>>wirjawan: look, we've just received an upgrade from both standard&poor's and fitch. standard&poor's pushed up to bb and fitch to bb+. what this is means is a lot for indonesia. it means that peopleare actually starting to recognize the fiscal prudence that indonesia has been able to undertake inthe last few years, the monetary effectiveness, policy effectiveness in the last few years and alsothe improving investment climate. and it also means that cost of capital is going to decline - and that will only pave way for more and more capital to come into indonesia - in the next 18 months, give and take a few months, i think indonesia should be at about the investment grade status. >>sager: relations actually with china are very good. your bilateral trade has exceeded 30 billion dollars. why is it so strong? are you redirecting your focus? >>wirjawan: look, i think it's a reflection of our closeness, i mean this year it's going to mark the 60th year anniversary of our diplomatic relations between china and indonesia, and let's face it,i mean we've been communicating and d

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and fitch is chippewa a rating so if you would call it the june twentieth the g. twenty summit in toronto president hu jintao of china called for the creation of more accurate credit rating systems well it turns out de gong international credit rating agency which has been around in china since one thousand nine hundred four rating corporate debt but now for the first time they have actually issued sovereign debt credit ratings and they've downgraded the u.s. to below china below us below switzerland so america won't do anything to break up the cartel to break up the racket and there is a racket between the rating agencies the investment banks the fund managers and wall street and they won't do anything to break up this rocket the financial reform bill does nothing to break up the racket so china's going to break up the racket they're going to bring in their own rating agency what they have brought it and it's now announced this first thing in day gong chairman. said that the western lead rating agency is to blame for the global crisis and europe's debt woes and t

fitch was among knows our district who had a well-paying factory job polishing automotive parts, a solidjob that provided for her family, the kind of job that we need here in our country, we need less outsourcing we need fewer bank bailouts. in fact, no bank bailouts. while we work to create jobs and to sustain our unemployed sustains -- citizens. so i've voted to continue to extends unemployment benefits and i think the important voices that we will add to the record tonight include those individuals from our district who have been contacting us, pleading with congress to give them the benefits that they have earned. and if we had enough jobs in our country people wouldn't be asking. this is a time when we need a little extra cushion inside this economy to help people transition. if we begin producing more and more jobs per month and we had to dig ourselves out that have huge hole that the last president left this president. and i think that we've helped turn the corner now but we have millions of americans who simply have not been able to find their footing in this economy. one gentlem

. >> they are even in stores like victoria's secret, abercrombie & fitch. >> inspect merchandise beforeay be the signs of little mini blood droplets on the cloths. look for bed bugs or certainly any egg sacks as well. when you're in the dressing room, keep cloths off the floor or the soft goods and keep them hanging up. certainly with the hand bag as well. when returning home take a look at the bag the garments are returning home with you in. lastly, i would recommend that any consumer takes the new cloths, put them in the wash. bed bugs can't with stand temperatures greater than 113 degrees fahrenheit. a good washing or dry cleaning for delicate merchandise should take care of the problem. >> hotels, motels. strip the beds, look under the sheets, what else? >> a lot of bed bugs are picked up traveling. do a thorough inspection of the room before you check in. leave your suitcase in the bathroom and look around the beds. pull back the sheets, pull back the mattress covers, look for certainly any bugs. look around the seams and look for telltale signs of blood that we have mentioned. bed

standard and poor's, moody's, and fitch. this structure could be broken. the eu should swiftly go towards an independent rating of their own. the european parliament would like to make sure that country ratings are carried out in the most clear of ways. therefore, the three private rating agencies should be complemented by the european ratings foundation which would work similarly to the test. the eu rating foundation would be limited to country ratings, which is very important only for country ratings, would foster competition within and between the established rating agencies. it would be independent of the juror can central-bank and political influence by the commission or member states. the foundation should also be financially independent. they should financed by selling ratings to investment. in the future it should be mandatory for government bonds of member states to have two ratings, one of them from the european rating foundation. now i have spoken a lot about the initiatives of the financial markets reform in the european union, however financia