Loading ...and then I post them. Palladium is a different beast and monthly charts are close enough right now. Just the big picture. It’s nice to see /PA holding the flag breakout.
New Scum tactic
Looks like they are sitting on Nem and GG, to try and hold GDX down.
Around the open Nem and GDX were the same price, now Nem is 20 cents less !!!!!
We need a big rip right here
or go home
Quality Control by Keystroke
Drug Batch Tainted? Just Hit Delete and Ship It to the U.S.
In a lab in an Indian village during the height of monsoon season in 2011, a technician hit a delete button — a keystroke that would have consequences three years later.
The quality-control employee of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. had run high-powered chemical analyses on a drug sample to check for impurities that day. A certain level of impurity means the whole batch is supposed to be thrown out.
That’s not what happened. Instead, the results of the failed tests were deleted, according to a previously undisclosed account detailed in a November 2013 FDA document obtained by Bloomberg News. The following day, workers used a sample from the same batch that passed the test. That result got entered, and the entire batch was declared clean and ready to ship abroad, eventually to be used by patients in the U.S. The FDA’s computer forensics experts eventually found 5,301 additional deleted results from chromatography tests at the facility.
My health insurance company did cancel me
Dropped me on my head after 5 years, I never missed a payment. Went to the exchange yesterday and my (family’s) insurance rates are going up 10% with the cheapest policy available. No financial assistance for people like me, shake the NO finger at me. Too much in stocks and IRA’s. Interestingly, the same website that ask for every bit of financial information that’s ever existed in my life, doesn’t penalize people that are in real estate.
The open insurance exchange sure don’t ask questions like, “What is your home worth on Zillow today?” I mean this is an asset for sure, if they can see every dollar that’s in every account of mine, they should also know what your house is worth. So I have this friend and she’s a millionaire farmer’s daughter who was an architect co-worker of mine. She makes herself look poor enough on paper that she gets all kinds of subsidies for insurance, lives in a really nice house. My point is that my old co-worker has a half million dollar house in downtown and she gets free healthcare because of her family’s income bracket! All while she knows she’s set for life. It’s basically free money from the govy. Good accountants save money I guess
Mine the streets!
Platinum from road dust, Veolia cleans up on British streets
PARIS – French firm Veolia is recycling precious metals worth £100 000 ($155 000) each year from dust swept off British streets and plans to recover more by opening two new plants.
Every day, catalytic converters in cars spit out minute particles of platinum, palladium and rhodium, which end up in road sweepings gathered by waste recyclers like Veolia.
In the past year, Veolia Environnement’s pilot plant in Ling Hall, close to the central English city of Birmingham, has started to filter out these precious metals from the 40 000 t/y of dust it treats.
“We have a surface mine on our city streets,” Estelle Brachlianoff, head of Veolia UK and Ireland, told reporters.
Veolia plans to open two more centres, one close to London and another at a separate location in southern England, to recover precious metals from the 400 000 t of dirt it sweeps off British streets every year.
These could generate £1-million worth of precious metals, it estimates. Veolia is also looking at opening such plants in its domestic French market.
The potential is huge, as Veolia also wants to recycle precious metals from road dirt gathered by other operators, including local authorities.
Brothers in Arms ….. D’oh!
U.S. believes Iran launched air raids on Islamic State in Iraq
(Reuters) – The United States has indications that Iran has carried out air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq in recent days, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
A senior Iranian official denied that Iran had launched any such air strikes.
U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States had indications that Iran had used F-4 Phantoms to launch the raids in the last several days.
An Iraqi security expert said the strikes took place 10 days ago near the Iranian border.
“It is true that Iranian planes hit some targets in Diyala. Of course the government denies it because they have no radars,” Hisham al-Hashemi told Reuters.
Diyala is an ethnically mixed province, where the Iraqi army, backed by Kurdish Peshmerga and Shi’ite militias, last month drove Islamic State out of several towns and villages.
A British-based analyst said footage on Al Jazeera of an F-4 Phantom striking Islamic State in Diyala was the first visual evidence of direct Iranian air force involvement in the conflict.
“Iran and Turkey are the only regional operators of the F-4, and with the location of the incident not far from the Iranian border and Turkey’s unwillingness to get involved in the conflict militarily, indicators point to this being an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force aircraft,” said Gareth Jennings of IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly.
more http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/03/us-mideast-crisis-iran-idUSKCN0JH0WY20141203
Not that gold needs more reasons-but these possibly gold friendly reports/events may help
12-3–A report from the ADP Research Institute showed U.S. companies added fewer workers than estimated in November. Firms added 208,000 jobs last month, below economists’ forecasts of 222,000.
The Labor Department releases its labor data on Friday. The government’s report may show companies added 230,000 nonfarm payrolls in November while the unemployment rate held at 5.8 percent, according to the consensus forecast by economists.
The Fed will release its Beige Book at 2 p.m. local time. The survey, based on reports from its 12 regional banks, will provide anecdotal information about the economy before the Fed’s Dec. 16-17 policy meeting.
Investors are also awaiting signals from the European Central Bank. Mario Draghi and his central bank colleagues may move a step closer to full-scale quantitative easing when they meet tomorrow in Frankfurt. The majority of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predict the ECB will eventually buy government bonds to help spur growth in the region.
Oil Train?
Into the Lowlands, we go!
“Galveston, Oh Galveston”. In 1989 some enterprising Houston businessman began operating “The Texas Limited” several days a week between Houston and Galveston.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=509018
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=509019
Coffee’s on
For insomniacs winedoc and MM3.
Insomnia: Back at Ya ….. DJ MM3 ….. The Only Ones ….. “The Big Sleep”
Memories of Nottingham 1979/80
Too bad Peter Perrett got so wasted on hash and heroin ……. but would the music still have been there ?
Back to bed ……
Winedoc
Last tip of the transmitter for Dr. Feelgood…and no it ain’t the Cure, whoops, Crue
“Clash”esque, right in the doc’s groove…