some CO2 to make sure they last years

Please tell me about the CO2 part and how you get it in the buckets….I am with you on the buckets…doing it already.  thanks

Have you checked out Arian Silver? It’s starting to show signs of life. FWIW.

…………..Jeez, those Indians did a job on your computer.

……………….Do you have the XP Discs?
Most folks do not. However, if you do, reload, and do a cleanup Restore.

Today, ran the Avast AntiSpyware program, and the thing told me my SpyBot antivirus was infected with a Trojan. And Windows Control center can’t delete it for unknown missing dll file reasons.

So I blocked any activity by this compromised Spy Bot by blocking ALL activity from it via Zonealarm Control Center.

Sheesh, everyone’s got the damn Swine Flu, Geithner Grippe, or something.

Gold doing nicely on the open. $1,153.40 presently +$15.70

Hope you get the sucker figured out.
Let the board know what, if anything you find, or a computer guy who straightens it out.

Ask specifically what Trojans and get their names.

Your probably not gonna believe this but my fire fox is not working either.

We were talking about pent-up demand in China recently, and I’ve been thinking about it some more. China has recently moved into top position as a producer of gold. Once real popular demand does kick in there as opposed to official demand, quite soon IMHO, then we’ll probably see even more mining there. And we all know how good China is with environmental controls. Then add in the illegal mines which will spring up everywhere, and I suspect we’ll have yet more environmental disasters in China.

On a personal note, I have refrained from buying into any Chinese mines. Partly I simply don’t trust the Chinese government, but I also try not to invest in companies which are or might become polluters. That lets out China IMVHO. Pity, though, Great Panther and others are going well.

I’ve been wondering if Ag would start to lead Au at some point soon. Not today by the look of things. My impression of the charts is that Ag was the follower. Does anyone else have any views?

My living Will

Last night ,My kids and I were sitting in the Living room and I said to them”I never want to live in a vegetative state,dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle.If that ever happins ,just pull the plug”

They got up unplugged the computer and threw out my wine..They are such assholes…

Geez Mazaska now you got me all red in the face.  I’m sure not one of the heavyweights here there’s no doubt of that.  I just try to make a contribution from time to time.  Now Kunstler, that’s a bright guy and a great writer too.  I don’t always agree with him but he does make me think.  A lot of what I think is that I need some acres out in the boonies someplace.  <g>

I do agree with your post about “base knowledge.”… and I think that if us here are generally right then we are going to have the opportunity to change our paths in important ways.  I think 2010 is going to be a a very good year, a year  in which we can alter our destinies.

A Tip ‘o the hat right back at ya friend!  and let’s both enjoy an excellent 2010! 

The Kunstler link (way back there) is most appreciated.  I’ll bet you could never have guessed I’d think so, eh?  HAHAHAHA  I’ve still not even read up to The Tent pages of 2010, although they’re now all downloaded.
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Of course base knowledge is critical.  I’m not an engineer, but I’ve learned much from many, as I’ve worked with many, and I enjoy learning.  First and foremost, from what I gather, is that the acquisition and retention of specialized knowledge is not so important to any of us, as knowing where to find pertinent information when it is needed, alongside the crucial ability to make appropriate connections (why base knowledge is critical).

Discipline, or rather the removal of both emotion and expectation while analizing collected data is yet another.

The best engineers I’ve ever worked with were the most sincere and kind people I’ve ever met. There was always such humility entwined into their demeanor… that can only be present amongst those who truly understand how much can never be known in a lifetime.

At least, that’s the way it looks from here.

I despise the singling out any individual on this forum, but you remind me so much of those I enjoyed working with so much, and learned so much from, that I’d feel remiss for not saying so.

I am in such contrast, that I’m nearly embarrassed.  But I am who I am!

We all have our roles…

Tip ‘o the hat to ya my friend.

Maz

If they come after you, ask Putin and Russia for help. I am sure he’ll be there before you can say “KGB”.

By Tom Miles

BEIJING (Reuters) - China ended 2009 with record monthly imports of crude oil and soybeans and a strong appetite for iron ore and copper, while its aluminum and steel sectors saw a welcome increase in export volumes.

Crude oil imports averaged more than 5 million barrels per day for a month for the first time in December, up by more than a fifth from November at 21.26 million tons, while the total for 2009 rose 13.9 percent to 203.4 million tons.

The return to double-digit annual growth followed a 9.6 percent rise in oil imports in 2008 when prices rose beyond $100 per barrel. In 2009, China’s refineries racked up processing volumes to power a recovering economy, aided by a fuel pricing regime that largely guarantees a fixed margin.

But in a sign the volume of oil imports might not reflect real demand, the country, traditionally an importer of refined fuel, flipped to being a net seller as a 64 percent leap in exports outstripped a 39 percent rise in imports.

yahoofinance

What’s especially upsetting, Johnson said, is that her husband couldn’t buy life insurance to protect his own family once he found out about his cancer. Yet his employer could, she said.

www.rutilusallec.com/?p=5263

Disgusting… First they work you to death then they profit from it…

How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors, and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill.

Wall Street vampires. Lately, a lot of Americans, including myself, have used the bloodsucking monsters as a metaphor to describe the Wall Street billionaires who rule us, and who are ruining us. Like so many awful stories of the past few years, it turns out that these Wall Street vampire-billionaires really exist, literally. Like all vampires, they live in remote castles, and they feed themselves by luring poor, desperate humans into their dens, hooking them into blood-pumping machines and sucking out their plasma for mind-boggling profits.

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www.organichealthwellness.com/?p=1075

America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels
December was the worst month for US unemployment since the Great Recession began.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Published: 6:35PM GMT 10 Jan 2010

The labour force contracted by 661,000. This did not show up in the headline jobless rate because so many Americans dropped out of the system. The broad U6 category of unemployment rose to 17.3pc. That is the one that matters.

Wall Street rallied. Bulls hope that weak jobs data will postpone monetary tightening: a silver lining in every catastrophe, or perhaps a further exhibit of market infantilism.

The home foreclosure guillotine usually drops a year or so after people lose their job, and exhaust their savings. The local sheriff will escort them out of the door, often with some sympathy –– just like the police in 1932, mostly Irish Catholics who tithed 1pc of their pay for soup kitchens.

Realtytrac says defaults and repossessions have been running at over 300,000 a month since February. One million American families lost their homes in the fourth quarter. Moody’s Economy.com expects another 2.4m homes to go this year. Taken together, this looks awfully like Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

Judges are finding ways to block evictions. One magistrate in Minnesota halted a case calling the creditor “harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive”. We are not far from a de facto moratorium in some areas.

This is how it ended between 1932 and 1934, when half the US states declared moratoria or “Farm Holidays”. Such flexibility innoculated America’s democracy against the appeal of Red Unions and Coughlin Fascists. The home siezures are occurring despite frantic efforts by the Obama administration to delay the process.

This policy is entirely justified given the scale of the social crisis. But it also masks the continued rot in the housing market, allows lenders to hide losses, and stores up an ever larger overhang of unsold properties. It takes heroic naivety to think the US housing market has turned the corner (apologies to Goldman Sachs, as always). The fuse has yet to detonate on the next mortgage bomb, $134bn (£83bn) of “option ARM” contracts due to reset violently upwards this year and next.

US house prices have eked out five months of gains on the Case-Shiller index, but momentum stalled in October in half the cities even before the latest surge of 40 basis points in mortgage rates. Karl Case (of the index) says prices may sink another 15pc. “If the 2008 and 2009 loans go bad, then we’re back where we were before – in a nightmare.”

David Rosenberg from Gluskin Sheff said it is remarkable how little traction has been achieved by zero rates and the greatest fiscal blitz of all time. The US economy grew at a 2.2pc rate in the third quarter (entirely due to Obama stimulus). This compares to an average of 7.3pc in the first quarter of every recovery since the Second World War.

Fed hawks are playing with fire by talking up about exit strategies, not for the first time. This is what they did in June 2008. We know what happened three months later. For the record, manufacturing capacity use at 67.2pc, and “auto-buying intentions” are the lowest ever.

The Fed’s own Monetary Multiplier crashed to an all-time low of 0.809 in mid-December. Commercial paper has shrunk by $280bn ($175bn) in since October. Bank credit has been racing down a hair-raising black run since June. It has dropped from $10.844 trillion to $9.013 trillion since November 25. The MZM money supply is contracting at a 3pc annual rate. Broad M3 money is contracting at over 5pc.

Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research said the Fed is baking deflation into the pie later this year, and perhaps a double-dip recession. Europe is even worse.

This has not stopped an army of commentators is trying to bounce the Fed into early rate rises. They accuse Ben Bernanke of repeating the error of 2004 when the Fed waited too long. Sometimes you just want to scream. In 2004 there was no housing collapse, unemployment was 5.5pc, banks were in rude good health, and the Fed Multiplier was 1.73.

How anybody can see imminent inflation in the dying embers of core PCE, just 0.1pc in November, is beyond me.

Mr Rosenberg is asked by clients why Wall Street does not seem to agree with his grim analysis.

His answer is that this is the same Mr Market that bought stocks in October 1987 when they were 25pc overvalued on Shiller “10-year normalized earnings basis” – exactly as they are today – and bought them at even more overvalued prices in 2007, long after the property crash had begun, Bear Stearns funds had imploded, and credit had its August heart attack. The stock market has become a lagging indicator. Tear up the textbooks.

we got our follow thru on the open no less. lots of stops cleared on that whack. best and gt. wj

platform–so gold was up $25–if that is incorrect, I’ll settle for the current quote-$1154.30 +$15.40…that slam job Friday the Cartel did with the $ down so much really pulled back the slingshot…this other very reliable site confirms the $1063 high–quotes are 10 minute delayed

futures.tradingcharts.com/marketquotes/GC_.html

a pickup load of this one?  Hope so!  It should warm you up. 

http://www.thebulliondesk.com/

From the Met Office’s mistakes to Gordon Brown’s wind farms, the cost of ‘green’ policies is growing, warns Christopher Booker

By Christopher Booker
Published: 7:28PM GMT 09 Jan 2010

Got a few more of these? Caving in to the climate change lobby has been ruinously expensive Photo: CORBIS

Impeccable was the timing of that announcement that directors of the Met Office were last year given pay rises of up to 33 per cent, putting its £200,000-a-year chief executive into a higher pay bracket than the Prime Minister. As Britain shivered through Arctic cold and its heaviest snowfalls for decades, our global-warming-obsessed Government machine was caught out in all directions.

For a start, we saw Met Office spokesmen trying to explain why it had got its seasonal forecasts hopelessly wrong for three cold winters and three cool summers in a row. The current cold snap, we were told with the aid of the BBC – itself facing an inquiry into its relentless obsession with “global warming” – was just a “regional” phenomenon, due to “natural” factors. No attempt was made to explain why the same freezing weather is affecting much of the northern hemisphere (with 1,200 places in the US alone last week reporting record snow and low temperatures). And this is the body on which, through its Hadley Centre for Climate Change and the discredited Climatic Research Unit, the world’s politicians rely for weather forecasting 100 years ahead.

Then, as councils across Britain ran out of salt for frozen roads, we had the Transport Minister, Lord Adonis, admitting that we entered this cold spell with only six days’ supply of grit. No mention of the fact that the Highways Agency and councils had been advised that there was no need for them to stockpile any more – let alone that many councils now have more “climate change officials” than gritters.

Then, with the leasing out of sites for nine giant offshore wind farms, there was Gordon Brown’s equally timely relaunch of his “£100 billion green revolution”, designed, in compliance with EU targets, to meet a third of Britain’s electricity needs. This coincided with windless days when Ofgem was showing that our 2,300 existing turbines were providing barely 1/200th of our power. In fact, 80 per cent of the electricity we used last week came either from coal-fired power stations, six of which are before long to be closed under an EU anti-pollution directive, or from gas, of which we only have less than two weeks’ stored supply and 80 per cent of which we will soon have to import on a fast-rising world market.

In every way, Mr Brown’s boast was fantasy. There is no way we could hope to install two giant £4 million offshore turbines every day between now and 2020, let alone that they could meet more than a fraction of our electricity needs. But the cost of whatever does get built will be paid by all of us through our already soaring electricity bills – which a new study last week predicted will quadruple during this decade to an average of £5,000 a year. This would drive well over half the households in Britain into “fuel poverty”, defined as those forced to spend more than 10 per cent of their income on energy.

Finally, following Mr Brown’s earlier boast that his “green revolution” will create “400,000 green jobs”, there was the revelation that more than 90 per cent of the £2 billion cost of Britain’s largest offshore wind farm project to date, the Thames Array, will go to companies abroad, because Britain has virtually no manufacturing capacity.

At last, in all directions, we are beginning to see the terrifying cost of that obsession with “global warming” and “green energy” which for nearly 20 years has had all our main political parties in its grip. For years governments, including the EU, have been shovelling millions of pounds into the coffers of “green” lobby groups, such as Friends of the Earth and the WWF, allowing them in return virtually to dictate our energy policy. Not for nothing is a former head of WWF-UK now chairman of the Met Office.

The bills for such follies are coming in thick and fast. Last winter’s abnormal cold pushed Britain’s death rate up to 40,000 above the average, more than the 35,000 deaths across Europe that warmists love to attribute to the heatwave of 2003. Heaven knows what this winter will bring. And remember that the cost of the Climate Change Act alone has been estimated by our Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband at £18 billion every year until 2050 – a law that only three MPs in this Rotten Parliament dared oppose. Truly have they all gone off their heads.

but many avacato and mango and sugar apple and key lime trees and bannana and plantain plants and various garden herbs and spices and tomatoes and peppers etc but all private gardens and trees on various properties. not enough to sustain a population but just to have some pleasure from time to time when they bear fruit.
however we have a lot of fish all the time fresh as can be caught on the day and never ending including crustations [florida] lobster and stone crab and fresh caught gulf shrimp is still off loaded here on a small commercial scale.
i know the orange and grapefruit groves up north florida are being hit hard. this is uncommon weather but wanka has his fuzzys to keep him warm!
wj

this is bs crapola and all gore’s fault. [g] good bud this is a hurter it is. it will ease this coming week but wont be back to some semblance of 70s till next weekend. even cookie our conyor snuggles under the cage paper and goes catitonic and don’t say boo and you know how that bugger squacks. i’m not too sure i remember anything like this maybe only once before in earlier times but now it really effects my breathing. a few days so be it but this is relentless. no wonder the artic ice caps expanded this past summer and i’m sure they are now having a field day. these global warming freaks have been dis-credited badly not only by the email hack but also by mother nature.
here is a protest group trying to sell the act a few years back
enjoy

wj

Oz PMs not really reacting much to spike, poor turnover as well.

I’m just outside your house… about to knock on the door. 

Food is going to be an interesting subject this year.