Loading ...Thanks for the advice on books. I was too sick from that medicine now on antibiotics to respond. I just pasted them to look them up later.
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When I had a 1974 econo van for camping some mechanic did that to me. He showed me two wires. He said when there done with the smog test switch back these wires so it will run right. When they did the test I think they knew but didn’t say anything. The only thing I could think about was okay this one is supposed to go there and this one here. Later in California all cars 74 or older were no longer mandated for smog just registration. I already donated it to the blind and thought darn that figures but at least his helped them I hope.
Ororeef @ 16:30
Reminds me of when I used to live in CA back in the days when cars had carburetors. You’d take your car to the mechanic to get it smogged and he’d lean out the fuel mixture to allow the car to pass the test (and the car would be running crappy) then when you got home you’d just have to adjust the carb back to where your car would run decently.
What a scam!
This is interesting. At least it looks as if an acknowledgment of reality is happening.
US Intel Officials Made Secret Trip To Damascus For Talks With Assad Advisor
The Al-Akhbar report provided the following details regarding US demands, according to an English translation provided by Syriana Analysis:
The American side made a clear and specific offer: The United States is ready to withdraw its troops completely from Syrian territory, including the Al-Tanf and Eastern Euphrates according to security arrangements supervised by the Russian and Syrian armies. In exchange for three US demands:
First, Iran’s full withdrawal from the Syrian south.
Second, to obtain written guarantees that give US companies a share of the oil sector in the regions of eastern Syria.
Third, the Syrian side to provide the Americans with full data of the terrorist groups and their members, including the numbers of foreign fighter deaths of these groups and those who survived, and those may return to Western countries, considering that the terrorist threat is intercontinental. And what we can get, serve the international security
Va Car Inspection Racket…and ….I thought NJ was BAD
It started Aug 15 ,I took it to Goodrich Dealer ..She said she couldent get to it for at least 3 days..bring it back at the end of the month !(thats the worse time )..I came back,I said do I need an appointment ..your web page says make an appointment”she said ,We DONT accept appointments …Leave it over night..I brought it back at 10 pm ,filled out the info and dropped the key in the door slot as instructed….(no other keys were there before me)I could see in..)next day 5:30 came to pick it up ..they close at 6Pm ..It wasent ready ,she said bring it back tomorrow..I said give me my keys !
Took it to another shop before 8 am WHO SENT COUPONS IN THE MAIL FOR INSPECTIONS ,BRAKE JOBS ETC i THOUGHT MAYBE THEY NEED THE WORK.Ill try them….went back at 12 noon to check on it..,went to the waiting room where I heard an Asian lady complaining about her brake job….I went to sit next to her when she was done complaining ..I said did you have inspection done here ? She said Ill never come back here again.. She said they passed inspection two days ago and as soon as I picked it up the brakes started this awful noise by the time I got home//I came back and now they want $600.00 to fix it …..I said thanks I think Ill just ask for my keys back before the start on mine..Thats what I did ..this time I took it to a Midas place ..this is Wednesday..She said it’ll be Sunday before we can get to it,leave it overnight on Saturday and drop the key in the box…Inspection will be overdue by then….Thatll be three weeks trying to get er done.. Please dont ask me about NJ inspection problems where the STATE does it.and the lines were 4 hours long and you had to pay someone to wait in line for you or miss work…(that was a long time ago ) maybe its better now ?Wish me luck on Sunday !
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I found and extra $1000 so threw some more mud at the wall. Bought 5500 shares based on their aggressive exploration program and recent acquisitions. Not recommending them, just keeping all my cards on the table. They’ve been over $7 and down to $.02. If the sector takes off I expect them to be a leader. Please DYODD!!
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Go long cocoa and stock up on candy bars!
Exclusive: Cameroon cocoa exporters, farmers flee crisis in Anglophone region
LONDON/DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) – Cocoa firms operating in Cameroon have moved staff out of the Anglophone region of the country and farmers are abandoning their crops in the area, as violence between separatists and security forces intensifies, exporters and farmers told Reuters.
Sources say the deepening conflict has started denting cocoa output and flow from the southwest, stripping the region of its mantle as Cameroon’s top cocoa-growing area.
Telcar Cocoa, Olam and Theobroma are among the firms that have moved the majority of their staff out of southwest Cameroon due to safety concerns, according to several sources with knowledge of the matter.
Some cocoa farmers have also abandoned their plantations and fled, driven out by a rise in kidnappings, extortion and fighting between insurgents and security forces.
Hecla’s silver-copper project in remote Montana overcomes hurdle
Kootenai National Forest, an agency that manages 154 forests and 20 grasslands in the U.S., announced today that they have approved the first phase of Hecla Mining’s silver and copper mine in northwestern Montana.
The Rock Creek Mine would be built beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, an area of glaciated peaks and valleys that take their name from the area’s box-like rock formations. Grizzly bears and wolverines inhabit the terrain.
Despite the KNF’s approval for the project, the Associated Press reports there is no clarity as to when work could begin at the remote site because of an ongoing legal dispute between Montana environmental regulators and Hecla (NYSE: HL).
cont. http://www.mining.com/heclas-silver-copper-project-remote-montana-overcomes-hurdle/
Scum hands
Playing whack-a-mole, not letting anything pm mount even a minor rally.
Medical Cannabis Offers New Hope for Those With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Story at-a-glance
Marijuana contains more than 60 different cannabinoids; chemical compounds the human body is uniquely equipped to respond to. Two primary ones are cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Cannabinoids interact with your body by way of naturally occurring cannabinoid receptors embedded in cell membranes throughout your body
Your body also has naturally occurring endocannabinoids that stimulate your cannabinoid receptors and play a role in a variety of physiologic processes, including metabolic regulation, pain, anxiety and immune function
The endocannabinoids produced by your body appear to perform signaling operations similar to your body’s neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin
Recent research reveals endocannabinoids play an important role in controlling inflammatory bowel diseases by preventing excess white blood cells from entering your gut and causing damage
One of the high flyers
Sokoman Receives Western Trend Assays at Moosehead, Newfoundland
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sokoman-receives-western-trend-assays-110000896.html
@ Joe12Pack: Armstrong benchmark
Do you remember ?
What is your advise for now?
THE low around 3-10 september 2018 (Armstrong benchmark)?
Will next benchmark be a low or a high at newyear?
old-timer
The best move of all …
FWIW-
My personal day brighteners:
Silver Eagle rolls from APMEX on eBay less than $400 – includes shipping.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2018-1-oz-Silver-American-Eagle-Coin-BU-Lot-of-20-SKU-159801/112730907490
I don’t have much to say anymore, but still visit every day.
Thank you all.
I’m always harping about “financialization”=Combine financialization, neoliberalism and moral bankruptcy, and you end up with predatory, parasitic elites.
Here’s How We Ended Up With Predatory, Parasitic Elites
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How did our financial and political elites become predatory parasites? Some will answer that elites have always been predatory parasites; as tempting as it may be to offer a blanket denunciation of elites, this overlooks the eras in which elites rose to meet existential crises.
Following in Ancient Rome’s Footsteps: Moral Decay, Rising Wealth Inequality(September 30, 2015)
As historian Peter Turchin explained in his book War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires, the value of sacrifice was a core characteristic of the early Republic’s elite:
“Unlike the selfish elites of the later periods, the aristocracy of the early Republic did not spare its blood or treasure in the service of the common interest. When 50,000 Romans, a staggering one fifth of Rome’s total manpower, perished in the battle of Cannae, as mentioned previously, the senate lost almost one third of its membership. This suggests that the senatorial aristocracy was more likely to be killed in wars than the average citizen….The wealthy classes were also the first to volunteer extra taxes when they were needed… A graduated scale was used in which the senators paid the most, followed by the knights, and then other citizens. In addition, officers and centurions (but not common soldiers!) served without pay, saving the state 20 percent of the legion’s payroll.The richest 1 percent of the Romans during the early Republic was only 10 to 20 times as wealthy as an average Roman citizen.”
Now compare that to the situation in Late Antiquity Rome when
“an average Roman noble of senatorial class had property valued in the neighborhood of 20,000 Roman pounds of gold. There was no “middle class” comparable to the small landholders of the third century B.C.; the huge majority of the population was made up of landless peasants working land that belonged to nobles. These peasants had hardly any property at all, but if we estimate it (very generously) at one tenth of a pound of gold, the wealth differential would be 200,000! Inequality grew both as a result of the rich getting richer (late imperial senators were 100 times wealthier than their Republican predecessors) and those of the middling wealth becoming poor.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/heres-how-we-ended-predatory-parasitic-elites
From the article in the previous post= is reason enough for contrarian investors to proceed with caution before going long on bullion
Given this generally brutal price action in gold, then, we would observe that the flip to a net short stance by CoT large speculators is perhaps quite a bit behind the curve, if not at all “undeserved” — so we can follow the logic by which analysts are pointing to this rare bearish positioning as a “final capitulation” of sorts to mark the bottom of the gold decline. Simultaneously, the cluster of extremes generated by GLD’s sell-off — such as the RMI low, massive outflows, and extended monthly losing streak — would seem to suggest to seasoned market watchers that the battered and bruised metal might reasonably be due for a bounce, even if only of the “dead-cat” variety.
That said, the fact that we’ve already seen a number of headlines touting the net short CoT positioning as a valuable bullish signal for gold is reason enough for contrarian investors to proceed with caution before going long on bullion. And then there’s seasonality to consider; Schaeffer’s Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White notes that gold averages a loss of 2.07% during the month of September, looking back to 2010, with the median return arriving at a 2.43% drop (with only 37.5% of returns positive).
THE SIGNAL THAT’S TURNED EVERYONE INTO A GOLD CONTRARIAN–The precious metal tends to decline during the month of September, looking at returns since 2010 by Bernie Schaeffer
The following is a reprint of the market commentary from the September 2018 edition of The Option Advisor, published on August 24. For more information, or to subscribe to The Option Advisor — featuring 10 new option trades each month — visit our online store.
The centerpiece of most stock market media coverage this past week was the age of the rapidly maturing bull market, and whether or not the current run higher can be accurately and fairly described as the longest in history. It was a debate that clearly divided the financial world into the “closing level” and “intraday level” camps, and a useful diversion during this traditionally quiet post-earnings, pre-Labor Day stretch of August (although this particular late-summer period has certainly not been without its share of political drama, stocks have been so far relatively unmoved by it, on balance).
And so, while pundits have been debating the breadth and depth of various historical stock market corrections and rallies, investors appear to have grown increasingly — and perhaps climactically — bearish on the prospects for gold, the precious metal traditionally viewed as a “safe haven” asset during times of turmoil.
Richard640 @ 12:01
Getting to be not so fictional.
Ponzi World sarcastically refers a lot to “skynet”
[Skynet is a fictional neural net-based conscious group mind and artificial general intelligence system that features centrally in the Terminator franchise and serves as the franchise’s true main antagonist. Wikipedia—The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m.]