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A bit off topic, mods please move if required. This video shows how Stanford Researchers are using Nano silver and paper to make batteries Safety of Nano silver???

He comes across as a bit emotional, saying things like without a very strong supporting arugument is no a good way to make a case. Like the BBC man said if they dont give the oil price or the bond markets, theres no reason to give the gold price. What is the justification for the shipping forcast though?

http://www.physorg.com/news178119983.html

On the other hand.. http://www.hardassetsinvestor.com/componen...oes-matter.html

I cant imagine a motive he would have for lying to stop people buying gold so I'm inclined to believe him when is says its driven by speculation. I think $500 is the cost of mining the metal plus a small premium. Having said that bubbles form in every market.

I'm sorry I still don't understand this properly. I was not refering to the UK but Slovakia and Czech Republic. An argument was presented that the UK needs immigration to prevent some kind of economic disaster/collapse of state related to pensions. I believe a similar disaster has already occurred in the old USSR, the collapse of the old state meant that people who depended on this state for income, suffered greatly if they were not self sufficient. Rather than increase immigration the people made sure older family and friends were well fed and happy, they grew their own food , looked after old relatives, fixed their own cars and worked togther to overcome the problems.The solution you suggest , ie import people from somewhere else, would I think work against this kind of community action. To work together people need trust and good relationships and these take time to form. You cant put them on a balance sheet either.

I don't follow this line of argument. The people in the old USSR have had their pensions wiped out by inflation since the countries went capitalist. Their populations are falling more quickly then those in the UK. So how will importing villages of people from say Sudan or Iraq change the amount they get to live off. Surely the new immigrants will compete with the native people for limited resources and the ruling class will take whatever benefits arise from immigration. Many families are waiting to have children because house prices are very high and wages are still low. I believe that given affordable housing the native populations will increase. This argument about countries needing immigration to make up numbers ignores the possibility that the natives will start having children if conditions are right. If immigration is needed to make up the pensions of the old people it should be put to a referendum.

Has anyone made mead?

Foxes are hard to predict. I was at a wedding in Derby the other week, a fox walked straight though the garden and had a look into the tent that was set up. There was a baby in there and his father shouted at the fox to scare it. it walked away, very slowly not scared at all.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/...668381-sun.html

RSI is high down to the $ weakness, how strong a correlation is there between high RSI high $ and a fall in the POG in sterling specifically. This TA seems based on myths to me. It's easy to get into now with the automation and people are looking for off the shelf answers. Red sky at night and all that..

Thats a good link, I'd read that and skimmed over it. It does look like an inverse head and shoulders, but how important is the volume to confirm this? I'd be happier if that graph was showing greater volume on the peaks. How reliable is this indicator in gold. There seems to be agreement to what a Inv H & S usually shows and it is a reversal. Has anyone done any analysis on this pattern in the gold market or is this hearsay

IMO That pattern is fractal. It repeats in the first curve then the POG falls. What's to stop it happening again in the larger pattern.

When anything is done, it's checked by the in-laws. They have had the land for a long long time and they know what works. My parents have large garden but just use it to let the dogs run in. After trying to cut the overgrowth with a strimmer and getting splattered I will not even attempt to grow anything in that. Regards to future generations, most people I know outside are starting to grow something. Having said that I know a-lot of hippies. IMO the knowledge has skipped the most of the babyboomers. They are the people ordering homegrown organic veg from the internet and paying £50 per box every month FFS.

We are growing grapes peaches strawberries - just harvested cherries - just harvested carrots - doing well peas - ready next week, never seen anything grow so fast celerac - planted yesterday from seeds germinated at home potatoes - lots of these. leeks onion - don't like direct sun chives- don't like direct sun beetroot - planted to far apart in one row and to close together in the next. parsley tomatoes apples pears walnuts radish have just disappeared. Not sure what's happened to them. I'm still learning a lot. I think next year I will pay more attention to protecting the plants from the sun. Something grown on a lattice could shade the more exposed parts of the plot. It's south west facing on the side of a hill. We couldn't live of what we have grown but if we work out how to get more per m2 then we could get close. At the moment the only fertilizers used are the grape skins after pressing the wine.

I'm from Bolton/ Salford way but moved to Bratislava two months ago. It almost never rains here. Gardening is very different but the peas are growing really quick now and strawberries will be ready in a month I'm told.

Nice read here http://seekingalpha.com/article/136769-a-s...ust-got-hustled The guy who wrote this is 19 years old ! http://seekingalpha.com/author/naufal-sanaullah

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...id=ansCeuvebmvU Gold May Be ‘Off to the Races’ Above $950: Technical Analysis

Given the conditions that a lot of people in that country live in their government should be investing in health care and education not shiny yellow metal. Once the west stops buying those peasants will need to become a market.

I'm on it. Just planted peas, strawberries, potatoes, onions, garlic, beetroot, carrots. Pruned the peach trees and vines and planting corn next week. Worried about lack of rain though. Mother in law butchered a pig in the kitchen last Sunday. 150 euro for half a side and the meat will last all 6 months. Sister is trying to breed rare pigs in Lancashire. Council are all over it though. Shuffling paper and stopping things happening.

Milk should cost that now. Farmers are getting ripped off and cows are being pushed to their natural limits.

Can someone explain the technicalities why the gold and silver prices on KITCO drop sharply at the same time? The two markets are independent arn't they?

Yes Gordon B and friends want money in a form they can control. I doubt they will either do what they say, just shout about and scare all the peoples money into equities. http://www.reuters.com/article/goldMktRpt/...296266920090402

Looks like an ECG. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/rudd-needs-t...5l.html?page=-1

Stocks Drop, Treasuries Gain as U.S. Warns on Banks, Carmakers http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home Someone is selling gold as a result of this news? And buying dollars and Yen.