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here is an article discussing the price of GOLD in 2004
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Vaughn/dec292003.html
and a quote from the article:
At Gold Letter Alert our strategy is to review many different & new gold projects & properties. We realize this game is built around averaging & our desire is to cover many different gold companies that represent good speculative plays.
For all of 2003 GLA has reviewed around 40 different companies & our performance average for ALL of these companies taken together is 70% (as of 12-26-2003).
THMG started out 2003 at around a nickle and closed with a solid gain on the year of around 300% so it has done way better than the avgerage of 70% for the companies listed above
all things being equal i look for another year of solid gains in THMG and expect that it will close the year in the mid .30s minimum ... much higher on run if there is news of merger/acquisition/mining or a deal done on the sale of the land.
Lazarus
im expecting SPND to have a great quarter...
from the last filing: The average price received for gas in the 3rd quarter of 2003 was $4.95
in the 3rd quarter of 2003 they made .06 per share
im not sure what today's price on natural gas is but in december it was over 7 bucks!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2003-12-12-gas-spike_x.htm
here is a recent article indicating prices are now at about 6 bucks:
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jan/01062004/business/business.asp
and here is the full skinny: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp
having said that - i dont know that i would actually buy the stock at today's price - im just glad to be in on the cheap.
i bet you got some real good oil plays going for you - eh?
Lazarus
lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$4 lost on those piggies as well
lots of folks are often caught on the bus long after the ride is over.
as a general rule i shy away from those HUGE float piggies [its how i protect my downside]i have no interest whatsoever in IBZT. hope it goes to the moon for you.
be careful out there
Lazarus
believe it or not...
there are border stakes on all four corners of the property!
and my cell phone works!
i need one of my shells to ....
...become a nano tech company
or
start mining silver or gold.
i missed that dip :(
is she gonna be a ROCKET?
California -- the Golden State
got to show off one of my penny properties...
http://www.randymcatee.com/desert.htm
two 1.8 acre parcels side by side [3.6 acres] in the middle of nowhere for which i paid a whopping $2200.
my kids enjoy going out there to shoot and just dink around. the sunrise and sunsets are AWESOME. they would like it much more if i got all some dirt bikes :)
its so secluded my wife uses the porta-potty without and enclosure [when its just the 2 of out there]
i just love it out there.
hey -- and my cell phone works there !
Lazarus
hey shawn...
son #2 missed his train back to L.A. by one minute....
...on saturday nite so i decided to drive him down. we took the long way around [hwy 58 - which goes out to Mojave] so we could spend the day in the desert on one of my penny-properties.
visibility is about 45 miles - air is clean - and its so quiet out there you can hear your blood pumping. to give you an idea how secluded it is... my wife is willing to use the porta-potty without any tarps around it.
we are standing on my property - 3.6 acres - which cost me a whopping $2200.
http://www.randymcatee.com/desert.htm
Lazarus
son #2 is a computer science and engineering major at UCLA with one quarter left for his BS degree.
i believe that one of the best penny-gold plays right now is THMG which is consolidating here in the .17-.19 range. relative to other penny-golds its WAY underpriced.
level 2 shows lots of bidders @.15 and thin sell side.
if the price of gold holds i expect that this stock will close out the year in the mid .30s. if there is any news with respect to merger/acquisition mining activity or purchase of the property by the govt... it could go much higher.
less than 10 million OS.
more info here: http://www.thundermountaingold.com
Lazarus
i care.../em
a great post from chuuk333 take from the RB board...
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Everything at this level is a bet.
But due to overwhelming circumstances, this seems like less of one. The two big forces that will shape PPMD's destiny are
1.)The stem cell revolution in medicine.
We are just beginning it, and the potential is unlimited. How can you improve on the perfection of undiseased human genetic material? The number of articles in the medical journals concerning research in stem cells over the last 6 years has increased exponentially. There is a tsunami of interest and research into what damage stem cells can repair in the human body. Even this US administration is going to have to bow to the demands of stem cell researchers, or see the great ones leave, and Europe become the center of medical discoveries in this field.
What positives there have been in clinical medicine have been small so far, but every company or university doing the research needs to have the stem cell media transport and storage that is safest and most consistant. That means anyone and everyone doing the research can use PPMD's product. The storage depots, like blood banks, for stem cells, cord blood, etc. are going to insist on product uniformity and pathogen free storage materials. As to my knowledge, the FDA has never approved of a stem cell storage solution, which is why you can still find cow blood and DMSO (an industrial wood solvent) in solutions containing human genetic material. If tiny PPMD gets there first, we set the pace.
2.)The Madcow Threat
Which is why I originally invested in PPMD. It is clear from the English experience that everyone has underestimated the dangers of feeding infected animal byproducts back to vegetarian cows has been a great mistake. The learning curve in England from the appearance of BSE in cows in the mid-1980's to the appearance of nvCJD in humans in the mid-1990's was much longer than it had to be. In the United States now, even more embarassingly, you will now see much blame passed around, and statements concerning the safety of our beef made by spokespeople, that will lead to certain retractions and backpedaling in the future.
If you have been reading about the muledeer, elk, and whitetail deer problems with CWD (a different prion-like illness like BSE) spreading around the states, you know that bland reassurances and spot checking of meat is not going to be enough.
Serendipity lead me to PPMD in 1996 (Celox at that time), when I heard that this company specialized in sera-free media-meaning no cow blood. The attitudes, especially in government, but even in medicine and research, of sticking with the staus quo, and letting inertia determine your course, are undeniable. Remember the English government hack whose response to the initial nvCJD alarm in the 1990's was to shove his kid in front of the cameras while sticking a burger down the child's throat? You are going to see that in different forms here in the US.
It seemed like a no-brainer that any company that takes that risk of running into abnormal prions out of the equation, was going to do well, and that is what PPMD does.
Since now PPMD is in the center of these great biological battlegrounds, the great avoidable misfortune that is going to affect many industries and businesses with madcow, which could have been bypassed with more stringently devised and applied rules, should be a boon to our company, which had the foresight to travel this pathway.
There are only 4,000,000 shares, and much of it is held by long suffering PPMD fans. But this is our time to shine, and the company should take the ball and run.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=PPMD&read=930
Mad Cow and PPMD...
if the FDA were to say tomorrow that stem cell, umbilical cords, bone marrow and like can no longer be stored in a bovine-sera based media ...
..and think about it folks. you cant give blood if you have lived in England for an extended amount of time for fear of possible transmission BSE [CWD].
why in the world would we then consider it safe to store or transport precious biological material in cow-blood based media?
ANSWER ME THAT?
if the FDA put a stop to this tomorrow [and they should] PPMD would be a $5.00 stock OVERNITE.
PPMD's patented Viastem contains no bovine sera and no DMSO
Lazarus
Mad Cow USA: The Nightmare Begins
By John Stauber, AlterNet
December 30, 2003
When Sheldon Rampton and I wrote our 1997 book, "Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?", it received favorable reviews from some interesting publications such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, New Scientist, and Chemical & Engineering News. Yet although the book was released just before the infamous Texas trial of Oprah Winfrey and her guest Howard Lyman, for the alleged crime of "food disparagement," the book was ignored by the mainstream media, and even most left and alternative publications failed to review it.
Apparently many people who never read it at the time bought the official government and industry spin that mad cow disease was just some hysterical European food scare, not a deadly human and animal disease that could emerge in America. In March, 1996, when the British government reversed itself after ten years of denial and announced that young people were dying from the fatal dementia called variant CJD – mad cow disease in humans – the United States media dutifully echoed reassurances from government and livestock industry officials that all necessary precautions had been take long ago to guard against the disease.
Those who did read "Mad Cow USA" when it was published in November, 1997, however, realized that the United States assurances of safety were based on public relations and public deception, not science or adequate regulatory safeguards. We revealed that the United States Department of Agriculture knew more than a decade ago that to prevent mad cow disease in America would require a strict ban on "animal cannibalism," the feeding of rendered slaughterhouse waste from cattle to cattle as protein and fat supplements, but refused to support the ban because it would cost the meat industry money.
It was the livestock feed industry that led the effort in the early 1990s to lobby into law the Texas food disparagement act, and when an uppity Oprah hosted an April 1996, program featuring rancher-turned vegan activist Howard Lyman, she and her guest became the first people sued for the crime of sullying the good name of beef. Oprah eventually won her lawsuit, but it cost her years of legal battling and millions of dollars. In reality, the public lost, because mainstream media stopped covering the issue of mad cow disease. As one TV network producer told me at the time, his orders were to keep his network from being sued the way Oprah had been.
In the six years since the publication of "Mad Cow USA," Sheldon Rampton and I have spoken out in media interviews, at conferences of United States families who had lost relatives to CJD, and we saw our book published in both South Korea and Japan. Our activism won us some interesting enemies, such as Richard Berman, a Republican lobbyist who runs an industry-funded front group that calls itself The Center for Consumer Freedom. Berman is a darling of the tobacco, booze, biotech and food industries, and with their funding he issued an online report depicting us as the ring leaders of a dangerous conspiracy of vegetarian food terrorists out to destroy the United States food system. Last week alone he issued two national news releases attempting to smear us.
Of course, he had an easier time attacking us before the emergence of mad cow disease in America. I was saddened but not surprised when mad cow disease was finally discovered in the United States. When the first North American cow with the disease was found last May in Canada, I told interviewers that if the disease was in Canada, it would also be found in the United States and Mexico, since all three NAFTA nations are one big free trade zone and all three countries feed their cattle slaughterhouse waste in the form of blood, fat and rendered meat and bone meal. In fact, in North America calves are literally weaned on milk formula containing "raw spray dried cattle blood plasma," even though scientists have known for many years that blood can transmit mad cow type diseases.
(This is why if you try to donate your blood to the Red Cross, you will be rejected if you spent significant time in Britain during the height of its mad cow epidemic. Britain is afraid that humans with mad cow disease may have contaminated the British blood supply, and they do not use its own blood plasma since as yet no test can adequately screen blood for mad cow disease.)
The United States has spent millions of dollars on PR convincing Americans that mad cow could never happen here, and now the USDA is engaged in a crisis management plan that has federal and state officials, livestock industry flacks, scientists and other trusted experts assuring the public that this is no big deal. Their litany of falsehoods include statements that a "firewall" feed ban has been in place in the United States since 1997, that muscle meat is not infective, that no slaughterhouse waste is fed to cows, that the United States tests adequate numbers of cattle for mad cow disease, that quarantines and meat recalls are just an added measure of safety, that the risks of this mysterious killer are miniscule, that no one in the United States has ever died of any such disease, and on and on.
The latest spin is to blame the United States mad cow crisis on Canada. On Saturday, December 27, with no conclusive proof whatsoever, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that the mad cow in Washington state had actually entered the United States years ago from Canada. This set off an understandable howl from the Canadian government, and by Sunday the United States was forced to back off somewhat, but clearly the PR ploy is to get Americans thinking that this is Canada's problem, not ours.
Even if Canada does turn out to be the source of America's first case of mad cow disease, numerous questions remain: How many other infected cows have crossed our porous borders and been processed into human and animal food? Why are United States slaughterhouse regulations so lax that a visibly sick cow was sent into the human food chain weeks before tests came back with the mad cow findings? Where did the infected byproduct feed that this animal ate come from, and how many thousands of other animals have eaten similar feed?
Since the announcement of United States mad cow disease our phones have rung off the hook with interview requests. The New York Times noted that "The 1997 book 'Mad Cow USA', by Sheldon Rampton and John C. Stauber, made the case that the disease could enter the United States from Europe in contaminated feed." Articles in the New York Times also cited other warnings from Consumer Union's Michael Hansen, and Dr. Stanley Prusiner, the Nobel Prize-winning researcher who this week called the current United States practice of weaning calves on cattle blood protein "stupid." All of this would be very vindicating, except for one problem: the millions of dollars that the government and industry are spending on PR to pull the wool over the public's eyes might just succeed in forestalling the necessary steps that now, at this late date, must still be taken to adequately deal with this crisis.
The good news is that those steps are rather simple and understandable. We should ship Ann Veneman and her smartest advisors to Britain where they can copy the successful feed and testing regulations that have solved the mad cow problem in Europe. Veneman and her advisors should institute a complete and total ban on feeding any slaughterhouse waste to livestock. You may think this is already the case because that's what industry and government said they did back in the summer of 1997. But beside the cattle blood being legally fed back to cattle, billions of pounds of rendered fat, blood meal, meat and bone meal from pigs and poultry are rendered and fed to cattle, and cattle are rendered and fed to other food species, a perfect environment for spreading and amplifying mad cow disease and even for creating new strains of the disease.
The feed rules that the United States must adopt can be summarized this way: you might not be a vegetarian, but the animals you eat must be. The United States must also institute an immediate testing regime that will test millions of cattle, not the 20,000 tested out of 35 million slaughtered in the past year in the United States. Japan now tests all cattle before consumption, and disease experts like Dr. Prusiner recommend this goal for the United States. And of course, no sick "downer" cows, barely able to move, should be fed to any humans. These are the type of animals most likely to be infected with mad cow and other ailments – although mad cows can also seem completely healthy at the time of slaughter, which is why testing all animals must be the goal.
Ann Veneman and the Bush administration, unfortunately, currently have no plans to do the right thing. The United States meat industry still believes that the millions of dollars in campaign contributions doled out over the years will continue to forestall the necessary regulations, and that soothing PR assurances will convince the consuming public that this is just some vegetarian fear-mongering conspiracy concocted by the media to sell organic food. Will the American public buy this bull? It has in the past. Much depends on journalists and what they are willing to swallow. It looks to me as if papers such as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times are finally putting some good investigative reporting teams onto this issue, and that may undercut and expose PR ruses such as the "blame Canada campaign."
What I can predict is that the international boycott of United States beef, rendered byproducts, animals and animal products will continue, and this will apply a major economic hurt to meat producers big and small across the country. Will their anger turn against the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the Animal Feed Industry Association and other lobbies that have prevented the United States from doing the right thing in the past? Or will this become some sort of nationalistic food culture issue, with confused consumers and family farmers blaming everyone but the real culprits in industry and government?
We must continue to advocate for the United States to do the right thing: Follow the lead of the European Union nations, ban all "animal cannibalism," and test more or all animals. In the meantime, if you want safe American beef, search out products that are certified organic and guaranteed not to be fed slaughterhouse waste such as calf formula made from cattle blood. An excellent source of information on the web is the site of the Organic Consumers Association.
Our book, "Mad Cow USA," is temporarily unavailable until a paperback copy is released later in 2004. However, you can get the book in its entirety for free through the website of our Center for Media & Democracy. Simply go to www.prwatch.org and click on the cover of "Mad Cow USA." You'll be taken to www.prwatch.org/books/mcusa.pdf where you can download for free the entire book – and read the warnings that went unheeded then, and are still being ignored by government regulators and industry.
added 11700 more shares today:
thanks mms
1700 at .18
10000 at .20
Lazarus
picked up 11700 PPMD /em
and for whatever reason THMG ...
seems to be a laggard [at least for now]. i see so many other penny golds up higher that - at least from what i see - dont have nearly as good a stock structure or potential [or both].
i notice they are narrowing the spread. they have raised the bid 2 cents to attract sellers and lowered the ask a penny to attract buyers.
but there arent any BUYERS or SELLERS coming forward.
interesting
Lazarus
re:
this is the time to gather up nuts like furious sqirrels
that's IF YOU HAVE THE BALLS
Lazarus
i dont think they will hold THMG down here...
....for much longer.
Lazarus
started a position in IEHC...
little company with tiny OS of only 2.3 million shares.
the company has a book value of .39 and last quarter EPS was .027
could not resist picking up a few at .20
Lazarus
momo players and penny flippers...
...they love liquid shit.
Lazarus
What is the Meatrix? Learn the truth about....
.... where your food comes from.
http://www.themeatrix.com
i took a look at their filings and ...
there are a few things that raise the caution flags.
*** they have two former names... i didnt look to see if management actually ever changed... but it does mean that two former companies dwelt here.
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EMPIRE COMMUNICATIONS CORP
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19980327
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: LITIGATION ECONOMICS INC
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19961022
perhaps the third time will be a charm.
*** the balance sheet isnt strong with current assets of 1,869,863 exceeding current liabilities of 3,426,395. simply put the company owes nearly twice the amount of what it has on hand. Accrued expenses - [for employees is 680,088 .... are these payroll taxes?
*** the OS on the company went from 27 million at Sept of 2002 to 41 million at Sept of 2003. the company is selling convertible notes In April 2003, the holders of $500,000 aggregate principal amount of convertible
secured notes converted the remaining $250,000 of the outstanding principal
($250,000 of principal was converted into the unsecured convertible notes
described above) and 100% of the accrued interest into 6,785,715 shares of
Company Common Stock pursuant to the conversion terms of the convertible secured
notes.
*** another matter that warrants consideration is:
At September 30, 2003, accounts receivable from the largest customer was $53,000, or 8% of total trade
receivables. This customer is also a stockholder of the Company. The Company was a subcontractor for this customer/stockholder during 2002 and 2003, which
beneficially owned approximately 13.5% of the Company's outstanding common stock as of November 13, 2003. In addition, accounts receivable from two other customers aggregated 21% and 11% of accounts receivable at September 30, 2003. For the nine months ended September 30, 2002, revenues from one customer exceeded 10% of total revenue, aggregating 41% of total revenue.
perhaps you can give a summation of the company's business model and tell us why you like the company.
Lazarus
a rebuttal to my post on RB from another shareholder....
Frustration Abounds
But the compelling facts still remain.
PPMD has a patented non-bovine sera transport and storage media for stem cells/bone marrow.
The government has never approved a transport and storage media for stem cells or bone marrow. So you can really use just about anything.
Viastem has no animal proteins, and no DMSO, the industrial wood solvent that is used in current storage solutions.
Both the government and PPMD had better get off their backsides and get products approved so that animal proteins are not used in human biologic preparations when possible.
I think the company is honest, I have talked with them often, and I am upset with the time-frame of things happening, or more accurately, not happening. I think they are trying to get the final process of FDA approval going, but have been hamstrung by forces outside of their control. I think this will change, and they will be more proactive. If you think that this is bad, wait and see if what has happened in England/Scotland happens here.
When you deal with a lumbering behemoth like the government or the multiple industries that use cow products, wait until they try to backtrack and put the genie back in the bottle.
Try to find different companies that have solutions for these problems. Unfortunately the first 600 posts that were on this thread were erased by LYCOS, so I can't refer you to them, but there are companies that have recognized the dangers and are doing things to prevent problems (see PALL). Hopefully, PPMD will be seen as one of those corporations, and the government will realize that this area of biology/medicine needs to be on the front burner.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=PPMD&read=849
lots of news on madcow and LOTS of stocks...
moving one way or another on the news... but not this little pig.
i think that management's brains are a prion short of BSE !
Lazarus
any californians feel that shaker?
all the sizzle...
none of the beef.
speaking of which... DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH?
http://www.themeatrix.com
Lazarus
not bad.. volume is very low...
looks like others picking up a few to tuck away.
LMIT to LUML
no -- that's called SAFE SEX
news out on PRVB
have a range .0025 to 2.00 I always have something in cooker
i was buying a lot of penny stocks over the last couple of years when the market was deflated...and many of the penny players were hibernating... so i pretty much always have something in the cooker myself.
i had over 700k of CPVD on the cheap which i have trimmed down to only 40k... mostly selling to the BUY HIGH crowd ;)
making bank has been pretty much effortless.
Lazarus
somebody was smart enuf to pick up that 40k of CJCL at .01
i was going to buy it myself but i just added some last week at .009 and .01. i will consider adding more if there is anymore end of the year selling.
whoever the buyer is -- if he/she is patient they should have no wunkin furries.
Lazarus
watch your downside...the upside will take care of itself
there are much better shell buys out there...
CJCL is on the pinks but is reporting and the ask is only a penny [right now at least]
there are only 15 million OS with a clean balance sheet.
if they move to the OTC like SIBM did recently methinks you will have a home run
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CJCL financials:
2002 2001
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<S> <C> <C>
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS:
Accounts receivable $ 1 $ 1
Loan receivable, officer 17 33
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$ 18 $ 34
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY DEFICIENCY
CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Accounts payable $ 81 $ 82
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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY DEFICIENCY
Common stock, $.001 par value; 100,000,000
shares authorized and 15,625,270 shares
issued and outstanding. 16 16
Additional paid-in capital 11,046 11,046
Accumulated deficit (11,125) (11,110)
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TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY DEFICIENCY (63) (48)
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$ 18 $ 34
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really?
i think the market looks anemic... particularly the pennies.
i laff when i peruse the boards and see all the hype. volume is [and has been] pathetic. i feel more of a sense of desperation on the part of penny players: desperation to try and get something - ANYTHING to move... for ANY reason whatsoever.
now, perhaps if i didnt have other fish to fry... and i drank a full pot of coffee... i might just feel like you ;)
Lazarus
RGEQ shareholders getting screwed /em
market looks anemic again today...
...good time to fry other fish.
or christmas shop:)
Lazarus
REDI - another day with volume...
i think the penny pumpers are gonna run it
Lazarus