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SDY
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Speedy Hire – following ripostes, Toscafund seeks to streamline attack...

Having hit out (see HERE and HERE), with ripostes from Speedy Hire (SDY) (see HERE and HERE) ahead of a 9th September General Meeting dust-up, Toscafund Asset Management has now sought to focus on what it considers “egregious corporate governance failings instigated by Jan Astrand” (the Speedy Hire Chairman it is seeking to remove)...

PANR
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A little (inside) knowledge is a dangerous thing - Evil Knievil takes a bath on Pantheon Resources

How do you lose money dealing on the "inside track" Ask bear raider Evil Knievil who has taken a monumental bath on Pantheon Resources (PANR) a company we again warn you about in bearcast today HERE.

Gold

The Gold Bull Run Is On!

Most people are unaware of the dramatic rise we have seen in precious metals and mining stocks so far this year. Many wait for a price increase to start before they jump in. This could be a super cycle in gold, and now is likely the best time to invest - so says Colin Kettell of Palisade Capital.

TERN
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Tern – “Issue of Equity” RNS = founder of Cryptosoft (now Device Authority) walks

This morning AIM-listed jam-tomorrow investment company Tern plc (TERN) released an RNS bearing the title “Issue of Equity”, with the text starting with the subtitle “Exercise of Warrants”. All rather routine you would think (well, usually) and one might think that there was little to get excited about from an RNS announcing the exercise of 198,151 warrants at 2p a pop. I suppose that if I owned those warrants, I’d probably be fairly excited about getting around £20,000 of stock for around £4,000 but in the context of approx. 79 million shares in issue it’s not a hill of beans for the company. Oh, er, hang on….what’s this:

Bear
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Monetary central planning that creates debt Ponzi bubbles is the enemy of capitalist prosperity.

The current world monetary order, particularly as seen in the eyes of the baby boomers, was established in 1945 and has muddled along ever since. It has had near death experiences several times, especially in August 1971when the world almost lost faith in the global reserve currency, as it ditched its gold anchor and again in 2008 when the fractional reserve (money created out of nothing) monetary system came within hours of self consumption and systemic failure. If the current monetary system were a computer operating system we would have ditched it and got a new one, rather than doubling up and putting it under more extreme pressure, in a last ditch and dangerous experiment that has never been tried before. Too big to fail banks, are now bigger and debt has exploded since our near death experience, only a few years ago.

AFPO
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African Potash – Nomad Cantor Fitzgerald has grave questions for its compliance officer to answer

I read with alarm the deluge of shocking revelations regarding AIM-listed African Potash (AFPO) from the Sheriff of AIM, Tom Winnifrith. The most recent – and possibly most surreal – development was the lawyers’ letter from the twice-bitten-but-still-not-shy Memery Crystal on behalf of its client, Potash. Tom Winnifrith has already suggested that the letter makes a number of stunning admissions, but in my view the implications of the African Potash affair for Nomad Cantor Fitzgerald Europe need to be addressed urgently.

VIP

Vipera – “pleased to announce” half-year results, shares respond more than 10% lower...

“Vipera (VIP), the specialist provider of mobile financial services, is pleased to announce its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016”. The shares are though currently 10.5% lower, at 4.25p, on the back of the announcement. Hmmm…

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: A deluge of AIM sleaze as I prepare to assemble a cot, a task from Greek mythology

In a while I must go asremble a cot. It won't be like a cot of old but is bound to have 85 parts, six types of screw, an Allan Key and instructions designed for a Nobel Prize winner. It is like a heroic task from Greek mythology and I expect to be in a bad mood soon. So for that reason and one other I record early. On the agenda: Cloudtag (CTAG), Gulf Keystone (GKP), Pantheon Resources (PANR), 88 Energy (88E), Vipera (VIP), XCite Energy (XEL) and Strat Aero (AERO) and only en passant the fraudsters at African Potash (AFPO). This podcast is long and detailed.

AFPO
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African Potash and AIM Rule 26. Does Nomad Cantor Fitzgerald give a fig for it responsibilities?

Oh dear. It seems that we have a slam-dunk breach of AIM Rules in the form of extremely honest Chris Cleverly’s AIM-listed African Potash AIM and its dealings with its Nomad Cantor Fitzgerald. It is Cantor and its lead QE Stewart Dickson who are in the spotlight today as we have at least 1 clear rule breach under its watch to report. We will start with a minor transgression and work upwards. Perhaps while Marcus Stuttard’s oxymorons at AIM Regulation consider the serious content of Tom Winnifrith’s recent missive (HERE) they might turn their attention to the quality of Nomad oversight demonstrated in what follows.

CTAG

CloudTag – Just one more question, Amit, who is Massimo Ventimiglia; not worried about insolvency are you??

Amit, as you were so kind to answer my last question relating to CloudTag (CTAG) as to when the revenue warning was finally going to come......by issuing a revenue warning on Friday, I thought I’d follow-up with a simple one. Why has Massimo Ventimiglia, who appears to be a hired-help, grim reaper of the corporate world been appointed the sole director of your main operating subsidiary, Cloudtag Active Limited. Surely can’t be because you’re worried about going bust, can it?

CHL

Reward could be worth the risk with Churchill Mining

Many of you who put your hard earned money into AIM seem to love a boom-or-bust type of gamble, even when the odds aren’t in your favour!

RNWH

Somebody Has to Clear It Up - Step Forward Top Engineer Renew Holdings

Hello Share Scribblers. Renew (RNWH) is a company with more than an inspiring name. Like many engineers, which tend to be boring to some investors, it is still well placed to grow and make even more profit.

HNR
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Highlands Natural Resources - does it think we are stupid? Clearly its shareholders are...

After hours on Friday came the announcement from Highlands Natural Resources (HNR) that all bar the stupidest folks on this planet, that is to say its own shareholders, knew was inevitable.

CTAG
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Has Cloudtag committed Fraud & was Nomad Cairn complicit - FCA & AIM Regulation asked to investigate NOW!

Yesterday I explained how AIM listed Cloudtag issued an RNS four days before a placing boasting of $5.2 million of guaranteed orders which was simply not true. To me this is blatant fraud and as such I have written to AIM Regulation (the Oxymorons) and the FCA (The Chocolate Teapots) asking both to investigate both Cloudtag and also its Nomad Cairn which appears, at best, to have been asleep at the wheel for almost nine months. I know that Cairn boss Tony Rawlinson goes skiing each year with a senior figure in AIM Regulation but this scandal cannot be brushed under the carpet.

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Ayn Rand (genius), a bimbo on the Sun Telegraph & Gulf Keystone and a stockmarket crash looms

I refer to my 8 Reasons Donald Trump will win podcast in this bearcast - you can listen to that HERE. Elsewhere I discuss the problem of a corrupted press with reference to today's Sunday Telegraph on Gulf Keystone (GKP). I then examine why I think the stockmarket might crash this fall. Finally I offer up a quote from Ayn Rand and challenge you to disagree with how, in 1957, she describes the sad world of 2016.

SLE
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Buy San Leon at a 45.5p offer

Oh no, you cry, not that old dog? San Leon Energy (SLE) has suffered disaster after disaster as an AIM stock over the years and its CEO Oisin Fanning appears to have been well rewarded for failure. Anyhow, everyone hates oil stocks. Yes you are correct on all counts which is why the market has failed to recognise what an amazing deal Mr Fanning has just pulled off. The shares will be re-rated rapidly as that sinks in and as oil prices start to push higher - we expect to see $60 oil by Q1 2017. Therefore buy San Leon today at a 45.5p offer.

Gold

Gold Equity Market Cycles what history tells us about where we are now

Over the past 45 years there have been 7 bull cycles and 7 bear cycles in gold equities with varying duration and percentage gains what does history tell us about how long the current bull market will last. Steve Todoruk of Sprott says there are clues in the charts. Over to Steve... 

CTAG
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Cloudtag - the press is part of the problem of AIM Corruption, not the solution

The Mail on Sunday is such a truly vile publication that as a service to this website, I read it so that you do not have to, just in case it contains anything of interest. This week amid the usual nonsense about how immigrants give you cancer and a scoop about loathsome crook Keith Vaz MP playing away from his Mrs with a couple of Polish rentboys, the paper covers ramp de jour Cloudtag (CTAG). Needless to say the coverage is shocking.

Newsboy

Notes from Underground: The last days of Hackney

This is the final Notes from Underground written from the red republic of the London Borough of Hackney. 

Bearcast
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: RIP Maurice Byrne, this is dedicated to you my friend

I start with a dedication to Maurice Byrne, a friend of my family for more than 40 years, a true eccentric and a bearcast listener who sadly passed away on Thursday. I will miss him, not least as a bulwark against the raging political correctness of my family. Then I turn to Cloudtag (CTAG) and African Potash (AFPO) two companies now exposed as having lied to investors in a material way just days before placings. What does this say about investing in frauds? What does it mean for the shares and what does it mean for AIM? as the Potash story now starts to head towards the Nationals (oh yes St Brides PR brace yourselves, you can smear me but will you continue in that vein?) what happens next in both cases? Maurice would have enjoyed these battles in so many ways.

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