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Humidity and religious fervor.
Your trip to the Rocky Mountain National Park puts you in my neck of the woods. We're supposed to be getting a little rain (hah!) and cooler temperatures, so the fire danger should decrease somewhat.
Think you'll enjoy the park. Try to get there early, as it can get crowded quickly.
Friday morning federal headlines - July 6, 2012
Friday - 7/6/2012, 7:53am ET
The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Emily Kopp discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.
• President Barack Obama appointed Richard Ginman as chairman of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board. For the past year, Ginman has been director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy. The retired rear admiral also worked in the private sector. He led General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems maritime information unit. The GAT Board is modeled after a board created to track stimulus spending in 2009. The new board will track all federal spending. Board members include chief financial officers and inspectors general. Ginman succeeds Earl Devaney, who retired in December. (Federal News Radio)
• Tracking federal programs to avoid duplication could be a costly undertaking. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Taxpayers Right to Know Act would cost $100 million over five years. Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) sponsored the bill in the House. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) sponsored a similar bill. The legislation would force agencies to report spending, administrative expenses, number of recipients and number of employees involved for each program. For good measure, agencies would also have to track contractor support. In its scoring, CBO pointed out the cost of the bills has no offsetting revenue. (CBO)
• The Transportation Department is funneling new money into projects to help veterans and military families get around. DoT is distributing $29 million to local governments and transit agencies throughout the country. The Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative helps pay for tech upgrades. They include smart-phone apps and real-time transit bus locators, as well as software that helps connect drivers with people who need a ride and interactive kiosks at military facilities and veterans' sites. Agency officials said they were hoping these programs could help veterans find jobs and get to work. (Federal News Radio)
• One-fifth of the nation's postmasters may be leaving their jobs thanks to a buyout offer from the Postal Service. The Federal Times reported postmasters had until Monday to sign up for a $20,000 incentive. As many as 4,200 of the 21,000 postmasters nationwide did. The Postal Service plans to reduce hours at thousands of rural post offices to save money, mostly on labor costs. A smaller incentive for mail-handlers did not go over as well. It was just $15,000. Seven percent of mail handlers have taken it. (Federal Times)
• The General Services Administration is considering lowering the boom on hotel allowances by 30 percent, Federal Times reported. GSA isn't saying exactly what it will do, but travel industry people say they're hearing the drumbeats. They say GSA wants to lower its average per diems by taking higher-priced hotels out of the picture. That could relegate traveling feds to suburban digs even when visiting inner city locations. The White House has ordered 2013 travel spending to come down by 30 percent. (Federal Times)
• Slightly fewer feds retired this spring than the Office of Personnel Management projected. That helped the agency tackle its backlog of retirement claims. About 48,000 retirees are waiting for their benefits from OPM. That's down from a high of 61,000 in January. That's when the agency rolled out a new, low-tech strategy. It hired more people, expanded their work hours and planned to upgrade technology one component at a time. (Federal News Radio)
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ECB Rate Announcement
Said Mario Draghi: "Please heed me:
Our 'zone isn't going agreeably;
The better to serve you
In line with our purview,
We'll pay you to borrow if need be."
-Dr Goose
http://tinyurl.com/7j7hewu
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
July 6, 2012
Smartphones drive Samsung profit to new record. Samsung (SSNLF.PK) today estimated that operating profit hit a fresh record of between 6.5T won ($5.7B) and 6.9T won in Q2 vs. 3.75T won a year earlier, while revenue rose to 46T-48T won from 39.44T won. Earnings were boosted by soaring Galaxy sales, although, as one executive says, "that's distorting the overall trading outlook." Samsung's main concerns include Europe, and weak prices for chips and consumer electronics.
Unemployment seen holding steady. Employment figures are due out this morning, with economists expecting that nonfarm payrolls increased by 100,000 in June. That would be higher than the 69,000 in May but would still round off the weakest quarter in over two years. The jobless rate is estimated to have held at 8.2%. What the figures don't tell you is how participation has fallen to a three-decade low.
Card giants poised to settle lawsuit over fees. Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) are close to settling a seven-year lawsuit brought by retailers over allegations that the credit-card giants fixed swipe fees, Bloomberg reports. While there's no word on the size of the agreement, Visa has set aside $4.28B to cover litigation, while MasterCard took a $495M charge in Q4.
Seagate falls after earings warning. Seagate (STX) yesterday warned that it expects FQ4 revenue of $4.5B, below a consensus of $4.9B, and gross margin of 33.6%, below prior guidance of at least 34.5%. The company also failed to increase its market share, which it blamed on a faster-than-expected industry recovery from Thai flooding, and a "supplier quality issue" that affected enterprise hard drive shipments by 1.5M. Shares were -3.4% premarket.
Yahoo narrowing down CEO search, or maybe not. Speculation is swirling about how far along Yahoo (YHOO) is in its CEO search. All Things D reports that the short list is down to interim chief Ross Levinsohn and Hulu boss Jason Kilar, although Reuters reckons News Corp. (NWS) digital media chief Jonathan Miller is also in the mix.
Duke cut Johnson over fears about suitability. Bill Johnson didn't become the CEO of the merged Duke-Progress Energy (DUK) - as originally planned - after the board decided at the last minute that he wasn't right for the job, the WSJ reports, although it was clear to some for a while that the arrangement wouldn't work. "Different personalities, different cultures," a source says.
Investors wait for Navistar update. Shares of Navistar (NAV) could be in for a wild ride today, as an operational update from the company is planned for this morning. Analysts don't have a firm handle on what Navistar will say, although there has been speculation recently that the firm will abandon plans to develop pollution-reducing engines following repeated problems.
Strauss Auto nearing the end after entering "Chapter 55." Strauss Auto looks set to be finally put out of its misery after probably becoming the first company ever to enter "Chapter 55" - i.e. to file for bankruptcy protection five times. The parts retailer first went into Chapter 11 in 1979; the latest filing was last month, but despite recovering from near death previously, Strauss now intends to sell its assets and file for liquidation.
How Countrywide tried to win friends and influence people. Countrywide Financial (BAC) used a VIP loan program from 1996-2008 to try to prevent legislation that would have hampered its sale of sub-prime mortgages, a report from a House panel said yesterday. The lender offered or gave discounts to members of Congress and their staffers, government officials and executives at Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB).
Central-bank triple play leaves markets unconvinced. The German 2-year Schatz yield has fallen into negative territory for the first time since the panicky days of early June, as Spanish and Italian yields surge higher following rate cuts from the ECB and People's Bank of China yesterday, as well as pledges of further money printing in the U.K. Markets either wanted more from the ECB or are worried that the central banks know something that we don't. Spanish 2-years were +38 bps to 4.99%, Italy +12 bps to 3.84%.
Bankruptcies fall but student debt burden gets heavier. The number of U.S. businesses and consumers filing for bankruptcy fell by 14% to 632,130 in H1, and the figure could end 2012 at the lowest level since before the 2008 financial crisis, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute's Samuel Gerdano. He attributes the decline to rock-bottom interest rates. However, student loan delinquencies are rising in what frighteningly looks to be a structural, not cyclical phenomenon.
Iranian oil exports likely to halve as sanctions kick in. Iran's July oil exports will probably be half those of last year, analysts forecast, as new sanctions stifle flows and cost the country more than $3B a month in lost revenue. Iranian exports have declined steadily from an average of 2.2M barrels a day in 2011; July exports could fall to 1.1M or less amid complications with shipping insurance and disputes with China over freight costs.
Today's Markets:
* In Asia, Japan -0.7%. Hong Kong flat. China +1.0%. India -0.1%.
* In Europe, at midday, London -0.1%. Paris -0.5%. Frankfurt -0.4%.
* Futures at 7:00: Dow -0.05%. S&P -0.1%. Nasdaq -0.1%. Crude -1.65% to $85.78. Gold -1% to $1592.80.
Today's economic calendar:
Monster Employment Index
8:30 Nonfarm Payrolls
10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
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ECB Rate Announcement
Said Mario Draghi: "Please heed me:
Our 'zone isn't going agreeably;
The better to serve you
In line with our purview,
We'll pay you to borrow if need be."
-Dr Goose
http://tinyurl.com/7j7hewu
Skono- It wasn't a guess...ha! I actually did some quick math. Keep in mind, it wasn't like those news clips you see of the mexicans leaping into the backs of pick up trucks in Home Depot parking lot, these are guys that I worked with every day for over 10 years in some cases. I considered many of them friends. I knew their spouses and kids.
Back in 2008 we were still blowin and goin pretty good when Arizona implemented the Legal Arizona Workers Act. All employers were required to check employees' legal status against a national data base. Subs were shitting bricks (no pun intended) and before this no one really gave a crap. On my list of go-to guys: Concrete sub poof gone...drywall poof...tile poof...stucco poof...gigantic landscaping companies gone...best framing company bye bye. The other half got creative, reshuffled workers into weird consulting companies, subbed to those companies and paid guys cash. Goofy stuff. It was the first time I got a real sense of the percentages. By the time SB1070 rolled out work was easily 50% off the peak and most companies had consolidated and merged to survive. The illegals that were still left finally just scattered.
lol great clip
What's Behind Illinois Stealing Local Hero's Bee Hives?
July 05 2012 |
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/05/monsanto-roundup-effects-on-honeybees.aspx?e_cid=20120705_DNL_artNew_1
By Dr. Mercola
An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet's nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees.
The state claims the bees were destroyed because they were infected with a disease called foulbrood.
But when the 58-year apiary keeper had his hearing—three weeks after the removal of his bees without his knowledge—the state's "evidence" had disappeared, leaving more questions than answers about the raid on the beekeeper's hives.
Some people, including the beekeeper, Terrence Ingram, suspect the raid has more to do with Ingram's 15 years of research on Monsanto's Roundup and his documented evidence that Roundup kills bees, than it does about any concerns about his hives.
Interestingly, the state's theft targeted the queen bee and hive he'd been using to conduct the research.
The Ingram CaseA recent article by Tom Kocal in the Prairie Advocate retells the full story of how Terrence Ingram's bees and hives wound up being taken by the Illinois State Department of Agriculture (IDofAG) i.
While the state claims the removal of the property was due to Ingram's failure to comply with the Department's notice instructing him to burn the affected hives, they have been less than open about why the inspectors came in and took the bees and hives without due process.
At a time when the Ingram's were absent from the property. Ingram claims the Department also conducted three out of four inspections on his private property while no one was home.
While Department inspectors claim his hives had foulbrood—an allegedly highly contagious disease—Mr. Ingram believes he could prove that this was not the case. As reported by the featured Prairie Advocate article:
"Ingram knew that the inspectors could not tell what they were seeing and had warned the Department that if any of them came back it would be considered a criminal trespass. Yet they came back when he was not home, stole his hives and ruined his 15 years of research."
Ingram initially reported the missing bees and hives as having been stolen on March 14, unaware that they'd been removed by the IDofAG. News of the theft was published in the Prairie Advocate on March 21.
As a result of that article, an area County Farm Bureau manager called the reporter, stating he knew the equipment hadn't been stolen, but that it had been "destroyed" by the Department of Agriculture because they were infected with foulbrood and Ingram hadn't disposed of them as instructed.
The most nonsensical part of this story is that Ingram didn't get a hearing to determine whether his hives were affected by the disease until three weeks after they were removed and destroyed.
Kocal quotes Mr. Ingram as saying:
"I own four businesses. I am here all the time. Yet they took our bees and hives when we were not home. What did they do, sit up on the hill and watch until we left? We had not yet had our day in court to prove that our hives did not have foulbrood!"
Making matters worse, during that April 4 hearing, the Department couldn't produce any evidence of what they'd done with the bees and the hives. Meanwhile, Ingram ended up being ordered to pay the $500 fine for violating Sections 2-1 of the Illinois Bees and Apiaries Act. According to Kocal:
"There are 2 questions that Ingram wants answered:
1) Did the IDofA, a state agency, have the right to enter Ingram's property and confiscate a suspected "nuisance," before Ingram had his day in court?
2) Where are his bees? The "evidence" has disappeared, and the IDofA refuses to tell Ingram where they are, before, during, and after the hearing.
"I have been keeping bees for 58 years," Ingram said during an interview at his home and apiary. "I am not a newcomer to beekeeping, and I definitely know what I am doing. I have been teaching beginning beekeeping classes for 40 years..." At the April 4 hearing, Ingram said he felt he was able to show the court that the inspector could not tell the difference between "chilled brood" and foulbrood. He also proved to the court that the inspectors did not know the symptoms of foulbrood."
15 Years of Research DestroyedIngram believes the destruction of his bees and hives is more likely to be related to his research into the effect of Roundup on honey bees. He claims some 250 of his colonies have been killed off over the years by Monsanto's broad-spectrum herbicide, used in large quantities on both conventional- and genetically engineered crops. Ingram's research shows that Roundup can lead to what's called chilled brood, which is an entirely different scenario.
According to Ingram, quoted from Kocal's article:
"When Round-Up kills the adult bees there are not enough bees left in the hive to keep the young bees (brood) warm, and the young bees die from the cold (chilled brood). I tried to prove that just because foulbrood can be detected once the hive has been disturbed, doesn't mean the hive has foulbrood.
Inside a honeybee hive is one of the cleanest places you can find. Anything that is a problem, if the bees can't remove it, they cover it with propolis, which is an antiseptic... When you go into the comb and cut it up, disturb it like the investigators did, then send it to a lab, it exposes foulbrood to the world. In the beehive, it's covered up. The bees aren't affected by it. But you can find it by sending it in to a lab."
Ingram has studied the effects of Roundup on honeybees for the past 15 years, and he believes he had built up sufficient amount of data to show that the herbicide causes not just bee die-offs, but also Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)—a mysterious phenomenon that has decimated an estimated one-third of all honey bees since 2006. While some bees inexplicably die, many simply vanish and never return to their hives. Ingram told Kocal that:
"CCD is a calamity that is affecting honeybee colonies across the nation. In fact, I had one queen, which had survived three summers of spraying and three winters. I was planning to raise daughters from that queen to see if she may have had some genetic resistance to Roundup. But she and her hive were taken during the theft. I don't even know where the bees and my equipment are. They ruined 15 years of my research."
... "I asked Rep. Sacia to take the teeth out of the current law, preventing untrained inspectors from doing sneak inspections without the beekeeper present, killing their bees and burning their equipment, or forcing organic beekeepers out of business, telling them that they have to use chemicals to keep bees in Illinois. Are the chemical companies really running our food supply?"
... "Is Illinois becoming a police state, where citizens do not have rights?" Ingram asked in desperation. "Knowing that Monsanto and the Dept. of Ag are in bed together, one has to wonder if Monsanto was behind the theft to ruin my research that may prove Roundup was, and is, killing honeybees. Beekeepers across the state are being threatened that the same thing may be done to their hives and livelihood. I was not treated properly, I don't want to see this happen to anyone else in this state, and I want this type of illegal action to end."
Monsanto is the New Owner of Leading Bee Research FirmIngram is quite correct about chemical companies like Monsanto—they are seeking to take nearly full control of the food supply by controlling virtually every aspect of crop production. So he has cause to be suspicious when it comes to the question of who ordered the theft and destruction of his bees. It wouldn't be the first time the biotech giant has used questionable tactics to get rid of its adversaries. And research implicating Monsanto as the cause of CCD could definitely cause some harm to the company's bottom line.
One of the forerunning theories of colony collapse disorder (CCD) is that it's being caused by genetically engineered crops—either as a result of the crops themselves or the pesticides and herbicides applied on them, such as Roundup. Ingram's research could potentially have strengthened this theory. Monsanto's Roundup herbicide is one of the most widely used herbicides there is. As a result, Monsanto has received increasing amounts of bad publicity over their potential role in the devastating demise of bees around the globe.
There's no doubt that CCD is a serious problem. To get an idea of the magnitude of the importance of bees, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimates that without bees to act as pollinators, the United States alone could lose $15 billion worth of crops. ii Research into the phenomenon is therefore absolutely crucial, to identify the sources of the problem.
Monsanto however, keeping true to form, appears to have taken measures to control the direction of the research into their products' effect on bees. As I recently reported, Monsanto has purchased one of the leading bee research firms – one that, conveniently, lists its primary goal as studying colony collapse disorder! Monsanto bought the company, called Beeologics, in September 2011, just months before Poland announced it would ban growing of Monsanto's genetically modified MON810 maize, noting, poignantly, that "pollen of this strain could have a harmful effect on bees." iii
The ongoing blight of genetically engineered crops has been implicated in CCD for years. In one German study, iv when bees were released in a genetically engineered rapeseed crop, then fed the pollen to younger bees, scientists discovered the bacteria in the guts of the young ones mirrored the same genetic traits as ones found in the GE crop, indicating that horizontal gene transfer had occurred.
But Roundup is not the only herbicide that has come under scrutiny. Newer systemic insecticides, known as neonicotinoids, two prominent examples of which include Imidacloprid and Clothianidin, are also frequently used on both conventional- and genetically engineered crops and have been implicated in CCD. In fact, bee colonies started disappearing in the U.S. shortly after the EPA allowed these new insecticides on the market. Even the EPA itself admits that "pesticide poisoning" is a likely cause of bee colony collapse as these pesticides weaken the bees' immune system.
What Can You do to Help the Honeybees?If you want to learn more about bees and CCD, I highly recommend watching the documentary film Vanishing of the Bees. The film recommends four actions you can take to help preserve honeybees everywhere:
Support organic farmers and shop at local farmer's markets as often as possible. You can "vote with your fork" three times a day. [When you buy organic, you are making a statement by saying "no" to genetically engineered foods]Cut the use of toxic chemicals in your house and on your lawn, and use organic pest control.Better yet, get rid of your lawn altogether and plant a garden. Lawns offer very little benefit for the environment. Both flower and vegetable gardens provide good honey bee habitats.Become an amateur beekeeper. Having a hive in your garden requires only about an hour of your time per week, benefits your local ecosystem, and you can enjoy your own honey!If you are interested in more information about bee preservation, the following organizations are a good place to start.
Pesticide Action Network Bee Campaign vThe Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees viAmerican Beekeeping Federation viiHelp the Honey Bees viii
Folks, a review of my ARNA Targets- which still stand:
(We hit $13.50 on approval- I had forecast $12.50 but anticipated it would be somewhat higher, as you will see below.)
Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:39:11 AM
Re: MiamiGent post# 14320
Post # of 15241
ARNA Target Update (first since original):
Previous Targets: upon anticipated FDA approval June 27th- $11.
By end of year- $22.
New Targets: Upon anticipated approval June 27th- $12.50
By end of year- $25.
These are the numbers I can justify based on current production capability, marketing arrangements, revenue sharing, trade interest and share structure. Of course, these projections presuppose FDA approval.
Considerable interest has built since the FDA Advisory Committee's convincing recommendation in May to approve Arena Pharmaceutical's (ARNA) diet drug candidate "Lorcaserin". In recent days, interest might be described as frenzied- and not without some justification.
I happily look forward to my nearby projection being shattered due to phenomenal interest. My primary interest is how high up the beach the share price reaches rather than how high the preceeding wave will be- though it'll be fun and may offer opportunities to finesse for profit.
MG
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ARNA
% Losers- final
Symbol Price Change Volume
AMBO -0.91 (-19.61%) 0.4M
HUSA -0.25 (-17.01%) 1.3M
SSH -0.59 (-16.39%) 14,290
NAII -1.05 (-15.01%) 0.4M
IVNRT -0.18 (-14.75%) 2.8M
VRS -0.23 (-13.29%) 0.4M
DSTI -0.22 (-13.28%) 28,402
BVX -0.35 (-12.59%) 18,708
PGRX -0.27 (-12.00%) 96,445
TELK -0.23 (-11.33%) 68,018
SIA May ww chip sales
SIA data
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Yank-I would say 80-90% of all trades were illegals. Lots went back to Mexico..the rest went to New Mexico and Texas.
pants
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Hi pants.
I seriously suspect that you believed that. I also am virtually certain that you are WAY, WAY off in that estimation.
I am a tradesman in California which is at least as over run by illegal and legal immigrant labor as your state.
****NEWS FLASH****
Everyone with brown skin who speaks limited English isn't here illegally.
That's the whole darn problem right there in a nutshell.
It was thoughtful of God to color code humans so we would know who to hate, discriminate against and exploit for cheap labor. Then a bunch of idiots went and created all kinds of complications with legal rights, amnesty bills, Guest Worker Programs, green cards and such.
90% of tradesmen???????
WOW, it's not just amazing that you really think that. It's also a surprise that you would share that guess with us.
Anyone care to see some facts? Yeah, it's hard when dealing with CRIMINAL behavior to collect data from the CRIMINAL employers and illegal alien labor. But for Christ sake we put a man on the moon GENERATIONS ago. You really think economists, lawyers, police, national security advisers, the FBI, CIA, major global corporate chief intelligence officers don't have REAL data?
You'll just never see it on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, CNN, FOX.............
I'm shocked, shocked! that people are misconstruing and misrepresenting the situation with illegal alien labor.
I drove from Shenandoah National Park down the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, then over the Natchez Trace. Loved all of it. I've always loved the South, though I don't think I could live there due to the humidity in summer, but do love to visit.
Newly
Another heads up on AIS
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Antares Pharm was AIS on the AMEX now on the Naz with the symbol ATRS. fwiw Do your DD. This company has legs for a long time.
Business was booming at the time and it appears that some folks (whites strung out on drugs?) felt justified in pushing to get rid of these "illegals". Of course in hindsight we know that the industry has collapsed and it (AZ law) wasn't necessary and just succeeded in getting rid of legals, too.
I suspect some other states are having problems getting their fruit and vegetables harvested as well. Probably will involve some more tweaking of immigration laws. Tweaking may not be the answer, either but a major overhaul.
Yank-I would say 80-90% of all trades were illegals. Lots went back to Mexico..the rest went to New Mexico and Texas.
pants
Fish- all worked for licensed sub-contractors using questionable but good enough ID's. Because they go this route for the most part they have all taxes taken out of their paychecks. I paid the sub-contractors directly above board. Hourly pay depends on trade for the most part. Painters 15-18, framers 18-22, tile 1-2 per foot depending on job and tile size, electricians 18-22, plaster 15-18, stucco 15-18, general labor/landscapers 10-13. They could get 50-60 hours per week easy in the good old days.
pants
CNDO- another small biotech making a move today, no position, and no real knowledge on it, just letting anyone do there own DD.
Devaluing the Pound Isn’t a Solution, It’s Default
Its interesting, but like so many biotech stocks, as I refer to them, they are really difficult some days.
SGEN has been I have followed and mentioned numerous times, and when I wasn't looking it got away from me, but then there are the others that get news, and before the stock market even opens you are looking ata substantial loss.
ARNA at least has been given FDA approval, and by the chart it digested it gains for a few days. Today it showed some promise to the upside, but whoever knows what happens next.
I still like my old industries, coal, oil, oil service, even aluminum stocks are trying again, CENX, AA.
Its just nice to see the stock market catch some bids, as opposed to a market that just drifted lower.
Housing stocks and REITS still catching a bid, but they can be selected.
Natural Gas stocks seem to be digesting there gains for now. MMR is a good scalper, ECA, and UPL also, while XCO has become the dog of the group. KWK came back some, but with every stock you have to be careful of expectations.
Meanwhile Mary's Funds, RFNCX, BFTHX, BARZA, NBRFX appear to be moving above there 200 day moving average, always a nice developement, IMHO
ARNA The other went off and check me- those were swing trades.
GM Zab! Yes, did one ARNA scalp this morning and another probably going off as I type- but I never touch the core shares! lol
MG
Oil service stocks, are still catching a bid of late,
BAS, EXH, WTI, PTEN, NBR
ARNA, nice stock for taking small scalps, but they have options expiring in a couple of weeks, it will be interesting to watch this one going forward. It has the potential to be anothe VVUS type stock, and it should be anyone's main screen.
XCO has been a real dog of a mover, while other natirual gas stocks have recorded some nice moves, you can be in the right Sector, but the wrong stock, and no matter how many times you think it will move up, it dosen't.
LIVE is an example of a stock that I have no idea why it keeps moving higher, but it does.
Coal stocks, been out of favor for quite some time, seem to be catching a bid, while most of there charts appear to be turning around, might be a long road ahead, but at least worth watching, especially if Natural Gas prices continue to move upward.
PCX< JRCC, ACI, ANR, BTU,
ARNA +4.09% @ 10.43, 6.1M
ARNA sold off after the big news on June 27th of gaining FDA approval for its diet drug which will be marketed under the name Belviq.
It seems to be finding its legs in recent sessions.
I suspect some investors in competitor VVUS are switching horses.
MG
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ARNA
Exposure of Banker Corruption
By Jim Willie CB
GoldenJackass.com
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Few observers make the connection, but the current LIBOR scandal is a middle inning of two important events. The first is the demise of the Western banker leadership crew. The executives from the most powerful banks will be last to be deposed, all sharing an ethnic strain. The second is the open fracture of the Western financial system. Over the past few years, to be sure a great many people have grown tired of Jackass descriptions of corruption within the banking sector and financial system in general. Well, hear this: TOLD YA SO! The London Interbank Offered Rate scandal will erupt into an uncontrollable firestorm, hitting one chamber and then the next, with rapid contagion. The Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve are both implicated, but they will skate until the end game. They control the prosecutors and the news networks. Few yet connect the LIBOR rigged prices to the important parts of the financial kingdom run by the harried banker elite. The supposedly informed experts point to the rigged low rates for adjustable rate mortgages, for credit cards, and for student loans. Only the ARM rate is important among these, since it kept and housing bubble going. If truth be told, the LIBOR anomalies have persisted since late 2008. The intrepid first class forensic bond analyst Rob Kirby linked the sordid trails and mismatched discrepancies of the LIBOR to the JPMorgan monster, the US Federal Reserve syndicate ring leader, and the USDept Treasury (haven for Goldman Sachs lieutenants). See his 2008 article on Financial Sense ( http://tinyurl.com/6lueop6 ). Regulators have done nothing for four years. It was not fully appreciated at the time, like it might be today. The LIBOR should match the settled EuroDollar contract, but it has not for years. The evidence for price rig has been glaring for years. The big banks have skimmed the difference for profit for years. Imagine selling milk or concrete with a variation in price at the wholesale level, enabling vast profits from skimming. It has been permitted for the big banks, a grand blemish on an already scarred sector.
Anyone with a solid intelligence quotient, a curious manner, and a suspicious streak can detect the recent trail. The MFGlobal client account thefts were a coming out event for the corruption. The JPMorgan margin calls on various positions had become an acute problem. They were very short on cash. With the upcoming December 2011 gold & silver delivery notices adding strain to the near breakpoint, JPMorgan made a decision. They stole the MFGlobal client accounts. They reneged on all precious metals contract delivery. They put all the to-be-delivered metal in their own account. Mission Accomplished, the catch phrase for unspeakable colossal permitted corruption in the USGovt and US financial markets. The losses in May by JPMorgan in the sovereign bond and Interest Rate Swap arena provided the Prima Facie case for the MFGlobal thefts, showing deep losses that will escalate over time. The officials at JPM have been telling scattered truths over the course of the last several weeks. They admit at times that their profound losses are tied to Interest Rate Swaps, which experienced analysts and traders can tell are for defense of the USTreasury Bonds and their entirely unwarranted 0% yield.
LIBOR CONNECTED TO INTEREST RATE SWAPS
The annual now chronic $1.5 trillion USGovt deficits must be financed. They should be financed at a Spain-like 7% yield. The two nations have equally wrecked finances and an equal unemployment rate. But doing so would be far too disruptive. But doing so would be far too costly. But doing so would take away the wellspring of cheap money for the speculation. The big banks enjoy a brisk carry trade off the USTreasury curve that makes easy profits. No other industry is granted such risk free profits. So enter the IRSwap to generate an artificial USTBond rally from a phony engineered flight to safety. The thought of a flight to the safety of massive uncontrollable USGovt toxic debt pit is laughable on its face. The LIBOR price rig has enabled virtually free funds for the IRSwap that supports the vast 0% USTBond tower.
The next connection will soon be revealed. The IRSwaps are fed by the deep source fountain of LIBOR, at virtually free cost. It bears repeating. Too much attention is given to the adjustable rate mortgage feeder process. Not enough is given to the derivatives that are abused by the financial sector in unregulated shadow systems. The big banks have sold too many multiples of Credit Default Swap insurance, to the point that both counter-parties are dead. No net neutrality is a reflection of reality. Too legless swimmers do not rescue each other in the deep waters. They both drown, just like the bank parties involved. However, the big story is the Interest Rate Swap contracts, those arbitraged long-term bond swaps versus short-term bond swaps that enable free money to finance the levers that control the long maturity for the USTBonds. Anyone who believes the TNX fell from 3.6% in 2011 to under 1.8% was from a flight to quality is either drinking Wall Street kool-aid or duped by their marketing flyers or captivated by media propaganda or just plain stupid. The vested interest in watching the 10-year USTBond yield go into ultra-low territory is all very understandable. Many financial asset prices depend upon a low benchmark bond yield.
But the reality is that foreign creditors abandoned the USGovt debt auctions. The reality is that primary dealers to those auctions found themselves stuck with inventory. The reality is that an avalanche of USGovt debt supply could not be handled with absent demand. The reality is that the USGovt borrowing costs required, if not demanded, ultra-low yields to prevent a worse explosion in deficits. The only true aspect of the flight into USTreasurys is that the European sovereign bonds have turned toxic. But the Europeans are far more likely to purchase German Bunds, and they have, driving their yields lower than the USTBonds. Some arbitrage has pulled the two to almost equal, evidence that IRSwaps are at work in the Bund backyard. The story will come out soon enough, how the LIBOR rate was rigged extremely low in order to facilitate management of the ultra-low 0% Fed Funds rate, and to enable the IRSwaps to do their magic in keeping down the long-term USTBond yield. The LIBOR has been and continues to be the feeder system for the IRSwaps that enforce the 0% and 1.5% yields on FedFunds and TNX. The factor is mentioned on financial networks with quick passing and no emphasis. They still sell the flight to safety rubbish story.
FASCIST BUSINESS MODEL FLOURISHES
The Fascist Business Model is not just showing its bitter fruit after the Bush II Admin came to office in 2001. It is flourishing in a climax of failure. The model does not simply permit financial crime. It encourages it. It promotes it. It rewards it. The higher powers organize it and run it. The result is not simply tolerated financial crime. It enables financial crime to flourish. The USAttorney General office sits on its hands. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sits on its hands. The Securities & Exchange Commission sits on its hands. The financial press ignores the crime, or minimizes it, or explains it away. They all pay lipservice to enforcement of regulations and securities fraud. The outcome is a mindnumbing episode of financial fraud, theft, and collusion that the nation has never witnessed in its entire history. The outcome is an extreme strangle of the nation around its financial neck. In Jackass writings over the last several year, the word 'corruption' has appeared many times in almost every public article. That is because corruption appeared in every direction the trained eye was cast. For some articles, the word appeared over 20 times, and deservedly. My attention to corruption is steadfast and consistent. Corruption is Wall Street's calling card. It will bear the epitaph of the nation.
The Fascist Business Model practices brought the nation the Too Big To Fail rationale that permitted insolvency and corruption from syndicate strongholds. Worse, the practiced model has brought the United States as a nation to the doorstep of systemic failure. The ripening LIBOR scandal is an extension of the MFGlobal theft and a close cousin to the deep JPMorgan losses. The entire US and London financial structure is collapsing. Instead of perceiving the European sovereign bond problem as having a related plague in the US and UK, the arrogant bankers preferred to conduct business as usual with IRSwap props of the fake USTBond tower. They preferred to rig the LIBOR channel that feeds the derivative pool, which include the all-important IRSwaps for maintaining the 0% artificial world. They preferred to point to the United States as different. It is not different. It is rotten from the inside due to 0%, whereas Southern Europe is rotten from the outside, manifested by the 7% alarm level.
The following stories, themes, and factors all serve as symptoms of corruption and failure. The failure is in part a result of the corruption. The corruption is intertwined with grotesque inefficiency, since the best in class do not prevail. The corruption sidetracks capitalism to reward the corrupt while inhibiting the successful and efficient. The most connected and thus corrupt not only prevail, but they rule. The following stories, themes, and factors are the handiwork of the US and London banker elite. The list is long but in no way complete, as the criminal activity is laced throughout the entire system. They will someday appear on indictment lists. To date the court rulings have almost all featured non-admission of guilt or any culpability, only details on settlement for the charges to go away. That greases the civil lawsuits away from continued awards. Regard such deals as fascist justice, more queer fruit. The decay of the nation is best seen not in economic output but in ethics. To be sure, the USEconomy is mired in a powerful recession that has extended for almost five years. The true protection from the systemic criminality is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
NAKED SHORTS ON PRECIOUS METALS
For two decades the bank cartel has been selling Gold & Silver futures contracts without collateral. They are exempted from regulatory action and prosecution, as part of some absurd position in national security. The practice covers the USGovt gold treasure, long gone, gutted, pilfered. On February 29th of this year, JPMorgan alone sold a full year of global silver mine output in a single hour. This is obscene. Compared to several years ago, the Big Four US banks have twice as big naked short contract position for precious metals. Refer to JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs. They all have pretty logos. They are not making America stronger. They are extending the criminal financial structures and their lifespan, giving room for zombies to roam. They enable a fiat USDollar currency to continue longer, despite the absent faith and trust no longer held in it globally. A parallel takes place, like with the Alpha Group for naked shorting Canadian mining stocks through their handy outlet Canaccord. If individuals attempted to naked short any futures contracts, they would be prosecuted and tossed in prison, their assets confiscated. The criminality is vast. The true protection from toxic paper contracts and paper certificates is obtained and secured by owning physical precious metals, never in paper form of any kind. Best in bullion bars and coins.
QUANTITATIVE EASING & OPERATION TWIST
The magnitude of bond purchase is astronomical, best described as Weimar-like. The printing of USDollars on electronic devices for the purpose of buying USTreasury Bonds that the world no longer demands in order to cover the gargantuan USGovt debts is out of control. The entire process is obscene and loaded with deception. The public and investment community is told repeatedly of a flight to quality and safety. There is neither quality in a Weimar rag known as the USTBond, nor safety in a junk bond with $1.5 trillion in annual deficits put to securities each year. The USFed does not have in its charter any feature to purchase 70% of the total sale of USTBonds in 2011, for instance. Operation Twist is a grand lie, a deception to cover the monetization of all 30-year USTBonds ever issued. It is a deception to enable foreign creditors to dump unwanted long maturity USTBonds, in favor of very short-term USTBills. The foreign creditors are eager to let the clock run out and have these bonds mature. Think exit. If corporations were to issue bonds without the demand of buyers, and float them in the market like a huge tributary from a toxic river, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from the hyper monetary inflation is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
MORTGAGE MARKET LAWSUITS & OBSCENITIES
The entire housing bubble was made possible by broad and deep corruption of every conceivable process within mortgage finance. People were approved to purchase homes without verified income. Home loans were approved without down payment. Homes were approved for sale without proper appraisal. Interest rates assigned to loans were often linked to corrupted LIBOR rates. The Wall Street banks shoved the income stream from a given mortgage into multiple securitized bonds. They covered their tracks with the MERS title database, intended to facilitate the frequent sale of property and more importantly the bonds tied to their income streams. The MERS lacked legal standing though, and their entire process was fraudulent. The court cases in several states discarded bank claims on foreclosure, with rulings that a database could not hold a property title. Why anybody pays a monthly mortgage anymore remains a mystery. It could be associated with a Pavlov response to flipping the calendar to a new month.
The climax for the obscene mortgage market practices came with the openly publicized robotic signature process on documents to foreclose and evict homeowners from their homes. The process went so far as to evict with sheriff assistance some people who owned their homes free and clear, the loans fully paid. The insult to the nation was foreclosure and eviction of standing military soldiers in service for the syndicate and oil companies. The docket for investor lawsuits for lax and nonexistent loan underwriting, followed by misrepresentation of bonds for sale, is hardly complete. If small companies committed the same contract fraud, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from the fraudridden bond parade and obscene wreckage of home equity (lost American Dream) is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
T.A.R.P. FUNDS
The TARP Funds chapter will go down in US history as the biggest open visible scam perpetrated in public view. No close second. The big banks appealed for USGovt aid in order to keep their credit engines humming, to prevent a lockup in lending, to save the USEconomy, a noble gesture. Instead, they bought corporate preferred stock and handed out gigantic bonuses to the architects of the housing and mortgage finance bubble & bust. They did so without shame, in your face. The $700 billion might have served as effective smokescreen, since the USFed was very busy behind the scenes. The USGovt should have demanded clawback on the entirety of the ill-gotten funds. But the USGovt financial squad is run by the big US banks. Refer to the Fascist Business Model and its expansive bitter fruit. Also in the background was a nifty grant of $138 billion to JPMorgan on a Saturday morning session in Manhattan by a bankruptcy court, supposedly to replenish funds for private accounts assumed in a merger. It was more like a JPM reload for intervening in the gold and currency markets. If ordinary companies committed the same fiduciary violation for misuse of borrowed funds, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from the slush fund river is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
USFED $23 TRILLION GRANTS
While the nation was deeply entranced by the financial system breakdown marred by the Lehman Brothers killjob, the USFed was busy dispensing near 0% loans in $16 trillion volume to big banks across the world, but primarily in New York and London. It was like a Who's Who list, or more accurately owners of the USFed itself and their best friends. Disclosure forced by the USCongress resulted in mere observation of receipts long after the fact. The barn door once again was closed briefly after the horses were let loose for new owner capture. A repeat episode occurred only a year later, as another $7 trillion was dispensed to a similar gang. Al Capone himself would be proud of such patterned behavior. The United States is the only industrial nation that does not possess its own central bank. The nation is a colony for rape and pillage by trillionaire castle dwellers. If regional banks committed the same reckless loans as favors to Board members and friends, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from the slush fund river is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
PILFERING FANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC
The raids, counterfeit, and other grand larceny of the OFHEO agencies is legendary. The Sopranos showed the modus operandi. Obtain a phony appraisal of a rotten property. Lock in the loan. Buy the property for a fraction of the loan amount. Then make no payments and abscond with the loaned funds. Easy as pie. The Papa Bush Admin and Clinton Admin went one further. They simply stole from the Fannie Mae cash register and snagged a mountain of counterfeit bonds with Fannie Mae markings, to the tune of $1.5 trillion, or $1500 billion for the math challenged. The audits conducted by Catherine Austin Fitts stand on the record in verifying the volume in theft. The funds are devoted to private accounts and to black bag operations by the agencies. After all, they must keep America safe and strong. When China began to sell in earnest from their vast supply of Fannie bonds in 2007 and 2008, the USGovt had to take action. So they nationalized the toxic cesspool. Their action served to conceal the criminality and to prevent an audit. Leadership has become privilege and license for theft. The Fannie stock shares went to zero, exactly as the Jackass forecasted in 2006 and 2007. If other financial firms committed the same embezzlement of funds and engaged in counterfeit activity, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from the toxic cesspool under USGovt aegis is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
LOOTING FORT KNOX
The Clinton & Rubin Admin had a mission. They pulled it off well. The experienced savvy Robert Rubin moved from the London Gold Desk at Goldman Suchs to take control of the USDept Treasury. His first act and deed was to mark the gold lease rate at near 0%, and thus to embark on the Gold Carry Trade. The big winners would the privileged Wall Street banks with access to leased USGovt gold held in Fort Knox. Their ill-gotten gains must have totaled at least $2 trillion from leveraged shorts in the gold futures market. Couple the counter-trade in rising USTBonds, also with leverage applied, and the gains must have totaled at least $7 trillion. Pretty handsome profit for the Syndicate during an eight-year span. They called it the Decade of Prosperity. But it rendered the United States as a nation a sure bet for systemic failure in a decade's time from hollowed out insolvency and ruin. Like now. The Jackass prefers to call it the Decade of Stolen Prosperity. Moronic political observers long for the good ole days of Clinton and all that prosperity, without realizing the pilferage of the entire Fort Knox, the Gold Carry Trade, or anything sordid in nature. They are naive fools.
A colleague has a personal friend in charge of security at Fort Knox. He reports they stand guard over Fort Knox alright, but it contains a vast inventory of nerve gas cannisters, and zero gold. The US as a nation has no collateral to back its USDollar currency. The US bank officials refuse to conduct an audit of the gold. The insiders declare that an audit would give emphasis to its importance and value. The laughter is raucous when reading the Office for the Comptroller to the Currency reports, when the ledger item of Deep Storage Gold is read. It is merely unmined ore in Western mountain deposits. The USGovt is in posssession of zero gold. If individuals in other nations were to make off with the national gold treasure, they would be prosecuted for treason and theft, then given a public hanging. The criminality is vast. The true protection from absent collateral to the USDollar is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
PHONY BANK ACCOUNTING
In April 2009, a critical event occurred. The Financial Accounting Standards Board in charge of setting accounting rules declared that the big US banks would be permitted to set any value they chose for their wrecked balance sheets. The prominent insolvent gang of banks teetering in ruins could set as they wished book value or original value for balance sheet items, when zero was the more accurate valuation. The defense of the Too Big To Fail mantra began. The excuse of challenges to find credit worthy borrowers hit the scene. That was a lie, since strong borrowers were routinely refused loans. The credit engines for the USEconomy had been wrecked, no longer functioning. Actually, the credit benefit had turned negative, evidence of slippage within the system. The obscenity continues with a charade of Credit Value Adjustments and raids to Loan Loss Reserves every quarter earnings report. Without such malfeasance to accounting, the big US banks would regularly show deep quarterly losses. Even the financial press objects, calling the earnings tainted. If ordinary corporations were to engage in such accounting fraud, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from fraudulent accounting and vast fiduciary violations is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
FLASH TRADING & UNIX BOX
In 2010, a nasty event struck with revelation of computers gone amok on the New York Stock Exchange. The deep decline on a single day demonstrated the absence of indigenous investors in a land overrun by computers. The details came out slowly. The NYSE volume had been at least 80% computer trades routinely. The big Wall Street firms were selling to each other, running up the stock prices in a levitation fraud process. It was an orchestrated internal Ponzi exercise. Yet the plum story was the Goldman Suchs internal unix box that caught a peek at the order flow, placed orders in front of the flow, and ripped small profits on millions of trades. When the unix box and software was captured by a Russian fellow in order to expose the syndicate, he was branded a criminal. The FBI rushed to arrest him at the airport. Rumors swirled that the software was being sold on the black market. He was quietly taken care of. The entire episode was contained. Goldman Suchs was never prosecuted, even protected by the vast USGovt army. The integrity of the New York Stock Exchange was kept at the same corrupt level. Activity resumed. If ordinary investors were to engage in such criminal insider devices, they would be prosecuted and tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from rigged and violated markets is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
AUCTION MUNI BONDS
Two years ago, a rigged falsified auction market was revealed. The items sold were typically municipal bonds. It was another corrupted market in a parade of corrupted markets, organized and led by the same cast of Wall Street characters. Lawsuits were settled. Settlements were cut. No admission of guilt was made. The game might have been shut down, unclear. If ordinary market makers were to engage in such criminal pricing activities, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from rigged and violated markets is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
INFLUENCE ON USCONGRESS
The big US banks have kept the scam going. They control the USDept Treasury through their Goldman Suchs conduit and headhunter passageway. They engage in lofty campaign donations to Congressional members. The list of donations is on the public record. To date, the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign have each received over $300 million from the banker lobby. These criminals have covered both red and blue on the political roulette wheel of bets. The irony is that one might consider the TARP Funds themselves as the slush fund for such political donations. The wheel of political influence turns. As H.L.Mencken said a century ago, the USCongress is the best that money can buy. The influence enables Wall Street banks to write legislation for its own reform. To be sure, compromises were made, like to split off proprietary trading but with fuzzy rules. The asterisk is the audit of the USFed itself. The devotion to the bankers was seen in June when JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon visited the Finance Committe for soft lobs. An opportunity was lost. The genuflection was obvious. The only tough questions came from two Senators who receive nothing from the banker lobby. All but those two kissed Dimon's ring. The unflappable CEO appeared to holding court before his minions. If ordinary individuals were to be confronted for their reckless and criminal activities, they would be subjected to a harsh line of questioning and possible prosecution. The criminality is vast. The true protection from compromised politicians is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
ROLE PROGRAMS LIKE MADOFF FUND
One of the biggest shocks to the Jackass in recent years was the revelation by a deep banker source of the so-called Role Programs. Many were described, all managed by the USDept Treasury and the Bank of England, its master. The volume of criminal fraud and scams is in the hundreds of $billions. One such scheme was the Madoff Fund thefts. The public was told repeatedly that Madoff made off with $50 billion in funds, with many victims left in the lurch. The true figure was $160 billion in stolen funds. The search was on to locate the funds, when the officials knew exactly where the funds were safely located and stored. Yet another charade, much like searching for the MFGlobal funds, all safely kept in JPMorgan London accounts. The Madoff funds were located in Switzerland for safe keeping. The banks involved all had one national trait in common, from a small nation on the Southern Mediterranean that looked northwest to Italy across the sea. The banks were all protected by some very strange laws in Switzerland that forbid investigation of fraud. Many other role programs continue to this day, details not to be provided here. Some nations have outstanding arrest warrants for US bank leaders, who travel only to England and Switzerland with confidence. If ordinary managed funds were to be scrutinized for criminal activities, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in to prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from profound high level fraudulent schemes is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
HIDDEN GREEK GOVT DEBT
Goldman Suchs was the focus two years ago when the actual Greek Govt debt was revealed to be greater than originally submitted for qualification entry into the European Monetary Union. The Greek Govt falsified their club application with collusion from GSuchs. The fraud was a big currency swap to conceal the true level of their government debt. They were made to look healthier than was actually the case. GSuchs has been given a pass, no prosecution in any nation. Arthur Anderson was not given such benefit. In fact, the GSuchs crew was invited to supply a lieutenant to lead Italy, no justice seen. Such bonuses are typical even after criminal fraud is revealed for syndicate titans. The wreckage of Greece is not yet complete, but far along. GSuchs had a big hand, spreading their special cancer wherever they roam. Victims are banks across Europe, London, and New York. More currency swaps are suspected in other Southern European nation financial submissions. If ordinary corporations were to engage in such accounting fraud, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from fraudulent accounting and vast fiduciary violations at the highest level is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
NARCO MONEY LAUNDERING
It is fast becoming a well known fact, even common knowledge in the financial industry. The big US banks are heavily dependent upon narcotics money laundering from sale conducted by the protected USGovt agencies. The American citizens seem the last to know. The details are dangerous to cite, surely not privy to the Jackass. The United Nations drug task force first identified the money laundering activity back in 2008 and 2009. Nothing has been done. In a case from 2008, Wachovia was found guilty of money laundering for narcotics activity in Mexico. The outcome was a veritable farce. The settlement involved a fine equal to 3/100ths of a penny per dollar processed. They could have at least forced a dime for dollar in the money laundering. The US press emphasized the fine paid and minimized the volume processed. The big US banks are all involved in such money laundering. They are big, broken, insolvent, and wrecked. They are as hollow from the criminal activity of bond fraud, accounting fraud, and laundering activity, as a cocaine addict is hollowed from the internal organs and rotten teeth. If ordinary corporations were to engage in such money laundering, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from organized crime is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
IRAQ & IRAN SHUN OF USDOLLAR
The 2003 charade was given focus on weapons of mass destruction posssessed by Iraq. A war was waged. A hefty supply of gold bullion bars was stolen from Baghdad at their central bank. The amount was not reported or learned. The charade went so far as to show video clips of snagged yellow bars, not gold, but wooden bars painted yellow. Quite the production to cover the theft of a national gold treasure. It belonged to the Iraqi people, not Saddam Hussein. A similar charade has been playing for the last several months over Iran. The public is told of a Iran nuclear weapons factory threat. The story is old and stale, having been recited to a foolish audience for a few years running. The weapons of mass destruction did not exist in Iraq. The WMD story was a cover for cause in war, to cover the fact that Saddam had been selling crude oil in Euros. The key fact was sale outside the USDollar. The USGovt reacted by protecting its sacred Petro-Dollar. The parallel to today is clear for the enlightened, who are few in number. The Iran threat is not nuclear, not of weapons of mass destruction. The common architect for the phony story is that small nation on the Southern Mediterranean. Keep it vague in identification. The parallel violation by Iran is selling crude oil outside the USDollar. The American and European public are being for fools again. Iran is accepting gold or trade credits in swap deals. This is a banker sham on the highest stage, putting the world at risk of a dangerous war. The extension to SWIFT bank codes used as a weapon shows the banker hand of involvement. Misrepresentation for war cause is not a crime, but it is a travesty nonetheless. It leads to lost credibility for international leading nations, like the United States and Great Britain. The betrayal of trust is vast. The true protection from unscrupulous brinkmanship is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
MOTIVE FOR LIBERATING LIBYA
To be sure, Muammar Qaddafi was an evil man, a psychotic man, and a thief to his own people. Liberation of the Libyan nation was a good deed. But the hidden motive has been revealed. The London and Western European banks hold 144 tons of Libyan gold. It has not been returned. It is too desperately needed. Conditions for its return to a legitimate Libyan Govt have been laid out. Do not expect them ever to be satisfied, in the eyes of the banks holding the gold tonnage. The actual events told of NATO armies working toward thel liberation might or might not be true. It makes one wonder if Syria owns any gold. Misrepresentation for war cause is not a crime, but it is a travesty nonetheless. It leads to lost credibility for international leading nations, like those holding the Libyan gold treasure. The betrayal of trust is vast. The true protection from unscrupulous brinkmanship is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
MISSING IRAQ FUNDS
In 2006 and 2007, a big story circulated about missing Iraqi Reconstruction Funds. The diminutive leader Bush Jr declared that $50 billion in missing funds was acceptable in the grand scheme of things, called ordinary leakage. It is not clear what grand scheme he referred to. Perhaps the grand scheme of big US bank and big US defense contractor fraud. The overcharging cases for Halliburton violations are like a mosaic on a billboard for all to see. They have regularly been deemed as minor in scope, not worthy of prosecution. They have usually be settled with small fines, a mere fraction of the fraud involved. But the missing funds continue to this day. It is in the Jackass opinion that one of the primary motives to continue to endless wars is to perpetuate the frauds and stolen funds. The guardians are nowhere. The enforcement is imaginary. The thefts are encouraged and permitted. If ordinary corporations were to engage in such fraud and thefts, they would be prosecuted and their executives tossed in prison. The criminality is vast. The true protection from pillbox raids is obtained and secured by owning precious metals, best in bullion bars and coins.
ALLOCATED GOLD ACCOUNTS
The revelation of banker criminality has only begun. The culmination in the opinion of my best banker source is come before too many more months. Attention focuses now on the LIBOR price rig scandal. It will extend to the USTBond and Interest Rate Swap artificial props. It will extend in a climax event for exposure that Allocated Gold accounts across the Western world have been confiscated, sold, and replaced with shabby paper gold certificates illegally. Numerous class action lawsuits are in progress in Switzerland, kept out of the news. They total several $billion in combined size. However, the account raid practice has been widespread in Europe, London, and United States. The scope of the seized and raided Allocated gold accounts is enormous. This will be the biggest banker scandal in modern history. The scope involves at least 20 thousand tons of missing gold, and possibly as much as 40 thousand tons missing. The lid will blow off the concealed story before long. The news networks in Switzerland have been dutiful in keeping the story quiet. Not for much longer. It is not the only nation involved, no way. Big important influential wealthy people have been victimized. They will seek justice and demand an open court. All in time. When that happens, the price of gold will double in a matter of months. The big banks that have criminally raided the Allocated accounts will be forced to retrieve and purchase the gold on the open market. Many complicit banks will simply collapse, since already insolvent. Some bank executives will face prosecution. Perhaps a few will go missing, like the gold bars. The story and its publicity of semi-stolen gold will bring much needed attention to gold as real money.
911 BANK HEIST
As the years pass, the evidence mounts. The AE1000 organization is expert and loud, the architects and engineers who provide expert testimony on the absurd official 911 story at the World be-Trade Tower. This is hardly the forum for such recitals. A secretive Russian Bond valued at $240 billion was to mature the very next day, most of which were held in the Cantor Fitzgerald offices atop the tower. Those bonds could not be redeemed at maturity, a theft. Nothing on the official story makes any sense, nor does it stand up to chemical scrutiny or to scrutiny from phsyics. Costa Rica has a richly dotted landscape of very well informed people with all kinds of legitimate contacts, such from Secret Service friends, bank executive friends, ex-USMilitary types, slush fund managers, obscure types, and more. My informed sources have been numerous that have shed light on the infamous event. It was a grand bank heist that involved perhaps around $100 billion in stolen bearer bonds, perhaps around $100 billion in stolen gold bullion bars, and perhaps around $100 billion in stolen diamonds. The 911 event marked in the opinion of many observers a coup d'etat of the United States Govt. Their grip on power continues through to today. The true story will come out, all in time, like veracity bubbles working toward the surface. Those holding the lid on the actual events are reducing in number each year. My expectation is that the true story will come out as the inevitability of a USGovt debt default becomes evident and unavoidable, when the JPMorgan machinery fails in full view to uphold the USTBond tower. At that time, the new trade settlement systems, the new barter systems, the bypass to USDollar settlement, they will come into place. Gold will be at the center of every new system. Much like how geophysics leads to iron forming at the core of a stable body, gold will form at the core of the stable financial body. But its price will be closer to $10,000 per ounce than $2000 per ounce. Gold price charts mean little, when the enter paper system is in the process of imploding, first bonds, then currencies, then sham gold markets.
Jim Willie CB, editor of the “HAT TRICK LETTER”
Posted Thursday, 5 July 2012
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1341518400.php
U.S. stocks fall to session lows after ISM
BY MarketWatch Equity 10:09 AM ET 07/05/2012
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks slid to session lows Thursday after the Institute for Supply Management reported a gauge of services activity for June that fell short of forecasts. Stocks had started broadly lower after a trio of central-bank actions to stimulate growth underlined the strains on the world's economy, and the euro dropped. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as much as 89 points -- versus a 72-point-drop before the data -- and was recently down 86 points at 12,858. The S&P 500 was off 10 points at 1,364. The Nasdaq Composite lost 15 points to 2,961.
Futures looking lower...for a while at least.
Pants - Did you hire them on contract or hourly and how much were you paying them. square foot or hourly? Just curious.....thanks
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Volkswagon finished buying up Porsche this morning, and Volkswagon is clearning additional acres to build a possible 2nd Car Assembly Plant here in Chattanooga.
There was also some major ground clearing at Enterprise South for a new Tire Company. I keep mentioning these things only to point out that some companies are moving ahead in this economy, and Volkswagon is one of them, I am just glad it is happening here in Chattanooga.
Mary has to drive this way each morning to get to the Interstate, and she reminds that when I drive I am too slow, compared to her experiences in the morning. They refer it to as Volkswagon Raceway.
Hearing 100,000 numbers for tomorrow's unemployment numbers, anyone hearing anything lese ?
Thursday morning federal headlines - July 5
Thursday - 7/5/2012, 7:58am ET
The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Emily Kopp discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.
• The Army says it has enough tanks. Officials thought suspending production for a few years would be an easy way to save money as the military faces sharp spending cuts. But Congress begs to differ. Some Ohio lawmakers are trying to restore funds for the Army to keep buying Abrams tanks made in that state. About 800 welders and machinists are caught in the middle. General Dynamics operates the plant for the government. It says it would be cheaper to keep the plant open with minimal production than shut it down and restart it. But the Army says not all that money should come from the United States. It suggests the plant could fill orders from other countries. (Federal News Radio)
• The Veterans Affairs Department has called a moratorium on downgrading low-wage service workers at its health care facilities. Protestors had staged a march from VA headquarters to Lafayette Square in front of the White House last month. Many of the employees were represented by the American Federation of Government Employees. AFGE's Northern Virginia Council president Alma Lee reported the VA's change in stance. The department's HR Management Office issued a letter calling for a temporary stand-down on changes to lower graded actions. It agreed to establish a classification oversight working group. VA did not immediately respond to a request for comments. (Federal News Radio)
• While other agencies close regional offices in attempts to save money, the Patent and Trademark Office is moving in the opposite direction. For the first time, the office will expand operations beyond the Beltway. It plans to open four satellite branches. A Detroit office opens next week, followed by operations in Dallas, Denver and Silicon Valley. The expansion is mandated by a new law aimed to modernized the patent system. The agency says it wants to attract top intellectual-property experts who can work closely with entrepreneurs, as it tries to catch up on about 640,000 unexamined patent applications. (U.S. Patent and Trade)
• Computer giant Dell has acquired Quest Software. Dell, a major federal contractor, wants to expand its service business. Quest publishes identity management and access control applications, and system performance tools. It also has a large federal presence. Dell paid 2.4 billion dollars for Quest, beating out a private venture firm. Dell did about 1.8 billion dollars in federal sales last year, according to Washington Technology. The company's total 2011 sales reached 61 billion dollars. (Federal News Radio)
• Prosecutors are not filing criminal charges against former Commerce Secretary John Bryson. They say a seizure led Bryson to get into three car accidents on June 9. Bryson had hit one car twice, spoke briefly with the occupants and then drove on to hit another vehicle a few minutes later. Police found him unconscious in his Lexus. They had cited him for felony hit-and-run. But tests did not show any signs of alcohol or drugs...except for a sleeping pill...and two doctors had diagnosed Bryson with a stroke. He resigned from the Commerce Department two weeks ago, saying he did not want his health to interfere with his job. (Federal News Radio)
• Base realignment and closure, or BRAC, turned out to be a lot more expensive than the Pentagon predicted. A new GAO report pegs the cost of the most recent BRAC round at 35 billion dollars. That's 67 percent more than original estimates. GAO says the main culprit is construction costs. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency's new headquarters more than doubled in cost to 2.6 billion dollars. The latest BRAC round started in 2005. It involved more than 800 locations and 125 thousand people. The Pentagon doesn't expect to see financial payback until 2025. (Federal News Radio)
• U.S. forces in Afghanistan are starting today, to reroute supplies through Pakistan. They're ending a seven-month run of using a longer and more expensive route to avoid that country. Pakistan agreed to let the United States use its supply routes after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for an incident that took place last November. 24 Pakistani troops were killed by U.S. forces. Causes of the incident are still in dispute. But the round-about supply routing has cost the military billions in fuel and other costs. Last month the Pentagon asked Congress to reprogram funds to cover the logistics overruns. (Federal News Radio)
• The Food and Drug Administration wants every medical device to have a unique ID. The agency says that could help it spot problems more quickly target recalls and improve patient safety. The FDA has conducted four pilot studies and is now seeking public comment on a new rule. It focuses on the highest-risk medical devices first — things like replacement hips, pacemakers and heart valves. It would exempt over-the-counter devices sold at retail stores. The FDA is acting in response to requirements in a 2007 law. (FDA)
• Twitter received 849 government requests for information about its users in the first half of 2012. The requests came from throughout the world. But 75 percent of them came from the U.S. federal agencies. Twitter has started providing biannual reports about U.S. and foreign government demands for information about its users. Google has been reporting its government requests for the last couple of years. Twitter, which is used by most agencies, says it provided the requested information in two thirds of the cases. (Federal News Radio)
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Why Did the Market Fall?
Said an equity trader, "I'll cop to this:
I can't tell why we tanked from the top to this,
But the punters of punts
All concluded at once -
There's no basis for being an optimist."
- David Lefkovits AKA Dr. Goose
@ www.limericksecon.com/
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
July 5, 2012
PBOC lowers rates. The People's Bank of China has cut interest rates, lowering the benchmark lending rate 31 basis points and the benchmark deposit rate 25 basis points. U.S. stock futures moved higher on the unexpected decision.
BOE to print more money. The Bank of England has relaunched QE, adding £50B to its £325B asset purchase program. The bank's benchmark lending rate remains at 0.50%. Next up is the ECB, which is widely expected to cut its benchmark rate by 25 bps today to a record-low 0.75%, although it's unclear where the bank goes from there.
What did Diamond know about Libor and when? Bob Diamond yesterday testified to U.K. legislators that he only found out about the Libor accusations only very recently, which is strange given that reports about Barclays (BCS) being part of the global investigation stretch back to at least March 2011. In his testimony, Diamond also said he did not believe that the Bank of England's Paul Tucker was giving permission to lower rates.
VW to finally gain control of Porsche. Volkswagen has agreed to acquire the 50.1% stake in Porsche it doesn't already own for €4.46B ($5.6B), ending a seven-year takeover saga. The deal helps VW in its aim of speeding past Toyota (TM) and General Motors (GM) to become the world's largest automaker by 2018.
Bank investors in the dark about Libor liabilities. Bank shareholders have no idea what kind of liability they're facing from the Libor probe. Barclays (BCS), for example, dropped 16% the day after being blindsided by a $451.4M regulatory fine. More than a dozen banks are being probed, are providing minimal disclosures and are probably failing to put enough funds in reserve for potential fines.
British judge rules against Apple on four patents. HTC phones don't infringe four Apple (AAPL) patents related to touchscreen technology, and three of those Apple patents are invalid, U.K. Judge Christopher Floyd has ruled. The patents include a slide-to-unlock feature and functionality to touch the screen in two spots simultaneously. It's not an insignificant defeat for Apple, although it did enjoy another pretrial victory against Samsung (SSNLF.PK) on Tuesday.
ConEd, union to talk, possibly to discuss talking some more. Consolidated Edison (ED) and its biggest union are due to meet today under the auspices of federal mediators after talks over a new labor contract stalled and the New York power utility locked out 8,500 workers. The meeting doesn't mean the sides will renew negotiations, so it could be that they'll just talk about having talks, or how hot the weather's been, or whatever.
KKR among those bidding for Getty Images. KKR (KKR) and TPG are reportedly among at least five suitors still in the hunt for Getty Images after the first round of bidding, which attracted offers of $4B. An acquisition by KKR would add to its recent investment in New-York based image database firm Fotolia for $150M.
Best Buy turnaround strategy not convincing the skeptics. Best Buy (BBY) is testing a new recovery strategy, turning some of its cavernous stores into sleek, Apple-inspired retail outlets in the hope of boosting sales. Skeptics worry the makeover doesn't do enough to dissuade shoppers from browsing in the stores and then buying products online from cheaper e-tailers.
US Airways not rushing to catch AMR flight. US Airways (LCC) has said that it's in no rush to merge with American Airlines (AAMRQ.PK), and expects the bankrupt airline to defer review of a possible deal now that it's seeking more time to formulate a stand-alone exit plan. US Airways CEO Doug Parker said his company will "respect the bankruptcy process," so tie-up speculation will "continue for at least several more months."
German antitrust officials reviewing GM-Peugeot alliance. Germany's federal cartel office intends to take a closer look at the partnership between GM's (GM) Opel unit and Peugeot (PEUGY.PK) in a Phase II review. The assessment will examine the impact of the tie-up on car parts suppliers. The latest review comes after GM signed an agreement on Monday to transfer a majority of its business in Europe to Peugeot unit Gefco.
China's Beige Book tells an uplifting story. China's Beige Book, a new private survey of around 2,000 executives and bankers, shows that retail sales and manufacturing strengthened last quarter, property sales increased, and 80% of retailers expect higher sales in six months. The picture painted suggests an economic pick-up not fully captured in China's official statistics.
Cities mull seizure of underwater mortgages. California's San Bernardino County and two of its biggest cities, Ontario and Fontana, want to use the concept of eminent domain to forcibly buy underwater mortgages from investors, lower the loan principal to match the value of the property, and then resell the reduced mortgages. Proponents believe they have a strong legal case, but mortgage investors are unsurprisingly opposed. Robert Shiller likes the idea.
Spanish yields belie S&P optimism on eurozone crisis. S&P thinks the eurozone crisis might be finally easing, citing the stabilizing agreements that came out of the June 29 summit. There is significant implementation risk but the measures "can provide a more stable funding framework" while governments work to "implement growth-enhancing structural reforms and reduce their budgetary imbalances." Despite S&P's optimism, Spanish yields again rose in a bond auction today.
Farmers hurting despite high crop prices. Corn and wheat may be trading near ten-month highs, but farmers are hardly profiting. With razor-thin margins and food crops priced well-below the cost of production, many growers are quitting. From the U.S. to Australia, and from beef to vegetables, farmers globally are facing the same crunch.
Mammoth Lakes goes under water. Mammoth Lakes filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, becoming the second Californian city in six days to do so after Stockton entered Chapter 9 last week. Mammoth Lakes, which has assets of over $100M and debt of more than $50M, made the filing after its largest creditor refused to negotiate concessions on a $43M legal judgement.
Today's Markets:
* In Asia, Japan -0.3%. Hong Kong +0.5%. China -1.2%. India flat.
* In Europe, at midday, London +0.5%. Paris +0.1%. Frankfurt +0.9%.
* Futures at 7:00: Dow +0.3%. S&P +0.4%. Nasdaq +0.3%. Crude +0.7% to $88.26. Gold -0.3% to $1617.60.
Today's economic calendar:
Chain Store Sales
7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications
7:30 Challenger Job-Cut Report
8:15 ADP Jobs Report
8:30 Initial Jobless Claims
9:45 Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
10:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing Index
10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
11:00 EIA Petroleum Inventories
4:30 PM Money Supply
4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet
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Why Did the Market Fall?
Said an equity trader, "I'll cop to this:
I can't tell why we tanked from the top to this,
But the punters of punts
All concluded at once -
There's no basis for being an optimist."
- David Lefkovits AKA Dr. Goose
@ www.limericksecon.com/
Sure we do, its just clouded over by stupid politics, take that out of the picture, and America could get back to what it does best, just plain old business and a modern society.
Thought provoking posting to say the least...
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28246974
"If the 80% are not willing to sacrifice the 20%, and STOP the .01%, ALL 99.99% will perish, or wish they had, before the .01% are done playing their new game..."
To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (26115) 7/5/2012 1:43:52 AM
From: SOROS 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 26132
Without saying "Life is not fair, and it is certainly not equal," they will never fix the problems, and the nation and world will eventually economically collapse.
Everything is not a RIGHT, just because a person is born. There are people born in Africa every day who will have a life of hunger, sickness, and early death, as will many others around the world.
To say that in America, everyone born in the country, as well as everyone who makes their way into the borders legally or illegally, is entitled to education, healthcare, housing, and food is not only unrealistic, it is suicide.
LIFE IS NOT FAIR. If governments attempt to make it so, they will eventually destroy what has made America be able to at least provide a higher standard of living for a much greater percentage of the population than any country in the world.
Will there still be those with not enough to eat and no medical care? Absolutely. But would most Americans rather see 10-20% not have the necessities, or would they like to see .01% have wealth beyond their dreams, while 99.99% have their standard of living brought down, or up (for the 10-20% on poverty now) to a level that is just above the poor in other countries?
The gov't can only raise about 2.5-3 trillion a year. The budget, with keeping approximately 20% of the people in poverty, and without having healthcare as a basic "right" of life, is about the same amount. However, I believe about 2.5-3 trillion is spent EVERY YEAR on healthcare in the US. The math does not support giving healthcare to every person living in the country. If you do, then you go in the hole 2 trillion every year and face economic calamity soon, while at the same time, lowering the standard of living and the quality of health care for the approximately 80% of the people who do have it.
No one wants pain, and that is why the country and world face calamity. The needs of the many (80%) MUST outweigh the needs of the few (20%). If the gov't steps in to try and change what cannot be done mathematically, by printing money from paper and diluting the world's currency, disaster will not just happen to 20%, but it will come to 99.99%!
The real kicker in this is that that 20% in poverty would be less, because there would always be charity, and Americans, if not overly-burdened by a gov't wanting to steal all they earn, WOULD take care of those in need, like they have for 200 years. Perfect? No. But WAY closer to it than ANY other country in the world.
Do the .01% care? Heck no. They are bored with life and everything that having too much money can buy, so they love playing this game with the sheeple's lives.
It is simple entertainment for them! That is the point the sheeple do not understand! Wealth, like to the Hollywood stars, brings boredom eventually. Then it's drugs, divorce, and all kinds of damaging activities. For the .01%, this push to total socialism under THEIR control, is their illegal drug! To be able to play a real-time game with billions of people's lives must be a hoot for them. "Let's kill off this group." "Let's drop healthcare for this sect." "Let's wage war on this people." "Let's see what happens IF we DO this?" GREAT FUN FOR THE PSYCHO-PATHETIC RICH OF THE WORLD!
If the 80% are not willing to sacrifice the 20%, and STOP the .01%, ALL 99.99% will perish, or wish they had, before the .01% are done playing their new game.
Just came to me; short fellow, white hair, baton in his right hand standing on the Hatch Shell...Arthur Fiedler.
What's an esplanade? Something in front of the Hatch Shell?
Futures volume quiet. Looking a bit lower for a while.
Yup. A blanket at he esplanade, lying on our backs, looking skyward. The final "song," The William Tell Overture if memory serves was stirring, anticipated, terrific. Many years ago.
Thanks for sharing that...neat stuff...good memories.
pants
OK this works but v small screen
I should leave this for the high techies- I'm like Lee with this stuff.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/07/04/revelers-scoop-up-best-spots-for-boston-pops-july-4th-spectacular/
OK Good advise Lee I am walking to the fireworks now with my northern Ireland friend from the building. Walk and watch- very efficient.
I'm southern Irish, and over religion we quarrel- kind of like this board.
Then I will watch from my high rise- able to see dozens of displays. And will watch the link to the Boston fireworks for nostalgia.
I bet you've been at the Esplanade for the Pops and fireworks.
MG
Oro Mining Update on Proposed Wexford Offer
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire -07/03/12)- As disclosed in Oro Mining Ltd.'s ("Oro" or the "Company") (OGR.V; OTC:OMRGF) press release of June 14, 2012, the Board of Directors of the Company have established a Special Committee of independent directors to review and consider the proposed unsolicited takeover bid announced by Wexford Capital LP ("Wexford") to acquire any and all outstanding common shares of the Company at a cash price of $0.11 per common share. The Special Committee's review of the proposed offer is ongoing and final conclusions or recommendations have not yet been reached; however, the Special Committee wishes to keep shareholders and market participants apprised of developments in its review.
The Special Committee has engaged Ross Glanville & Associates Ltd. ("Ross Glanville") of Vancouver to provide an opinion on the financial adequacy of the proposed offer. While Ross Glanville's opinion has not been finalized, it has advised the Special Committee that, based on its preliminary assessment, the consideration proposed to be offered by Wexford to Oro shareholders is financially inadequate. The Special Committee also wishes to advise that, based on its review to date, its preliminary view is that the proposed Wexford unsolicited offer significantly undervalues the shares of Oro, is highly opportunistic in terms of timing and is clearly intended to take advantage of the pervasive fear that has existed in the market for junior resource companies over the last several months. The Special Committee also wishes to confirm that the Company has not, and presently has no intention to, provide support to Wexford in any form in connection with its proposed offer.
The Company again advises Oro shareholders not to deposit any Oro common shares to any offer made by Wexford and not to take any action concerning the possible Wexford offer until Oro shareholders have received further communication from the Board of Directors of Oro. In the event that an actual offer is made, the Board of Directors of Oro will issue a directors' circular concerning the offer. The directors' circular will contain important information including the determination of the Board of Directors of Oro with respect to a recommendation to Oro shareholders.
About Oro Mining
Oro Mining is a publicly-listed company on the TSX Venture Exchange with properties located in Sinaloa and Zacatecas, Mexico. Oro's priority is to advance its properties toward production. The La Trinidad property, which hosts the Taunus gold deposit, continues to be the priority focus of the Company's development activities. A complete NI 43-101 resource estimate and preliminary economic assessment for the Taunus deposit can be found at http://www.sedar.com or at http://www.oromining.com.
On behalf of the Board
Robert Kendrick, Chairman
Contact:
Oro Mining Ltd.
Robert Kendrick
Chairman
(604) 646-1580
(604) 642-2411 (FAX)
communications@oromining.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oro-mining-proposed-wexford-offer-192500545.html
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ORO MINING responds to wexford announcement
June 14, 2012
http://www.oromining.com/section.asp?pageid=21758
Boston Pops Orchestra/fireworks tonight! (link)
Live streaming of America's popular July 4th orchestra with guest Jennifer Hudson.
Spectacular fireworks display!
Starts at 10:00 PM eastern/9:00 central
http://www.cbs.com/specials/boston_pops/
The Boston "Pops" is the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer orchestra featuring light, classical music. The "Pops" plays outdoor at the "Hatch Shell" in downtown Boston along the Charles River, and also at Tanglewood in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.
Before renown from film compositions (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc), John Williams was the conductor of the Pops for fifteen years.
The Pops have sold more commercial recordings than any orchestra in the world.
For twenty three years I had the perfect pied a terre a stone-throw from the Hatch Shell and could just open the window to fill the room with music. I miss it as I write here in Miami- but I don't miss Nov-Mar, lol!
Happy Fourth of July!
MG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Pops_Esplanade_Orchestra_2005-07-04.jpg
$3 oil would lower prices of many, many things. Sure would help us.
In my day, your ethnic culture was always used in the first sentence, like what are you, german, or english, and I said both. My father was English, and my mother German, but her family arrived in 1881, if you came in 1950, like my next door neighbors did, then it was a brand new issue.
My mother disliked almost everyone, while my father enjoyed everyone, even our neighbors who were Hitler youth children, and fought in World War II, my father couldn't care less. I think that was because after being in Normandy and going to Berlin he saw too much devastation.
Took me a lifetime to get him to open up about the war, and even when he did, he tried his very best to remember the nicer things, like liberties in Paris, a few extra days in Switzerland, and his days in England having tea and dancing at the USO. He did manage to tell me many stories before he died, drinking wine in the cellar during a bombing, and an archway at a blown up Hotel when a sniper had him in his sight.
Anyone' life is always there own, you can either make good, or bad out of almost any situation, the day they removed my lung was one of my best days, I learned how to breath again, still brings a smile to my face.
Warren Haynes and Dave schools stoned me soulshine
Maybe Suzy has cracked you over the head once too many times with that frying pan.
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