"April 20, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 20 Apr 09 The sun is blank--no sunspot. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far
side of the sun."

The face of the Sun is without blemish:
http://www.spaceweather.com/images20...6s3d5kkc bjf3

Please visit:
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The right panel shows the face of the Sun as it looked on a good day during
the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent size of craters on
the moon. The left panel shows a Sun as it appears today. Please write to Al
Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up to his religious
expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout. George Carlin had a
better grasp of the true nature of God's creation, than does Al Gore.

Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the Sun,
Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of sand.

UPDATE 1-IMF to cut global forecast
Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:31pm BST

* IMF chief says to cut global forecasts in the coming week

* Sees positive signals, crisis not over, recovery in 2010

* Risk of deflation greater than inflation

BERLIN, April 19 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's (IMF's)
Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted on Sunday as saying the
IMF would cut its global economic forecasts in the coming week and that he
expected a recovery to start in the first half of next year.

"The forecast that we will present this week will be worse than the previous
one," Strauss-Kahn told Germany's Handelsblatt business daily in an
interview to be published on Monday.

In its most recent forecast, the IMF said the world economy would shrink in
2009 by between 0.5 percent and 1.0 percent, the largest contraction since
the Great Depression.

The IMF's World Economic Outlook is to be released in full on Wednesday.

Strauss-Kahn also said there were some positive signals for the global
economy but that a recovery was not expected yet.

"We are not yet over the mountain. The IMF expects that a recovery will set
in during the first half of 2010," he said.

The risk of deflation was more of a threat to the economy than inflation, at
least in the near future, Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying.

"In the short term, the risk of inflation is zero, today we have rather the
problem of deflation," he said.

However, it would be wrong to think that big spending packages agreed by
countries around the world would have no impact on inflation.

"Therefore we need an exit strategy to be able to return to a normal public
spending situation once we have overcome the crisis. That is part of each
stimulus package," he said.

Strauss-Kahn also said countries have been too slow in acting to clean up
banks' balance sheets.

"Whether we are talking about Germany, other European countries, or the
United States, this subject is moving too slowly," he said.

(Reporting by Madeline Chambers; Editing by Sharon Lindores)