Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Poor souls, we should count our blessings.

#Cooling systems inside several reactors at the plants stopped working after Friday's earthquake cut the power supply.
0755: AFP says an explosion has been heard at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, and says
Japanese TV is showing a white cloud above the plant.

And our government says nuclear power is safe , these plants in Japan were fairly new yet the safety cooling system lost power and the back up diesel generators also didn't work. These were designed to be safe in a earth quake zone .

It makes you wonder how often they ran fail safe emergency drills.

The earthquake appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters).

Beebusy

I read somewhere that most investors (or traders) navigate through certain stages:

Initially lose money, then lose less money, then break even and eventually make profits.

I suppose depending on the individual, time between each stage is variable and some will never get past just losing money or make the next step.

Obviously the trick is to chose the right stocks to invest in, in the first place, but many having succeeded there, fail to bank profits. Probably more importantly, fail to take losses (no one gets it right all the time).

Does that mean I have planted my beans in the wrong place.

Bit early to plant beans , if you mean runners

Seems like as per usual I have it back to front, First I made a little, then lost a ;ittle, then lost a lot more!!!Mmmmm!! Coffee beans, good commodity to be in !!

Palm oil take a look at my PAL thread

Thought for today

If only it had happened to Japan during the 2nd World War

Aldwick,

I do take your point, but I seriously don't think it's the type of comment that is for this time and situation.

Sorry that is your thought for the day. Mine is, thank god that my family has never had to face such horrors.

greekman,

The point is it would have saved more lives in the country's they invaded, also our service men who were killed and tortured by those sadistic bastards then would have died this week.

bb

Your family would face horrors if they lived in Singapore or china and the other country's they invaded.

aldwick- Coincidently just finished reading 'Slaughter at Sea' by Mark Felton, the story of Japans Naval War crimes. No doubt some veterans and theire families especially the Chinese were not shedding any tears and I'm ashamed to say initially neither was I.

It is horrendous, but I wonder if it will be the stimulus to their economic recovery.

Ie. QE, and social and infrastructure investment.

But still horrible when considered in the immediate.

Imagine having the responsibility for dealing with the ongoing catastrophe.

I think it time that the United Nations has a look at its structure and accepts its responsibility to the World as a whole, rather than that of the original powerful 5/15 members.

(The protection of the veto has to be reviewed, although. I can't see a sensible way around it, in the present political world.)

Chris

If it was the 1940's nor would i , but times change, Germany and Japan are now totally different country's.

aldwick - Exactly!

Being the age I am, I have had conversations with ex POWs and yes their stories of the treatment they received were beyond belief. But we are human beings and they are human beings and as such we should do anything we can to help. Let us not forget that it was a english boyscout who invented concentration camps. If we dont change our attitudes to each other then the human race is ultimately doomed as we will destroy one another if mother earth does not do the job for us first.

Being the age I am, I have had conversations with ex POWs and yes their stories of the treatment they received were beyond belief. But we are human beings and they are human beings and as such we should do anything we can to help. Let us not forget that it was a english boyscout who invented concentration camps. If we dont change our attitudes to each other then the human race is ultimately doomed as we will destroy one another if mother earth does not do the job for us first.

Being the age I am, I have had conversations with ex POWs and yes their stories of the treatment they received were beyond belief. But we are human beings and they are human beings and as such we should do anything we can to help. Let us not forget that it was a english boyscout who invented concentration camps. If we dont change our attitudes to each other then the human race is ultimately doomed as we will destroy one another if mother earth does not do the job for us first.