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36 comments

  1. Woodman

    fuck u fly, im takin this, top pick long GE biatch

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  2. guns and gold

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  3. go2mars

    Braveflaps:

    I was invested in Carpathian Gold a couple years ago, and just barely escaped (with a small profit) before they brought in that bullshit Brazil deal. I don’t trust the management and would be very careful investing there again. The Romanian prospect is awesome. But there can easily be a lot of fuckery from Romania, or the Carpathian management (again).

    As to probable outcomes during 2009: The US will default on its own currency, and the price of gold and food will go through the roof. And it will be illegal to own gold personally in the states.

    If the US gov’t starts charging 0.5% per trade, then just trade Canadian stocks.

    End of transmission from Mars.

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  4. Manuelstop

    Good idea for the test drive on the masthead.

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  5. justgotbackfrommars
    justgotbackfrommars

    I’m Canadian and I don’t trade canadian stocks, not enough liquid stocks, brutal fills on market orders and you have to watch the U.S. market all day anyway so why not trade it.
    It’s possible there would be a flood of traders coming in though if the tax goes through.
    (btw; fucking Mars is even colder than Canada, don’t bother going.)

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  6. omfgitsjd

    Maybe the dollar will go the way of the Yen.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhSspSOiBJw

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  7. Joe

    Footage of FEMA camps located at:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-hvPJPTi4

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  8. omfgitsjd

    We are FEMA. All of us.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II4UkiNgPlY&feature=related

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  9. Braveflaps

    Go2 and justgotback,

    I hear ya. I’ve been shorting US stuff and with the profits and high exchange rate been recycling into a few Canadian longs of the buy and hold and reinvest the divi variety. Hedging, though – always hedging.

    Not sure where to go from here, though – not sure when the US$ will plummet, or when Obama will finally realize that certain adjectives should be removed from his vocabulary (eg., a Prez would be advised not to say, in the midst of skyrocketing unemployment, that the latest numbers are “astounding”)…

    Gambling, I’d say that an exogenous event – GM bankruptcy, outright nationalization of Shiti – would be good for another spike down, but maybe that’s already priced in. But does that mean we go up much from here?

    I don’t see any catalyst.

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  10. newbie

    Howzabout BTIM to play off GERN and STEM.
    Maybe some one could do a PPT on this one.

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  11. The Fly

    Newbie

    Click on ad for instant analysis.

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  12. iwantcoin

    do you have any insite on the mark-to-market crap they are going to be discussing march 12… is it worth anything to pick up some FAS ahead of this?

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  13. ugggh

    700 people apply for 1 available janitor’s job in OHIO

    http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x1569321039/Stark-s-hottest-job-Janitor

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  14. newbie

    We don’t follow that stock!
    Is the response from PPT

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  15. omfgitsjd

    Switzerland rejects U.S. demands that the country’s largest bank UBS (UBSN.VX) should hand over the data of 52,000 U.S. clients, Swiss newspaper Berner Zeitung quoted the Swiss justice minister as saying on Saturday.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSL746204320090307

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  16. hammy

    @newbie

    the PPT doesn’t track stocks below a certain minimum average volume and market cap.

    BTIM is one of them

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  17. Hand Puppet

    Here y go Mr. Fly

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  18. Hand Puppet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zXqkHvs0po

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  19. JakeGint

    Not sure why my posts are being censored, but this Swannie comment is worth repeating.

    I hope it makes it past the censors.

    _________

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  20. New Poster

    Tell me our Prez is not completely out of control.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090307/pl_nm/us_obama_afghanistan_2

    Let him send Michelle to a Taliban controlled country and see how she likes it.

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  21. Dumbpainter

    Taliban = Oil Pipeline….easy to see.

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  22. JakeGint

    Allright Jeremy, I’m on my way to Needles, Minnesota right now, fucker.

    Gird up.

    _____________

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  23. Ancient Earth History

    Semjase says: We are neither guardians of Earth beings nor God-sent angels or similar. Many persons suggest we are watching over Earth and her beings and would control their fates. This is not true, because we only perform a self-selected mission which has nothing to do with supervising or regulating Earth fates. Thus it is wrong to expose us as superterrestrial messengers and guardians. If we were such, we would regulate openly. So this is not true, because the Earth human goes his own evolutionary way. Surely, he is barbarous, and also impetuous in his research, and often unscrupulous. But barbarism is peculiar to many creatures, for it is natural conditioning and suited, thus life is assured. In this I speak of natural barbarism which is not degenerative. Such is also the character of More developed beings than Earth man and first ends at higher levels of spiritual development… It is not suited for the Earth being to be degraded for this…
    he is a descendent of wild ancestors and has to go the way of his evolution. This leads through misery and troubles toward cognition and knowledge. But this takes toughness and a certain barbarism, without which no inclination for a new better future takes place. At first a certain barbarism inspires research and development, because in this is strength to overcome confinements which obstruct progress ……. Earthman may recognize that he would not become liberated from sickness if life was not cut short by it, inspiring analysis of the sickness germs and the search for protective means. The risk life for exploratory purposes is necessary barbarism (which may be tolerated).

    Yet all kinds of evolution is barbaric, because that generates the necessary strength. A great danger is of scientists utilizing the power of their knowledge to beat their less developed fellow creatures into slavery and exploitation. From this they should be prevented, as well as their technical achievements which only serve for destruction. It is not in any best interest, their setting themselves up as Gods, and by this trans mitting the same mistakes their forefathers already did. These influences we want to prevent. Still we want to encourage certain cognition’s and show certain ways. And when we interfere in certain matters, that is only so that Earth beings would not commit the same errors for which our forefathers so painfully suffered.”

    Further on in the ninth contact, Semjase continues a chronology of Pleiadian recent history begun in the fifth contact, where she described their migration to the star group we call the Pleiades. She resumes now with one of their earlier arrivals in our solar system and on Earth. This history, though clearly beyond all documented records, is not entirely implausible and may even shed some light on other ancient accounts of early history of our humanity. Other phenomenal works such as OHASPE by John Newbrough and ISIS UNVEILED by Helena P. Blavatsky have described some of this in varying degree before but perhaps not as succinctly.

    (Denne følgende beretning er noe mer detaljert beskrevet, og også på norsk i “jordens fjernhistorie i et nytt lys” under Rune Øverbys base under “galactic server”, og også i de svenske kontaktreferater med Semjase på samme nett-adresse)

    Semjase – At our fifth contact, we ended the history of (our) mankind wheresome 50,000 years ago in Earth chronology, our homeworlds found peace and liberty. Shortly before this time, 70,000 human beings fled (the Pleiades) under the leadershipof Pelegon. In spacecraft which they took by force, they fled through the cosmos and settled here on Earth. Under Pelegon were 200 subleaders, scientists, competent in special fields of knowledge. By these, and others, Pelegon was unanimously acknowledged as “King of Wisdom” (IHWH/God) and regarded as such. In the course of milleniums, they constructed great cities and inhabited all the continents of Earth. Regrettably, this went well for only a narrow 10,000 years, until desires for power and control prevailed once more, and a deadly war raged over all the Earth. Without exception, all was destroyed, and only a few thousand human beings survived (on Earth) while others fled once more into the cosmos and settled on faraway worlds.

    For 7,000 years, none returned to Earth, and the humans left behind degenerated and became completely wild. Then descendents of those who had settled on faraway worlds returned. They were again under the leadership of an IHWH, under whose command they built on Atlantis and Mu. They built huge cities on each of the two separate continents. For thousands of years they lived in friendship and peace, until a few scientists were again overcome by the old thirst for might and power, and tried to seize the government. But having tired of wars, the nations rose against them, and they occupied spaceships and fled into cosmic space; that being some 15,000 years ago in Earth chronology. For two milleniums, they and their descendants lived in a neighboring solar system. Two millenniums during which they had become very evil and only maintained order under strictest control. By mutation and their sciences, they extend their lifespans to some thousands of years.

    Overcome by their thirst for power, they left their world about 13,000 years ago and returned to Earth Their highest leader was the scientist “ARUS”, who was also called “The Barbarian”…

    Like the IHWH 40,000 years before, he also had 200 leaders and subleaders, who were competent in special fields of sciences. In two groups, they settled the high north and the present Florida of North America, while they continuously attacked Atlantis and Mu in wars. In only a few millenniums after their occupation of Earth bases, they succeeded in destroying the civilizations of Atlantis and Mu. The few survivors went into servitude, while many great scientists were able to flee, and return to their homeworlds in the Pleiades.

    But centuries before this point in time, the intruders boasted of their conquest of Earth, and the IHwh ARUS led a severe and bloody regime. Still his subleaders assumed for themselves many things and became More and more independent. Within only three decades they had gone far in their own decisionmaking, even though they feared the punishments of the IHWH ARUS. They advocated a codex, to under all circumstances maintain their own race pure and not allow it to fall to mutations away from themselves. In a forbidden manner and secretly, they went out and caught wild Earth creatures and mutations who were distant descendants of former human beings from cosmic space. Wild and beautiful female beings were tamed and mated with by the leaders who called themselves “Sons of Heaven”. Each, according to his own race, created mutated beings, completely new forms of life, who were of dwarf-like stature, gigantic, or animal-like. Semjasa, the highest of the subleaders, mated with an EVA, a female being, who was still mostly human-like and also rather beautiful (in feature and form). The descendent of this act was of male sex and a human being of good form. Semjasa called him “Adam”, which was a word meaning “Earth human being”. A similar breeding produced a female, and in later years they were mated to each other. Meanwhile, others similar had been produced, who forced groups and tribes. From these, present Earth mankind developed.

    IHWH AURS angered by those activities, seized his subleaders when he could catch then and killed or exiled them. In time he changed his mind and recognized a new power he could exercise over the Earth beings. With newly appointed subleaders and guard-angels, he brought three human races under his control. These were the ancestors of those who today are known as “Indians”; then the (fair-sknnned) inhabitants who had settled around the Black Sea; and the third were the Gypsies along the south of the Mediterranean Sea, who were called Hebrews. Through his guard-angels, IHWH ARUS subjugated those races and forced them under his control. As the highest ruler over them, he allowed himself to become venerated and adored. He allowed them to venerate him above Creation itself, and his subleaders as assistant creators. He imposed harsh and severe laws demanding blood of the guilty.

    His son JEHAV who took over his dominion was little better, for he too as IHWH demanded only blood and death from the three enslaved races. The later descendants of these “Gods” became more humane and developed a degree of spirituality. Their spiritual evolution changed their minds and they decided to leave the development of the Earth beings to their natural course, and retired to their homeworld, so they left the earth and returned as peaceful creatures to the Pleiades, where their own mankind had reached advanced states.

    United, we live together today and are an allied population in peace and liberty. This is the essential, that is important for Earth beings to know…….

    *****

    This was a stupendous statement, and not altogether unsupported. There is evidence of other great deadly wars fought on Earth, even using atomic weapons in our far distant past, and almost inconceivably beyond our present age of science, which is actually less than 200 years old. The Takauti Documents of Japan, which predate all other records there, and all records in the western world, going back 24,000 years in unbroken history (the foundation of Shinto), support these claims of earlier man-made atomic devastation of this world. The Takauti Documents, on which the ancient Shinto Teachings and the old Kojiki history are based, describe a great worldwide atomic war in that distant past, and even contain maps showing the locations of each of the atomic blasts, and the cities destroyed.

    The symbol on those old maps which marks the sites of the blasts is a mushroom-shaped cloud. The Hindu Mahabharata describes still another great world atomic war that occurred about 8,000 years ago, which wiped out whole nations and vast armies and left total and complete devastation. It was to some of these sites that Asket took Meier in a trip into the past, to show him with his own eyes what man has done to himself. Is it possible that the Pleiadians now visiting Switzerland feel that they have vested interests here coming over from their own belligerent and often chaotic past, and perceiving yet another atomic devastation by the scientists’ new ascendancy, a legto us from their own history, now seek to head it off if possible?

    In the last of that contact, Meier was chastised for not getting this word out before it may be too late, and he objected that he was not a suitable one to do this, for which he was further rebuked(irettesatt) and then offered some help in an attempt to make it easier for him.

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  24. GenerationOilBottom
    GenerationOilBottom

    SHUT THE FUCK UP, AncientEarthHistory.

    You are wasting band width and monitor space in my web browser with your senseless drivel.

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  25. j

    yea, fuck right off, AEH.

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  26. Atlas Vicious

    Anyone here read Dailyreckoning? Dorky (like most bear slanted sights), but articulate and correct.

    http://www.dailyreckoning.com/a-crash-course-in-the-world-credit-markets/

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  27. The Contractor

    What’s up with the Scientology crap? Fly I think Mr. Tom Cruise himself is reading your site.

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  28. omfgitsjd

    I hate to say this, because I’m usually not an arrogant prick, but scientology is for absolute fucking morons.

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  29. omfgitsjd

    Are we going to have a rally this week or what? Who’s got the crystal ball?

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  30. Ancient Earth History
    Ancient Earth History

    Y’all are slaves to erroneous software implanted in your brains.

    That is not scientology.

    Yeah there will be a rally this week. Look for mark to market rules to ignite a possible explosive rally. If you’re max short, you’re playing russian roulette. The USofA will not go down without a fight, even under Comrade Obama.

    Now, go fuck off with your scientology accusations and go back to your comfortable, yet erroneously falsified and fantasical religious beliefs.

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  31. TheArtist

    50/50 chance of GM filing for bankruptcy this week. They are most likely in talks right now, Sunday, to iron out the proceedure so they can spring it on the remaining “believer” shareholders right out of the gate without warning.
    This is in my mind 100% likely since they reassured everyone thursday on CNBC that bankruptcy was still “not on the table” (which as we all know by this time means “we are lying out of our ass and should be in jail for what we have done to this company and the 200,000 employees families we have ruined”).

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  32. omfgitsjd

    Ancient,

    Well that’s good news for me. Hopefully with all the corporate bonuses, employees will be pumping every red cent they can get their fingers on into stocks this week.

    Now about this alien conspiracy crapola. The evolution of primates has been studied extensively. There is no academic foundation for aliens being responsible for our reality. The entire notion is science fiction. Government experimentation with propulsion systems and attempts at communicating with extra-terrestrial intelligence is sparking the creation of mythical deities for farmers and janitors to read about while they sip their Jim Beam and honey after dinner, nothing more. The fabric of space and time cannot be folded to allow for substantive space travel without complete and total destruction of everything around the interface. The whole idea is science fiction. We are alone here and always will be.

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  33. omfgitsjd

    Your logic on GM is compelling, but you said it yourself that there is a 50% chance they won’t declare bankruptcy. Since the stock price has fallen so far, it could be that the bigger bang for the buck here is to buy up all the shares. When they have billions in loans with more to come, it’s better for the stock to just stay out of bankruptcy court.

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  34. Tom Cruise

    Fools, all of you. When I am a god you will all pay for mocking the ancient truths handed down to me by our Alien Overlords. We are the enlightened, while you merely wallow in the filth of your traditional religions. You will all pay.

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  35. Aris

    lol @ the pleiadeans stuff.

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  36. omfgitsjd

    Tom: You’ve been tricked by pistol packing delusional lesbian gangs. There are no jism drinking alien sodomites for you, sorry.

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