Comments on: Marching blondes, a spurned comedian and property booms and busts

By: Mini US

Mini US — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:26:55 +0000

Whats with reality shows?
No actors to pay, no travel expenses, cheap producers, etc.
It is filling in air time. That is the role of commercial TV.
Nothing more.
Reality TV is like cake. Without the cake you can’t have any icing.
Icing is advertising that no-one watches anymore.
Its a merry-go round of nothingness.
Like Seinfeld says: A show about nothing?!?!?!

By: rb

rb — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:53:44 +0000

reality shows make ME want to kill myself… so i can understand why the contestants do.

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:03:06 +0000

@ Ah.Nix
Re: testing for fluoride after filtering. To be honest, No. Mainly because I don’t know how to and I figure if the company was selling something that didn’t work it wouldn’t be in business for long – somewhat naive I know. I just hope it does work – what else can you do? But if you do know a way of testing please let me know and then I’ll do it and let you know the outcome.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:52:07 +0000

“whats the score?”

By: Don

Don — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:49:33 +0000

@ Max and Stacy

Once again, sweet irony or share rigging? Goldman bought in on a company on the ASX at $1.39AUD to the tune of 20 million retro active as the share price at the time of the purchase was 4.09AU.

The share price steadily went down from there with the markets last year; all the way to .08c!! Now, that same share is going up and went from .15c a share to .36c over night. the company made no announcements of any significant ore deposits, acquisitions or anything, in fact the company has shut in all projects to save money as raising money is impossible for such projects at this time.

So my question is this: Is it possible to manipulate a company’s stock causing it to go up (no other companies listed on the ASX engaged in the same resource are doing anything but going down) long enough for Goldman to recoup their money and then it will crash back down?

I know of other mining companies that have better resource deposits that can be fast tracked into production, yet their share prices languish.

Whats the score.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:04:37 +0000

Frikkin Lovely…

By: Norbo

Norbo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:04:31 +0000

I just realized that I´m on my way to Latvia.

By: Daniel S

Daniel S — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Reality shows are not reality shows at all, they are psyops. It is no wonder that the unwitting participants in shows designed to lessen viewers’ faith in the human condition, would end up killing themselves. It’s more or less the point.

Healthy people are hard to manipulate into cowardly lives spent pursuing the trivial. It is far easier to sell diversion to people who objectify and hate themselves than to people who see themselves as a process and love themselves.

So, psyops leads to suicide. It also sells more pizzas, beer and SUVs. Mission accomplished.

By: Ah.Nix

Ah.Nix — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:51:33 +0000

@Sharon
Hi Sharon have you had your water tested after it has been filtered?
I’m curious on how much fluoride is removed from the Berkey.
I drink distilled water since even RO leaves traces of fluoride.

Thanks

By: Grant in oz

Grant in oz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:24:11 +0000

Australia just hasn’t felt the recession yet.
Even though we have had job layoffs they are fairly low at the moment and are concentrated in the low income areas.
People here just don’t get the feeling that anything is wrong.
Melbourne and Sydney are seeing high 70% clearance rates at house auctions. These are boom time numbers.

By: Mike2liverpool

Mike2liverpool — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:16:27 +0000

Phil
Thanks, i might try E-bay?
Mike

By: alister

alister — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:58:55 +0000

yeah this is completely insane in australia with all this clueless idiots charging blindly into the property market because ostensibly interest rates are (currently) low and the govt is subsidizing their purchases. meanwhile all the msm press (stacked of course with what is effectively a property/property-speculators lobby) report on the surge in prices and related figures as if this were some miraculous happening demonstrating the sheer strength of the aus economy…omg…

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:51:26 +0000

@stacyherbert … “German gold-dispensing machine! Very funny ”

On mainstream German TV at ca. midnight, we get loads of Ads for the same old teeth – “Altgold” . They’ve been running since ca. Nov. IIRC. Also in the newspapers.

Just imagine what a visit to the dentist might cost in a few years

@ Mike … “door handles & other items out of Stainless Steel for Architects”

I stainless steel very expensive in the UK ?
Many things made of “stainless” here in Germany cost a fortune . Check out Ebay dot DE .. and look for chimnies, balconies etc.

“edelstahl schornstein”
“edelstahl balkon”
“edelstahl balkongelaender”
etc.

I have a friend that used to turn over ca. 1 mio. DMs per month as a PC-parts Wholesaler in the ’90s .. he doesn’t even make those revenues in 1 year these days. He’s finally setting up an Ebay shop – as he wants to stay in this business which he knows so well.

On the subject of Chimneys and German Regulation …
Almost all houses in the UK have a chimney ( whether used or not ) , but I have rarely seen a chimney-sweep since over 50 years.
In Germany … “every house” is required by law to be visited at least once per year to check emissions of the central heating, whether gas, oil, coal or wood. The “Schornsteinfeger” have areas assigned to them, and they are rolling in money of course.

End of rant

By: Mike2liverpool

Mike2liverpool — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:51:09 +0000

Stacy
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/pensions/article.html?in_article_id=487210

Your thoughts?
mike