Beiträge von Eldorado

  • Das neue Südafrika

    South Africa: 32 cops held after protest


    2007-1-30 08:40



    Johannesburg - Thirty-two police officers and prison warders are behind bars after allegedly assaulting a station commander during a protest demanding her dismissal, the Sowetan reported on Tuesday.


    The protesters, all members of the police and prisons union, Popcru, were arrested on Monday at the Vaal Rand flying squad headquarters in Vanderbijlpark.


    The crowd had been demanding the immediate removal of the unit commander.


    The protest began at 09:00 and continued until policemen arrived and arrested their toyi-toying colleagues at about 14:00.


    Trudie Wilken, of the Vaal Rand police, said those arrested would face charges of assault, trespassing, contravening the Police Act and disrupting police services.


    The 32 were expected to appear in the Vanderbijlpark magistrate's court Tuesday.


    SAPA

  • Gold und Silber... Informationen und Vermutungen I

    Who Runs The World And Controls The Value Of Assets?


    By Joan Veon


    Today, only five countries in the world are without a central bank: Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba and Libya.
    All of these just happen to be on George Bush's "Evil of Axis" list. :D


    In light of the rapid drop in the price of gold and oil, and to answer the question posed earlier of "Who controls value?" we see one name: Rothschild. When we want to discuss the value of gold -- it is set by the Rothschilds on a daily basis. When we want to discuss the value of oil -- they own one of the largest oil companies in the world. And, when we want to discuss interest rates, they are one of the controlling families that own the Federal Reserve Bank, with equally great power over the Bank of England.

    We have just seen a major shift--or reversal--in two major trends that have been dominant since 2000: gold and oil. Is this temporary? At every turn we hear of more wars. There are those who say Bush is preparing for an October strike against Iran. If that is the case, the drop in oil and gold was an excuse to skim off the top of the world's assets (yours and mine). It appears that we are in a time of perpetual war for war is a transfer of wealth and an opportunity to finance both sides. There is nothing in this world that is not affected by the supreme power of a few major families worldwide. Furthermore, most of the major political players today are members of one of Rhode's secret societies: the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute for International Affairs, and the Pilgrims Society.


    Bottom-line--the above newsletters have described a very powerful global mafia that, basically, runs the world. What can "we the people" do?


    Knowledge has always been power. If you operate out of ignorance, you just might sell the family farm! Although the rich and powerful have always run the world, we are now seeing and identifying the forces that run the world in our time.



    http://www.rense.com/general75/wrus.htm

  • Das neue Südafrika

    Africa 2010 WC will boost Africa


    '2007-1-29 21:10


    Addis Ababa - South African President Thabo Mbeki pledged on Monday to ensure the first ever world cup to be staged on African soil would benefit the whole of the world's poorest continent.


    "We have to make absolute certainty that 2010 will benefit Africa and the African Diaspora," Mbeki said in a speech at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa.


    Countries close to South Africa are hoping to reap significant dividends from the 2010 tournament, both from tourists and teams looking for training bases ahead of the finals. :D


    Interest in football, already the most popular sport in Africa, is also likely to accelerate in the countdown to the big kick-off.


    Mbeki said the tournament should leave Africa as a whole better off, and he expressed the hope that it would lead to other countries on the continent staging the world's biggest sporting event.


    Right to stage WC fully earned'


    "We should have this African legacy, we are working on a systematic manner so that it has a lasting legacy," he said before delegates at the summit which included Fifa president Sepp Blatter.


    "As we proceed on our way towards 2010, the continent and the African people will be better than they are today thanks to the role of football."


    Blatter said Africa had fully earned the right to stage the tournament. South Africa controversially lost out to Germany to host the 2006 event, but bounced back with its follow-up bid.


    "Africa has provided the world with so many players and coaches," said Blatter. "We had legitimate joy when South Africa won the rights to host the World Cup in 2010.


    "We are optimistic that football can make things smooth and Africa can be looked upon with respect rather than being patronised."


    'World cup should be for entire continent'


    African football has made huge strides in the last two decades and players such as Barcelona's Cameroon striker Samuel Et'o and Chelsea's Ivorian forward Didier Drogba, are gracing the top leagues in Europe.


    Issa Hayatou, the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), said the decision to hand the continent five places at the next World Cup was a signal of growing respect.


    "We will see that we have to prove ourselves after we have been handed five places," he said.


    Hayatou echoed Mbeki with his desire for the whole continent to benefit from 2010. :rolleyes:


    "I want to tell you that the world cup should be for the entire continent, not only for South Africa," he said.


    "We have differences but we should be together from north to south and west to east. Who could have thought about this 20 years ago?"


    AFP

  • Gold und Silber... Informationen und Vermutungen I

    The New World Order:


    Bilderbergs
    Abstract


    The Bilderbergs – who are they and what do they do? An aura of mystique surrounds the name, casting shades of reflections of the power elite who supposedly rule the world. Presidents, royalty, prime ministers, global industrialists, and financial leaders from around the world are said to be members of the secrete organization that meets once a year to set the direction and course of international affairs, world events, and global policies.


    Once the elite collectivists have it down to three regions, they will then seek two, and finally one: the ultimate manifestation of their one world government New World Order. One government and ONE CURRENCY – giving them complete monopoly over the entire globe.



    http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1170086600.php


    Ps: Angela Merkel ist auch ein Mitglied von dem Verein, die verkauft ihr Volk genauso.

  • Gold und Silber... Informationen und Vermutungen I

    Le Metropole Members,


    Enrico Orlandini has served commentary at The Dos
    Passos Table titled, "JANUARY GOLD REPORT Getting Warmer!"


    "There has been a lot of commentary, articles, and just
    plain gossip about gold lately. Most of it can be
    classified under the "what you don't know, you can always
    make up" category. The bottom line is that most people
    are bearish on gold    . I can always tell."


    Even under the best of circumstances I get the occasional “gold’s all done, get out while you can” e-mail, but in late December it turned into a flood and the tide has yet to recede. The bull market in gold is over they triumphantly announce! Well, if they are druids they better pray to their tree that it isn’t. Without gold and silver there will be no port in the storm for the average investor over the coming two years. Since the bull market in gold began in earnest in 2001, I have beenthe recipient of a lot of investor anxiety (I’m not complaining, just commenting), and most if not all of it has been misplaced or misdirected. If you’re about to tell me that the bull market for gold really began in 1999, don’t! I know that, but almost no one noticed at the time. I’ve provided the usual historical chart for gold above, and if you’ll be so kind as to glance at it, you’ll see that gold’s performance has been remarkable to say the least. So what did I do when faced with the onslaught of negative correspondence? I did what I always do when I smell the stench produced by the mixture of fear and despair, I bought. Now let’s talk about why I did what I did.


    I love the historical charts because they almost always put things in their proper perspective. In my business monthly charts are the best, weekly charts are good, and daily charts are where most of the money is left on the table. Since most human beings are more “today” oriented that I am, and to satisfy their desires, I’ve posted a weekly chart for gold.


    Different time frame, same story! Back in December we looked at this chart and I told you four things:


    · Gold was acting well and tracing out a series of higher lows,


    · Gold was being compressed into a tighter and tighter trading range with lower highs and higher lows,


    · Gold was going to a minimum of $686.20 on this leg up, and


    · Gold would have two seven percent corrections along the way.


    Several things have happened recently that now require a bit of modification. On January 25th the spot gold recorded a print high of $661.20 thereby exceeding the last significant high of $655.50 established back in November 2006. That higher high is the breakout I’ve been waiting for and that should kick this rally into a higher gear. Now with respect to the two seven percent corrections, there is one down and one to go. Using the November high of $655.50, a seven percent correct correction would be $45.88 and land us at $609.61. On an intraday basis, we actually bottomed at $603.00 but the closing low (I use only closing numbers for my analysis) was $609.30 and right on the money. Using the intraday low of $603.00 would amount to a 7.6% correction and still qualify me for tenure at a decent university.


    So if the first correction was right on the money, why did everyone get so bent out of shape and throw in the towel? Two reasons really: ignorance and timing! With respect to timing, everyone thought the first correction would have come at a higher level, say at $686.20 or even $728.60, but the gold gods do have a sense of humor as well as a mind of their own. So the correction came at 655.50. So what? Nothing has changed and it’s one less correction to worry about. Try to keep in mind that we’ll have another seven percent correction to deal with somewhere down the road. My best guess, and it’s just a guess, is that it will come somewhere in the $728.00 range. If my limited math skills still serve me that would be a $50.96 clubbing and a return to 677.04. Assuming that were to be the case, what should one do?


    I would just sit on my hands and do nothing, but that’s just me. The other thing I would do is add on at $680.00 instead of selling at precisely the wrong moment. I realize these aren’t easy things to do, but they are the right things. The people who insist on “trading” gold are getting slaughtered coming and going.


    Getting back to gold, what it has done is maintain an upward bias using the 50-week moving average as support and in the process has staked out a series of three higher lows. The last higher low was the $603.00 low mentioned above. Recently, gold has been busy trying to break out for the $644.50 area. For the record, Friday’s close was at $644.50 and the second consecutive close above this all important number. Why so important? Two reasons:


    · The $644.50 represents the 50% retracement from the $728.00 high back down to the $561.00 low, and


    · The $644.70 (notice the slight difference with the number above) represents the 61.8% retracement from the $252.00 all-time low back up to the $887.50 all-time high.


    Definitely not child’s play and we may have to do a bit of work here to get through it. As a reminder, I have posted the only numbers you need to worry about with respect to gold:


    SUPPORT RESISTANCE


    616.60 644.50


    624.60 664.20


    686.20


    728.60



    Here I’ve given you a score card for gold and you can use it to follow along. These are all the important numbers and the ones in bold print are the most important of all. Anything else is just noise.


    In conclusion, I would like to make one more change in my December forecast. I stated that, looking a little further out in the calendar, I believe we’ll see a close above US $730.40 in the spring of 2007 and a new all-time high sometime later in the year. I now believe that this leg up will not exhaust itself until we see a $775.00 print at the very least. This market spent months, from May 11, 2006 until January 25, 2007, being compressed into a tighter and tighter trading range and I don’t believe we did that to simply rally another $70.00 or so. I believe we’ve broken out of that range with the two consecutive closes above 644.50 and the 661.20 print high which just happened to be above the previous 655.50 high several months before. There is the possibility a minor correction could take us back down to the 636.40 area but I have a lot of difficulty seeing gold go any lower than that. Finally, there is that second correction looming out there on the investment horizon and it will come sooner or later. When is anybody’s guess? Finally, you can rest assured that there will be volatility along the way, and some pain, but the trend will remain up for years to come. ;)


    January 27, 2007


    Dow Theory Analysis SAC


    Lima, Peru

  • Sterling Mining Company

    Entaeuschend der Kursverlauf von Sterling. :(
    Da gehts schon los mit Personal das man nicht so einfach bekommt.
    Wer soll das Silber rausholen ? ist ja nicht so wie in Mexico wo man leichter die Arbeiter bekommt.
    Sterling kann sich neben Clifton stellen, da laeuft auch nichts ausser man vermarketet weiter die Unzen im Boden.
    Nachkaufen... :D .... da gibt es andere wo es sich mehr lohnt. IMO
    Sogar die Mine Management ueberholt nun die Sterling,ohne Permit. :D


    Ach was solls, ich lasse die Sterling Story mal liegen bis wieder ein Hype aufkommt.
    Ich habe keine drei Jahre Zeit um abzuwarten bis dort mal was deftiges produziert wird und die mittlerweile ein wenig rumbutteln mit ihrem Rentnerteam die zwar Experten sind auf dem Gebiet.


    Vielleicht war es die Nachricht vom 4.5 millionen Dollar Spending die den Kurs heute runter schlug.
    Ob das eine gute Investition war wird sich zeigen.


    http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070129/srlm.ob8-k.html


    Ray De Motte muss man persoenlich kennengelernt haben um eine Idee zu bekommen.
    Nett sind die alle, aber was hilft mir das als Aktionaer.


    Gruss


    XEX

  • Gold und Silber... Informationen und Vermutungen I

    auratico


    ..richtig was du schreibst, im text weiter unten redet man von der geringsten Arbeitslosigkeit in D was ich bezweifle.
    Ueber 45 Jahre alt nimmt dich kein Schwein mehr und man bleibt arbeitslos.


    Hier was anderes, der sagt das nur 0.28% der Gelder in PM Fonds/ETF's investiert ist bis jetzt.
    Von einen Goldrush bis jetzt noch nichts zu sehen, dennoch die Tendenz ist steigend.


    The rally leaves gold-basher a bit abashed


    AGENCIES MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2007 02:51:51 AM

    LOS ANGELES: Along with the patience to endure decades-long bear markets, some gold investors have extraordinarily long memories. :rolleyes:


    So we learn from a piece of mail that arrived the other day containing a copy of a column I wrote almost six years ago. The missive, which lacked a return address, consisted of three parts stapled together: The column, dated May 4, 2001, bearing the headline ‘Gold funds’ assets dwindle down to a precious few’; a chart depicting the dramatic rally in gold and silver since then; and a page with the cartoon character Homer Simpson crying “D’Oh!”


    As of early 2001, I noted, gold had been in a bear market for 21 years, and assets of US precious metals mutual funds had dropped to a puny $1.3 billion.


    Of every $1,000 invested in the US funds of all types, I calculated, gold funds accounted for 20 cents.


    Seen in retrospect, that picture looks like a contrarian’s dream. The world price of gold, then at $265 per troy ounce, has since rallied as high as $721 in May 2006, and lately has traded around $660. For the past five years, the two dozen gold and precious-metals funds tracked by Bloomberg have done even better, producing a whopping 32% -a-year return including dividends.


    For all the noise the gold market generates and the heavy media coverage it has always received, gold funds hold a very modest amount of money. Even after all those years of price appreciation, by my rough count, total assets in these funds as of a few days ago came to a bit less than $17 billion.


    Add in another $11 billion or so in GETFs, a new force in the market since 2001, and you get about $28 billion. With overall US fund assets having surpassed $10 trillion last year, gold funds now hold about $2.80 of each $1,000 in funds of all types.


    To some, this may suggest that the gold rally has plenty of room left to keep going. As for me, I have no forecast to offer. As a matter of fact, I made no predictions in that column either, believing then as now that this small, highly emotional market is the very essence of unforecastability. The gold game is an extremely difficult one to play.


    In 1998, the managers of one of the best known gold funds, the First Eagle Gold Fund, said they came within a whisker of closing it down. The fund, with assets of less than $100 million in those days, now holds about $1.1 billion. Recall that in 2001 all US gold funds together held not much more than that. In other words, very little of the money now invested in gold funds was on board when the upward ride began.


    Streettracks Gold Trust, a GETF with an m-cap of $9.5 billion, didn’t come on the scene until November 2004. Since then it has returned 17% a year, according to Bloomberg — a nice payoff, to be sure, but considerably less than the big numbers figured from the lows in the early 00s.


    Lessons learned? :D As a counterweight to life’s other uncertainties and a check on the excesses to which paper-money policy makers are prone, gold is probably due a bit more respect than I was ready to give it back in 2001. For a supposed safe haven, however, gold looks to me as volatile and difficult to trust as ever.

  • Kohle und Kohleminen

    Hast wieder im Keller nachgeschaut Edel :D...kein Wunder diese earnings bei dem Kohlepreis und warmen Winter bis vor kurzen.
    Ich halte die ganze positionen, gute dividenden haben sie ja.
    Was hier fehlt ist ein hoeherer Oilpreis,der hat die Aktien in den Keller gehaut ohne das die Nachfrage gesunken ist.


    Kohle ist und bleibt Bestandteil von Energie, die Aktien erholen sich
    wieder. 4% des Depotwerts in Kohle lasse ich.


    Gruss


    XEX

  • Verhalten von Goldminenaktien im Aktiencrash 2007

    Und falls die PM Aktien crashen sollten dann ist das eine Sache von ein paar Wochen dann schiessen sie ueber den Wert wieder hinaus.
    Fuer mich sind die schon laengst gecrashed, einen HUI unter 300 kann ich mir nicht vorstellen.
    Wie Eichelburg schon sagt in seinen Bericht es koennte auch sein das sie nicht mitfallen.
    50% in physisch und 50% in PM Aktien beruhigen. :D


    Ps.Die Woche faengt ja fad an, der Dollar kommt nicht runter. X(


    Gruss


    Eldo

  • Gold und Silber... Informationen und Vermutungen I

    Innerhalb der naechsten 60 Tage soll angeblich die Atomanlage in Iran bombardiert werden sagt Harald Seigel.
    Eine heisse Sache, die Russen oder Chinesen koennten sich einmischen.



    John Philips:


    Will the U.S. $ peg continue in the Middle East?



    Oil is priced in the U.S. $, which makes it one of the vital interests of the U.S. Without this backing to the $ we have no doubt the path of the $ to the global reserve currency would have been impaired and be undergoing a major attack by now. The thought of oil being priced in currencies other than the $ poses a threat to the credibility of the U.S.$ of major proportions. Any talk of a switch to pricing in other currencies [let alone an actual switch] poses a threat to the U.S. $ in its reserve currency role. This threat is now a real one and poses a considerable danger to the $ in time. But it is unlikely to come from the up-coming Gulf Cooperation Council meeting shortly to take place.


    It appears the Gulf Arab oil producers are to review the currency pegs to the U.S.$ of their currencies and may change their pricing of oil to other currencies. This could happen as early as March according to the United Arab Emirates central bank. The Governors of the six Gulf central banks will meet in March in Saudi Arabia and may agree to switch to another currency or currency basket, Governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi said. But then again, they may decide leave the pegs as they are with any new changes requiring the approval of the Gulf Arab rulers.


    The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) -- UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, are working toward monetary union [a single currency]. Oman placed these discussions in jeopardy last month, saying it would not join in 2010. Suweidi said the governors could opt for more flexible exchange rates, instead of the fixed pegs now maintained by all states except Kuwait, which revalued its currency last year. They may decide to peg to another currency or basket of currencies, he said, declining to comment on what currencies were being considered.


    Because Saudi Arabia accounts for about half the G.C.C.' gross domestic product and 58% of oil production their input on this subject is the most important, so we will not accept this possibility until we hear from Saudi Arabia itself on the matter. It is doubtful that any change of currency in pricing Middle East oil will happen, for the Saudi’s are, in reality, completely dependent on the U.S. for their continued security. So such an offense to the U.S., which is the way it would be perceived, is most unlikely.


    So this event does not pose a real threat to the $. The fact that the issue is being put on the table is describing the uncertain, present global currency scene we see before us. It is getting worse as we will consider further in our future issues, with China now set to take real action to lower their vulnerability to the U.S.$.


    With oil a real ‘currency’ in the definition of the word, oil producers of O.P.E.C. have ‘revalued’ it by helping prices to rise [that is until the weather devalued it recently] to present levels of $53+ a barrel. But at issue in these discussion is the hegemony of the $, which is coming under pressure slowly but surely.

  • Das neue Südafrika

    Barclays 'bankrolls' Mugabe


    2007-1-28 08:05


    London - Three British firms, including Barclays Bank, are providing millions of pounds worth of financial support to Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe, the Observer reported Sunday. 8o


    Standard Chartered Bank and the insurance firm Old Mutual are the other firms reportedly linked to the regime, condemned by human rights organisations worldwide for its oppressiveness.


    Citing an investigation by London-based newsletter Africa Confidential, the paper said that Barclays provided a £30m loan to a state facility which aims to sustain land reform.


    One of the most controversial of Mugabe's policies, this has seen the government seize at least 4 000 farms for redistribution to landless blacks.


    In total, the three companies provide more than one billion pounds' worth of direct and indirect funding to the Mugabe regime, according to the Observer.


    "We have been in Zimbabwe since 1912 and have 1 000 employees serving 150 000 retail, business and corporate customers in the country," a Barclays spokesperson told the paper.


    "We are committed to continuing to provide a service to those customers in what is clearly a difficult operating environment."


    A Standard Chartered spokesperson reportedly confirmed his company had purchased Zimbabwean government bonds, as any commercial bank operating in the country must do.


    "This is part of doing business in Zimbabwe," he added.


    No-one from Old Mutual was available for comment when contacted by the paper.

    SAPA

  • Das neue Südafrika

    Genauso ist es und wird es, Lucky. ;)


    Heute las ich das Valley Blatt, erschreckend, die Neger rauchen viel Tik (heavy drug) und kommen mit Macheten, Messer und Schusswaffen und schlagen brutal zu. Die Typen bei mir waren auch auf Tik darum konnten die vom dritten Stock ""schmerzfrei"" runterspringen.
    Ich dachte ich bin im Zirkus als ich das sah.


    15 Gang Einbrueche nun mit Gewalt pro Woche und man will noch mehr Neger ansiedeln die arbeitslos sind.


    Und nun die ersten Touristen die nicht aufgepasst haben und alles ganz locker sahen.


    Gruss


    Eldo