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The price of gold has recovered about half of the drop off, buying of the physical metal is booming and the ETFs are still selling off.
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I never said it did. I was pretty explicit that anyone who promotes the desire to inflict harm on others is unethical.
I am saying that everyone automatically getting their feel good jollies that it wasn't a Christian fundie, or placing the blame on all of Islam is missing the boat and won't serve to get the point across as effectively. I can see people like BG and all the Fundies exploiting the bombing to promote their own agendas which is wrong-headed.
That's just the way is is, just like after each school shooting in the US right or wrong the gun control lobby gets to bolster it's argument.
If it doesn't fit with someone world view they will run interference rather than just giving a point to the other side.
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Guns and violence is a problem. We've had thousands of murders in the US since the Sandy bombing, almost all of them were Christians that committed the murders as well.
Look, I am saying that any ideology that promotes the desire to commit violence is immoral. But conversely, being Christian or Muslim doesn't prevent you from committing atrocities as well. Acting ethical or with good desires, simply put, is what we should promote. Anything else we have reason to punish or discourage.
Some Muslim leaders have on multiple occasions declared holy war on the westerners which they actively supported an financed, it is not the only evil in the world but the existence of other evils does not excuse or diminish Islamic terrorism, so why keep using that argument?
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You are so far off it is scary in your blindness to reality.
This is a real problem, it's sad that there is a ready supply of, you could say "useful idiots" refuse to alter their conclusions in the face of reality.
I hope that he is just playing devil advocate and is not truly brainwashed to the extent that his posts indicate.
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And the purpose is???
He fell for the bait,
When there is no way to rationally win the argument for Islamic terrorists, then throw mud around and see what sticks.
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More Toronto Islamic terrorists stopped, similar to the Toronto 18.
http://www.thestar.c...ed_sources.html
The RCMP says it has thwarted a terrorism plot to derail a VIA passenger train bound on an undisclosed route with support from Al Qaeda in Iran, police announced Monday.
As part of a co-ordinated effort between the national police force, local police in Toronto and Montreal and the FBI, two men were arrested Monday as part of “Project Smooth,” police announced at a news conference.
Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, and Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, both face terrorism-related charges for allegedly conspiring to carry out an “Al Qaeda-supported attack,” said the RCMP’s assistant commissioner, James Malizia.
“Had this plot been carried out, it would have resulted in innocent people being killed or seriously injured,” Malizia said. “Our primary focus was the safety and protection of the public.”
Police said although there was never any imminent threat, the accused had the “capacity and intent” to carry out the attack.
Malizia said “Al Qaeda elements in Iran” were providing support to the two men in the form of “direction” and “guidance.”
Esseghaier and Jaser, who are not Canadian citizens but whose nationalities police did not disclose, are charged with conspiring to interfere with transportation facilities and conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of a terrorist group.
The two men did surveillance on trains and railways in the GTA, police said, adding they are still executing search warrants related to the plot, which they said was in the planning stage.
A group of prominent Toronto leaders from various Muslim communities attended a briefing at the RCMP’s Toronto division before the news conference took place.
Among them was Muhammad Robert Heft, who once ran a counselling program for troubled Muslim youth.
The two men did surveillance on trains and railways in the GTA, police said, adding they are still executing search warrants related to the plot, which they said was in the planning stage.
Also in attendance was Somali Imam Saed Rageah, who said as he entered the police division that he was unsure of the circumstances around the case.
News of the arrests comes a week after a double bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 170.
The Canadian arrests are reportedly not connected to the Boston bombings, but come at a tense time.
The RCMP is actively involved in another investigation of Canadians at the forefront of a terrorist attack. High school friends from London, Ont., were reportedly among the leaders of a mid-January attack at an Algerian gas plant that killed 37 hostages.
And Mahad Ali Dhore, who grew up and studied in the GTA, is suspected of leading a suicide attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, this month.
An investigation continues and police did not say if they expect any additional arrests.
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They are just extremists, who "Happen to be muslims" Is a Bull crap position. Being muslim is the driving force. Just cause most muslims arent terorists,just like most priests arent pedophiles,doesnt excuse the fact that without worldwide condemnation by Imams, Islam is suspect.Look up the definition of tacit approval.Silence, can be as deafening as a standing ovation.
Be careful, the thought police will come for you and the human rights tribunal will destroy you financially with no right of appeal, don't you know that this is just another conspiracy against the poor by evil while male capitalists that could care less about regulations that would have saved their fertilizer plant from blowing up.
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Just because the people who do a spree killing like Aurora are really crazy, doesn't mean they don't have a political or religious motivation (or justification for their actions. I mean you can say the aurora killer was just crazy, but a suicide bomber isn't?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terrorist
Noun
terrorist (plural terrorists)
- A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals; frequently in an attempt to coerce either a more powerful opponent, (such as a citizen or group targeting a government), or conversely, a weaker opponent, (such as a government, or even an internal citizen or group, being targeted by a larger government).
- A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals; frequently in an attempt to coerce either a more powerful opponent, (such as a citizen or group targeting a government), or conversely, a weaker opponent, (such as a government, or even an internal citizen or group, being targeted by a larger government).
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Well, let me take a point of contention here. Are spree killings considered terrorist attacks? IF not, why not? Something like the Aurora shooting was explicitly done to create terror. If that killer had been muslim acting on his own, and not a white kid acting on his own, I'm certain the media description of it would be a terrorist attack, and not a "spree killing"
I'm not saying that radicalized Muslim terrorists aren't a threat, and there aren't extremely organized terrorist cells. But this specific killing, strikes me much more like what is labeled a spree killing, done by the severely mentally ill, than it does an organized terrorist plot. I just think it's curious that the ideologies of those who commit the act change what the act is labeled.
I could be proven wrong, in the coming weeks, this could be the act of a more organized greater group, but I would bet against it.
I think there has to be a political or religious motivation to make is terrorist.
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Now it's a conspiracy against these fine young boys.
Toronto "news" paper
http://www.thestar.c...g_suspects.html
The aunt of the two Boston bombing suspects is calling for additional evidence showing they are behind the acts.
“I am a lawyer and there are four of us in the family,” Maret Tsarnaev told reporters Friday at her Toronto home. “I can’t lightly accept this kind of accusations without supporting evidence. Forgive me, but I cannot.
MORE ON THESTAR.COM
Who are the bombing suspects??
“Could it be staged? I have to question everything. That’s my nature.”
Police are hunting for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who survived an overnight shootout and police chase. His older brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed in the shootout.
Their aunt said the boys’ parents went to the U.S. as refugees with Dzhokhar in 2002. The older brother, Tamerlan, and the suspects’ two sisters came in 2003.
She said she has not spoken to her nephews in about five years. She believed Tamerlan was married to a woman “from a good Christian family” woman and had a three-year-old child.
“So you can’t tie it up to religion, either, because having the closest person in your house... and a daughter of that union, how can you hate this religion and be violent?”
Maret said both men were Muslim but was not sure how devout, if at all.
She knew the boys had gone to school and had worked at jobs such as store clerk and pizza delivery.
When she spoke to Tamerlan last time, he sounded “enthusiastic.” He was a boxer for fun, she added.
Tsarnaev only heard the news and saw the photos this morning and thought: “This cannot be true.”
She said the boys’ father was soft-hearted. “I don’t know how he’s taking this,” she said.
“I still do not believe these two boys would do this. I don’t know them in a way that they could be capable of this.”
She added people should not just “swallow” everything the government is saying.
“I called (the FBI) and I said please, take that into account. Give evidence. Give at least evidence to family members. Because I will never accuse my relatives, my nephews, without having evidence. Because we are not talking about something small.
“We are talking about three dead people, hundreds injured. And I do not believe our boys would do that.”
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Your post is completely devoid of a logical basis. It only gets the most attention, impact and terror if the media blows it up and people choose to be frightened by an event that logically they should not be as frightened by.
I blame the media and idiots like you for assuming Muslims as a "probable conclusion," which is doubly impressive, since an actual Muslim would never do something like that. Perhaps an extremist, but calling an extremist "Muslim" is like calling a member of the KKK a "Christian." Seriously.
I don't suppose that the media attention had anything to do with the terrorists picking the finish line of a major international sporting event? Much better and more PC to assume that it is just because they hate brown or Islamic people.
If you think that it makes me an idiot to think that the the possible perpetrators in decreasing order of probability would look something like
-Islamic terrorists
-Random criminal-loon (Washington sniper type)
-Right wing-nut (Oklahoma bomber type)
-Left wing-nut Anti-capitalist occupy everything types
-Eco Terrorists
-Elmer Fudd
-Mickey Mouse
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People from that part of the World are literally Caucasian
Yes but not the Southern Buba or Arian brotherhood type that the press had their fingers crossed for.
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No thread for West, Texas? Oh right, that one was just the fault of negligent rich guys, not something we can use to witch-hunt innocent brown guys.
Fun game - look how far down in an article about West, Texas you have to go to find the actual name of the company. And I doubt you can even find the name of the parent company, or any information on their executives, quality control people, etc. And yet we have newspapers jamming names and faces of any brown people who happened to be within 500 metres of the bombing in Boston in their headlines. You can bet when they have a suspect, they'll mention his name three times in the first paragraph.
Boston was a terrorist attack with the time and place chosen to get the most attention, impact and strike the most terror.
You spin this to blame the media for covering it and drawing probable conclusions?
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Seems ridiculous that people are hoping that the bomber is of one race or another, I think that makes them just as or more racist than the reaction that they fear.
http://thestar.blogs.com/worlddaily/2013/04/heres-hoping-the-boston-marathon-bomber-is-white-.html
04/18/2013
Here's hoping the Boston Marathon bomber is white
The hunt continues for the Boston Marathon bomber, or bombers. As the complicated investigation continues, Americans anxiously await news of his ethnic identity. If the suspects are Muslims it is sure to exacerbate social tensions. And if the bomber is white? Some are hoping the attacker or attackers are just that -- for the sake of social cohesion and America’s well being.
David Sirota argues in Salon that the suspects' racial identity will “dictate what kind of governmental, political and societal response we see in the coming weeks.”
He writes: “That means regardless of your particular party affiliation, if you care about everything from stopping war to reducing the defense budget to protecting civil liberties to passing immigration reform, you should hope the bomber was a white domestic terrorist. Why? Because only in that case will privilege work to prevent the Boston attack from potentially undermining progress on those other issues.”
Anti-racist campaigner Tim Wise writes that if the suspects are white it will have no bearing on how white people in general are treated, pointing to 50 examples including Oklahoma bomber Tim McVeigh and Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph.
"White privilege is knowing that if the Boston bomber turns out to be white, we will not be asked to denounce him or her, so as to prove our own loyalties to the common national good. It is knowing that the next time a cop sees one of us standing on the sidewalk cheering on runners in a marathon, that cop will say exactly nothing to us as a result.
“White privilege is knowing that if this bomber turns out to be white, the United States government will not bomb whatever corn field or mountain town or stale suburb from which said bomber came, just to ensure that others like him or her don’t get any ideas."
Amy Davidson observes in the New Yorker that the Saudi bystander who was injured in Monday’s carnage was immediately and unfairly viewed with suspicion because he was a Muslim.
“The bombing could, for all we know, be the work of a Saudi man—or an American or an Icelandic or a person from any nation you can think of. It still won’t mean that this Saudi man can be treated the way he was, or that people who love him might have had to find out that a bomb had hit him when his name popped up on the Web as a suspect in custody. It is at these moments that we need to be most careful, not least.”
The Toronto Star's Rick Westhead is reporting from Boston. Read his latest reports here and here
Hamida Ghafour is a foreign affairs reporter at the Star. She has lived and worked in the Middle East and Asia for more than 10 years and is the author of a book on Afghanistan. Follow her on Twitter @HamidaGhafour
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15% of miners loosing money at these prices, if that number doubles we are definitely reaching a bottom.
Buying of the physical metal is way up and the opposite in the paper market.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/17/us-gold-coins-idUSBRE93G15Z20130417
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I hadn't checked in a long time, fairly shocked that it has fallen so far. gives me hope that we might see sub-$1000 sometime in the future, so I can possibly buy gold without it being a big goddamn deal.
I guess I just sort of rooted for you to take a big loss so I can save a few hundred dollars. for that, I do apologize.
That's life on the wire.
We don't buy gold, just get it out of the ground and sell it.
The value of my stocks are down a shocking amount, but even at that I'm still well in the black.
If you are thinking of buying a couple of Ozs, this week could be a good time to start, as there will be a bounce at some point, just don't know if the cat will be alive or not.
No hurry,
Keep calm,
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Lady luck on the river
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Gold taking another big drop today even hitting the 1300's
Starting to look like capitulation which is always a temptation.
Ag and Pt have been dragged down too and may be a more compelling opportunity because they have more high end industrial/technological uses, Pt mines were closing even before this drop, Pt production is concentrated in South Africa and Russia, and governments don't have big stockpiles that can mess up the market.
Still some room to go down but I'm thinking of buying more shares in some of the companies I'm involved with at some point soon, as a good entry point and as a show of support because being an insider I have to report my transactions to the securities commission and our investors are watching for this.
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He does cover some of the fundamentals reasonably but I've seen him argue that gold has zero value and all prices paid for gold reflect a bubble, which puts him well on the extreme.
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thoughts on this Tweet ?
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Mark Dow @mark_dow 2h
Gold is a tax on stupidity. Bitcoin is a tax on paranoid stupidity $GLD
Respectfully disagree with the generality but, buying anything that shows clear signs of being over bought can be called "stupidity" AAPL at $705 anyone? It's now at $430 down 39%
Gold is now $1488 off 21% from it's 2011 high of $1900.30 and this is the third time it's approached these lows since then so the case could be made that market has been sideways for about 2 years.
http://www.kitco.com.../au1825nyb.html
Goldman Sacks lowered their outlook for gold earlier this week and Cyprus announced today that things were worse than ever and that reinforced the idea that they might sell their gold.
There were a lot of smart people who were declaring that gold was a "Barbaric Relic" when it was sub $300 but fundamentals pointed up because something like 75% of the world's mines were operating at a loss at that time and it was an obvious buy. To jump in with both feet after a run up of 500% should give anyone pause.
The trend is down and as they say "a trend is a trend until it isn't" things could get even more ugly,
I'm OK unless it drops below $1350 then I'd be looking at becoming a grinder again.
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Gold still falling down $50 today to $1510, Ag off $1 to $26.47
Would not want to fight the trend as this downdraft has momentum, but will be watching for an entrance point sometime over the next couple of months.
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I wonder if PS is reconsidering his endorsement deal?
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It's been a couple of years since I've been to Reno but when I was there the most games were at the El Dorado, also played at the Peppermill and Atlantis.
In Reno there are a lot of locals that play and less tourists, if there is a convention or event in town that helps a lot, the last time I played at the El Dorado it was durring the street vibrations bike convention and there were two HA members at my table wearing insignia.
Racism At The Cbc
in Politics, Economics and News
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Racism ageism and sexism at the CBC
http://news.national...c-no-caucasian/
A casting call to hire a new CBC host that specifically said white people need not apply has been withdrawn, with the casting agent offering apologies for the mistake.
The original ad for the host of a children’s show, posted on the casting agency’s website under a CBC logo and on Craigslist, said: “Please only submit [an audition tape] if you match the following criteria:
Male between the ages of 23-35 years;
Any race except Caucasian.”
A new version of the ad removes the race reference, but maintains the sex and age restrictions and that applicants “must be able to carry a tune,” “ability to dance or move well is a bonus,” and should be “not afraid to show a silly side,” among others.
The revised casting call was issued and the Craigslist ad deleted Monday after critics on Twitter started questioning the restriction.
The exclusion shocked many, including Alex Guibord, a communications consultant in Toronto.
“It is wrong in any ad to exclude people — women need not apply, specific races need not apply, gays can’t apply,” he said in an interview.
Adding that he is of mixed race and gay, he thinks exclusionary policies are out of line: “You’re trying to be more inclusive, visually, by being exclusionary.”
The independent agency contracted by the CBC to post the ad said it was a mistake.
“We apologize. We made a mistake and we’re apologizing profusely,” said Larissa Mair of Larissa Mair Casting and Associates Inc.
“I’m mortified,” she said.
“We were asked to seek a cast of diversity. We mistakenly took that to mean that the production was not seeking Caucasian actors. This was a mistake that was made entirely by the casting company.
“Of course, it’s open to all ethnicities,” she said.
Chuck Thompson, head of media relations for CBC English Services, said the language in the ad was regrettable but the public broadcaster was indeed looking for diversity.
“At CBC, inclusion and diversity is a priority. This means reflecting Canada and its regions as well as the country’s multicultural and multiracial nature,” says a letter the CBC provides casting agencies, forwarded by Mr. Thompson.
“As a part of our commitment to this priority, we are now reaching out to our partners in production to ensure that a concerted and documented effort be made … to cast actors who reflect Canada’s diversity,” the letter says.
“Our focus in this latest initiative is simply to ensure that our search to find the best talent is broad and inclusive.”
Said Mr. Thompson: “Regrettably, in this particular case, it’s clear that our language was not used but it will be corrected.”
The show being cast was Patty and Mamma Yamma. In past Kids’ CBC shows, Mamma Yamma is a yam puppet who runs a fruit and vegetable stand in Toronto’s Kensington Market.
The casting call also offers tips for applicants.
“Make it your own and show off your personality. We’re not looking for someone to play a character, but to be himself,” it says. “The lighting and sound are key — we want to be able to clearly see and hear you, so shoot your audition somewhere quiet and well lit.”
Applicants must also submit a photo and résumé.
The audition script to be performed features a host talking directly to young viewers.
“Oh hi! I’m so glad you’re here!” the script reads. “It’s ‘Healthy Me’ week, and I was just about to do some exercises to help me get strong and healthy. Hey … why don’t you do them with me?”
The host then runs on the spot while ad libbing to the audience.