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Polanski loses appeal to evade Justice in the USA. The Extradition moves on. He will flee for France if it looks like the extradition will go through. 70 % of the French people want him sent back to the USA to face up to his statutory rape conviction.

La justice américaine a refusé, lundi 21 décembre, d’abandonner des poursuites lancées contre le cinéaste franco-polonais Roman Polanski pour une affaire de détournement de mineure remontant à 1977, mais a demandé une enquête sur les accusations formulées par le cinéaste à l’encontre du juge chargé du dossier à l’époque.

Une cour d’appel californienne a rejeté la demande d’abandon des poursuites déposée au début du mois par les avocats du cinéaste, actuellement assigné à résidence en Suisse après avoir été arrêté le 26 septembre. Les Etats-Unis réclament à Berne l’extradition du réalisateur, désormais assigné à résidence dans son chalet de Gstaad.

Le 10 décembre, un avocat du cinéaste, Chad Hummel, avait dénoncé devant les trois juges de la cour d’appel du second district de Californie de graves erreurs de procédure au moment des faits, commises selon lui par le juge chargé de l’affaire à l’époque, Laurence Rittenband, mort depuis. Selon lui, le juge Rittenband aurait discuté, avant de rendre sa sentence, avec un procureur qui lui aurait dit que Roman Polanski méritait la prison, ce qui constitue une grave faute de procédure.

ACCUSATIONS “PRÉOCCUPANTES”

Si la cour d’appel a refusé d’abandonner les poursuites, le jugement écrit diffusé lundi appelle néanmoins à “une enquête rapide” sur les allégations de faute de procédure portées par la défense du cinéaste. “Même s’il n’y a pas lieu de prendre des mesures exceptionnelles, il est très préoccupant que les accusations de faute professionnelle n’aient pas été examinées par un tribunal capable de mettre en avant des preuves et de tirer des conclusions à propos de ce qui s’est passé en 1977 et 1978″, indique le jugement.

En mars 1977, Roman Polanski, alors âgé de 43 ans, et déjà réalisateur mondialement reconnu, avait eu une relation sexuelle avec une mineure de 13 ans, en marge d’une séance de photographie chez l’acteur Jack Nicholson. Quelques semaines plus tard, au cours de son procès pour viol, à la suite d’une plainte des parents de l’adolescente, M. Polanski avait plaidé non coupable avant de changer de stratégie et de reconnaître le détournement de mineure. Mais le cinéaste, âgé maintenant de 76 ans, s’était finalement enfui des Etats-Unis avant le prononcé de sa sentence, craignant d’être lourdement condamné en dépit de ses aveux. Il n’a jamais remis les pieds aux Etats-Unis.

http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2009/12/21/la-justice-americaine-refuse-d-abandonner-les-poursuites-contre-roman-polanski_1283815_3222.html

MEXICO CITY, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Mexico City became the first capital in Catholic, often macho Latin America to allow same-sex marriage on Monday when city legislators passed a law giving gay couples full marriage rights. The legislation goes further than a 2006 city law allowing civil unions by giving gay couples access to the same family social security benefits and joint loans as straight couples. In a last-minute measure, the city’s left-dominated assembly overcame conservative opposition to allow gay couples that marry to adopt children. Activists in the chamber burst into cheers. Some gay men and women hugged, exchanged kisses and waved rainbow-colored flags that have come to symbolize gay rights. ”We are putting an end to segregation and stigmatization of a sector of society, giving access to full marriage rights,” David Razu, a legislator from the left-wing Social Democratic Party, or PSD, who promoted the law told Reuters. The bill now goes to be signed by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, who has backed other progressive measures like the legalization of abortion in some cases, putting the sprawling capital at the vanguard of liberal policies in Latin America. Homosexuality, stifled in much of the country, has come out of the closet in Mexico City where a gay and lesbian district is packed with gay bars and same-sex couples holding hands, although some say discrimination is still rampant. Conservative lawmakers voted against the bill and vocal church leaders are likely to pressure Ebrard to veto it. Mexico’s Catholic archdiocese has said that legalizing gay marriage is immoral and will destroy families. ”Recognizing homosexual civil unions as marriage goes against the public good and the emotional development of our children,” said Giovanni Gutierrez, a city lawmaker from President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN. Mexico City is joining a handful of cities in the United States and Europe by allowing gays and lesbians to marry and is taking the lead in Latin America, where some places have passed laws to legalize same-sex civil unions but have fallen short of permitting full marriage between gays. Argentina became the first Latin American country to allow civil unions across the country by same-sex couples in 2002. But a push for full gay marriage hit a snag earlier this year when a court blocked a local judge in Buenos Aires who issued a marriage license to two men, defying a national ban. The couple has pledged to fight the court’s ruling.

Collapsed Lehman pays out big bonuses By Jennifer Hughes in London Published: December 21 2009 23:31 | Last updated: December 21 2009 23:31

Lehman Brothers, the collapsed Wall Street investment bank, is hiring bankers and paying generous bonuses in London to stop employees defecting. Lehman’s European business is recruiting middle and back office staff to help administrators PwC wade through the millions of transactions that must be reconciled with clients and trading partners to determine what is owed or can be claimed. A judge overseeing Lehman’s US bankruptcy in New York last week approved an extra $50m (€35m) in bonus pay-outs to some 230 derivatives traders working to unwind the dead bank’s $10bn portfolio. The pay-outs come as bankers in the US and Europe face public anger over probable multimillion-dollar bonuses at the end of this year and, in Britain and France, additional taxes on the pay-outs. Steven Pearson, a partner at PwC and one of the four joint administrators for the dead bank’s European arm, said the higher UK pay-outs reflected demand for the skills he needed and Lehman’s unique situation. “We’ve made our strategy and reasoning clear to our creditors,” said Mr Pearson. “We need to keep up with the market and we have to bear in mind that staff here have much narrower career development options than at other banks.” Lehman Europe is the biggest and most complex part of the dead bank outside its US headquarters operations. Mr Pearson said there were benefits in retaining staff with extensive knowledge of Lehman. Any bonuses, he said, were linked to the administrators’ focus on maximising the money returned to creditors. Administrators have considered paying bonuses to staff in claims against Lehman. But they have not taken the idea further because of technical problems in buying the claims. Lehman’s European operations employ about 440 people, up from the 360 PwC expected to need nine months ago. When the bank collapsed in September 2008, its European business had 5,300 staff. Of those, about 2,800 were transferred to Japanese bank Nomura with its purchase of Lehman’s equities unit. About 1,000 were laid off while another 1,000 found other work. Those who remain are trying to untangle and value the millions of trades on Lehman’s books, some of which are still technically “live” and potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars to either side of the deal. About 170 PwC personnel are still working on the case, down almost half from the peak in the weeks after the bank collapsed. Those Lehman staff remaining are working to untangle and value the millions of trades on Lehman’s books, some of which are still technically “live” today and potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars to either side of the deal. In September PwC warned it would take a further year at least to “break the back” of the administration – the complete process will take many more – after it failed to win court approval for a plan for dealing with Lehman client assets. Administrators are currently consulting on a revised process. Last week PwC announced it had set a bar date of 19 March next year for so-called “trust” claims involving client assets. So far, administrators have returned some $13.3bn of the $29.8bn held by Lehman Europe for clients when the bank collapsed and settled with about 1,400 of the bank’s 6,000 counterparties. They have also filed gross claims worth $208bn against other parts of the former bank.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Published: 9:20PM GMT 21 Dec 2009

Jean-Michel Six, the agency’s Europe economist, said Italy, Spain, Greece and Ireland have all seen sharp deteriorations in their real effective exchange rates since 2005.

This is likely to reach the pain barrier soon if rate rises by the European Central Bank (ECB) push the euro to $1.70 against the dollar by the end of next year, as S&P expects. “Anticipate some lively debates among eurozone policymakers about the level of the euro in 2010,” Mr Six said.

The exchange forecast is contentious. BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley expect the euro to weaken for a while as America’s recovery gathers pace, leaving Europe behind with a debt crisis in Greece and hamstrung banks that have yet to come clean on their losses.

The headache for the ECB is that Germany seems well able to cope with a strong currency after screwing down wages and raising productivity, even if Club Med is squealing. German firms have gained some 18pc in labour cost competitiveness against Italy and 15pc against Spain since 2005, and far more going back to the mid-1990s when the exchange rates were set in stone.

Jobs are already telling the story. Unemployment fell slightly to 7.5pc in Germany in October, but continued rising in Spain to 19.3pc. The underlying rate in Greece has jumped to 18pc with the expiry of workfare schemes.

The slow-burn damage of sliding competitiveness in the Club Med bloc was concealed for a long time, at first because Germany entered monetary union at an over-valued rate, then because the credit boom masked all sins.

Mr Six said that weaker EMU states are being hit on every front at once. They face de facto appreciation both within the EMU against Germany and outside against the majority of the world’s currencies.

Sterling and Sweden’s krona have crashed. So have the Russian rouble, the Turkish lira and a host of East European currencies. China has kept the yuan rigidly tied to the dollar since the crisis began, piggy-backing on Greenback devaluation by intervening massively in the exchange markets.

The weak pound and wage compression in the UK have given British firms a big trading advantage. S&P said UK unit labour costs have fallen more than 35pc against Italy since mid-2007, and by 18pc against Germany.

It typically takes two to three years for the full effects of such currency shifts to become evident. Even so, signs are already emerging in Eurostat industrial data. UK output was down 7.9pc in October from a year earlier, compared to -11pc for the eurozone as a whole.

S&P said that other powerful forces are at work. America is rapidly regaining its edge against Europe. US productivity rose at an 8pc rate in the third quarter of this year, while unit labour costs fell 2.5pc.

Almost exactly the opposite has occurred in Europe, where job support schemes have encouraged firms to hold on to surplus workers, leading to sharp falls in productivity. This prevents the Schumpeterian process of “creative destruction” that clears dead wood with each cycle and nurtures economic dynamism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/6860983/The-rise-of-Germany-belies-the-chaos-a-strong-euro-is-causing.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237570/Tiger-Woods-flees-Bahamas-luxury-yacht–wife-Elin.html

Amazing how long it took this idiot to get out of town. Out of sight is out of mind. With any luck he will never come back. Go to England you would be worshipped there Mr. Illuminati scum. Costco..rofl. Tightwad, he would fit right in, in England.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237561/Gatwick-forced-close-fresh-wave-snow-catches-forecasters-commuters-surprise.html

There is the Charlies Whore reminding us she wed and Ashkenazi Pig, er Prince for Christmas. Scroll down. These English elites are just so, so clever, like with the Lady Diana muder. I have often wondered if she was born a man, the Duchess. No divorces for those Windsors like the low level illuminati scum like Tiger Woody, eh. No one gets out of that family alive. I wonder if they will be serving roast goyim for Christmas, the dark or white meat  ‘veal’ variety of goyim.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/all_kid_ding_aside_byM5u7kzejyi3vLseUluOI

That is what happens when you get the ‘tribe’ involved in your divorce. They turn it into a food fight. She is no paragon of virtue herself. Just another illuminati food fight. You could understand a few of these bimbos or maybe the discrete visit to the asian massage parlours, where the Asian women would be illegal and ashamed to come forward, but to do all those zio-hussies/hookers was just asking for trouble eh. Swedes are a tough, tough people, especially Swedish girls. Too funny shes chasing him down the driveway smashing his windows out with his driver, he’s high/drunk/stoned, or some combination. These illuminati lead bizarre lives. The African-American skanks are probably livid that they never got their ’shot’ with the Tigers 1 billion dollar wad. Modern day women are like vultures. It was not always that way. Pretty amazing that half of the women were Ashkenazi. That is stunning if you think about that. Trailer park trash have taken over every aspect of our country. His wife put it out there, just like the Bimbos he was chasing. I don’t know why she is getting so much favorable press. Im sure she was a real headcase to live with and a complete match for Woods massive ego. Probably neither of them are fit parents. After all she showed she can be plenty violent herself eh. Well for the kids sake you would hope they could work it out and that Tiger could gets serious help and deprogram himself from his fathers satanic programming. When your dad starts on your ‘head’ as a CIA/Special forces type at 2, you’re going to have a lot of repression that is going to manifest itself in other ways. Amazing how the Media ruined American’s Thanksgiving with this. Other than Nike most of his sponsors have been dropping him slowly. Should have stuck to your own people, Woods, either the Asians or the blacks you’re life would have turned out better.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/emt_duo_on_break_let_preg_mom_die_mrj8Jv8kjmS0Z3FNO4DmiL

The woman was black, they don’t give the EMTs name but you have to suspect the tribe due to racist teaching that blacks are the lowest form of gentile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQsmvyCFU7M

A young russian pianist does an amazing performance of Pletnev’s arrangement for Piano of The Nutcracker Suite.

So a very, very small minority is driving the government policy. I wonder who that would be?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/america_s_best_days

Sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. voters prefer a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes over a more active government with more services and higher taxes.

That’s the second highest finding of the year: In August at the height of the congressional town hall controversies over the health care plan, 70% felt that way.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% prefer a government with more services and higher taxes. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure which is best.

Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Republicans and 63% of voters not affiliated with either major party like a smaller government better. Democrats are more narrowly divided: 51% favor a smaller government, but 37% opt for a larger, more activist government.

Sixty-five percent (65%) of liberals chose a government with more services and higher taxes. Eighty-six percent (86%) of conservatives think a smaller government is better.

Sixty-two percent (62%) of all voters say tax cuts are a better way than more government spending to create jobs and fight unemployment. Only 21% say additional stimulus spending is a more effective tool.

Voters overwhelmingly believe that the bigger problem in the United States is theunwillingness of politicians to control government spending rather than voters’ unwillingness to pay enough in taxes.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it’s in the news, it’s in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.

Seventy four percent (74%) of voters say U.S. society is generally fair and decent, up seven points from early November and the highest level measured in two years. Just 17% percent disagree and feel society is generally unfair and discriminatory, the lowest level measured since November 2006.

Whites are more inclined than African-Americans and voters of other ethnicities to believe U.S. society is generally fair and decent.

Just under half (49%) of voters nationwide believe President Obama views American society as generally unfair and discriminatory, while 36% say he sees society as fair and decent. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure. These findings have remained fairly consistent since late July.

Thirty-six percent (36%) believe America’s best days are in the future, up slightly from early November. Meanwhile, 47% say America’s best days are in the past, down five points from the previous survey. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.

Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters also now believe it would be better for our allies to follow America’s lead more often. This is up 12 points from when Obama took office in January and is the highest level measured since Rasmussen Reports began regularly tracking this question in November 2007.

Just eight percent (8%) now say it would be better for the United States to do what our allies want more often. That’s the lowest level measured in a little over two years. In November 2007, 29% of Americans felt America should follow our allies more often. Since then, the number of voters who feel this way has steadily declined.

But 23% of voters say the president thinks it’s would be better for the United States to do what our allies want more often. The plurality (47%) feels the president believes it would be better for our allies to do what the United States wants more often, the highest level measured since the beginning of the year.

The latest survey was conducted a little over a week after the president detailed his plan, for winning – and ending – the war in Afghanistan in a speech at West Point. Fifty-three percent (53%) of voters support his plan to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, and nearly as many (47%) support his plan to begin withdrawing troops from that war-torn country in 18 months. But put them together, and overall support for the plan falls to 37%.

In his speech, the president stressed how important it is for America’s NATO allies to pitch in. However, 61% of voters are not confident that America’s NATO allieswill help us win the war in Afghanistan.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17 (see trends).

Today’s update show the highest level of Strong Disapproval yet recorded for this President. It comes as the Senate is preparing to pass health care reform legislation initiated by the President and opposed by most voters. That latest Rasmussen Reports tracking, released earlier today, shows that 41% support the health care legislation and 55% are opposed.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Priest outrages police by telling congregation: ‘My advice to poor is to shoplift’

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237470/Priest-advises-congregation-shoplift.html#ixzz0aMEXQx2a

Actually there is a scripture verse that says while God does not approve of this, he understands a man stealing to keep himself from starving. you can pay all your money to the corrupt state to pay the fat and lesbian coppers, or you can give money to the church, to feed the poor, which i do every year, but it tough for most people to do both. 1/4 Americans is on food stamps. Why not give these people land to grow something?  This mail of London really has some good stories. I don’t blame the priest he is actually following the bible. You would be surprised, when the economy is good there is statistically speaking no crime. Shoplift from the fat zionist pigs business that oppress and steal from you..like Walmart. Actually I don’t advocate that as the penalties are so severe. Poaching is probably a better option to feed yourself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1237476/Pictured-The-moment-American-police-detective-pulls-HANDGUN-hes-hit-SNOWBALLS.html

I lost all respect for the police at the University, where in fact I learned out they are pigs and delight in beating unarmed people who are not even involved for the sake of showing their power. If you support the police state, well then you pay taxes for the donut eaters. Get a gun learn to defend yourself. I don’t like having pigs armed and not the the populace. Whatever ‘heat’ the cops carry, concealed the citizens should be allowed to carry concealed. To be frank, Im not a believer in either cops or citizens carrying concealed. Everyone should carry a sidearm like in Israel. Cocky pig, I hope he get fired- you cant afford to have hot head and potential racists like this guy on the force. Pigs consume and enormous amount of money in this country, and they live like kings in retirement. We just can’t afford to pay for your insecurity and demand for the police state to protect you all from Al CIA-duh. I’m just not a believer in the ’state’.

As I mentioned, there was a key TA breakout at 1100 the Fed was going to have to smash to break the back of this massive breakout in gold. We saw strong buying in Asia only to have GS and JPM sell on the Comex. The COT report foretold that they were gunning for gold. This is the thin Christmas/New Year period. Sadly gold stocks have given up yet again their gains as an Index. A lot of fund managers like to buy the 100 ma which is 1050. Goldman is clearly shooting to liquidate and force gold down below the 200 ma. Right now the FED knows it has a frauded job and GDP report but wont be able to keep that facade up so we have a vertical move in the dollar which should peter out at the 200 day moving average. The spin is the USA economy is one of the strongest and is going to start throwing off jobs. And even if that were true, and it is not, they would still not be able to pay for all the deficit spending. Just recounting briefly we have the house pushing and emergency 160 billion dollar stimulus package to keep the states cops and teachers, the democrat parties biggest ‘voter block’ employed next year. We had a 630 billion dollar defense bill just get passed, and we have a 1.2 trillion dollar ‘health care’ bill on top of the projected deficits. Obama strips the defense over runs out of his budget projection of 1.4 trillion. The only job the Jew Uchitelle who writes for the NYT could find was some American bathroom manufacturing hiring temporary employees to fill a big Canadian order. This Christmas season adds a lot of temporary jobs, and allows a lot of statistical manipulation. Right now the dollar rally is being run as the ever political and corrupt Moodys, and SP throw the EU countries under the bus with debt downgrades, like the bankrupt states ,with California being the worlds 7  th largest economy, dont effect the USD. Now I will say this, if the corrupt Goldman Sachs and JPM can liquidate gold back below 1000, then zeno prediction that it is a new world in gold will be wrong and it s the same old west/zionist run gold market, rotten to the core and corrupt. On a positive note on gold the Russian government is buying. Unfortunately at year end there is a lot of book squaring and profit taking by hedge funds. Somehow I think ABX hype that gold could be taken down to 850 and all these predictions for 1000 dollar and under gold next year are wrong. That would be 3 years of holding a bull market in check. Silver’s been the shining start compared to gold and the silver shorts have just not had much luck yet keep adding to their short positions. Somehow I think the taxpayers will have to make good on the Goldman Sachs, JPM gold and silver short position. Bernanke is showing us he is the master manipulator of markets and getting a lot of support from the corrupt western. I see the dollar running up to the 200 ma, flattening out and then falling. I dont see Gold falling another 100 dollars. That is my best guess. When all Bloomberg can find for Americans with job is some accountant getting a government job and the NYT can only find a few guys building bathrooms for the Canadians you know the chimp Obama and his chimp zionist advisers won’t be able to keep the dollar rally going that long or far based upon their ‘recovery’ scenario. Now firms don’t like to layoff in December and you add a few jobs, but it will be hard for the chimp to beat his chest about the economy in December. Retail sales are such that a lot of firms will close up shop after the New Year. One astute reader told me he expected 2010 to be a disaster economically in the USA. I tend to agree. No policies are put in place to fix the problems and not everyone can work for the government. The commercial real estate crash and a 2nd bank bailout will be what causes gold to double in 2010. You have to learn to stick with fundamentals. Even the Moron Ronald Reagan, (and a pederast I might add) said after signing the Plaza Accord agreement to devalue the dollar in 1987 – “We have discovered we (the government) can’t spend ourselves rich”.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2009-12/20/content_19098955.htm

She must have something on someone in the ‘party’ for such a quick execution. Better she should make restitution for life and be banned from anything more than cutting hair. But what a great world it would be if we executed, after trial the criminals at Goldman Sachs and JPM for their crimes. You can have a society based upon Christian morality, or a brutal state, or a foul corrupt state full of zionist crooks. Certainly hanging Madoff in public was the least our government could have done. And how long before the zios fake his death and spring him and send him to his retirement in Israel? We could hang a SEC official beside Madoff, the one that turned a blind eye. China uses the death penalty to harvest organs. One of the reasons I don’t support the death penalty in general. Although the SEC granted Bernie the ‘madoff’ exception to naked short stocks, we could make a ‘madoff’ exception to the death penalty.

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