An imminent 163% rally in Kazakhstan!?

Just received the following from Fleetstreetinvest. Unsure if it is more smart or funny to think about it.

BY MANRAAJ SINGH

Dear Reader, Central Asia is out of favour with investors at the moment. Markets across the region have tanked since commodity prices crashed last year. Now, though, Central Asia could offer you some of the biggest profits over the next year. Take a look at the graph of the Kazakh Stock Exchange below. It’s a picture of boom… and bust. But now the market’s coming to life again…

Kazakhstan’s is the biggest economy in Central Asia. And it is one of the most energy-rich places on the planet. So its stock market took-off like a rocket in 2004 when energy prices started to rise. The index rose by a mind-blowing 1376% in the three years from mid-2004, as investors poured in. But Kazakhstan’s stock market has crashed nearly 80% over the last 12 months. What’s clear is that its stock market boom coincides exactly with the bull market in energy prices. Since the middle of last year, it has been hit by the collapse of commodity prices, the credit crunch and investors’ retreating from riskier markets. Now that the oil price is rising again, so is the Kazakh stock market – it’s doubled in 2009, as the circle on the chart shows. To get back to last year’s highs at 2876 from the current 1091, the index would have to rally 163%, And that could happen to any Central Asian market. These economies are tied to the price of energy and other commodities. That’s why it is time to buy into Central Asia…

9,200 potentially deadly Fort Detrick pathogens possibly missing

From CLG, a further clue that someone is waging a silent, undeclared, semi-private war:

"9,200 potentially deadly Fort Detrick pathogens possibly missing --FBI investigators concluded that Fort Detrick probably was the source of the anthrax spores used in the deadly mailings of 2001. --Ebola virus, anthrax bacteria, botulinum toxin, hemorrhagic fever and others 'not accounted for' 18 Jun 2009 An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick's infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn't know whether dangerous toxins were missing. After four months of searching about 335 freezers and refrigerators at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, investigators found 9,220 samples that hadn't been included in a database of about 66,000 items listed as of February, said Col. Mark Kortepeter, the institute's deputy commander." More here