Beiträge von Aladin

@ Hpopth

Was willst du schon aus Weisser hier gross ausrichten in Afrika ??

Albert Schweizer hat auch bis jetzt versagt.

Never mind !

XAX

"Möchte unbedingt noch mal auf Deine Einschätzung der Kaspiwerte von gestern zurückkommen."

"" komme im Rohöl Thread darauf später zurück."""

Hallo Ulfur, mal was positives, Camps Bay heute....mit Lion's Head (630m) im Hintergrund, das ist die andere Seite der Muenze.

Geduld, wie wahr, wie wahr !

Hatte gerade einen Anruf von einem Freund :

Den haben sie bei seiner kurzen Abwesenheit das Haus auch ausgeraeumt, Safe von der Wand gerissen, alle wichtigen Papiere weg wie Pass etc..

Er nahm seinen Hund mit, sonst waere der aus dem Weg geraeumt worden, da kennen die nichts.

Insider Job, die wussten bescheid, die Maid kam auch nicht mehr.

Bis auf schweres Zeug alles weg, die Polizei kam nach 5 Stunden und entschuldigte sich weil sie kein Auto zur Verfuegung hatten.

Er hat sie gleich rausgeschmissen und drehte fast durch.

Ich glaube der hat die Schnauze nun voll und geht wieder nach D, da kommt zumindest die Polizei frueher daher.

That's life in RSA

XAX

Hpopth,

Vielleicht schliesst sich dort auch der Kreis wenn Platinum zu teuer wird und man wieder billiges Palladium fuer die Auto's nimmt.
Bei Diesel Motoren faengt man schon an so weit ich weiss.

XAX

@ Hpopth

So wie ich es sehe muessen die erst ihre Buecher in Ordnung bringen und etwas auf den Tisch legen.
Hier geht alles sehr langsam, man hat die Ruhe weg.

Ich sitze noch auf einen Batzen Rangy, macht mir auch ein wenig Sorgen.
Weit aus mehr als mit KRY GBC und GRZ in Venezuela zusammen.

Scheiss Kebble X(, vielleicht sitzt der schon in der Karibik und grinst sich einen.

Mal schaun was der am Tisch legt.

XAX

Tambok, wenigstens hast du aus der Stadt was rausgeholt.
Ich kenne auch Bielefeld sehr gut, meine Ex- Frau kam von dort, leider ist sie vor 2 Jahren hier gestorben.

C'est la vie, the show must go on, ALWAYS !

XAX

Und so schliesst sich der Kreis Hpopth, ebenso einen schoenen Sonntag wuensche ich Euch.
Rastet Euch aus fuer die naechste Woche, die wird bestimmt interessant und turbulent werden.

XAX

Der Rand steigt mit der Kriminalitaet wie du siehts Hpopth.
Gutes Marketing bei Euch,ein wahres Paradies !

Wo der Rand mal 13 R/USD war hatten wir auch noch mehr Rohstoffe.

Aber da war das Marketing schlecht in den letzten Jahren.

Gruss vom bedeckten Kapstadt.

XAX

ANC MPs' houses looted


22 September 2005 08:04

Just hours after Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula told the nation that burglaries at commercial and residential properties were down, :D.. his own party's caucus was bemoaning the fact that there had been "a spate of burglaries at parliamentary residential villages" in Cape Town.

African National Congress caucus spokesperson Mpho Lekgoro said in a statement on Wednesday that "the ANC parliamentary caucus regrets the spate of burglaries at parliamentary residential villages, occurring mostly during the period when members are on constituency work".

MPs started their constituency and leave period last Friday for three weeks and left the parliamentary villages where they are housed during the parliamentary session.

Lekgoro said: "We are dismayed at the sorry state of safety and security at residences of public representatives.

"The burglaries at residences of the three ANC MPs, in Acasia Park over the weekend, are extremely regrettable. Items stolen include entertainment and office equipment."

Lekgoro said one of the three victims was the recently appointed National Assembly House chairperson Obed Bapela, who was in Zambia on official duty when an "unfortunate incident" happened.

"His house was ransacked, and a fax machine and entertainment systems were stolen.

"We condemn the sluggish response by the Goodwood police to these incidents. It took more than 24 hours before the officers could arrive at Bapela's house. :DThis is unacceptable, as it undermines the good reputation being built tirelessly by thousands of dedicated police officers across the country.

"The caucus will be monitoring the situation closely, to ensure that the culprits are taken to book."

At the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday, Nqakula said that burglaries at residential premises dropped by 8,1% between 2003/04 and 2004/05, from 645,2 incidents per 100 000 members of the population to 592,8 respectively in these years.

He said changes in the policing environment -- including better training, better conditions and better interaction with communities -- looked to a bright future for the service and the fight against crime.

"The future ... looks very rosy," he said.

-- I-Net Bridge

.... ich hoffe du bist jetzt nicht sauer Tambok....

What kind of player are you ?

Investing has many similarities to poker. For example: A small minority of professionals take the lion's share of profits. The house takes its cut from all comers with ironclad regularity. Odds allow for confidence, but never certainty - there is no hand that can't be beaten, no hand that cannot win. Both games are heavily influenced by luck in the short run, yet dominated by skill and consistency in the long run. And success is rarely the result of any one large decision; it is rather the result of countless small decisions, built into an accumulated edge over time.

The typical poker player reverts to the style he or she is most comfortable with in live play. This lack of variation gives the professional an edge, highlighting the best way to take the amateur's money. Poker predators usually assign one of three classifications to their prey: Maniac, Rock, or Calling Station. Of these three, the Calling Station is prized as the most reliable source of funds. The Maniac is dangerously aggressive, and often too hot;[ the Rock is notoriously tight-fisted, and usually too cold; but the lukewarm Calling Station is just right.

A passive aggressive type, the Calling Station has no grasp of strategy, yet feels compelled to participate. He or she is happy to call the majority of bets, rarely raising or taking control of the hand. Analysis is minimal, actions robotic. The Calling Station's attitude can be summed up as, "I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm just glad to be here." A streak of good cards will occasionally reward this hapless style of play, but odds inevitably prevail over time. The Calling Station thus provides a steady stream of revenue for those who understand the importance of strategy and put it to use.

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/litle092305.html

Something is not right...something is up, possibly a crisis

Chris Laird

In the last weeks, gold has marched up, oh, about 40 bucks... and in a very resolute and rapid manner....

Now, we all know that I have been writing about a year about the deflationary forces that will emerge.... and that will indeed happen...but first we may have inflation. Inflation is one major cause of deflations. But this last gold spike cannot be just relegated to inflation as of now, or massive speculative playing... gold has just moved too far and too fast for that.

If I was to use only economic arguments, I do not see enough reasons for gold to have moved so swiftly and so far.

There has to be some exogenous reason, some crisis in the background other than the usual economic suspects. (that is not to say the usual economic suspects are not severe, and that in time they will drive gold out of site)

What can cause this kind of movement in gold? Something new must be in the works, some semi hidden crisis... I am serious.

more....

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/laird092405.html

"Gold's a devilish sort of thing,"

Das wird sich ganz besonders naechste Woche zeigen.

"The only certainty is that gold can amaze you with its returns in good years and then bury you when things go bad. "

Eine Woche reicht auch schon.

Are you ready ???

Mfg

XAX

The Guru said last week and was right so far.

"RITA WON'T MAKE THAT MUCH DAMAGE"

DON'T SHORT METALS FOR THE ANOTHER FOUR TRADING DAYS BUT START BOOKING PROFIT NOW AS WEAK TREND IN METALS WILL START SOON SO TRADE ACCORDINGLY. GOLD SHOULD FALL ON THURSDAY AFTER HIGH. WATCH MY TWO IMPORTANT FIGURE $478.80 AND $481.80. ONE CAN BOOK 100% AT THIS FIGURE, TIME IS WARNING TO GOLD AFTER FOUR TRADING SESSION.

So ab Mittwoch diese Woche..... wird sich einiges zeigen.
Freitag ist dann der Tage der Entscheidungen, IMHO

Genau, hier gehts um Cristina und Hugo

@ Edel Man

Bezueglich zu den Artikel in search of Eldorado .

Klar sind die Suedafrikaner die ersten die an den Kuchen rankommen wenn es um neue Projekte geht. Die haben Erfahrung gesammelt mit den Bimbos und diversifizieren in ganz Afrika da man allein in RSA nicht weit kommt wenn man schon auf 3000 m ist wie Western Areas und DRD z.B.
Da geht man das Risiko ein und versucht in zertruemmerten Laender wie auch Angola und Mocambique in den Jahre lang Buergerkrieg herrschte in der Hoffnung die Neger haben es endlich kapiert. Ja, so ist es auch hier gehts weiter mit der Hoffnung auf bessere Zeiten. Das Problem was ich sehe die werden wieder Rueckfaellig,es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit.
Und so ueberlasse ich es jeden sein Geld in das Fass zu werfen in der Hoffnung es hat einen Boden.

Mfg

XAX

Circumcision 'to prevent HIV'

24/09/2005 21:04

Cape Town - A leading South African Aids expert on Saturday advocated male circumcision as the best available "vaccine" against the virus in his country, where an estimated six million people are infected and more than 600 people die every day.
Francois Venter told a congress of health activists in the Treatment Action Campaign that a recent survey in the Soweto township indicated that circumcised men were 65% less likely to contract Aids than those who had not been circumcised.

"We dream of a vaccine which has this efficacy," said Venter, clinical director of the Reproductive Health and HIV Research at the University of Witwatersrand. "The results are phenomenal."

He urged the Treatment Action Campaign to consider promoting circumcision as a vital prevention tool, given that existing methods were failing to slow the spread of the pandemic.

Some traditional communities in South Africa practice circumcision, but there are calls for tighter medical controls to limit health risks from blunt and contaminated instruments.

"We don't want our men to go to the chop shop but have medical circumcision," said Aids activist leader Zackie Achmat, who said the congress - which meets every two years - would debate whether to encourage mass circumcision.

Achmat, who is HIV positive, said much more needed to be done on prevention. He said that even though government distribution of condoms increased from one million in 1994 to 40 million in 2004, this still only amounted to 35 condoms per sexually active male per year.

'We are dying. We are still dying'

Achmat lambasted the government's record on treatment. An estimated 76 000 people are currently receiving antiretroviral therapy through the public health sector, compared to the 500 000 who need it.

The World Health Organisation has singled out slow progress in South Africa as one of the main reasons why it will likely miss its target of putting three million people worldwide on therapy by the end of this year.

"We are dying. We are still dying," he said.

Achmat has for years made virulent attacks against the government for doing too little too late against the Aids epidemic. In a sign of the mutual antagonism, health ministry officials refused invitations to attend the congress.

The Soweto study, was conducted by French researchers between 2002 and 2005 with more than 3 000 healthy, sexually active males between 18 and 24. About half the volunteers were circumcised by medical professionals, and the rest remained uncircumcised.

All of the men received counselling on Aids prevention. But after 21 months, 51 members of the uncircumcised group had contracted HIV, the Aids virus, while only 18 members of the circumcised group got the disease.

The World Health Organisation and UNAids has given a cautious welcome to the results of the study, but says that more trials should be conducted before circumcision can be recommended as a preventive method.

News24/AP

Salsa in Venezuela, Toyi Toyi in RSA, glaubt bloss nicht hier ist alles sicher.

Nigerian militants give 'final warning' to oil firms

Lagos, Nigeria

23 September 2005 11:03

Nigerian separatist militants issued what they described as a final warning to international oil giants on Friday demanding they evacuate installations in the Niger Delta within two days or face armed attack.

"We will kill every iota of oil operations in the Niger Delta. We will destroy anything and everything. We will challenge our enemies in our territory and we shall feed them to the vultures," said the statement from the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF).

The group, which on Thursday sent 120 armed guerrillas to seize an oil plant operated by US giant Chevron, warned that if its leader Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari is not released from police custody within two days it will step up its action.

"In line with this, we herein order that all staff, property and operations in the Niger Delta be totally evacuated in the next 48 hours. Shell, Chevron, Mobil, Total and others should please take note. All of their installations will not be spared," the statement said.

"We will come after everything, living and not living. Failure to comply will result in death, grave sabotage and every other thinkable vice. We have lost our patience and our resilience stands to be tested," it added.

Asari was arrested on Tuesday in the oil city of Port Harcourt and has been remanded in police custody in the capital Abuja while the government prepares treason charges against him.

The Niger Delta is home to Africa's biggest oil industry, which exports 2,5-million barrels per day.

Oil firms have stepped up security precautions since Asari's arrest and military units have been deployed to the streets of Port Harcourt and the waterways around the city. - AFP
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MARKET REVIEW: FORCES OF NATURE

Not much happened this week...well, except the fact that the second
hurricane in less than a month threatened the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Rita, with winds even stronger than Katrina's, had everyone on
edge as she churned around the Gulf Waters, closing in on the
Texas-Louisiana border. Rita made landfall as a Category 3 storm in the
pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning.

Although the oil refineries on the Gulf Coast closed this week in
preparation for Rita, as of now, this hurricane appears to have been far
less damaging to the refining industry than Hurricane Katrina, which
crippled four big refineries with long-term damage.

With these two hurricanes back-to-back, displacing millions of people, and
killing countless others, a question keeps popping up: Is there anything
we can do to prevent hurricanes?

Of course, after the mess with Katrina, the government is taking every
measure to make sure that we would be better prepared for another
large-scale rescue mission, but many want to know - can we do anything to
quell this force of nature?

In a nutshell, as many of you presumed, the answer is no. But not for lack
of trying. CNN reports that in the 1950's, the federal government put a
hurricane modification program called "Project Stormfury" into play.
Basically, scientists in Navy planes released silver iodide on hurricanes
clouds just outside the eyewall. The hope was that a new ring of clouds
would form, change rain patterns and eventually collapse the eyewall.
Their theory was the hurricane would spin slower and be less dangerous.

Sometimes these experiments seemed to work, other times the scientists
weren't so sure. So, after the government spent hundreds of millions of
dollars on Project Stormfury, the decades-old experiment was abandoned due
to inclusive findings.

Then, there is the "Big Bang" theory - why can't we just blow up the
hurricane?

We recently spoke to the Sovereign Society's Sean Brodrick on this
topic...

"Why not use a big bomb to defuse a hurricane? I mean, a hurricane is just
energy going in a particular direction, right? You'd think a bushel of
those bunker-buster/daisy cutters targeted in the other direction would
destroy the hurricane, or at least slow it down.

"I found out why that won't work on the NOAA website, where they answer
the question: 'why don't we use nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes?'
Using nukes hadn't occurred to me, because of the radiation being whipped
around by the wind. And NOAA raises that point. But they also make these
other points...

"'A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy equivalent to a
10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.

"'According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy
at a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.

"So, the short answer is, if you could build a bomb big enough to destroy
a hurricane, you'd also probably destroy whatever you were trying to
save."

Kate Incontrera
The Daily Reckoning