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it is there now. I'm not buying - but sometimes these opening gaps down in NY, get bought

Mike Harris has just released an interesting Podcast interview with Kerry Cassidy It covers some familiar ground, but Karry has some interesting comments about the Pope's resignation Hr1-MP3 : http://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/mike_harris/hr1021213.mp3 Hr2-MP3 : http://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/mike_harris/hr2021213.mp3 Todays guest was Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot, the topic was the Pope resigning, and who really runs this world, how to see the real puppet masters behind the puppets we call world leaders. We were doing fine then skype just died. Finished the call on the telephones both Kerry and I. Was the Pope releasing some controverial material about the holocaust? Pope Benedict's Jewish Legacy Tarnished By Ties to Holocaust Deniers Jewish Daily Forward ‎- 1 day ago Pope Benedict was a 'son of Germany' and a conservative hero. For Jews, his legacy is tarnished by his outreach to Catholic traditionalists, ... Vatican hopes secret files exonerate 'Hitler's pope' The Guardian‎ - 3 days ago Has Pope Pius XII been exonerated as a Nazi sympathiser? Author claims new evidence shows controversial pontiff ... Daily Mail‎ - 2 days ago

Thanks for that, PD. It certainly LOOKS like it ought to be a buying opportunity It also shows how patience pays, and it is worthwhile to wait for sentiment to fall to these sort of Low levels

An Irish Folly... which ran straight into a banking crisis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqlgsZV44nM "A year passes, as Sean waits... and waits." Sean Simon fell in love with the ruins of Cloontykilla Castle as he played there as a boy. He has now purchased the prpoerty and intends to turn it into a spectacular, theatrical mock 16th century home.

She really is a bit of a monster Or was Picasso depicting an alien-human hybrid he knew personally? (Maybe one of his own children, by an alien. Haha ) Maybe she is Picasso's Alien ? (Careful, let's not start a crazy rumor.) Still she's a strange-looking bird. "Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up." - Pablo Picasso

Would be good to see Gold POP THROUGH above $1695, then retest, Before dragging the MAs up behind it to much higher levels and new highs.

Meaning ? A LOW in relation to the channel You will want to be holding some Gold if/when your currency is "in a currency war", and crashing, like the yen...

Reaction of someone in the clubhouse here: "It looks like something my kid might draw."

Prices for the most sought-after works have soared in recent years despite broader economic concerns, with collectors in China, Russia and the Middle East joining more established patrons in Europe and the United States. Picasso's Femme Assise Pres d'une Fenetre (Woman Sitting Near a Window) sold for £28,601,250 at Sotheby's, London What recession? Prices for the most sought-after works have soared in recent years despite broader economic concerns Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2K9hcZMc8 BID / Sotheby's (NYSE) ... update

The Catholic saint has long been believed to help with home-related matters. And according to lore now spreading on the Internet and among desperate home-sellers, burying St. Joseph in the yard of a home for sale promises a prompt bid . . . Demand for the statues has been growing. Ron Weissman, who sells the statues at Good Fortune Online, says about six months ago he switched to online transactions because the increase in calls -- from about two a week to 25 calls a day -- was too much to handle. What are future historians going to think when they dig up all those St Joe statues a few hundred years from now ?

I am still thinking that a LOW is being put in on Gold

Is it a prayer ritual, or something ?

The downwards race in Bond prices

BTW, Duany doesnt like skyscrapers much: My Conversation with Andrés Duany: An Ardent Critic of the Skyscraper Flies into a Rage about the Asian Skyscraper Boom By Mark Lamster | August 21, 2011 TWIN PEAK: Dubai's Burj Khalifa is nearly the same height as the destroyed Twin Towers stacked on top of each other. In reporting my story on the recent history and future of the skyscraper for the September issue of Scientific American, I thought it would be interesting to speak with the architect and urban planner Andrés Duany, an outspoken critic of tall buildings. Though Duany is not a celebrity, like “starchitects” Frank Gehry or Zaha Hadid, he is one of the most influential figures in his profession, the de facto leader of the New Urbanist movement, which promotes town planning principals that privilege pedestrians and are environmentally sustainable. With his partner, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, he is responsible for Seaside, the picturesque Florida town made famous in the Jim Carrey film The Truman Show. I spoke to Duany while he was caught in a Miami traffic jam, which may, at least in part, explain the sense of antagonism I felt from the very beginning of our conversation. Duany finds the current skyscraper boom to be an almost personal affront, and rejects outright the arguments others make in their favor. “There’s an argument for density. There’s an argument for diverse neighborhood structure that supports transit and that is self-sustaining. But there’s not an argument for tall buildings that need elevators,” he recounts. === /more: http://blogs.scienti...kyscraper-boom/[/font]

sure. Actually, now that I have seen the follow photo, I want to develop a thread around your property. Are you willing to allow that? Looks like a good spot for farming. How much land have you got there? What are the transport links? ... And to where? Why do you want to leave it? Andres Duany might love that place as a core around which to build an Agrarian Urbanist environment experiment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czHQERc8OiM BTW, I think you might have a good idea where EnergyI has gone.

Don't lose heart. That is a ridiculous statement when you think about it. Think about what sort of buyer would want your property, and how to best reach them. We also have our HK property on the market, and I bagged a viewing tomorrow afternoon from someone who knows the building, and wants to add to his/her portfolio of three flats owned in it

A History of HK Property price influences: http://static.alsosprachanalyst.com/2011/01/Hong-Kong-Real-Estate-History-in-a-chart1.png

Jim Rogers goes Short US Treasuries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk6BXbD4GTg That was October 2012 - Check out what happened to TLT since then: TLT-3 years ... update

Gold is now moving up nicely, off the important 480d-MA that I have identified: http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?showtopic=17354

Could be bullish the charts suggest a possible LOW if the 480d MA holds: xx

If you read both articles, then you discover: Platinum for April delivery settled with a loss of $32.70 to $1,662.20... A U.S. trader and HSBC precious metals analyst James Steel both tied weakness to news reports that Amplats has agreed to consultations with unions and the government before proceeding with its plans. Sister metal palladium has held up better than platinum, falling only slightly after hitting a 16-month high earlier. The cuts would have affected platinum more heavily. The planned restructuring stirred emotions in South African since 14,000 jobs were at stake. Platinum had run ahead of Gold, and a correction was due... Some analysts see its strengrth relative to Gold continuing

From my Diary

OTP's latest http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5127&Itemid=224 EXCERPTS: "However, Leung's plans for dealing with the problem mostly address medium to longer term issues. One such is an idea for massive reclamation projects to add up to 3,000 hectares of land primarily for housing. But even if these eventuate - a big if given the time frame and likelihood of strong environmental opposition to some of them - the result would be at least a decade away." "Leung's failing to address any of the above perhaps reflect the basic dilemma of any chief executive in Hong Kong, not least one who, having been a professional surveyor, understands the situation. That is that though high prices are an important issue for the public, the majority doe not actually want the much lower prices needed to enable those who have yet to get on the ownership ladder to do so. About 60 percent of the population already live in their own homes and many of the 35 percent who live in public rental housing have no aspirations to own, if only because that seems too far out of reach. Indeed, much of the current clamor is for more public housing rather than cheaper private housing. Those already in the private sector ownership have no desire to see values fall, particularly if they bought recently. Negative equity was a major issue in Hong Kong after the 1998 crash and could be again. Sky-high recent prices are partly the result of the deliberate squeeze on land supply conducted over the previous 10 years by the government. But even more significant has been abnormally low interest rates resulting from the peg to the US dollar and, to a lesser degree, capital inflow mostly from the mainland either for laundering purposes or speculation on an eventual upward revaluation of the Hong Kong dollar. The worry must now be that if interest rates begin to rise to what were once normal levels - say 2 percent in inflation-adjusted terms - property prices in Hong Kong would fall back and, as happened in 1999, the government would reverse policy, slowing land sales and public housing projects to limit price declines. " ==== Right - he needs to think about the two shorter term "fixes" that I have suggested before: + A tax on vacant flats (and not just "new" vacant flats, like Long Beach, but empty flats held by foreigners. And there may be 200,000 or more of these in HK + Opening up industrial properties for residential use - perhaps under a 3-5 year "license" after an inspection. By making the use short term, he can curtail it, if and when prices drop and HK has a surplus supply of residential flats. I expect at least one of these by mid-year, if prices take another great leap forward after CNY, as they are threatening to do. == /see-AX: http://hongkong.asiaxpat.com/forums/hong-kong-property/threads/146074/cy-leungs-impact-on-hk-property/

A low? More like a High, I reckon...

LIfe immitating Art perhaps?