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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (61285)	2/18/2010 1:23:30 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218705

Niagara ? Come to the Canadian side.. It's better anyway :O)

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (61285)	2/18/2010 4:21:03 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218705

re << Closings loom for NY parks, historic sites>> ... whoa in the mean time, just in in-tray, about investing in heir putin player 1: Note to all- UC-Rusal (486) finance.yahoo.com which listed last month @ $ 10.80 and reportedly oversubscibed now trading @ $ 7.46 and sinking like a stone. This is a criminal enterprise who's CEO is still wanted for murder in Stuttgart.It's not just about the price of aluminum folks. Nathaniel Rothschild heavily backed this listing as did Paulson. Nat I unserstand, he has huge Russian/Ukrainian holdings and needed to be seen backing Heir Putin. But Paulson? Marc,you might recall I warned you about this listing. player 2: I agree, but it seems a lot of big money guys invested. Li Ka Shing bought US$100 million worth, Robert Kuok of Kerry / Shangri-La bought US$20 million worth. What were they thinking? Some quid pro quo on their other Russian ivestments? Guaranteed approval of some impending business elsewhere in Russia? I'm skeptical that they bought it just because they thought it a "good deal." player 1: A little background on our mate Oleg you won't find in the 1000+ pg prospectus The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: Shortcut to: thenation.com player 3: Yes, Bill, I always listen to you

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (61285)	2/18/2010 4:34:20 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218705

re gold and hk real estate :0) player 1: From today's "Lai See" column in the SCMP. Note: Tin Shui Wan is probably the worst neighborhood in Hong Kong. They say gold is the currency of kings and silver the money of gentlemen. The Chinese love affair with gold dates back thousands of years and most still believe it is a valuable long-term investment. But they may have to rethink their investment strategies if they heard Julia Leung Fung-yee, acting director of Financial Services and the Treasury, yesterday at the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society party to celebrate its 100th anniversary this year. In 1910, an ounce of gold cost US$21, compared with today's US$1,118 - a 50-fold increase. Back then, the value of an ounce of gold was equivalent to the price of 110 sq ft of floor space of an average Kowloon flat. Today, this can only buy you a minuscule 1.7 sq ft of floor space - the size of a doormat - of an apartment somewhere in Tin Shui Wai. This gives a whole new meaning to a popular local saying that "land is at a premium". Maybe another popular Hong Kong adage - "with floor space as tiny as a slice of beancurd" - can better reflect our terribly twisted real-estate market. player tj: just proves the points that (i) hk real estate is at freedom premium, (ii) global gold is not yet at liberty valuation, and (iii) one should hoard both, as solidified and yielding surplus, and as mineralized and sleeping excess, one balancing the other, and both leveraging off of global tyranny and planet-wide thievery, and each offering salvation in own unique way, together satisfying imperatives for secure, solid, and satisfyingly yielding golden years of serene retirement