and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

And the vulture, and the kite after his kind

'These you shall detest among the birds they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

The vulture funds have raised greed to a new level.

And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

Dathan is a vulture feeding on the flesh of his own people.

The king vulture ( Sarcoramphus papa ) is a large bird found in Central and South America.

But these are they of which you shall not eat the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,

Small purchases at current panic prices, vulture fund style, are always possible, but they do not promise substantial debt relief.

Such contracts should also include collective action clauses, which make it impossible for vulture funds to hold up debt restructuring.

The turkey vulture ( Cathartes aura ), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is a vulture that is the most widespread of the New World vultures.

Matters may become even worse in the future, because so called vulture funds have learned how to take full advantage of countries in distress.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution to these problems. Investors could agree to insert language into bond contracts that leaves no room for vulture funds.

The fact that the International Monetary Fund, the US Department of Justice, and anti poverty NGOs all joined in opposing the vulture funds is revealing.

Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture for they have gone into captivity from you!

The most famous case was that of Elliot Associates, a vulture fund, against Peru in 1995, ending up with full payment to Elliot by the Government of Peru.

The risk of litigation had also increased, especially because of a lack of collective representation mechanisms, the presence of vulture investors or legal implications in bilateral investment treaties.

Americans have seen how financial firms put their own interests ahead of those of the country and the world. The vulture funds have raised greed to a new level.

In September 2008, pieces of a griffon vulture bone, about 35,000 years old, were excavated from Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany, which are believed to form a flute.

The risk of litigation has also increased, especially because of a lack of collective representation mechanisms, the presence of vulture investors or the legal implications of bilateral investment treaties.

This next is the Sudanese girl, a few moments from death, a vulture hovering in the background, a picture that went round the world and shocked people into action on poverty.

This next is the Sudanese girl, a few moments from death, a vulture hovering in the background, a picture that went round the world and shocked people into action on poverty.

Likewise, polls and elections signal the ascent of populists across Europe, while financial markets vulture like behavior stems from the cynical calculation that the EU lacks the wherewithal to restore its credibility.

26 The risk of litigation has increased with the emergence of vulture funds that would buy distressed sovereign debt on the secondary markets and then sue for full repayment once restructuring negotiations commenced.

But a few vulture funds most notoriously the hedge fund Elliott Management, headed by the billionaire Paul E. Singer saw Argentina s travails as an opportunity to make huge profits at the expense of the Argentine people.

The fact that the International Monetary Fund, the US Department of Justice, and anti poverty NGOs all joined in opposing the vulture funds is revealing. But so, too, is the court s decision, which evidently assigned little weight to their arguments.

Some might counter that the holdout hedge funds that sued Argentina deserve no sympathy, either. Many are called vulture funds because they bought the debt at a steep discount from the original creditors, hoping to profit subsequently through court decisions.

In late November, Thomas Griesa, a United States federal judge in New York, ordered Argentina to deposit the 1.33 billion owed to holdouts into an escrow account by December 15. Griesa lifted the stay on his order from February 2012, following indications from Argentina s government that it intended to ignore the ruling including public statements calling the holdouts vulture funds and a vow by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner never to pay.