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Richard's Pipit. Picture by J.M.Garg.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
A rare winter visitor has been spotted in Great Yarmouth, to the surprise of Norfolk birdwatchers.
A Richard's Pipit, classed as a 'scarce visitor' in the UK, has been seen at North Denes beach this afternoon (Tuesday).
The grassland bird, recognised by its characteristic "shreep" call as well as long yellow-brown legs, long tail and upright stance, is seen on British coasts during autumn but rarely in winter. The breed usually winters on the Indian subcontinent and South-east Asia.
The last Norfolk sighting was at the Winterton-on-Sea dunes in November.
A spokesman for Birdline East Anglia, a service which keeps bird watchers updated on recent sightings, said the Richard's Pipit was a scare autumn migrant and rare winter visitor in western Europe, but there is coincidently another currently at Kelling on the north Norfolk coast.
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Well said Frank.. no doubt your comment will be removed, all the ones that state the truth normally are!!
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Happy new year frank like it
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There are rarer birds in Gt. Yarmouth - in particular , slim , well dressed , sober English ones.Even rarer are those without tattoos or bingo wings.
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5 April 2009 – Vitaly Petrov has taken victory for Campos in the second of this weekend's races, by crossing the line comfortably ahead of Pastor Maldonado and Davide Valsecchi, with yesterday's winner Diego Nunes coming up to fourth from eighth at the start.
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Prevalence areas for fatal sheep disease OJD will be downgraded in Victoria, Western Australia and some parts of New South Wales from 1 January 2011.
Dr Rob Rahaley, South Australian Chief Veterinary Officer, urges all sheep producers to familiarise themselves with the new movement requirements, under the national Ovine Johne's Disease (OJD) control program.
"The national sheep industry recently recommended these changes in prevalence areas and scores, as a result of increased detections in Victoria, Western Australia and New South Wales," Dr Rahaley said.
"While South Australia's prevalence areas have not changed, producers wanting to import sheep from medium to high prevalence areas interstate, or from Kangaroo Island (medium prevalence area), must be familiar with the new rules.
"This is critical for mainland South Australia to maintain its low OJD prevalence rating and to help to further prevent the spread of the disease when trading sheep.
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The reclassification of the prevalence areas and OJD scores will result in Victoria's north-west and Western Australia's prevalence areas dropping from a score of 4 to 2, while mainland SA retains a score of 4.
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…CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT 'em." Or so the saying goes.
It's true, but there are better ways to finish that sentence. I tend to say "Women! Can't live with 'em…" and quietly trail off. And just the other day someone said, "Women! Can't live with 'em. Can't shoot 'em." Also true, unless you're Phil Spector.
I got in around 11:15 last night and saw Nick was on Gmail chat. We got to chatting. He's moving to a new place in New York and starting law school in the fall, and I'm recently single and employed part-time. He was telling me how easy it is to hook-up in New York, and I mentioned I have a few prospects on the horizon myself, followed by "So, I just got back from dinner and drinks with this male model." He said, "Whaa?" and I realized I was telling the story out of order so it sounded like I was coming out to him on Gmail chat.
Let's backtrack.
I can be bad at talking to girls. Not all girls and not all times, I just find it tough to strike up a conversation about nothing and keep feeding it with more nothing, unless the girl in question is literally unable to leave. My best-case scenario is a night out with friends of friends. Second best is a pair of adjacent seats on a cross-country flight. Worst case is trying to pick up a girl who's out jogging, because she can interrupt at any point and say, "Excuse me, I need to run away from you now."
But give me months, years, or decades to develop a romance and I'm set. I would've done well back in the '30s.
The 1830s.
My biggest problem is that I'm too cautious in conversation unless I know how far I can push it. A month back I was visiting Connecticut and out for drinks with Pete, Glenn, and Nick, as well as Pete's cousin Carolyn. Glenn had been raving about how Carolyn's a cool chick because she doesn't get offended by anything.
It took me five minutes. Here's a transcript of our conversation:
"So, Carolyn, Nick and I were talking about a short film we could make. We just need a girl to act in it. Would you be interested?"
"What's the film?"
"It's a fake trailer for a porn website called 'Snuffgirls.com.'"
"You know how a lot of premium porn sites do 30-seconds trailers where they interview the girl and show assorted footage of her getting fucked?"
"Well, they do."
"Anyway, ours would start with a girl being interviewed by the camera guy about her porn experience. 'I've just done one or two,' she'd say. And during the interview we'd edit in fuzzy images of her walking around the house in clear high heel shoes."
"Now remember, the website is called 'Snuffgirls.com.' The camera guy then asks, 'So, like, is there anything you don't do on camera?' And the girl says, 'Oh, I'll do anal, ass-to-mouth, fisting…" Camera guy: 'Wow. You're pretty adventurous.' The girl pauses and says, 'The only thing I won't do on camera is… be murdered. That's my only hang-up. I don't want you guys to kill me.' And the camera guy says, 'No, no, of course not!' But we can see the camera moving up and down as if he's nodding 'yes.' Then there are a few shots of sex – nothing graphic – and maybe at one point the girl starts fellating a gun the male porn star puts in her face – again, nothing graphic."
"Then we cut to the finale, with the girl very enthusiastic, post-money-shot. She turns around to see the male porn star pointing the gun at her head and says, 'Wait! I thought I said I did not want to be killed.' And it cuts to black as you hear the gunshot."
"The logo pops up: 'Snuffgirls.com,' and you hear a group of girls yell 'Snuff girls dot com!' followed by the sound of a firing quad and eerie silence."
"So what do you think?"
"I'll pass."
In my defense, I could see Carolyn was disgusted within fifteen seconds, but once you get this 'ol train a-rolling, it don't stop for nobody. Funny thing is, she was a cool chick and you could talk to her about anything. Anything other than that.
For example, we spent some time discussing an idea she and Glenn had for a wall calendar called "Big Gay Glenn's 2010." (We were six months past a 2010 calendar being saleable, but "2011" doesn't rhyme with "Glenn.") The calendar would feature Glenn – who is very straight, but may appeal to gay audiences for his bear-type body – posing in a variety of sexually suggestive positions corresponding to the month. April, for Easter, would have Glenn on the cross in a diaper with a wound on his abdomen spilling out dicks.
"Too many dicks to count," I suggested.
We also brainstormed a cover shot, and settled on Glenn sitting in a bathtub with a hoagie sandwich floating before him and rose petals falling from the ceiling. Carolyn and Glenn wanted the sandwich to be floating on a silver tray, I wanted it floating by itself ("It would just be this disgusting, waterlogged sandwich.") To me, the purpose of being a writer is coming up with awful things knowing that if they're going to be done, you won't be the one doing them.
And on the topic of "writing," let's return to our story.
I wrote a film script that's in the process of being produced. It's based on the true story of a Black female coach at an Historically Black University who's put in charge of the men's golf team, can't find enough Black golfers to win, and so recruits players from all over the world. We were put in contact with a successful model/actor in New York who is interested in one of the roles and happens to be an incredibly talented golfer. He just arrived in LA to meet with his west coast representation and do some auditions and we planned on getting dinner to discuss the script, his future acting plans, and anything else.
At 9:00 last night I pulled up to this swanky restaurant, The Belmont, and the valet took my car (this will be important later). The model/actor – I don't feel like making up a name – arrived soon thereafter. He looked the part of a model/actor. Even the bouncer seemed to be flirting with him as we walked in, and after charming the hostess too he got us a table on the patio. 1
This guy told me "underwear model" was just a day job, "something to pay the bills." He also owned a handful of restaurants, did mixed-media painting, and had studied acting classically for the past eight years, in addition to world-class amateur golfing and cheese grater abs.
Exactly like me, in other words.
We talked about relationships. He asked if I was married. I thought it was odd, until I remembered I tend to see older than I am when you first meet me, until I suggest there be "too many dicks to count."
I told him I wasn't, that I was newly single, and asked about him. He said he was happily in a long-term relationship. That seemed weirdly conservative to me, given what I imagined his options had to be. Later in the meal, as if specifically addressing my worry that he was too uptight, he showed me a piece of artwork he'd created from the nude silhouette of "a girl [he'd] been fucking awhile back."
After our meal, around 10:40, we left and gave our tickets to the valet. As we waited, a girl walked up behind us and stood underneath the valet umbrella, bleached blonde in a cocktail dress with a lot of eye makeup, like someone who'd just arrived in Los Angeles, or, alternately, like someone who'd lived here her whole life (in other words, like all girls currently in Los Angeles). She wasn't my type, but I figured, I'm single, I need to meet new people, I should lean against this parking meter and pretend to check my phone.
Like I said, I'm bad at talking to girls. My new male model friend, however, wasn't.
"How's your night going?"
"Good. Yours?"
"Oh, just hanging out by the valet stand, hoping to meet a pretty girl."
"Where you from?"
"Just moved here from Boston. You?"
"I'm bi-coastal. I'm everywhere."
"Wow. What do you do?"
"I'm into murders and executions. Mergers and acquisitions… you ever see American Psycho?"
"I was gonna say, I love that movie. You and I have, like, the same sense of humor."
It wasn't what was said so much as who was saying it. He could've been pitching "Snuffgirls.com" and she'd have been captivated. I guarantee it. I also wondered about this guy's girlfriend back in New York. It must be awfully hard to be that good-looking and remain faithful to her. I couldn't fault him, necessarily.
As I overheard their conversation from the periphery, I noticed my phone was still working and I wasn't missing any incoming calls. Good.
The valet brought the model/actor's car. He shook my hand, hugged the girl, and left.
Now it was just the two of us. I clumsily tried to pick up from where they had left off: "So, Boston, huh? That's gotta be an adjustment. How do you like LA?" I don't remember why she was there, just that she was employed as a medical supply salesperson, was originally from Vermont, and had been a high-jumper in college. "I know someone who ran track at Miami," I said. "You track people are nuts." Yep.
The valet had been gone more than ten minutes. This kind of captive audience situation is usually when I'm at my best but by then I was just thinking about my car.
"So… what kind of medical supplies do you sell?"
"Oh, you know, everything: heart monitors, defibrillators, catheters…"
Why? Why did I ask that? Was I hoping she'd say something like, "Well, we've got these stethoscopes that are hot, and wet, and…"
(I mentioned at one point I'm a screenwriter and getting a film made, but I never use that to my advantage. By contrast, Charles Bukowski has made an entire career out of the same story: "The girl said she liked my writing. She had nice legs. I ran my hand up her skirt. We left the party and fucked that night.")
Then the girl's car arrived. "Nice talking to you," she said, and left.
Where the hell was my car?
I showed one of the valets my ticket stub and told him I'd been waiting "a very long time." There was scrambling and confusion among the entire valet staff, never a good sign. Two more minutes passed. Five bleached blondes in cocktail dresses and lots of eye makeup left The Belmont, handed over their stub, and walked up the curb a little ways to wait. Imagine their embarrassment when the valet pulled up my car in front of them! LA's sort of a status-conscious town, believe it or not, so they were naturally humiliated to be mistaken for the owners of a dirty '99 Honda Civic, by far the least attractive car being serviced at The Belmont that night, or any night.
This is LA, after all. Even the panhandlers drive Audis.
I paid quickly, sped out of there, and got home, where I began chatting with Nick (and we're back to the beginning of this story), during which I got a text from the model/actor. I saw his name pop up and assumed it was the boilerplate "Great to meet you!" Instead,
He wrote: "Did u take that chick home with u?"
Then: "She was down."
Then: "She wanted it. U should have moved in for the kill."
I wrote: "Been out of the game too long. Plus, you're the murders and executions guy."
He wrote: "I have a chick. I'll crack em open but u gotta knock em down."
Son of a bitch! He wasn't trying to cheat, he was trying to get me laid!
I relayed this to Nick during our chat and he said (I'm paraphrasing):
"Crack 'em open? You mean, like, their skulls? And fuck what comes out of their skulls? Their brains?"
Then I said:
"Sure. It's all gravy. At least, it feels like gravy. On your dick."
Why do I have trouble talking with women? Who knows? (Good God…)


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– James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own –
Efforts to reflate the economies of the U.S. and Britain are running into one potentially major problem; the bond market.
Appetite for government debt in recent sales has been very poor, raising the cost to the two governments of borrowing and blunting their efforts to bring down market interest rates by buying back their debt.
This is a big risk for British and U.S. efforts to rescue their economies, and could be yet another self reinforcing downward force if holders of government debt get the frights.
Both countries are running hugely expansionary fiscal stimulus programs that will need to be paid for by gargantuan sales of government debt. At the same time both have such low official interest rates, 0 to 25 basis points for the U.S. and
50 basis points in Britain, that they are engaging in purchases of their own debt, or quantitative easing, in the hope that this lowers rates for consumers and businesses and encourages money to be spent or invested.
It is impossible to know exactly how effective the policy is, after all we don't know what rates would be without it. We can though see two things clearly; there are lots of sellers when the U.S. and Britain seek to buy their own bonds, but when it comes to the far larger operation of issuing bonds to fund ongoing needs, investors are markedly less enthusiastic. The U.S. Treasury got a very poor response on Tuesday when it auctioned $6 billion of 9-year, 9-month inflation-indexed notes at a yield of 1.589 percent, better terms for investors than similar issues on the secondary market at the time. Of particular note was the fact that so-called indirect bidders, mostly foreign central banks, stepped up for just 26.1 percent of the sale, as against 47.2 percent at the last such auction in January, which was before the policy of Fed purchases of Treasuries was announced.
Mohammed El-Erian of leading bond investor PIMCO told CNBC that government bonds were "not worth owning right now" because of the "tremendous" amount of debt the U.S. will have to sell.
The Fed will buy up to $300 billion worth of longer-dated Treasuries over the coming months to help keep interest rates low throughout the economy but at the same time it is buying from a market that is well aware that the Treasury needs to sell some $2 trillion of debt this year.
Speaking in Tokyo, it was clear that Dallas Fed governor Richard Fisher is aware of foreign investor's concerns and has been seeking to reassure:
"Demand for U.S. Treasuries … will be determined by their attractiveness relative to alternatives and they may be judged more, rather than less, attractive under most reasonable future scenarios," he said on Wednesday.
The Fed is determined to "short-circuit" any inflationary consequence of its balance sheet growth, and is in the process of acquiring new tools to help, he said.
"We realize … we are at risk of being perceived as monetizing the fiscal largess of Congress," Fisher said.
Exactly. And while some might argue that the higher interest rates the U.S. may be paying will inflate away unpayable debts, this is perception that if anchored among investors, can very easily take on an extremely dangerous momentum of its own.
Similarly, the Bank of England intends to buy up to 75 billion pounds of assets, mostly gilts, over three months, but similarly Britain plans to issue a record 147 billion pounds of gilts in the coming financial year. There is also the possibility of more issuance to come if an upcoming budget includes new provisions for simulative spending.
Britain was unable to sell more than 100 million pounds of 40 year gilts at the end of March, the first such failure since 1995, and had to make heavy concession at an auction earlier this week.
All in all, it's a sort of strange mirror to the criticism that is made of temporary stimulus measures; that because taxpayers can tell they will be forced to pay in future for the goodies they are given now they may save, blunting the impact of the stimulus. In the same way, today's bond buy backs will need to be financed via tomorrow's taxes, bond issues or eroded via inflation, making the current path of policy a very difficult tightrope.
It may be that in a world of poor alternative investments both countries can sell their debts at reasonable prices, but along with and interacting with currency moves, it is an important vulnerability.
The bond market vigilantes, who used to enforce a rough and sometimes destructive justice, may be saddling up again.
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This one is a no-brainer James. All the money that the economic pundits think is sitting on the side lines, it's not there. Wealth created by inflated real estate value has been decimated because of the housing market collapse. We better take a hard look at the 1930s depression so as to get a better understanding of what is really happening now.
Your right about that, there are economic pundits that think there is a lot of money sitting on the side lines. And yes you are right that all the growth that we have had in the last 30 years is nothing but smoke and mirrors, for the most part. However, I think you neglect to account for the billions of dollars each day that is spent on foreign oil, and the huge piles of cash that now sit in Royal safes. Piles of cash that this destructive addiction feeds, daily. Unlike the 1930 which was a series of unintended consequences, todays financial crises is the result of religious zealots, leveraging the corruptible, to propagate a fire brand breed of mythology, to promote one of the most primitive forms of human government, monarchy, or even less enlightened theocracies. The reality beyond the phantom profits, is that hoarding of wealth, and the loss of ethical and moral behavior. Something that has been promoted by institutions and people that knew better, but choose to sacrifice trust, to fulfill their own personal lust for power and control. If the West is really that shining city on the hill, then it must stop being a junkie and stop feeding and acquiescing to the worst of human behavior. Power and water and drugs to rule them all!
I'd enjoy seeing this fleshed out. It does look very scary. On the other hand, what people are saying reminds me of a leading technology company: they stink, big time, but sometimes they seem to stink less than the alternatives. They're quite popular.
thank god the bond market has some common sense. Now if we could get some in the government we'd be OK
And what is the principal alternative to sovereign debt? The sovereign commodity gold. Gold has no default risk. So if gold is a government/central bank's prime competition, then it would try to suppress the price of gold to keep interest rates low. What happens to the cash used to purchase gold? Gold sellers face the same dilemma as all other cash holders: buy debt or buy real capital assets. But the prices of real capital assets have so distorted by previous credit-expansion (the bubbles)that buyers are unable to access risks confidently.
Why do government's and central banks detest gold? There is no leverage in gold and its market value is easier to estimate than debt or capital assets. IMF rules prohibit using it to back a government's currency.
Sovereign debt and capital assets are seriously mis-valued. This cascades to depress labor values. Hence, depression is baked into the global economy. What do say to bond sellers? Let them eat cake!
Treasury needs to sell some $2 trillion of debt and Britain a record 147 billion pounds of gilts. Fed is determined to "short-circuit" any inflationary consequence of its balance sheet growth.
The big question is how the Fed is gonna "short-circuit" the inflation of the stimulus into the economy. If the balance sheet growth is nothing more than some digits in some bankers computer memory that obviously couldn't be perceived as the decisive consequent inflationary action, could it? But to ask a hell of a lot of money from taxpayers all over the world and only filling bankers pockets and leavin the money digit sounds rather stupid don't you think?
I mean we "perceive it as monetizing" cause it is monetizing! Fisher is double talking here or a contradictio in terminus. "We realize … we are at risk of being perceived as monetizing the fiscal largess of Congress," Fisher said. Eating your own dog food treasuries is monetizing your dept it says in every economical book for dummies. So, let's not thing get things mixed up here in terms of etymology.
What is Bernanke solution to the much feared Inflation? Bernanke: "the central bank must retain the flexibility to withdraw its record injection of credit into the economy to keep inflation in check when the crisis abates.
One Problem: Spend money is not easy to withdraw.and money which can be withdrawn wasn't doing anything for the economy anyways. In fact this is "a contradictio in terminus" again! You can't possibly have it both ways, Stimulus and Cash withdraw only if you think this money should stay digital out of the real economy streets.
Bernanke most likely is thinking in digital terms of fast counter reacting market manipulating software. Not about the real street market price of fresh Mango's.
Or is this question merely a "keeping the public busy" buying time – stalling measure?
James Saft is right again. What shall we call you – Dr Seer? We can't let Roubini get all the glory you know.
US/UK, at least at the government and financial sector levels, are addicted to bubble-driven economics. You know, the kind of bubbles where *they* are in charge of creation, destruction, and make a few bucks along the way.
These people created their amazing economic bubbles, even got themselves sucked into it, then entire country went nuts, got burned, and discovered they can't get out of the hell hole. So now the desperate act is to smoke a bigger dose of opium-bond.
What are these people made of? Why can't they accept the proposition that when entire country screws up big time, there is no alternative other than pay the necessary price and start from a different direction. Why can't they give themselves the 'GM treatment'? How dare they call themselves capitalist?
The situation is supposed to work itself out. The government will buy or pay off its debt – because I read it would do this – then it will sell or float more debt. It makes perfect sense. It will proceed to buy toxic debt and then sell it. The circular motion of money will create some sort of butterfly convective current effect. Like a whirling vacuum this spinning capital will suck out the negativity. Soothing balm will rain from the sky to heal our economic sores. We will regain masterhood over our financial domain. This is the sort of hard-core Disney never-never land stuff I love to see in real life.
I personally found this quote particularly interesting: "Demand for U.S. Treasuries… will be determined by their attractiveness relative to alternatives and they may be judged more, rather than less, attractive under most reasonable future scenarios." I mean, one must assume some really dire future scenarios for that to remain true. The irony is that while everyone in the administration, with Obama at the top, are cheering the current market rally, the exact opposite is needed to maintain a strong demand for treasuries. Nothing like a stock market crash to drive demand for US treasuries trough the roof… Maybe the next leg down will provide them with the opportunity to issue some of that 2 trillion they need to sell this year. So stay tuned for more interesting action during the summer months.
I think that the actions the government is taking, together with the Fed Banksters is designed to fail. I refuse to believe that those in power cannot predict with some degree of accuracy the consequences of their policy. They have the best brains in the world advising them. I believe they know in advance almost exactly what will happen..they have all the economic models, which can be tested with all the variables accounted for. They know there will be increased turmoil in direct proportion to their interference. I don't even think we can call their actions interference anymore. The government Policy is the primary driver and protagonist in not only the US economy, but the World economy. Everything is carefully planned in advance. Recessions and depressions, booms, bubbles, they are all carried out in a manner not unlike an economic experiment, or game is carried out on graduate school campus across the country. There is nothing spontaneous, there are no surprises to those behind the scenes, pulling the strings. We are passengers….like the car ride at DisneyLand.. You can turn the wheel, and change your course a few inches, but the iron rail keeps the car on the track..there is no deviation from the predetermined course that has been chosen for us by the elite bankers & powerbrokers who feel that a world wide transition from relative freedom to total control by a one world government.
You overestimate "our" leaders in government. Excessive greed got us into the present predicament, and continues to be the driving force behind all the bailouts. Markets should drive economies, not ministers, presidents, or governments. "Too big to fail" is total smoke and mirrors. Insiders, the banksters, are being protected at the expense of the rest of us all, and future generations as well… Isn't this just proof positive of total corruption at the highest levels?
The markets are no longer the de rigeur forces of "our" capitalism, fraud and outright manipulation are at the behest of elites that profit at all costs.
We are witnessing history in the making here, as profits are protected for a select few, and loses are socialized.
As I was growing up, eons ago it seems, I was taught that taking something that didn't belong to you was outright theft. These gents are taking from future generations to line the pockets of the "too big to fail" crowd, and that no matter how you slice it, IS THEFT.
Packaging worthless debt instruments and selling it in the marketplace as bonafide investment vehicles IS FRAUD.
Where are the MUCKRACKERS in the financial press hiding???
These guys, these banksters, these Wall Street criminals, should be investigated, their companies should be liquidated, and the wheeler dealers who created this mess should be prosecuted… period.
Markets should rule. Ethics in finance AND government should be brought back from the dustbin, and the veil should be lifted on how the markets are being manipulated, such as GOLD and SILVER, in order to protect fiat currencies like the Pound and the dollar.
In short order, when lies, when fictitious balance sheets are permitted to stand in place of the real stance of coffers, then what certainty, what economic security can individuals, shareholders, governments, or societies each have in the future?
Its more than time that we begin to call the kettle for what it is: black.
What is clear is no one in governments around the world know what they are doing. And they are playing with fire to boot. What if there is a currency melt down of all currencies across the board? What of other potential catastrophic economic events resulting from governments monetary actions that we have not considered?
It is prudent to have a part of one's liquid assets in gold coins. And then pray this gold investment is a bad one. Did I say pray? Yes, hard to believe, but all the King's horses and all the King's men are not going to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
It is obvious that the banksters are concocting a scheme to create hyperinflation, to create profits for themselves, and to inflate away their debts. They are using American and British taxpayer dollars to manipulate the stock, bond and commodities markets, especially gold and silver. While most of us are swooning under the collapse of the dollar/pound, a few corrupt banksters, and their dogs, Bernanke, Brown and Geithner, will be partying, as the huge gold and silver that they've purchased OTC, after downwardly manipulating the price using smaller positions on the COMEX, starts soaring in value.
Interesting. Governments are providing money on the cheap to effectively bankrupt financial institutions which are then expected to deploy these funds to buy government bonds used to finance the money provided to them.
Adam Smith must be rolling over in his grave.
My gawd I wish you were wrong , but in my heart I know you are wright.Prepare for a Mugabe style inflation in 3-5 years in the anglosaxon part of the world.Continental Europe and the far east just might escape this "Counterfeiting by national banks".Africa will implode.
God bless the "Prince of Wales" and all souls onboard.
Steen Baaring
To Franklin D. Robinson,
You asked why governments and central banks detest gold?
Because PRIVATELY held gold is the alternative to nationally ,counterfeited (inflated) banknotes which only they control.It is a battle for economic supremacy.
kind regards , Steen Baaring
A naive technical question:
I'm surprised that it is difficult to sell inflation-protected treasuries. Doesn't the IP factor fully protect against this possible future?
This is in essence a class war. The ruling elite has taken not only the American political leadership as hostage, but also the American people, and, for that matter the rest of the world. The banksters have proven themselves thugs and criminals, they have robbed us blind for years and to top, they are cowards wanting others to pay them for their services.
And we are too stupid to resist, we shrug our shoulders and pay the bill!. Well, maybe not!
The only one thing that can now save your bacon is investing in gold, even though it is not going to be an obvious thing. There will be times where you will doubt, because even this road is manipulated and influenced to steer you away, (the latest salvo comes from Gordon Brown, announcing gold sales by IMF. Although he claims to be an economist, he is not the sharpest tool in the box, having blundered on previous occasions in UK goldsales).
So gold prices are also mnipulated, and you should use these times to increase you holdings of gold, and as you quit the game of fiat money, then the banksters loose the influence they have over you. Forsake the taxed "interest" on paper money. It is not even going to compensate for inflation. Stocks may give short term gains, but not if you hold on to them; for surely, the market cannot go up in these circumstances.
The stock market is a casino, the banksters are cleverer than you, the politicians are corrupt, and you would even think of siding with this lot?
Invest in gold, and hold it yourself. It will not make you rich, that will require investment and hard work, as it should, but your investment in gold cannot be deflated into oblivion, it cannot be taxed, it cannot be confiscated, tangled with or coaxed by the tax-man, and best of all, it allows you independence, it can be sold anywhere in the world, it can be given to your loved ones free of taxes. In short, it allows you to hold on to your savings.
The temptations from stocks, bonds, all sorts of investments will at times be strong, but remember, this is war. You have it, they want it. Don't play by their rules or you will loose. Opt out, save yourself, your family, let them devour themselves and rot away.
The yield on the 10-year UK Gilt climbed 7bp to 3.02 per cent in the third week of March 2009. A sign that investors are nervous about buying UK government debt and asking for premium for the perceived risk
The Govt.s "controlled inflation" is being sought so as to weasel out of Oil and Chinas Walmart debts with a minimum of pain for our citizenry. Inflation is also being used to raise the purchase of our products and increase tourism. Some or these countries think they are so smart by not purchasing American products but trust me they will get it in the end. Listen to China scream and cry that the value of the dollar is going south. They should have traded honestly and fairly without all the trade barriers and copyright/patent infringements. When Inflation has done its job of leveling out trade and foreign debt it will quiet down. We are having many opportunities here to protect our assets with PMs and other inflation protection stuff so don't cry if you are asleep at the switch as it has been said. You don't have to lose your assets. Just pay attention!
Absolutely. The bond market is reacting with a lot of sense. The only things that current policies are doing are (1)cushioning and delaying an unavoidable landing [which would not be such a bad thing if it was the only consequence] (2) playing with fire by thinking it can avoid facing market constraints [no wonder why there are growing calls for a new gold standard or its equivalent] (3)building the conditions for future inflation (4) creating interferences on a market where government issued instruments are a reference and hence putting in jeopardy the conditions of access to this market for other actors [operators may need to find new benchmarks, which will not be an easy thing]. With or without these governments'help, the global ecomomy needs to clean up the excess debt. It is painful, but no one can escape this reality call.
The USA is now on the debt standard. Every time the USD drops by a penny the Chinese lose 20 billion USD. No wonder they are nervous.
Governments ought to know that investors in Gilts are top notch investors and not the everyday Joe Blow looking to put his saving somewhere. 'Buying' back their own debt with QE and then spinning out new Gilt issues to fund new debt is not exactly a mouth watering prospect for investors.
Good luck
An increase of 1 percent in sovereign bond rates has a big impact on the internal economy, but currency rate volatility can exceed 10 pct in one year.
So attracting offshore/external capital looks very expensive, and is probably exponential rather than linear as the pool of available capital is drained.
If I wanted to lend to the US/UK/Japan/Russia/… government, I would want to be redeemed in gold, not 2014 USD.
This currency debasement risk is in addition to the risk of sovereign default.
If one's background is in statistics and computing, the arts of the economic alchemists are magic indeed.
Its a vicious money go round: with a perceived goal of keeping the relative strength of home currency in comparison with other currencies, governments are essentially printing new currency notes, borrowing from future pool of tax collections from their citizens. Why this is not supposed to affect hyper inflation after some time, is interesting to ponder.
Problem actually lies in admitting once for all that a huge number of private institutions, especially investment banks and insurance companies, are sitting on hugely inflated, non existing (read not-mark-to-market)
asset values, which if exposed, would render them insolvent straightaway. Hence the need to keep a certain value of the currency, the strength of which would ensure the solvent status of their operation.
Governments trying to gloss over this fact is nothing short of eye popping fraud committed to its own population. Remedy lies in letting ALL those institutions that become insolvent fall and preparing the populace for huge social disturbances as a result. Unless this hard medicine is spelled out, consequences explained and followed up with mounting a military operation in-house to control the resultant anarchial situation for some time at least, no stimulus packages are going to work.
There is no alternative to hard work, honest trading and
open governance, something that has failed in toto in the current imbroglio. We all need to stay positive and hit the straps once again while keeping stringent checks and balances on those in charge of oversight. Perhaps summery long term lock-ups made mandatory for some time at least, for those found wanting in discharge of their duties. Even after all this, keep our fingers crossed: it may still come to naught! Its that serious a situation.
[...] Are bond market vigilantes saddling up? [...]
Although I agree with james and most of the coments everybody seems to be blaming the obvious targets ie. bankster,inept central banks,incopetent regulators. We should start to look at ourselves, yes we all wanted rapid inc. in our properties and 30% annual gains in shares. It was as much our greed that caused the problem the obvious targets just helped us along.
It is obvious that Wall Street views still carry significant clout in Washington. The Banking Industry as most of us know is by all measures bankrupt. The toxic Assets have no takers at any discount level and the current strategy of finding a realistic Value is lacking in integrity. As a prelude to finding a value the Investment Banks are fraudulently inflating value by round tripping aka Circular Trading. I Buy your junk real value 5 cents for 60 cents,you buy my junk of 5 cents also for 60 cents. The securities may be different but quality is same. This way you kill two birds with one stone. The value of the junk has shot up from 5 cents to 60 cents so the difference will be shown in absolute terms as Profits for the quarter. Secondly these toxic assets will subsequently be transferred to the Government at these fraudulent values.
If you see a big spike in Profit of Banking Companies this quarter please dont rush to buy their stock,since you now know from where these fictitious Profits have come.
Real Magic with final outcome that will be nothing if not tragic.Taxpayers,please get yourself a CAN.
I have an idea Victor, empty the prisons and fill them with Politicians, Bankers, and Corporate Executives. When capitalist societies around the world collapse we will have little need for them anyway.
You are missing the larger picture.
This entire "global economic crisis" is deliberate by the entity controlling the money supply. It has been coordinated for more than a decade. Its purpose is to establish new global currency, or the control of the worlds currencies, and it will be done through the floor by floor demolition of the US Dollar which the Federal Reserve and associated money controlling partners, in collusion with the elite of the US government, have been orchestrating for years by selling billions of dollars of repackaged securities labelled triple AAA (knowing full well they would implode in their banks) to get the world HEAVILY invested in the dollar to ensure collapse.
To all those who hold gold:
Gold is a lovely and precious metal but is is a commodity just the same as silver or platinum. What is its uses? Other than for ornamental and jewellery use I can't think of too many other uses. What determines its value? The same criteria that determines the value of other commodites and the fundamental equation is supply and demand.
Those who advocate gold as a basis for the monetary system are living in a dream world. The gold coins o srecurities will rest in the drawer or safe as a beacon of hope for a 'better tomorrow' that will not come.
If you are thinking about rushing out to get some gold to protect your yourself from a decline inthe value of your economic holdings, think again.
Although a huge slush of new money is being created and pumped into the economic pipelines when this begins to have an inflationary effect beyond what the central banks consider a 'prudent' level (why do they tend to use this word so much when it is evident that there is little that is 'prudent' about what they do?) then we will see interest rates start to climb up and possibly exceed previous highs.
Given the prevailing conditions in the 'global economy' it does not seem like the scenario of rising interest rates will be around too soon. First, people have to get over the credit crunch hangover and resume the process of comsuming and investing on credit and when the levels of credit consumption have hooked enough fish then the interest rate trawler will haul them in.
What will happen to gold? It will go down as investors switch to interest rate securities.
Conclusion: Trade gold just like any other investment should be traded and if you know the market then you should do vey well.
I have a widget in my pocket. No one really wants to pay much for it. Hmmm… Eureka! I will borrow money to buy it from myself at the profit point I thought it was worth! OK, how does this in reality make me poorer?Because I pay tax on the profit I made on my widget, and interest on the loan which over the term will equal a large proportion of the principal when paid in full. This is essentially what the banks and the governments are doing. They only way this could possibly work is if there are massive amounts of fraud and dishonesty in the process, or I simply default on the loan I took to buy a worthless widget from myself. Hmmm… that couldn't be happening, could it?
J – I'm pretty sure that there are no taxes on government bonds and I don't think its the Gov buying these bonds from themselves, its the Reserve buying them with an intent to inflate the money in circulation. The plan is for the Gov and the Fed to do this until the private sector stop deleveraging or the bond market get wise and invest elsewhere, isn't it?


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This game is a reference to the old-school, educational game Oregon Trail in every possible way, but replaces 1800s America with a futuristic space adventure. In the game, you start by picking out a suitable ship, and then you can choose from a selection of captains, one being Cymric Manx, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Grumpy Cat. As you venture through the galaxy, your crew will respond to different prompts that can be either hazardous or positive for your team. How should you investigate this black hole? Should you attack the oncoming, possibly hostile aliens? There are also mysterious illnesses and ailments that can overcome your team. Orion Trail puts those difficult choices in your capable Space Captain hands. Each decision has consequences, often pulling at your resources such as food or fuel, or adding to them. Stretch goals include the inclusion of a new mini-game, new playable Lieutenants and Captains such as the Fabulons (in all their well-groomed, perfect hair glory), and twice the amount of random space encounters. Orion Trail is planning a PC, Mac, and Linux release, and currently offers a free demo on its Kickstarter page.
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The two-person studio behind the PlayStation 3 game Strength of the Sword 3 is back with a new Kickstarter campaign, which aims to remaster its first project and bring it to Windows, Mac and Linux. The new edition, titled Strength of the Sword Ultimate, comes with three new gameplay modes: co-op, PvP, and dark mode. As with the original game, story mode and survival mode will still be playable. Strength of the Sword Ultimate is most innovative in its deathmatch PvP, which will have players duel in a tug-of-war style match beginning in a middle-ground battle area. The first player to overthrow the other's castle wins. Dark mode also holds potential, described as "a kind of extension to PvP," where players challenge the dark swordsman and gain loot regardless of who wins. If victorious, players can eventually become the dark swordsman themselves with mysterious powers. Strength of The Sword Ultimate has multiple stretch goals that could also bring the game to Wii U, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. One of the developers has even promised to go bowling dressed as a pixie if $100,000 is achieved. If that's not motivation enough to back this project, nothing is.
This Is The PoliceDeveloper: WeappyFundraising Goal: $25,000Funds Due By: February 25, 2015
Ever wanted to play an epic strategy/adventure game, narrated by the voice of Duke Nukem (John St. John)? Well, now you can, with This Is The Police. This detective game centers on Jack Boyd, a 60-year-old cop nearing retirement. Through the trailer, which is reminiscent of Max Payne's interior monologues, Jack describes himself as an honest cop. But, with only six months left before retirement, Jack wants to go out with a bang and start bending the rules. He's looking to make half a million bucks as his police enforcement career comes to an end, and he's going to do it any way he can. The game uniquely blends different genres, such as tycoon, strategy, adventure, and interactive fiction. Player choice is a major component, with each choice creating different consequences.. You spend your time managing co-workers and their partying habits, attending press conferences, coordinating crime scene investigations, and fighting criminal gangs.
NightCryDeveloper: Playism GamesFundraising Goal: $300,000Funds Due By: February 23, 2015
The creator of the Clock Tower series, Hifumi Kono, and The Grudge director, Takashi Shimizu, are teaming up to bring to life the Japanese-inspired horror game Night Cry. The game is a result of Kono wishing to return to his horror/adventure roots. This 3D point-and-click game puts you on a luxurious cruise that takes an ugly turn as passengers are murdered left and right. Investigating objects, rooms, and clues will slowly lead you towards the culprit. As you search, however, a terrifying dark presence known as the Scissorwalker stalks the hallways, wielding giant scissor blades. Your cellphone can be used to communicate and discover other survivors, but its ringtone can attract the Scissorwalker's attention.
Underworld AscendantDeveloper: OtherSide EntertainmentFundraising Goal: $600,000Funds Due By: March 6, 2015
It has been well over a decade since the fantasy RPG Ultima Underworld franchise had its last release. The series is now being rekindled by its creators, OtherSide Entertainment, with an array of new elements and gameplay improvements. The new entry to the series is titled Underworld Ascendant, and will take place in refined environments such as underground caverns, Dwarven ruins, and enchanted forests. The game's developers cite Deus Ex, Thief, Bioshock, Skyrim, and others as major influences. Three playable classes include thief, mage, and fighter – each with their own special powers and abilities.
WindwalkersDeveloper: Forge AnimationFundraising Goal: $330,000 CADFunds Due By: March 6, 2015
The French game studio, Forge Animation, is creating the transmedia project Windwalkers, which will come in the form of a video game, comic book, and film. The project is adapted from the French sci-fi novel La Horde du Contrevent (The Horde of the Counterwind) and each media will retell its epic story. Forge Animation collaborated with the author Alain Damasio, who worked on DONTNOD's Remember Me, to bring this media to life. In the video game Windwalkers, you traverse a world ravaged by strong winds and attempt to uncover the source. The action/RPG will feature Dark Souls-like gameplay, and exploration mechanics similar to Journey. Co-op will be another addition so you can play with friends.
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I have been trying to download and run Back track Linux 5 r3 on my windows 8.1 (AMD Quad-Core processor, 64bit Intel.) using Virtual Box. It kept giving me the error 'This Kernel requires an x86-64 bit cpu but only detected an i686 cpu so I downgraded to 4.2 Virtual Box. That solved the problem but now I keep getting an error when I run Virtual Box linux with Ubuntu 64 bit 'VT-x/AMD-v hardware acceleration is enabled but not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit cpu and will fail to boot. Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-v properly in the bios of your host computer.' I have searched and digged through the internet and found nothing useful to my predicament. How can I enable VT-x/AMD-v in my windows 8.1 bios so I can run Back Track Linux properly? Ive looked through my bios and found nothing relevant to Virtualization or VT-x/AMD-v so I came here. Thanks :D


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I got this for the dumbest reason: the packaging is really neat in this bright yellow tube. It really stands out in my makeup bag which is great for finding it in the mornings.
Trying the product, yes the smell sucks, but my nose isn't near my eyelashes so it's ok. It delivers length and volume which I loved, but it also clumps more than my Voluminous mascara. I am not a fan of picking out clumps when I'm rushing about in the morning.
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I have the water proof and regular version of this. I like them both, but they clump reallllly bad! ANd you have to like brush out your lashes after applying. I really wanted to love this stuff. I guess I'll be going back to my more expensive mascaras, they never let me down.
I was so excited to buy this. I really wanted it to work and some of the reviews were fantastic! Sadly, it stank like a skunk and clumped like wet clay on my lashes. I've had the tube for a week now and it's already starting to dry out. I live in Michigan, it's moist here. Almost English Weather, but colder. Nothing dries out.
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This mascara's not tooo bad, I think it adds volume and there is definite length and separation. It does go on a little wet so be careful when applying, but other than that I like how it makes my lashes look thicker, and I didn't mind the scent. You smell it for like a second when applying it and it's not even bad imo. I definitely notice the thickening and separating, even hours after wearing it, like it more than CG's lash blast. I do feel that over time this mascara has underperformed. It starts to feel dry going on, It doesn't glide on the way I like it to, which is kind of annoying. It also flakes. I have other mascaras that I've had for way longer that still perform well. Also I had an issue with this was the packaging...The little ring on the top of the tube would sometimes come off, making the wand gooooped with the mascara! I am able to fix it, but I shouldn't be dealing with it in the first place. Maybe I just had a defective tube. Won't be buying this again though, I'll just stick to L'oreal...
I agree with another commenter about how the formula seemingly changed. The first time I bought this....it was great! Loved it! The next two times I bought it however, it was horrible. The tube dried out fast, and it applied clumpy. It didn't deliver the same results I had the first time I bought it by a long shot!
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I was not impressed at all by this mascara. It did not add volume to my lashes although it did add some length. The formula is wet and it does not flake or clump. The brush is large and round and I have a hard time applying the product on my lashes. I end up with mascara on my lids. This mascara has a scent that I dislike. The worst thing about this product is that it smudges and gives me raccoon eyes. I will not buy this product again.
After reading so many mixed reviews about this mascara, I've decided to give it a try since I have medium length and straight Asian lashes. The smell (as expected) is weird but it works wonders for my lashes!!! I can see the improvement in length and volume after 2 coats. It doesn't clump if you apply the coats when it's still wet. Definitely the best volumising mascara I've used.
I had read rave reviews about this mascara, so I figured I'd try it out. To be honest, I wasn't really all that impressed...it clumped more than my Maybelline Full 'n Soft, and didn't provide the volume/length that my Full 'n Soft and my Cover Girl Lash Blast did...plus, it ended up all under my eyes...not a good look. Overall, I won't be repurchasing this one.
This product is alright I prefer it over some other drug store mascaras but I, like some others, noticed the formula being different from tube to tube. My friend bought hers the same day and times I have used hers it makes my lashes more cleanly defined whereas mine has a thicker consistency. It gave me a fair amount of curl but my lashes do tend to curl quite easily. I gave this to my mother as i got over it pretty fast. She loves it as she has super thin lashes and finds it hard to get a mascara that doesn't irritate her eyes. It doesnt flake on me and dries quite fast so its good for a rushed natural day. I would honestly say a 3.5
I got a lottttt of compliments when I first started wearing this mascara. It held a curl, made my lashes super long, and gave them volume. But, after using this for about a week, the consistency started to wear down. It was really weird. My lashes started to flake and look spidery. I don't think I'll buy this again.


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