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holy s#@!!!
KSWJ- news! could be HUGE
KSW Industries Inc.: KSW Answers Its Investors
Jun 01, 2006 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Toronto, Canada KSW Industries, Inc. is responding to numerous shareholder inquiries and wants to announce that among the documentation sent to the SEC as per their request was a copy of the KSW - ENERGOMASH LTD joint venture.
AS well, KSW Industries would like to make it known that the Delaware Corporation known as KSW Energomash is 50% owned by KSW Industries, Inc and 50% by Energomash Ltd and was set up to be the operational arm of the joint venture.
KSW Industries, Inc plans to proceed with all required filings in order to enhance shareholder value.
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thanks! sent him an email-
encourage others to too.
i had a buy in at 013 for almost 3 hours this morning and they wouldn't fill so i withdrew it. wtf
kissing the 50 and 10 day MA
then hopefully back up
will please sum up what's been going on w ndol in regards to how parkin and co. are delivering, legitamacy etc. as i'm an aurus investor but not ndol- and it certainly seems to be affecting us. thank you
can anyone show the connection btw Marat Shteyn and Serik M. Burkitbayev? that would prove a connection btw kswj and the filed patent- correct? i think someone suggested u of belarus? i'll look
nice new plate o pasta!
bought back in at 0007 today after last two great prs- bought and sold a month and two months ago at ooo3 thinking there was just constant dilution it was going nowhere and just alltogether too many posts to be bothered paying any attention to-
great things to come! dilution done!
f'in gottbetter !#@&*?!@%$#!
great post! thanks
awesome!thanks for posting.
looks like they are bout to get real busy makin dynovalves!
and it certainly explains why they've been selling shares
(woulda [and will] been nice for them to tell us.
i emailed kpcb the venture capital firm where he used to work to ask them for an email... maybe easier to find contact info for Bing. clme is exactly what they are interested in in ca so seems very important that they are aware of it,us.
just placed my order at .055 and the damn thing takes off.
figures. drats
have you all seen this video? help me find an address for him and get him info on clme.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570288889128950913&q=ethanol&pl=true
“I HAVE a religious belief in the power of ideas propelled by entrepreneurial energy,” declares Vinod Khosla. Coming from some businessmen such talk might sound self-serving or plain nutty. But Mr Khosla helped to found Sun Microsystems, a company that pioneered such essential bits of internet technology as network servers and Java, a programming language. He then made his name and his fortune as a partner at Kleiner Perkins, a Silicon Valley venture-capital firm famous for its early investments in AOL, Amazon, Compaq and Google.
His eyes have now turned towards a new target—the oil industry. He and Stephen Bing, a flamboyant Hollywood producer, are financing a campaign to get Californians to endorse clean energy in a state-wide vote next November. “Californians for Clean Energy” will need to get more than 500,000 signatures just to make it onto the ballot. If it were then passed, its effect would be to increase taxes on Californian oil production by up to $380m a year, eventually raising billions of dollars for investments in clean energy. The plan is to help California cut its oil use by one-quarter within a decade, thereby setting a powerful example for the rest of the world.
Mr Khosla is particularly enthused by “cellulosic” ethanol, a highly efficient way of making fuel from agricultural waste. President Bush touted this new technology in his recent state-of-the-union speech, suggesting that it may come to market in six years. In typically impatient form, Mr Khosla wants to halve that gestation period. Anyone who spends time with him is liable to be hit with his well-researched but mind-numbing PowerPoint presentation on ethanol—unveiled with the affection that some men reserve for pictures of their grandchildren.
Why is Mr Khosla taking on this particular crusade, when he could concentrate on the technology investments that have served him so well—or even opt for a gilded retirement? Like many very rich men, he now wants to improve the world: “Just starting another Sun doesn't do it for me any more.” As an engineer turned venture capitalist, Mr Khosla has a healthy respect for the power of new technologies to create disruptive innovations. And the free marketeer in him clearly relishes the prospect of really taking on the big, rich and well-entrenched firms that dominate the oil industry.
Another part of the explanation lies in his complex relationship with India. Like several of Silicon Valley's most successful people, Mr Khosla boasts a degree from the Indian Institute of Technology. When he tried to start a project to help the mother country, he was initially frustrated by its bureaucracy and corruption. His first attempt to start a traditional top-down charity failed, so he now funds only charities embracing micro-enterprise approaches. A lesson he learned from India, he says, is that one has to think big: “Unless you influence the lives of at least a million people, it simply doesn't matter.”
His plan is to use technology and entrepreneurship to tackle big social and environmental problems: “In venture capital, we fail far more often than we succeed,” he says. “I've decided that I'd better focus on taking on problems that really matter, so that when I win it makes a difference to the world.” He likens his need to get involved with worthy causes to a drug addiction.
It is easy to dismiss this enthusiasm as the irrelevant obsession of a rich hobbyist or the harmless utopianism of a capitalist who has made his pile. But the big oil companies are certainly not taking Mr Khosla lightly. The oil industry is funding a lavish counter-campaign to his ballot initiative called “Californians Against Higher Taxes”. Perhaps the best reason to take Mr Khosla seriously is that his professional success and Republican leanings mean that he has the ears of powerful people. He has been making the rounds, from the White House and Capitol Hill to the World Economic Forum at Davos and the TED conference (a big annual gathering for top venture capitalists), banging the drum for ethanol. Before Larry Page, Google's co-founder, attended a recent TED conference in Monterey, California, he was sceptical about ethanol. After hearing Mr Khosla, he decided to help fund the cause. “When have you ever seen greens, farmers and guys like me and Larry on the same page?” demands Mr Khosla.
The power of price
So will his grand plan really work? Mr Khosla is convinced that “this fuel is greener, cheaper, more secure than gasoline—and this shift won't cost the consumer, automakers or the government anything.” There are undoubted attractions to ethanol. But making the switch will surely not be as easy or cheap as he suggests. Retail distribution is one obvious problem: fewer than a thousand petrol stations in America sell the most desirable blend of ethanol fuel today. Expanding infrastructure will cost money and take time, and the oil industry is not exactly enthusiastic. And cellulosic technology, which seems so promising today, may take much longer than expected to achieve commercial scale, or might fail altogether.
What is more, the OPEC cartel is suspected by some of engineering occasional price collapses to bankrupt investment in alternative energy. Mr Khosla concedes that after he made his ethanol pitch at this year's Davos meeting, a senior Saudi oil official sweetly reminded him that it costs less than a dollar to lift a barrel of Saudi oil out of the ground, adding: “If biofuels start to take off we will drop the price of oil.”
Anticipating this problem, Mr Khosla is lobbying politicians in Washington, DC, to impose a tax on crude oil if the price falls below $40 a barrel to safeguard investments in ethanol. Even if—surprise, surprise—Congress refuses to raise taxes, Mr Khosla insists that alternative energy must ultimately prosper. Given his record as a venture capitalist, it would be foolish to dismiss his latest bet on the future.
i can't believe it- usually when i buy in the price drops!
(bought at .017) times are changin i hope. great dd pupp but your sig makes me dizzy
how bout some research instead of cheerleading? when i called the company weeks ago, my call was returned by a stock promoter who was paid with shares-
their website is the same as another smalltime pink sheet goldmine-
the former companies have a questionable history-
not to say all this is not now priced in or that the ps won't go up on sheer gold frenzy but they've still got a steep hill of credibility to climb imho.
has this been posted yet? still dd'ing this one-
Metro Gold Mines Mineral Resources, Inc. - Is This MGM Grand?
Investigative Reports
May 4 2006
Companies attract interest for a variety of reasons. Management announces a new product, service, acquisition or initiative, and investors respond. A new patent, a trademark, or FDA approval of drug trials may spark interest in a stock. On occasion, promoters successfully intrigue investors with promises of stellar performance and tales of skyrocketing profits.
In each such instance, some activity or announcement brings attention to the company and drives investors to the stock. There are times, however, when there is no apparent rationale for trading activity; where volume soars or prices move significantly without a word from the company or its proponents. In those cases, observers can only sit back and wonder who might be selling all of those shares, and why anyone would be motivated to buy them.
Which brings us to Anglo-Andean Mining Co. (Pink Sheets AADN), a Pink Sheet company that made a splash last week. What was so intriguing about Anglo-Andean? Start with the trading volume, which popped from 1000 shares on April 24, 2006 to 3,290,300 shares on April 27, 2006.
Then there is the share price, which rose from 6 cents at the opening on April 24th to a high of 12 cents a share on April 27th.
More than 3 million shares changed hands in a single day, and the stock price doubled in less than a week – all without the benefit of a single press release or public announcement
And then, on May 1, 2006, the Company changed its name – for the second time in two months and the fourth time in two years – to Metro Gold Mines Mineral Resources, Inc. (or, more informally, MGM Mineral Resources (Pink Sheets: MGMX).
Mystery solved – or compounded?
History Lessons
As Sinatra sang, "How little we know. How much to discover…"
The Company's name may have changed once again, but interest in the Company – as measured by trading volume – continues to grow. On May 3, 2006, the Company was among the most active issues traded on the Pink Sheets; almost 20.7 million shares of MGM stock were traded, at prices ranging from 8.5 cents to 13 cents a share. What do investors know about the Company? A little more than last week – but still, very little.
As Anglo Andean Mining, the Company was strikingly silent, even as its stock price rose and trading volume swelled. Anglo Andean did not file public reports with the SEC's Edgar System, or post financial reports on the Pink Sheets. And we have found no record of press releases issued by the Company during its brief life as Anglo Andean. Consequently, public investors have had no meaningful information which might convince them to buy or sell shares. So why were they buying?
The Pink Sheets offered only a modicum of information about Anglo Andean – presumably all that was available from the Company. According to the Pink Sheets, Anglo Andean was a Delaware corporation located at 10016 Romandel Avenue, Santa Fe Springs California, and its telephone number was (562) 863-7000. We called that number and reached the offices of a business called "Color and Copy." The woman answering the phone said that Color and Copy had been using that number for at least one year. She said she never has heard of Anglo-Andean.
The Pink Sheets listing offered few additional details about Anglo Andean. A description of the business was "not available;" the names of officers were "not available;" the number of outstanding shares and market cap were similarly "not available." In fact, the most meaningful information that was available – other than the Company's address and the incorrect telephone number – consisted of a list of its various corporate identities, and reference to a 1000 for 1 reverse-stock split that was implemented in February 2006, at around the time the Company changed its name from Mercantile Gold Inc. to Anglo American.
The Company has been known by five names in the past four years. It operated as CADItech International before changing its name to AMC American Music Corp, Inc. in May 2004, for reasons we were unable to discover. Just five months later, the Company became Mercantile Gold Co. Mercantile Gold maintained a somewhat higher profile than its successor, Anglo Andean, although there is nothing to indicate that it enjoyed any measurable success or earned meaningful revenues. As Mercantile Gold, the Company maintained a website - which lingers in cyberspace – describing itself as a "mineral exploration and development company whose objective is to 'acquire, discover and develop world-class (multi-million ounce) gold and silver deposits'" and eventually, to sell them to, or develop them with "major international mining companies."
During its brief two year existence, Mercantile Gold proclaimed a series of acquisitions. In November 2004, for example, the Company announced that it had acquired the "Solaga silver project," located in the Villa Alta Mining District of Mexico, from an individual named Jose Perez Reynoso for $150,000 and 60,000 restricted shares of the Company's common stock. Although the Company said that the Solanga project had "excellent potential" for the discovery of silver with "bonanza values," there is nothing to suggest that the Company ever reaped significant revenues from the venture.
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Mercantile Gold's "activities" was its relationship with Capital Hill Gold Company, another putative mining company whose hype outpaced performance. Mercantile Gold issued a press release in February 2005, announcing its acquisition of 50% of the "Mexican Hat" gold deposit, a project located in Southeastern Arizona, from Capital Hill Gold for $25,000.
StockPatrol.com readers already are familiar with the operations of Capital Hill Gold, and its efforts to extract valuable minerals from "Mexican Hat." Indeed, as we discovered when we wrote about Capital Hill Gold in October 2004, other developers, including Placer Dome, had been exploring the Mexican Hat property since 1930, with modest results. Although Capital Hill Gold initially expressed considerable optimism for the project, it retreated from those rosy predictions under pressure from the British Columbia Securities Commission, and conceded that its estimates and projections had not been independently verified. See Capital Hill Gold, Inc. - Is There Gold In Them Thar Hills? In February 2006, Capital Hill Gold (which changed its name to Amerimine Resources, Inc.) gave up its dreams of gold, and entered into a reverse-merger with American Unity Investments, Inc., a Nevada corporation. Amerimine now plans to enter the forestry business in the Peoples Republic of China.
The relationship between the two companies did not end with the swap of Mexican Hat. In April 2005, Mercantile Gold announced that Capital Hill had offered to acquire its Mexican subsidiary and the Solaga project in exchange for 500,000 restricted shares of Capital Hill Gold common stock. We found nothing that would indicate any of the swapped projects proved viable.
Meanwhile, Mercantile Gold continued to pursue additional projects. In March 2005, the Company disclosed that it had acquired the "Star Hill gold deposit," located near Tucson, Arizona. Although the Company later said that it had begun exploration on the properties, there is no indication that any of Mercantile Gold's efforts yielded significant minerals or generated revenues.
The Company's failure to return profits did not discourage stock promoters from jumping aboard the Mercantile Gold hype-wagon. One Internet stock picker, "The Green Baron Report," published by Evergreen Marketing, added Mercantile Gold to its list of "Stocks to Watch in December 2004, claiming that "our research indicates that Mercantile Gold Company is everything we have been looking for" in the mining sector. The Green Baron said it was "initiating coverage at this point because we foresee a move in the stock to much higher levels than could facilitate a stock split. We envision a similar trading pattern to U.S. Canadian Minerals prior to its recent pullback."
The Green Baron which received 6,000 shares of free trading stock from an unidentified "consultant" to Mercantile Gold, distributed several additional reports endorsing the stock. Of course, the Green Baron once called CMKM Diamonds, Inc. "The Stock Play Of A Lifetime" – and investors are still reeling from the failures of CMKM, which surrendered its public listing after regulators questioned CMKM's failure to file required public reports. The troubled history of U.S, Canadian Minerals –cited as an example by The Green Baron - also is well-documented. See Buddy Up! - CMKM Diamonds, Inc.; U.S. Canadian Minerals, Inc.; Juina Mining Corp.; St. George Metals, Inc.; and United Carina Resources Corp and CMKM Diamonds, Inc. - Tapped Out and Taps. Most recently, on March 14, 2006, U. S. Canadian learned that the SEC staff was poised to recommend a civil enforcement proceeding against that Company for possible violation of the federal securities laws, including fraudulent disclosures, failure to file reports in a timely manner and improper accounting practices.
The Green Baron was not alone. Other Internet "analysts" were picking Mercantile Gold. Wall Street Futures, owned by a stock site called Wall Street SmallCap Reporter, called Mercantille Gold a "stock to watch" in April 2005, citing the Company's plan to sell its Mexican operations to Capital Hill Gold – but failing to note Capital Hill's dismal track record.
There is nothing to suggest that Mercantile Gold rose to the occasion and justified the promoters' enthusiasm. The Company soon faded from view, supplanted in February 2006 by an enigmatic successor, Anglo Andean Mining.
Colombia, the Gem of MGM
The reign of Anglo Andean Mining was brief and silent. Unlike its predecessor, Anglo Andean did not issue press releases announcing new ventures. It did not disclose the identities of its officers, management team or principal stockholders. It did not reveal any business plan. Perhaps it did not have enough time. By the end of April 2006, Anglo Andean Mining had been transformed into Metro Gold Mines Mineral Resources, Inc. (MGM to its friends) – and the public relations machine was back at work.
MGM describes itself as a "new and promising company dedicated to mining and committed, not only to a successful venture, but with social and environmental responsibility." The Company says that it wants to be a "world class mining company" and will target Latin America, North America and Europe. For now, however, the Company's Business Plan focuses on the potential for developing mines in South America in general, and Colombia in particular. MGM's "initial mine" called ""La Esperanza," is located in Segovia, Colombia. Despite its South American connections, the Company has now moved its offices in the opposite direction - from Santa Fe Springs, California to 300 Tanbark Road, St. Davids, Ontario, Canada.
The Company, which states that it needs $1.5 million to expand operations, claims that it will begin to export gold by mid-2006. MGM's financial condition remains a question mark. The Company has not published audited financial statements. Fortunately for investors, the Pink Sheets now contain a modest amount of information on the Company. They identify MGM's CEO as Jairo Antonio Girardo and its President as Kenneth Lamb. Some of the information provided by the Pink Sheets is somewhat less clear. According to the Pink Sheets, the Company had issued 800 million shares as of February 14, 2006 (180 million of which were in the public float) - although it only was authorized to issue 400 million shares on that date.
MGM has not wasted any time getting its public relations machine in gear. On May 1, 2006 the Company issued a press release, announcing that shares of MGM had begun to trade on the Pink Sheets. The Company explained that it would concentrate on the development of precious metal mining companies – but offered no immediate insight into its history, operations, level of success or finances. The Company said that it would focus initially on the development of properties in South America and hoped to develop operations that would yield profits while also paying attention to workers' well-being and environmental concerns.
The press release did not address the name change from Anglo-Andean mining, or provide any insight into the terms of that transaction. In fact, a number of key questions remained to be answered. Had the owners of MGM acquired control of Anglo-Andean? If so, what had they paid and to whom – and what had they received in return? Are there now more than 800 million shares of common stock outstanding? Has the Company's certificate of incorporation been amended, and, if so, how many shares are now authorized? Who are the Company's principal shareholders and how did they acquire their stock?
The May 1st press release did provide an overview of the Company's new management team. It explained that Kenneth Lamb, MGM's President, has a sales and marketing background, has managed several "innovative" companies and served as a Professor of Academics for over twenty years. The Company did not identify any of the entities with which Mr. Lamb previously was associated or the educational institutions at which he served as a professor.
The press release offered a somewhat more fulsome picture of the Company's CEO, Jairo Giraldo. According to the May 1st release, Mr. Giraldo has a background in mining engineering, graduated from the University of Colombia, was certified in mining management by the American Management Association, worked for over ten years with the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Colombia, has served as an adviser to the Colombian government, and is a specialist in emerald, gold, silver and platinum mines.
The press releases have continued to flow. As markets were closing at 4:05 pm the next day, May 2, 2006, the Company issued a press release announcing its acquisition of "La Esperanza." MGM described Colombia as the highest gold yielding country in South America, but also "the most under-explored and under-developed," and declared that "[t]here are proven multi-million ounce deposits of rich gold under Colombian soil." MGM said that it was "working to modernize operations and maximize profitability of La Esperanza mine"
The Company seems to be banking on location, location, location. The May 2nd press release emphasized – repeatedly – that La Esperanza sits in Columbia's most fertile gold production region. Still, while the Company's CEO, Jairo Giraldo said that MGM was "highly pleased with what we have seen so far," the Company offered no details, independent studies or historical results that demonstrate La Esperanza has, or is likely to, yield a substantial amount of marketable gold.
MGM must have been pleased with the May 2nd press release. It issued a second release, repeating virtually verbatim the contents of the previous day's announcement, at 9:15 am on May 3rd – just as markets were set to open. What followed was impressive. Almost 20.7 million shares were traded on May 3rd, as prices bounced from 8 ½ cents to 13 cents before closing at slightly more than 9 cents a share. Could the vague set of press releases – which offered no comfort concerning the viability of the Company or La Esperanza – have precipitated this stampede? Or was there more?
There was this. At 7:00 am on May 3rd, sandwiched between the twin La Esperanza announcements, an outfit called IO Circuit recommended MGM based upon a "$.24 price target from Market Advisors." This press release, like those issued by the Company, noted Columbia's potential as a gold producing nation, and repeated the mantra that La Esperanza was located in Columbia's richest gold producing region. A second press release, issued 10 minutes later, urged investors to "have a look at Metro Golden Mines Mineral Resources."
Who was behind the sudden hype? Growth Stock Alert, an Internet promotional tool owned by an entity called Iron Consulting, had been paid $16,000 by Equity Alliance Int. LLC "for its marketing and consulting services." The report offered no fresh insight; it merely regurgitated information from the Company's press releases and website and reiterated the potential for gold production in Columbia. It provided no details of the Company's operations, history, or financial condition. Nothing that would remotely support a $.24 cent price target or the monsoon of trading that followed.
The daily press releases have continued. On May 4th, MGM announced that a new lead geologist had been appointed to oversee operations at La Esperanza. Again, the Company seized the opportunity to remind readers of Colombia's gold producing potential. And the promoters were back at it as well. An outfit called Stock Market Alerts LLC issued an early morning press release extolling the virtues of the Company, La Esperanza and the prospects for gold mining in Colombia. Stock Market Alerts was paid $5,000 to promote the Company by an entity identified only as Equity Alliance International LLC. Growth Stock Alert, which issued its glowing report earlier in the week, joined in, sending out another press release touting MGM. Growth Alert concedes that it was paid $895 by an unidentified third-party to distribute the good word about MGM.
Once again, trading of MGM shares was brisk – but the results were distressing, particularly to those public investors who bought into the hype of the past week and paid up to 13 cents a share. Almost 23 million shares changed hands on May 4th, but prices plummeted by more than 50%, closing at around 4 cents a share.
With 800 million shares issued (at least according to the Pink Sheets), MGM's market cap has varied widely in recent days – ranging from more than $80 million to about $32 million at May 4th's close. How much is this Company worth? Is "La Esperanza" as fertile as Sutter's mines? Or have we just witnessed a frenzy of activity fueled by unrealistic expectations and calculated to benefit as-yet unidentified individuals who held millions of the Company's shares and welcomed an opportunity to dump them. The Company certainly has made a splash. Will investors be left treading water?
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i think they are preparing us for a reverse split-
i think the form 10 will show us way better financals than we even imagined and that they will do a big reverse either simultaneously or soon after to qualify for nasdaq or amex. i'm holding and trying to have funds ready in case all the penny flippers panic and dump the second they see reverse. jmho.
still here. don't know when it'll pop- but imagine it'll be huge- i'm now in the red :(
XKEM news
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2006/may/25/editorial-25-05-2006-001.htm
The grant of N150 million facility by the Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM) to Xechem- a local drug maker, for the commercial production and marketing of NICOSAN, a new herbal drug for the management of sickle cell disorder, is certainly a milestone of sorts for the heath care sector.
Milestone because for million of sufferers of the Sickle Cell Disease as well as carriers of the gene, it is the long awaited succour for a genetic ailment most pronounced on the continent, and for once, Nigeria is leading the world in finding a cure for a scourge for which her own citizens have the highest population of sufferers, possibly in the world.
With many products of research endeavours lying on the shelves of research bodies waiting for commercial exploitation, it is heart-warming that the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Xechem and NEXIM, have combined to deliver to Nigerians, and indeed the global health community, this unique solution in the management of the sickle cell condition.
We certainly know that the bane of research undertakings in the country is the lack of critical linkage between research and the manufacturing and the financial services sector with the result that research breakthroughs do not get to the marketplace due to lack of entrepreneurial interest. It is noteworthy that the case of this sickle cell drug is a marked departure. We commend NIPRD, NEXIM and the drug firm, Xechem, for this timely and exemplary collaboration; it is an affirmation of the unlimited possibilities in the Nigerian environment, giving the right kind of incentives.
What the development underscores is the need to encourage more indigenous drug firms to collaborate with the research institutes to deliver more gains to the Nigerian people in the area of development and commercialisation of findings. It is certainly not good enough that local drug firms have consigned themselves to being trading outposts for imported drugs with little or no local value added; even local raw materials, where available, are begging to be exploited for commercial use simply because imported substitutes are preferred.
We think that a package of incentives for drug manufacturing firms willing to undertake such ventures make eminent sense if the government is truly desirous of getting these firms to play the desired role of creating jobs and providing solutions to the health care services needs of the nation.
The NIPRD breakthrough in the sickle cell drug should be an eye opener on the need to equip, upgrade and fund our research institutes to enable them play their assigned roles in national development. Leaving them perennially in the throes of budgetary shortfalls is hardly the way to help them play these roles.
On their own part, the institutes themselves should explore opportunities for collaborative efforts with industry to attract funds and to ensure that important findings are not left to rot on the shelves. Now that NEXIM has shown the way in providing venture capital for the sickle cell drug, it behoves other financial institutions to support similar initiatives.
this from topofalltrade on rb about 1/2 hour ago( think he means kore- and sam from sulja) pr soon perhaps?
"ok.. just got off the phone with SAM ...
I asked about the filing .. he said it's filed it's been done.. But to move up to another exchange is up to SEC
He mentioned one company name, not exactly sure how to spelling it.. it sounds like Quar? something like that. He said it's dealing with SEC about the filing and moving up to another exchange right now."
CLME O/S - 33,052,896
Rest - 26,270,000
Float - 5,782,896!
i got more CLME too- way too cheap imo
has anyone got there call from mario? i'm waiting
the website only works from internet explorer not firefox- i let tom know and also about the ticker symbol (nwrt) thing that he was not aware of- he does not follow the ups and downs of the stock-
alright, i'm finally in here at 003
i put up a few shares for sale at .029 as an experiment a few hours ago and just noticed that they indeed took them! think this is very good news and shows the mm's are in serious need for shares as no shares have been bought above .029 today. am i correct in my assumptions here? thanks for your analysis...
TRGD .44- .48 !
not much of a response to the news- what gives?
could sure use somethin. wish i had more powder.
pegbo- have or will you ask if you can publish the information you've received? think it could benefit many here-thanks
XKEM reversing- nigerian drug launch expected this week
you guys should make a "let's take this outside" board.LOL
what are FRN's?
what is the story w dennis's shares?
propaganda disinformation! not true
from www.juancole.com
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Another Fraud on Iran: No Legislation on Dress of Religious Minorities
Maurice Motamed, the representative of the Iranian Jewish community in Iran's parliament, has strongly denied the rumors started by Canada's National Post that the Iranian legislature has passed a law requiring members of religious communities to wear identifying badges.
The report was also denied on Montreal radio by Meir Javedanfar, Middle East Analyst and the Director for the Middle East Economic and Political Analysis Company.
The National Post was founded by Conrad Black and has been owned by CanWest since 2003,* is not a repository of expertise about Iran. It is typical of black psychological operations campaigns that they begin with a plant in an out of the way* newspaper that is then picked up by the mainstream press. Once the Jerusalem Post picks it up, then reporters can source it there, even though the Post has done no original reporting and has just depended on the National Post article, which is extremely vague in its own sourcing (to "human rights groups").
The actual legislation passed by the Iranian parliament regulates women's fashion, and urges the establishment of a national fashion house that would make Islamically appropriate clothing. There is a vogue for "Islamic chic" among many middle class Iranian women that involves, for instance, wearing expensive boots that cover the legs and so, it is argued, are permitted under Iranian law. The scruffy, puritanical Ahmadinejad and his backers among the hardliners in parliament are waging a new and probably doomed struggle against the young Iranian fashionistas. (The Khomeinists give the phrase "fashion police" a whole new meaning).
There is nothing in this legislation that prescribes a dress code or badges for Iranian religious minorities, and Maurice Motamed was present during its drafting and says nothing like that was even discussed.
The whole thing is a steaming crock.
In fact, Iranian Jewish expatriates themselves have come out against a bombing campaign by the US or Israel against Iran. There are still tens of thousands of Jews in Iran, and expatriate Iranian Jews most often identify as Iranians and express Iranian patriotism. I was in Los Angeles when tens of thousands of Iranians immigrated, fleeing the Khomeini regime. I still remember Jewish Iranian families who suffered a year or two in what they thought of as the sterile social atmosphere of LA, and who shrugged and moved right back to Iran, where they said they felt more comfortable.
This affair is similar to the attribution to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the statement that "Israel must be wiped off the map." No such idiom exists in Persian, and Ahmadinejad actually just quoted an old speech of Khomeini in which he said "The occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time." Of course Ahamdinejad does wish Israel would disappear, but he is not commander of the armed forces and could not attack it even if he wanted to, which he denies.
I had a very disturbing short email correspondence with a reporter of a major national newspaper who used the inaccurate "wiped off the face of the map" quote. When challenged, he said it was "carried by the news wires and is well known" or words to that effect. I pointed out that the "quote" was attributed to a specific speech and that the statement was inaccurately translated. When challenged further he alleged that his trusted translator in Tehran affirmed that Ahmadinejad had said the phrase. When that was challenged, he reported that the translator said that anyway he had said something like it. When I pointed out that the translator was either lying or lazy, the reporter took offense that I had insulted a trusted colleague! I conclude that this reporter is attached to the phrase. He complained about being challenged by "bloggers" and said he was tempted to stop reading "blogs."
So this is how we got mire in the Iraq morass. Gullible and frankly lazy and very possibly highly biased reporters on the staffs of the newspapers in Washington DC and New York. And they criticize bloggers.
On how Iran is not actually any sort of military threat to Israel, see the op-ed at the Star Ledger by Thomas Lippman and myself. Lippman is a veteran Washington Post correspondent who covered the Iraq War.
Note: I had corrected the para in our op-ed that referred to the "wiped off the map quote" but somehow an earlier draft got sent out accidentally. Since the article instances it as an unlikely hypothetical, no harm done, I think.
Antonia Zerbisias has more on the Benador connections of this story. Same agency as got up the Iraq War.
already happening- the iranian oil bourse opening trading in euros- the russian oil bourse soon to open trading in ruples- chavez threatening to trade oil in euros- the hidden m3 #s re: non stop printing of $s. we're in deep serious troubs people. glad we're all in AURC! (but even that will want to cash out of paper gold and exchange for bullion eventually)
picked up TRGD .36
seems like a bargain and that gold and silver went through
but will close above their 50 day moving average (please!)
thanks. crucial place to turn around right now
or look out below