Last week Fortis, in a heavily discounted share issue, raised $2.4 billion in what the company acknowledged were "exceptional measures." The Belgium-Dutch financial services firm, accourding to Reuters, found itself in trouble as a result of "fallout from the U.S. subprime crisis and credit crunch."
According to Fortis, however, there is much worse to come. The Telegraph, a Dutch-language paper in Amsterdam, reported on Sunday: "Fortis expects within the next few days to weeks ... complete the collapse of the U.S. financial markets."
Maurice Lippens, chairman of Fortis, emphasized the scale of the devastation he thinks is likely. "We are ready at the last minute. It goes in the United States much worse than thought," Lippens said.
According to the Telegraph report, "Fortis expects bankruptcies of 6000 U.S. banks that now lack coverage." The report warned that even industry titans like Citigroup and General Motors are vulnerable.
For those who can't read Dutch, the Google translated version of the report is here.
Those who can read Dutch may prefer the untranslated version available here.

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the end will be like Alantis
The four horsemen..
1). A property transfer to God by legal act (results in a picture of a thief as one seen in Bible times).
2). Civil war in revenge and extreme rage over the loss.
3). Invasion by the UN when were in a weaken state. luxuary goes to the top the rest get peanuts.
4). Massive death due to illness etc.
the 5th seal in the bible is a picture of the dead from this
the 6th seal is the earth forced off its axis by God.
then on with the plagues. If you read Platos account it is about the same. The USA will never even make it to world Gov.
I for one derive no comfort that maybe the fascists running this country will have to explain themselves to God. If that's your solution to the problem, "Leave it to God," then you have already stepped forward to be executed, so you can go to Heaven. A cowardly position if ever there was one.
we need to pray for all!