Republican leaders decide House will vote on Senate-approved 'fiscal cliff' compromise

WASHINGTON - Republicans are dropping their demands for additional spending cuts and will hold a House vote on whether to give final congressional approval to the Senate-approved compromise averting "fiscal cliff" tax increases and spending cuts.

The House vote was expected Tuesday evening.

A decision by the Republican-run House to amend the Senate-passed bill would have complicated prospects for final congressional passage of the measure. Senate Democratic aides have said the Democratic-led Senate, which overwhelmingly approved the compromise early Tuesday, would not return to vote on an amended version of the measure.

The measure would allow tax increases on the highest-earning Americans, but retain decade-oldincome tax cuts for everyone else.

U.S. fiscal cliff deal prompts broad rally

Reuters/Reuters - The London Stock Exchange is seen during ther morning rush hour in the City of London April 11, 2011. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - European shares, oil and gold rose strongly on Wednesday after U.S. politicians struck a long-awaited deal to avoid a fiscal crisis, while safe-haven dollar and German government bonds fell.

Lawmakers approved a plan to prevent huge tax increases and delay spending cuts that together would have pushed the world's largest economy off the "fiscal cliff" and into a likely recession.

European markets followed their Asian counterparts and rallied on the news, while futures markets pointed to Wall Street doing the same.

London's FTSE <.ftse>, Frankfurt's DAX <.gdaxi> and CAC 40 <.fchi> in Paris opened between 1.4-1.9 percent higher, pushing the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 <.fteu3> up 1.3 percent and the MSCI world index <.miwd00000pus> 0.8 percent.

"This is great news for global growth and explains why shares and other growth-related assets are up strongly today," said Shane Oliver, strategist at AMP Capital.

Although the U.S. deal is not as far-reaching as markets had wanted, Tuesday's approval by the House of Representatives of a plan already backed by the Senate allayed fears that Republican objections to the heavy emphasis on taxes rather than spending cuts could have scuppered an agreement.

Assets which are traditionally see as more risky rose across the board with crude oil futures up 1.1 percent, gold gaining $7 an ounce and copper futures in London up 1.7 percent.

In currency markets the euro rose to $1.3281 as the dollar fell 0.5 percent against a basket of major currencies <.dxy>.

The Japanese yen also continued its slide, hitting its lowest level since July 2010, as investors bet that the Bank of Japan would have to take ever-more aggressive easing steps to support the economy and satisfy the new government.

The pattern was the same for bonds, where prices of higher-yielding Spanish and Italian government bonds rose and the German equivalent, usually favored by risk-averse investors, fell. The Bund future was last 89 ticks down at 144.75.

"The compromise is supportive for risk sentiment as we've seen in a few markets already and it should weigh on Bunds which should correct in line with (U.S.) Treasuries. Treasuries could even underperform," said Rainer Guntermann, a strategist at Commerzbank.

(Reporting by Marc Jones; editing by David Stamp)

These Little Visions

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These Little Visions

[2nd Jan 2013]

I’d like to speak for a short moment, on the small bursts of Divine visions and interactions I’ve been personally feeling. Anyone who’s read my writings of late know that I’ve personally experienced and documented a plethora of amazing things since the 21st alignment and continue to, and much of what I’ve reported has stayed in the forefront of my memory while smaller yet equally important things that have happened have been lost to memory.

Some of what I’ve experienced as small but powerful flashes, began far before the alignment of the 21st. At times, I will receive flashes of different higher dimensional beings; be them Galactic, Angelic or whatever else in nature. The flashes coming from the Galactics have been the strongest, and I’ve perceived of some amazingly beautiful Pleiadian souls as I received flashes of what they look like.

I know that I’m perceiving of them through my own lens and am probably not viewing them in their full purity when I receive such flashes, but that does not seem to matter as the flashes are incredibly strong and amazing. Just now as I’m writing this, I perceive of a beautiful ascended female-looking human, whose mind and heart are glowing magnificently and the energies coming out of them are absolutely radiating. I just perceived of some kind of “blast” of these energies and began perceiving of beautiful, flowing and intensely real colors coming out of the mind and heart of this soul.

I have no real idea who this soul is (though it’s clear she’s higher dimensional), and have given up on asking for a general label to identify any ascended soul by unless I plan to channel them. Experiencing, feeling and being a part of the Oneness energy for even just a moment, has seen me placing less focus on mind-centered labels and identification efforts, as I can feel that we are all simply facets of One beautiful and Divine, omnipotent entity.

I’ve perceived of so many other beautiful ascended beings and “saw” things during meditation that are just wonderful, and it seems that every daily meditation and attunement opens me up to another exciting and unfolding higher dimensional experience. Just as I was readying myself to take a short break from the computer today, I experienced something so amazing that it was the very inspiration for this writing and this public acknowledgement of even more wonderful things I hadn’t detailed as of yet.

To be short and frank with the description; I perceived of incredibly real and colored geometric shapes and energies, just bursting forth through my third eye. It was a very intense vision to receive and I quite literally felt the colors and the shapes as they were forming an overlapping pattern and continuing to express themselves to me. Looking back upon the image, it seems that these patterns are still expanding and overlapping each other, and a general overlapping is spilling over to other facets of the otherwise-blank landscape I’m perceiving of this amazing anomaly on.

Geometry was not my strong point in public high school math, so you’ll have to forgive my small knowledge of it. I have only heard of sacred geometry but from what I’m feeling about these patterns, it seems that they are some type of Creative tool that is essential to manifesting and keeping realities in place. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong about these patterns, as some of you have likely experienced, heard of or studied them.

Whatever their purpose, they are simply majestic to behold and the seemingly fleeting experience of perceiving of them was so grand and got my attention in such strong ways, that I am almost fully convinced that the “visions” I’ve been feeling are only to continue and become more intense.

I will have to repeat something I have said quite a bit, because it seems more than relevant to these times we are in: hold on to your hats!!

Wes Annac – Detailing experiences for as many as possible to benefit from.

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Hey Luis I had these type of these things happen to me back in the early and mid seventies when I was testing various hallucinogenics. ;-). Just saying what my experience has been.

Jim