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One of the first pairs of people to buy a UK iPad in person was none other than the world's tallest couple, also known as the day's biggest PR stunt. Here they are descending the Apple Store's glass staircase after making their purchase, which they probably didn't actually need to pay for themselves.
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It was unusual, unprecedented, an historic event symbolizing City Hall's commitment to transparency, to an open and honest public conversation on an issue of great importance: The outrageous high wages and benefits granted over the years to the Department of Water and Power workers and the outrageous rate hikes imposed on customers, even the 20 percent who get hefty discounts, even the 40 percent hit with huge bills in the summer's broiling heat San Fernando Valley.
Every element of that sentence represents a triumph for community activists, Neighborhood Councils and everyone else who has cared enough to try to do something to make L.A. a better city despite the reign of havoc of the tyranny of a minority majority that attained near absolute power over processes and information thanks to the bottomless pit of money coming from labor-business-developer special interests that profit handsomely from the public's business at the public's expense.
Nothing about the "unusual, unprecedented, historic" event would have been said previously, the event wouldn't even been held if they weren't afraid of the people, that something just might trigger a reaction that would awaken the zombied populace to action.
Friday's joint meeting of two key Council committees was called to discuss in public the proposed deal between the DWP and its union, IBEW Local 18, to clear the way so DWP officials, with the "Rate Payer Advocate" so evidently in tow, could come forward quickly for approval of another series of major rate hikes on top of the 52 percent imposed for electricity in the last six years.
Propagandist Supreme Paul Krekorian, as the Councilman in charge, was proud to pay homage to the "unusual,unprecedented, historic" nature of this "open and transparent" event — words that had never before spoken in such earnestness in this Temple of Democracy, as the mayor describes it.
Assisted by rising City Council star Felipe Fuentes, he led the public and his colleagues through a more than three-hour performance worthy of theatrical awards though it did drag as he went on and on through the drudgery of having each and every highly paid member of the cast of bureaucrats formerly known as public servants — the CLA, the CAO, the CEO, the RPA, the CA — swear allegiance to the story that was so well scripted and choreographed with such attention to detail. It was hard not to wonder why they never work as hard to solve the people's problems as they do to conceal them.
They intended to leave no openings in the logic and facts presented. Cynics, skeptics and heretics were lying in wait, ready to drive enough truth through such openings to catch the ear and open the minds of a populace so obviously blind to reality, or so oblivious to reality, that they were incapable of reaction to anything one degree less the a gun in the face or a massive earthquake.
Trying to penetrate the false premises and gross omissions of fact among so many other intellectual and moral flaws that seem to be part and parcel to politics these days was meant to be so challenging that few would try and even if anyone got past the numerous layers of deceit, they would find it took so long to explain that only people who already knew the truth would pay attention.
The reason the event was structured as "unusual, unprecedented, historic" was because those people who know the truth about what is wrong have found so many chinks in the armor protecting this concrete fortress that something could go seriously wrong. After all, they have been walking a fiscal tightrope for so long and are so deeply indebted to benefactors that they would sell just anything, cut any deal or say just about anything if they could last another day in hopes of the miracle that could save them from the consequences of their failures, their betrayals of the public trust.
It was a pandering tribute to the risk they face of inflaming public passions, yet some who some who could have shown courage groveled at their feet, some critics sought nothing more than time to talk the issues to death as they have been so comfortable doing for so long and, in a brilliant masterstroke by the Master of Ceremonies Herb Wesson, they were all reduced to being a claque clapping on his cue for the very people they should be shunning.
It has been more than 20 years, through at least three major recessions and four mayors, since DWP workers went without raises — some years getting 5.9 percent more, every year getting more, leaving everyone else on the city payroll, even cops and firefighters, and employees in other utilities, green with envy.
But this was different and everybody who profits from the public's willingness to pay high taxes and fees and endure soaring rates was delighted by what's good about the deal: The IBEW is willing to defer its 2 percent raise due in October for four years, agree to tougher pension rules and lower salaries for new employees only and accept at least a few of the reforms on pensions that other city unions have lived with since the recession hit five years ago — but not health care, overtime or more than 600 special advantages they enjoy among so many other issues.
"It's a start," said one city official after another.
The same sentiment was echoed by even the most critical and passionate opponents but they all added it was not an end, not a solution to what is broken. It is after all based on nothing but the same kinds of tinkering that has perpetuated this fiscal catastrophe for five years without an end in sight unless you believe the city's fanciful claims based on nothing but the dream that L.A. will become the greenest, cleanest, most wonderful big city in the world, the No. 1 destination for everyone with money to spend in search of the greatest time of their life and for everyone without two pennies to rub together to try to do great things and find happiness and freedom.
The fatal flaw is that the deal on the table doesn't solve the city's or the DWP's problems because it is based on the city's failed policies over years. It is based on a hope and a prayer that 30 years from now, somehow, a miracle perhaps, everything will turn out just right with public employees wages and benefits in line with the revenue streams that treat everyone fairly and with high-quality services that engender a feeling across all the divisions of being part of something greater than ourselves.
But they had to admit the deal on the table would mean less than a 2 percent reduction in water and power rate INCREASES over the next four years — a period in which ratepayers are girding for hikes of 20 or 30 or even 40 percent. It's better but it's nowhere near good enough.
There's no mystery to why it's not good enough: Once an employer takes off the table the possibility of give-backs and wage reductions and real reforms of benefits and work rules, what leverage is there? Only to give away more, never less.
And that's why the big lie they told matters so much.
Under the law, employers and unions are required to negotiate in good faith and provide a factual rationality to their positions. But if nothing comes of the negotiations, the employer can declare an impasse and impose its "last, best and final offer" as Glendale did to the IBEW union in union after long unfruitful negotiations. The offer cut everyone's pay 1.75 percent and it stays in effect until the conflict is resolved.
It doesn't work that way in L.A. — or so every official involved swore on a stack of reports and studies.
All those highly paid bureaucrats who said exactly what the Council wanted to hear agreed that L.A. has such a cumbersome procedure for reaching an impasse and imposing wage and benefits conditions that a year would pass and under the city's rules a new round of negotiations would have to start and take most of a year, meaning they could never reach the end point of imposing the "last, best and final offer."
The two committees that met jointly were the Budget and Finance Committee — Krekorian, Englander, Koretz, Blumenfield and Bonin — and Energy and Environment — Fuentes, Blumenfield, LaBonge, Huizar and Koretz.
Could it be a coincidence that the Westsider Bonin and the Eastsider Huizar were nowhere in evidence, leaving only the six Council members from the Valley — members who with Nury Martinez carve up the Valley into demographic cohorts that dilute the representation of less than 40 percent of the city's population by giving them nearly 50 percent of the Council members, all them beholden to special interests mainly over the hill?
It was not a mistake that this was the case. Council President Herb Wesson, driving for a rapid approval of a half-loaf deal — instead of the real deal that is sitting there for the taking — made it clear at the outset that it's the Valley that could upset everything and that's why he produced this spectacle.
As someone who has created a vast body of journalism relevant to what is being raised for nearly 30 years, I can say with certainty that the Valley no longer has any significance in the politics of Los Angeles. There is no leadership. There is no sense of place. There is no vehicle for the desperately needed conversation that could save the remnants of the middle class from city policies.
And that's what makes so significant the comments made to the City Council by the Valley business community's spokesman, Stuart Waldman, president of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association.
Neighborhood Council leaders and community activists, even the all-powerful Central City Association, all testified to the Council that the deal on the table was a start but it was not good enough. More needs to be done and more time needs to be taken.
Yet, with six Valley Council members as witnesses, all of them elected on the power of money from the outside, the Valley business community called the deal "incredible" and "a great start that really could change the face of the city … it needs to be done by Oct. 1."
That was an important goal of this farce: Disarming the Valley.
But not so fast. There is a surprising twist that leaves an opening for people all over the city from every walk of life and every political stripe to rise above the banality of what is on the table and recognize that we are at a critical crossroads that demands we rise above the b.s. and see how our lives and fortunes are bound together.
I have hardly written anything for a long time because I have beaten the horse of LA corruption to death and have nothing further to say, convinced that calamity is a certainty and that tragically it will be the most vulnerable who suffer, not the perpetrators.
Eric Garcetti has taken a stand against this half-loaf deal and shaken up the DWP Commission with four new appointees, including Jills Banks Barad, founder and longtime head of the Valley of Neighborhood Councils, She was one of Garcetti's appointees to the DWP board year still had the courage to testify Friday that we need a better deal.
If you will not mobilize across this city now for a chance to demand real reforms of the DWP and of every aspect of the way the city is run, when will you do it?


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A white Ford Fusion that rammed a Vancouver police car and led officers on a chase Tuesday night is believed to be connected to multiple vehicle prowls, police said Wednesday.
Officers with Vancouver's Neighborhood Response Teams were watching an apartment complex Tuesday night to attempt to find the car, a 2010 four-door Fusion with Oregon license plate WVN807, police spokeswoman Kim Kapp said. The plate was stolen from a different car, she said.
Officers found the car and were watching it when two subjects got into the car, Kapp said. Police pinned the vehicle against a curb and ordered people out of the car. The driver jumped the curb, went into reverse and slammed into an undercover police car. The police car went back 10 feet and spun 90 degrees, Kapp said. A sergeant had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit.
The Fusion's driver left the parking lot and fled the area at a high rate of speed, running stop signs, Kapp said. Police saw the car heading east on Southeast 29th Street at 164th Avenue but lost it after that.
According to police, the car is believed to be connected to several auto prowls. Suspects are wanted for theft of a firearm, credit and debit card theft, fraud, theft, hit and run, first-degree assault and fleeing from marked police vehicles.
Sgt. Duncan Hoss with the Clark County Sheriff's Office Tactical Detective Unit said the Fusion has also been used in connection to auto prowls in the county.
Police ask anyone with any information on the car or its occupants to call Sgt. Jeff Kipp at 487-7440 or Sgt. Steven Dobbs at 487-7544.


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Vinylester backup resin
VIP resin Infused hull w/PVC foam core sandwich
VIP resin Infused foam core stringer system
Advanced prop pocket hull design
Awlgrip boot top
Molded cove stripe depression w/"gold leaf" style stripe
Deck / Standard Equipment
Graystone anti-skid on walking surfaces
VIP Resin infused balsa core sandwich structure
Mooring cleats forward, aft & spring line cleats (aft cleats are pull-up style)
Molded Composite bow sprit w/stainless steel anchor roller
Anchor locker w/ground tackle storage
Running lights
Teak accent stripe on cabin side
Custom 1 1/4" 316L stainless steel perimeter rail
SS handrails on hard top, port & starboard
Compressed air horn on hard top (mast opt.)
(6) opening port lights w/insect screens
Port & Starboard molded steps leading to side & fore deck
Molded cockpit seating w/storage, forward facing & aft
Transom door to starboard
Swim platform w/stainless steel under mount swim ladder
Hot & cold cockpit shower
Self-draining cockpit
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AC & DC control panels w/polarity indicator
DC system battery management switching
DC breakers for electronics
Emergency cross over switch / ACR
110v Dual AC30 amp shore power w/50' cord sets
AC shore power system ELCI protected
Galvanic isolator
GFI protcted 110v circuits
Battery charger
(2) 4D GEL House Batteries
(2) Group 31 Engine Start Batteries
(2) 12v DC automatic bilge pumps
Bonding system w/zinc transom anode
Engine room lighting (2) w/bezel switch
Cockpit courtesy lights switched at transom door & helm
Overhead LED cabin lights, individually bezel switched
Reading lights in salon / berth area
Overhead dual color LED helm deck light w/switch
12v outlet at helm and in cabin
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Cummins Smartcraft display
1.75" Aquamet shaft (2" w/optional engines)
(4) BLADE NiBrAl propeller
PSS dripless shaft log
Binnacle mount electronic single lever engine control
Internal sea strainer
185 gallon fuel tank w/2" fill
Racor fuel filter
6" exhaust w/two stage horizontal muffler
Electric actuated trim tabs port & starboard w/helm controller
Sea Star hydraulic steering w/tilt helm pump
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Solid surface counter top
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Fresh water electric MSD w/holding tank
Waste tank monitor
Macerator for holding tank overboard discharge as permitted
Holding tank pump out fitting on deck
Sealed overhead lighting w/bezel switch
Powerd exhaust fan (12v)
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Compass (illuminated)
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Why Do Israel's Arabs Like Eating Matzah?
Despite cool relations with Jewish majority, Israeli Arabs have developed a love affair with matzah.
Many Jewish Israelis can't stand the stuff, so there's something mind-boggling about their Arab compatriots: Why in the world do they choose to eat matzah?
Despite decades of uneasiness in their coexistence with the Jewish majority, Israel's Arabs have developed a love affair with matzah, the dry, crunchy wafers that observant Jews eat as a substitute for leavened bread during the weeklong Passover holiday.
Weeks in advance, Arab-owned stores across Israel stock up on matzah, knowing their customers will clean it out.
The matzah craving among Israel's Arab citizens - about 20 percent of the population - reflects their ambiguous place in the Jewish state. While they speak Hebrew, carry Israeli passports and wear Israeli brands, many say they suffer discrimination and identify themselves as Palestinians.
Still, they love matzah.
"We eat it from the start of the holiday to the end, and when we run out we buy more," said Umaima Igbaria, a 35-year-old Muslim woman who lugged a carton of matzah out of a supermarket in the Arab town of Umm el-Fahm in northern Israel.
She said she, her husband and their three sons all eat matzah, usually with tea and slathered with chocolate sauce. She said they didn't care if it was Jewish food.
Inside the store, a 5-foot-tall (1.5-meter-tall) stack of matzah boxes stood in the entryway, all that remained of the more than 4 tons that owner Tariq Ifin ordered for the holiday, which began Monday night. He had no doubts the rest would sell.
In the Passover tradition, matzah commemorates the biblical story of the Jews fleeing Egypt so quickly they had no time to let their bread rise. Jews also consider matzah poor man's bread, eaten to remind them of their ancestors' hardships. Few consider it a culinary delight.
"I don't like it much, but it's part of the holiday," said Simon Mizrahi, 44, an observant Jew from Jerusalem who eats his matzah with soup, cheese or butter.
Mizrahi said matzah doesn't fill him up like bread, and he worries its carbs will make him fat. Many other Jews share his ambivalence, recognizing its traditional role while saying they get tired of it.
To prevent matzoh burnout, many have developed alternative recipes. Some stir crushed matzoh into warm milk or coffee to make porridge. Others add an Italian twist, topping it with tomato sauce and cheese to make matzoh-pizza or substituting it for noodles to make matzah lasagna, or matzagna.
Outside of the holiday, few eat it and few stores stock it. Many say they wouldn't eat it if they had other options.
Thus their surprise when informed that Israel's Muslim and Christian Arabs - who don't observe Passover and can eat any bread they like - choose matzah.
The answer to the mystery is simple, said Arabs in several mainly Arab towns in Israel. They just like the taste.
"The kids love it. They eat it like cookies," said Wisad Jamil, a 43-year-old woman lugging a carton of matzah and tub of chocolate spread to her car for her husband and five kids at the Umm el-Fahm store.
"Don't the Jews eat our bread? Fine, we eat their matzah," she said.
Indeed, the mixing goes both ways, with Arab dishes like hummus and felafel now favorites of Jewish Israelis. And during Passover, nonobservant Jews often turn to Arab shops for leavened bread, which disappears from most Jewish-owned stores in the season.
Ifin, the supermarket owner, said some of his Arab customers once refused matzah on ideological grounds, though fewer do now because of years of mixing.
"You can't say Arabs and Jews are one people, but we share the same land, so why not share the same food?" Ifin said.
While Israel's 1.5 million Arabs hold citizenship and vote in elections, they strongly identify with their Palestinian brethren in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Most still call themselves Palestinians.
Palestinians in the territories and east Jerusalem largely don't share the matzah craze, and shops there don't sell it.
"We don't like anything that comes from them," said Jerusalem taxi driver Firas Salem, 27, when asked if he ate matzah.
And besides, he said - expressing a sentiment shared by many Jews - bread tastes better.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Parise unsure if he'll play tonight vs. Toronto
After being one of only four Devils to skate this morning, left wing Zach Parise planned to meet with general manager Lou Lamoriello to discuss whether he will play tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Prudential Center.
"I've got to find out right now, see what's going on," Parise said.
Parise returned Saturday from a five-month layoff because of a torn meniscus in his right knee, but hasn't played since then, He was on the ice for more than an hour this morning. At first, it was Parise, Vladimir Zharkov, Colin White and goaltender Johan Hedberg. Hedberg came off after about a half hour because he'll be backing up Martin Brodeur tonight.
White, who was on the ice for the first time since Saturday as he continues to recover from a right leg injury, stayed on for another 15 minutes or so before coming off. Parise and Zharkov were on the ice for a while longer,with assistant coach Adam Oates, which is usually an indication the player isn't going to play that night;.
Parise said that wasn't the case today, though.
"We weren't really doing anything," Parise said. "It was more just puck-handling, feel good stuff because I didn't skate much (Tuesday). It wasn't like a bag skate or anything."
Parise said Saturday morning that he intended to play all of the team's remaining games after that. Then, on Tuesday in Pittsburgh, the Devils decided to hold him out of the lineup because he was sore after playing on Saturday and to avoid playing him on consecutive nights.
Parise said Tuesday morning that he planned to play tonight. After he skated this morning he said '"of course" he wants to play tonight, but also is understanding of Lamoriello's desire to be cautious.
"After being out for so long, of course you want to play, but after rehabbing for five months definitely you want to be cautious and careful," he said. "You don't want anything to happen. So, it's completely understandable. I don't disagree with it."
If Parise doesn't play tonight,, then that brings into question whether he will play in either of the team's final two games this weekend -- Saturday at the Rangers and Sunday at home vs. Boston.
"I guess we'll approach that if that happens," he said. "I don't know."
Parise said the soreness he felt Sunday after playing Saturday night has subsided, though it did linger for a few days..
"It's definitely not as bad as it was yesterday and the day before," he said.
Parise said there have been no setbacks whatsoever with his knee. Otherwise, he would not have skated the last three days.
"I wouldn't be out there if I didn't feel fine," he said. "That would be dumb. If something was wrong or I felt something I wouldn't be out there."
Several times over the last week, I have noticed Parise flexing his knee and feeling it with his right hand when he is sitting down. He said it's something he's been doing subconsciously.
"It's out of habit because I was doing it for seven months," he explained.


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text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Beyond the Baseline Roger Federer favors strict drug testing by Courtney Nguyen Twitter Email Posted: Fri Mar. 8, 2013 Roger Federer has never been shy about discussing doping in tennis. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Roger Federer revealed that he doesn't recall getting drug tested once during the 16-match win streak he built up at this time of the year last season."I didn't get tested I don't think through the whole Rotterdam, Dubai, Indian Wells swing where I won all three tournaments," Federer told reporters at the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday. "I didn't get tested once. That shouldn't be OK."The revelation came on the heels of the ITF's announcement that it will introduce the biological passport testing system to tennis, an anti-doping measure used in other sports such as cycling and track and field that monitors an athlete's biology via blood testing to identify abnormal changes that may indicate doping.[Federer, Nadal on quarterfinal collision course]"I think we've seen a lot of things happen all across the board in sports," Federer said. "Obviously the cycling issue has been issue has been around for some time but what surfaced this year is super extreme. I think that really gets you thinking."I think tennis has done a good job of trying everything to be as clean as possible but maybe we're entering a new era. Everything is becoming more professional, more serious, more money involved and so forth. So I just think we need to make sure from our side we do everything we can."Federer is the defending champion at Indian Wells and could lose his No. 2 ranking to Andy Murray this week if the Scot makes the final. Last year he came surging into the tournament with wins in Rotterdam and Dubai. This year he has yet to make a final. Federer admits it's disappointing but that he's not too concerned."I think I played really well in Australia. Rotterdam, yeah I was disappointed with that because I thought I could have done better. I played so well the year before. I never really got going in the quarters against Benneteau. And then Dubai, it was a bit unfortunate you know losing with three match points. It's always that annoying press conference having to explain the loss even though you feel you maybe should be preparing for the finals at this point. "I'm playing fine, you know. Obviously I would have hoped to win a tournament by now but overall I'm happy with my game." Comments


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Never bought a stock on the day it floats but have taken a nibble on Burson Group(BAP) $2.05... will avg into it over the next few weeks/months.
Good thing the bears are in control
he he
Actually looking forward to budget night. This one has the anticipation of yesteryear when we would sit on the edge of our seats and pray to the lord that the price of beer wasn/t going up.
The last 6 budgets were basically non events, particularly the last one which was a bit if a swan song for wayne!
Remember the virtual surplus!
The 1 billion suplus that in a matter of weeks was a 30 billion deficit? I think i recall something about that
over to you @ Mitch
CRH once again pounding out the returns, are tehse guys due for a takeover or what?!
The is a possible takeover offer for CRH announced some time ago. http://imagesignal.commsec.com.au/docserver/01502582.pdf?fileid=01502582&datedir=20140320&edt=MjAxNC0wNC0yNCsxNTozNTo0NisxMjArMCtjb21zZWMrcmVkaXJlY3QrL2ltYWdlc2lnbmFsL2Vycm9ycGFnZXMvUERGVGltZW91dC5odG1sKy9pbWFnZXNpZ25hbC9lcnJvcnBhZ2VzL3BkZmRlbGF5ZWQuanNw
wow, I never saw that - has there been any update since?
BDR. Investors/traders have been nervous re the Q3 report. Always going to be a quiet quarter but looks OK to me. Market seems to agree.
All good in the long term mate! I am just waiting to ensure the gold price holds at these levels. If it does it is a no brainer!
Charts say sell BDR.... be careful.
oh yes don't forget the charts and the crystal balls, my tea leaves say BDR is a buy lol
We have an exploding population because of our immigration policies, which means exploding demand for schools, hospitals but Joe & Co wants to wind back future commitments to those very things. Right, what the left hand does (immigration) the right hand contradicts (services). Lets face the future with an under educated and unhealthy population, is that the plan? WELL DONE JOE!
Spending on health is currently growing at levels which are much higher than GDP and higher than population growth. This is not sustainable.
I've always wondered why it's only Western countries that have embarked on an almost frantic exercise of mass-immigration. You don't see South Korea, Nigeria, etc. attempting similar ventures. The Gulf states allow some temporary workers, but to change the make-up of their citizenry is not part of the game.
It is almost as if Western leaders and decision-makers were working according to some grand, crazy master-plan. And when asked about it they get suspiciously defensive about it and find it difficult to keep the debate within the rational sphere. It makes you wonder doesn't it.
So are you saying that we should have a sick population with people unable to get treatment for illnesses because they can't afford it. Sounds like the US model to me. That's the great thing about the Australian health system. Proper treatment is available, whatever your means. Get cured and get back into the workforce to lead a productive life. If no longer able to work then no need to suffer needlessly.
The US spends 18 % of its GDP on health and gets a worse overall result for its massive layout. We spend only 9 % of GDP on health (govt + private) and we get pretty good results overall. You can hardly call Australia spendthrift
If you've got an exploding population because of your immigration policy, then you have to spend more in health and education accordingly, unless you're happy to let standards slide. The alternative, restict the population Ponzi. But the banks don't want that do they?
someone please explain to me how REA is worth $50?
the market has valued REA @ 6.6 billion.
...and the buyers and sellers say it is worth $47.64. There is no mystery here!
is it not overvalued at current price?
is the company worth 6.6 billion?
TLS hit the resistance level again...wow up 2.08% since november 2013 what a performer.
But what a dividend! Especially for those of us who bought sub-$3. I keep thinking of getting out because it has topped out but the dividend keeps me hanging around. Basically >10% at my buy price.
too bad the market is going to crash and burn into a million fiery pieces! you have all been warned since the begining of 2009!
yes, the family law court have a lot to answer for, they thought my energetic ex wife deserved my TLS shares more than me. lol
The internet of "things" will not be wired. The company with the strongest mobile network - Telstra - will dominate as 4G becomes 5G and the NBN makes wholesale broadband a low margin commodity. Google and friends can't bridge Telstra's moat as Australia is too large to setup a mobile network overnight. If technology made it cheap, then Telstra's existing network gives them a backhaul advantage. Win, win, win.
@jezza, I would be using the return on market value to compare yield on TLS with yields on other stocks, not the cost price You may be better served by selling some or all of your TLS and using that cash to buy a better yielder based on market value. There are plenty of them.
Bought PNA for $1.61, probably a bit risky but is seems to be holding up nicely at these levels.
2 x trading halts on at present AZV and HZN will be quite a tense time but with the broken up trading days things wont really kick on till next week.....both worded as a transaction to come.
@BSB but will there be any cash involved or just an equity transaction. A cash transaction is the only thing that matters.
@mitch yep thats the $$$ question just be good to see a $$$ answer to it.
i'm intrigued by the instant 23% and 10% SP hikes days prior to announce,but guessing the usual.....those encompassed by the cylinder.
Anyone else out there follow gold on a daily basis, I am thinking it is trying very hard to hold at $US1280 which is a critical support level. Any thoughts?
I would think the floor under gold will be maintained because the average cost/ounce is fairly high ($1180 globally???). If mines start shutting down because price makes them sub-economical then it reduces the supply which in turn supports the price. Of course I have no idea whether than floor is at $1180 or at $1280.
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"Europe: ECB President Draghi speaks at 7pm AEST
Probably an important invent (see gold price @ support, DXY, EUR/USD charts)."
IMO, anyone who is confident of gold price directions is deluded or lying.
Not confident at all @ Yin, just asking a genuine question. $1280 seems to be holding and we have had a double bottom at $1180. Wish I knew because I would join you and have a decent go at BDR.
Sorry - I wasn't having a go at you. You were expressing sensible uncertainty.
Sold out of SPN and SKI 8% and 18% up piled into SGP happy with the swap and the extra earned.
Etrade gunna love me today.
I have asked this question before but to no avail. Why do financial journalists write that companies miss analysts expectations such as "RESMED Diluted earnings per share rose from $US0.58 to $US0.63, just missing analyst expectations of $US0.64", when the facts are very clear that the analysts got it wrong. This is becoming a very annoying pattern of blaming companies for "missing consensus forecasts" or individual analyst forecasts. Would not be so bad if those same forecasts did not directly influence share price behaviour.
What you should really wonder is why the market trumpets companies 'beating expectations' when they have lowered them in all the preceding quarters and then nip the lowered forecast.
You've just answered your own question so why did you need to ask it? Analysts expectations are highly influential in setting share prices so if a company comes in above or below of course the market will react to the actually of the event in place of the prior expectations. What's the problem?
Utility companies, DUE, EVN, SPN & SKI doing well lately. Your higher energy costs at work.
EVN is a gold miner, not a utility company.... And they're not doing "well" look at their stock price over a 5 year period.
So instead of allowing bracket creep to increase tax collections from income tax payers, Joe Hockey is going to collect those extra taxes required from everyone, income tax payers and non income tax payers alike, ie the unemployed, age pensioners, single parents, the disabled, by extra costs for doctors' visits and prescriptions. I'm sure that Labor won't miss every opportunity possible to pummel the Libs over their "great big new doctor tax". The inexcusable part is that the same amount of revenue as the "doctor tax" could be collected quietly and cheaply by an increase to the Medicare Levy. Instead the "doctor tax" will make life harder for the less well-off & sick and impose admin costs on the medical profession. Now there's equity for you.
Where will these leave negative gearing?
Yes mitch your answer as always is to tax me more...there's good equity when you are never paying mitch
Is Hockey changes income tax brackets Mitch? Your comment with the use of 'instead of' as opposed to using 'as well as' is very misleading. Labor won't make a song and dance about the 'doctor tax' because it is quite a reasonable measure to stop people from seeing their GP every time they have a sniffle.
Quite right Mitch. But imagine how bad it would be if Rudd and Labor was still in charge. Sending shivers down my spine just thinking of that horror.
@ Mitch you are akin to the voice of one crying in the wilderness
While I do not think the Liberal policy will achieve what it is setting out to do - something needs to be done about the massive over-usage of the health care system. The system as it stands is not sustainable. They should charge people for presenting to emergency departments with ridiculous complaints ...
@Wwwish, I, and hundreds of thousands of other self-funded retirees pay no tax due to the extravagance with your money of those great economic managers, Howard & Costello. Are you saying that your Liberal heroes got it wrong. They certainly sowed a revenue time-bomb for future govt's.
@jezza, shouldn't the Triage Nurse be weeding those people out. I can't really imagine that people would be travelling to an E&A room by car, bus or taxi to sit and wait for hours and hours in amongst seriously ill people if they only had a minor complaint.
Anyone got any thoughts or comments on the PM Captial Asian Opportunities Fund IPO. Had a quick read through the prospectus seems pretty interesting for $1 per share minimum 2500 subscription (comes with a $1 option aswell). Especially with our current high AUD$ might be a good hedge if our currency was to decrease in value, and ofcourse gives easy access to investments opportunites in Asia
9:23am "...strong earnings reports from the likes of Apple and Facebook failed to offset a bigger than expected fall in US home sales."
Didn't both of these companies announce their earnings after US markets closed?
Could put an end to the "mini tech wreck" Let's wait and see what impact these announcement have on the US markets when they open tomorrow.
QAN sp is coming along nicely. Good long term position over the last month.
Have you not suffered enough?
Been good to me over the month. Caught a few shorters out.One of many traps getting around lately for the bears he he
Europe: ECB President Draghi speaks at 7pm AEST
Probably an important invent (see gold price @ support, DXY, EUR/USD charts).
If a companies IPO is today what time would they be able to be purchased (trading commences) ?
It is not surprising that Australian Analysts believe that housing prices will continue to be supported by population growth.. I heard one analyst on 774 ABC radio state this and he is either stupid or he is just telling people what they want to hear.
ah ah ah, it is fuelled by cheap and easy access to credit which is increasing the bubble. Not everyone who migrates to Australia can afford to purchase an of brick and mortal, only a rich Chinaman who can pull out stacks of $100 notes from his jacket pocket.
The Chinese house bubble is slowly bursting and it is only going to be matter of time before we see a significant correction in Aussie house prices because when they get too high people will have enough common sense not to take out a sizable mortgage which then results in a oversupply.
I like the call of analysts that oil wouldn't go higher than $30 USD a barrel. Whoops....
Got to read the book Australia: Boom to Bust. It shows how we are all living in one very big delusion here in Australia and it cuts through the pundits crap.
There's a reason why FHO are lowest since WW2.
The trickle up effect can only be maintained with cashed up foreigners and you're correct, if that stops the party will be over.
Anyone who thinks immigration will keep property bubbling along can't answer the question if those immigrants will be bringing their own jobs with them.
Need the AUD to go up so I can start buying US stocks. I'm too bored here right now. Need something to happen! Anything!
Should at least get a contagion effect when the banks go ex div and bring the rest of the market down with it. I guess I can wait 2 weeks for it to start! *sigh*
hmmm just reminded by Mitch's post below that the budget will be May 13, smack bang in the middle of the banks going ex-div. Should exacerbate the falls too! :)
Go on dive into biotechs its definitely not boring.....but be prepared for a ride.
I've had Pharmaxis on my watchlist for months & am too traumatised by the chart to ever dip into those kinds of stocks lol
Got 2 for you,i'm among others hoping for big things...have a look while ya bored.
UBI and TIS
holding 20000 of each buying range 37c and 27c respectively,not a tip but there is potential for some growth this year.again its a cautious approach but researching them you might see the upside...which i think is there,
Pharmaxis PXS is an awkward one. Cash burn awkward. Just pushed out their main trial awkwardly out an extra 12 months so USA FDA best approval is possibly March 2016 now instead of the initially advised March 2015. Long time to wait when other sales/regions already approved aren't really flying high. Lots of highly paid people there involved in that cash burn, though they have made some targeted reductions.
Pharmaxis, for all its non-significant results and regulator rebuffs, has both Aridol and
Bronchitol on sale.
Those feverishly bidding up GEM because of the 20% lift in its quarterly dividend had better hope that Joe Hockey leaves childcare subsidies alone in the Budget. They must be a very tempting target. I own or follow several stocks trading at less than half the price of GEM that give better quarterly yields, eg TIX, CAMPA, CUP, ALR and are nowhere near as exposed to a Treasurer wielding the axe.
starting to think AFJ looks better value now, but i dumped them because of dilution from the SPP, yet to prove themselves but 1 to keep an eye on again destiny in the hands of rebates is a knife act.
Some reflection on investment decisions brought too light today.
I decided to get out of RMD last month for a slight loss 4.95/4.87 buy/sell.I have dumped all my GEM shares now be it for a decent profit though, avg 2.77/sell 4.50's + divds.
From the news just this morning both these "growth" companies doing well and as a buy and hold investor i would be fairly happy with their performances, as a trader I did hold longer than anticipated but came out with a loss/win so guess quality stocks will satisfy the needs of all....eventually.
So the 9% increase in electricity prices from the carbon tax will end up being replaced with a 20% hike in gas prices. If the 9% hike in electricity prices from the carbon tax drove thousands of businesses to the wall and is a real drag on business activity (as we are continually told by Abbott & co) how many businesses will fail or flee o/seas as a result of the increase in gas prices. I can think of quite a few that would face difficulties, eg brick makers and plasterboard manufacturers with their gas-fired kilns, processed food manufacturers with their gas-fired ovens, any business that relies on substantial volumes of hot water for cleaning etc. So to satisfy the greed of a few corporates to grab profits from exporting LNG, households and businesses on the whole east coast have to wear a big increase in costs. Then of course there's the flow-on effect to electricity prices for electricity that is generated using gas. That will push up inflation and give the RBA cause to increase interest rates and that will further choke off activity. So a gov't that is so keen to get rid of the carbon tax because of its alleged harmful effects on households & businesses must show that it is serious about creating jobs and reducing the cost of living by acting to prevent or mitigate the effects of gas parity pricing.
Good comment Mitch.
I said much the same recently,,,the high energy prices that we pay in Australia are handicapping the entire economy. We need to follow USA's lead and ensure the citizens of our country pay the lowest energy prices possible,not world market prices.
It's more to do with government spending/printing of money (and private sector credit creation) finding it's way into different areas of the economy. Those areas of the economy respond to the newly created money and prices rise faster/before other prices (e.g. housing and the increasing creation of credit money pushing up prices of homes) hence why power prices have gone up (because all the new houses need electricity/gas/water but the infrastructure is not there to support today's prices). Obviously the carbon tax has not helped, but it is not the sole factor. You can thank both sides mitch. In recent memory, however, thank the stimulus bomb dropped post 2007-2008 to prop up the economy because deflation is bad (for leveraged debtors, i.e. households/banks), and remember the labor government gave a big parcel of cash to the coal power generating miners as "compensation" for the carbon tax. That money over the last two years is showing up in rising prices for energy and other goods.
Simply saying the private sector is looking for profit (which they are) and attempted is stipulate this is bad (which it isn't) is so disingenuous. Last I saw businesses had to turn a profit to pay it's employees, unlike reckless governments that monetizes it's debts while the private sector bears the burden with decreased purchasing power per unit of currency, rising prices, and increased uncertainty as to what different price signals are conveying in the market, making business decisions and forecasting much harder than it needs to be.
@Bye bye, a part of the private sector looking for profit at the expense of the rest of us is bad, full stop.
No it's not. The higher prices demanded will bring other business online, similarly people may just "stop" using gas and revert to electric cook tops, or other non-gas using appliances. If only you deluded statists would stop screwing with every part of the economy, not just ordinary companies, but also the lifeblood of the economy, it's currency, the economy might actually work.
You know mitch you should go into business, and try run it, without profit, then see how you go. I'm sure your employees will be so thankful when you cannot pay them for their time. Maybe you could do what others do, ask for a handout from the gubbermint right? That way we could have more unproductive capital put to use in the economy because the idiots in various levels of government keep propping up the inefficient areas of the economy via subsidies and handouts. But this doesn't make me poorer right? The government just conjures the money out of thin air, and no-one pays for it?
Seriously mitch your grasp on economics is laughable.
"Please make sure to secure your own mask before assisting others."
How about some massive export duties or hike the royalties on exported LNG?
The domestic market would be more attractive even at lower prices and Australian tax payers (owners) of the resource would be compensated.
Bye bye must have shares in LNG companies and feels that his investment would be under threat if those companies were not allowed to rip us off. As for my grasp of economics, I'll pit my experience in working with govt's of both colours in developing and implementing economic policy against yours any day. And no, I was not working in gov't when Labor was in power their last time around. The private sector was making use of my skills and paying me top $.
I sold my shares in LNG a few weeks back, apart from that I have no shares in gas producers.
You wont have to put your "skills" in central planning against mine mitch, I don't believe in that garbage. It's a competition you win by default.
Sold ANZ 37.36, Sold WOW 34.63
Opps sorry, got the prices around the wrong way
Sold WOW 37.36, Sold ANZ 34.63
Don't worry, no one cares anyhow....
I do mate. Someone is a little cranky lately. Well done good positive trading, going against alot of white noise.
onya @ Wwwish Lion, can't go broke making a profit!
Could we be seeing some COH short covering at last? Been pretty volatile of late, but up 1.8% today! Overall my portfolio has jumped just over 1% today so far!! WTF???
Can someone PLEASE explain how the VIX works? How is the VIX graph on the ASX site generated? Where do they get the info from? Thanks!
Lower VIX = less volatility (usually in upward trending markets), higher VIX = more volatility.
It's traded as a future.
See here: http://search.asx.com.au/search/click.cgi?rank=5&collection=asx-meta&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asx.com.au%2Fdocuments%2Fmedia%2FASX_VIX_Futures_-_21_October_2013.pdf&index_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asx.com.au%2Fdocuments%2Fmedia%2FASX_VIX_Futures_-_21_October_2013.pdf&auth=ZyJkkJU6ZtZS59p5G5aghQ&query=vix%20index&profile=web
Google VIX and click on Wikipedia
Thanks Gents!
Got into the market on 29/02/2008 during the day at 5528 and now we're back there. It's been a long 6 years 1 month 26 days 3 hours 17 minutes and 35.29 secs !!!
Yet ANZ, for example are up about $11 from feb 08....perhaps you just pick the wrong shares
and if you had continued to pound cost average on the dip cycle with dividend stocks look where you'd be now thx to the FED.
Much better result than continually shorting the market from 4000!!!!!!
That terribly unfortunate. My condolences. I myself got in May 22nd 2009, Im up 46.61% because I brought into an ASX index fund.
LION. I hope your not trying to bag my Babcock and Brown Shares !
surely not up again?
MXI oversold to the max another 1200 @ 97.5c, i'll take the yield.
What yield? Their earnings update suggests that profits wil be well down so the yield won't be there even with a lower share price. It sounds like one to stay clear of for a while to me.
Be the same as BKN gross overreaction when really the half yearly report highlighted earnings/profit down but divds will stay around the 6.0 -6.5% i'll take it,proven well in the past for me.Est to june of 16.5-17.5 million profit instead of 20 million still means a profit is all..
After watching CPS retrace quite a substantial proportion of its gains, glad to see it is powering back up again the last couple of days.
Put a sell on ORG @ 15.00 even soooo close.
Last 250 ANZ in for 34.69
pulled ANZ i'm thinking there's still some fuel in the tank.......maybe
Sometime soon it has to ease back.
does our Mkt close at 2 pm or 4 pm??
Sold WOW at $37.92,,,,looking a bit high to me,,,due for a pullback to low $30s,,,,,I hope,then I will get in again.
RMD missed the Q3 estimates but no one seems to mind,up 3.5% straight of the blocks.....sheesh.
I sold my RMD for a small loss at $4.81. Replaced with MSB. I decided that as a one product company competition was going to continue to put pressure on their earnings. Naturally SP has climbed since. In a climbing market it does seem very easy to sell too early.
Gaps. Beware chart gaps up on ANZ, CBA and WBC charts. Gaps usually get covered on large caps, apart from BHP. Caution.
Ta for that! ANZ a definite short - in (or out?) at 34.65. Think CBA and WBC may still flare higher but ANZ toppy with big RSI reversal.
In more speculation as to dodgy market manipulation i notice AZV went into a trading halt yesterday regarding some news to come, but with increased volumes traded and a 24% boost to the share price 3 days prior to the halt, another example of people getting the nod before others and sorting their positions before the halt. Nothing wrong with that at all....is there?
What happened to AQP yest down 40% ??
@Halle not sure why u posted here?
but XR from the company news 23rd april would do it.
So. Here we are above 5400.
Horizon Oil is in talks with a potential buyer and could make an announcement this week, reports the AFR.
Loving the sound of this, i bet BSB does aswell.
Timing couldn't have been better on that one,even with the 10% lift yesterday i'm feeling pretty chipper about the prospects.


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Published on December 29, 2006
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Bronson Methodist Hospital, in collaboration with Gift of Life Michigan, has been recognized for achieving outstanding organ donation rates by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This is the second consecutive year Bronson has been recognized for this achievement.
The Medals of Honor is in recognition of HHS's Breakthrough Collaborative goal for hospitals around the country to achieve organ donation rates of 75 percent or greater. Nationally, 371 of largest hospitals were honored at the Second National Learning Congress on Organ Donation and Transplants in New Orleans. Bronson was one of 16 hospitals in Michigan to earn this recognition.
Hospitals with eight or more potential organ donors during the 26-month award period ending June 2006 were eligible for the Medals of Honor. All winning hospitals had to achieve and sustain a donation rate of 75 percent or more from among the eligible donors for at least a year.
Additional information on the HHS donation initiatives is available at www.organdonor.gov.About Bronson Methodist HospitalBronson Methodist Hospital, located at 601 John St. in downtown Kalamazoo, Mich., is the flagship of Bronson Healthcare Group, a not-for-profit healthcare system serving all of southwest Michigan and northern Indiana. With 343 licensed beds and all private rooms, Bronson Methodist Hospital provides care in virtually every specialty—cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, emergency medicine, neurology, oncology—with advanced capabilities in critical care as a Level I Trauma Center; in neurological care as a JCAHO certified Primary Stroke Center; in cardiac care as the region's only accredited Chest Pain Center; in obstetrics as the leading BirthPlace and only high-risk pregnancy center in southwest Michigan, and in pediatrics as one of only four children's hospitals in the state. The hospital is the recipient of the 2005 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence, and was named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals for 2005 by Solucient.
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S20G mutation of the amylin gene is associated with Type II diabetes in Japanese
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Aims/hypothesis. Amylin is a unique constituent peptide of the amyloid deposits found in pancreatic islets in many patients with Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. A previous study suggested that a missense mutation at amino acid 20 (AGCSer to GGCGly), the S20G mutation, could play a role in the pathogenesis of early-onset Type II diabetes in Japanese people. In order to determine the association between the S20G mutation and Type II diabetes in the Japanese population, we did a large scale screening for the mutation in randomly selected Type II diabetic patients and non-diabetic control subjects. Methods. We examined 1538 unrelated patients with Type II diabetes and 1108 non-diabetic control subjects recruited from 9 university hospitals and their affiliated hospitals in 7 prefectures in Japan. The presence or absence of the S20G mutation of the amylin gene was assessed by direct DNA sequencing or MspI RFLP analysis of the amplified polymerase chain reaction products of exon 3. Results. The S20G mutation was found in 40 (2.6 %) and 9 (0.8 %) of the subjects in the Type II diabetic and the non-diabetic control groups, respectively, all present in the heterozygous state. The frequency of individuals with the S20G mutation is different between the two groups (p = 0.0007). Conclusion/interpretation. These data suggest that the S20G mutation in the amylin gene is associated with increased risk of development of Type II diabetes in Japanese. [Diabetologia (2001) 44: 906–909]
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Revelations that Denmark, present in Iraq from 2003 until the end of 2007, was shown by the Iraq War Logs to have taken previously undisclosed number of prisoners, many whom were tortured, made headlines for weeks after the publication. While neither Sweden nor Norway has had a troop presence, the war logs showed that weapons made in both Sweden and Norway have been the cause of much death in Iraq.
Denmark – Prisoners delivered for torture, Iraqi interpreters abandoned
In 2004, then danish defense minister Soren Gade told the Danish parliament that Danish troops in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 captured a total of 21 prisoners. Just after the Iraq War Logs release, Information.dk reported that the war logs put the actual number of prisoners taken in the period at a minimum of 95. Of these, 62 were handed over to Iraqi authorities, who were well known to be carrying out torture in Iraqi prisons. The Danish Defence argued that the reason for the great disparity between the reported number of prisoners was due to the fact that many of the prisoners had been captured by British troops, and that the Danish troops therefore could not be held accountable. This claim was rejected by human rights lawyers: If Danish soldiers had in any way been present at the prisoner transfers, they were also obliged by the Geneva convention to intervene.
In the period the prisoner transfers took place, the prime minister of Denmark was Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who is now NATO Secretary General. Fogh Rasmussen had repeatedly stressed that Danish troops were adhering to all legal requirements. It was pointed out after the publication of the War Logs that even in the unlikely case that Fogh Rasmussen was not aware of the prisoner transfers, that would not free him from guilt, it being the obligation of the prime minister to follow the conduct of the Danish soldiers.
The executions of 60 Iraqi interpreters working for coalition troops reported in the logs prove that the Danish troops were well aware of the danger facing anyone choosing to cooperate with them. Despite this, very little protection was provided. After the War Logs release, Danish officers confirmed that security for the interpreters was not a high priority. Two Iraqi interpreters are known to have been killed for having cooperated with Danish troops, and a third one seriously injured.
Investigations into the the claims
On 23 October, the day after the War Logs release, the Danish Defense Committee called a meeting with Defense Minister Gitte Lillelund Bech, asking the defense minister to provide a complete account of Denmark's potential complicity in torture in Iraq. On 24 October, an investigation was launched by the Defense. A Danish soldier having come forth to confirm the information in the logs, the investigative board established a hot-line for other soldiers. The investigation was welcomed by then prime minster Lars Lokke Rasmussen, as well as then minster of foreign affairs Lene Espersen.
A few days later the Danish Defense issued a statement calling on Wikileaks to help the investigation by providing the full unredacted set of reports, something Wikileaks expressed its willingness to do. For unclear reasons, the Defense ministry later took pains to stress that it had been given the documents by the US, and not by Wikileaks.
In April 2011 the investigation announced that it could confirm that information in the war logs provided actual number of prisoners taken by Danish troops in Iraq, higher than what had been officially announced.
While there were initially hopes that a final report would be produced before the summer break of parliament, the investigation has still not been completed, and very little is known about how it is progressing.
Shortly after the initial investigation was launched, opposition parties joined many others in attacking the government over the way it was being carried out and the lack of a transparent process. The defense minister was repeatedly called on in parliament to provide clarifications. Many argued that the government likely would seek to delay the publication of the results of the investigation until after the elections the following year. The opposition parties called for an independent investigation, and subsequently made it one of their election promises that a 40% minority would be able to force an independent investigation. However, when the same parties won the elections last month, that measure had been scrapped.
Sweden – In violation of arms exports regulations, Swedish weapons used by Iraqi troops
As reported by Wikileaks Swedish media partner SVT, the logs contain numerous mentions of Swedish weapons being used in battle. The most popular of these weapons, the AT4 grenade launcher, is mentioned in some 200 reports. While it could have been assumed that Swedish weapons were being used in battle, it was not known that there were instances of the weapons being used by the U.S.' Iraqi allies, as reported by SR a few weeks after the War Logs release. This constitutes a breach of an end user agreement signed with every foreign arms buyer, stating that purchased weapons shall not be transferred by the buyer to a third party.
Andreas Ekman Duse is Director of the Swedish Agency for Non-Proliferation and Export Control, an institution that ensures regulations pertaining to arms exports such as end user agreements are adhered to. On 18 November, Duse said that if a country fails to adhere to the end user agreement, then exports to that country must be immediately ceased.
However, on the following day, he said that even if the U.S. had broken its end user agreement with Sweden, it would be impossible for Sweden to stop exports, as that would lead to a U.S. arms embargo which would effectively end the Swedish defence industry.
Arguing that Mr Duse was blatantly dismissing Swedish law, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society reported him to the Chancellor of Justice, who declined to launch an investigation.
Shortly after the Iraq War Logs release, an article by Anna Ek, president of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, raised several issues concerning Swedish arms exports and whether Sweden contributes to some of the human rights violations in Iraq described in the War Logs.
Responding to her article, Defense Committee member Allan Widman pointed out several restrictions on arms exports, including that no arms should be sold to a country that is in war or that is violating human rights. He then went on to himself disregard these criteria, saying that Sweden nevertheless should continue arms exports to the US.
In this, he is following a tradition of adopting policy to Swedish interests. Anna Ek notes that then minister of foreign affairs Laila Freivalds said in 2004 that "When balancing various approaches to arms exports, the interests of this country are given priority."
The war logs have been mentioned in parliament on several occasions, in calls for a more outspoken Swedish opposition to US conduct. They have not directly resulted in legal reform. A reform was, however, passed in May this year, restricting the possibilities of exporting arms to dictatorships, but leaving the possibilities for exporting arms to the US unchanged.
Norway – Norwegian weapons used in Iraq, Norwegian citizen tortured
According to Norwegian national radio NRK, Norwegian-made weapon systems could be tied to some 2,800 reports in the Iraq War Logs. These reports detail more than 200 civilian deaths and 498 injuries. Among the partly Norwegian weapons mentioned in the reports are the Protector weapon system and Hellfire missiles. A Hellfire missile fueled by the Norwegian company Chemring Nobel was, for example, used in the killing of two persons seeking to surrender, as described by the Guardian.
There was also information in the war logs indicating that U.S. troops Iraq had detained and tortured a person with dual Iraqi-Norwegian passports in 2004.
In Norway, the revelations have so far not led to any reform of regulations governing arms exports. State secretary Barth Eide commented after the release of the war logs that it should come as no surprise that the weapons Norway sells end up being used in wars. That appears to have concluded the debate on the issue.
Former minister of education Bård Vegar Solhjell of Sosialistisk Venstreparti called for a thorough investigation into the reported torture of a Norwegian citizen, but no such investigation appears to have been launched.