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Also... C has NOT been given permission to increase its dividend further or do a buyback. It's not up to anyone at C (Pandit, BOD, etc.), the Fed is in control (i.e., the Fed denied BAC's dividend increase). Thus, Pandit's hands are tied for the foreseeable future.
I flatly disagree.
The fact is that some very deep pocket stopped the shorts at $41, and it most likely was/is the Citi itself, for Pandit could not allow the crash similar to that of AIG. In July 2009, he firmly said that this will not happen to Citi: "we will have different circumstances."
Every time the rabid and naked shorts were approaching $41, they were repulsed by a counter buy. The City does have funds for this, and while its buyback is absolutely inevitable, why not to do it now at such a low pps!
Do anyone see in this picture a buyback?
It looks that the rabid naked shorts are locked in a little cell with a concrete floor, $41 pps.
A reduction of the ridiculous 29 B os was absolute necessity… and try to recall how cautious the C management was with the pulling out rs. They were waiting for "turning the corner" and for a sustainable profitability. Would they be able to wait till 2012, the rs outcome could be really very different. And they did try to wait, but the shareholders sentiment was strongly against second continuance of the authorization. So, it was "now or never" situation, and C management had to act prior to the expiration of the operative authorization. So, the shareholders were stupid, not management.
SUIT FILED
I got already 17,100,000. Will try to get 3-5 M more.
Meanwhile, almost all my money is in a finacial stock that no way would double in one year... A solid, "too big to fall" colossus, with a super-enormous OS and a great chance of a reverse split.....
I understand that the SGC especial concern and problem in kiri cultivation is kiri's adaptability to the environment. If so, the growing from seeds is obviously more hopeful than the cloning from an adult tree already adapted to certain conditions.
RE KIRI TREES
At a risk of incurring another Cork's wrath, I want to comment about the Sierra Gold's lack of luck with the kiri trees. I have no experience with these trees at all, but I am a biologist, and a friend of mine had turned to be well acquainted with Chris Sanders and Brittany Turner, American kiri trees revolutionaries.. He was kind of stunned and lost, when I mentioned him about the Sierra Gold's bad luck with growing these trees in a big scale and from some cuttings obtained from Australia. "Oh no.. 'Cuttings'??? Why?" he said incredulously.
To make it short, he stated categorically that, under the circumstances, the only right way to plant them in a large scale and get really strong and healthy trees is from the seeds. The kiri seeds, he said, are very-very cheap as they are tiny. Their sprouts are tiny too, but they grow fast and into very healthy plants. For the sprouting, a biodegradable, glass size, thin bottomless tubes made by a rolling of sheets of paper fastened by thin wood splits may be used. They should be filled with a good soil mixed with a lot of organic decaying debris, like lives. When the sprouts grow 4-5 inches, these tubes should be carefully, without disturbing the roots, transferred into the ground. In the ground, the roots would grow right through the paper.
Unlike "cuttings", the seeds are specifically made to endure extreme hardships.
On the other hand, the FDA action should be most appreciated, as it provides some encouragement to the bio-medical research. It is this research, not "obamacare", is needed for the radical improvement of the "healthcare." "Obamacare" serves only to the medical and insurance establishments, and not to the quality of the "healthcare" at all.
People do not realize what this research means to the mankind and how awfully it is under-subsidized. Not only under-subsidized, but outright neglected and even oppressed.
A tiny part of those wholly wasted hundred billions $$ would stunningly revolutionize it, but no, the politicians just do not care. Something to seriously think about....
Yeah,"MAY"! This is about their "BELIEVES", about what their fantasy "PLATFORM" might allow them to achieve if & if -- not about what they are already able to achieve. They had omitted all the due ifs in their statement, which is nothing but a game, a chicanery, a verbal swindle. It virtuosily suggests that ACTC has such "ABILITY", while meaning, in the context, that they only "BELIEVE" and hope to achieve it.
As of this time, such cures, that they are talking about, do not exist. They had never been performed successfully on any mammals, and even with cord blood stem cells of identical "genetic make-up".
Had the ACT dream "platform" allowed such a fit, it would be done, to the whole world astonishment, in countries with less stringent regulations.
INVEST OR NOT TO INVEST??... Is this about a scientific miracle, a medical revolution or another flap???
The ability to produce embryonic stem cells that are immunologically compatible with the patient is one of the strengths of our embryonic stem cell technology platform.[emphasis added]
WE BELIEVE our technology platform WILL enable the transformation of a patient’s cells into an embryonic state where those cells can be differentiated into specific therapeutically relevant cell types that are genetically identical to the patient. WE BELIEVE our technology may also enable the production of stem cell lines, from sources external to the patient, that have a sufficiently high level of histocompatibility to be useful in making cell therapies readily accessible to a large segment of the patient population, without the need for exact genetic matching of tissues.[emphasis added]
NXT Nutritionals is a START-UP, a publicly supported fledgling
whose means of development had been stolen in a bear raid, set by infamous Tim Sykes, notorious internet bear raid criminal. . . . .
see
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_N/threadview?m=tm&bn=78591&tid=1956&mid=1956&tof=1&frt=1
SUSTA vs. THE SILENT KILLER, glucose
The Life Extention Foundation [www.lef.org], is the world most prestigious and authoritative public health organization. In its January 2011 journal, it came forth with a scathing editorial, GLUCOSE: THE SILENT KILLER.
Inter alia:
"The deadly effects of even slightly elevated glucose are fatally misunderstood.
"One reason for this calamity is physicians who continue to rely on obsolete blood glucose ranges. These doctors fail to recognize that any excess glucose creates lethal metabolic pathologies that are underlying factors behind multiple age-related diseases.
"People today thus suffer and die from diabetes-like complications without knowing their blood sugar (glucose) levels are too high!
"Life Extension long ago argued that most aging people have elevated blood glucose. Our controversial position has been vindicated as mainstream medicine consistently lowers the upper-level threshold of acceptable (safe) fasting blood glucose.
"As new evidence accumulates, it has become abundantly clear that maturing individuals need to take aggressive actions to ensure their fasting and after-meal glucose levels are kept in safe ranges." . . . . . .
"Excess glucose not used for energy production converts to triglycerides that are either stored as unwanted body fat or accumulate in the blood where they contribute to the formation of atherosclerotic plague." . . . . . .
"As an aging human, you face a daily onslaught of excess glucose. . . . Surplus glucose relentlessly reacts with your body's proteins, causing damaging glycation reactions while fueling the fires of Chronic inflammation and inciting the production of destructive free radicals."
". . . fasting blood glucose values in the upper normal range appears to be an important independent predictor of cardiovascular death in nondiabetic apparently healthy middle-aged men."
Diabetes and vascular and heart disorders are manifestations of the same disease. "Early control of blood glucose is essential to prevention and control of coronary hearth disease.""….
"Recent studies indicate that keeping fasting glucose levelsin the range of 70-85 mg/dL and not allowing after meal glucose levels to spike higher than 40 mg/dL over your fasting value, favorably influences our longevity genes.
"One can slash their risk of age related diseases and possibly slow their rate of aging by tightly controlling blood glucose levels." … "Don't be a victim of physicians Ignorance."
"We at Life Extension hear from members who say their doctor is not concerned that their fasting glucose level is a little over 100 mg/dL. The reason physicians don't panic about this kind of high reading is that they are so used to seeing it in older individuals." … "…glucose reading over 85 mg/dL place aging humans at sharply elevated risks for cardiovascular disease. You don't have to become a victim of physician apathy and ignorance." Etc..
BTW, the members of Life Extension Foundation obtain their blood tests at ultra-low prices and without any medical bloodsuckers "care"…. www.lef.org
THE JABBERS ARE "VERSED", BUT THEY LEARN TO LATE...
I am well versed in the law
Under circumstances, a malicious public reiteration of ANY libelous, harmful statements makes you wholly responsible for the damages. Get better educated.
ONE IS SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PROSECUTION
FOR SUCH LIBEL. Mind it. You are warned.
ALTO has P&D guys at the helm as well as behind the scenes. The stock will have serious issues when they try to explain to the authorities how they intended to finance all the deals that they issued through their PRs. ALTO is the classic case of put it in writing and buyers will jump in. These guys are going to have a tough time making ALTO a success because their backers are also P&D guys. The P&D crowd is high maintenance and sellers will always be there on ALTO as long as the P&D guys keep printing paper.
You simply need a better education... and perhaps a dictionary.
I need a decoder ring to decipher that post.
ALTO OVER-DILUTION IS A SHEER NONSENSE.
And it is NOT an ALTO purported dilution gaming, or any its other purported trickery, causing its stock's unseemly conduct. In this regard (as in many others), ALTO is in much better shape than most, if not all, other mining start-ups.
But this my point is against the "party line" here, it seems.
All my posts trying to address it were "moderated" one after another, while the local guru's branding them as "total nonsense" was not. I expect this post to be "moderated" too. Fine.
I am preparing to make an issue out of this outrage and am saving all my posts.
What makes you said so? Just guessing?
I am not convinced, but I see strong indications that (whatever the ALTO's role in this) this drop is orchestrated by MM, which means the stock could be led very low, to the level of the cheapest possible re-buy and short cover. And it could be kept there for a while for extending the share's accumulation. That is what all the bashing is for.
The beginnin of the current fall had coincided with intensifying of bashing at Yahoo ALTO board. New bashers appeared also. This usually bespeaks of MMs bear raids.
I just placed, for a test, 600sh buy at .02 BID -- and it was filled IMMEDIATELY. This suggests that we are not at the turning point. I expect some further fall.
Quick, quick! Add a couple dozens more exclamation marks!
THE FOREMOST LAW OF INVESTING IN PENNIES
Under the investing laws, any unfledged start-up and any matured, fully functional colossus are the same.
Investing in the start-ups, we are investing in visions. But, wholly lawfully and routinely, as a matter of course, the mob robs equally the fledglings and ourselves: us of our investment, our money -- the fledglings of the means of their growth and development…. under excuses that they are helpless and unprofitable and worthless; have never produced even a single penny and are ridiculous in their immaturity …. and that this is, in a word, what all the helpless "suckers" are for: "to steal candies from them".
For the sake of their lives, aptitudes and visions, the fledglings are forced to survive and develop unconventionally, on meager resources --- and this is used also against them in robbing and devouring them up. Their deaths are the very ultimate crooks' gain here --- and wholly lawful. Such are the law, the politicians, our "system" --- the law that is forged by and for the most indecent and corrupt part of the society in which the simple, decent, trusting and honest people are despicable manipulated slaves and "suckers".
Only the reaching of a sustainable profitability -- upon prevailing against all the hell of odds and injustice -- secures the normal start-up's function. But before that, any upheavals in it would be manipulated, "shorted," devoured – inevitably and wholly lawfully -- in the manner of a devouring of a sprout in a pest infested and dominated garden with the rules like those of the mob infested SEC.
Such is the law, the first and foremost law of the investing…. or the SEC pest infesting…. the same.
Say, aren't you envious of the inordinate penny shorting proficiency of the I-like-the-pennies-wonderboy, Tim Sykes?
Want to know its secrets? Nothing unusual, and easy to learn: a simple outgrowth of the common unscrupulousness/immorality, legitimized crime, perverted law, the hellish rottenness of the legal-political establishment --- all designed by and for the predators of the lowest life crooks. Feel qualified?
Something is though also written on the wall relating to all this …
Bravo,Rocketstocks! I appreciate your and your codla's unique perfidy, for I really goofed.. a big way... Goofed in expectations. Was accumulating and expecting the stock to let me complete my 5 M goal, but it did not wait and got a litle too high, leaving me with only 2M 70K shares, way below my desire.
So, more power to you and your codla in knocking this thing down!
2,070,000
At these chatting boards, we are to chat.
At our worst, we dream and fantasize. At our best, we discuss and express our opinions and desires.... that normally are mere exercises in futility.
But the SGCP founder is supposedly earns the shareholders' comments and feedback and my post had offered some, but not even to him – just as a mere wind-bagging in the course of getting idea about the situation... which was clearly stated.
I was confused and was seeking some clarification. You agreed that the pictures should be more descriptive. I responded that the #1-10 photos had answered my curiosity and that the river size looks ok for barges and sizes, and that it looks that under the circumstances the dredge mounting is probably ok also – for a while. Just chatting, what was wrong with this??
As for the collection of the concentrate by bare hand palms --- my elderly neighbor-investor was so stunned by this picture, that he did not want even to look any further and to talk about SGCP anymore…. Many-many others may react in the same way. This is about the mere norm and quality of work contributing to productivity and saving the time and cost, something that must be pursued always under any circumstances, and something what CEO would/should most appreciate to hear about, I guess. But anyway, good luck.
<<I don't know that the river or dredge is big enough to justify a barge.>>
CORK, this is a good point. Under circumstances, their pontoon-mounted dredges (see 1-10 photos) are probably ok.. For a while.
It looks some of their rivers are big enough for the barges, which could be of any size. Most important is that their lousy and loosly assembled pontoon-mounted dredges simply cannot be used during high water seasons. But barges could be.
So it could be nice to have both the barges and these things, that they have now, for shallow tributaries, etc.
It should be coldly looked upon and realized that the whole their business has to be improved.
Thanks, crusader.
I had already seen the #60 photo, and this is what confused me. It shows just a mere testing of the dredge power unit on the ground, on the riverside, BEFORE mounting it on pontoons.
The photos I missed are 1-10, shoving the dredge being already mounted on pontoons. So, SGCP dredges are PONTOON-mounted dredges. This is ok for Africa, I guess, but is not very impressing.
http://www.sierragoldcorp.com/photos.php?pageNum_Recordset1=0&image=a094.jpg
I saw the Russian gold dredging in Siberia. The water there is very cold (like in Alaska I guess), and they have to use dredge-barges with everything wholly assembled in one machine.
Also, one picture shows a collection of a concentrate.... just by palms of hands... For heaven's sake.. why not with a spatula in a civilized manner! Such things surely make a very negative impression and may turn many investors off.
<<We got one dredge in the water now>>
Hi, the cork and everybody!
Could you please kindly comment on this:
All the SGCP pictures are surely imressive... A very cozy, relaxing environment! But I wish they would also show the actual work of the dredges. Are these dredges mounted on floats, or barges, or just the riverside, or what?
Thanks.
Thanks the cork and philtila.
Very reassuring. And -- which is even more important -- the management is looking as great.
Will try to get 10-15 M shares more.
Folks, is there any reverse split concern here? Or an expectation of a buyback?
I believe the SGCP issued and outstanding shares of common stock are about 2 B. Is this true?
<<nice 5 million hit at 28>>
This is my initial buy... Now I have to get some analysts to knock
the stock down for my next buys...
Scammy lampoonists of Tim Sykes style
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_N/threadview?m=tm&bn=78591&tid=814&mid=814&tof=1&frt=1
Must read
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_N/threadview?m=tm&bn=78591&tid=774&mid=774&tof=1&frt=1
Melisa Ford herself should be investigated
and Krypton's post: Is it just a feud?
A.G.
"Fructose wins the race when it comes to blood glucose levels, as it’s sent to the liver after consumption and has minimal impacts on insulin and blood sugar levels. This makes it a better option if you want to avoid the highs and lows typically associated with foods that contain pure glucose." http://www.askmen.com/sports/foodcourt_2...
"When fructose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the glycemic index registers as healthier, since this simple sugar is slowly absorbed in the gut, then converted to glucose in the liver. This makes for "time-release foods," which offer a more gradual rise and fall in blood-glucose levels. If glucose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the glycemic index will be higher and less healthy for the individual. As the brick wall is torn apart in digestion, the glucose is pumped across the intestinal wall directly into the bloodstream, rapidly raising blood-glucose levels. In other words, there is a "window of efficacy" for glucose in the blood: levels too low make one feel lethargic and can create clinical hypoglycemia; levels too high start creating the rippling effect of diabetic health problems."
"Intake of glucose or fructose during the time of conception did not affect NTD risk but intake of sucrose and foods with higher glycemic index values doubled the risk of having a baby with NTD, they reported." http://vitacorp.icthus.net/articles/fruc...
A.G.
76 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health
”In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications":
http://www.mercola.com/article/sugar/dangers_of_sugar.htm
Note the assault of the bear raid scam artists, Tim Sykes, "Street Sweepers" & Co, on NXTH – was actually on the company's executives only and was only of a character assassination and of a mudslinging nature. But they had not addressed the product at all. It did not matter to them. They were only to undermine and destruct for profit the emerging business. It is only their friends-followers made then their idiotic, cockroaches' comments on the susta. And recall: "Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell who you are." http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_N/threadview?m=tm&bn=78591&tid=679&mid=679&tof=14&frt=2
Sugar and Hair Loss
"Normally, once your blood sugar is under control, you can expect your hair growth to return to normal."
http://www.samsonssecret.com/blog/tag/blood-sugar/