditions were impacting their businesses and ways of life.

"We basically asked ranchers, there were about 511 respondents, what are their strategies for drought management, what are their goals that they have on their ranches and what practices work for them," Roche said.

After the initial surveys, Roche's team began to conduct personal interviews with ranchers and farmers in the state. After this interview stage, the team will begin onsite ranchland health assessments to evaluate how these methods are helping to combat the drought.

So far, their results have shown that the widespread nature of this current drought is forcing difficult decisions on ranchers.

"This drought is particularly deep," said Dr. Ken Tate, professor and cooperative extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis. "It's affecting ranchers across the entire state, nobody's really immune from it."

Tate explained that costs are rising for ranchers, forcing the purchase of more expensive hays, for instance. For those who cannot afford the rising costs, they are reluctantly selling off cattle that they would much rather keep.

A secret service agent looks over a farm field as President Barack Obama speaks to the media on California's drought situation Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Los Banos, Calif. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Wally Skalij, Pool)

"One of the questions that Leslie asked them was 'out of the last 10 years, how many of them have been drought?' In some parts of the state people are saying eight, nine years," Tate said.

Looking ahead, the dry winter will continue to have negative impacts on farmers and ranchers. Tate explained that many farmers who grow their own crops rely on irrigation systems, and that with a lack of snowpack this season reservoirs may not have an adequate supply of water this summer.

The state of California made $44.7 billion in 2012 off its agricultural products, more than any other state in the country. As water reserves dwindle and the cost of maintaining farms and livestock go up, production abilities will suffer.

California's leading cash commodity is its dairy industry, which went down 10 percent from 2011 to 2012. From 2011 to 2012, there were 1,000 farms lost.

City	Yearly Normal	2013	% of Normal
Los Angeles (Downtown)	14.93	3.60	24
San Diego	10.34	5.57	54
San Jose	15.82	3.55	22
San Francisco	20.65	3.38	16
Fresno	11.50	3.01	36
Sacramento	18.52	5.01	31

"It's really been cumulative impacts for them," Roche said. "We started talking to people last April, and we were already hearing about the drier years just in the last two years that has resulted in quite a few people, especially in Southern California, who have had to reduce their herds by almost half."

With that already occurring, Roche said, then the larger growing regions of the state entering exceptional drought this year, many are concerned about the further reduction of their crops and livestocks.

Across the country, the increased costs of production for California farmers could mean increased prices for the crops that the state provides the majority of.

Tate said that the ranchers in the study are being asked whether their current methods of sustaining will be adequate if the drought persists.

"The vast majority, 95 percent if not more, say no, that their current strategies or their past strategies are not going to be adequate going into the future. It's a bit of an uncharted territory for a lot of folks. Strategies, even past, multigenerational strategies, most people think are not going to continue being adequate going in to the future if this persists."

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California Drought 'Emaciates' Hawks and Owls, Forces a Lost Generation     

June 05, 2014;

                       

Perpetual drought across the coastal regions of Southern California has left raptors emaciated, contributing to silence in their once populated breeding grounds.

In regions usually swarming with hawks and other birds of prey, nests remain empty, Audubon California Bird Conservation Program Director Andrea Jones said.

"We're losing an entire generation," Jones said. "This has been going on for a while and we have seen significant declines in species including red-shouldered hawks, golden eagles and White-tail Kites."

(Photo/Thinkstock.com)

A major contributing factor is the drastically reduced food supply consisting of insects and small mammals that various bird species feed upon.

"The impact of the drought has been pretty severe," Jones said. "We know that it is one of the worst breeding seasons on record."

Jones said that there have been very few active nests spotted, including a webcam set up to observe the nesting of Barn Owls located at Audubon California Starr Ranch Sanctuary.

"Birds are just not nesting," she said. "They're not laying eggs."

Even though one Barn Owl egg was laid at Starr Ranch Sanctuary, it was abandoned by its mother because the male quit supplying her with food, Jones said.

Barn Owls can lay many eggs at a time, but even the lonesome egg could not be supported this March. The embryo later died after being completely ignored upon its mother's return.

Jones said various species of bird are emaciated and are not exhibiting normal breeding behaviors.

"They're very thin," Jones said, adding that the raptors are coming into contact with humans more often because they have to venture into areas they normally do not to hunt.

(Photo/Thinkstock.com)

The drought is impacting the entire ecosystem - because of a lack of grass, which inhibits insects and small mammals from reproducing, it has reduced the supply of a variety of species, not just birds, she said.

Alleviating the drought is also dependent on the timing of the rainfall.

"You have to have rain at the right time of year," she said, adding that even if it rains, if it doesn't happen at the right time it does not allow the food supply to replenish itself.

Even in the Central Valley, California's rich agricultural hub, drought has drained water supplies for farmers and migratory birds alike.

Jones said the organization is working on conservation projects and policy to ensure there is water available for both farmers and bird species.

"It's going to be challenging in some places," she said. "We're working more on a policy level in keeping some of that water on wildlife refuges."

Animals that thrive in wetlands such as cranes and waterfowl are also at risk, she added.

"The drought has impacted all birds because even song birds are dependent on insects," she said.

It is uncertain where many of the birds have gone, or to the extent in which their numbers have dwindled at this time, Jones said, adding that a better assessment of the situation will be available in the fall when millions of birds migrate to specific regions.

"We know where the birds will be and we can see what's going on and how the birds are doing," she said.

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On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 5:27 PM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,  Mon 9th June, 2014  0630 hrs

Good Morning!

179/14 Inter-dependence Under Great Threat Now!

1. As we march towards  the future, the emerging

day after day news does seem frightening because

inter-dependence was the artful design of God when

He created everything on this planet. We felled trees

recklessly without comprehending their usefulness

to many. We killed every animal for human consumption

as though they don't have the right to exist. M ale and

female partnership is the essence of the whole ecological ;

system  and flowers can not be seen, and without

flowers homo sapiens cannot have fruits for their health

unless there is partnership between male and female bees!

2. If trees are felled for cremation, for making wood pulp,

and for making coffins, where from homo sapiens will

get oxygen for survival? Co-existence of male and female

is a must if ecological system has to work. Inter-dependence

is the essence of existence on this planet. In order to be

superior and superlative in our living, we overlooked this

aspect to court disaster of indecipherable nature. If Russia

stops gas supply to Western Europe, the EU economy

will grind to a halt! Yet, EU will support overtly America in

imposing sanctions on Russia and covertly handle the matter

in a different way.

3. EU nations are quite vulnerable now to the economic 

impacts of America as West Europe has still not recovered

from the recession. When we come to know who God is, we

must also know how strategic He is to cripple the economies!

If American economy collapses gradually, no country can be

happy nor can they hammer out measure to rescue themselves.

The design of God is difficult to divine howsoever educated we

may be. He can control our mind not to comprehend the game

plan of the Universe until the struggle stretches beyond hope!

4. How nightmarish the days ahead will be is hard to decipher

even if we possess all the 26 alphabets after our name!. As

events unfold to frighten the most powerful nation on this

earth, scientists will be lulled not to parrot their pet theories!

Their explanations could have worked in the beginning. Events

will drive everyone to the wall but God said:  "there is no

point of no return"! There is always a light at the end of the

tunnel. But to see the light we must reach the end, and that

will remain an uphill task if we understand God well!

NOTE: Please read the following  reports

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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6 June 2014

'Real' people not feeling recovery, says Ken Clarke

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"Real people" have "not yet felt any sense of recovery" from the economic downturn, Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke has said.

But the former chancellor told Channel 4 News the nation's situation was improving "more strongly" than that of others in Europe.

Mr Clarke, a Europhile, also said he agreed with David Cameron on the need for a "positive case" for EU reform.

He is being tipped to leave the cabinet at the prime minister's next reshuffle.

The economy has seen strengthening growth recently, with GDP increasing by 0.8% in the first three months of this year.

The government says that wage rises are now outpacing inflation and that people's living standards have started improving.

But Labour leader Ed Miliband has continually argued that ordinary people are facing a "cost-of-living crisis".

'Shattered economy'

Mr Clarke told Channel 4 News: "We have just come through a deep recession; the population of most European countries including the United Kingdom have not yet felt any sense of recovery.

"We're recovering more strongly than the others and the only way you can get living standards up is to have a strong return to competitive growth.

"But in the early stages it doesn't produce much for real people. These are the early stages."

Discussing the growth of anti-EU feeling which saw UKIP come first among British voters in last week's European elections, he added: "It's very easy to persuade them [voters] that they are being let down by the elite, that it's all the fault of foreigners, it's all Brussels, none of which is very worked out.

"What you have to do is put a positive case for reforming Europe and also economic reform here which is already well under way.

"We're doing better than any other Western democracy at putting a shattered economy back together again."

Mr Clarke, who according to newspaper speculation could leave the cabinet in a reshuffle next week, said: "I've been in the cabinet for a very long time. I am surprised to be in the cabinet at my age."

Asked whether he would be surprised if he stayed in post, Mr Clarke, who is 73, said: "I have not the first idea. I reached a stage where believe it or not I am no longer seeking to catch the selector's eye.

"I enjoy being in the cabinet, I am supportive of the government and sooner or later a lot of ambitious young people have got to be

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Walmart moms protest 'poverty' wages

Nearly two-thirds of low-income workers in US economy are women, and experts say Walmart is biggest employer of women

June 5, 2014 5:48PM ET

by Lisa De Bode @lisadebode

A group of Walmart workers will present demands for better pay and benefits to management at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas on Friday, the activist group OUR Walmart said in a statement. 

The move comes after a week of rallies across the country by labor activists, union representatives, and workers in cities including Chicago, Dayton, Ohio and Baton Rouge, La.

In Phoenix, workers protested at the home of a member of the Walton family, which owns Walmart. The workers accuse the family of benefiting from Walmart's use of tax breaks and subsidies to profit at the expense of employees receiving food stamps.

While the demonstrators aim to call attention to the struggles of the “working poor,” they are focusing on working mothers who are significant percentage of Walmart workers.

“If Walmart were to raise their wages to pay $25,000 a year for full-time work, we could lift as many as 1.5 million people out of poverty,” said Moira Bulloch, spokeswoman of Union for Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), backer of OUR Walmart. Bulloch said "hundreds" of workers nationwide had come out to protest.

Walmart is the country’s largest employer of women, according to the National Women’s Law Center which says that in the United States nearly two-thirds of low-income workers are women, with many single mothers struggling to take care of their families.

The fact that American women disproportionately hold the retail industry’s lowest-paid positions results in a $40.8 billion pay gap between men and women in the industry, according to a report published Tuesday by Demos, a liberal think tank.

Monica Hilliard, 27, an employee at a Walmart store in Arlington, Texas, said her job does not come with health insurance despite working 40 hours per week. She takes care of her father, who needs hospital care.

Hilliard, a member of OUR Walmart, said she went on strike on Tuesday to protest her wages. “Hopefully it benefits us in the long run,” she said.

Walmart dismissed the protests in a statement as a “PR stunt” by the UFCW union. The company says the union makes “preposterous claims about participation” in these yearly demonstrations.

“About 100 of our 1.3 million associates around the country participated in this week’s demonstrations,” a Walmart spokesman said — a number that he said was “less than last year.”

“Typically the union will have maybe one associate at a demonstration and then fill out the rest of group with union members from our unionized retail competitors or paid protesters,” he said. “[O]ur associates have access to health benefits for a little as $36 a month, a 401K program with a 6 percent company match, bonuses based on the performance of their stores and education and training opportunities.”

This isn’t the first time Walmart has been in the spotlight for allegedly mistreating female employees. In 2011, the Supreme Court threw out a class action lawsuit seeking compensation for 1.5 million women workers who had sued the retail giant for wage discrimination amounting to billions of dollars. Activists have since launched lawsuits on a smaller scale in several states.

In January 2013, the activist group A Better Balance, which promotes the rights of working families, wrote to Walmart to request the company change its pregnancy policies, which employees said the rules violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The company changed its rules in March in what UFCW’s Bulloch called a “victory” for female workers, who were often required to continue labor-intensive work such as heavy lifting which some said had resulted in pregnancy complications.

Bulloch said Walmart “drives down wages for women in retail across the country, forcing their families to make hard decisions to survive on these wages.”

“They’re driving the race to the bottom,” she added.

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Dear Friends,  Tues 10th June, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

180/14 Will God Be Kind Towards Humanity?

1. As one of the tools to wake up the humanity from

deep slumber, God is unleashing His power through

soaring temperature in all parts of the world, more so

in the Western world by ten degrees above normal. His

tools are varied  now to wipe out the ones who cannot

conform to His dictum. Because He ia the Creator, and

He created all of us if we are still in doubt. If sons do not

obey the biological father, how furious he is to inflict

punishment on them.! is that father kind towards his

sons or children?

2. Yet, all biological fathers, if we call them so, are very

kind towards their daughters. Punishment meted out to

them is very rare but bias towards sons linger on regardless

of passage of time. Compared to men, God is kind towards

women too  as they share certain characteristics with Him.

Women are created to be governed by Law of Nature, and

most of them obey  it scrupulously. As a specie they are

not allowed to meddle with their role. There sole power

is love not understood easily by men of all stripes till date!.

3. How can God be kind now when He tolerated men

for centuries of their misdeeds and missteps? How can

God be genial now when men failed to fathom their

built-in treasures? How can God be  large-hearted now

when men did not recognize Him as a Creator living

in them? How can men expect God to be docile  when

their thoughts and actions have gone haywire? How can He

forgive men now when they were forgiven for centuries

for not having chosen to move to the third and fourth seasons

of their life ( vanaprastha and sanyasa)? 

4. Men never understood that impermanence is the truth. But

they considered women to be the constant companions ignoring

the companionship of their Creator in them?  Having begun to

unleash His tools more than four years ago, He will only intensify

them as intimidation. The only way to make Him  ally of men is

to surrender to Him through meditation. Meditation is to realize

their potential that remained dormant for centuries! Meditation is to

realize that it is the only tool that  cures all the illnesses of the society that plagued for centuries in the materialistic world. No democracy in the world can enact laws of any nature to solve any problem.Because they took care of the needs of the physique.

NOTE: Please go through the pictures as to how

Europe is being scorched!

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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In Pictures: European heatwave

Mercury rises across the continent as sunshine prevails.  09 Jun 2014 09:57

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In Pictures: European heatwave Mercury rises across the continent as sunshine prevails.  09 Jun 2014 09:57  High pressure has been dominating the weather across central Europe recently, causing the temperartures to soar.

View As One Page >> View As Slideshow >> / EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT Temperatures continue to soar throughout Europe; in the bid to keep cool people are seen frolicking at public baths. /EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMER Children make waves in order to beat the heat, with temperatures peaking at over 33 degrees in Winterthur, Switzerland. /EPA/RALF HIRSCHBERGER Beaches have been teeming in past days as people take to the coasts to enjoy the warm weather. /EPA/GIAN EHRENZELLER More fun in the sun as the heatwave continues- activities based around water continue to be popular. /EPA/RALF HIRSCHBERGER Sailing boats pack the waters off Wannsee, Berlin as people continue to make the most of the higher temperatures. /AFP PHOTO / REMY GABALDA As temperatures in France crept over 36 degrees in places, people basked in the glorious sunshine. /AFP PHOTO / PIERRE ANDRIEU Sunglasses reflect the Sacre Coeur basilica in Paris, France. /AFP PHOTO / DPA/ JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE /GERMANY OUT As the day draws to a close the sun continues to blaze. The heatwave is expected to continue over the next few days. Start Slide Show Stop Slide Show 1 / 8 / EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT Temperatures continue to soar throughout Europe; in the bid to keep cool people are seen frolicking at public baths. /EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMER Children make waves in order to beat the heat, with temperatures peaking at over 33 degrees in Winterthur, Switzerland. /EPA/RALF HIRSCHBERGER Beaches have been teeming in past days as people take to the coasts to enjoy the warm weather. /EPA/GIAN EHRENZELLER More fun in the sun as the heatwave continues- activities based around water continue to be popular. /EPA/RALF HIRSCHBERGER Sailing boats pack the waters off Wannsee, Berlin as people continue to make the most of the higher temperatures. /AFP PHOTO / REMY GABALDA As temperatures in France crept over 36 degrees in places, people basked in the glorious sunshine. /AFP PHOTO / PIERRE ANDRIEU Sunglasses reflect the Sacre Coeur basilica in Paris, France. /AFP PHOTO / DPA/ JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE /GERMANY OUT As the day draws to a close the sun continues to blaze. The heatwave is expected to continue over the next few days.

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 5:20 PM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Hello Friends,

I don't know how the exchange of mails

landed in my inbox.

Having got I would like to tell you all that

God is changing the world through His tools

being unleashed day after day all over the world.

His tools are earthquakes, rains, floods, volcano,

tornadoes, hailstorms, diseases etc etc.

He is using all these tools to transform the humanity

as  whole through meditation. If you are interested

I will send you couple of my write-ups for circulations

amongst your fraternity. If my mails are palatable,

I will add your names in my daily mailing list.

You can see a sample of my write up immediate after

I send this.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

French Language Faculty,

Meditation Guide,

Ariting Wrting,

Speaker on Body, Mind and Soul

On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 7:57 PM, vasanthi reena williams <rina...@gmail.com> wrote:

Good Morning and thanks for initiating a very important discussion.

I have been an academician since the past 20 years and have worked in several educational institutions. YES, I see these things happening, but not in every institution............ It happens only in those institutions where the management does not have a good administrator. As rightly pointed out by  Dr Shalini Sinha , the faculty are good but when students get the support from the management, then there is no use in appointing good faculty, organising programmes etc. In the end the course suffers because such students may get through but would find it difficult to get jobs of their aspirations. This will affect  admissions........still the management feel , pleasing students is more important ( which is short lived) than thinking of long term consequences.
Dr Prabajit Sarkar seems to have good support from his management and I congratulate him . Please continue the good work.

regards

Dr. Reena

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Steven J Dekrey <sjde...@ust.hk> wrote:

At HKUST we used a 75% attendance requirement to get course credit.  After the policy, problem solved.
SJD

On 5/31/2014 5:18 PM, hod Economics wrote:

Without carrot-n-stick policy you can do nothing. For eligibility of sitting for an exam in a paper or course some minimum percentage(say 80 per cent) of attendance should be made mandatory-no excuses to be accepted. For internal assessments (class tests etc) surprise tests should be arranged. In my department this works in spite of having strong political party backed student union.

Dr Prabirjit Sarkar
Professor & Head
Economics Department
Jadavpur University
Kolkata (CALCUTTA), India
700032

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[Gunjan Jha]

what i feel is that its nothing to do with good or bad teaching its
all to do with involving the students in the class activity.. wen i
was attending classes i usually was given seminars and group activity
which not only helped me prepepair for the seminar but also made my
frienda curious abt my classes ... inorder to make students attentive
i used ro put some questions .. the key for a better class attendence
is less class more practical/activities
.. hope u get it

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Dear All.

I have been following the mails trail with regard to attendance etc....

With my over 30yrs of experience in the field , I am convinced that barring a minor percentage of Students , the others respond depending on the Quality of the Teacher with a particular emphasis on Commitment of the Teacher as such .

As the profound saying goes , Mediocre Teacher Tells, The Good Teacher explains , The superior Teacher demonstrates , The Great Teacher Inspires and makes all the difference .

It also remains that

Acharyath padamadatte
Padam shishyam swamedhaya
Padam sabrahmacharibhyaha
Padam kalakramenacha

Best,

Venkatesh Sharma

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From: "ORS Rao ICFAI" <orsrao...@gmail.com>

Sender: exclusive...@googlegroups.com

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:59:08 +0530

To: Dr. Gopal<rgopal...@gmail.com>; hod Economics<h...@economics.jdvu.ac.in>

Cc: Vembu Swaminathan<drts...@gmail.com>; Sripathy Karur<krsri...@gmail.com>; pummy sinha<sinha...@gmail.com>; Haresh Barot<haresh...@ganpatuniversity.ac.in>; mba<exclusive...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: Re: {EXCLUSIVE - MBA- GLOBAL} Re:student attendance in classes

[Dr. Ravinder Rena]

Dear Prof Rao

I do agree with you on your view in this regard:

A good teacher not only teaches the student good stuff but inspires them.

Best regards

Ravinder

-- 

Prof.Dr. Ravinder Rena
B.A.(Econ), B.Ed., LL.B., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.(Econ)(Gold Medallist)
Department of Economics
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS)
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag: X17
Robert Sobukwe Road; Bellville 7535 
Cape town, South Africa
Email: rr...@uwc.ac.za  
www.uwc.ac.za   
Cell:    +27 711 618 950
Office: +27 21 959 3624
Fax:    +27 21 959 3201
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Education Economics 
and Development (IJEED),  www.inderscience.com/ijeed
Alternate Email: ravind...@yahoo.com
Ravinder  Rena  http://ssrn.com/author=910083

[srivastava]

Dear Prof

Kindly send your paper and chair the session if interested.

SIMSREE’S

2nd Asia Pacific International Conference On Changing Business Practices in current environment

Date: 8th – 9th  January,2015

Venue: Government of Maharashtra’s Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education Affiliated to UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI, INDIA

Conference Mission: The Mission of the Conference series is to act as a vehicle to help build a global movement dedicated to capturing, spreading and nurturing good practices in business Conference  Theme:   Changing environment requires a new approach to problems in business scenario. Role of business research in providing the solution in current environment will be the main theme of the conference.    Objectives of the conference are: ·         To provide a special forum to present and discuss research on Changing Business Practices in Current Scenario. ·          To facilitate research based knowledge among academicians and practitioners.   This will be only achieved through multi-disciplinary research based on idea generation and discussion. The objective is to bring about richness in discussion by encouraging domestic and international contribution.    At the 2015 conference there will be a strong focus on the relevance and application of behavior change practice and science. Also, new learning’s in the fields of Marketing, IB, Finance, Business statistics, IT and business practices.

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[Nagarajan Vasudeva Rao]

Students must be reached they must not be preached. Interaction at every 15 mts during class hours with the students help keep the students engaged and avoid yawning. The teacher must know and learn the art of interacting with the students. He must be a down to earth person.The teachers must not discriminate the students while interacting or while calling for interaction. Select the weaker students first and give them opportunity to come out of the shell of darkness. 

Generally questions will be asked only to students who the teacher knows that he or she can answer. The Best teacher is not the one who asks questions which the students can answer but effective teacher is one who motivates students to ask questions which the teacher finds it difficult to answer.

During my guest lecture sessions in colleges and B Schools, after about 30-45 mts of stand alone speech, i start interacting with the students, calling the students by their names (which I collect from the professors before my sessions) and asking them to respond to my simple questions and thus keep every one engaged. If good answer comes, immly calling for clappings of co-students which encourages and motivates others. What is required of a lecturer is to draw the attention of the students and to have eye to eye contact with the wards.

Lot more to learn and practice.

Regards,

V.NAGARAJAN,
Asst. General Manager - HRD
Tab India Granites Pvt Ltd.,
Hosur - 635 117
Mobile: +91 9994919619
Mail Id:  h...@tabindia.com /
             vnagar...@gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Nagarajan Vasudeva Rao <v.naga...@gmail.com> wrote:

It is but sad state of affairs that a student has to be motivated to attend classes regularly by giving mementos and awards? Where learning goes? Is the Govt. to be blamed? are the parents to be blamed? are the teaching faculties to be blamed? whether the institution to be blamed? are the students to be blamed? Are Syllabus makers to be blamed?  It is but Destiny . Gurukula days must come back. But what about Gurus? Where do we go for dedicated Gurus? It is a million dollar question? 

 Nowadays Education has been made commercial. Admission either by Merit or thru' Management quota by paying hefty capitation fee. Somehow going with the flow of semesters fail or pass? Wait for Campus selection. Get selected by real merits or get underemployed for survival. Struggle, Struggle and then feel why I have not taken the studies and attendance to classes seriously. 

Regards,

V.NAGARAJAN,
Asst. General Manager - HRD
Tab India Granites Pvt Ltd.,
Hosur - 635 117
Mobile: +91 9994919619
Mail Id:  h...@tabindia.com /
             vnagar...@gmail.com

[Thiagarajan TVS]

Dear Friends,    Fri 11th July, 2015  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

207/14 My Objective!

1. Reading has a purpose, writing has a purpose and

action of all kinds has a purpose. And actions of God

have also a purpose. There is no purposeless journey

on this earth.  Our whole life revolves around one thing:

that is action.  Without action everything  we do is a waste

of time and energy!  If I am sending you my thoughts daily,

from 2011, it is with a purpose, and the purpose is not to

seek a favor from you.

2. The purpose of my writing to you daily is to apprise you

of the current global developments, alert you on dangerous

phases we will be facing, awaken you to the reality  and

advise you to be different from, the past, taking a U turn

to be a new YOU! The purpose is also to make you aware

of what you were not aware of, and to manage the journey

with sufficient knowledge rather than  with insufficient

knowledge. The purpose ia also to know how well informed

you  should be now in the context of globe-changing 

occurrences rather than being ill-informed of situations.

3. There will be concern and curiosity amongst us that why

I consciously and occasionally lay emphasis on sex though a

taboo to be talked about. In fact, it was a sagacious step

on the part of current Central Health Minister to have

abandoned the idea of sex education in schools!  Because

our own experience being pathetic  without having had

adequate knowledge on the subject,  we will be misguiding

the youngsters to be in mental asylum early in their life.

Sex is not a subject to be learnt from books or theories or

mental construction of what it is. or what it is likely to be.

To know more on sex the merit  of experiential learning

need not  be stressed but learning to happen from the

experience, one has to be wakeful and watchful of changes

and side-effects that the experience brings about.

4. We all possess passed-on knowledge to be mechanical

having no avidity to be a self-learner! As I said occasionally

in the past the choice before men today in the context of

earth-shattering events is: Women Or God? Creation of

women is a clever design to keep men away from God!

Today, to make the earthly mortals uniform, men will

have to choose to keep women away if their inclination

is to be with the God!  Because sexual energy of men

plays the most important role in materialism as well

as in spiritualism! It does not mean that sex will not

and should not happen in the spiritual world. Guided

by no-mind or blankness of the mind, sex in spiritual

world - in the Age of New Spirituality  that is expected

to usher in as per God`s  Agenda -  will be qualitative

with no restrictions and limitations! 

To quote the words of an American CEO:  " what you

know is not as important as what you do with what you

know"!

NOTE: Please read the following article.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts, please

do not hesitate to say NO; I will honour your wish

.

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Hamas Just Attempted To Create A Horrific Nuclear Disaster In The Heart Of Israel

 July 10th, 2014

After the horrors of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, how insane do you have to be to fire missiles directly at a major nuclear facility?  No matter what side you are on in the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, everyone should be able to agree that it is utter madness for Hamas to fire rockets at the Dimona nuclear installation in the Negev.  The intent, of course, was to destroy the Dimona facility and create a horrific nuclear disaster in the heart of Israel.  Fortunately, the area is heavily protected by the Iron Dome missile defense system and none of the rockets did any damage.  And it is questionable how much damage to the facility that Hamas missiles could actually do.  But that is not the point.  What matters is that Hamas is trying to do it.  With each passing year, Hamas rockets are becoming more advanced, more accurate and more powerful.  And when Hamas fires some of their best rockets at a major nuclear facility, they are committing an act of all-out war.  If Hamas continues to do this, it could spark a major regional war in which countless numbers of people could die.  Is that what they want?

There has been a lot of criticism of Israel in the mainstream media in recent days, but much of it is quite hypocritical.  Just imagine what would happen in the U.S. if another country fired just one missile at New York City or at one of our nuclear reactors.  If that happened, "glass parking lot" would suddenly be on the lips of tens of millions of Americans all over the country, and the U.S. military would rapidly be preparing for an absolutely devastating response.

Well, it isn't just one missile that has been fired at Israel.

In recent days, dozens of rockets were fired at Israel before there was any response from the Israeli military at all.

And more than 225 rockets have been fired at Israel since Operation Protective Edge started on Monday night.

At one point, an average of about one rocket was being fired into Israel every ten minutes.

And many of these rockets are being shot directly at Israeli population centers with the intention of killing civilians.  It is a miracle that we have not seen many casualties so far.

But where Hamas has really stepped over the line is by firing at the Dimona nuclear facility.  The fact that Hamas is attempting to create a nuclear holocaust is essentially an act of genocide.  The following is how the Jerusalem Post described the attack...

Three rockets were launched at Dimona in southern Israel on Wednesday afternoon. The Iron Dome intercepted one rocket before it could land, while two other rockets landed in open areas.

Dimona is the location of Israel's nuclear reactor. There was no indication that rockets damaged any part of the reactor.

Hamas claimed responsibility for the rockets, stating that it had been attempting to hit the nuclear reactor.

Militants from Hamas's Qassam Brigades said they had launched long-range M-75 rockets towards Dimona.

And as Breitbart has pointed out, what Hamas has just done is actually an act of nuclear terrorism as defined by the United Nations...

Article 2 (1) of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism states:

1. Any person commits an offence within the meaning of this Convention if that person unlawfully and intentionally...(b)...uses or damages a nuclear facility in a manner which releases or risks the release of radioactive material: (i) With the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury; or (ii) With the intent to cause substantial damage to property or to the environment; or (iii) With the intent to compel a natural or legal person, an international organization or a State to do or refrain from doing an act.

Let us hope that future Hamas missile strikes will not do any damage to Dimona either.

In the end, it is questionable how much of a threat Hamas rockets actually are to an extremely well defended facility such as Dimona, but let us not completely underestimate their capabilities either.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, Hamas rockets are stronger and more accurate than ever and are now even capable of hitting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...

Hamas has emerged from a 19-month cease-fire stronger, savvier, and more effective at hitting Israel where it will hurt the most.

Hamas's arsenal, estimated at 10,000 rockets, is only marginally bigger than it was heading into its last conflict with Israel, in November 2012. But its mid-range rockets are much more accurate, and it has acquired long-range missiles that reach beyond Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, putting as many as 5 million of Israel’s 8 million citizens at risk.

If Hamas wants Israel to stop attacking, they need to stop lobbing missiles into Israel.

If Hamas keeps launching rockets, it could spark a major regional war.  Just consider what Shimon Peres is saying about the conflict...

“We didn’t start the war today, they started it already several days ago,” he told CNN. “We asked them to stop it... We waited one day, two days, three days and they continued, and they spread their fire on more areas in Israel.”

He also said that a ground offensive on Gaza “may happen quite soon”. Referring to rockets being fired from Gaza, he added: “If they will stop for example tonight, there won’t be any ground entrance - but if they will continue, sooner or later this will be the response.”

And there are news reports today that Israel has already warned 100,000 Gaza residents living in cities near the border with Israel to leave their homes.

That means that a ground invasion could be imminent.

Let us pray for peace because every human life is extremely valuable.

Every Israeli life is extremely valuable, and every Palestinian life is extremely valuable.

Nobody should want to see a major war between the Israelis and the Palestinians, because if one does happen it will be extremely bloody.

The Middle East is a powder keg that could erupt at any moment.

A single wrong move could bring about a nightmarish conflict that results in countless deaths.

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On Thursday, 10 July 2014 7:34 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,      Thurs 10th July, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

206/14 Floods , Floods Everywhere!

1. So immersed we are in multifarious activities

that we don't yet comprehend the communication

from  the Universe!  The unheard of cosmic

communication  seems to convey to the humanity

as a whole that it is a passing phase not  to be taken

seriously. I am compelled to be in wonderment as to

how can we ignore the impacts of tools that God uses

all over the world on the economies!

2. Governments around the world have refined the art

of concealing the facts to communicate to the voters

what is not the reality!  Used to lying on all occasions

and in all places, we will not know  ourselves what is

truth!  The Divine dichotomy is a truth but do we easily

accept it having experienced in many field?. Sex is

good as well as bad is the Divine dichotomy! We will

accept that it is good but can we accept that it is bad?

No, because we don't know till now that we are experiencing

the bad aspects of sex! That sex is good has made us

myopic, literally and figuratively!

3. Engaged in enjoyment and immersed in routines, the

frequent occurrence of floods in every country does not

concern us  because we are not feeling the impact

now. Nor do we know now the colossal damage such

floods have inflicted on every economy! In many parts

of the world, including USA, thousands of people are

homeless in the wake of ferocity of Nature. Having no

source of livelihood, these homeless people are unable

to rebuild their houses. Recurring floods too will weaken

the infrastructure and cause outbreak of cholera and

diarrhea!

4. Droughts and floods  are two deadly combinations to

play havoc on economies. Anticipating the unexpected

does not course through our veins as we are all habituated

to fighting and firefighting! No amount of education can

correct this malaise afflicting our society. Everywhere

Government has to intervene. If increase of population

is a drag on an economy, Governments have to  step in

to control the desire or contain the outcome with condom! 

But tools of God unleashed daily tell us to put a lid willy-nilly

on our desire either for pleasure or for expansion and turn

towards the neglected soul in us without delay and demur!

NOTE: Please read the following  reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Seveso River Floods Milan

July 8, 2014

Heavy rain forced levels of the Seveso River in Milan to overflow. Parts of the city saw flooding, including some of the city’s metro stations. The city’s traffic, including trams and buses, seemed to have suffered the worst. Streets were around 30cm to 50cm deep in flood water at one stage during the morning rush hour. Flood water also put out traffic lights, causing more commuter chaos.

The Seveso broke its banks early this morning at around 03:00 hrs. One of the worst affected areas of the city is Isola

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Floods in Douala, Cameroon Raise Malaria Threat

July 9, 2014

Heavy rainfall flooded several areas of Douala, Cameroon, yesterday, reigniting concerns about increased mosquito population and malaria. Around 3,200 people died of malaria in Cameroon last year. A high proprtion of malaria fatalities occur in Douala.

Around 60 mm of rain fell in 24 hours between 7 and 8 July. Local media say that the city had experienced prolonged showers, lasting between 2 and 4 hours, every day for the last week.

The flooding caused damage to property and blocked road, leaving some areas of the city cut off. Flood water also caused electrical problems leaving some parts of the city without power. The affected areas of the city include Bonanjo, and the low lying areas of Ngangue and Makepe.

Douala is a sea port and Cameroon’s largest city, usually referred to as the country’s economic capital. Heavy rainfall around this time of year is not unusual. The time around July and August is usually considered to be the peak of the rainy season. In August 1966 1240 mm of rain fell in one month.

In August 2000, around 30 percent of homes in the city were flooded after torrential rain fell for 3 days causing some of the worst flooding the city has seen.

Floods in the city are worsened by poor drainage and litter that blocks waterways. Plastic bags in particular, are thought to have caused the most problems for drainage. In 2013, the government banned the production, sale and use of non-biodegradable plastic bags in Cameroon.

Malaria Threat

One of the worst consequences of flooding in Cameroon is the increase of the mosquito population. Deaths from malaria have increased over the last few years. The annual death toll from malaria in Cameroon jumped from less than 2,000 in 2011 and 2012 to over 3,200 in 2013.

Around 40% of malaria deaths occur in the cities of Douala in the Littoral Region and Mokolo in the Far North Region, both of which regularly suffer from floods.

A campaign “Kick Out Palu (Malaria)” was recently launched to help people understand the risks.

At the launch of the campaign in Mach 2014, Alim Hayatou, Cameroon minister in charge of epidemics and pandemics said:

“The increase in the death rate from malaria in Cameroon is disturbing indeed, especially at a time when efforts to combat the disease in African were yielding positive results. The Cameroon government, however, is sparing no efforts to reverse the trend,”.

In 2013, a WHO report said that said 90 percent of all malaria deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Summer Storms and Flash Floods in UK

July 9, 2014

Summer storms with heavy rain and hail, brought flash flooding to some areas of the UK yesterday, 8 July 2014.

The Met Office say that some parts of England and Wales saw 10 to 15 mm of rain in an hour. Around 20mm of rain was seen in Hampshire.

South Coast

While the sun was shining on sun bathers on Brighton beach, just along England’s south coast in Bournemouth a massive downpour of rain resulted in flash flooding. Streets were flooded and some of the city’s parks had to be evacuated. Local water companies were brought in to pump out the flood water.

In other nearby areas the scene was a little different. A hailstorm had left parts of the town covered in ice, with some streets looking like a Christmas card.

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On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 8:22 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,  Wed 9th July, 2014   0530hrs

Good Morning!

205/14 Nature`s Dreadful Designs!

1. As individuals everyone of us has deliberate

designs to deceive, disappoint, distract, and disturb

others. That all these Ds have impacts on individuals

either temporarily or permanently is not a study we

would like to undertake. It is the mind that gets impacted

first and the impacted mind creates bodily discomfort. 

If a woman disturbs her husband in the bed or vice

versa, it impacts the conscious mind, not allowing it to

go to sleep! The three or four-hour sleep in the night

does not allow her or him to be active in office. Frequent

yawning will  impact their ability to function well.

2. Many mortals, men and women alike, are eager to

engage in researches but they don't  have the eagerness

to research on life`s situations that are again designs of our Creator whose existence is still being searched without any seriousness. We don't know yet that sex and mind are great friends. We cannot separate both even though our deep-

rooted thoughts are that they are separate.  If we make our

mind blank - a task replete with thoughts of incapability -

moving away from the conscious mind, sexual desire

disappears. Mahatma Gandhi experimented this!  Without

sex, mind`s power is immense and immeasurable!

3. The education we have had has not empowered

us to enrich our mind - a treasure having no depth

or dimension. Our education has created a measurable

depth and dimension and this measurable two Ds make

us egoistic and euphoric.  The dreadful designs of God,

our Creator, that we witness now all over the world is to

dissect our internal design and discern its power to be

boundless in our bonhomie. The dreadful designs of

Nature is to design a heaven on this earth through

collective conscouenss of all souls.The dreadful designs

of the Universe is to explore the extraordinarily powerful

nature of our mind.

4. Our mind remained an orphan for ages. Our body and

bodily needs assumed priority to fulfill. The deadly designs

of God like super typhoon Neoguri to quote one  is to move

away from immersion in sex to immerse in mind-related meditation, diminishing the power of conscious mind - the

mind that triggered sexual desire. The sexual desire and its fulfillment diminished power of our mind. Man got so used to fertilizing the female eggs, he totally forgot to fertilize his mind!

Fertilization of the mind also demands action, and the action

here calls for patience and perseverance .

NOTE  Please read the following report. .

Regards,

Thiagarjan TVS

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5 dead as 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocks southern Mexico, Guatemala

    July 07, 2014 11:36                                                            
                                                                                       

A damaged house is pictured in the San Marcos region, in the northwest of Guatemala, in this July 7, 2014.(Reuters / Municipal fire department)

At least 5 people have been killed after a powerful 7.1-magnitude quake struck the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and neighboring Guatemala.

The earthquake struck 14km offshore from the city of Mazatan in Mexico, but strong tremors were felt across the border in Guatemala. Significant damages were reported in the region of San Marcos in Guatemala where the quake damaged buildings and triggered landslides.

"This quake was pretty strong. There are houses destroyed," Luis Rivera, governor of the San Marcos region, told Reuters.

Two people died as buildings collapsed in the Guatemalan town of Pati, in the border province of San Marcos, firefighters’ spokesman Raul Hernande said. A newborn baby was killed after a collapsed wall hit him in a San Marcos hospital, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said in an interview to radio Emisores Unidos. In another case, a woman in Quetzaltenango died from a heart attack.

Municipal firefighters stand outside a damaged building in the San Marcos region, in the northwest of Guatemala, in this July 7, 2014 .(Reuters / Municipal fire department)

The spokesman for the fire services added that twelve people were injured and 50 houses in the region were evacuated.

Mexicans and Guatemalans alike voiced their reaction to the earthquake on Twitter, with some people claiming the quake was felt as far south as El Salvador.

Mexico is located atop three large tectonic plates and is one of the world's most seismically-active regions. The last powerful quake struck the region in May, 303km from the popular beach resort of Puerto Vallarta.

The country has a long history of destructive earthquakes. In 1985, more than 9,500 people were killed in Mexico City after an 8.1 earthquake hit the region.

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On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 8:12 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Tues 8th July 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

204/14 Women And Their Mind!

1. Being in flesh and blood, women are creation of a

different kind to  magnetize hard hearts and trap them

in a trauma. Women have not been understood at all

by men of all ilk, and the misunderstood women are

still a mystery, like God!  The whole humanity is not

aware of even in this digitalized world if it is civilized,

that women are favorite of God because women are

God or Goddess-like!  My research began five years

ago on God, man and woman - ongoing and never

ending -  amply proves that they are the misunderstood 

and mirth-denied lot!.

2. The humanity is also not aware of that whatever is

spoken and written are purely for men. How Law of

Nature controls them is still beyond the grasp of anyone

in this world. Women are always identified with sex.It

is because that we have not exerted ourselves to

acquire sufficient knowledge on sex!  Women have

cycle, season, grace and poise that men don't have .

Are they really aware of that they are a different

specie? No, it is the lack of knowledge again that

spurs them to cross swords with men  - their

husbands!

3. Unlike men who have to struggle to be imbued with

the positive emotion of love, women`s love is innate,

inborn and indescribable. The study of power of love

in women still eludes us. If God is love, love of women

can be equated with God!  Love can not be quantified

nor can we see its power. Love has the power to get

rid of negative emotions like anger, fear and worry. If

a woman kisses or hugs her angry husband or worried

partner, his anger and worry will go away instantly.  Most

of the time, her kiss or hug will be misunderstood!

4. People ask me sometimes if women don't have

the mind.  Power of the mind, though subtle, is enhanced

enormously if love oozes in a woman!  Positive emotion

of love and mind are interconnected. As we are all used

to narrow connotation of love, restricting it to bedroom love

but spiritual in nature, it is difficult for us to go beyond the

obvious. We have not molded ourselves to be expansive.

Narrow connotation limits our thinking because sexual

pleasure has a way of limiting our thoughts - an inbuilt

design never aroused our curiosity!  The limitation

forms the basis for us to guide the gullible, and guiding

the gullible inspires us to become Gurus!

NOTE: Please read the following report. Super typhoon,

Neoguri, half the size of India and four times the size of

Germany, is expected to hit soon.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Japan islands brace for powerful typhoon

Neoguri, one of the most powerful storms to have formed in years, could intensify to Category 5 before reaching island. Last updated: 07 Jul 2014 11:54

A powerful typhoon is threatening Japan's Okinawa islands with violent winds and torrential rains, and has forced the US air force base to move some of its aircraft. Neoguri intensified on Monday to a Category 4 storm over the Pacific Ocean and was expected to hit Okinawa early on Tuesday before reaching mainland Japan on Wednesday, the national weather agency said on Monday. Meteorologist Steff Gaulter said Neoguri could intensify to the highest level storm, Category 5, before it reaches Okinawa. Winds of 270km/h are recorded in a Category 5 storm, known as a super typhoon. The US Kadena Air Force base in Okinawa began evacuating some of its aircraft on Sunday in preparation. One official described the storm as "the most powerful typhoon forecast to hit the island in 15 years". The meteorological agency forecast Neoguri - racoon in Korean - would dump up to 80mm of rain an hour on Okinawa. The storm was expected to be downgraded by the time it hit the Japanese mainland, however.  "I'm calling on the heads of municipalities not to hesitate in issuing evacuation warnings and don't be afraid of being overcautious," Keiji Furuya, the state minister in charge of disaster management, told a government meeting. Okinawa is regularly hit by typhoons but islanders were taking no chances with fishermen on Miyako island bringing boats back to port and tying them down with ropes. *********************************

On Monday, 7 July 2014 7:59 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,    Mon 7th July, 2014  0530- hrs

Good Morning!

203/14 Collective Consciousness Of Employees!

1. Recruitment of employees is a routine exercise,

studying the CV with a fine tooth-comb  and ignoring

the strengths and weakness not portrayed well. It is

also a routine exercise to put round pegs in a square

holes making the heads of departments wonder why

there is lackadaisical performance on the part of

individuals. If our accent is on training individuals,

performance can hardly be sterling.  What is the

budget set aside for training?

2. Just we don't comprehend the dynamics of markets

to sell our products, we don't comprehend the individuals

to exploit their strengths and help  them overcome their

weakness gradually. Employees are assets like plant and

machinery ,and nurturing them is far more important a task.

Educating employees is not a priority but exploiting them

is the unalterable agenda. To be growth-oriented, we need

to pay attention  to the mind of every employee. Their mind

becomes an orphan if it is not fertilized regularly.  It is because

we don't know yet what the mind can do !

3. Who contributes to the growth of a company? Do we really

nurture them daily or periodically to increase the revenue of

a company? Workplace is quite apt for every employee to

educate himself or herself constantly because they  spend

almost eight hours a day for five days in a week. HRD `s role

seems restrictive as they go by rule book!  Also, they shine

in an organization through their pet theories and thoughts

with no room for flexibility to be different,  We don't need

qualifications to boost the business of  an organization.

If we know what is collective consciousness and its power,

.

4. To tap the mind`s power, a company does not need to

spend lakhs of rupees on training the manpower. Employees

should be allowed to be in touch with their soul, also called,

meditation, fifteen minutes before beginning their work in the morning and fifteen minutes before lunch.  Time invested

this way is a great pay off for the employer as well as for employees. If meditation is resorted to by all the employees,

they create collective consciousness to be far more powerful

than the consciousness of an individual.The collective

power of the mind though not to be seen, will boost the

business. The struggle to get business will be replaced by

effortlessness. Business will knock  at the doors of a company.:

Yet, every employee should not forego the early morning

session of meditation before sun rise!

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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On Friday, 4 July 2014 7:55 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends    Fri  4th July 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

202/14 Our Will Now Is Our Strength!

1. Economy-sapping events now will trigger our

negative emotions, and negative emotions will

remain the Achilles` heal for all of us. It must be

our priority now to eradicate the negative emotions

with determined steps. Determination and disciplines

should be the watchword if we desire to ward off

the emotional upheaval in the face of economic

upheaval.

2. The certainty of economic upheaval does need no

prediction. It is already there visible to some eyes

and invisible to the eyes of majority. If we are business-

savvy, we can spot  the vulnerability of almost all Western

economies and seek appropriate measures .If we read

the messages of God sent time and again to most of the

readers, we would know that all occurrences had prior

warning from Him to embrace Life, that is God in each one.

3. Actions of God and appraisal of every individual by Him are

simultaneous. The inaction on the part of individuals to

embrace their soul in them through meditation will

inspire God to intensify His actions to instill fear in individuals.

Bombay Municipal Corporation has said that only 40

days supply of water is available in the lakes, and they

have already cut 20 percent of water. If the lakes have to

be filled to the brim, the rainfall has to be in the catchment

areas  to the extent of almost 1,000 to 1,500 mm.

4. Tropical storm Arthur is expected to hit the East Coast of

USA soon, and the wind speed is predicted to be 300 km.

There is already a colossal economic damage, and the rising

rivers there are posing a great danger. Four inch diameter

of hailstorms and tornadoes are pounding many States causing

damage to infrastructures, homes and business houses. The

purpose of my daily post to all of you is not to scare you even

though events will, but to keep you updated with all alarming

incidents that will have impact on  all of us sooner than later.

As I often say, and I reiterate here, meditation is the only tool

we need to rely on to race ahead.

NOTE: Please do not take  every occurrence in the world

lightly. The world may not know the design of God. It does

not mean that we should remain unprepared

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

French Language Faculty

Meditation Guide

Article Writing

Speaker on Body, Mind And Soul

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On Thursday, 3 July 2014 7:17 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Thurs 3rd Jul 2014  0530- hrs

Good Morning!

201/14 Still Clueless?

1. The magical and mysterious God is keeping

His children in doubt about His existence and

making them seek proofs. That every individual

living on this earth is the proof of His existence is

eluding every individual. That He manifests in many

ways is still beyond our grasp. The digitalized world

has not helped us deepen our knowledge of our own

being from birth to burial.

2. Creation of woman is His manifestation providing

we research on  her thoroughly over a period of time

without having to obtain a Ph.D.!  Love alone is her  

greatest asset as well as qualification, and her love,

spiritual in nature, can be equated with God. Every

human being we see in the world had the soil and the

root in a woman. One who understood women well

was Andrew Carnegie, father of Dale Carnegie! With

our limited understanding of them, we can say, as one

Japanese Minister did, often that they are baby-making

machines. They are not machines to be automatic in

procreation of children.

3. Limitation is not what we would like to accept as long

as we immerse in materialism, because materialism is

designed to create limitation. The immersion in materialism

impeded the mental growth to go beyond the obvious.

That is why today scientists of all stripes are clueless as

to the climate change though climate change in itself is

the manifestation of God. Limitation leads to misinterpretation,

but coming from experts misinterpretation is accepted to

be followed faithfully. If we have not acquired the ability

to grasp the power of a woman`s presence and the significance

of her love at the materialistic level, we will also  find it

hard to find the existence of God.

,

4. The state of being clueless will vanish when actions of God

are accelerated to be desperate. "Desperation" alone will

energize men and women alike to engage in seeking

desperate measures. Desperation will not allow us to

remain silent . Silence is pregnant with spiritual powers.

Silence is the natural outcome of mental oneness with

the God in each of us. Today the manifestation of God

in very many ways is reminding us that each one of us

is God-like. The unseen God demands action from each

one of us to seek the untapped  powers in us for centuries.

We never say that everything was woman-made!   We only say

that everything was man-made!!

NOTE: Please read the following reports that purport

to be clues of existence of God!

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Cost of the June 2014 Minnesota Floods

July 2, 2014

With the levels of the Mississippi River falling, Governor Mark Dayton and a flood emergency team have been assessing the damage left by the recent floods across Minnesota.

So far the estimate has come in at at least $32 million and counting. That is for the cost of flood damage to public infrastructure alone, and does not include any private homes or business property damaged. The high figure makes it likely that Minnesota will qualify for federal assistance to help the affected areas recover from the flooding. A team from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are currently surveying the damage across the state.

At its peak the flooding was so widespread 35 of the Minnesota’s 87 counties had declared a state of emergency. Some northern areas of the state are still fighting floods. For the rest, the flood water appears to be receding and river levels dropping. Now for the clean up, which could take months.

The worst affected county in terms of costs Carver County, where so many roads, as well as a water treatment works, were damaged initial estimates put the cost at over $9 million.

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July 2, 2014

China’s State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Tuesday 1 July 2014 reporting that 134 people have been killed in floods so far this year. The statement also said that 12 people are still missing in flood affected areas.

• 19 provinces hit by flooding in 2014 so far
• Worst affected have been Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangxi
• 19.35 million people affected
• 1.29 million hectares of crops damaged

June alone has been a disastrous month for flooding in China. 66 people have been killed in flooding during June 2014. Over the last few days heavy rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in several southern provinces. Two people have died in a landslide in Yunnan, with 13 still missing. Further deaths have occurred in Guangxi (1) and Guizhou (1) and 600 people have been displaced in Sichuan after floods damaged around 1500 homes there.

Further heavy rainfall has been forecast for those southern and central provinces over the next few days, as well as Hebei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi. Over the last 24 hours Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, has seen 118 mm of rain (between 01 and 02 July 2014).

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The first storm of the Atlantic Season

Tropical Storm Arthur develops to the east of Florida. 02 Jul 2014 09:36

cluster of thunderstorms to the east of Florida has now developed into the first Tropical Storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season.

The system was upgraded to a Tropical Storm at 15GMT on Tuesday, and named Arthur. Although other storms have formed to the west of Mexico, this is the first one this year to form in the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Arthur is moving at just 4kph and is currently rather disorganised, but favourable conditions mean that it is expected to strengthen.

Warm sea waters are the energy source of a tropical system. Great amounts of energy are transferred when warm water is evaporated from tropical seas. As humid air rises, energy is released when the water vapour condenses, producing the towering cumulus clouds and rain seen within a tropical storm.

The waters to the east of Florida are currently 1C above average, and this will give extra energy to the system and allow Arthur to strengthen.

The winds will also help the system become stronger. They are fairly similar throughout the atmosphere, something meteorologists call low 'wind sheer'. This will ensure that the system isn't disrupted as it grows vertically throughout the atmosphere.

Arthur is expected to run up the east coast of the USA over the next few days.

It has already produced heavy rain in Florida, with Miami reporting 98mm of rain on Sunday and Monday.

Today the heaviest rain it is expected to be in eastern Florida and the Bahamas, where up to 150mm of rain could be seen in some locations.

The system will strengthen further and head towards the coast of North Carolina, reaching its closest point on Friday.

This is an unfortunate time for the storm to affect the east coast, as this weekend is a holiday weekend in the US. Many of the hotels in the region are fully booked for the Independence Day celebrations, known as Fourth of July.

Officials in North Carolina's Outer Banks said they would close Cape Lookout National Seashore on Wednesday evening and reopen when it's safe.

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Floods wreak havoc across South America

Severe weather causes widespread disruption across Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.                    : 01 Jul 2014 10:02

Severe flooding has resulted in a huge amount of damage and disruption across parts of South America. Eastern Paraguay, southern Brazil and northern Argentina have all been badly affected.

Over a quarter-of-a-million people have been forced to leave their homes. According to Paraguayan officials, the floods have resulted in the evacuation of almost 300,000 people living near the Paraguay and Parana rivers.

Officials said that United Nations and Red Cross experts have evaluated the situation and they are now beginning to receive some international aid.

The same area of torrential rain also extended across southern Brazil. Here it has caused more than 50,000 people to seek shelter away from their homes, increasing an earlier estimate almost tenfold.

Similarly, the heavy and steady downpours have forced the evacuations in Argentina. Some reports estimate that around 12,500 people have been affected. According to Cabinet Chief, Jorge Capitanich, many residents from the swamped low-lying areas in the provinces of Misiones and Formosa are now living in temporary accommodation.

Officials say that some relief has got through, now that the rains in the Misiones region along the border with Paraguay and Brazil have finally stopped for the first time in a week. The government expects President Cristina Fernandez to tour the flood-hit areas this week.

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On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 6:50 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Wed 2nd Jul, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

200/14 Time And Tide Wait For No Man!

1. There is a race now between economic crisis and weather-

related woes though weather can accelerate the economic

crisis. What remained papered over for many months will

be revealed through severe weather that batters every

nook and corner of the world. Economically, African countries

are more vulnerable. Communication of any sort never drew

our attention to improve and interpret to be timely in our action

and accomplishments. Our failure to hone our communication

skills will prove to be a great handicap.

2. Unlike men, communication of women, our body, new-born

children, is totally different to be understood for immediate

action. Today, men are not moving fast  with the times as they

are still grappling with interpretations to ignore speeding crises.

Forethought is not our forte.  When signs are looming large,

to shake up the economies we don't seem to believe that we

are on the precipice of our life on this  planet. We might not

have read legions of books to be luminaries  but we must

learn to read apace the signs that matter to our survival  now.

All around the signs we see are ominous!

3. Monsoon across India is expected to be  47 percent below

average, and if Mumbai, the favorite of God, fails to receive

adequate rainfall this season, leaders of the state cannot afford

to wring their hands in the air. How chaotic the situation will be

is not their foresight!  We don't believe in foresight, hindsight

and insight and such sights are not relevant to our democracy.

We must not give up what we are used to - firefighting!  Can

we follow what Andy Grove, former Intel Chairman said: "Anticipate the unexpected"!?

4. But the ongoing crises expected to be a "bombshell" in the

near future will remain a traumatic experience for  one and all.

The crises will leave us with only two options and  for every individual: "adopt or perish"! Meditation is the only option to adopt if crises have to be surmounted though may seem insurmountable! There is no need to call an anesthetist.  Meditation provides the power to bear the crises of crippling nature. To experience is to believe, and the action to meditate

will tell us a lot more  than what we listen and read.

NOTE: Please read the following eye-opening article.

Please never ignore your employees, friends, relatives

and strangers as well in this hour of life-changing phase.

Guiding them is the golden chance  never to come again.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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18 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Accelerating As We Enter The Last Half Of 2014

 June 30th, 2014

A lot of people that I talk to these days want to know "when things are going to start happening".  Well, there are certainly some perilous times on the horizon, but all you have to do is open up your eyes and look to see the global economic crisis unfolding.  As you will see below, even central bankers are issuing frightening warnings about "dangerous new asset bubbles" and even the World Bank is declaring that "now is the time to prepare" for the next crisis.  Most Americans tend to only care about what is happening in the United States, but the truth is that serious economic trouble is erupting in South America, all across Europe and in Asian powerhouses such as China and Japan.  And the endless conflicts in the Middle East could erupt into a major regional war at just about any time.  We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and people need to understand that the period of relative stability that we are enjoying right now is extremely vulnerable and will not last long.  The following are 18 signs that the global economic crisis is accelerating as we enter the last half of 2014...

#1 The Bank for International Settlements has issued a new report which warns that "dangerous new asset bubbles" are forming which could potentially lead to another major financial crisis.  Do the central bankers know something that we don't, or are they just trying to place the blame on someone else for the giant mess that they have created?

#2 Argentina has missed a $539 million debt payment and is on the verge of its second major debt default in 13 years.

#3 Bulgaria is desperately trying to calm down a massive run on the banks that threatens of spiral out of control.

#4 Last month, household loans in the eurozone declined at the fastest rate ever recorded.  Why are European banks holding on to their money so tightly right now?

#5 The number of unemployed jobseekers in France has just soared to another brand new record high.

#6 Economies all over Europe are either showing no growth or are shrinking.  Just check out what a recent Forbes article had to say about the matter...

Italy’s economy shrank by 0.1% in the first three months of 2014, matching the average of the three previous quarters. After expanding 0.6% in Q2 2013, France recorded zero growth. Portugal shrank 0.7%, following positive numbers in the preceding nine months. While figures weren’t available for Greece and Ireland in Q1, neither country is showing progress. Greek GDP dropped 2.5% in the final three months of last year, and Ireland limped ahead at 0.2%.

#7 A few days ago it was reported that consumer prices in Japan are rising at the fastest pace in 32 years.

#8 Household expenditures in Japan are down 8 percent compared to one year ago.

#9 U.S. companies are drowning in massive amounts of debt, but the corporate debt bubble in China is so bad that the amount of corporate debt in China has actually now surpassed the amount of corporate debt in the United States.

#10 One Chinese auditor is warning that up to 80 billion dollars worth of loans in China are backed by falsified gold transactions.  What will that do to the price of gold and the stability of Chinese financial markets as that mess unwinds?

#11 The unemployment rate in Greece is currently sitting at 26.7 percent and the youth unemployment rate is 56.8 percent.

#12 67.5 percent of the people that are unemployed in Greece have been unemployed for over a year.

#13 The unemployment rate in the eurozone as a whole is 11.8 percent - just a little bit shy of the all-time record of 12.0 percent.

#14 The European Central Bank is so desperate to get money moving through the system that it has actually introduced negative interest rates.

#15 The IMF is projecting that there is a 25 percent chance that the eurozone will slip into deflation by the end of next year.

#16 The World Bank is warning that "now is the time to prepare" for the next crisis.

#17 The economic conflict between the United States and Russia continues to deepen.  This has caused Russia to make a series of moves away from the U.S. dollar and toward other major currencies.  This will have serious ramifications for the global financial system as time rolls along.

#18 Of course the U.S. economy is struggling right now as well.  It shrank at a 2.9 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2014, which was much worse than anyone had anticipated.

But if U.S. economic numbers look a bit better for the second quarter, that doesn't mean that we are out of the woods.

As I have stressed so many times, the long-term trends and the long-term balance sheet numbers are far, far more important than the short-term economic numbers.

For example, if you went to the mall today and spent a thousand dollars on candy and video games, your short-term "economic activity" would spike dramatically.  But your long-term financial health would take a significant turn for the worse.

Well, when we are talking about the health of the U.S. economy or the entire global financial system we need to keep the same kinds of considerations in mind.

As for the United States, whether the level of our debt-fueled short-term economic activity goes up a little bit or down a little bit is not what is truly important.

Rather, the fact that we are nearly 60 trillion dollars in debt as a society is what really matters.

The same thing applies for the globe as a whole.  Right now, the citizens of the planet are more than 223 trillion dollars in debt, and "too big to fail" banks around the world have at least 700 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives.

So it doesn't really matter too much whether the short-term economic numbers go up a little bit or down a little bit right now.  The whole system is an inherently flawed Ponzi scheme that will inevitably collapse under its own weight.

Let us hope that this period of relative stability lasts for a while longer.  It is a good thing to have time to prepare.  But you would have to be absolutely insane to think that the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world is never going to burst.

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On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 8:04 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,         Tues 1st Jul 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

199/14 Raining Tools of Universe to Rein In Our Expenses!

1. If learning is our longing now, the Universe is providing

plenteous opportunities as it always did during our journey

on this earth. Today, the learning has to be quick  to lean

on our strengths and savings. What  remained stealthy

steps of institutions are coming to the surface to bewilder

and bemoan, thanks to Pluto  that is very active ever since

its transition in Capricorn to unearth all unknowable missteps.

The missteps hidden over the years are poised to take us

towards the bottomless pit.

2. Droughts all over the world remain a serious threat to the

civilization as they cause shortage of commodities and food

items resulting in rise in prices and revolt. The word "nightmare"

remained individual-specific all through the ages. Now the

same word will be world-gripped. If humanity is assailed by

negative emotions as a result of Universe-unleashed tools,

medicines will have no power to cure. But on an occasion

like this doctors will have a field day! We will be caught

between events and emotions

3. What strategies we scripted to penetrate markets are

different from those of God. Before we understand His

strategies to strangulate economies,, numberless men

and women will have succumbed to negative emotions

as one could see in EU nations. Our imperviousness

is an impediment to brace up for the turbulence ahead.

Our nonchalance today despite evidences of God`s

presence and power around the world is a reflection of

our inability to be curious to cull out the truths.

4. Of all the measures we need to take to weather-

weather-related woes, protecting our money is imperative.

Tightening our belt is another measure we need to focus

on. Developing a taste for array of foods - perishable and

imperishable - is another measure. Stockpiling imperishable

items will be a strategic step providing we are wakeful and

watchful of precipitating world events. Reporting of life-changing

events is rare today, and each one of us has to fend for

ourselves if survival is our strong desire. We can no longer

rest on our past laurels. We need to recognize the God in

each one of us and reach Him to ride out all economic

storms!

NOTE: Please read the following article  with great

interest and patience!

2. Abidjan, capital of Ivory Coast, Part of Nigeria, part

of Brazil,, Paraguay has experienced unprecedented

floods!

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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PART ONE (Jeff Opdyke`s Article)

Hello. My name is Jeff Opdyke.

As a former investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, I’ve seen a lot of swindles, scams and financial scandals throughout my career.

The Obama scandal I’m going to reveal to you today is not just the biggest of all—it will also be the most devastating.

I’m sure you’ve heard about the major scandals that have broken over the Obama administration.

The Bengazi cover-up… the IRS targeting conservatives… the bugging of Associated Press reporters… and the National Security Agency secretly collecting data from ordinary citizens.

Well, if these events have shocked you… you’ve seen nothing yet.

The scandal I’m talking about will dwarf the Enron, WorldCom, and Madoff scandals not only in dollar value, but also in the sheer level of dishonesty.

It will trigger a virtually unstoppable chain reaction that will destroy the way of life of millions of unprepared Americans.

Historians will recognize this as the biggest political and financial event of our century.

Ironically, details of this scandal are buried inside this little-known government document called FT-900

In short, this document reveals a major cover up from the most powerful financial institution in the world.

While this is a public document, only a handful of people have figured out its implications. 99.9% of Americans have yet to connect the dots.

The truth is this scandal is not obvious. Only those who know where to look, and are willing to investigate decades of data have been able to piece together this major cover up.

And that’s exactly what I’ve done. I’ve spent the last nine months researching this topic, collecting evidence and contacting experts.

I’m confident after you see what I’m about to show you, you’ll agree that a major crisis is not only inevitable, but imminent… and that your wealth and your way of life are at risk.

The good news, is that this scandal will also result in the biggest wealth transfer in the history of our nation. For those of us who start preparing now, this will be the opportunity of a life-time.

In a minute, I will show you exactly all the steps you need to take to put yourself on the right side of this wealth transfer.

But for those who ignore this message? Well, let’s just say it won’t be pretty.

401ks and IRAs will shrink by 40% or more… millions of Americans will fall into poverty overnight … unemployment will skyrocket… markets around the globe will drop at least 50%.

I expect we’ll see some politicians indicted… people will riot in the streets… some of our closest allies will break agreements with us.

The government will have no choice but to suspend Social Security checks and all forms of welfare payments, including food stamps and unemployment insurance.

And when all is said and done, the U.S. may even look like a third world country.

You will need to reevaluate who you do business with, where you bank, and how you invest for retirement.

This event will even have a huge impact on the lifestyle of your children and grandchildren…

I know all this sounds pretty daunting, but believe me… I have no interest in trying to scare you.

As the executive editor of The Sovereign Investor, it’s my duty to sound the alarm bell loud and clear.

The independent financial research team I head has been doing just that for years now.

We were one of the first financial research groups to warn investors about the dangers in the derivatives market, and the threat they posed to the global financial system.

Many economic experts claimed the 2008 financial crisis was unpredictable – that it was a Black Swan event no one could expect. Yet, in 2005 we mailed a report to our subscribers and to influential decision makers in the U.S. on this very crisis.

We published this report long before the word “derivatives” ever hit the front pages. And it predicted with uncanny accuracy the global financial meltdown.

We also warned our readers on the dollar crisis of 2004 and 2005 ... the meltdown in the private equity markets in 2007 ... the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008… and the European debt crisis.

And now I’m here to warn you of another looming crisis…one that could soon trump them all.

I’ve already taken some drastic steps to prepare for this event. Because I know once the mainstream media starts reporting on this, it will be far too late for anyone to act.

And I hope you will do the same.

I hope you will act to protect your family and your wealth from the coming upheaval.

That’s why I’ve created this presentation.

To show you exactly what steps you can take today to protect your family and which investments will be on the winning side of this great wealth transfer.

But before I do that, let me first tell you why I believe this political event will topple one of the greatest pillars upon which our American empire was built.

I’m talking about trust…

Trust in the U.S. government and its institutions.

America is About to Lose its Most Valuable Asset

In recent years many analysts have predicted that America’s out-of-control debt would destroy our country.

And yet, our economy seems to be doing ok.

Why? Why hasn’t this ticking time bomb exploded?

It all comes down to one seemingly simple, but very important concept: Trust.

We all know that trust is the most important glue in any relationship, either in business or in our personal lives. This is also true in our global financial system.

Most of us take this for granted, but trust in the U.S. government is a big reason why America has become such a dominant force over the past century.

It’s because of trust in our government that the U.S. has been able to borrow at the lowest interest rates available in the world for years.

Even in 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis in 80 years, our federal government was able to borrow vast sums of money at an interest rate close to 1%.

It was trust that allowed our government to bailout major banks and prevent the collapse of our financial system.

And it’s that trust that has allowed our government to get away with a spending spree of historic proportions… for far longer than anyone might reasonably expect.

But the government isn’t the only one that benefits from this trust. We all do.

Because of widespread trust in our currency across the globe, we pay a relatively low price for food, energy, clothing, electronics and other products.

Since our currency is accepted everywhere around the world, we can pay for all of our imports in dollars. We’ve been able to buy everything we need with paper money that we can print willy-nilly.

In other words, America has been able to exchange paper dollars that are produced at almost no cost for valuable goods.

So, trust in America has made it easier for us to import more than we export, to consume more than we produce, and to spend more than we earn.

It’s a huge benefit that has allowed us to live in McMansions, drive luxury cars, pay far cheaper gasoline prices, buy 3D HDTVs, load our pantries with cheap food, and so much more.

Trust in the U.S. government and its institutions, it turns out, has given us the greatest standard of living the world has ever seen… it’s what has made the American dream possible.

If this trust is shattered, however… well, our way of life is over.

I recently talked about this with my friend and legendary investor Jim Rogers. His take is that once trust in America is broken, it will “lead to a huge decline in the standard of living of U.S. citizens like nothing we’ve seen in nearly a century.”

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what will happen once the public finds out the details inside this little-known government document…

Details that reveal…

“The Biggest Cover-up in U.S. Financial History”

Most Americans have never heard about this document. But it hides undeniable evidence of a major cover-up.

Every month, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes this document called FT-900.

It shows official U.S. international trade data. … everything from how much barley we exported to how much glassware we imported.

But it’s the section labeled Miscellaneous Commodities that holds my interest. It’s there that you find a category called Gold.

This line basically reveals how much gold the U.S. has been exporting and importing.

For example, in 2012, the U.S. exported about $24 billion worth of gold and imported $11.2 billion. On a net basis, that means we exported $12.8 billion worth of gold last year.

Based on the average price of gold during 2012, our country exported about 217 tons of gold on a net basis.

How about this year?

Well, in 2013, America exported a bit more than $26 billion worth of gold and imported almost $11 billion. This means that, on a net basis, we’ve exported $15.4 billion worth of gold.

Based on this year’s average price of gold so far, we’ve exported just over 300 tons of gold.

It was surprising to see that America was exporting so much gold. So I decided to investigate how far back in time this gold-export trend extended.

The results were so shocking that it took me a moment to wrap my head around it. I knew I had uncovered something big.

Here’s what I found out: Since 1991, the U.S. has been consistently exporting large quantities of gold on a net basis.

And the amount of gold the U.S. has exported is well above and beyond what the US should be capable of exporting.

Let me show you what I mean…

Using data from the Gold Fields Mineral Services, the US Census Bureau, the US Mint and Bloomberg, I was able to determine the U.S. total demand and supply of gold during those 20 years.

During that time, the U.S. had a total amount of 7,532 tons of gold available for consumption… but the U.S. consumed 7,605 tons.

So, we consumed more than we had available to us. That implies we should have been a net importer of gold.

But oddly enough, we were not. In fact, we exported a massive 5,504 tons .

How could we have possibly exported more than 5,500 tons of gold after we had already consumed all the gold we had available, plus a little more? The math makes no sense.

Where is all that gold we exported coming from? It had to come from somewhere.

That’s how I reached this shocking conclusion: There’s an unexplained supply gap of 5,577 tons of gold. And there’s only one institution in the U.S. capable of secretly supplying such large amount of gold: the Federal Reserve.

And I’m not the only one who has now figured this out.

Canadian billionaire Eric Sprott, founder of Sprott Asset Management, says:

“The only US seller that would be capable of supplying such an astonishing amount is the US Government, with a reported gold holding of 8,133 tonnes.”

Bill Gross, founder of Pimco, the world’s largest bond fund, calls this scandal “the Fort Knox Fairy Tale”, referring to the Army base where the gold is supposedly being held.

Here’s what he said:

“$54 trillion of credit in the U.S. financial system based upon trusting a central bank with nothing in the vault to back it up. Amazing!”

These are not some wackos who believe in crazy conspiracy theories. They’re highly respected professionals who have made hundreds of millions in the financial markets.

And like me, they know the jig is up.

Still, I know some people will find it hard to believe our government would sell off our gold.

But the truth is this has happened before.

Take a look at this chart. It shows the official reserves reported by the U.S. government. Notice that America accumulated a massive amount of gold during World Wars I and II.

At one point, in the 1950s, the U.S. had 20,500 tons. At that time, this represented HALF of all gold ever mined. It was the largest accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen.

This shocking concentration of wealth was a hallmark of the all-powerful and wealthy America other nations envied. But in the last four decades our government squandered all that wealth.

In the late 1950s, the U.S. government started selling most of our gold to various European nations. From 1957 to 1972, our holdings went from 20,500 tons to 8,500, a decline of almost 60%.

Since the late 1970s, America’s officially reported gold reserves have remained at a constant 8,133 tons. So, according to the Fed, the U.S. Treasury has not bought or sold a single ounce of gold for more than three decades.

How is that possible? The government’s own documents – the FT-900 reports – show the U.S. has been exporting massive amounts of gold over the last 20 years.

Yet the Fed has been telling us for more than 30 years that America’s gold reserves have never changed.

Again, the math simply doesn’t add up.

Fort Knox is still viewed by many as a golden beacon of global finance… a symbol of the American empire’s super power status and strength.

It’s the world's most secure vault... made of a 21-inch-thick material that's resistant to drills, torches and explosives.

It’s contained on a 109,000-acre U.S. army post, surrounded by video cameras, minefields, barbed wire, electric fences, and armed guards.

But this is all a big smokescreen.

This last remaining symbol of American financial might is about to be exposed as nothing more than a monetary mirage.

The FT-900 document suggests the vaults are empty. But I understand why the Fed keeps reporting that it holds 8,133 tons.

The Fed knows that if it disclosed most of our gold is gone, it would lead to a major crisis of confidence in the dollar and U.S. government bonds.

Think about this for a minute…if America’s gold reserves are a lie, then what else h    as been distorted, and where, if anywhere, is the truth?

The “full faith and credit of the U.S. government” would become worthless overnight. And that would lead to a collapse of our economy and our way of life.

We would reach the tipping point, where faith in America’s finances and confidence in its government are lost.

Even the Treasury Department has just published a new report admitting that this kind of loss of confidence would have disastrous consequences for our nation. Here’s what the report said:

[It] has the potential to be catastrophic: credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, U.S. interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spillovers could reverberate around the world, and there might be a financial crisis and recession that could echo the events of 2008 or worse.”

That explains why the Fed doesn’t want anyone to know our gold is gone.

But they won’t be able to hide this from the public for much longer.

Because the truth is… the FT-900 document isn’t the only evidence I’ve uncovered that suggests the Fed has been lying about America’s gold reserves.

In fact, the more I investigated this story, the more convinced I became that something shady was afoot…

So let me tell you about:

“The 1992 Closed-Door Fed Meeting”

As the FT-900 document shows, the U.S. has been exporting massive amounts of gold for the past two decades. This is not a new phenomenon.

In fact, the export numbers were already raising suspicion back in 1992.

That’s when former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan raised the possibility that all the gold we’re exporting was coming from the Fed itself.

Members of the Federal Reserve meet eight times per year to discuss and set interest rate policy. Those meetings are recorded and the minutes detail everything Fed board members discuss behind closed-doors.

I managed to uncover the minutes of a Fed meeting from December 22, 1992. It notes a conversation between Mr. Greenspan and other members of the Fed.

CHAIRMAN GREENSPAN says:

Did I hear you correctly when you said that the gold exports in October appear to have come from the coffers of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York? Has anyone looked lately?

MR. TRUMAN responds:

Well, I didn’t want to tell too many secrets in this temple!

Of course, the answer to Mr. Greenspan question is no… nobody has looked. We’ve not checked the Fed’s coffers for the last 60 years. And that brings me to…

The Fed’s Constant Refusal to Audit the Vaults

The only way to prove once and for all the Fed isn’t lying about America’s gold reserves is through a full independent audit.

Shockingly, the last audit of gold stored in Fort Knox took place in 1953, just after U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower took office. So, there hasn’t been a comprehensive audit of Fort Knox in more than 60 years.

A number of congressmen have routinely requested a Fed audit to verify the vaults in Fort Knox aren’t empty. But Fed officials have rebuffed every single request. Their response is effectively: “trust us, the gold is all there.”

Three-time presidential candidate, Ron Paul, even introduced an “Audit the Fed” bill in 2011, but it never became law. His repeated calls for a full audit of the gold in Fort Knox have fallen on deaf ears.

All these denials have raised quite a few eyebrows.

Even a former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, said:

“I don’t believe there’s any gold being held in Fort Knox.”

In 2011, CNBC asked for a tour of Fort Knox to film the gold. An official at the U.S. Mint rejected their request, saying “Fort Knox is a closed facility.”

Even the History Channel has weighed in. In its series “America’s Book of Secrets,” the cable network reported on the possibility that the U.S. government has been lying all these years.

Here’s a short clip with the introduction to their Fort Knox episode.

As you can see, all the Fed’s secrecy has raised lots of suspicions.

The United States could put these concerns to rest simply by auditing the gold and publicly reporting the findings.

If the world’s publicly traded companies must undergo annual audits, why should the Federal government be immune? What are they hiding from us?

It would be extremely easy for the government to audit the gold. According to a Treasury document, it would cost only about $15 million to conduct an audit.

And yet the government has had the audacity to deny all requests for an audit because of the costs involved. That’s just ridiculous...

This lack of transparency is also raising concerns among major central banks. And that brings me to another piece of evidence I want to share with you.

“The German Gold is Gone”

The Fed has been able to fool a lot of people so far, but some of our allies no longer trust the institution.

Several foreign central banks store their gold in vaults controlled by the Fed.

According to the NY Federal Reserve:

“Much of the gold in the vault arrived during and after World War II as many countries wanted to store their gold reserves in a safe location.”

The German Central bank, in fact, keeps 1,536 tons of its gold in storage at the Federal Reserve’s vaults in Manhattan, 80 feet below sea level.

Just last year, German auditors demanded to inspect their country’s gold, just to make sure it was still there.

But guess what? The Fed prohibited the Germans from inspecting their own gold!

Of course, that raised a lot of eyebrows in Germany, with one leading member of the parliament, Heinz-Peter Haustein, declaring:

“All the gold has to be shipped back.”

Meanwhile, Carl-Ludwig Thiele, a board member of the German central bank demanded “more transparency on the issue.” He never got that transparency.

And the result was what you would expect – the trust the German authorities had with the Fed has quickly evaporated.

Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, has announced it will start repatriating 300 tons of the country’s gold from the vaults in Manhattan.

And get this…

The Fed said it would ship those 300 tons over a period of seven years…. SEVEN years.

And here’s what really ridiculous: so far, one year later, the Fed has shipped only 5 tons. At that pace, it will take the Fed 60 years to return all the German gold.

Why is returning just 300 tons to Germany such a problem?

The repatriation of a country’s gold reserves is supposed to be a smooth and quick affair. It isn’t supposed to take seven years.

But once you start putting all the pieces of the puzzle together, it’s easy to understand why…

The gold isn’t there. It’s gone.

As precious metals expert John Embry says, “if the gold were actually there, they could put it on a couple of cargo planes and get it back to Germany in a week.”

Where Has the Gold Gone?

But if America’s gold isn’t where it should be – inside the vaults controlled by the Federal Reserve – then where is it?

There’s some data that shows a tremendous amount of gold has moved into other countries in the East, especially China.

Take a look at this data released by the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department. It shows that over the last couple of years alone, China has imported 2,845 tons of gold.

That’s why Bloomberg reported:

“There are signs that gold is moving from West to East.”

And it’s why precious metals expert John Embry says:

“Western gold is headed East and the Western hoards are being hollowed out.”

Forbes also weighted in, and concluded that:

“the yellow metal may be in a transition stage from so-called “weak hands” in the West to “strong hands” in the East.”

That might very well explain why the Fed needs a ridiculously long seven years to meet the German gold repatriation request. The gold is gone. Now the Fed needs time to try to buy some of it back.

The problem is the Fed is running out of time…

Because any day now China is about to make an announcement that will rock the world and help expose the Fed’s lie. And...

Our House of Cards Will Collapse

China tends to announce its official gold holdings every five years or so.

The last time the Chinese officially announced the size of the country’s gold reserves was on April 24, 2009.

The People’s Bank of China, the Chinese version of our Federal Reserve, told the world that China’s gold reserves had grown to 1,054 tons from just 600 tons five years earlier.

And that’s the last official word from the Chinese. So, the market still operates under the assumption that the Chinese central bank controls 1,054 tons of gold.

But it’s about time for China to make a new announcement - one that is now overdue.

And that announcement will shock the world.

According to my research, China has a gold hoard of at least 5,000 tons.

Jim Rickards, hedge fund manager and author of the best-selling book Currency War, has come to the same conclusion. He said:

“Come 2014, China will announce that they own 5,000 tons of gold. That should be an earthquake. I have spoken to a number of sources in Asia. I've spoken to a number of people who are very close to the physical [gold] market, I've done my own investigations, etc. Every time I have an estimate and try to verify it, what I get back is that I'm wrong on the low side."

A local newspaper, the Shanghai Daily, recently confirmed that “China may soon announce an increase in its official gold reserve.”

And the Financial Times recently published an article saying:

“We would not be surprised to hear the People's Bank of China announce a new, significantly higher figure.”

This pending Chinese announcement is the last missing piece of this big Fed puzzle.

Once China makes the official announcement, our allies and lenders will all know the answer to the question: What’s in Fort Knox? They will figure out most of the gold China is holding must have come from the Fed.

After all, that’s what the document FT-900 implies… it shows our government has been exporting massive amounts of gold.

Think about this for a minute… the Fed claims to hold the largest gold reserve in the world: 8,133 tons.

But my research shows the Fed has supplied all the 5,557 tons the U.S. has exported in the last twenty years. This means the Fed now has less than 2,600 tons in reserve, and not the 8,133 tons it claims to hold.

 

Famous investor Richard Russell, publisher of the Dow Theory Letters, recently warned: Once the news of the US gold reserves being depleted is out, this will result in an unbelievable scandal.

With the Chinese announcement, the world will realize the Federal Reserve has been lying all these years. And everyone will know China’s gold reserve is larger than the Fed’s.

I’ll also show you the best ways to make sure you end up on the right side of this transfer. But first, it’s vital you grasp this important concept...

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On Monday, 30 June 2014 8:13 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Mon 30th June, 2014  0530 hrs

Good Morning!

198/14 The Dishonest World!

1. Is the world awaiting economic apocalypse?

Are we drawn towards life`s precipice? Are

we so naïve to ignore the knavishness of men

at the helm of nations` affairs? We are all in

deep slumber to know where we are heading

with least efforts on our part. To achieve something to be called as a "bravado" we

need to make efforts of Herculean nature,

but to be on the edge we can laze around

today.

2. One never paid attention to the transit

of Pluto in Capricorn from 2008 to 2023

nor did we ever demonstrate our eagerness

to expatiate on the repercussion of this

transit. Life for us now is an unalterable

journey. The ossified mind is not alerting

us to be aware of the crippling changes

being brought about by the combination of

unstoppable forces. What we don't know yet

is how tomorrow will look like given the

scenarios that are developing with great

speed.

3. Everywhere hiding the truths is the highest

priority, and truths, when known and will be

made known, will tear apart the foundation

of all democracies. One American astrologer,

a lady,said in 2008 that "we don't know now

how the world look like in 2023"! The past missteps of every democracy remained the

seeds to destroy the world  in the months

ahead.. We have lost our way in the

scrupulously scripted  democratic designs.

4. The carefully devised designs were

deceitful without being aware of how leaders began to dig the grave of every country.  

Handful of Americans are incisive in their analyses, investigative in their profession,

and enthusiastic to educate the educated illiterate! Reading their articles will awaken

us to the reality that we ignored so long, so to say! The reality will impinge on our lifestyle

much to our chagrin. Saying "good-bye" to

Kali yug is not going to be easy.

NOTE: Please read the following letter,

a revelation, with great patience.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily

thoughts, please do not hesitate to say

NO; I will honour your wish.

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Pentagon's "war games" expert says strange phenomenon is causing world's gold to vanish... and it won't be seen for 300 years

This expert (who consults for the Pentagon and intelligence community) predicts the gold prices will soar 600% in the next few years. Why is the world's gold supply disappearing and how can you take advantage of the situation? Details below...

Something is amiss in the gold market. You may have noticed the telltale signs – the confusing news stories, the weird price moves that don't make any sense. But no one is telling you the whole story.

The truth is that gold is disappearing.

It started very gradually about 10 years ago – and it was hard to see at first. So a lot of people didn't notice.

Now it's undeniable: Gold is vanishing.

Take a look at a commentary published by the metals storage and sales company Kitco in 2007:

"Fifty percent of all the gold in existence has been produced since 1960. The same fifty percent has been withdrawn from the public domain during the same period of time and disappeared... There is no way to account for this gold. We do not know the location, the identity of owners, nor their intentions."

And here is what Forbes said in a contributor essay this year:

"Speculation abounds about a large trove of gold that seems to be missing from the global market."

This situation is so strange – and so alarming – that it has caught the attention of national security experts.

James Rickards is probably the most knowledgeable precious metals and currency insider in the world today.

But long before he helped run hedge funds or risk management firms, Rickards was a key figure in U.S. intelligence and national security.

He was involved in negotiating the release of the American hostages held in Iran in 1981...

He helped the CIA investigate the stock market "tells" that preceded 9/11, when associates of al-Qaeda terrorists had the audacity to bet against airline stocks before the attacks...

And he helped the Pentagon conduct the first-ever financial "war game" at a top-secret facility a few years ago (more on that in a moment)...

He's even consulted the Pentagon and the intelligence community on the national security risks of financial chaos.

James Rickards has noticed the disappearing gold as well.

"The floating supply is disappearing," he told Bloomberg Television. "It'll never see the light of day for 300 years."

Rickards is the author of two fantastic bestselling books on world finance: Currency Wars and The Death of Money. He's been interviewed by CNBC, Fox, CNN, and NPR and written op-eds in the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

That's his "public" side.

But he also serves on an advisory panel to the office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the CIA, the NSA, and 14 other U.S. intelligence agencies.

And Rickards says that the shrinking gold supply... and the mysterious force behind it... is part of massive shift in the world's monetary systems.

Now just to be clear, I'm not touting Rickards or his resume up because he's my "friend" or a business partner. In fact, there's no affiliation between him and me or my company. He just happens to be one of the smartest minds on this subject in the world today. 

Of course, it doesn't take an expert like Jim Rickards to see what this means for the price of gold.

It's the most basic economic law that there is – supply and demand.

The world's gold supply is literally disappearing...

And consumer demand from investors hit an all-time high in 2013.

Put these two undeniable facts together, and there is only one possible conclusion: The price of gold is going to rise... and rapidly.

But you may be surprised by exactly how high experts are predicting the price of gold to go.

Rickards isn't just predicting that gold will double or triple in the next decade.

He estimates that gold will skyrocket to $9,000 an ounce or more within the next five years – a 600% increase over current prices.

As I said, this disappearance of gold started gradually. But it has accelerated at an incredible pace in recent years. And what is happening now is basically unprecedented in world history.

The amount of gold that's disappearing is simply astounding...

For example, you may have heard of the SPDR Gold Trust (ticker symbol GLD). This is one of the most basic and simple gold investments in the world. The folks running it simply buy gold and put it in a warehouse, allowing investors to own a portion of this secured gold. Today, GLD is one of the world's largest precious metals funds with nearly $33 billion worth of gold in their warehouses.

But guess what...

A little over a year ago, GLD controlled 1,350 [metric] tons of gold.

Today it holds less than 800 tons. As gold prices fell, the fund had to unload their gold, and this gold essentially disappeared from the marketplace... and probably won't be seen again for another 300+ years.

As Rickards points out, 500 tons of gold, a big chunk of the world's available supply, is now gone from the markets.

It is being sucked up by a mysterious, unseen force – a "black hole."

And it's not just GLD that is being sucked dry.

Worldwide, 881 tons of gold flowed out of gold ETFs in 2013 alone.

Very little is widely known about where all this gold is going.

It is disappearing from circulation, disappearing from the world's available supply.

Mainstream news sources are usually very late to stories like this, but even they are starting to take notice:

* Business Insider called the disappearing gold "an elephant in the room" for global financial markets...

* The Huffington Post recently wrote, "It's amazing how little of the wider public are aware of what is going on." And...

* Barron's reported on the growing awareness of the vanishing gold supply and its potential role as the "ultimate stealth weapon" in international finance. How is it possible for so much physical gold to disappear? Where is it going? Why will it be gone for the next 300 years?

And most importantly, what does this situation mean for investors... and for ordinary Americans (whether they own gold or not)?

That's what I'd like to tell you about today.

Understanding this situation will make some investors a fortune in the next few years.

But I want to make something very clear:

What is happening here is much, much bigger than the gold market.

It involves a potentially grave threat to U.S. national security. That's why I suspect the Pentagon, the NSA, and the White House are paying very close attention. And it's why Rickards is probably one of the people that they need the most right now.

Even if you don't care about gold, it is absolutely vital that you understand what is going on, because it could impact how you safeguard your home, your savings, and your ability to have a secure retirement in the coming years...

And long-term, it could pose a threat to our everyday way of life in the United States as we have known it for decades.

Because this disappearing gold has to be going somewhere.

And what happens next could happen very quickly. Let me show you why...

Gold is way more scarce than you think

Despite the fact that it is one of the most popular investments in the world today, most Americans have very little understanding of how the gold markets work.

For example...

Most people don't know this, but there's actually very little available, freely traded gold in the world today...

Imagine that you could take all the gold on earth – everything that's above ground – and put it in one place.

You've got every last gram of jewelry and gold coins and gold bars, bank holdings – everything that's been mined since the beginning of civilization.

And you stack all this gold 5 feet high, so you can look over the top of it.

How big of an area do you think it would cover? A small state like Delaware? The island of Manhattan? Or at least Central Park?

Actually, you could fit it all on a regular football field.

You could stand on one sideline, look across all the world's gold, and easily wave to a friend standing on the other side.

That's how much gold there is.

And now imagine a tiny sliver on top of that pile.

That's the "floating" supply, the gold that is traded on exchanges and in commodity markets every year.

Everything else is not really part of the gold market. It's in Ft. Knox and similar government vaults in every major country in the world. It's in your grandma's family heirloom necklace. It's in millions of industrial machines and goods that use gold.

In fact the total amount of gold that's traded in a given year makes up just 1.5 inches at the very top of our 5-foot pile.

So all the gold in the history of the world fits on a football field. The trading supply is just an inch or two at the very top of that.

And those few inches are disappearing.

Why?

Well as Rickards put it, "To corner a market or squeeze a market, you don't need to buy all the gold, you just need to buy the floating supply."

In other words, if you could control the top few inches, you'd control everything. You'd have the gold market cornered.

And that is exactly what is happening.

A powerful entity is buying up those top few inches, for a very specific reason.  

A secret buyer

A few years ago, the gold and currency expert I told you about, James Rickards, was invited to take part in a series of "war games" run by the Pentagon at a top-secret facility outside Washington.

The Pentagon wanted Rickards to participate in a new kind of war simulation.

This is how it worked:

The "players" would represent different countries and they'd try to do as much damage as they could.

But there was one rule...

For the first time ever, the only "weapons" they could use were financial.

No guns or bombs – just stocks, bonds, derivatives, currencies... and gold.

The countries fought for two days at a top-secret weapons laboratory.

It was an eye-opener for the Pentagon, which saw how our "enemies" could win in "asymmetrical warfare" using financial weapons instead of military ones.

But here is the incredible thing...

Five years after the simulation, something very similar is playing out in the real world.

The "weapon" is the disappearing gold.

According to Rickards, one of the countries represented from the war games is now "buying thousands of tons of gold secretly through deception and using military intelligence assets, covert operations, etc."

This is not a simulation. This is really happening.

Remember all that gold that flowed out of the SPDR Gold Trust in the last year?

The financial news site ZeroHedge reports, "Much of this gold was taken out of ETF holdings in London and shipped to refineries in Switzerland, where it was melted down and made into kilogramme bars, then sent to Hong Kong and ultimately to [this buyer]."

Rickards expects that this situation will help push the price of gold to $7,000 an ounce, $9,000 an ounce or more within the next five years.

That's the good news if you're a gold investor.

Here is the bad news: As I said, in the Pentagon's war games, the buyer was a rival power to the United States. It was far more powerful than any single country in Europe... or even the entire European Union combined.

 

It holds over a trillion U.S. dollars, and it is steadily buying up as much of the world's available gold as it can.

 

Don't worry, I will tell you who this secret buyer is in less than 5 minutes. But it's important that you understand how this situation could impact the U.S. – and why you need to pay attention to it.

 

What you need to understand is that a major holder of U.S. currency is dramatically increasing its ownership of gold.

 

Why?

As Rickards explains in his latest book, the great risk to this country in the near term is that inflation will take off in the United States before it obtains all the gold it needs.

 

"However," Rickards writes, "once [this country] does acquire sufficient bullion, it will have a hedged position because whatever is lost to inflation will be gained in higher gold prices. At that point, [it] can give a green light to U.S. inflation."

 

This foreign power is so concerned about the value of the U.S. dollar that it's shifting as much of those dollars as it can to gold. If things play out like this entity believes, there will be a currency crisis in the U.S. dollar sometime in the next decade...

 

That's the likely outcome of the United States' current  monetary policy... runaway inflation that destroys the value of our dollars.

 

A massive fall in the value of our currency could severely limit out ability to buy the energy we need, incite bank runs, and create civil unrest.

 

I can't say for sure whether those things are going to happen, but our rivals are beting that they will and are already taking steps to protect their financial position.

 

That's why it's so urgent for every American to understand this mysterious situation today.

A 5-year investigation
 

By the way, my name is Matt Badiali.

I'm a Senior Analyst at Stansberry & Associates Investment Research, the largest independent financial research firm in America.

I'm also a geologist who has spent part of my career following the precious metals markets. A few years ago I started to notice the alarming situation that I've been describing. My colleagues and I took multiple trips around the world. We studied the "paper trail" (where it exists) of government documents, covert asset purchases, even the transfer of an entire international metals exchange.

And I am 100% certain we have determined who is buying all this gold – and what they are planning to do with it.

Here is what I suspect is going to start playing out soon, possibly even this year:

The buyer will unmask itself, instantly becoming a much more powerful player in world financial markets.

The events that follow could cause a potentially massive disruption in the gold market that could send gold prices sharply higher over the next few years.

But a market shock this big won't just affect gold prices.

It's part of a much larger plan that could damage our whole normal way of life in the United States. I believe these events could impact the United States in various ways.

They could cause markets to crash, at least temporarily.

The U.S. government will suffer a major embarrassment as Americans – and the rest of the world – see how badly the U.S. was outplayed.

Most importantly, regular Americans will start to lose faith in our currency.

I hope you will remember that part – because, long-term, it could affect your investments, the value of your home, and your ability to have a secure retirement.

I realize this might sound a little hard to believe.

But this situation has been playing out in plain sight for anyone willing to look closely at what's happening.

And frankly, the buyers themselves have dropped quite a few hints about what they're doing.

There is no stopping or reversing this situation.

But it is vital that you protect yourself.

And that's the purpose of this presentation today. Over the next few minutes, I'll show you:

* The U.S. rival who is buying all this gold – and how they've used secret shipments, government fiats, and a 1 billion person "army" to vacuum it up.

* The overwhelming evidence that the buyer is hoarding gold for a very specific reason, one that may damage the U.S. dollar and our way of life as we know it.

* Most importantly, how this situation could directly affect you beginning as soon as this year and...

* What you can do to protect your savings and even profit.

I would simply like to show you the facts, via what's available as public record.

Then, you can decide for yourself.

Here are all the details...

A powerful rival – and a threat to American wealth

The secret buyer of the world's gold supply is China.

China actually produced, imported and consumed more gold than any other country in the world last year, by significant margins.

But that's not the whole story.

You see, when you add up everything they mined and everything they imported...

...and then subtract what was officially "consumed" by China's consumers, industrial gold customers, and the jewelry trade...

The result should be zero. Every ounce of gold has to go somewhere.

But it isn't zero. It's actually more than 500 tons.

In other words, about 500 tons of gold went missing last year in China.

That's in large part because of the covert buyer...

The People's Bank of China, or PBOC, the country's powerful and secretive central bank.

The Financial Times' recent headline says it all:
 

"China's 500-tonne gold gap fuels talk of stockpiling"

Now, publicly, the PBOC swears to the heavens that it has no interest in gold.

They have to do that. Confessing that you wanted to buy literally hundreds, if not thousands of tons of gold every year would send prices through the roof. So China has actually been smartly keeping gold prices down by keeping their purchases secret.

They make some of their purchases using covert agents placed inside major international banks, who buy in modest quantities on market "dips." Plus they buy directly from mines overseas. When that happens, the price is "indexed" to the official gold price set in London, but it never actually passes through the gold market in London, and thus has no bearing on the "market" price.

That's why China has been able to accumulate so much gold even as prices have fallen in the last year. Of course, now that they have all this gold, do you think they want prices to stay low forever?

As I'll show you, China's growing gold hoard is a powerful strategic asset that could give them a financial "edge" over the United States.

How and why is this happening?

Well, it's no secret that the United States is stuck with an enormous debt we can never realistically repay...

...and that China (by far our largest creditor, now holding nearly $1.5 TRILLION worth of loans to our federal government) is stuck with an outstanding loan they can neither get rid of, nor collect.

The Chinese realize we are both trapped.

That is why they developed a secretive and somewhat radical approach.

I believe that China has put into place a plan to get back as much of their money as possible. This plan will extract enormous sums from both the United States government, and ordinary citizens like you and me.

Now maybe you don't care about international debt, currency wars, or battles between the world's most powerful and egotistical central bankers.

I don't blame you if that's the case.

But there's one very important reason for you to be concerned about what China is planning next...

Because it could directly affect you, your money, your family, your retirement, your home, and your future.

Now, some people think China will simply dump their mountain of $1.5 trillion in U.S. debt, in an attempt to damage the U.S. dollar.

But that will never happen.

Because that would hurt the U.S... sure... but it would hurt China almost as much as it would us.

So instead, the Chinese are taking a radically different approach... they are preparing for a currency crisis by quietly acquiring all the gold they can.

 

And... I want to make one thing clear before I continue: I DON'T blame the Chinese for what they are doing. Not one bit.

In fact, although I know this will sound very controversial... and perhaps even unpatriotic, or "un-American," I want to make it clear that I would do the exact same thing if I were in their shoes.

Our own government has essentially backed the Chinese into a corner, and we have left them no choice (I'll explain what I mean in a moment).

The main thing the Chinese have kept secret is just how much gold they h ave acquired. But that aspect of this story is relatively easy to reconstruct for anyone willing to do the legwork.

It is revealed in government documents that must be published, by law, in Hong Kong (a Chinese territory) and by looking at where billions, even trillions of dollars are being shifted inside China.

As any journalist will tell you, "follow the money."

Still, you may be wondering: How could the Chinese government actually keep something as big and potentially game-changing as this a secret?

Well, the truth is, they haven't.

For more than a decade, the Chinese government has published reports about the existence of this secret plan in official, state-controlled newspapers and wire services.

In the 1990s, China began making a series of dramatic changes to its financial system. The moves were announced in China's official newspaper, but were barely noticed in the West. I reviewed hundreds of articles in a historical database, and the only mention was a 148-word item published in the Wall Street Journal on October 1, 1993.

In 2000, they made gold buying an official part of China's "five-year plan," the country's most important policy document. China's CCTV called it a "pivotal year" and industry hailed the acceleration of the plan.

A top private sector official with close ties to the government program called the developments from 2000-2008 "staggering."

Then came the biggest announcement:

In April 2009, Chinese officials shocked the world. They had been sitting on "official" gold reserves of 600 tons since 2003. Then suddenly, they announced they had 1,054 tons – nearly double the amount.

Suddenly China had the world's fifth-largest gold stockpile.

And that was five years ago. And do you know how much gold China has "officially" had since 2009?

1,054 tons. The exact same amount.

All this gold is disappearing into China, and the central bank reports it hasn't added a gram.

Does anybody really believe that?

China is doing the exact same thing they did in 2009 – covertly accumulating the world's available gold and waiting as long as possible to reveal how much they're holding.

But I suspect the surprise this time is going to be a lot bigger.

I can't say exactly when China will unveil its staggering hoard of gold.

It may very well be this year.

Or they may continue to take advantage of artificially low prices for as long as possible... but even that won't be very long. The fiction simply can't continue with so much gold disappearing from world markets.

Meanwhile things haven't exactly gotten better between China in the U.S. since 2009.

They have even more of our debt...

...And they've watched us set off the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

That's why in October, while the idiots in Washington managed to shut down our government over our stack of unpaid bills, the Chinese government used an editorial in its state-run news agency, Xinhua, to call for a "de-Americanized world" – a barely concealed message about its intent to use their strategic financial assets to get their money back.

So as you can see... this is a very real development, which has escalated dramatically in recent years. As I mentioned, as China's plan plays out, I believe we'll see a major shift in the world's monetary system. We could see a precipitous fall in the U.S. stock market, and a major disturbance of the U.S. mortgage and bond markets.

This, in turn, could affect everything about our normal way of life.

I'll tell you in a moment why I believe China could reveal its massive gold stockpile very soon, potentially sending gold prices much higher – and exactly how China will likely use the gold to damage the U.S. economy.

But to understand that, it helps to know a little history. Because this is not the first time something like this has happened...

How we lost $500 Billion

I know it might be a little hard to believe that any country, even one as secretive and power-hungry as China, could actually sabotage and take advantage of a nation as powerful as the United States.

But as I said: This has happened before...

Currency wars and battles of central bankers are more common than you think.

Most Americans probably don't remember this, but we experienced something similar (although on a much smaller scale) in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

As I'm sure you remember, after World War II, the U.S. dollar was actually backed by something real... instead of just a government promise. Back then, our currency was backed by real gold. And as a result, the U.S. government owned two-thirds of the world's gold.

It wasn't just a powerful national asset... It was also the basis for the world financial system.

Every world currency was defined in terms of the dollar. And the dollar, in turn, was defined as 1/35^th of an ounce of gold. In other words, it took $35 to buy one ounce of gold.

Ideally, this relationship would keep our government money-printing in check: Since dollars could literally be exchanged for gold, the government couldn't just print all the money it wanted.

But that wasn't the case...

For one thing, only foreign governments could exchange money for gold – not U.S. citizens. FDR had taken away that right decades earlier.

And because of the dollar's special status, the U.S. could settle its payments to any country by just printing more to send overseas. Everyone else had to use gold.

So we sent our dollars overseas.

And foreign governments had to watch as the dollars they held become worth less and less by the day. Sounds very much like today, right?

Well, these foreign countries eventually got fed up.

In 1965, French President Charles de Gaulle took $150 million of his country's dollar reserves, and demanded that the paper currency be exchanged for U.S. gold from Ft. Knox.

A Time magazine article written that year about De Gaulle's assault began, "Perhaps never before had a chief of state launched such an open assault on the monetary power of a friendly nation."

Of course, De Gaulle was simply doing the rational thing. The U.S. had spent decades struggling to maintain the "official" gold price of $35 an ounce. It even set up an international "gold pool" to dump gold onto the markets every time the price threatened to rise.

But France pulled out of the gold pool. It knew the $35 fiction could not continue and that gold was worth far more on the open market.

The $150 million it withdrew in 1965 is worth $5.5 billion today. And France was not the only nation to do this...

Spain soon redeemed $60 million of U.S. dollar reserves for gold. And many other nations followed suit. By March of 1968, gold was flowing out of the United States at an alarming rate. In fact...

It's estimated that during the 1960s and early 1970s, we essentially gave away about 2/3^rds of our nation's gold reserves... around 400 million ounces... all because the U.S. government was trying to defend the U.S. dollar at a "fixed rate" of $35 per ounce of gold.

We gave away 400 million ounces of gold and got $14 billion in exchange. Today, that same gold would be worth $520 billion... a 3,614% difference.

In 1971, it reached a breaking point.

De Gaulle actually sent a French battleship to New York, loaded with $191 million in cash to withdraw gold from the New York Federal Reserve bank vault.

Then, on August 11, the British ambassador in Washington received instructions from London to redeem $3 billion of gold from the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

Four days later, President Nixon went on live television before the most popular show in America (Bonanza) and announced a new plan:

The U.S. gold window would close effective immediately – and no nation or individual anywhere in the world would be allowed to exchange U.S. dollars for gold.

The "gold standard" was dead.

Within about three years, America was in its worst recession since WWII, with an oil crisis, skyrocketing unemployment, a 30% drop in the stock market, and soaring inflation.

And millions of Americans got a lot poorer, practically overnight.

Europe simply refused to keep buying into our insane and corrupt monetary system, and started acting in their own self-interest.

And that is EXACTLY what China is doing today, except the stakes are much, much higher, because China is a much more powerful player now.

China is preparing for a full-blown currency crisis in the U.S. dollar.

China isn't hiding this fact at all. A top Chinese central banker recently told China's official, state-run news agency that the country is "fully prepared" for the coming currency crisis.

The ultimate goal, as the Chinese have publicly stated, is to create a new dominant world currency, to dislodge the U.S. dollar from its current reserve role. Doing so will enable the Chinese to get back as much of the $1.5 trillion the U.S. government has borrowed, as possible.

 

As Rickards says in his latest book, The Dealth of Money:

 

As the inflation feedback loop gains energy, a repetition of the late 1970's will be in prospect. Skyrocketing gold prices and a crashing dollar, two sides of the same coin, will happen quickly.

 

When the dollar falls from the high wire, there will be no net.

And here's the most important part...

Understanding how the Chinese will execute this currency crisis over the next several years could mean the difference between potentially making extraordinary sums of money, and losing a fortune.

You may not think that international preparations for a currency crisis matter much to you as an ordinary citizen.

But I can assure you, this situation will affect nearly every American man, woman, and child, whether you like it or not.

China has been preparing for this situation for more than 30 years. And they will play their "trump card" – sooner than you think.

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On Sunday, 29 June 2014 8:54 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,    Sun 29th June, 2015  0700 hrs

Good Morning!

197/14 The Rain-dependent City!

1. Our life revolves around "dependence" and "inter-

dependence", and the significance of both is singular,

but as is our wont we don't attach much importance

to both. We are so focused on our routines that we

don't know how they affect our life if we ignore their

importance. . Taken for granted, these two words have

no relevance to our routinized occupation and preoccupation!

If our living on this earth is dependent on our soul in us, how

can we ignore it?  Yet, we ignore it at our own peril  without

any proclivity to ponder over.

2. Educational  institutions alone do not help us grow mentally

but also the frequent and infrequent occurrences around us

offer lessons that we don't take notice of.  To keep the human

beings in a state of flux is the dictum of the Universe, and this

is not dinned into our ears.  Failure is not a stigma as we all

label it to be. Failure is a rare opportunity to raise our eyebrows

and raise our level of understanding. We have not been trained

or tutored  to take the rough with the smooth! All of us have

fallen prey to patterns as though we are all one among equals.

3.In the context of globe-altering occurrences that are yet beyond

our scope of grasp, we need to watch the rain-dependent city of Mumbai - planned and built through honest and dishonest ways

without any foresight.  The island city has been subjected to

innumerable sufferings,  mostly man-made (we never use the

word "woman-made"!). Nature was always kind to this city

to fill all the lakes through incessant and  seasonal downpours

that no other city witnesses in the world. In less than eight hours

this city has endured 800 mm of rains!

4. Will this city be fortunate this year is a question that cannot be

answered instantly with "Yes"! If the monsoon comes late or avoids this city as part of God`s agenda to transform the earthly beings, men and women of all hues have to wrack their brain

as to what to do. Absence of rains will not allow us to perpetuate our lethargy. Absence of rains will make the city grind to a

halt providing the leaders with fodder to cogitate and come

up with concrete plans for quick remedial steps. The absence

of rains will not impact the city alone; it will affect the whole

country swiftly!

NOTE:  Please read the following reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts, please

do not hesitate to say NO; I will honour your wish.

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Tamil Nadu: El Nino effect takes a toll on Mango

production.

Friday, June 27, 2014, : Do not blame the fruit seller if the mangoes are less juicy this summer. Its the El NIno effect and the poor farmers do not have anything to do with it. With absolutely nothing to bank on to combat the lack of rains, the farmers have been rendered helpless.It is reported that Madurai received just 0.2 mm rains this summer, according to the Skymet Meteorological Division in India. Although light showers can be expected, the flowers have whithered away due to the sultry weather.Surprisingly, Madurai received 47 and 76 mm of rain in 2011 and 2012. But it reduced drastically in 2013. This year, the city received just 0.2 mm of rain since the beginning of April.The Madhurai fruit Market is one of the biggest markets in Southern Tamil Nadu, which trades 100 to 150 tons of mangoes every season. However, this year it has not been more than 20 tons. Dindigul and Theni districts are considered to be the mango belt of the region.Interestingly, farmers say that there had been enough flowering of the mango crop, but they withered away due to lack of rains. In April 2013, a similar situation had occurred when a sudden hailstorm had damaged over 40 percent of unripe mango crop in Pochampalli district of Tamil Nadu.Agriculturists are now worried that the mango yield itself will gradually deplete with time.

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NOAA Scientists Unraveling El Niño’s Mysteries

New Clues Found in Stratosphere, Troposphere and Arctic Vortex

The El Niño Southern Oscillation is characterized by low ocean surface winds along the Equatorial Pacific, generating warmer than average ocean temperatures.

Animation (Credit: NOAA)

Like a stone tossed in a pond, El Niño’s appearance in the Pacific Ocean has ripple effects that extend around the world.

A natural phenomenon, El Niño (Spanish for “the little boy”) refers to occasional periods of sea surface temperature warming in the tropical Pacific that influence the world’s weather patterns.

El Niño is known for stirring up weather across the globe:

• In the United States, West Coast residents generally experience more intense storms, while Atlantic and Gulf Coast residents see fewer hurricanes.
• India, southeastern Africa, northern Brazil, and Australia can experience dramatically drier conditions. Shifts in patterns are even stronger in other parts of the world.

However, unlike concentric rings expanding across a pond’s surface, El Niño’s ripples do not follow a simple pattern. They are highly complex, capable of altering atmospheric features from the surface of the ocean to miles above the Earth.

New Pieces to the Puzzle

Supercell.

High resolution (Credit: NOAA)

NOAA scientists are studying El Niño’s effects to better understand not only how El Niño influences our weather, but also to separate natural El Niño fluctuations from human-caused climate change. The array of variables involved — ocean temperature, air temperature, ocean currents, winds at various altitudes, air pressure, to name a few — add to the challenge.

A new study by Melissa Free and Dian Seidel, climate scientists in NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., helps connect some of the pieces in the El Niño puzzle. Their work, published in the December 2009 Journal of Geophysical Research, traces one subset of El Niño ripples from the Pacific Ocean to the stratosphere above the Arctic, and then on to Europe where the phenomenon tends to make winters colder.

Layers of the atmosphere.

High resolution (Credit: NOAA)

Free and Seidel’s work is part of an emerging area of interest for climate and weather researchers investigating how the stratosphere — a layer of the atmosphere  beginning about five miles above sea level — influences weather at ground level. The stratospheric layer of the atmosphere is located above the troposphere.

The troposphere begins at the Earth's surface and extends up to 4-12 miles (6-20 km) high. This is where we live. The stratosphere begins above the troposphere and extends up to 31 miles above the Earth's surface. This layer holds 19 percent of the atmosphere's gases but very little water vapor. Scientists are just beginning to learn how conditions in the stratosphere echo downward into the troposphere and affect weather.

Free and Seidel decided to look specifically at El Niño’s ability to influence weather at the ground level by first triggering changes several miles up.

A Need to Learn More

In recent years, scientists have found a connection between another atmospheric feature, swirling upper-level winds called the Arctic vortex, and colder than average winters in Europe. Studying data collected since 1958, Free and Seidel confirmed links between El Niño, the cooling of the tropical stratosphere and the warming of the Arctic stratosphere — three factors that also influence the Arctic vortex.

Scientists have long known about El Niño’s effect on temperatures in the lowest part of the atmosphere, but its effects on the stratosphere have only recently become clearer through studies like this one.  

Industries affected by severe weather, droughts or floods — agriculture, cargo shipping and transportation — pay close attention to El Niño. With further study, scientists are confident that we will improve our understanding of El Niño and, ultimately, our ability to prepare for its effects.

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On Saturday, 28 June 2014 9:04 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,    Sat 28th June, 2014  0630 hrs

Good Morning!

196/14 Global Change - A Mantra Now!

1. Global change is not brought about by the rulers

and the ruled. Global change is not a thought of

leaders at the helm of nations` affairs to correct that

there is something amiss in the whole system. No one

has a prescription to bring  a global change. But change

is certain, and change is taking place constantly without

our knowledge. The change is not what we can imagine

now even though we may be more imaginative!

2. Global change is a mantra now, and the articles and

reports we read daily portray the trends towards the

change that we can not easily accept now. The change is

happening after due warning to take preemptive steps in

order to prevent the overwhelming crises that will engulf

the world. Change is an invitation to the Almighty by the

humanity as a whole as we could never assess our admirable

ability to change - the change we desired but we did not know

how!

4. No scheme and system designed by the civilized world

can stop the change ;that one may label it "grim" or "grave".

The articles and reports we read tell us how near we are

towards the change that is foisted upon us to our dismay.

Threats are looming day after day, and we have no clue

till now how the threats will throttle all the economies. El Nino

is a big threat; droughts are dreadful; crop damages all

over the globe will contribute to compounded problems.

What is our strategy to escape from the economic upheavals? What are we contemplating to do to bear the unbearable?

Will our negative emotions be in hibernation?  Do we

have a mantra to anesthetize us?

NOTE: Please read the following reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS 

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts, please

do not hesitate to say NO; I will honor your wish.

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Multiple Earthquakes Rattle Oklahoma Thursday Morning

Posted: Jun 26, 2014 5:55 PM

 

[File Photo]

GUTHRIE, Oklahoma -

At least six earthquakes have rattled many Oklahomans Thursday morning.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, just after midnight at 12:26 a.m. and 12:38 a.m., two earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.8 were recorded about six miles south, southwest of Guthrie and nine miles north of Edmond.

However, the Oklahoma Geological Survey reported that the earthquakes were 3.3 and 3.4 in magnitude.

Both earthquakes were about three miles deep.

At 1:13 a.m. another 3.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded seven miles southwest of Guthrie and nine miles north of Edmond.

At 2:45 a.m. and 2:57 a.m., two 3.0 magnitude earthquakes were recorded near Medford. And again at 9:02 a.m., a 3.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded one mile northeast of Medford. 

No injuries or damage have been reported.

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California steaming: State's hot year worsens drought

  June 19, 2014

The entire state of California is now in a drought. The worst areas are in dark brown on this map. Lesser levels of drought are in red and orange..

           

So far, California is enduring its hottest year on record, contributing to the state's worst level of drought in the past 40 years, according to a report from the National Climatic Data Center released Thursday morning.

Through the first five months of the year, "temperatures in California have been about 5 degrees above average," said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with the center in a conference call with reporters.

The warmth in California has contributed to the drought that's now encompassing the entire state, according to the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday.

Nearly one-third of the state is now in "exceptional" drought, the worst level, the monitor reported. This is the highest percentage in the history of the Drought Monitor, which began in 2000. Exceptional drought is now seen in the San Francisco Bay area, parts of Silicon Valley and the farmlands of central California.

"From northern portions of the Coastal Range to Mt. Shasta, precipitation since October 1 totaled 30 to 50 percent of normal," wrote Eric Luebehusen of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the monitor. Deficits of 16 to 32 inches of rain were reported.

The drought is now comparable to the state's drought in the 1970s, according to Crouch. Drought impacts are likely to eventually be much higher than 40 years ago, however: While about 20 million people lived in California in the 1970s, the state's population is now nearly 40 million.

A report last month from the University of California-Davis "estimated that water shortages would cause the fallowing of 410,000 acres, the loss of 14,500 jobs and cost the (agricultural) industry $1.7 billion in the state's most productive agricultural region."

Looking ahead, ongoing dry and warm conditions are forecast in the West for the next three months, said Steve Baxter, a meteorologist with Climate Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)..

Beyond that, "we're still expecting El Niño to develop later in the summer and continue into the fall and winter," Baxter said. El Niño is a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean surface water that impacts weather around the world. He said there's an 82% chance it will develop by the fall and winter.

Baxter said it will likely be a weak to moderate El Niño, but there's a still a chance it could be a strong one. El Niños often, but not always, bring needed rain and snow to the West, including California.

For the spring season, which climatologists define as March, April and May, California had its 5th-warmest spring on record, while both Wisconsin and Louisiana had their 11th-coldest spring.

As for spring precipitation, Crouch said that Washington state had its fourth-wettest spring on record, and Kansas had its third driest.

Global climate numbers for May, spring and the year-to-date will be released by NOAA on Monday.

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2 Days of Heavy Rain Cause Flash Floods in Ohio

June 25, 2014

Parts of Ohio, especially the north east, were hit by storms and heavy rainover the last 2 days. Cleveland Hopkins Airport received 3.54 inches of rain in 24 hours on Tuesday 24 June 2014.

Flash flood warnings have been issued for Cuyahoga, Lorain and Holmes counties. Around 6,000 people were left without power after storms downed power lines in Cuyahoga and Geauga. Around 45 homes were damaged by a tornado that hit the city of Brunswick on Monday 23 June 2014.

Yesterday flooding on roads was reported in Columbus, Worthington and Upper Arlington where one driver became stranded when his vehicle became trapped in rising flood water.

Rainfall in 24 Hours 24 to 25 June 2014

• Cleveland Hopkins 89.5mm / 3.54 inches
• Cincinnati – 56mm / 2.2 inches

Illinois

Thunderstorms and heavy rain also hit parts of Illinois. At one point the Eisenhower Expressway had to be closed, and flood waters left some drivers stranded.

New York

Storms have caused 2 deaths in the town of Phelps. Strongs winds felled a tree which landed on a car, killing the driver and passenger.

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On Friday, 27 June 2014 8:59 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends, Fri 27th June, 2014  0630hrs

Good Morning!

195/14 Children Versus Father!

1.  In almost all families male children are a great

challenge to their father. Challenge is not what a father

likes. Obedience is his wish. Disregard of his command

and communication derails their consanguinity. A father

brought up in a patterned way never realizes that every

child is an individual, and his authoritativeness is an

invitation to cross swords! In all my interactions with my

students who learn French language from me I detected

an unpalatable truth.

2. Rarely male children interact with their father , and if it

happens, it is a monthly episode!  Despite their whimsical

nature their mother might love them but the biological father

is more a terror in one`s home than the terrorists Americans

are afraid of.  The male children are torn between love of

their mother and terror-unleashing father. The wounded hearts

never gets healed with the passage of time. The posture of

enmity lingers without any longing to bury the hatchet.

3. The biological fathers too do not realize in their lifetime

that they too have a Father who is never seen in their lifetime

as well. These fathers do not know till now how generous and

genial  their unseen Father is !  They also do not know till now

how they are being guided to galvanize themselves into action

to accomplish with ease what remained a dream! They don't

recognize that how different their Father  is compared with

how inimical and intimidating they are towards their children

created with and without love!

4. Growth is not what children as adults and biological fathers

like and long for, and the opportunities for mental growth land

on their lap unsolicited. Time is not set aside to review such

opportunities seized and shunned. Nor do they ever examine 

the source of such opportunities to broaden their mind bound up

with antediluvian thoughts!  What they gleefully grabbed was

the routinized living. While they all accepted some changes

to meet their unstoppable needs,  changes that were material

to evolve and elevate oneself in thoughts, expressions and actions were resisted. To be different from the past and to  be different from the crowd, the Father we don`t know of remained and still remain a great compass -  to shape us in a way that we could have never envisioned!

To continue.....Sl No.2

NOTE: Please read the following reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Chinese ghost towns prompt economic fears Number of empty homes in China reaches 50 million as fears grow of a serious slump in the market. Last updated: 26 Jun 2014 11:12

Property is the principle source of investment for most Chinese, who do not trust their banks or the stock market. But fears are growing of a serious slump in the market as about 50 million homes are empty. Adrian Brown reports from Ying Kou, where the property sector is still struggling five years after the bubble burst. ************************************

Torrential rain pours across New Zealand

The storm submerges parts of the city of Nelson.   26 Jun 2014 10:43

Just two weeks after an intense area of low pressure left 90,000 people without power in Auckland, another storm has slammed the country.

This latest batch of severe weather has left parts of the city of Nelson under water and inundated people homes with filthy water.

The two-day onslaught of torrential rain triggered flooding which tore down fences, eroded driveways and even washed away cars.

At the height of the storm, 146mm of rain fell in just six hours in Golden Bay, according to Tasman District Council spokesman Chris Choat.

The severe weather is now clearing away from New Zealand and this weekend should bring a welcome break in the weather, as an area of high pressure moves across the country.

However, at this time of year, storms are not uncommon in the country, and more heavy rain is expected for the start of next week.

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On Thursday, 26 June 2014 8:31 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,    Thurs 26th June, 2014  0630 hrs

Good Morning!

194/14 What We Don't  Believe In....!

1. What we don't believe in is to educate ourselves

instantly and unceasingly as we still don't know the

relevance and how it proves  to be a ready reckoner

for our decision-making. If Jack Welch talked of "speed"

to eliminate the competition   in the market, speed alone

is not the criterion we need to take cognizance of. It is

axiomatic that other attributes can hardly be overlooked.

If education is our goal of life regardless of age and place

we live in, open-mindedness is the key.

2. If God says that "I don't call the qualified; I qualify

the called", education we can get from the one who is

called to be qualified is unparalleled. Illiterate man is

made literate in seconds, minutes and hours! Did all

masters display the alphabets after their names? We

always believed  that education has to have a boundary,

and to call one to be educated he needs to display some

alphabets after his name. Our thoughts are still in embryonic

state that all man-made "make-believe" world will be on the

wane as we move into the future with gusto or grief!

3. In a recent bereavement  I had been to  couple of

days ago, I asked number of people the meaning of

"death"! When delusions and illusions overpower us

we are dulled and lulled. Opportunities of any nature

remain an occasion to sake us off from the dullness

and lulled state, but everyone alike prefers to be in

ignorance. To educate ourselves when an occasion

demands, our status, age, and gender  remain a roadblock

to raise our level of understanding. Knowledge is not

privy to academically qualified.

4. We don't realize nor do we reach for any answer

during our journey on this earth, that what makes us

breathe and perform all activities every moment of our

living. Design of anything by human beings of ordinary

and extraordinary nature does not preclude us to explore

what remained unexplored and what remained questionable.

Closed mind will never see and seek the truth; yet closed

mind will ever be boastful.  Design of God is not to be discussed

discursively. Nor can we debate in hours to be decisive in our

conclusions. When God, spirit, or soul leaves our body, death

occurs. Our body is of no value if spirit is not there. It has to

be consigned to the  flames as we do normally. Yet we keep

saying often "let the soul rest in peace"! AThe soul has already

left for heaven for its next assignment!.

NOTE: Please read the following reports.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Flooding hits southern China

Southern provinces have been badly affected by heavy rain.    23 Jun 2014 09:55                                                       Feedback

Parts of Guangxi suggest that some areas have seen exceptionally heavy rain in recent days. [AFP]

Southern China has been hit by heavy rainfall which has brought widespread flooding. At least 26 people are known to have died and several are still reported as missing. In total, some 3 million people have been affected by flooding across the southern provinces. Yunan, Guangxi and Hunan provinces seem to have borne the brunt of the rainfall which is part of the seasonal rains caused by the Meiyu-Baiu weather front. This arises from a combination of low pressure over central China and the inflow of warm, moist air from Indonesia. Flooding is an annual hazard as the Maiyu-Baiu front develops, but reports of a month’s worth of rain in just 24 hours from parts of Guangxi suggest that some areas have seen exceptionally heavy rain in recent days. Flooding and mudslides across these provinces have damaged or destroyed nearly 75,000 homes. Agricultural output has been badly affected and total economic loses have been estimated at around $650 million. The weather front migrates slowly northwards between June and mid-July, reaching the Yangtze river valley by the month’s end. Meanwhile, summer heat and humidity are encouraging severe storms further north in the country. In Hebei province Red Alerts were issued for the risk of hail and lightning and there have been reports of extensive crop damage caused by large hailstones. (((**********************

Ebola epidemic is 'out of control'

June 24, 2014

Ebola outbreak not under control

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• There have been 567 Ebola virus cases and 350 deaths since March
• Ebola virus outbreaks are usually confined to remote areas, but this one is different
• It can take between two and 21 days for someone to feel sick after exposure

The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit "unprecedented" proportions, according to relief workers on the ground.

"The epidemic is out of control," Dr. Bart Janssens, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement.

There have been 567 cases and 350 deaths since the epidemic began in March, according to the latest World Health Organization figures.

Ebola virus outbreaks are usually confined to remote areas, making it easier to contain. But this outbreak is different; patients have been identified in 60 locations in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Officials believe the wide footprint of this outbreak is partly because of the close proximity between the jungle where the virus was first identified and cities such as Conakry. The capital in Guinea has a population of 2 million and an international airport.

A Guinea-Bissau customs official watches arrivals from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, on Tuesday, April 8. Conakry is being ravaged by an Ebola virus epidemic, and Guinea-Bissau officials are concerned about a possible case inside their borders.

Guinea-Bissau nurse Egidia Almeida scans a Guinean citizen coming from Conakry on April 8. Dozens of people have died from an Ebola outbreak in coastal West Africa, aid workers reported.

A scientist separates blood cells from plasma cells to isolate any Ebola RNA in order to test for the virus at the European Mobile Laboratory in Gueckedou, Guinea, near the borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia, on Thursday, April 3. Ebola is one of the world's deadliest viruses, causing a hemorrhagic fever that kills up to 90% of those infected. It spreads in the blood and shuts down the immune system, causing high fever, headache and muscle pain, often accompanied by bleeding.

Members of the medical aid organization Medecins sans Frontieres carry a dead body in Gueckedou on Friday, April 1.

Gloves and boots used by medical personnel dry in the sun April 1 outside a center for Ebola victims in Gueckedou.

A health specialist works Monday, March 31, in a tent laboratory set up at a Medecins sans Frontieres facility in southern Guinea.

Health specialists work March 31 at an isolation ward for patients at the facility in southern Guinea.

Workers associated with Medecins sans Frontieres prepare isolation and treatment areas Friday, March 28, in Guinea.

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People are traveling without realizing they're carrying the deadly virus. It can take between two and 21 days for someone to feel sick after they've been exposed.

Inside an Ebola isolation ward in Guinea

Ebola is a violent killer. The symptoms, at first, mimic the flu: headache, fever, tiredness. What comes next sounds like something out of a horror movie: significant diarrhea and vomiting, while the virus shuts off the blood's ability to clot.

As a result, patients often suffer internal and external hemorrhaging. Many die in an average of 10 days.

"We have reached our limits," Janssens said.

Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, is the only aid organization treating people affected by the virus. Since March, they have sent more than 300 staff members and 40 tons of equipment and supplies to the region to help fight the epidemic.

Still, they warn, it's not enough.

"Despite the human resources and equipment deployed by MSF in the three affected countries, we are no longer able to send teams to the new outbreak sites."

The good news is that Ebola isn't as easily spread as one may think. A patient isn't contagious -- meaning they can't spread the virus to other people -- until they are already showing symptoms.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta works in WHO's mobile lab next door to MSF's Ebola isolation treatment area in Conakry, Guinea.

Health officials have urged residents to alert MSF or local physicians at the first sign of flu-like symptoms. While there is no cure or vaccine to treat Ebola, MSF has proved it doesn't have to be a death sentence if it's treated early.

Inside isolation treatment areas, doctors focus on keeping the patients hydrated with IV drips and other liquid nutrients. It's working. Ebola typically kills 90% of patients. This outbreak, the death rate has dropped to roughly 60%.

MSF says they'll continue to isolate and treat Ebola patients in West Africa with the resources they have available but urge for a "massive deployment" by regional governments and aid agencies to help stop the epidemic.

World Health Organization officials say they're planning high-level meeting for the Minister of Health in the subregion July 2 and 3 to discuss the deployment of additional resources and experts to the area.

The outbreak will be considered contained after 42 days with no new Ebola cases -- that's twice the incubation period.

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Tornadoes rip through the Midwest forcing residents to flee their homes 24 Jun 2014 13:44

Tornadoes sweep across the Midwest leading to violent storms through parts of Ohio and Indiana [Tyler Kuester]

June is usually one of the more active months for severe thunderstorms across the US. This year has been no exception with what seems to be a continuous round of storms with large hail, flooding rains, and damaging tornadoes.  The latest round of tornadoes swept across the Midwest on Monday as the violent storms ran across parts of Ohio and Indiana states. The National Weather Service was able to confirm that a tornado did touch down in the northeast of Ohio. At least 10 homes were damaged in Brunswick, which is around 50km to the southwest of Cleveland. Several homes suffered significant damage and many families had to seek shelter elsewhere. Meanwhile, thunderstorms also battered parts of Indiana, leaving around 25,000 customers without electricity at some point. ********************************** 130

In Pictures: Floods and snow hit Australia

Storms hit the states of Victoria and New South Wales with damaging winds, and heavy rain and snow. 25 Jun 2014 12:34

Parts of eastern Australia have been hit by a nasty blast of wintry weather as violent winds brought torrential rain across the region. Worst hit have been Victoria and southern New South Wales. The high winds, with gusts in excess of 100kph at times, toppled trees and brought down power lines. Almost 80,000 homes were without electricity for much of Tuesday. The wild weather prompted over 4,000 calls to the emergency serves for help. A forecaster from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said that systems like this affect Victoria only once every few years. “We’re in for a windy week, so its not over yet, although we have seen the most intense winds.” It is undoubtedly good news for the ski resorts. Thredbo recorded around 50cm of snow, with another 100cm possible in the coming days. After what has been a mild start to winter, this has come as something of a shock to the system. *****************************************************

On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 5:57 PM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Wed 25th June, 2014  0900 hrs

Good Morning!

193/14 Droughts Will Fuel Fears!

1. Research is not our rage now in the context of

globe-changing and grief-inflicting events. Spiritualism

has not made much of headway in the materialism -

obsessed mortals. The two are poles apart as far as

learning and living are concerned. Materialism fuels

discussions without depth and fosters a thought to

evolve a pattern for everyone to follow. Following patterns

is an inculcation accepted to be rooted  without any

thought in one`s lifetime to be rooted out.

2. As I often say impermanence is the truth, and

permanence is what we uphold despite the lessons we

can draw from sources around!  With evolution that we

resist without any rationality lessons learnt too change..

Resistance deprives us of new learning as it does not

comfort us. Learning  something new does not come

so easily from the avowed desire of discussions we are

prone to.  Life of women is to accept the change, and

change is the rhythm in them as it melds with the Nature!

3. Today, we need to lose focus on the familiar and need

to focus on what is unfamiliar. Economic Times of date

has in its banner headline says: "India Drenches In Fear

As Drought Has Dry Run"! Solar flares emitted by Sun

bring a dramatic change in the atmosphere causing

dynamic effect on the earth. Today, we see the El Nino

effect all over the world, bar certain pockets of countries.

Science has not evolved fully to eulogize the findings,

and limitations will exist in our thoughts and,  as a corollary,

in the findings.

4. What is uncommon in the USA is how common the climate

changes are driving the country towards borderless disaster.

While half of the nation is reeling under droughts of unprecedented

nature, water shortage is an unimagined looming crisis that

the citizens of this country have to grapple with. Rains and flooding

are incessant in the Eastern part of the country and depletion of

reservoirs seems to be an unstoppable event. While discussions

will remain our great rage, recognition of God in each one of us

is a tall order now. Action to reach Him will elude us now until

actions of God through climate change become unbearable.

Droughts will remain one of the actions to instill fear in us.

NOTE:  Please read the following article.

Regards,,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis

 December 16th, 2013 

 

     

What in the world is Barack Obama thinking?  At a time when the United States is facing the greatest water crisis that it has ever known, Obama is allowing water from the Great Lakes to be drained, bottled and shipped to China and other countries around the globe.  Right now, the Great Lakes hold approximately 21 percent of the total supply of fresh water in the entire world.  Considering the fact that global water supplies are becoming extremely tight, that is an invaluable resource.  One recent UN report projected that two-thirds of the people in the world will be dealing with “water stress” and 1.8 billion people will be facing “absolute water scarcity” by the year 2025.  So why are we allowing foreign corporations such as Nestle to make millions upon millions of dollars pumping water out of the Great Lakes and selling it overseas?  Considering the massive worldwide water crisis that we know is coming in the years ahead, shouldn’t we be doing everything that we can to protect this precious natural resource?

Most Americans don’t realize this, but earlier this year water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan were at their lowest levels ever recorded.  The following is from a recent article by Suzanne Eovaldi…

“Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels EVER RECORDED,” the US Army Corps of Engineers reported early this year. Corps measurements taken in January of 2013 “show Lake Huron and Lake Michigan have reached their lowest ebb since record keeping began in 1918.”  The chief watershed hydrology expert warns Americans that “We’re in an extreme situation.”

So what is causing all of this?  Well, of course most of the water that leaves the Great Lakes is lost by evaporation.  But the fact that water is being steadily pumped out of the Great Lakes and sold overseas is certainly not helping matters…

“Plunging water levels are beyond anyone’s control,” says another expert, James Weakley. But in one of our most popular posts, last year we warned, “Lake Michigan water is being shipped by boat loads over to China! By using a little known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan to the tune of an estimated $500,000 to $1.8 million per day profit.”

All of this is happening at a time when the U.S. is getting ready to deal with the greatest water crisis this nation has ever known.

For example, according to a Reuters article from just a few weeks ago, the state of California is currently experiencing the driest year ever recorded…

To nurture his acres of pistachio trees, Tom Coleman has long relied on water from California’s mountain-ringed reservoirs, fed by Sierra streams and water pumped from the massive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

But the driest year on record has left the reservoirs so depleted – and the delta so fragile – that state water officials say they may be able to provide just 5 percent of the water he and others were expecting for next year.

This water shortage is causing massive problems all over the state.  Just check out how a recent Fresno Bee article described what is happening to Pine Flat Reservoir…

Pine Flat Reservoir is a ghost of a lake in the Fresno County foothills — a puddle in a 326 billion-gallon gorge.

Holding only 16% of its capacity, Pine Flat is the best example of why there is high anxiety over the approaching wet season.

Gone is the healthy water storage that floated California through two dry years. Major reservoirs around the state need gully-washing storms this winter.

And further east, similar things are happening.  Lake Powell is fed by the once mighty Colorado River, and at this point the flow of water into the lake has been reduced to a “trickle”…

After 14 years of drought, Lake Powell is less than half full.

Water flows into Lake Powell, nestled between Utah and Arizona, from high in the Rocky Mountains via the Colorado River. More than 30 million people in seven states depend on the mighty Colorado for water to grow crops, fuel power plants and keep cities such as Las Vegas alive. But this year, the worst drought in a century has slowed the flow to a trickle.

In August, the federal Bureau of Reclamation cut, by 9 percent, the amount of water people in the southwestern United States could draw from Lake Powell. As states and counties squabble over their allotment of water in the coming years, hydroelectric plants (including the one on the Hoover Dam) could idle, and farmers are bracing for reduced crop production.

And most Americans do not realize this, but the Colorado River does not run all the way to the ocean any longer.  If something is not done soon, even the Hoover Dam could be forced to shut down. 

Just recently, the Huffington Post ran an article entitled “These 11 Cities May Completely Run Out Of Water Sooner Than You Think“.  According to that piece, some of the cities that are heading for a massive water crisis are not cities that you would normally think of…

-Salt Lake City, Utah
-Lincoln, Nebraska
-Cleveland, Ohio
-Miami, Florida
-Atlanta, Georgia
-Washington, D.C.
-El Paso, Texas
-San Antonio, Texas
-San Francisco Bay Area, California
-Houston, Texas
-Los Angeles, California

But those cities are far from alone.  The truth is that pretty much the entire western half of the country is drying up.  the following list of 15 facts about the coming water crisis is from one of my previous articles.

1. The Ogallala Aquifer is being drained at a rate of approximately 800 gallons per minute.

2. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “a volume equivalent to two-thirds of the water in Lake Erie” has been permanently drained from the Ogallala Aquifer since 1940.

3. Decades ago, the Ogallala Aquifer had an average depth of approximately 240 feet but today the average depth is just 80 feet. In some areas of Texas, the water is gone completely.

4. Scientists are warning that nothing can be done to stop the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer. The ominous words of David Brauer of the Ogallala Research Service should alarm us all…

“Our goal now is to engineer a soft landing. That’s all we can do.”

5. According to a recent National Geographic article, the average depletion rate of the Ogallala Aquifer is picking up speed…

Even more worrisome, the draining of the High Plains water account has picked up speed. The average annual depletion rate between 2000 and 2007 was more than twice that during the previous fifty years. The depletion is most severe in the southern portion of the aquifer, especially in Texas, where the water table beneath sizeable areas has dropped 100-150 feet; in smaller pockets, it has dropped more than 150 feet.

6. According to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. interior west is now the driest that it has been in 500 years.

7. Wildfires have burned millions of acres of vegetation in the central part of the United States in recent years. For example, wildfires burned an astounding 3.6 million acres in the state of Texas alone during 2011. This helps set the stage for huge dust storms in the future.

8. Unfortunately, scientists tell us that it would be normal for extremely dry conditions to persist in parts of western North America for decades. The following is from an article in the Vancouver Sun…

But University of Regina paleoclimatologist Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques says that decade-long drought is nowhere near as bad as it can get.

St. Jacques and her colleagues have been studying tree ring data and, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Vancouver over the weekend, she explained the reality of droughts.

“What we’re seeing in the climate records is these megadroughts, and they don’t last a decade—they last 20 years, 30 years, maybe 60 years, and they’ll be semi-continental in expanse,” she told the Regina Leader-Post by phone from Vancouver.

“So it’s like what we saw in the Dirty Thirties, but imagine the Dirty Thirties going on for 30 years. That’s what scares those of us who are in the community studying this data pool.”

9. Experts tell us that U.S. water bills are likely to soar in the coming years. It is being projected that repairing and expanding our decaying drinking water infrastructure will cost more than one trillion dollars over the next 25 years, and as a result our water bills will likely approximately triple over that time period.

10. Right now, the United States uses approximately 148 trillion gallons of fresh water a year, and there is no way that is sustainable in the long run.

11. According to a U.S. government report, 36 states are already facing water shortages or will be facing water shortages within the next few years.

12. Lake Mead supplies about 85 percent of the water to Las Vegas, and since 1998 the level of water in Lake Mead has dropped by about 5.6 trillion gallons.

13.. Approximately 40 percent of all rivers in the United States and approximately 46 percent of all lakes in the United States have become so polluted that they are are no longer fit for human use.

Are you starting to get the picture?

If things don’t turn around soon, we are going to be facing an absolutely crippling water crisis in this country.

And according to recent forecasts, it appears that drought conditions may soon get even worse in the Southeast and the Southwest…

Ongoing winter storms won’t be doing much to relieve some drought-stricken areas of the U.S. In fact, conditions could get worse in the Southwest and Southeast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration.

NOAA last week forecast below-average precipitation for those regions this winter, meaning that “after some relief during the past few months,” the Southwest’s three-year drought is likely to redevelop and spread to the Southeast.

Sadly, most Americans are not aware of any of these things.

They just assume that there will always be plenty of fresh water for all of us to use just like there always has been.

But times are changing rapidly.

Please share this article with as many people as you can.

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On Tuesday, 24 June 2014 10:31 PM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,   Tues 24th June, 2014  1700 hrs

Good Evening!

192/14 Failure And Fear!

1. As individuals our role and responsibilities are not

uniform. As individuals our thoughts and expressions

are not the same. As individuals our actions and results

are different. Yet as individuals what is primordial is our

action regardless of what the process and outcomes are.

In all domains what we don't take into account is the nature

of individuality. However much one may write  and others

may read, action to produce the desired result is the onus of

every individual who reads.

2. Without comprehending the law of the Universe, we fail

to see the relevance of the "present"  without failing to

confuse ourselves with the past as well as the future. If

a manager has to export the goods of his company in

three months time, the "present" assumes far more

importance to be action-bent for procurement of an

order. He is rewarded for his action NOW! This also

applies to a couple desiring three-some living. This

does not hold good in many areas as the weakness

of individuals surface when action is demanded.

3. Failure and fear are inter-related. Fear can fail us and

failure leads to fear. Failure can occur even with adequate

preparation.  Failure is also a design of our Creator if we

are ever observational. Failure is taken seriously to take

some drastic steps.  Failure is to fathom the reason to reach'

a right conclusion. Also, fear of consequences before an action

is initiated can fail us to act. To overcome both, we don't

have the bent to educate ourselves as academic education

reinforces our sponsored belief that other sources to acquire

more knowledge is immaterial.

4. Today, if we fail to recognize the God in each one of us,

fear is an inevitable invitation. And the fear will fail us to do

what we need to do. If we remain obstinate to stay put in

the standard of our life without action  to seek more

knowledge on a subject, fear is the recipe we can count on.

We don't know now  where the fear will lead us to. From now on

we have to be active and agile to access to souls and sources

to fill the gap that remained unplugged. Every day`s occurrence

is reminding us to remain alert to raise our consciousness and

remain unflappable. To raise our consciousness we need to

move away from our conscious mind.

NOTE: Please read the following article.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts, please

do not hesitate to say NO; I will honour your wish.

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Hillary Clinton Has Got To Be Joking – This Is What ‘Dead Broke’ Actually Looks Like…

 June 23rd, 2014

During a recent interview with Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton claimed that Bill and her were "dead broke" when they left the White House.  And then on Sunday, Hillary told the Guardian that they are not "truly well off" despite having earned about a hundred million dollars since leaving the White House and owning a couple of luxury homes.  This is yet another shocking example of how disconnected our political elite have become to the rest of the American people.  Perhaps Hillary Clinton is not "truly well off" when compared to some of the ultra-wealthy individuals that she rubs shoulders with at Democratic fundraisers, but according to numbers provided by the Social Security Administration, the Clintons would easily be in the top 0.01% of all income earners in America since leaving the White House.  So was Hillary Clinton joking, or is she really this out of touch with ordinary Americans?

Perhaps she thought that she could just tell a little white lie about how wealthy Bill and her truly are.  After all, 66 percent of Americans believe that when it says "natural" on a food label that it actually means something.  It seems like people will fall for almost anything these days.

Unfortunately for Clinton, people are not letting this one go.  In fact, CNN anchor Alison Kosik recently burst out laughing on air in response to Clinton's claim that she is not "truly well off"...

If Hillary Clinton really does want to see what "dead broke" actually looks like, she should travel to some of the deeply impoverished communities in the heartland of America.

For instance, just consider what the BBC found when they interviewed two young kids being raised by a single mother in Iowa.

10-year-old Kaylie Haywood and her brother spend much of their time desperately hungry and thinking about food...

And of course Kaylie and Tyler are far from alone.  In fact, there are 49 million people that are dealing with food insecurity in America right now, and that number is growing. 

But Hillary Clinton and politicians like her usually only interact with those kinds of people when it is time to win another election.

And that goes for most politicians from both political parties.

For the moment, life is good for the elite.  In places such as New York City, Washington D.C. and San Francisco, unemployment is relatively low and home prices are soaring.

But for the bottom half of the country, things just continue to get even worse.  Just consider the following numbers...

-According to one recent survey, 26 percent of all Americans have absolutely no emergency savings whatsoever.

-Approximately two-thirds of all Americans do not have enough money saved up to cover six months of expenses if an emergency arose.

-Close to half of those living in Detroit cannot pay their water bills.  It is being reported that the United Nations may step in to help.

-One report discovered that 60 percent of all children in the city of Detroit are living in poverty.

-One out of every three grocery store workers in the state of California is currently receiving public assistance.

-According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about one out of every six Americans is now living in poverty.  The number of Americans living in poverty is now at a level that has not been seen since the 1960s.

-Even if you do have a job that does not mean that you are able to escape poverty in the United States today.  In fact, about one out of every four part-time workers in America is now living below the poverty line.

-According to numbers provided by Wal-Mart, more than half of their hourly workers make less than $25,000 a year.

-At this point, one out of every four American workers overall has a job that pays $10 an hour or less.

-It is a number that does not seem right, but it is actually true that half the country makes $27,520 a year or less from their jobs.

-Right now, one out of every six men in America in their prime working years (25 to 54) do not have a job.

-Half of all college graduates are still financially dependent on their parents even when they are two years out of school.

-One study discovered that nearly half of all public students in the United States come from low income homes.

-It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.

-It is hard to believe, but right now 1.2 million students that attend public schools in America are homeless.  That number has risen by an astounding 72 percent since the start of the last recession.

-According to a Feeding America hunger study, more than 37 million Americans are now being served by food pantries and soup kitchens.

-Numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that 49.2 percent of all Americans are now receiving benefits from at least one government program.

But if you still feel sorry for Hillary Clinton after reading all of this, there is a way that you can help.

For just pennies a day, you can contribute to "The Hillary Clinton Fund For Broke Politicians".  In the video posted below, you can see how ordinary Americans respond when they are asked to donate to the fund...

So what do you think about all of this?

Are we being too harsh on Hillary Clinton or does she deserve the flak that she has been getting?

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On Saturday, 21 June 2014 11:02 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dear Friends,    Sat 21st June,2014  0630 hrs

Good Morning!

191/14 Ravages And Ruins!

1. The bane of our life today will be what we witness

as ravages and ruins caused by the Nature. Every

incident we see and read will have impacts on the

economies even though we may not understand the

economics  of  economies. While the incidents of

every nature will destroy the civilization, the lessons

that these incidents offer are not what we are looking

for. Today these events have no relevance to our

routinized living.

2. In Philippines 200,000 people have been rendered

homeless when the storm "Haiyna" hit this country.

In less then seven months another storm  is brewing

to batter this country. All Nature-caused disasters

hamper the growth of economies, and there is no

cessation in the Nature`s fury to ravage the economies.

The relentlessness and ruthlessness on the part of

Nature to inflict damages and destruction will not remain

a cause to carry out a research to raise the eyebrows

of many.

3. God manifests in different ways, and it is left to

individuals to recognize His manifestation. Today, He

is shaking the nations, and a day will come when He

will shake the  individuals. Individuals cannot be made

malleable through articles and reports. They can be

made to read the reality with great rage only when

they are in the furnace of panic and problems that

have only one panacea. When God  rattles individuals,

no one will be at hand to rescue them.  Rare

circumstances will emerge to emancipate the individuals

from the vestiges of the past imprinted on their mind.

4.The economies are already in dire straits, and the

unceasing severity of weather condition all over will

dampen the spirit of leaders, businessmen and masses.

We are so elated to engage ourselves in frivolous

occupations that we are not in a position harbor a thought

on the repercussions of rare actions of God. Despite

plethora of opportunities  to move away from the status

quo, we refuse to seek a source to change. That action

alone is productive to broaden our boundary we are

bound up with is not what we are reminded of often.

NOTE: Please the third part of the letter

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

PS: If you do not wish to receive my daily thoughts,please

do not hesitate to say NO; I will honour your wish.

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PART THREE

Here's the chart I want to show you.

 

 

Normally, I study these kinds of numbers when I'm looking at a business to invest in or to recommend to my readers. But lately I've spent most of my time looking into our national balance sheet, because as the banking system collapsed in 2008... all of the bad debts were absorbed by the world's governments. And it continues to this day.

We began the year 2014 with a net public debt that has more than doubled since the year BEFORE Barack Obama took office. These overwhelming public financial obligations are completely unprecedented in the history of our country, outside of the two major global wars we fought in the 20th century.

But even these incredible figures don't tell the real story. Or even half of it.

Various other government agencies and private companies taken over by the government also have obligations of nearly another $5 trillion. We've already booked complete losses on $140 billion worth of these obligations. Yet they remain completely off the federal balance sheet.

When you add these other, genuine, federal obligations that exist right now, today, you come up with a total debt figure that's much more than $20 trillion. Far more than half of these debts were assumed under President Obama.

We don't know what the full burden of these new and existing debts will be in total, over time.

That's because the Federal Reserves power to manipulate interest rates is unlimited—at least for now that's the case.

We don't know how much of Fannie's and Freddie's bad debts will eventually be covered by the U.S. Treasury. (We do know they have an unlimited line of credit... so it's a safe bet that we haven't seen the last of these charges.) Finally, we have no idea what the eventual costs of the Federal Reserve's ongoing expansion of the monetary base will be over the long term.

There is one thing that's certain, however: these debts will not be free. They will carry a burden.

Today, we have more government debt than any country in the history of the world. We have more debt than every country in the European Union... combined.

With each additional commitment we sink further and further into debt... closing in upon the moment that we can simply no longer afford even the interest payments on our obligations.

And here is the part that really matters... the costs of maintaining our debts are about to skyrocket.

Right now the Federal Reserve is manipulating interest rates down to almost zero. As a result, the interest rate at which our government can borrow money is at a record low level. In fact, the Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate ten times since August 2007, from 5.25% to a zone between zero and 0.25%. Obviously, the current rate won't last forever.

But what will happen if the average real interest rate ends up being just 4% annually, and we pay it off over 30 years like a mortgage?

Incredibly, we'll spend $34.3 trillion to simply repay what we owe right now. If the rate ends up being 6%, we'll spend $43.1 trillion.

Now, of course, our politicians believe that through policy and currency manipulation, they can simply avoid paying any of these costs. They can order the Federal Reserve to prevent interest rates from ever rising to a level that would cost the American people anything. They believe they can manage the economy, so the debts of Fannie and Freddie won't go bad. They believe (without any proof whatsoever) that they can stimulate the economy by even more deficit spending, so that it grows faster, allowing tax revenues to produce a surplus. Repaying these debts, they say, will be easy and painless.

But you know better, my friend. You must know better. The wages of sin must be paid. And they will be paid.

Just consider the plans of those who argue otherwise...

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On Friday, 20 June 2014 8:48 PM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Multi-Vortex Tornadoes, Flooding Ravage South Dakota

    

See larger image below.

A part of a multi-day severe weather outbreak across the Plains and Midwest, a tornado plowed through the central part of the small South Dakota town of Wessington Springs on Wednesday night.

With a population of nearly 1,000 residents, the twister charged through the town, destroying local businesses, leveling multiple homes and leaving one person injured in its wake.

Luckily, the community's tornado alarms sounded several times prior to the outbreak, giving most residents ample time to get to the city's emergency shelter in the courthouse basement, according to the Associated Press.

Late Wednesday night, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard activated more than 100 South Dakota National Guardsmen to assist the Wessington Springs community in cleanup efforts.

Aside from the Wessington Springs twister, tornadoes also spun up in other places across the state, including Woonsocket, Alpena and Forestburg. In addition to the tornadoes, much of the region endured widespread flooding as storms brought heavy rains to the area.

Although this week has been an active week for severe weather across the region, this weekend will bring additional storm threats to the central Plains. The area will be at risk for large hail, damaging winds and possibly more tornadoes.

NWS employee Jenni Laflin caught a glimpse of a tornado near Lane, South Dakota, on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (Photo/NWS, Jenni Laflin)

Flood waters pour over South Dakota Highway 46 between Turner and Clay counties after storms roll through the area on June 18, 2014. (Photo/South Dakota Highway Patrol)

This photo provided by Connor McCrorey shows a tornado near Alpena, S.D., about 15 miles southwest of Wessignton Springs, on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/TVNweather.com, Connor McCrorey)

South Dakota Highway 46 remains closed after storms severely damaged the roadway on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (Photo/South Dakota Department of Transportation)

The Red Cross travels to Wessington Springs, South Dakota, to access the storm damage from the destructive tornado that struck the town on Wednesday night, June 18, 2014. (Photo/Red Cross Dakotas Region)

In Perkins County, South Dakota, Highway 73 is closed after partially collapsing following storms on June 18, 2014. (Photo/South Dakota Highway Patrol)

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Southwest Australia lashed by storms

Perth pummelled by damaging winds and flooding rains        18 Jun 2014 12:22

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Violent storms with damaging winds, lightning and heavy rain batter southwestern Australia [EPA]

Severe weather warnings were in place along the west coast of Western Australia on Tuesday as damaging winds, lightning and heavy rain battered the area. Some parts had their wettest day in six years. Perth recorded 51mm of rain in 24 hours, meanwhile further east Bickley notched up a total of 71mm of rain. This was their wettest June day since 1997 and there has been some localized flooding. The storm was accompanied by violent winds. Across the southwest, strong winds buffeted  the southern capes, with repeated wind gusts  over 100kmph recorded at Busselton and Cape Naturaliste. The highest reached was 111kph at Busselton Jetty. The area of low pressure associated with the storm is now in the process of moving east along the Great Australian Bight. It is in the process of weakening as it does so, but, high tides could cause further flooding over the next few days. *********************************

Severe weather batters Canada

Violent storms have caused damage in the eastern parts of the country as floods strike further west. : 19 Jun 2014 13:06

Severe storms have caused disruption across southern parts of Ontario and Alberta. [Getty Images]

Two areas of nasty weather have caused disruption in separate parts of Canada. The worst of the conditions have been across Ontario and Alberta. A tornado ripped through the town of Angus, about 110 km north of Toronto on Tuesday night. Clean-up efforts in the small town have been delayed because up to 100 homes have been temporarily condemned until authorities can deem them safe. Three people suffered minor injuries from the EF2 tornado that brought wind gusts of over 100 kph. The EF scale, or Enhance Fujita scale, is used to rate tornadoes in North America, with EF5 being the most powerful. Over 3,500 residencies temporarily lost power during the storm.   Further west, another storm system brought torrential rain to parts of Alberta. As a result, several communities in the south are under a state of emergency. A large stationary area of low pressure brought the heavy downpours to parts of western-central Canada. Val Marie in southeast Saskatchewan had 87mm of rain in 24 hours. Across the state border in Alberta, Waterton Park Gate notched up 57mm while Del Bonita recorded 59mm. A government representative for the Alberta Emergency Alert said “there are elevated water levels in streams and rivers that may create dangerous situations or lead to flooding. The Oldman, St. Mary, Belly and Waterton rivers are rising.” In the town of Clarsholm, located an hour southeast of Calgary, officials are asking some residents to leave their homes because of overland flooding. Many public buildings including schools have been closed to all students except those taking exams. The heaviest rain is now in the process of moving east and there is the potential for more severe storms in Ontario. The tornado risk is diminishing but we could still see further thundery downpours with a risk of large hail. ********************************** 20 June 2014 Last updated at 00:09 Bulgaria floods: At least 10 killed in port city of Varna At least 10 people have died and several are missing after torrential rain and heavy floods hit eastern Bulgaria, officials say. Floodwaters in the Black Sea port city of Varna surged up to 1m (3.2ft). Many residents had to be rescued as cars were swept away. Hundreds have been left without electricity or food. There have been hailstorms and heavy rain in several parts of Bulgaria in recent days. Forecasts say the extreme weather is set to continue. The fast-rising waters swept away cars and flooded homes The floodwaters arrived so quickly that some people were caught by surprise The flooding in Bulgaria follows on from similar deluges in the Balkans last month More bad weather is forecast for the end of the week Forecasters said that the equivalent of a month's worth of rain fell in the regions of Varna and Burgas over the last 24 hours. "The tragedy is enormous. I am here on a street in the suburb of Aspruhovo. The street is not here, the houses are not here, there are cars on top of each other," Varna mayor Ivan Portnih was quoted by the Reuters new agency as saying. Fire-fighters in the town of Kilifarevo in central Bulgaria rescued 11 people from the tops of their houses, police said. Last month nearby Serbia and Bosnia were hit by the worst flooding since modern records began.

On Friday, 20 June 2014 10:46 AM, Thiagarajan TVS <french...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Please read my reply to Ms Anant Jyoti`s mail.

No work is as important as meditation. It is the

number on epriority in a day`s schedule of anyone.

If American economy collapses, and it will, there will be

panic around the world. Our education should not make us

myopic. Our survival is more important  if we desire so

I await your reply.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

*************

Thanks for your mail.

You don't seem to be aware of what is happening

around the world. You need to read fully the

the letter and report that appear after my write up.

It is not my negative notion. God is changing the world

and He is already shaking the world  and later He

will shake the individuals. If  we don't know who

God is and what He is doing now to change the world,

our education of any sort has no meaning.

Current educational system will  disappear soon

and new education system will be introduced by God

through human minds.

If you desire to know more of what is happening around

the world that will affect all of us and what is going to happen,

you are requested to read my write with great patience.

With  impatience, please do not jump to a conlusion.

Today for every citizen of  this earth it is life and death

situation.

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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On Friday, 20 June 2014 10:09 AM, Anant Jyoti <anant...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh Lord Thiagarajan,
Please have mercy on us. We already have much to deal with and don't need to be bombarded with such negativity. If it is gloom and doom everywhere then it becomes even more important that we be left alone to make best use of available time. May be United Nations would be better place for you Lord, spare a thought for already busy faculty community and don't bombard your notions this way.
I request clarity from moderators  as to what all should be posted on this platform because such mails are really time killing.

Regards

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