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Only if you are mentally imbalanced, or are happy to flip/ trade miniscule numbers of shares for miniscule amounts of profit.
All true.
Same read from me.
Probably be hearing from shark lawyers soon would guess. But not many svraps for them either
Well Merth,
I applaud your optimism, as its virtually the ONLY optimism that Ive seen in the Bork patch. I wish I could add, but alas the great Bork powers that be only Tweet to the Commander in Chief these days, not to us lowly shareholder peons.
Even the Milk has dried up
Good for you, we all gotta hang onto something, and for gosh sakes 100 shares traded today.
Not sure there is a rational , reasonable answer......keep in mind that this ENTIRE Bourque organization , its "affiliates", former employees and many of its investors (include me in the group) are irrational, unreasonable and misunderstood individuals, so weird , unexplainable $3 or $30 trades might just be a reflection of the degenerative condition of the remaining shareholders
Other possibilities...
-"test" purchases by novice investors dipping their toes into the Bourque cess pool
-remnant piddlin shares ,long forgotten, now being sold off in the recognition that this thing is over
-John Bourque, fumbling with drunken fingers on his ETrade phone screen at 3 am ,"whoops, crap bought another 12 shares!"
Who knows. Curious though that BORK User Tommy sees an open .0025 trade for a whopping million share trade sitting there....hadnt noticed. Guessing someone forgot and left that as a "good til cancelled" , but again who knows.
Trying to apply logic and reason here is akin to understanding the unattainability of world peace....forget about it, never gonna happen
A 3.7 million share volume day , and stock cratering 71% to 1/11th of a cent.
Not exactly awe inspiring
Interesting "stress test" for BORK stock today.
3.2 million shares traded , (relatively huge volume ), and stock drops 50%
Not exactly a confidence builder, eh?
Schwab
It's well known that Switzerland's (and many other developed countries') power grid infrastructure is old, outdated and in need of massive re-build
Also well known is that existing power transmission lines create a significant amount of resistance, which creates heat and loss of power transmission ability (decreased transmission efficiency)
Replacing current outdated transmission lines in Switzerland (and elsewhere) would make no sense when a much better alternative is available.
The trick, and from what I'm hearing, it might have been solved, is to weigh the cost of the current amount of transmission inefficiency , against the higher cost of the newer electrical transmission materials that reduce the inefficiency.
Switzerland has a progressive, wealthy, forward thinking government.
Follow the breadcrumbs ......
At least awhile back it was......of course Ive been wrong to listen to anyone almost 100% of the time the last 2 years, so ....
My info channel indicates that wire / electrical seems to be the likely area of current inroads by JB and crew and that the Switzerland trip was related to that use of Kryron.
Is anyone else at liberty to add to or confirm/ deny that ?
Any additional insights appreciated.
Thinking of averaging down at these levels.
I too am hearing positive rumblings, and someone I know snd trust has asked me "give this a chance" before resuming calling JBs multiple bluffs.....hmmm
Noguts, comeonnowu, gmlk and others appear to be seeing something also . Stock is up 66% on slightly greater than abyssmal volume.
Ok, Ill wait some more JB but I sure feel like we are being suckered for the umpteenth time .
Why not just provide some of these positive developments publicly so that you can finance the sales youre insinuating are right around the corner?
Too logical?
Good to hear comeonnow, but until we receive specific , verifiable info from trusted sources (not from tweets or rumors) its tough to even allow a sliver of hope to shine .
I appreciate your post tho, just wish someone, anyone could find something that could be verified about BI prospects
Somebody wake John up....and remind him only 3 hrs and 36 minutes left in 2017...we wouldnt want him breaking any promises, eh
Theyve had dozens of opportunities Mike and blown every one, some spectacularly.
In my almost 6 decades on this earth, and 45 plus years as an investor Ive never seen a management team as awful as the one at Bourque Industries . This is not sour grapes, I take 100% of the responsibility for my investment......I should have seen all the signs of the idiocy behind the scenes, way before I finally did.
None of that could have prepared me for just how truly pitiful BI and its management is , and their innate ability to squander multitudes of business opportunities.
True foot shooters in every sense. In fact JBs feet are the only target that he and his "team" has ever hit on a regular consistent basis.
Happy New Year Suffering Bourque Shareholders.
I wish all of you a 2018 that is prosperous, healthy and devoid of people like those that "manage" Bourque Industries.
I see that we now have universal agreement, at least on this board, that BI and its founders and management are at best incompetent, and at worst .....well its all been said here before many times, no need to rehash.
Carry on Bork Ites, there are still honest, hard working, give a damn CEOs and managements out there, but unfortunately you wont ever find them at Bourque Industries.
Use the tough lessons learned here to ask the right questions before investing in any future company, and you may avoid the pitfalls of dealing with slimy managements.
Can almost guarantee you that JB's 12/31/17 "wonderful news", will be some kind of a re-hash of general , national US good news , rather than Bourque Industries good news.
He's now apparently so delusional , that he attributes ANY positive news as having an overall "glow" on himself and Bourque Industries per his random irrational Tweets of a few weeks ago.
Kinda like Al Gore taking credit for creating the Internet a few years back...
Well that makes it unanimous .
John Bourque has now officially alienated the very last ( i think) of his supporters, at least here on Ihub.
Happy New Year early John, dysfunctionally well played as always , kudos to you and the mgt team at BI.
The big tax "break" when we get when we write these shares off as worthless or sell them on 12/31/17 at .0001 I guess is John's gift to us all ( maximim $3000 per year until losses are wiped out against other gains or we die first waiting) .
Call it what you will, but if it looks like a turd, and acts like a turd, and smells like a turd, and most importantly, it has the same or less value than a turd........well you can figure it out......
Good post milk, and I appreciate the tidbit re Juan Mendoza. Had thought he was probably long gone.
Yep, the stuff I.post these days is from frustration with a dysfunctional CEO or CSO and non communicative, non transparent Bourque mgt. team.
Ive had other "clunker" investments, but mgt was aleays more upfront about providing updates and status, often even when the news was dire or lousy.
No.idea why JB is so /+(!?/@ paranoid, but at this point his plan is backfiring for all , most importsntly for him.personally.
It would be difficult to alienate this many people if you were TRYING actively to anger investors and shareholders and future customers. Never seen "mgt" of any company shoot themselves , so many tomes, in EACH of their feet.
He might have the $20 bucks it would take to buy todays trade volume of 2900 shares. ....
Damn, and I already bought the Sizzler Steakhouse gift card thinking he could make one sale brfore the end of 2017.
Maybe Ill save it for the ambitious Girl Scout who sells GS cookies like no tomorrow in front of the grocery store every March. That kid can SELL !
GLTA , but things look awful dark in Bourkville. Not even a thoughtless rumbling on Twitter. Almost will miss that, almost
......Except on Friday the stock dropped what...58.3% ?
On 250k shares traded.
If thats "resiliency", I wonder what the definition of resiliency is.
Another stellar week in Borkville, par for John's course.
#borksucks
Its pretty much a given Doug.
The John Bourque playbook, page 3 , paragraph, line 5
"when in doubt , just tell em 2 more weeks"
line 6
"when the 2 weeks doesnt happen , tell em 6 months"
line 7
"when line 6 fails, just tell em to wait til the end of the year"
line 8
"when the end of the year comes, tell em, definitely next year"
line 9
"repeat lines 5 thru 9 , sheep never remember anyway"
Heres a thought....
John is a competitive guy , maybe we challenge him to make one sale in the next 42 days. Doesn't have to be a big sale, because as we all know, John is also not an over-achiever.
So lets put it this way,
So, ok, John , try making a sale, any sale, just verifiable with a picture of the credit card payment slip. Minimum of $200 sale just to make sure its real, and preferably a Kryron product sold, not office supplies.
If you can meet this lofty challenge, I'll mail you Sizzler Steakhouse Gift Card for $75 , so that you can enjoy yet another free meal on a shareholder.
Whaddya say? And if I dont mail it to you , you can tell the world on Twitter what a jerk I am for not paying up.
Of course Ill have pictures of the envelope and card to prove I did.
Your move chief
Frankly, its tough to trust either party .
On the one hand you have an electric car manufacturer , with zero sales, dealership network or products currently available for sale....with a visionary ceo named Eric Mims convinced the world will eventually be filled with Mims cars. And maybe also solve 3rd world clean drinking water problems as a bonus. Great. Bring it on.
Total assets are a Facebook page and some concept drawings.
On the other side is John Bourque, and I dont think there's any need to rehash the last 6+ yrs of failure .
Total assets.....a Twitter page and likely unmarketable patents.
So which current failure of a ceo should you believe?
How about neither? Its a valid option.
In the immortal words of Tom Petty:
......You Believe Who You Wanna Believe.....:
Todays Twitter post from the Tweeter in Chief
"John M Bourque?
@Bourque1John
3h3 hours ago
@Punisher3299 you have only heard a one sided portion.
Mims could not continue,not Bourque!
There funding was held up while we were fully engaged.
We produced prototypes showing the Advantage our product brings to the market.
Only three people know what I’m doing"
So let' me try to understand this :
-Since John Bourque tells no one anything that is happening in our company, and has done nothing in 2016 or 2017 to either improve or correct the impression that nothing of substance has occurred , it's somehow unfair to post or communicate Mims "one sided" communication that they have ended ties with Bourque Industries?
Seriously , if that's your defense JB, you might want to take 10 minutes out of your schedule to review the results your plan of zero accountability to shareholders of the last 2 years has currently yielded.
Namely:
1) a stock price of 99.98% lower than at it's peak . $5.90 to less than .004 earlier this week.
2) daily stock volume levels which average between $200-300 a day in total share volume. This after 6= years of operations.
3) Social media and Ihub commentary that is showing nearly 100% dis-satisfaction with both your methods and results.
4) anemic or entirely missing required legal and financial disclosures and financial statements.
5) Continued failure to use simple direct, accurate, occasional communication to shareholders of the public corporation you have somehow been entrusted to manage and run. Nor any from your"staff" , whoever they are , or more likely "aren't"
6) Not even the slightest mention of a possibility of any significant business activity or sale in the last several years.
You have made 1 , measurable, significant accomplishment in the last year or so.
1) Set up a Twitter account and have slowly begun to Tweet often illegible, unprofessional communications, which have at least allowed the faithful to know that you're most likely still alive, and might even occasionally be doing something Bourque related.
Thank you for that, I think.
Go ahead and slam some more if you wish, but I only want the best for this company , and believe it or not, you as well. But I wont stand by and listen to you make excuses for your too many to mention avoidable failures or screw over any more unsuspecting people in the name of your selfish, self inflicted , messed up ego .
I have never seen anyone, in 59 years on this earth, continually screw something this bad up , even when all of the planets were aligned for them.
In spite of that, I think there's 2% of you somewhere who knows what's right, but simply can't do it most of the time.
A story from last year I need to relate in full to provide insight into John Bourque's character as a person and management at Bourque Industries
Forgive me to those Ive already relayed parts of this to, but I think its illustrative of what his true character represents.
And I'm hopeful to prevent anyone else from wasting time or resources with any "last ditch" efforts to shake $ from others that he'll undoubtedly make in the near future if all of the doom and gloom predicted come to pass.
In late winter of 2016 I was in contact directly with JB to buy a few plate / vests for 2 law enforcement family members. These were friendly conversations, and things were looking promising for BI finally.
He actually executed and delivered the vests as promised in May 2016 . All good. They're still being worn daily.
We had 2 or 3 phone conversations, and in one he related the work he was performing in getting Kryron's Electrical properties documented, and the tremendous costs of testing to certify / validate the metal.
I mentioned that I had a close family member, a director in one of the large midwestern power companies, an engineer with 30 + years in the industry , who might have ideas on how to get Kryron's electrical properties looked at professionally and objectively....and maybe at little or no cost .
I asked if he wanted me to make inquiries.
He said " yes, yes, yes. PLEASE do." ( my emphasis added)
I called her, she called her associates at her company and at EPRI , the world's leading Electrical Industry private research consortium , who does exactly what JB was looking for......objectively tests,, and evaluates the electrical properties of new, emerging materials and processes, and then either promotes or doesnt promote them based on their scientific findings. They dont charge for this...they're internationally funded by the world's power companies. Plenty of resources.
This is no fly by night organization. It is staffed by some of the leading minds in the electrical industry. They have money and resources to get new products moving 100x faster than an upstart individual or company could do on their own.
I called JB and asked if she should proceed with the work of getting an introduction to the director of EPRI (no small feat) and a possible coveted presentation slot at their upcoming fall 2016 semi annual event held in South Carolina. I told himit would not be easy, so to be thoughtful of his answer. I have no time to waste as I run my own business 6+ days a week. But I was there to help, if he wanted the help.
John Bourque said : "Oh my god, YES!" ( my emphasis added again)
A few days later , John called, frantic, but with a crazy / disjointed offer. He needed $50,000, wired immediately so that he could buy an electrical wire testing machine in order to get the testing done immediately in order to try and fulfill a possible contract. In exchange he'd give me 1% of the outstanding stock in Bourque Industries . Flabbergasted I said I call him back, and 10 minutes later called and declined citing some surprise at the strange , frantic sounding offer.
Over 2 months and dozens of emails and a couple phone calls , the presentation offer was formalized by an email to John and CJ from the director of EPRI , with nearly 4 months notice of the October 2016 presentation . Since I was involved in the setup I was cc'd in on all the emails. BI just needed to let them know they were coming. Simple
Despite 2 requests from EPRI asking for email or phone confirmation of receipt of the presentation offer directly to JB and CJ, no response was received, and I finally called them to find out why they hadn't responded. I also rec'd no response.
I finally texted CJ and in rather strong terms indicated my dissatisfaction with their lack of response to multiple requests for acknowledgement of a meeting and presentation that JB himself had requested. This was a pivotal moment for all....just show up, show your stuff, and hope for a good result. The cost of a plane ticket , room and food for a night for pete's sake.
The DAY BEFORE THE PRESENTATION / meeting CJ calls to say, she's sorry but JB wont be there, he just couldnt free himself from a new opportunity presenting itself in South America. A mining opportunity. JB couldnt make it, sorry, "have a nice weekend Mike" , " we appreciate your help" . This opportunity was also related on Ihub at the time as I recall, so thers were aware of it. Pretty sure I remember JB Tweeting plane pictures out the window at the time.
2 days later he called to tell me all about it. Gold and emeralds, rubies, and precious stones in South America, could be worth "billions with a b" , "real sorry about missing that meeting but you have to go for the bigger picture when it presents itself" Had lost his phone in the hotel swimming pool, hence the late calls. Lost all his phone contacts. Sorry again, talk to you soon "bub".
I have all the emails, and 2 other family members memories of all the above.
In October 2016 I lost ALL respect and confidence in John Bourque , CJ Condon , and any hope for any recovery in Bourque Industries.
My experience proved that there was either nothing behind any of JB's outlandish product claims of the last 6+ years , or that he was just hopelessly hooked on conning unsuspecting investors of enough money to keep going for 1 more week.
How many others received the "just in tie" calls looking for cash transfers in exchange for shares or pieces of BI. ?
He put me and others in a very bad position with his lack of character ethics and sh%$tty morals.
There are dozens more of these stories out there I'm sure.
My fault, but it wont happen again, as long as people read and understand what a lousy bunch of humanity "runs" Bourque Industries .
Let the mis-typed Tweets begin .......
Very true.
Ive never underestimated Rays compeyence or veracity.
Important thing is to let the obvious facts play out within the the realm of probability for new or existing shareholders.
GLTA
significant take aways from the 10K:
- CLNG, the company they reported selling 40,000,000 shares to at .15 ( $6,000,000) is now late on that payment , the payment has not occurred, but they are doing "due diligence" Hmm
- internal review and the log analysis conducted by eSeis, an independent geophysical and petrophysical consultant — , whas identified a section in the secondary objective, an upper Cenomanian channel (Cenomanian 03) located above the primary target formation that contained a five-meter interval with 17% porosity and 61% hydrocarbon saturation, which we believe is a petroleum discovery that implies the presence of commercially exploitable resources.
-On the basis of this discovery, on September 19, 2017, we applied to the government of Guinea for a two-year appraisal program. We are awaiting the decision of the Government of Guinea on our appraisal application. There can be no assurance that such application will be approved, or if it is, that it will be on terms acceptable to us. If the Government of Guinea does not approve our appraisal period application, the PSC will have terminated by its terms on September 21, 2017.
So , it's a 2 trick pony at this point.
If CLNG bails, and there's no funds, the Guinea appraisal decision is moot, there wont be any funds to do anything.
If CLNG is in, a slight murmur of a heartbeat and we're right back where we were 2 years ago with Ray looking for other investors to drill another well, and yada yada, we've all been here.
Story is not over, but does anyone even want to bother with the end?
Accurate post.
Except, there cant be a "Board of Directors" , at least a functioning one.
This is 2 people who occasionally show up in a $500 a month ( rent in arrears) office, who are on their final dregs of a 6+ year unsuccessful run at bringing what could have been a viable product to market .
Nothing more.
There's no board, or Juan, or Major Mathis or Sgt Pepper for that matter.
wow, do I sense a "shift"in sentiment?
clarity finally emerging?
welcome back from the dark side Luke.
I never in my wildest dreams saw you as being played by JB like he played me and my family and friends..... you were the smartest guy in the room back in 2011 and 2012 , but somehow swallowed the juice in 2016 and 2017
but I'm glad you're seeing reality here, (assuming you are)
No one else needs to get screwed by this guy, no one, no matter how starry eyed they are with the "prospects" of the magic metal.
There's only 2 options left.
1) Prove the metal with sales
2) Shut this ugly $#!*#$ down at ye 2017 and find JB and CJ jobs somewhere so they dont start another scam to rip more unsuspecting god people off.
Sorry,
But JB's comments disdain all shareholders, just not the "1 turd thrower" , which I'm assuming you mean to be me .
Maybe , we should re-define "turd throwing " , as "providing facts"
Just read the ridiculous , immature Tweets , pretty obvious, there's one and only one agenda, and it's all about JB.
The fact is, Bourque's current pps is .0031 , down 45.6a% today alone on one small trade of 22,775 shares with a total trade value $70.60
There's not a rational soul on the planet that can defend that fact about our management, company or it's prospects.
The key word in the above sentence is "rational"
Riiiiight.......
So an emoji or emojis of a bank, used by millions of 13 year old acne faced teenagers everyday across the world to communicate to each other, is a sure fire sign that Bourque Industries is now bankable.
Thank you , now that Ive been informed of my lack of knowledge of the current state of corporate communication to shareholders, Ill be sure to brush up on this, as Im sure other Fortune 500 companies will be using this communication format in their pr's.
Very reassuring , and consistent, clear high quality corporate communication for a CEO of a public company.
Once again , thank you Bourque Management, you guys provide a whole new insight into corporate governance.
It likely means BI is in full production mode of the only commodity it has successfully produced......misinformation and outright fabrications of truth.
Oh and the occasional cute emoji laden Tweet, JB seems to have mastered the production sequence for those as well.
No mis-spellings this time, excellent. Good job bubba.
As shareholders , we're all just so proud
thank you for a rare, accurate, and verifiable insight. (just saw a large trade go thru tanking the pps again,guessing its yours)
You win the Bourque Industries 1st Annual Clarity in posting award
Its made of Turdron and should be displayed prominently in the bottom of a drawer in your attic that never gets opened again, ever.
But wait! Mims said they have between 300,000 and 400,000 orders for new cars! See FB
That would mean HUGE new Bourque contracts wouldnt it?
Wasnt Kryon going to be the go to material to build those cars?
Stronger, lighter, game changing ...yada yada?
Say it aint so JB?
Please call Eric Mims and make up, he doesnt seem real happy with BI right now. ( add him to the other 121,000 people who also arent happy)
Love to hear them Merthy.
You're the last of 4 or 5 people left in the Bourque universe who I actually listen to.
We're at a half penny, zero news, not even poorly worded Tweets.
JB or anyone asking for more "patience"is like asking a deceased man who died of dehydrated if he'd "like a drink of water"......6 yrs of solidly zero results speaks for itself.
We're all pretty much dessicated investors in the Death Valley of John Bourque.
Maybe milk can whistle up a fancy gothic image of that to entertain us all?
Another unsubstantiated cryptic Tweet, which could be taken various ways.
Assuming it means that BI has any association with US "armed preparedness" is a giant leap of assumption at best , patently false at worst.
Would firmly suggest thst postings should be factual in nature , backed by firm data.
Or at least add "just my opinion" at the end of post.
The rest of 2017 and beyond should be a "no bs without substantiation" zone on here.
We deserve better than what we're getting .
Just my opinion
A concise, accurate and timely statement, and I agree Merthy
My opinion is that management of a public company, when using Tweets as a method to communicate should be mindful that their postings should be professional , informative and accurate for obvious reasons.
Maybe Im mistaken and its entirely acceptable to randomly use Twitter for whatever comes across one's mind without thinking or filtering before posting. But that hasnt been my experience with other public companies on Twitter , or their management.
Obviously frustration is felt by all here , but I can speak for only myself when I say if youre going to use Twitter as your sounding board, either post something substantive, or post nothing at all.
Sorry to bring up bad memories Mike, but JB calling folks like you and many others as lesser investors is irtitating at best, sophomoric at worst (sophomoric is a big word JB , maybe you could Google it).
Frankly , I wont sit by and just "take" his idiotic Tweets any longer. If milk or others want to be in JBs current class of 2 believers, then so be it.
I donTV even care if he sits on his arse for 3 more non productive years.
But if he continues to disrespect those who stood by him with all his failures , in deference to those who are his current crowd of willing funding sources, he will continue to hear from me and others who have a keen nose for his bs .
Frankly I just wish he"d do something new and refreshing......like tell the truth and maybe back it up by selling something. Seriously it might even be easier than making stuff up.
Your move Chief Tweeter
Be sure to copy and save every silly Tweet JB makes. Several Ive seen could be construed as "forward looking" statements.....especially those alluding to success by the end of 2017.
Might be very useful in the future, just in case 2017 passes by without results, like 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 did.
85 days left in 2017 to see if our Chief Tweeting Science Officer once again fails to perform
From one "bad apple" to another, welcome to the Bourque Rotten Apple Club mdb!
Wonder how many other unhappy Bourque apples there are out there?
Gosh, I would imagine maybe a few?
Maybe we should take a poll?