Me ! :D.... thanks Gogh 
Beiträge von Eldorado
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Ich lese wieder seit langer Zeit unser Dorfzeitung.
15 Hauseinbrueche in der Woche.
Das Wasserreservoir wurde schwer beschaedigt als Metalldiebe es zerlegten, millionen von Liter Trinkwasser rannten den Berg runter.
Alles was nicht Niet und Nagelfest ist wie Kupferschilder an der Wand werden weggerissen von den Haueser, die Bibliotek hat es auch erwischt.
Die Armen brauchen Geld, das Leben ist zu teuer, zum sterben zu viel, zum Leben zu wenig.Leider schon wieder..
Teen raped, shot five times
2006-12-22 10:28
Johannesburg
A 13-year-old girl has been raped, shot five times and left in the veld in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Friday.
Inspector Vusi Mabanga said the bleeding teenager was found by a passer-by at 06:00.She told metro police she was abducted by a group of men at the Ebumnandini squatter camp on Thursday night.
She was raped and one of the men later shot her five times in the back and left her to die. ...... BASTARDS !!!
Mabanga said the girl was in a critical condition when he arrived at scene, but she was able to tell officers her name and a few details of what happened.
She was airlifted to the Johannesburg hospital
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'Suicide' could cost Kebbles R30m
2006-12-22 08:48
Johannesburg - Murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble's family faces the bleak prospect of having to pay back R30m in insurance money if he indeed died in a bizarre assisted suicide.
Kebble took out life insurance with Liberty Life and Discovery Life only a few months before he was gunned down in Johannesburg in September 2005.
Glenn Agliotti, 50, a business associate of Kebble and the alleged mobster accused of killing the mining magnate, told the Johannesburg regional court in a bail application last week that Kebble planned his own death.
He allegedly had to make sure that Kebble died in what had to look like a botched hijacking, he told the court.
According to life insurance policy conditions, no payments are made if the client committed suicide.
Kebble's estate, his wife and children were the beneficiaries of the policies, which had already been paid out.
According to Liberty Life spokesperson Mandy Denton the company never suspected any foul play after their forensic investigation into the murder had been completed.
Liberty paid out about R10m.
"It seemed like a normal murder. The new allegations and the turnout would indicate our future course of action.
"Insurance is based on insuring against the unforeseen and not something that had been planned," she said.
It seldom happens that the beneficiaries have to pay back the money, she said.
"We'd never recorded any cases of assisted suicide before. This case is definitely unique. We will have to find a way to get the money back if Kebble's death was indeed suicide."
Insurance companies usually ask beneficiaries to pay back the money voluntarily, but if there's no reaction, they turn to legal action.
Discovery Life confirmed Liberty's statements and agreed that assisted suicide was very rare.
Kenny Rabson, senior actuary at Discovery Life, said Kebble took out life insurance of about R20m, which had already been paid out to his estate as no other beneficiaries had been nominated.
"Should the suicide allegations be proven, we could claim against the estate.
"But we will have to keep in mind that the estate is insolvent and that Discovery is a concurrent creditor and not a preferred creditor (such as the South African Revenue Services), said Rabson.
Beeld
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2007 & Beyond: Dollar Looks Vulnerable, Gold Looks Good
By Stephen Clayson
21 Dec 2006 at 12:50 PM ESTLONDON (ResourceInvestor.com) -- It is almost the end of a year that saw gold investors very excited by a gold price that during May soared above $700 an ounce, but that at the moment seems stubbornly stuck around the low $600s. However, there are a number of factors coming into play in the early part of 2007 that may give the yellow metal a lift. ....
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Check this out and more ;)...
http://www.geocities.com/southafrica2000/new.htm
...THE CHEAPER OF TWO EVILS
Two recent court cases have earned the attention of newspaper readers in South Africa. One person was fined R1 000 for not having a TV licence. Another was released on bail for R500 after being arrested for murder. The moral of this South African story: if you do not have a TV licence and the inspector comes round, kill him. You'll save R500.
....NO ROBBERY, WE'RE BLACK
Burglars greeted their victim at the front door of his house in Kroonstad, Free State, and apologised for breaking into his house. According to them, they did not realise that he was black.
Sgt. Stephen Thakeng of the SAPD said that the owner of the house, who wishes to remain anonymous, and his wife was awakened by a noise at 02:00. Three armed burglars obtained entry into the house by forcing the burglar bars of a window. The burglars asked the man whether he was the owner of the house. When he replied "yes", they apologised and said they were under the impression that the house was owned by whites. They only burglarise white people's houses, they assured him.
The burglars took the man's cellphone, cut his telephone line, and greeted him by hand at the front door before disappearing into the night.
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GO GATA!
Perhaps the quote of the day should have been from Dave in Denver:
"I watch/trade silver and gold futures all day, every day and most evenings - there is definitely a systematic capping effort going on right now."
The AM Fix: $622, up $1.50 over the prior Comex close. That was all she wrote, as is so often the case. Gold was capped further and taken lower. It was a comatose trading day early on at the Comex, until late in the session. The conniving, corrupt cabal Mafia leaned on gold when much of the gold world had retired for the day … and they did so even though the dollar held steady and the news was US dollar/economy bearish.
Our Comex floor source says that two central banks sold 25 tonnes of gold last Friday, which is why it fell out of bed, dropping more than $12 in a very short period of time. Clearly this was Gold Cartel orchestrated, as the gold was sold to impact the market, not to maximize profits. There is no other explanation for so much gold to be sold, AFTER, rather than at, the London PM Fix on a Friday afternoon, when the Europeans have left for the weekend.
That same floor source, a knowledgeable veteran, thinks gold could reach $750 by the end of January. This prediction is not coming from someone smoking dope. The setup for such a move is upon us. The outside market news continues to be extremely constructive, which will become more apparent as you go through this MIDAS.
Silver was weak right from the get-go. So was copper, which has completed a massive top and is making like a submarine, for the moment. All the base metals were lower.
The gold open interest fell 1097 contracts to 336,009. The silver open interest continues to contract, falling another 1322 contracts to 102,036. This liquidation is setting up a gigantic move higher for silver.
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Porque El Amero, Amigos
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
December 19, 2006The jungle drummers are already beating out the message: The "Amero" - the new currency for the North American Union - is coming...and Americans should accept it with alacrity. The party line is that the North American Union, as a new supra-national political entity, should have a currency of its own. Such is the propaganda. What is the reality?
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Le Metropole Members,
Eckart Woertz has served commentary at The Man Ray
Table titled, "The Coming Mining Investment Boom in
the Arabian Gulf.""That there could be a coming boom in mining investments
in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC:
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman) may
seem to be an odd idea to many observers. We had a boom
in local stocks and still have one in oil and real
estate, but mining? While oil and "soft rock" is of
course a well known topic in the region, mining "hard
rock" is decisively less so. Although the Gulf is the
second biggest buyer of gold in the world after India
and enjoys the allure of diamonds as well, investments
in mining companies have been relatively unpopular so
far. There have been some (e.g. in Klondike Star,
Unigold, Hunter Dickinson, Metalex), but they have
been small compared to the importance of trading in
the metal itself. The average Gulf investor wants to
have his or her gold under the pillow (which can be a
Swiss one, of course), not somewhere in the ground
in funny places like the US or South Africa.
Increased leverage is rather sought by playing the futures markets
than by embarking on mining investments."This is about to change."
![:]](https://goldseiten-forum.com/wcf/images/smilies/pleased.gif "Freude")
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Sir Alan Greenspan left in time and can't be blamed.
Ben gets the heat !
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Das sind meine einzigen Bedenken das Minen in USA verstaatlicht werden.
Wenn es in die Richtung geht muss man vorher raus.
Die Chinesen geben dem PPT eine raffinierte Retourkutsche auf ihre Art.
Watch out !
Die Russen sind dabei ihre Rohstoffe ebenso in russische Haende zu bringen, man macht es nun auslaendischen Firmen schwerer als zuvor.
Gehandelt wird in Rubel, who needs the Fiat Dollars.Bush und Ben werden sich noch umschaun wie das Spiel weiter geht.
Aufpassen muss er wenn er militaerische Drohungen gegen China macht.
Dann geht der Russe mit den Chinesen, dann eine verspaetete Lenin/Mao Feier,......... am ende des Tages.
Vielleicht bringen die Ordnung in die Welt ? ...der kalte Krieg ist offiziell nicht beendet.
Man hat nun eine neue Taktik der arroganten Bush Administration eine Lektion zu erteilen.Wenn es hart auf hart geht dann hilft China den Iran, wahrscheinlich auch die Russen die das Oil und Gas von denen nicht brauchen.
Da gehts um was anderes....Bush erhoeht nun die Truppenzahl im Irak, der Arsch zuendet noch einen Weltkrieg an.
Da ist ein Rohstoffkrieg im Gange und die wenigsten merken es.
Das wird noch spannend in 2007, der Oilpreis sollte steigen, trotz den warmen Winter.....bis jetzt.
Gibt es dann Ostern im Eis, mir kommt so vor das meiste hat sich um zwei Monate bereits verschoben.Anyway, wenn die Amis bis 2008 nicht raus sind aus der Gegend dann knallt es gewaltig.......IMO
Den Rest kann man sich ausmalen.
Cheers
XEX
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Latest rumored USD mini crisis (Man drohte den Chinesen)
Last week, there were meetings between Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chair Bernanke, and other 'A' team US trade and banking representatives with China. This meeting resulted in a number of internet rumors and some verifiable comments that China is not giving in to US demands for a revalued Yuan/RMB. That is causing the US congress to get very mad, there are trade sanctions coming in 07.
The Chinese evidently threatened to dump the USD - they have about a $trillion. Then a very interesting development - the Mid East oil nations stated they will be severely harmed by a collapsing USD if China dumps it.From what I have heard, when the Chinese floated their idea (threatened) to go ahead and actually dump the USD this last week, first the EU told them they would not sell them enough Euros.
Then, the Mid East Oil nations said they will not sell China oil if they dump the USD. China, however is not the type of nation to like being dictated to. They won't let the US dictate to them with trade sanction threats, and they won't take any EU interference in this situation well either, nor will they take Arab oil hostility well either. Also, the moderate ($$) Arabs are concerned that a paralyzed US would leave them wide open to a hostile domineering Iran. 
They threatened to embargo oil to China should they dump the USD.
All of this shows how high the stakes are going into 07 for the USD - and how serious this USD situation is now.
I think we can say, the USD situation is now at a crisis stage....moreHowever, if the USD were to eventually completely collapse, many USD accounts will be frozen and there will be foreign exchange controls. Meaning you will be forced to ride whatever the outcome of the USD becomes. If the situation got really bad, I believe many mines will be nationalized world wide - that is already happening anyway. A gold stock is not as safe as a gold coin. Of course, these can be confiscated too, and they have been in the US once already in the Great Depression when US gold coin was recalled by the US government so they could run big deficits....more
USD - 07 a final year?
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Feng shui investors brace for year of fire on water
Thursday December 21, 1:34 am ET
By James Pomfret and Ian Chua
HONG KONG (Reuters)
Forget fund flows and profit predictions,
2007 is about "fire sitting on water."
Buy oil, avoid metals, and don't get your fingers burned."Asia is comparatively stable, the bad energy is in the North next year, so therefore America and those (Western) countries will more easily have natural disasters and other problems."
He also believes a "sick" energy might arise.
"Something we have to be careful of is sickness and health problems. Epidemics could come. We have to worry about avian flu, that kind of thing."
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ITS A GOOD TIME AGAIN TO BUY COAL SHARES.... IMO
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South Africa Mbeki's popularity wanes: poll
2006-12-21 12:30
Johannesburg - President Thabo Mbeki's approval rating has dropped to its lowest level in four years following a series of scandals involving the governing ANC party, a poll showed on Thursday.
The poll by the Johannesburg-based Research Surveys institute showed that Mbeki had a 53% approval rating, eight percent down on the figure recorded six months ago.
Mbeki, who is due to stand down as head of the African National Congress next year and president of the country in 2009, has presided over a series of embarrassing incidents in recent months during which the party's chief whip has been expelled for sexual harassment and a string of lawmakers convicted of, or admitting to, fiddling their expenses.
Research Surveys director Neil Higgs said Mbeki's support had also tailed off as a result of the government's failure to fight the rampant crime rate.
A temporary boost to his rating which followed his decision to sack deputy president Jacob Zuma last year had since faded, with Zuma's supporters constantly sniping at the president.
Mbeki's first three years in office from 2000 saw him struggle with approval ratings that hovered around the 30% mark as he tried to shake off the shadow of his popular predecessor Nelson Mandela. However his popularity shot up when South Africa won the right to stage the 2010 World Cup.
A total of 2 000 people were questioned for the survey which has a 2.5% margin of error.
AFP
Gnade uns Gott wenn Jacob Zuma ans Ruder kommt....siehe Bild unten.
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Rand's run baffles analysts
2006-12-21 09:29
South Africa's rand was steady against the dollar on Thursday, after strengthening significantly in overnight trade, baffling analysts as it moved in a different direction than other emerging markets.
The rand stood at R6.9175/US$ at 09:00, little changed from the New York close of R6.9150, after the weakest level of R6.9250 in the session.
Analysts said the local currency's movements could have been exaggerated due to thin liquidity in the markets ahead of the Christmas holidays.
"It's a bit of a strange situation, because the metals' prices are softer, and other emerging markets are weaker," Ion de Vleeschauwer, Rennies Bank chief dealer said.
"I think what's driving it is corporate orders being pushed through in thin market conditions, and moves tend to be exaggerated in those conditions," he said.
Traders said the rand was likely to strengthen further to reach the next level of R6.85/$.
"It's difficult to say how long it (rand strength) will last for but it will probably continue until next week. General importer demand is not there because most corporates are on holiday," de Vleeschauwer said.
"The rand is likely to break stronger because the dollar is still a bit weaker," another trader said.
The rand was also supported by the euro, currency of South Africa's largest trading partner, which was trading next to its 20-month high seen in early December.
The euro inched up to $1.3190, within a 20-month high seen in early December.
Spot gold was still down at $621.30. South Africa is the largest producer and exporter of the precious metal, earning most of its foreign currency from it.
The markets would be eyeing the producer inflation data (PPI) due at 11:30.
"If the PPI comes lower than expected, it's likely to be supportive of the rand. But the currency has not been phased by data lately," de Vleeschauwer said.
Economists polled by Reuters expected producer inflation to accelerate to 10.2% in November.
Government bonds were also firmer on Thursday, with yields on the most-traded R153 bond due 2010 falling three basis points to 8.10% from Wednesday's closing levels while those on the benchmark R157 due 2015 were also down one basis point at 7.935%.
Reuters
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Das Wesentliche so prägnant und schlüssig von Israel Friedeman.
...sollte man sich immer im Kopf behalten...Lat's go back to SILVER my logik tells me that we are only by the begining of the road
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""Er hat, so wie er auch im Eagle-Ranch-Forum schreibt, in irgendeinem amerikanischen Slang geantwortet.""
Yeeh.....tats guud wreiting Izzy.
...EagleRanch Outside-Link or Page Lock Error ::
Mr. Friedman has owned and studied silver for 30 years.
"" I say don't invest in SILVER this is not for trading ""
What a mentor is that ?
From Comex ?
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My logik tells me it's can be anny time
""Israel"" FriedmannMe personaly belive is in logic and the rest isn't importand.
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Relative Performance
Paul Van Eeden
Dec 19, 2006During the past two weeks the US dollar rebounded on foreign exchange markets and as a consequence the US dollar gold price fell. The dollar appreciated 2% against the average of the euro, pound, yen and Swiss franc while gold fell 4.7%. This is nothing but the natural volatility that we should expect from public markets as investors try to be forward-looking and react to new data. While traders try to anticipate volatility and profit from it, I try to ignore it and keep my eye on the bigger picture.
I believe that the US dollar gold price will exceed $1,000 an ounce in the next few years, and so my only interest in the short term gold price is the possibility of a sharp decline in sympathy with base metals -- a superb buying opportunity if it occurred, and fortunately easy to identify. In the meantime, declines in the gold price, like the past week?s, are easy to ignore.
Gold?s rise to $1,000 will be on the back of a falling US dollar and I expect the dollar to fall as the US economy falters. But that is, apparently, not what Wall Street or Federal Reserve Bank expect to happen.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal last week, the US central bank and much of Wall Street are now betting that declines in real estate and the auto industry will prove to be isolated events that will not impact the economy beyond those respective industries. Apparently they believe (hope?) that home builders and auto makers are curbing production to trim excess inventories as a temporary response to a decline in the unsustainable demand of the past few years. They do not believe that there are broader forces tipping the entire economy into recession. I do not share that optimism, and you can find my reasoning in previous commentaries on my website at
http://www.paulvaneeden.com/pebble.asp?relid=34.
Perhaps Wall Street is just being optimistic, but there is another explanation for the soaring stock prices that we have seen lately, and it has to do with the fact that the majority of money being invested today is invested through mutual funds and professional fund managers.
The measure of a mutual fund manager?s success is how well he fares relative to the competition (other money managers) and the market as a whole. He is therefore most concerned with relative performance. It does not matter if he loses 20% in one year as long as other money managers lost more and the market segment that he invests in declined on average by at least that much. It also does not matter if he only makes 3% gains, as long as he is outperforming his peers and does at least as well as the market on average.
The one thing he cannot afford to do, is to under-perform either the market or his peers, for then he could lose his lucrative job.
Because performance is usually measured on a quarterly or annual basis, or both, the professional money manager has to concern himself with short-term performance. He cannot make longer term, contrarian investments that could pay off extremely well because he might get fired before his investments mature. Fund managers therefore often try to gauge the impact of current events on markets with a short-term (one month to one year) time horizon.
With the US economy slowing it is becoming more and more difficult to see how the Fed is going to justify raising interest rates in the near future. If economic activity slows sufficiently, the Fed may even cut rates, and lower interest rates are usually good for stocks. That is why professional money managers are pouring money into the stock market and why the stock market is in record high territory.
Of course, if you look at the bigger picture, it would make sense to do exactly the opposite. If the US economy is slowing down then it will ultimately start impacting corporate profits and stock prices. And if my thesis about the dollar falling while US interest rates rise is correct, we could have a really negative environment for stocks (see: ?The Big Picture? http://www.paulvaneeden.com/pebble.asp?relid=543). But mutual fund managers cannot easily make that bet, because it requires them to act contrary to their peers and therefore represents great personal risk to them.
On the other hand, when you invest your own money, like I do, then relative performance becomes entirely irrelevant and the only thing that matters is absolute returns. My own investment strategy is therefore often at odds with the majority of other investors and investment trends. It bothers me about as much as short term volatility in the gold price. I am only interested in positioning my investments where I perceive the best upside potential for the least amount of risk.
Happy Holidays,
Paul Van Eeden
Dec 19, 2006 -
Cook: You’re convinced industrial demand will remain strong?
Butler: Sure, There has been no fall-off in industrial demand to speak of in copper, zinc, nickel or oil in response to high prices. Why would silver be different?
Cook: What about in a recession?
Butler: It depends. If it’s just a recession in the US, and not in China, it should be no big deal to silver.
The funny thing is that silver historically had its biggest gains in past recessions. A lot of people buy silver for bad times and for monetary purposes. Not me, mind you, but bad economic news might impact silver positively. In any event, I’m not worried about a collapse in demand or big supplies being dumped on the market in a recession, because demand is super-diversified and there are no big supplies to be dumped.
Cook: I see silver as real wealth. It’s wealth you don’t get with paper assets. Do you agree?
Butler: Yes and no. I agree that silver is an undervalued asset that will appreciate in the long term, and that makes it logical to hold. And it certainly offers diversification from other paper assets. But, at some point, and that point may be very far off in time, it will likely no longer be undervalued. If, and when, that time comes, it will probably be prudent to switch into what may be undervalued at that time. I hope this doesn’t shock you, but I’m not a silver worshipper. I’m an analyst, looking for the best value.
Cook: We haven’t had a real financial panic in the U.S. since 1929. The main reason is that we deal with any potential economic crisis by inflating. Money is abundant and it’s impacting the price of assets. Do you see silver benefiting from inflation?
Butler: Sure, but by definition no more or less than everything else. Inflation or currency depreciation is not silver specific. I don’t talk about it because so many do speak about it and I kind of thought it was self-evident.
Cook: What about the monetary value of gold and silver?
Butler: If monetary value means a valuable asset worthy of investment consideration, then I agree. If you mean silver being used as money, it’s a pipe dream. In the modern world money is not the highest and best use. This issue was settled 40 years ago when the U.S. stopped using silver in coinage because there wasn’t enough around to hold the price below the melt value.
Cook: The U.S. recently put a ban on exporting and melting U.S. copper and nickel coins because the base metal content is now worth more than the face value of the coins. Any thoughts on this?
Butler: I think it highlights the overall demand and scarcity of natural resources, and how we must continue to put these resources to their best and highest possible use. That doesn’t include them being used as money.
Cook: What do you mean? They are used as money.
Butler: Yes, but that is obviously changing. The price of base metals has skyrocketed, due to strong industrial demand. It now costs too much to continue using them in coinage. We need the properties of copper and silver for electrical conduction, and nickel for stainless steel and zinc for rust proofing more than we need them in coinage. It’s no big conspiracy that the materials previously used for coinage will change. In the meantime, the government is trying to discourage these coins from being melted for their metal content value while they gear up for making new coins out of different materials. It’s a simple and logical reaction on their part for a world running tight on natural resources. The world must better utilize all its resources.
Cook: Is this along the lines of your recent prediction that the Mint would stop producing Silver Eagles at very high silver prices?
Butler: Absolutely.
Cook: You’ve called silver a miracle metal. Why?
Butler: Think of the word miracle. It connotes a magnificent and unexpected transformation. What better word to describe silver? A substance treasured through the ages for its beauty and store of value transformed by technology into a vital material used in more applications than any other metal. Who could have dreamt thousands or hundreds of years ago that this metal was destined to be used in so many important ways, very different from the reasons it was desired at the time. If that’s not a miracle, I don’t know what is.
Cook: Do you think today’s price is still reasonable for a miracle metal?
Butler: The recent sell-off makes it more attractive than ever. With the price down it’s going to be time to load the boat. Silver is under priced on just about every relative comparison one can make. It’s under priced compared to other industrial metals, precious metals, oil, real estate, stocks and bonds, even itself when looked at on a historical inflation-adjusted basis. Certainly, the price rise to date has not resulted in an increase in mining production yet, or any notable increase in scrap supply, and no demand destruction. This strongly suggests that the price of silver is grossly undervalued.
Any time you can buy a miracle on the cheap is a good time to buy.