Wouldn’t you know it?  This was to be tomorrow’s Gold Train!

White Pass & Yukon work train at Glacier, Alaska.
This is the route from the coast up to the Canadian Yukon.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=490584

Islamic State militants turn conquered Syria/Iraq territories into jihadist tourist paradise

turn their recent conquests into a tourist business, complete with jihadist honeymoons and themed tours across Syria and Iraq.

Islamic State orders genital mutilation of Iraqi women – UN

The sphere of influence the Iraq and Al Sham militants control, as of June, stretches through large swathes of northern and eastern Syria, as well as parts of northern and western Iraq.

Now a quite lucrative tourist trade operates without borders or ID cards, with its jihadist bus flying the black flag and ferrying fighters across the conquered lands.

AFP spoke to a number of rebels and activists by phone, who explained how the business venture works.

Many of the vacationing jihadists are from abroad. According to an activist, a Chechen was among the first. The 26-year-old Abu Abdel Rahman al-Shishani recently got married to a Syrian, whom he took on a honeymoon to Anbar.

“These jihadists are very romantic,” Hadi Salameh, the activist, told the news agency, adding that she sat in the back of the vehicle, as is customary. The lovebirds listened to jihadist songs as their bus took off from Tal Abyad, on the border with Turkey, and headed towards Iraq’s Anbar.

“You can get off wherever you want, and you don’t need a passport to cross the border,” Salameh, who is a Raqa resident and uses a pseudonym, continued.

cont. at http://rt.com/news/175296-isis-honeymoon-tourism-militants/

Hey we’re looking at the same mountains! 🙂

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fortune-minerals-announces-preliminary-economic-203400567.html

Things In The Middle East Are About To Get Much Worse

Tyler Durden’s pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/24/2014 17:16 -0400

There are major clashes occurring currently in The West Bank tonight as claims of 10s of thousands and Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers. Sadly, as the photos below reveal taken moments ago show, things appear set to get very much worse

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-24/things-gaza-are-about-get-much-worse

Op Ex ……. has recently been  a good time to buy Phyzz

If I can get silver bars sub $20 dollars sometime in the next week …….

Winedoc  agrees with you that  its a great long term strategy.

I start a 2 week  “stay-cation”  tomorrow,  courtesy of  a not so well balanced PF  !!!

……. Besides there is  “Almost”  no where nicer to be in the summer than Maritime Canada

Best Regards

Winedoc

others whose views appear on sites such as SGTReports or Zero Hedge, there sure seems to be a lot of negative views and comments about the place and role of the U.S. in the world today. No one asked me  for it but here is my view  of the U.S. from our vantage point.

By the Comex open it was a foregone conclusion that gold would be further attacked. That attack came just 10 minutes after the NYSE open, with a further 6,544 August contracts sold at 9:40 AM. Of course too there was the obligatory pressure on last evening’s access trade open, making it 69 out of 75 for those CFTC regulators still pretending to be working for the public. At least Scott O’Malia is now in a position to be cheering nefarious trading, rather than collecting a paycheck from the government for ignoring it. That’s the beauty of revolving doors. One day you’re a bobblehead, the next day you’re avery well paid bobblehead.

What we are watching and enduring here is beyond farce, but it is the way it is SO … rather than be totally annoyed, aggravated, and ticked off, I decided to get my workout in the gym over with and enjoy a relaxing lunch at Chili’s … which is replacing my summer vacation.

Before heading off to the gym, I registered my disgust with Dave from Denver who came back with this…

Well Bill, the good news is, if this is the last of it, they are losing firepower. The bad news is, they may try to engineer more hedge fund waterfall selling. The 50 dma in silver was getting ready to crossover the 200 dma and I don’t think it’s a coincidence they are pounding silver today to prevent that from happening as it would trigger hedge fund algo buying in silver.

The waterfall started at 9:00 a.m. EST on absolutely no news or event that would have triggered it. Obviously the geopolitical and economic news is getting worse by the hour. The new home sales report was a complete and unmitigated disaster. The Dow Jones Home Construction Index is down over 4% right now – I cant remember the last time this index dropped this much intra-day. Housing is supposed be one of the primary pillars of our economic “recovery.” How can the housing stock index be down over 4% yet the S&P 500 and Dow are green?

That alone speaks volumes about how fraudulent and manipulate our system is.

Hopefully this will be the last before the bull resumes in earnest.

From Argentus Maximus: “I also await a decline to lower side of range and that may be a new low as I have said ever since the rise from the last two big lows. I will buy into that decline however. It’s late in the bear and nobody will ring a bell, so stops are essential, but they must be wide stops generated from weekly or monthly levels. Short term stops are not worth much in my view and in this market especially.”

Still some fighting to do.

🙂

Almost thought it was Friday!!  What a let down. That darn Wanka.

Way beyond desperate.

Presently at the having a bird stage.  lol

Update: 1:10 p.m.Prior to the Malaysian Airlines jet’s shoot down, pro-Russian separatist leader Igor Strelkov posted on the Russian social networking site, VKontakte, claiming responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian AN-26 transport plane. However, after news emerged of the downed Malaysian Airlines plane, Strelkov’s page appears to have been scrubbed of the post.Strelkov’s page claimed responsibility for taking down a Ukrainian jet and posted and accompanying video that shows smoke rising from what is now believed to be the crash site of the passenger jet. Below is a screengrab of Strelkov’s VKonkakte page that includes the post claiming responsibility for the downed transport plane. That post now appears to have been removed. Donetsk separatist boss Strelkov, Kremlin’s proxy in war, says he ordered shootdown thinking plane was Ukrainian pic.twitter.com/uaWKVlsA7q — Strobe Talbott @strobetalbott July 17, 2014 After reports emerged that a passenger jet had been shot down, Strelkov said that his forces were not responsible and that they lacked the capability to shoot down a plane flying at that altitude. The plane was reportedly flying at an altitude of about 33,000 feet.Meanwhile, additional images are emerging of the crash site, including the horrifying image below that was carried by Russian television:

Foreignpolicy.com

My brother and I took that same railroad 2 summers ago from Bennett Lake to Carcross ……..  just up the line

While hiking the Chilcoot

Winedoc

US Stocks Are Open, Time To Dump A Billion Dollars Worth Of Gold Futures

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/24/2014 09:46 -0400

Another day, another opening plungefest in gold futures…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-24/us-stocks-are-open-time-dump-billion-dollars-worth-gold-futures

 

I feel sorry for all the women in their areas. Millions and millions.

Re ISIS

No doubt the Libtards will find some “logical” explanation.

The proposed open-pit copper and gold Pebble Mine will not be built, according to billionaire mining financier Robert Friedland.

“The United States Environmental Protection Agency has just killed the Pebble Mine in Alaska. It will not be built,” Friedland said Wednesday during a presentation at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium Vancouver.

Last Friday, the EPA suggested it might invoke a little used provision that may block the mine’s construction.

The Pebble deposit, near Bristol Bay, Alaska, holds an estimated 55 billion pounds of copper and 67 million ounces of gold. If developed, it would be one of the world’s largest open-pit copper and gold mines.

Pebble Mine will not be built: Friedland

US Manufacturing PMI Drops, Biggest Miss On Record

Tyler Durden’s pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/24/2014 09:50 -0400

But, but, but… the rest of the world’s PMIs are soaring as soft-survey data trumps any hard data facts. US Manufacturing dropped from 57.3 to 56.3 despite analysts that were convinced it should rise further to 57.5. This is the biggest miss on record, and the 2nd miss in a row. In spite of soaring markets proving the recoverty is just picking up and accelerating, new export orders weakened, manufacturing production fell, input costs surged, and employment tumbled to 10-month lows. But, stocks are surging on this dismal news…

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If ‘she’ finds it, just don’t let her use it ok?

Just wanted to give everyone a shout this morning. Heading out to clean up a rental house so you folks hold the fort for a bit.

Check back in  a little later with ya. Farmboy

I keep reading that the manipulators are losing their grip based upon the quick snapback after the 2 day flash crash. But, but, but they accomplished their mission, imho.  Now that the dust has cleared, we can see that the snapback produced a lower high and as of today a lower low. So, the Intermediate up trend was capped at only 6 weeks where normal should be 4 and 1/2 months., the normal cycles are still broken.