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Julian Roman - MovieWeb
The director's documentary background informs his almost reportorial attention to landscape, fighting technique, and especially the wild, fascinating otherness of the peoples beyond the reach of Rome.
Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
Lumbering along for a bit less than two hours, which passes like three, it feels more like a chore than like an adventure.
A.O. Scott - New York Times
Despite some breathtaking scenery and documentary-like realism, The Eagle ultimately falls to some surprising contrivances that seem written by focus groups.
Scott Bowles - USA Today
Becomes absurd precisely when Channing Tatum marches onto the scene as a Roman army commander.
Stephanie Merry - Washington Post
This is a movie that needs a great or gonzo performer to give it depth or heft. In Channing Tatum, it has an actor who gives it camp.
Wesley Morris - Boston Globe
A thunderous boys' adventure of the old-school type.
J. Hoberman - Village Voice
Anthony Dod Mantle's cinematography is kinetic when it needs to be, ruminative and pretty when it doesn't. It looks good.
Amy Biancolli - Houston Chronicle
The latest sandals-and-swords outing, "The Eagle" has landed . . . with a thud.
Lisa Kennedy - Denver Post
The Eagle fails to soar, thanks largely to Kevin Macdonald's unimaginative direction and Channing Tatum's charisma-challenged performance.
Kathleen Murphy - MSN Movies
The story sags in the middle, as our wanderers traipse through the highlands-not a happy environment for Tatum, who, before his journey even begins, looks all at sea in this distant age.
Anthony Lane - New Yorker
"The Eagle" is a rip-snorting adventure tale of the sort made before CGI, 3-D and alphabet soup in general took the fun out of moviegoing.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
Too often in "The Eagle," in which the Romans are played by American actors and the Britons are played by Brits, Tatum comes off like "second Roman warrior from the left" rather than "Roman warrior the film is about."
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
Exciting and even moving, this robust epic is filled with action, male bonding, and a terrifying sense of wilderness.
Michael Wilmington - Chicago Reader
A muscularly entertaining adventure inspired by Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction The Eagle of the Ninth, hugely popular in middle schools in the mid-20th century.
Carrie Rickey - Philadelphia Inquirer
Channing Tatum plays Marcus Aquila with an earnest furrowed brow that could indicate gravitas or constipation.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Alas, from its scruffy period melodrama to its repetitious battles and endless cross-country shots, this film is all grandiosity with no real heft.
Tom Long - Detroit News
To its credit, the film does attempt to grapple with the ambivalence that Europe and America feel toward the Roman Empire. We admire its cultural achievements while condemning its brutality, and in that tension we see our own ideals and failures reflected
Kerry Lengel - Arizona Republic
A codpiece-and-crossbow saga of relentlessly exciting battle sequences sandwiched between tedious, unconvincing chatter about cantankerous centurions, fiery feudal warriors and camera-ready six-pack abs modeled by hunky pinups...
Rex Reed - New York Observer
An earnest throwback to an earlier brand of filmmaking.
Brian Lowry - Variety
A long slog through ancient muck, so-so sword fights and dumb luck.
Kyle Smith - New York Post
The greatest impediment of all is the square-jawed, flat-talking Tatum, who is so wooden he presents a fire hazard.
Linda Barnard - Toronto Star
Less epic than Gladiator, less ridiculous than last year's Centurion, less homoerotic than Top Gun (but just barely), this is perfectly acceptable matinee fodder.
Eric D. Snider - Film.com
The Eagle makes for an okay parent-and-young-son film outing. But you'll want to get your youngster the Sutcliff paperback.
Stephen Cole - Globe and Mail
"The Eagle" would be a lot more enjoyable if it weren't for the utterly incoherent action scenes and the side-of-beef performance from rising young hunk Channing Tatum as its supposedly brooding and wounded hero.
Andrew O'Hehir - Salon.com
Engaging, if straightforward and one-dimensional.
Todd McCarthy - Hollywood Reporter
It's hard to go along for the ride when the characters act more like statuary than people.
David Germain - Associated Press
If this episodic quest still manages to feel too flat and mild, at least it gives us the mysterious Highlands and the Celtic dirge of Atli Orvarsson's outstanding score.
Sheri Linden - Los Angeles Times
like many modern war films, it gets too introspective on the horrors of war and the uncertain righteousness of any one side
Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
Despite its bleak atmosphere and sparse storyline, period drama The Eagle is a pleasant surprise. It entertains with some great sword play, and the themes of honor and bravery overcome the simplicity of the story.
Amy Curtis - We Got This Covered
It's a video game, after all: Dull sensation, easily recognizable and comforting images and a total lack of recollection of what it is you were just doing within seconds of it being over.
Will Leitch - Deadspin
Inferior to the similar, based-n-the-same-history "Centurion."
Roger Moore - Movie Nation
It really all comes down to the story. Just like Tatum wasn't up to the task of bringing the character to life, the filmmakers weren't up to the task of bringing the story to life, and that makes all the difference.
Jeff Beck - Examiner.com
Nell Minow - Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
'The Eagle' will likely find a future life on the video shelves of high school history teachers looking for a semi-educational way to kill a couple of days worth of classes.
John Gholson - Cinematical
Fighting isn't big and it isn't clever. But, in the case of "The Eagle," it's the most interesting part of the movie.
Laurence Boyce - The Baltic Times
In the end The Eagle's flight is often striking, but a little erratic.
Andrew Simpson - Fan The Fire
Sadly not a movie about the big-chinned ski jumper Eddie Edwards, this underwhelming feature instead revolves around the 'Ted and Ralph' style bromance between a master and servant during the Roman occupation of England.
Ben Rawson-Jones - Digital Spy
...a distressingly uneven actioner that's rarely as entertaining as one might've hoped...
David Nusair - Reel Film Reviews
It's almost new and interesting, but mostly just hints at some intriguing ideas.
Grae Drake - Movies.com
All the sturm and drang can't hide the obvious. "The Eagle" is "Gladiator" Lite, a low-budget costumer about honor and redemption ... handing your enemy his head on a shield.
Glenn Lovell - CinemaDope
- National Post
It's a really earnest adventure set in the second century. And you know what that means. It means you have to tune your brain back to at least the 1950s.
Dave White - Movies.com
The Eagle appeals to my older self while retaining what made my childhood reading so stirring.
Philip French
Early on it's established that Tatum has a body fat ratio lower than most people's mortgage rates, but his humourless hero is hardly dynamic.
Siobhan Synnot - Scotsman
Tatum acquits himself admirably here, in a film that clearly intends to ensure Hollywood cheese is the last thing that comes to mind...
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
Macdonald captures the Highlands setting beautifully and the two leads make a likeable pairing.
Alex Zane - Sun Online
As culture clashes go, this one should be filed under rout.
Charlotte O'Sullivan - This is London
Take Braveheart, Gladiator and Apocalypto, leave them to simmer in an iron-age pot and you've got The Eagle, a sword-swooshing slice of historical action that's plenty entertaining, if a touch familiar.
David Edwards - Daily Mirror [UK]
The Eagle is not your typical sword and sandal epic. You could easily mistake it for a western, a war movie or even a timely commentary on the human casualties of 21st century conflict.
Allan Hunter - Daily Express
Based on the well-known novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth,' 'The Eagle' is a serviceable movie about the importance of honor and allegiance in ancient Rome.
Linda Cook - KWQC-TV (Iowa)
The hero of the whole production is cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle.
Nigel Andrews - Financial Times
Has all the ingredients of a terrific adventure thriller: an epic quest narrative, strong characters, the tangled interplay of pride, loyalty and masculinity.
Sukhdev Sandhu - Daily Telegraph
A boring Roman Top Gun.
Tom Seymour - Little White Lies
There's plenty of grit and craft on display here, yet somehow the result is never quite as rousing as you'd hope.
Trevor Johnston - Radio Times
While Bell is decent, Tatum is fatally wooden. I'm not really sure that he can act at all; he certainly fails to convince as a Roman soldier.
Coco Forsythe - Future Movies UK
This looks like Ancient Rome as reinterpreted by the makers of Brokeback Mountain but with all the explicit gay sex taken out.
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
A decent, forthright, if finally uninspired sword'n'sandal drama, based on Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 children's novel The Eagle of the Ninth.
Peter Bradshaw
This stilted view of 'Roman honour' is one big, phony cliche. Still, the fight sequences are good...
Mike Edwards - What Culture
There's quite a bit to enjoy about The Eagle.
Roz Laws - Birmingham Post
It's best approached like a buddy movie with gold standards. Because, by Jupiter, it's the rapport between Tatum and Bell that lifts The Eagle beyond any derring-do.
Elliott Noble - Sky Movies
Despite strong, likeable performances from its two charismatic leads, The Eagle never quite takes flight and is ultimately brought down by a dull script, annoyingly edited fight sequences and a boring plot that places too much emphasis on trudging.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
Best of all is Anthony Dod Mantle's breathtaking photography: the Scottish Highlands have never looked so eerily, threateningly beautiful.
Tom Huddleston - Time Out
SINCE the early days of cinema, great actors have found immortality by playing heroes of the Roman Empire. Charlton Heston, Richard Burton...and now the dormouse-eyed, muscly fella from a couple of dance films and that cack GI Joe thing.
Robbie Collin - News of the World
The plot may be corny sentiment, but the movie is rousing entertainment, with two engaging leads
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
Vivid cinematography and bromance between Channing and Jamie keep it standing strong.
- Total Film
Jeremy Brock's script (from Rosemary Sutcliff's novel) begins well, but Brock evidently didn't read past page 42 ...
Jim Lane - Sacramento News & Review
Good fight scenes, but a confusion of plot, culture and accents make this a lesser example of the sword 'n' sandal epic.
Helen OHara - Empire Magazine
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Joseph Proimakis - Movies for the Masses
Perhaps inevitably, it lands as something of a cross-breed between 300 and The New World, which is to say it's both viscerally intoxicating and phantasmagorical.
Rob Humanick - Projection Booth
Good direction and a decent cast help the shaky casting of Channing Tatum in this poor man's "Gladiator" that offers some twists and terrific scenery. Worth a rental.
Bruce Bennett - Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
...an enjoyable film that in no way should be taken as historically literate, let alone accurate.
Philip Martin - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
From what we see, Tatum's character is stubborn and foolish, and should be killed pretty quickly, and would be, were he not the main character.
Adam Lippe - Examiner.com
It strikes me more as exercise in style, really, than a completed film.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky - Ebert Presents At The Movies
While I did not think it were possible for any film to do a worse job in telling the story of the infamous Ninth Legion of the Roman Empire than Centurion, The Eagle does a pretty bang-up job of achieving that status.
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
The combination of battle tactics, subterfuge, and mystery solving while master and slave become friends and equals makes for an enjoyable story.
Kevin A. Ranson - MovieCrypt.com
If we're forced to choose one contemporary Romans 'n' barbarians movie, this is the one.
Kelly Vance - East Bay Express
An adventuresome frolic that sticks to the formulas and provides an entertaining slugfest.
Ron Wilkinson - Monsters and Critics
Wild-eyed, long-haired Brits leap atop the Romans' shields as the soldiers blindly hack away, the bodies so close that you can barely tell the victor from the vanquished. The battles in the fog and rain have a hallucinatory power.
David Edelstein
Fierce yet fragmented, slogging through the story of colliding cultures and one centurion's quest to regain family honor.
Susan Granger - SSG Syndicate
Showing Scotland as wild and forbidding as it must have in the 2nd Century, this is an entertaining adventure made tantalizing by the speculation based on real facts.
Tony Medley - Tolucan Times
Tatum and Bell are good in their roles but the movie just plods along even in its battle sequences
Jackie K. Cooper - jackiekcooper.com
Before a lame, boilerplate ending, "The Eagle" uses calm interludes and intriguing performances to create character traits and compelling drama about caste systems and camaraderie - not just connective tissue to shattered cartilage or bashed brains.
Nick Rogers - Suite101.com
A sword-and-sandals drama that hammers home the virtue of honor but then goes around the bend.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
Unfortunately, the storytelling falters throughout and The Eagle, despite its grandeur, turns out to be Macdonald's most disappointing effort.
Steve Ramos - Boxoffice Magazine
However you slice it, The Eagle is hokum, but modern-day Scots may get a kick out of the film's depiction of their ancestors as mud-caked hellions. Modern-day Romans will have to settle for less.
Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor
It still looks like guys in the woods doing historical re-enactments.
Fred Topel - Screen Junkies
Its intelligence, as well as the light touch in drawing parallels with modern America's adventures abroad, is something to be admired.
Andrea Chase - Killer Movie Reviews
For a comparable lack of verisimilitude, I'd rather pop History of the World: Part I into the DVD player - a line like "The eagle is not a piece of metal. The eagle is Rome" doesn't stand a chance against the likes of "Don't get saucy with me, Bernaise!"
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
As a travelogue the film has air. As a major motion picture, The Eagle doesn't fly.
Gary Wolcott - Tri-City Herald
The acting is lame, and the characters lack depth. The movie's strengths are the authentic costuming and the breathtaking scenery of Scotland and Hungary.
Keith Cohen - Entertainment Spectrum
Probably the only Western set in northern Scotland, and that must count for something.
Katey Rich - CinemaBlend.com
The Eagle is exactly what you'd imagine a movie about Roman centurions should be -- if, that is, you're 12 years old and have a fairly limited imagination.
Mike Scott - Times-Picayune
There's a predictable arc, as the two enemies have to overcome their mutual mistrust to survive.
Joe Williams - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The material here verges on camp, but director Kevin MacDonald has far loftier ambitions.
Radheyan Simonpillai - AskMen.com
It's even less interesting than "Centurion."
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
Perfectly servicable sword n' sandal action flick. Channing Tatum continues to evolve as a leading man, but Jamie Bell steals the show.
Chris Bumbray - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
You can see why the people who made it hoped it would be good. But, unfortunately, it isn't.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
Tatum holds his own. I can find many faults with The Eagle, but he is not one of them.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
There's a potentially interesting story at the heart of The Eagle...
Rebecca Murray - About.com
Compelling performances and frequent bursts of excitement nevertheless warrant an opposable digit, pointed up.
Kevin Williamson - Jam! Movies
The Eagle reaches for more than your typical glories-of-death saga. It's interested in story and character. Unfortunately, the story is not terribly compelling.
Clint O'Connor - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Essentially uncritical of the Roman occupation, while promoting a belief responsible for so much disaster: that not just ideas but 'honor' and its physical symbols -- a standard or flag or gang color or holy book -- are worth killing and dying for.
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
THE EAGLE is a movie that should be better, that has a chance to be something unique and awesome, but ultimately stumbles.
Devin Faraci - CHUD
Roman action epic comes across as grim, violent, and dull.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Common Sense Media
Tatum mounts barbed steeds to fright the souls of fearful adversaries.
Boo Allen
It's just an honest, basic story set forth with brevity, skill, care and intelligence.
Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer
...enough wartime propaganda and chest-thumping battle cries to set a neocon's heart a-flutter.
Jeff Meyers - Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Given that the characterizations and historical details can often be as sketchy as the film's soft-focus backgrounds and moral compass, The Eagle tepidly takes flight but fails to soar.
Marjorie Baumgarten - Austin Chronicle
Gritty day-to-day details distinguish this story of youthful warriors in second-century Britain, based on a young-adult novel whose popularity in the U.K. has remained strong since it was published in 1947.
Maitland McDonagh - Film Journal International
A reliable little adventure flick may be just what we need in the midst of the winter doldrums.
Rob Vaux - Mania.com
Channing Tatum, with his usual deadpan expression, can't decide if he's going to speak normally or try out that British accent he learned in school. He floats back and forth between them and it's a disaster.
Jenna Busch - SheKnows Network
It's the sort of movie that pretends to shed light on history, but really doesn't want us to think at all.
Daniel M. Kimmel - New England Movies Weekly
Our hero is Marcus Flavius Aquila, a Roman soldier played by Channing Tatum, an absurdity from which the film never remotely recovers.
Shawn Levy - Oregonian
Ignore the 'accents,' stay for the story of honor and duty.
Matt Pais - Metromix.com
A flat-footed, goofball international production with a global cast in search of a Roman relic, and also a definitive accent.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
The film sometimes gets dangerously close to vintage Hollywood sword 'n' sandal territory, with American-accented Romans and much manly jaw clenching by Tatum and Bell.
John Hazelton - Screen International
"The Eagle's" sweeping score and grand cinematography are reminders of that old saying: When in ancient Rome, do as Ridley Scott does.
Graham Killeen - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Tatum has the strong-jawed good looks and stoic demeanor of a natural-born movie star. What he lacks is a sense of inner life, a spark of internal fire: When the camera trains on him, you can practically hear the wind whistling through his head.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
Structure and pacing problems doom this otherwise decent sword-and-sandals bromance.
Thomas Leupp - Hollywood.com
There's an annoying "buddy movie" feeling to this that just won't go away. At least Centurion had a sexy witch to offset the unintentional homo-eroticism.
Peg Aloi - Boston Phoenix
Tatum and Bell deserve more than the lethargic narrative that follows them across such exquisite wilderness.
Ted Fry - Seattle Times
Sluggish broadsword clashes and quick-cut chop-and-slash action..The dramatics are overheated, or perhaps oversteeped is more like it, given Donald Sutherland's performance.
Marshall Fine - Hollywood & Fine
[I]f it looks like a loving ode to fascism and sounds like a loving ode to fascism then, well, there's really only one conclusion to draw.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
Macdonald falls back on decently choreographed action sequences and predictable confrontations that add violence and subtract depth. Casting Tatum in the lead doesn't balance that equation.
Scott Tobias - AV Club
Positioned awkwardly between serious historical drama and bloody action movie, The Eagle doesn't end up succeeding as either
Josh Bell - Las Vegas Weekly
Movies like this one are a dime a dozen unless the makers bring something a little extra or unusual to the table. When they don't, they end up as ho-hum as The Eagle.
Dustin Putman
The Eagle can't sustain its scope. When it's small, it's kind of silly. When it's big, it's much, much better.
Bill Gibron - Filmcritic.com
Romans speaking American-style gives it a sloppy, Cliff's notes flavor underscored by Tatum's very contemporary look and the attire of the Britons, animal skin jegging.
Nell Minow - Beliefnet
The non-CGI clashes are realistic, the Seals PC-appealing; and the center is less military than fraternal and filial.
Donald J. Levit - ReelTalk Movie Reviews
This movie has problems unrelated to the acting -- its pacing and storytelling simply don't work onscreen.
Luke Y. Thompson - E! Online
At what point did films set in ancient Roman times stop emulating "Spartacus" or "Ben-Hur" and become a species of cowboys and Indians?
James Verniere - Boston Herald
The Town showed that you could take a well-worn premise and still make something fresh and interesting with it. Most of the time people try to do that, they end up with a movie like The Eagle.
David Medsker - Bullz-Eye.com
It's good, but medium-scale when it had a slim chance of being epic.
Sean O'Connell - Reelrave
The Eagle isn't smart enough to be engrossing or campy enough to be a guilty pleasure.
Robert W. Butler - Kansas City Star
More of a slack poetic edge instead of merciless slaughter, with director Kevin Macdonald unable to secure a riveting pace as he struggles to depict profound stances of honor and absolution.
Brian Orndorf - BrianOrndorf.com
Do you like movies about gladiators? Well, lend me your ears: The Eagle will more than gratify your sword-and-sandal cravings.
Keith Uhlich - Time Out
PG-13 is not the arena this film should be fighting in.
Danny Minton - Fort Bend Sun
"Scottish director Kevin Macdonald as a boy was delighted by the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth. With boyish enthusiasm, he now on film creates the rousing, grueling adventure about redemption.
Tony Macklin - tonymacklin.net
The Eagle deftly walk[s] the line between fun toga party and a weight-of-the-world bloody redemption pic.
Jordan Hoffman - UGO
Nearly everything in The Eagle feels like text carved into a tablet, and the stolid Tatum's lack of an inner life reinforces that miscalculation.
Elvis Mitchell - Movieline
Nothing in The Eagle can be taken seriously, starting with its Wikipedia-ready intro explaining everything complex occurring before the simple-minded flick you're going to see. Funny that a movie for folks who hate subtitles makes them read so much.
Steve Persall - Tampa Bay Times
A proudly old-fashioned adventure about brotherhood that happens to speak to our current moment of moral uncertainty without ever drawing specious analogies between the political reality of its characters' lives and ours.
Ed Gonzalez - Slant Magazine
A cheerfully adolescent male-bonding movie...as silly dramatically as it is historically, but in this case the silliness is rather enjoyable.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
[VIDEO] "The Eagle" is a problematic piece of wartime propaganda that asks the viewer to idolize a manifestation of imperialist destruction as something honorable. Such false devotion reveals a lack of ethical consideration from all parties involved.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
Old-fashioned, earnest and a bit dull, The Egale is a modest, ultra-simplistic historical tale anchored by two appealing actors, Jamie Bell, who's a good actor, and Channing Tatum, who's not.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
Evoking the forgotten meanings of action-adventure films (pre-Tarantino) is enough to make The Eagle a distinctive, if minor, film.
Armond White - New York Press


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Skip to comments.Sales of gold up on eBay amid stock market turmoil
Posted on 08/14/2011 2:01:42 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
SAN FRANCISCO -For gold sellers on eBay, the recent stock market turmoil has been a boon for business.
Gold and silver sales on eBay had already been rising steadily over the past several years so much so that eBay Inc. created a special area in May to make it easier for buyers to find sellers.
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I know your kidding but try digesting a 21 kt gold herring bone gold chain. You will get agida for real.
Last time around our loving government forced everybody to turn in their gold at $21/oz and then set the price at $35/oz.
Just add some zeros next time.
Oh, did I forget to mention that private ownership of bullion and coins - including US gold coins - was a crime for decades thereafter?
I'm banking more on the lead market.
Buy reload equipment and supplies. Lead is only as good as the chamber it fits into.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
Good plan. With enough lead one can retain ones right to own gold. Actually, one can retain ones right to own all of one's posessions.
Forget gold, buy lead.
I have found as many others have that the world PM markets are manipulated.
I use ebay as a good indicator of current silver prices....
And no doubt all the holders will rush to turn in their gold.
Not so much. And if they come door to door for it, they will get a lot of lead and copper mixed in.
I have found this website to be a very useful source of information on the economy, gold, and silver.
Yes, all that is true. The government defaulted in 1933, and stole everyone's money. Well, silver remained until 1964. Then they stiffed foreign central banks in 1971. In 1982, they stopped making _pennies_ out of copper!
Since that time, the government has racked up more and more debt, the sign of a government that may well default again, this time by simply printing.
What makes you think the government would want to confiscate some kid's coin collection at this point? I just don't get this angle.
They don't have to physically take your gold to prevent you from using it.
A goodly chunk of merchants will be unwilling to accept illegal gold, and a goodly percent of them would be quite happy to turn you in as a hoarder.
And then there's the reward money...
Every gold based transaction is an opportunity for public excoriation, fines, jail time or a lethal firefight.
That tends to chill the market a bit, no?
All money is the government's money, Citizen...
I'd also guess you don't get the point of shutting down lemonade stands either.
The whole purpose of having power is the abuse of power.
Yes, governments can do all that, and more. But those are the hallmarks of an increasingly desperate and tyrannical form of government. Trust in government is already at historically low levels and those kinds of actions would probably be extremely counterproductive in that it would be an overt admission that the markets, currency, and economy has only one direction - down, and would also serve to accelerate capital flight out of the country.
I have often thought about exactly what you just posted.
There was a very wise lady financial expert on FOX News about 2 years ago. Everyone was saying that gold would be the "safe haven" even if we were at the stage of a Depression.
She reminded everyone was FDR did.
Then she said something that shocked the panelists (paraphrasing, but this is what she said:
"You guys don't get it. All the government has to do is impose a 95% tax on the sale of gold before they declare it illegal to own it again. Either you are taxed out of owning it, or they fine and imprison you for owning it. History tells us that the majority of citizens will comply."
There might not be anyplace "safe" overseas to put said money and capitol.
Think about it - if he worldwide economy has melted down, and the G20 meet in Geneva to talk about "emergency measures" that would definitely include talks about moving towards a single global currency (and that will happen), then don't you think they will all collaborate in order to prevent capitol and wealth from flowing out of one country and into another?
Answer: of course they would! They would have to.
You are assuming that this administration does not want to destroy the country.
Check your premise.
Please, I beg of you, provide any example you can that indicates you are correct, that this administration wants the country to succeed.
Yes I suppose you've got a point. Logically then, the kid with a coin collection is a terrorist! Once you figure out their playbook it all makes sense, and the headlines practically write themselves.
So, the government wouldn't want to confiscate gold in order for any purported fiscal notions of a new kind of "gold standard", but simply to prevent anyone from using it as a currency or form of payment.
One thing though, this would be a hard sell because the US sells millions of gold and silver bullion and collector coins since 1986.
Yep. Gold hoarders are the new private jet owning evil rich people.
(As will be anyone who looks well fed, I am sooooooo screwed!)
Well, I guess they can try, though it seems a given that this would really hasten the dollars slide among other things, and gold would skyrocket on world markets.
If there were an easy way out of the government fiscal woes, they would do it.
I also question, why is gold the subject of so many people's ire? Particularly, "financial experts" on TV or elsewhere? I mean, Apple stock has done quite well, and nobody is anticipating the government outlawing Apple shares.
The government had a huge role in creating a real estate bubble, and haven't yet outlawed that either. It's strange that making 1000 percent profit in something is considered OK, but if gold goes up, why the government should steal it. Why would that be?
What is "hoarding"? Seriously. It just sounds bad.
I have several thousand dollars in my bank account. Is that "hoarding"?
If I have less than several thousand just sitting in a bank, not contributing to the economy, yes.
Of course it sounds bad, that's the whole point of propaganda!
All right. Looking up the definition in my Websters, it appears that stockpiling isn't "hoarding", though hiding a stockpile would be. So my bank account is OK, but the mason jar buried in the yard, that's not OK.
any of you worried about hoarding, please know that I will take the fall for you!
Just send all your hoarded stash of gold, FRNs, canned goods, and other contraband to me.
We are old, living on a pittance, and will be so happy to make the sacrifice so you don't have to suffer the consequences.
Do I need to add [sarc] ?
No agenda - just a straightforward question: Glenn Beck says he buys gold coins with historic value - collector's coins which supposedly weren't "collected" or exempted in 1933? Anyone?
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Well - FDR's XO ( illegal, btw, imo) allowed for people to keep up to $100 in gold coin (about five ounces) and "collector coins having unusual value" or something like that. Certain firms use that exemption today to push prospective gold buyers into pre 1933 coins under the idea that in a future confiscation those coins would be exempt. My view is that collector coins are a completely different thing and should be avoided unless one is really knowledgeable.
That's a valid question, and a good one to ponder.
A few reasons:
1. There might be some "sour grapes" by people who don't own gold, but I seriously doubt there are too many of those discussing the subject
2. People who buy gold think (rightly or wrongly) that they have the ultimate "hedge" against a global financial meltdown. They can boast: "I've got these governments by the gonads!" I think it is safe to say that that is not correct, by any stretch of the imagination. As stated here, government have all kinds of weapons at their disposal to disarm citizens of their financial independence through gold, to include historical precedents of making it illegal to own it!
3. There are those who think they "own" gold, but don't really have any physical gold in their first person possession. These raise all kinds of issues, the most serious that people have to remember that in 1933, banks opened safe deposit boxes, called the Feds, and had people who had gold stashed in their bank arrested. Didn't happen in hundreds of cases, but it happened. If we don't realize that our government stays awake at night thinking how they can screw us out of gold or independence, we are deluded.
Good point, however, a desperate government during a world financial crisis could just as easily not exempt collector coins. All it takes is words on the Executive Order.
During Prohibition, the government allowed the Catholic church to have a miniscule amount of wine in churches to that they priests could perform Mass. It was regulated and included (I believe) knocks on the doors of the rectory to search for "illegal wine." Our lovely Feds in action.
Never thought about buying gold or silver on ebay. But due to your post I went to ebay's gold/silver area. I monitored a few auctions for American Silver Eagles..... If you are careful you can buy 20 at a good price. $30-$50 less than APMEX which is the industry standard and a good place to check out pricing
Plus on ebay you can pay via paypal which can mean yr credit card. Whereas at APMEX you get dinged for using credit card. On Silver Eagles about $1 extra
No easily searched database for a paper trail there...
No, I guess I was wondering why gold has been derided, it appears no other asset class seems to invoke (in person, online, television, etc, certain type of person who feels compelled to make it their hobby to dissuade anyone from owning or buying gold. One doesn't find this on real estate forums afaik, or stock and mutual fund investment advisor websites.
Even more strange, a glance around the world shows that gold is a respected and sought after form of wealth preservation and it's adherents are certainly not viewed as oddball cranks. They certainly don't argue whether it is money, etc.
My view, the intent of the constitution and the founders was to not allow bills of credit or "paper money" after the disaster and default of the Continental currency. Unwisely, this advice was ignored a hundred years ago to allow for the expansion of the economy and "for other purposes" aka wars, enslavement, etc. Only half joking here.
Today, there is not only the power to tax, but the power to conjure up money that is not based on Any Thing (or even, borrow it back?). Don't claim to understand it, though seems to me when "it" goes, it's gonna be epic. It's amusing to me, sort of, when the pundits say stuff like "Nobody could see this coming" or ""We're in uncharted waters here.". Nonsense. We're in VERY charted waters here, plenty of people saw this coming and have been yelling themselves hoarse for decades now warning about exactly the kind of problems we're now facing because this kind of nonsense happens over and over, history is replete with examples. It is very sad that natural disasters cause such human suffering, but why must we add to the drama by repeating notions that were proven to be mistaken centuries ago? Gold might not be the answer but economically definitely part of the question.
Yes, but do you think that was legal? Why was an XO deemed constitutional to ban gold, but prohibition of alcohol required an Amendment and ratification by the states? Along those same lines, shouldn't the prohibition of say, tobacco or cannibas require that same level? See where I'm going with that?
Congress has voted, I'm told, to "raise the debt ceiling" 100 times in almost 100 years. Do you suppose a group of politicians with what appears to be an unlimited check writing capability is going to wreak havoc? Does anybody really expect that 14 Trillion dollars in debt and another 100 trillion in future outlays is going to be paid in like kind or measure for measure? Gold isn't rising in price because of "uncertainty" then, it's rising because people are indeed quite certain- certain that the inmates are running the asylum.
Dunno about that. One of the best "buy it now" prices on 20 Silver Eagles is this guy. http://stores.ebay.com/bluemooncoinsinc
With 33,000 ebay sales he has a very searchable customer database
You prolly being sarcastic
Of course not! But, none of that matters, does it?
Gold gives a citizen power over the government that has run amok, and that is exactly why they will change the rules and make it illegal/immoral to own it, and/or will tax all of anyone's profits if they try and sell it or move it overseas (my prediction).
I bet I am right.
You're right. I guess because some people see the "gold hoarders" (as I have heard them called) as the problem, and a threat.
They want you to put your money into the Stock Market, or real estate, or the Ronco pocket fisherman, or anything else BUT precious metals because that fact that other people see through the illusion that they themselves still believe scares the living hell out of them.
What do you think of that theory?
Well, do you think silver would be criminalized, then?
"We're all terrorists now.". None of this matters, you say. Like Hell it doesn't, we're Americans, it's time, long past time, for people to stand up for their rights. These people will eventually try to confiscate our souls.
To Hell With Them. Amen.
I think it may well have something to do with commissions, yes. I bought one (1) gold coin in the 90s because ever since I was a little kid with a coin collection I wanted a $20 eagle. Sadly, my paper route didn't seem to support that desire and my parents wouldn't budge, lol. Soon after my purchase England's PM sold most of her stash and the price dropped to $275. Most of the mainstream advice didn't make sense though - historically most advisors reccomended 5 percent gold in a portfolio, and this seemed to be downplayed. The detractors said things like "it's heavy"
or "it needs to be assayed" "costs money to store", all of which is true if someone is VERY wealthy, and wants to take actual delivery of 400 ounce bars.
Having said all that, money itself is absurd, if the best measure or marker that can be found is a shiny rock formerly found in streambeds. We can measure and define "stuff" more accurately than ever before, but money is now either colored pieces of paper with dead people's likeness engraved on them, or increasingly, digital representations of ones and zeros stored on a hard drive somewhere.
A few coins have none of those issues.
Yeah creating a black market has worked so well to drive down the price and availability of drugs.....
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Neill Blomkamp talks about how details matter when world-building for 'Elysium'
One of the things that was immediately apparent when I saw "District 9" for the first time is that Neill Blomkamp has a fantastic eye for detail. Everything about that movie is in service of selling the reality, and when I recently rewatched it, I found myself repeatedly laughing at the tactile sense of place that Blomkamp's films evoke.
In "Elysium," it's even more critical that environment serve as storyteller, and the decision to shoot in real Mexican dumps, using those to double as Los Angeles, is both bold and slightly terrifying. I can't imagine the stress of taking a movie star as well known as Matt Damon to a location shoot in a place where kidnapping is an industry, and there's no way I would have been able to stop thinking about John Wayne's health problems after shooting "The Conqueror" as I was running around that dump amidst toxic materials and wind machines. When you see how it all reads on film, though, Blomkamp made the right call. It doesn't feel like a set, like something put together by a production designer, but instead feels like what it is, a monument of human waste, built over time.
We don't get to see much of Elysium itself, and that's a bit of a bummer. I would have liked to have seen more of this society built by the wealthy elite to satisfy their wants and needs. Unlike Earth, where we're always building on the past, where we're updating and paving over and retrofitting, Elysium was a blank slate for them to build with purpose and specific function in mind, and I'd love to see more of what that looks like and how people share that space and how they customize it.
I think it's a testament to the way Blomkamp creates the spaces for his film that I'm that curious about the things we don't see. Sure, anyone can hire WETA and have them build nice props, but Blomkamp's visual imagination all seems to serve this aesthetic, and it's becoming one of the things I look forward to in his movies. When we sat down to discuss "Elysium," it was frustrating because I could easily have spent an hour just discussing the peripherals of his world with him, and we had to somehow have our whole conversation in five minutes.
I have a feeling Blomkamp's in it for the long haul, though, and I'm sure we'll have many more conversations about many more films in the future, and I look forward to all of it eagerly.
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Does any one know if you can buy the wii in spain and would it work here in britain.I have a realtive going to benidorm and wonder if they could buy 1 for me.
does anyone know anywhere in benidorm that would sell them just a shot in the dark i am getting desperate
A friend who recently came back from Costa brava said they we're on the shop shelves with hardly any takers. So sounds like a good idea.
They'd just need an adapter, the instruction should come with an English section and it would be PAL. You'd just need a plug adapter.
Good luck.
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When Australia remembers its war dead on Anzac Day later this month, the pubs will be full of old soldiers playing "two-up" – a traditional betting game similar to "heads or tails" that was popular on the First World War battlefields.
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Broward Commissioner Stacy Ritter Gets the Lew Rockwell Treatment
The Broward Commission voted yesterday to go through with its complaint to the Transportation Security Administration against the body scanners at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, but the conversation that took place before the vote apparently didn't quite satisfy some of the TSA's harshest critics.
A columnist over at the Lew Rockwell website -- run by the libertarian political commentator of the same name -- wasn't too happy with what Broward Commissioner Stacy Ritter said at yesterday's commission meeting.
If there's such a phrase, Ritter got Rockwell'd.
Among the dissenters was Comrade-sorry, Commissioner Stacy Ritter. She believes, unbelievably enough, that passengers have "'some personal responsibility here.' If travelers study the issue and decide they don't want to go through the scanners, they don't have to. They can opt for a thorough pat-down." This is what passes for "choice" among Our Rulers -- and since we may "choose," this moron figures the Feds should be free to endanger us. Wanna bet she'd never extend that same liberty to entrepreneurs (not that they'd want it)?
You won't be surprised to learn that she also "said she trusted what the TSA said. ...'Are we as government officials going to say we don't believe government?' [she asked.] 'Well, I won't say that.'"
Finally! A politician with conviction, willing to fall on her sword for the overlords in DC! Let us hope she reaps the due rewards of such loyalty.
A TSA spokesman ("spokesliar," if we're keeping the Rockwell terminology) read a statement from the agency at the commission meeting, which you can read over at Broward Politics.
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Reducing your draw distance is the obvious solution.
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Coached by CSULA Computer Science Professor Raj Pamula, Cal State L.A.s three teams included Sanmit Narvekar and Alfonso Ortega (16th place); Yin Yin Chen, Alberto Gutierrez and Rafael Sanchez (36th place); and Michael Hsu and Mark Buising (honorable mention).
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I faced a problem while creating parallel tasks in state machine workflow. My requirement is same as OUT of Box SharePoint approval workflow which allows multiple users to approve the document and when everyone approves the document, document moves to next state which is approved.
All the articles pointed me that this is possible in sequential workflow.
Here is the thread which explains the problem, I am not going to invest much time to explain the problem
I downloaded the code sample available at Microsoft site which is basic state machine workflow. Following is the link.
Modifications to the code are as follows:
I found this easy to implement, though manual code is involved which should be done via a parallel activity. Code can be downloaded from
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