AZ.TO

On a related note it’s good to see the west coast get good rainfall lately. This isn’t the year CA is going to dry up and blow away.

Cheers

PS Farmland in the US is a great target for the Chinese as well. In the long run would you rather be holding US gov debt or productive land?

SLW getting smashed today. Kind of a knee jerk thing with that monster bought deal. Probably needs some recovery time …

Maybe they want to get some more streaming deals done while the miners are cash strapped?

Jobless Claims Surge Most In 2 Years As Challenger Warns Of “Significant” Jump In Retail, Computer Layoffs

With both ISM Manufacturing and Services employment indices collapsing, endless headlines of layoffs, Challenger-Grey noting Q1 as the worst since 2009, and NFIB small business hiring weak, it is no surprise that initial jobless claims is finally waking up. For the 3rd week in a row – the longest streak since July 2015. The last 3 weeks have seen a 9.1% surge in jobless claims – the biggest such rise since April 2014.

cont. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-31/initial-jobless-claims-surge-most-2-years-2-month-highs

Despite the strength in the metals the scum is picking on the shares, especially the generals – NEM, ABX etc.

Same old tired game plan.

Chicago PMI comes out better than expected, not helping the USD but as usual now hurting the metals

and the band played on….

Silver Wheaton Announces US$500 Million Bought Deal Financing

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/silver-wheaton-announces-us-500-203621787.html

Sandstorm Gold Announces Fourth Quarter and Annual Results

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sandstorm-gold-announces-fourth-quarter-203300012.html

Entree Gold Announces Fiscal Year 2015 Results and Reviews Corporate Highlights

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/entree-gold-announces-fiscal-2015-203941906.html

MAG Silver Reports 2015 Annual Results

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mag-silver-reports-2015-annual-210225363.html

IAMGOLD Files 2015 Annual Report and Financial Review

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/iamgold-files-2015-annual-report-210400487.html

Claude Achieves Record Gold Production in 2015 and Generates $32.3 Million in Earnings

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/claude-achieves-record-gold-production-213000488.html

Timmins Gold Updates San Francisco Technical Report

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/timmins-gold-updates-san-francisco-214759786.html

Avnel Announces Definitive Feasibility Study Results for Kalana Main Project

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/avnel-announces-definitive-feasibility-study-220201889.html

Golden Queen Announces Financial Results for the Year Ending December 31, 2015

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/golden-queen-announces-financial-results-221100791.html

Gran Colombia Gold Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results; Reports Stronger EBITDA, Meets Annual Production and Cost Guidance

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gran-colombia-gold-announces-fourth-222125642.html

Aquila Resources Files 2015 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/aquila-resources-files-2015-financial-222700697.html

Americas Silver Corporation Announces San Rafael Pre-Feasibility Study, Updates to Resources and Reserves, and Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/americas-silver-corporation-announces-san-235516523.html

Lake Shore Gold Announces Filing of Annual Information Form and Form 40-F

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lake-shore-gold-announces-filing-003609456.html

Canadian Zinc reports financial results for 2015

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/canadian-zinc-reports-financial-results-021900879.html

Dynasty Reports Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2015

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dynasty-reports-financial-results-ended-054405676.html

Sandstorm Gold Announces 11,000 Gold Equivalent Ounces in Q1, 2016

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sandstorm-gold-announces-11-000-070100774.html

Randgold Replenishes Resources in Record Production Year

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/randgold-replenishes-resources-record-production-080100297.html

Canadian Zinc Reports Results of 2016 Preliminary Feasibility Study – Prairie Creek Mine, Northwest Territories

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/canadian-zinc-reports-results-2016-100000791.html

First Majestic Updates Mineral Reserve and Resource Estimates for Year End 2015 and Files Form 40-F Annual Report

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-majestic-updates-mineral-estimates-110000495.html

Excellon Announces $3,000,000 Investment by Eric Sprott

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/excellon-announces-3-000-000-110000112.html

Some mind opening thoughts that bring to light another attack on the Constitution. Some great thought provoking comments follow if you go to the site.

http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.ca/2016/03/richard-rahn-tyranny-and-free-speech.html

Labels: Free speech, Richard Rahn from the Cato Institute, Tyranny

Do you support free speech? How about free speech for climate change skeptics? For homophobes? For racists? For sexists? For white males? For even Donald Trump?

Those who defend free speech, as did the American Founding Fathers, understand it is not about defending speech you agree with, but defending speech you disagree with. Without free speech, there is no liberty.

The State Department diversity officer, John Robinson, has just warned the staff that they may be penalized for engaging in “microaggressions,” which include jokes or other comments that someone who hears them may find offensive. In a recent letter, he referred to a definition of microaggressions as “everyday verbal, nonverbal and environmental slights, snubs or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory or negative messages to target persons.” In other words, whatever you hear may be considered a microaggression if you choose to be offended. Such vague and infinitely elastic laws and regulations are the bread and butter of all totalitarian regimes. Lavrentiy Beria (Joseph Stalin’s head of the NKVD, a predecessor of the KGB) was quoted as saying to Stalin, “You name the person and I will find the crime.” The “crime” of microaggression has already been used to stifle and prosecute speech by those who have contrary views in several left-leaning universities, and now it is coming to the federal government.

The climate change lobbyists have been increasingly aggressive in their attacks on free speech. They seek to silence their critics, who have committed the “sin” of noting their many failed predictions. George Mason University meteorologist Jagadish Shukla was the lead signatory of the letter sent to the president and attorney general asking them to use RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) laws to prosecute “corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.” Mr. Shukla “paid himself and his wife $1.5 million from government climate grants for part-time work.” Other prominent global warming fear-mongers, who are on the government teat, have also called for “war crimes trials” and even the “execution” of some critics. Even Attorney General Loretta Lynch said last week she has looked at the possibility of pursuing civil actions against so-called “climate change deniers.” The message: Don’t look to the Obama administration to protect free speech.Which do you find more offensive, a person advocating socialism or a person telling jokes about one-eyed people? Socialism is an ideology that has resulted in governments killing more than 200 million of their own citizens in the last century. It is based on coercion rather than liberty. It demands involuntary servitude. Socialist Bernie Sanders promises “free” stuff to his supporters to be paid for by the involuntary servitude of others — to which there will be no end. Having spent considerable time in socialist countries and seen the human wreckage that results, I am offended by the ignorance or venality of those who engage in the microaggression of advocating socialism. Several decades ago, I lost an eye, and in the years since I have been told hundreds of “one-eyed” jokes, even by people who do not know me. Rather than being offended, I have chosen to enjoy them. Offensive speech is totally subjective, and making it a crime is incompatible with a free society.

The Guardian, a left-wing British newspaper, published an article last year by a woman author titled, “Why do women lie more than men?” It reported on a new poll that “suggests that women are twice as likely to lie as men.” The article goes on to say: “It may be irritating to be told, yet again, that women are more morally slippery than men (just as in Genesis).” The article goes on to cite several reasons why this may be true — including differences “between masculine and feminine brains.”

All of this may or may not be nonsense, but in cases of women complaining about men engaging in “offensive” speech, it is most often assumed, without evidence, that the woman is telling the truth and the man is lying. In fact, men are frequently not allowed to know who their accuser is or what she claimed was said. One of the most basic protections of liberty is the right of the accuser to know the specific charges against him or her and by whom. As a result, many innocent men are not given a fair hearing by the human resource departments in organizations and even sometimes by the courts.

The late well-regarded feminist, Joan Kennedy Taylor, argued in her book “What to Do When You Don’t Want to Call the Cops: Or a Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment” (Cato Institute) that it is important to understand that men and women perceive things quite differently, and that non-legal strategies which she describes can be far more effective and less damaging than legal remedies. Law professor Catherine Ross has just written an important book, “Lessons in Censorship” (to be discussed at a Cato book forum on March 16), in which she argues that “the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational function and threatens democracy.”

The popularity of the verbally crude Donald Trump might, in part, be a reaction to the political correctness of the political class and timid leaders of organizations who have failed to defend freedom of speech.

Richard Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth.

Arabia allowed to buy farm land deplete Calif and Arizona water instead of buying it from Farmers here while Calif Aqueducts being depleted and were in water rations.

California
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/15/saudi-arabia-buying-up-farmland-in-us-southwest.html

Arizona officials up in arms.

Arizona officials enraged over farmland purchases by Saudi Arabia to grow hay

Strict independence and strict neutrality like Switzerland. No alliances. Some states designated for like minded people.

Refining the Constitution of the United States

The founding fathers of this country had a grand vision… and experience with what does not work.  They did their best with the constitution, but who could foresee the future and how that constitution would be subverted?   With hindsight, these are the improvements I would add… if I could… to how our once-great country is run.

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First and foremost, find a way to enforce the monetary system the way it was designed, as a free-market gold and silver of honest weights and measures, with price discovery on a purely cash basis.
Other valuable physical commodities may also be used as a basis for the value of the monetary system.   No futures contracts allowed on the monetary system.   And some way to enforce that founding law absolutely with no interference from future congress…not ever.  The federal government may issue money which value shall be founded on the trade value equivalents of gold and silver or other valuable commodity.  Congress shall not abdicate it’s responsibility to administer the monetary system of the country.  Money issuance shall never again be ‘contracted’ out to a private banking system.

State that congress shall not ‘interpret’ the constitution in a ‘modern way’, professing theories of what the founders might have meant.  The constitution means exactly what it says, in plain language, not open to ‘interpretation’.

Congress shall make no laws that plainly contravene the constitution.  Penalties enforced for any congressmen or government official that attempts to subvert the constitution, including dismissal from any elected office held.  A jury of ordinary citizens should be empaneled to decide if any questionable law conforms to the constitution, on a case-by-case basis.  Any such constitutional juror may only serve once on such a panel.  Constitutional jurors shall be selected at random from the population.

Congress shall make no privileged laws that apply only to themselves.  Any law passed will apply equally to all citizens including congressmen.  Congressional pay shall be determined by the State legislature in the state that each represents.

No federal elected official will serve more than two terms in their lifetime, and members of their immediate family will be ineligible  to hold elected office.  There shall be no dynastic political class with lifetime re-elections.

All election financing and political contributions shall come ONLY from the district that the elected official represents.  There shall be no national “political action” groups financing distant special interests.

Corporations are a legal ‘person’ for business purposes ONLY.  A corporate ‘person’ shall be absolutely prohibited from ANY political action, including donations to any political candidate, political group, or political action lobbying.  Any corporation found violating this shall be dissolved.  This shall be a government of the ‘natural born’ people only.

The government shall not engage in welfare for the citizens, nor distribute dole to the population.  Charity and welfare shall be encouraged at the state and local levels where it is most effective.  Citizens shall be encouraged to provide for themselves and their own future needs.  The government shall not engage in the redistribution of wealth through taxation and redistribution.  The government may, however, provide temporary short term, emergency funding and assistance in the event of a declared disaster or emergency, to provide for the benefit of the locality, state, or nation as a whole.

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If I were to found a self-sustaining settlement on another planet, this is what I would start with.  The economy would be founded on a free market and naturally organic growth.
Of course this will never happen in our lifetimes, but it would be nice to document for the future just what we found wrong with our country in present times, and how we would dream of ‘fixing’ it, if we could.   This list is by no means complete.  I invite other free thinkers to adjust and add to this list of things YOU would do to fix the problems we see with how the constitution had been circumvented.

Ideas are welcome.  Add your thoughts to the list.   At the very least, we can leave a digital record for the future!

something’s lighting a fire under caledonia mining.  calvf   cmcl (london)

runs as an independent He Could WIN ! and destroy BOTH PARTYS……wouldent that be a HOOT!…

Hillary looks likeky to be indicted ,Bernie is a Socialist supported by the YOUNG and DUMB …..Bernies too old and wants to redistribute everything just like Venezuela did,and Hillary will likely die soon,if you watch her health and coughing with fainting spells !   Trump could easily win without the Republicans if they try to steal the election with corrupt back room deals at the Convention.  The Democrats are so corrupt its a disgrace ,they dont care how ..they just want to win….Trump has Independents,Blue Collar middle class voters that both Partys have sold OUT for the LAST 20 years ….

I think he could reshape both Parties if he wants to make the effort ,if he dosent we ARE DESTENED TO HAVE chaos & RIOTS ,A dictatorship ON OUR HORIZON probably via Military.   Nobodys vote counts anymore !  at Conventions.If you dont want Trump ,he could look like a sweet genteel man when you compare him to the NEXT GUY that fills that void.  Perot gave up and we got Trump ,if Trump gives up watch out for the NEXT GUY ..they will get increasingly more Militarist and Brutal.We will have an attempted Communist takeover and Chaos ! Obama will make his move at Dictatorship !  The current situation is exactly what brought Communists to Power in RUSSIA,CUBA ,Venezuela and the only way to get them out is FEET FIRST …look how long CUBA LASTED !,Venezuela dont even have toilet PAPER yet they cling to Power ! ALL that stands in their way is the 2nd Amendment  and thats looking very shaky !  Guns are the KEY …Putin was quoted as saying “we would never invade America ,”they all got Guns” “….and if they dont ?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-29/brds-bullets-and-bullhitters

Yeah I don’t blame him either. If they steal the nomination from him of course he shouldn’t support them.

“the best we’ve got to choose from” That’s saying quite a lot!

The More Corrupt the State, the More Numerous the Laws

by Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor

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2016-03-30 It’s crucial for your personal freedom to know the difference between committing a real crime and breaking the law. Subscribe to International Man

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Today, I’m going to share one of the most important things I’ve learned traveling around the world: There’s a crucial difference between committing a real crime and breaking the law.

I’ve seen it firsthand in the Middle East as well as many other places.

The difference is huge and few people understand it.

While laws vary dramatically across countries, almost every country in the world universally considers real crimes immoral. A real crime involves harm or the threat of harm to person or property. Think murder, theft, or arson.

Virtually every government prohibits real crimes. Most also prohibit a lot of other things…

When someone breaks the law, it’s often not a real crime at all. He may have merely violated a particular government’s law without threatening or harming anyone or anything.

Keep in mind that the idea of a victimless crime is an oxymoron. If there is no victim, there is no real crime.

Insulting the Dear Leader in North Korea, being a woman who’s driving a car in Saudi Arabia, or possessing certain plants in the U.S. government all violate laws. But none of these activities harm or threaten people or property. They’re not real crimes. They simply violate the laws of certain governments.

Of course, I am not suggesting that anyone break the law anywhere, even if it wouldn’t harm people or property. As a practical matter, it’s foolhardy to violate any government’s laws while you’re within its reach. That is, unless you prefer the lifestyle of an outlaw or a martyr.

It would be risky to disparage the Dear Leader while in North Korea, or to possess an unapproved plant in the U.S., and so forth.

Distinguishing between real crimes (i.e., harming or threatening to harm people or property) and breaking the law is critical to your personal freedom. The next step is for you to minimize your exposure to arbitrary, make-believe “crimes” invented by your home government.

You can do this by diversifying internationally. That means moving some of your savings abroad in the form of physical gold to a safe jurisdiction, owning real estate in another country, opening foreign bank/brokerage accounts, and obtaining a second passport, among other things. Taking these steps will significantly dilute the power bureaucrats in your home country have over you.

This is what this publication is all about: maximizing your personal freedom and worldwide financial opportunities.

The more laws, regulations, and edicts your home government subjects you to, the more important it is to diversify internationally.

This problem is particularly obvious in the U.S., where every level of government is continually passing more laws…especially the federal government. There are so many vague, overly broad federal laws criminalizing mundane activities that it’s impossible for anyone to be 100% compliant.

Many people think felonies only consist of major crimes like robbery and murder. But that isn’t true. An ever-expanding mountain of laws and regulations has criminalized even the most mundane activities.

It’s not as hard to commit a felony as you might think. Many victimless “crimes” are felonies.

A study by civil liberty lawyer Harvey Silverglate found that the average American inadvertently commits three felonies a day.

Today, there are thousands of federal crimes, and the number is constantly increasing. It brings to mind the words of the great Roman historian Tacitus: “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”

Here’s what Doug Casey says.

Corruption can be defined as the taking of bribes of one type or another by officials in order to allow subjects to avoid taxes or regulations. Political corruption doesn’t, therefore, occur in totally free markets simply because there’s no taxation or regulation to avoid. Inevitably, and completely predictably, the more taxed and regulated a society is, the more necessarily corrupt it is.

Today in the U.S., the government won’t necessarily go after you if you break a law. After all, most everyone has technically broken some law. Instead, the government decides whom to go after and chooses which laws to enforce. A creative prosecutor can always find some crime to charge you with if he looks hard enough.

This doesn’t sound like the land of freedom and opportunity. It sounds like an out-of-control government.

If you think it’s bad now, just wait until American politicians get even more financially desperate. Like most governments in financial trouble, we think the U.S. will keep choosing the easy option…money printing on a massive scale.

This is a huge threat to your financial security. Politicians are playing with fire and inviting a currency catastrophe. The socio-political consequences are likely to be even more severe than the financial ones.

This is a big reason why we think everyone should own some gold. Gold is the ultimate form of wealth insurance. It has preserved wealth through every kind of crisis imaginable. It will preserve wealth during the next crisis, too.

But, if you want to be truly “crisis-proof”, there is much more you can do…

We’ve put together a short video explaining the other essential and easy-to-follow steps you can start taking today. Click here to watch it now.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-pledge-idUSKCN0WW06X

Fortuna Files Form 40-F, Annual Report

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fortuna-files-form-40-f-203753471.html

Gabriel Resources Ltd.: 2015 Annual Results, Fourth Quarter Report and Proposed Private Placement

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gabriel-resources-ltd-2015-annual-220948057.html

Sierra Metals Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2015 Financial Results

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sierra-metals-reports-fourth-quarter-232800150.html

Continental Gold Files NI 43-101 Technical Report

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/continental-gold-files-ni-43-001500108.html

OceanaGold announces receipt of its FTAA exploration permit renewal and updated resources and reserves

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oceanagold-announces-receipt-ftaa-exploration-060000605.html

Serabi Gold plc (“Serabi” or the “Company”) Audited Results for the year ended 31 December 2015

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/serabi-gold-plc-serabi-company-060000772.html

Torex Declares Commercial Production at Its El Limon-Guajes Mine and Reports 2015 Year-End Financial Results

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/torex-declares-commercial-production-el-100000736.html

Aureus Mining Inc. – Financial Results for Year Ended December 31, 2015 and 2015 Operational Review

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/aureus-mining-inc-financial-results-110000968.html

Atlantic Gold Provides Update With Phased Reclamation Security Arrangements for the MRC Project

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/atlantic-gold-provides-phased-reclamation-120000069.html

Kinross Files Updated Technical Report for Tasiast

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kinross-files-updated-technical-report-131047769.html

Kinross to spend $300 mln on N. Africa mine expansion

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kinross-spend-300-mln-n-133037488.html

Bearish short term,,a matter of weeks  ,but if IM right a bottom in MAY 13-15 will be the best thing you have seen in your lifetime !

get prepared !  Get your act together,choose your best ideas and get aboard by the 13th of May ! Theres time to get it right,then sit tight !

A women said to Trump yesterday ,”Why cant you be more like your Sons ?.They are so WELL Spoken .moderate and not prone to harsh rhetoric.

She was very pleased with his children.They dont smoke ,dont do Drugs ,dont drink….Neither does he !

BUT she criticizes him..!   Im thinking to myself :What a Stupid woman.!  She like the end result ,but don’t like the Rhetoric .His children are the result of his Rhetoric and more !  IF a parent takes action when a child is acting up ,is he being Harsh ? ,But she likes the end result !

Does the Captain of a ship need to take harsh maneuvers sometimes to keep the ship on coarse ? Do you criticize the Captain because he not “moderate” all the time ?   If hes sees a 50 foot wave s going to hit him sideways and roll the ship over ,should he be  moderate in his correction ?

Hell NO ! not if you want to be alive and get back to port.  She dosent trust the Captain ,wants a more moderate one ,but she likes the “END Results”  !  You hire a GOOD Captain then you let him run the ship,without second guessing him on every move he makes.!

What a stupid woman ! unfortunately there are many like her ,and men too ! Judge him by the end RESULTS and after 70 years his end RESULTS are very good and better than 99% of his detractors ! A proven end result guy ! If you want a wimp that changes his mind to facilitate the current fad and makes you “FEEL GOOD” hire someone else ! but dont expect the same results.!

for the metals anyway, can’t have a breakout

The SM on the other hand…

We are everywhere!  

“Unfortunately, most of our drinking water today is dead, having passed through 90° right angles in a pipe…”

going around a ninety degree turn in the plumbing kills water?  this is an awesome new level of moonbattery!   i’m impressed.

http://humansarefree.com/2015/09/everything-is-fake-top-40-pieces-of.html

The last time Silver ran up near $50, it lagged gold for a long time. Gold started up in ’01, and was climbing very nicely all by itself, at 17% per year until 2011.

Silver did nothing from ’01 until 2010 and suddenly flew straight up from $18 to $48 in a matter of MONTHS, peaked early 2011 and crashed taking gold down with it. I blamed Silver for throwing Gold off stride.

Maybe it will repeat itself again. Silver is like those penny stocks, or bulletin board over the counter stocks. They can FLY, than look out.