Buried WTC gold returns to futures trade

A fortune in gold trapped for seven weeks in the ruins of the World Trade Center officially returned to the global bullion trade Friday, but dealers had already closed the book on the tale of tragedy and buried treasure.

"You could in theory say that if things had gone much worse since September 11 and there had been rampant demand or something like that, that it might have been a story that affected the price. But at this point, I don't think it really was," said a metals specialist at a large commodity brokerage.

The $230 million in precious metals has been moved from the basement vaults of ScotiaMocatta Depository at 4 WTC, where it was stored on behalf of the New York Mercantile Exchange when the September 11 attacks brought down the twin towers. All warehouse staff got out safely.

In a joint statement Friday, NYBOT and ScotiaMocatta, the metals trading division of Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia, said the metals had been relocated and were again available to guaranty delivery of futures contracts exchange traded at the COMEX metals division of the NYMEX.

"All of the silver, gold, platinum, and palladium stored in its vaults at 4 World Trade Center have been successfully relocated by an Exchange-approved carrier to a newly Exchange-licensed Brink's Inc depository in Brooklyn," they said.

Spurred by authorities who wanted to demolish the building, by the potential for crime, and by whatever has always driven men to hunt for gold, emergency crews dug through the rubble and got a first glimpse of the gleaming booty on Oct 30.

Guarded by a small army of heavily armed federal agents, city policemen and firefighters began the massive task of moving about 12 tonnes of gold and 30 million ounces of silver. The hoard was estimated to be worth at least $230 million.

There were about 3,800 100-Troy-ounce registered gold bars in the underground COMEX warehouse. While gold is very dense, the task of loading the indestructible yellow metal onto armoured Brinks trucks was not nearly as cumbersome as moving the silver.

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As I tried to explain to 'nuanced' liberals like you, a drop in FOX ratings is a not a good thing for AAR. FOX listeners haven't been flocking to hear Al. The drop indicates a decline in people who want to hear about politics, whether liberal or conservative. Please ignore the steady increase in AAR listeners, it doesn't fit in my pants, which are already full of spoiled pasta. Hee hee hee hee!

Underneath the crushed concrete and twisted steel girders of the World Trade Center in New York lie about $200 million in gold and silver owned by a Canadian bank. Since Sept. 11, precious metals futures have soared amid worries about short-term supply since 29,942,691 ounces of silver and 379,036 ounces of gold are buried in Commodity Exchange (Comex) warehoused under the rubble.

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Dealers say the market is concerned about physical availability of the gold and silver that was in a vault at 4 World Trade Center, which was reduced to rubble just like the twin towers that collapsed after the attack. The chamber is owned by ScotiaMocatta Depository Corp., a subsidiary of Toronto-based Bank of Nova Scotia. The eight vault employees who kept watch over the gold and silver before the attacks escaped unharmed.

Silver futures have risen by 13%, and gold futures have risen by 8% in active trading by dealers who don't know when the bank might be able to recover the metals. However, the missing precious metals are only part of the bank's reserves, are insured and aren't likely to be stolen. Besides the legions of police officers that prevent onlookers from approaching the trade center site, the bank has hired its own security contingent to protect the assets. "We have every reason to believe the metals are intact,'' says a spokesperson. "And we have every reason to believe they are fully recoverable.''

Red Scorpion!

I think scorpions are cute! : ]

I bet red ones are really pretty!

Hey,Mike said Bush and the senators claim they get their ideas from god,and they do,didn't we use to commit poeople who thought that god was talking to them in mental institutions?

Missing Gold

My work here is done.
Goodnight all...

In the movie "Inner Space" Martin Short's doctor referred to back in MidEvil days when people heard voices the local clergy would scream possion and go about healing the sick by flaying the skin off the sufferer of the possession's body with red hot rods of rot iron.

americanhistory.edu

He had no idea what the current method was.

today we found out the brain is either wired for sarcasm or not...

I wonder, is it the same for irony?

what about other `intangible' traits?

and if...

we truly do create our own realities as suggested by quantum physics and ...

could there be some truth to the concept destiny?

Our fates, not created in the stars, but our very strands of DNA/RNA...

`extra senses' one either has...

or simply doesn't!

how about

that

?

Free Democracy

WE?

Fox Freudian slip:

.Asman asked Lott why a compromise was needed when "we" had the votes for the nuclear option.

.Responding to Sen. Trent Lott's (R-MS) suggestion that Senate Republicans had the necessary votes to invoke the so-called nuclear option and that such a step was necessary, Fox News anchor David Asman asked Lott why Republican senators had compromised on the issue. Why compromise, Asman asked, "if we should have done it and if we had the votes to do it." Asman clarified that it was "you guys in the Republican party" who had the votes.

this turban may be wrapped a little too tight tonight.

I wonder if there is a genetic disposition towards concious and ethics? kindness and compassion?

I betcha!

If I have my reality and you have your reality...when more than one reality inter act, that'd be super-reality, right?

hey Chubby:) i haven't had a run in with the law.
I just changed my name to #

i think Nbdy moved is why he isn't on lately.#

i think Nbdy moved is why he isn't on lately.#

Posted by: Anonymous at May 25, 2005 10:56 PM

That the story that has been put out for public consumption. Rumor has it that he's in jail. How long does it take to move?

As I tried to explain to 'nuanced' liberals like you, a drop in FOX ratings is a not a good thing for AAR. FOX listeners haven't been flocking to hear Al.

Posted by: SNAY at May 25, 2005 10:23 PM

probably, but kinda silly making excuse how fox news and WABC massive rating implosion is temporary while AAR dent is catastrophic.

..*yawn*... but to understand the irony, one would need to use logic, something that does not operate in wingnut universe.

...

Is Tonite the nights they let of SYNA out of the madhouse?

Watch out....uncle Rummy might have the nuke trigger too.

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/white-house/index.php#rumsfeld-decisively-available-in-stray-plane-incident-105010

Rumsfeld Decisively Available in Stray Plane Incident

That WaPo story that made it sound like Donald Rumsfeld was ready to take lethally decisive action when that runaway Cessna invaded White House airspace two weeks ago? The Pentagon would like to reassure you that, no, Rumsfeld didn't actually authorize military planes to shoot down the aircraft if necessary. He simply "made himself available" to give such authorization, if such authorization was needed. First, we're guessing, he wanted to bring in Hans Blix to inspect the plane. Then maybe a little Security Council debate. In situations where an unknown plane is just two minutes away from crashing into the White House, you don't want to act too rashly. Good call, Rummy! — GREG BEATO

Hi, wanda. I'd like to take time to criticize your critical criticism, in a critical way.

probably, but kinda silly making excuse how fox news and WABC massive rating implosion is temporary while AAR dent is catastrophic.

..*yawn*... but to understand the irony, one would need to use logic, something that does not operate in wingnut universe.

Posted by: wanda at May 25, 2005 11:07 PM

I'm not making excuses for FOX's rating. I don't give a shit about them. However, the difference between FOX, Limbaugh and AAR is that the first two can afford to lose a few listeners, whereas AAR can't.

On a lighter note, you have to admit we make a cute couple.

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YAY wonkette.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111684809888140520,00.html?mod=blogs

Ms. Cox called herself the person in the center of a happy media orgy. But amid the jokes about Wonkette's liberal use of cuss words, she noted that the site offered the kind of inside-the-story banter with a nasty edge that's ubiquitous in newsrooms, but only lives at the edges of traditional newspaper accounts. Calling that gossip misses the point of why it's so interesting, she suggested. "You're trying to figure out why people are doing what they're doing," she said, adding that "Washington is a very conservative town, it has a very conservative media -- not in a political sense, but in a sense of what is proper."

Ms. Cox also noted how blogs themselves are changing, observing that more-political blogs that have served as watchdogs on the mainstream media now look more like that segment of the media themselves: "They're cliqueish, they're arrogant, they get things wrong." As an example, she cited the Power Line blog (www.powerlineblog.com), whose investigations helped debunk the now-notorious CBS memo about President Bush's National Guard service, but which then got "memo-happy" in the case of the Republican strategy memo on Terri Schiavo, decrying it as a fake. GOP Sen. Mel Martinez later said an aide had written the Schiavo talking points.

However, the difference between FOX, Limbaugh and AAR is that the first two can afford to lose a few listeners, whereas AAR can't.

Posted by: SYNA at May 25, 2005 11:14 PM

few listener? is that what you call loosing some one million listeners these days?

hmm, interesting.

I heard that ilo had Nobody arrested for stalking. Or was it the other way around? Or Maybe ilo kicked Nobody's ass.

Hi, wanda. I'd like to take time to criticize your critical criticism, in a critical way.

Posted by: Exhausted Blogger at May 25, 2005 11:13 PM

It's critical to be critical. I agree. criticize away.

FOXnews watchers didn't like being on the wrong end of the FOXnews rhetoric re/Shciavo.

left a real bad taste in their mouths.

that and the bankruptcy bill and push for social security reform.

Give those people the truth in a form they'd like to hear...

that'd be wild!

GOP is still VERY active pumping out mis-information about social security. It might be that Bill Scher strategy need an addendum. (actually remind people how the conversation is over now and then. isntead of completely abandoning it.)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/25/231829/666

Subject: Social Security

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill

SOCIAL SECURITY: Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program.

He promised:

1. That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary
2. That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program.
3. That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year
4. That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
5. That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Could you imagine all those pissed off ex-FOXers if the got a head full of the truth re:W's administration?

I mean really, If they understood the issues, they would freakin'storm the bastile. Seriously. They wanted to impeach Clinton for a blow job.

Imagine their righteous indignation should they undertand the heights of criminality of these neo-cons bastards!

IQ and Politics

#,I was talking about you when I said earlier about my catss not coming in the house when dogs were around.

kinda like hiding behind a "#"?

;)

Foxnews, bringing you the truth to power.

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/25/bullying_your_own_reporter.php

Bullying Your Own Reporter

Fox News business correspondant Terry Keenan Wednesday (May 25) let herself be bullied into agreeing with something that she never said during her report on rising gasoline prices.

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Hey AAR, when are you guys going to talk to Bill Moyer? I know it's a long shot, but keep that dialing finger busy.

bearing witness

Fired Ohio Election Board staffer defiant over "retribution"

Sherole Eaton is as defiant as ever and determined to stand up for democracy. Despite recovering from recent carotic artery surgery and scheduled for brain surgery on June 6 for a brain aneurysm, Eaton, perhaps Ohio’s most well-known whistleblower, refuses to resign as Deputy Director of the Hocking County Board of Elections.

Eaton made national news last December during Ohio’s election recount when she swore in an affidavit that a Triad voting machine technician replaced the hard drive on Hocking County’s central “computer and tabulation machine.”

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2005/1131

one of my guest requests from the begining has been

Woody Harrelson.

He would be a great guest, he has so much useful impowering information.

LOS ANGELES - Motley Crue has sued NBC for banning the group after lead singer Vince Neil used an expletive during a live broadcast of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."

The federal lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, accuses the network of violating the band's free-speech rights and hurting its record sales by barring it from NBC shows to placate the Federal Communications Commission. The suit seeks a court order lifting the ban as well as unspecified damages

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050526/ap_on_en_mu/motley_crue_nbc_lawsuit

Hey AAR, when are you guys going to talk to Bill Moyer? I know it's a long shot, but keep that dialing finger busy.

Posted by: wanda at May 25, 2005 11:37 PM

Moyer's email: bill@backbonecampaign.org

Somebody needs to make Bill Moyers a blog!

That would be great to get Bill Moyers to blog!

Posted by: akaMAT at May 25, 2005 11:44 PM

ehrrr...I am not sure about that. I listen to one of his interview. wee bit on celebrity power sans brain.

Thousands Protest the Governator in Los Angeles and Sacramento

There are plenty of Californians who are mad as hell at Arhnold these days and in Los Angeles and Sacramento they turned out in thousands in to protest Arnhold’s latest lies, cuts and pandering to “special interests.” The two mass rallies had been planned for weeks in advance.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=959

whats a sans brain?

However, the difference between FOX, Limbaugh and AAR is that the first two can afford to lose a few listeners, whereas AAR can't.

Posted by: SYNA at May 25, 2005 11:14 PM

few listener? is that what you call loosing some one million listeners these days?

hmm, interesting.

Posted by: wanda at May 25, 2005 11:19 PM

I don't have the stats handy. Did they lose those listeners from the time of the election until now? If so, they might not have been 'real' listeners, just 'temps' who were there for the election season. How are FOX's ratings compared to this time two years ago?

the thing about the what I (mockingly) call the sarcasm Gene...

In what way, shape or form did the sarcasm trait become a survival skill?

I'm assuming, that sarcasm is the dominant gene. lack of it, recessive.

I'm imagining some far flug part of prehistory when whatever proto-human tribe we are commonly ascended from...lets call them `the soon to be Dave's Tribe'...

Larry is the leader of the small foraging community. Larry is the alpha makle, Dave one of the subordinates.

Larry suggest the tribe walk across the rocks atop Victoria Falls

Dave standing behind, wispers to the females."yeah, that sounds like a good idea..."

where is moe and curly?

Saudi Poet Jailed for His Views

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Seven years after Ali al-Dimeeni penned his novel "A Gray Cloud," the Saudi poet and author is living out his protagonist's predicament — a dissident jailed for years in a desert nation prison where many others have done time for their political views

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050525/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_bard_behind_bars

I don't have the stats handy.

Posted by: SYNA at May 25, 2005 11:49 PM

of course not. no surprise there, since when do you ever let reality intrude. lol.

whats a sans brain?

Posted by: akaMAT at May 25, 2005 11:49 PM

Wanda's way of putting him down as brainless.

sans, french for without

the blog kinda reminds me of the sims sometimes only with out the cartoon movies.

It's a right lobe thing. No, really

Scientists have discovered comedy central in the brain--specific tissue regulating the ability to understand sarcasm.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0505250209may25.story

whats a sans brain?
Posted by: akaMAT at May 25, 2005 11:49 PM

I couldn't remember what interview he was doing, but he comes out as nice albeit a little vague with his ideas.

see, if someone doesn't have the intellect of an einstien and the focus of a jewel cutter, Wanda feels free to let them know who disappointed she is in them!

;)

Thanks for that Arhuld LINK SPIKE!!!

No problem.

Time running out to stop bird flu -experts

LONDON (Reuters) - It could infect 20 percent of the world's population, kill many millions and create an economic crisis but scientists say not enough is being done to combat a bird flu virus that could trigger a global pandemic.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050525/ts_nm/birdflu_dc

of course not. no surprise there, since when do you ever let reality intrude. lol.

Posted by: wanda at May 25, 2005 11:54 PM

You're the one who said that FOX has lost a million listeners, not me. You have to provide the evidence. Then again, the great Wanda doesn't need maintain the standards that she holds others up to.

My question is a fair one. All news outlets experienced a spike because this was an election year, and all of them have suffered a drop since.

Wanda, do you suppose there is a love match in the future for Bill and Janeane?

They have so much in common!

;)

my right brain is about ready to expode!

Posted by: SYNA at May 25, 2005 11:59 PM

I lied. *shrug* now go be happy in thinking FOxnews didn't lost about a million customer in shor period of time. (hey, I enjoy this argument style very much. so much easier to do)

Arrowhead's Water Boy

An eagle-eyed ArnoldWatch tipster discovered some subliminal messaging in the Gov's latest TV ad blitz. Well, he didn't need 20-20 vision to catch this one.

The ad features Arnold in a lunchroom talking to a table-full of attentive Californians. Pepsi-Cola, Arrowhead Water and Dr. Pepper are given prominent placement next to the Gov. -- for 1/3 of the 30-second ad. If you've ever eaten a snack chip, you'll likely recognize Ruffles, Sun Chips and Cheetos in the background. And a SoBe Beverage makes a cameo appearance.

Pepsi-Cola (which just happens to own SoBe, Sun Chips, Ruffles and Cheetos) has given the Gov's campaign committees $30,000. Joe Weller, Chairman & CEO of Arrowhead's parent company, Nestle USA, gave the maximum $21,200 to Arnold's re-election committee.

We've all read reports of the advance teams that precede Arnold everywhere he goes, and make sure everything from the Boeing jet to the American flag-waving baby are in the correct position. Would California's king of celluloid let an inch of screen or a second of a shot be wasted? If there's product placement in an Arnold ad, it's planned

http://www.arnoldwatch.org/blogs/blogs_000718.php3

fullframefest

Suspicious package was fake foot-long plastic penis

The “suspicious package” that caused Interstate 75 and Daniels Parkway to be shut for more than an hour Monday was not an explosive pipe bomb — but rather wrapped-up plastic foot-long penis.

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050524/NEWS01/50524006/1075

see, if someone doesn't have the intellect of an einstien and the focus of a jewel cutter, Wanda feels free to let them know who disappointed she is in them!

Posted by: Chubby_Bubba, Rajah of Bhong at May 25, 2005 11:57 PM

sure why not? if I got to choose who can paint information into my brain, I better demand the highest quality information. If it's pretty people, then just sit and be pretty. Don't start cramming the airwave with half baked idea because he is pretty.

Posted by: Chubby_Bubba, Rajah of Bhong at May 26, 2005 12:00 AM

dunno, who cares. It doesn't even make good dossip, not enough intrigue.

If Sam made us stick to one nic half of the posts would disappear.

oldamericacentury.org

US No. 1 human rights violator: Amnesty

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1500938

short interview with Amnesty int. people? I bet they are happy to talk.

i m not hiding! i like my new #

got my birth certificate and everything changed.

Posted by: Spike at May 26, 2005 12:10 AM

goin turn the red states blue

i m not hiding! i like my new #

got my birth certificate and everything changed.

caveing so quickly.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1496693

McClellan Backs Away from Claims that 'Newsweek' Story Cost Afghan Lives

At a White House press briefing Tuesday, Press Secretary Scott McClellan, pressed by reporters and with Afghan President Karzai in disagreement, retreated on claims that Newsweek's retracted story on Koran abuse cost lives in Afghanistan.

He also claimed that he had never said it did, even though a check of transcripts disputes that. On May 16, for example, he said, "people have lost their lives." On May 17, he said, "People did lose their lives," and, "People lost their lives."

Here is the transcript from the latest White House press briefing:

Q: One other question. Karzai was quite definite in saying that he didn't believe that the violence in Afghanistan was directly tied to the Newsweek article about Koran desecration. Yet, from this podium, you have made that link. So --

McCLELLAN: Actually, I don't think you're actually characterizing what was said accurately.

thelibertycommitte.org

(Freedom is on the march)

Ecuador President Declares State of Emergency to Quell Amazon Oil Protest

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB6QNG569E.html

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - President Alfredo Palacio on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in two Amazon provinces to quell protesters who disrupted operations of 114 oil wells run by state-owned Petroecuador.

By presidential decree, Palacio suspended individual rights, including the right to assembly, and placed the police and military in charge of public order in the northern Amazon provinces of Sucumbios and Orellana.

...

Ecuadoreans were furious at his economic austerity measures and accusations of nepotism, corruption and manipulation of the Supreme Court.

Suspicious package was fake foot-long plastic penis

The “suspicious package” that caused Interstate 75 and Daniels Parkway to be shut for more than an hour Monday was not an explosive pipe bomb — but rather wrapped-up plastic foot-long penis.

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050524/NEWS01/50524006/1075

Posted by: Spike at May 26, 2005 12:05 AM

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Just be glad it was fake.

axisoflogic.com

Two Words: Summer Job.

"What we need is a mass movement of people like you. Get mad, yes -- there's plenty to be mad about. Then get organized and get busy. This is the fight of our lives." - Bill Moyers

wasn't FOXnews just creaming their jeans a few months ago when... well, just weeksago when air america took a .01 ratings dip right after the election?

so we can't feel a little schraudenfreude over their rocket-sled ride down the tubes?

Bush asked to explain UK war memo

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002 -- well before the president brought the issue to Congress for approval.

snip...

The White House has not yet responded to queries about the congressional letter, which was released on May 6.

The letter, initiated by Rep. John Conyers, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the memo "raises troubling new questions regarding the legal justifications for the war as well as the integrity of your own administration.

"While various individuals have asserted this to be the case before, including Paul O'Neill, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, and Richard Clarke, a former National Security Council official, they have been previously dismissed by your administration," the letter said.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1464142

I lied. *shrug* now go be happy in thinking FOxnews didn't lost about a million customer in shor period of time. (hey, I enjoy this argument style very much. so much easier to do)

Posted by: wanda at May 26, 2005 12:02 AM

Boy, if you couldn't do this, we'd be done. (I'm gonna get it one of these tries)

link

TerraServer-USA

he is pretty.

Posted by: wanda at May 26, 2005 12:07 AM

I'd never thought of that word to describe him.

Wanda has a boy-friend!

Wanda has a boy-friend!

;)
Wanda has a boy-friend!

This Modern World
Worse Reporters: 'Newsweek' or Gov't?

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0521,tomorrow,64227,9.html

givemeliberty

How Air America fires a female with out pay and benefits also how New york lays off writers liberals??

to use two computers at the same time.

It is rather easy

Frist... His word is as good as recycled dog food

that is the last links of syna's Ill click.

likely the last post as well.

----------Bush asked to explain UK war memo

Letter writing campaign?

http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/corporate/enron/george_w_bush_ken_lay.jpg

bbl

Posted by: Chubby_Bubba, Rajah of Bhong at May 26, 2005 12:24 AM

*smack*

Can we see more Air America lay offs with no money nothing how cruel is Air America?? Is America so cruel shaft a employee with nothing LOL??

and of cource the ever popular shift of characters.

so we can't feel a little schraudenfreude over their rocket-sled ride down the tubes?

Posted by: Chubby_Bubba, Rajah of Bhong at May 26, 2005 12:21 AM

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Oh no, we can rejoice. It's fair I think.

I can even be two different characters with different names and

genders!!!

Oh looks like sith101's mother went to the grocery.

Hey guys.How's it going....

Search torrent is now open. (one step closer to killing MSM)

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/05/25/2033224.shtml?tid=95

"The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It'll really be down after this story is posted...) Spiegel has more (En): "Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy have tried before, but either they became fast a goal of legal attacks on the part of the industry or they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results. BitTorrent search however proves with first tests [that it is] as...Google...fast. The results come from a large number [of] more well-known and unknown... sites, and...permits sufficient restricting to the inquiry, in order to obtain really relevant results.""

I Geuss Air America has no benifits ask people who are fired or layed off, Yes yes Air America or Air ?????

Schickel and Corliss each picked 100 films, and 40 to 50 titles made both lists. The two debated other choices before determining the final list that includes many genres.

The pair then chose one favorite for each decade since Time first hit newsstands in 1923. German director Fritz Lang's futuristic "Metropolis" (1927) dominated the 1920s, while U.S. titles "Dodsworth" and "Citizen Kane" ruled the 1930s and 1940s, respectively.

In modern times, director Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" led the 1990s, and Time picked 2002's "Talk to Her" from Spain's Pedro Almodovar as the best of the current crop.

Almost half of the films were made outside the United States. Some of those titles include 2002 Brazilian film "City of God," Japanese legend Akira Kurosawa's 1952 movie, "Ikiru," and Poland's "Dekalog" (1989) from director Krzysztof Kieslowski.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20050523/111690672700.html

But the question is

what is the motive?