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Why do people feel the need to announce their personal filter lists? It's bizarre and all a bit kindergarten to me. "You're no longer in my gang! You're dead to me and I'm going to make sure everyone know it - that'll teach you! And my Dad's bigger than yours anyways!" Seriously?

Anyhow specifically on pointing out any parallels between ANGS and UKOG, I really don't think that's in any way whatsoever the sort of comparison one would want to draw, if one is looking to be at all supportative of GL and his BoD.

Nom! Wash your mouth out with soap and water! Only uber-positive views allowed here... or didn't you get the memo?

Now hurry up, find your pompoms and get into your cheerleader's outfit before you're burnt at the stake.

Yanis... nobody will be any too pleased if the BoD do what's more than common and exercise their 1.5p options as soon as the SP hits 2p for immediate sale.

(Knowing ANGS, I wouldn't put it past the board if this is just a way for George to attempt to recoup the c. £20k he got Mrs L to put in a fair while back).

Crocqman, who are you calling a naysayer? 2p is not beyond the bounds of possibility - though many genuine LTHers here will need more than that to get out washing their face. I remain surprised at the otherwise instant exercisability of this latest swathe of share options - as I said, it neither inspires nor reflects any long-term commitment on the part of the ANGS BoD.

Of course to reach such dizzying SP heights, ANGS desperately needs to get its ducks much more into something vaguely resembling a line. I (and I'm sure everyone else) await news on how the mighty Aleph has done with its sweetheart "No Win... Still Fee" 90 day exclusive deal on (hopefully) digging up the unexpected £12 million.

What you guys have missed about this latest swathe of share options is that there's seemingly no time delay involved. Typically (amongst other conditions) share options are not able to be exercised for a stated period after issue (usually at least 12 months, but often longer). That (obviously) keeps recipients both motivated and also committed for the longer term.

ANG's latest issue seems to be exercisable by any recipient as soon as the SP hits 2p. That is surprisingly short-termist.

"It should all be coming together in the days and weeks ahead."

You know, I have the strangest feeling of deja vu... but maybe I am mistaken and 25th time will be the charm.

Sage advice, Big Bear, more of the usual shenanigans as you say.

No George, 500k shares doesn't count as any sort of a big dump. You'd need to get into the tens of millions of shares for any trade to be justifiably counted as large.

...usual frothing nonsense from the cheerleaders, the only thing of any significance in the short-term remains getting the £12m financing sorted. Period.

On that topic, as the more objective here have said, last week's placing definitely raises an eyebrow, if the £12 million is just around the corner, as we've all been repeatedly assured. Why in the world is it needed, if the big fat cheque's about to hit the company's coffers? (Because they're set to run out of working capital again before any financing is likely to arrive would seem to be the Occam's razor answer there).

Similarly, the "it'll all be sorted by Jan 31st, honest!" assurance has now been missed on this - and to cap it all, the response posted by ANGS on the Investor Q&A re this subject is fabulous in disingenuously talking around the issue, without giving any firm info or answer at all.

Can someone remind me - when does tin-pot Aleph's 90 day period of "happy days - we're getting paid anyway" exclusivity run out?

Heh. Speaking of the Magic Roundabout, I actually think that this BB's Dougal was more Dylan than Dougal. His unshakeable faith in Amit and CTAG in the face of all the mountains of evidence must have been down to the ingestion of hallucinogens, much like the Magic Roundabout's permanently stoned rabbit.

Again, where's any reference to the St. Vincent meaningless shell company that Amit set up, whenever it was?

NB I am not for one second claiming that anything even faintly positive will ever again materialise regarding CTAG (because it never will), but accuracy and avoiding confusion are both important.

Not that it makes the slightest bit of difference - because he's made off (or Madoff, if you'd rather) with all PI funds - but the companies that got marked up as dissolved at Companies House were the Cayman Isles one, plus any related UK subsidiaries.

Allegedly (and I don't think anyone has any way of checking) the company Amit set up whenever it was in the even murkier jurisdiction of St. Vincent may still be in existence (though of course doing absolutely nothing).

As I said, this won't make one penny's worth of difference to any ripped-off PI in terms of getting anything back at all on what they shelled out, but it's possibly worth clarifiying.

Genuine long-term holders would never bother pretending there's any active "AAAG".

Ironically, those who keep mentioning it as the only possible explanation for less than positive comments on ANGS inadvertently show themselves and their far less than genuine agendas up.

Our Jason Joannou is a busy boy, isn't he?

"Jason who?" some may ask. Well he's the primary and much vaunted white knight saviour behind Aleph Commodities Ltd - you know, the outfit with the sweetheart deal - the 90 day exclusive period during which they see if they can find ANGS any funding, but still get paid, even if they can't.

I've commented before on Aleph Energy Ltd, a one man band company entirely separate to Aleph Commodities Ltd, which our Jason set up five weeks ago on Nov 18th this year. This is the outfit that ANGS has mentioned in offering them "expertise" in the future.

Well, Jase is at it again - just a week ago, he decided to set up another brand new one man band company, namely AC Mena Ltd. I wonder if "AC" stands for "Aleph Commodities" or something else? Here's the record from Companies House:-

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13088900

This repeated and decidedly odd behind the scenes shenanigans really isn't filling me with any confidence at all regarding Aleph and funding. All these one man and his dog micro-companies popping up out of nowhere like mushrooms on a manure heap are smelling more and more like Billingsgate.

We'll see...

fated, not rated.

Crocq, it's a fair question (especially given that it's been posed by you).

Re Lucan's latest interview, sorry but that cuts no ice at all for me. As with any public utterance by any ANGS board member, past or present, at the very best, this is rated to be completely irrelevant (and at worst, disingenuous and misleading).

In complete contrast, at least the existence of the new TR-1 holder can be relied upon - and that is more interesting. Obviously Forest is after a profit one way or another - and I suppose it all comes down to the investment strategy intended. Of course we've been here before with sizeable investors and ANGS, what with Labrum and the French before him - and neither of those changed the price of cocoa in the least.

Having said that, looking back at the entirety of 2020, I would say that the TR-1 news is the first and only possibly positive news emerging re ANGS this year. If you think about it objectively and dispassionately, literally everything else has either been substance-free and highly spun puff or when factual (rarely), significantly negative and deeply disappointing.

So I suppose that is better than usual.

However fanatically the cheerleaders may wave their pompoms (and who knows? Amongst the uber-positive squad there may even be one or two actual genuine long-term holders... not many though) wiser heads will wait to see if desperately needed funding is secured.

Season's greetings to the sincere here.

Nomlungu, yes, strange that, isn't it? It's almost as if he had an agenda and reward incentive based solely upon promotion of certain stocks, rather than being a normal PI investor... but of course that could never be the case.

No. Instead the latest piece in a long line of sheer desperation from ANGS got RNSed at close of trading yesterday. This has unsurprisingly given rise to more than justifiable comment.

I do however acknowledge that against such a backdrop, it does make it a lot harder for you and your ilk to play your Pied Piper's tunes.

Regardless of whether he meant "winning lottery tickets" or not (and he certainly wasn't clear on that when he first started pontificating) it is still without a shadow of a doubt crushingly dumb language to use.

Spin, skyfarmer?

As ever and as per Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is always the most likely. All the news being issued by ANGS seems to either be substance-free puff, or whenever it is compelled by regulation to announce hard facts, crushingly depressing.

There's no need for the realists here to spin anything. The same cannot be said for the cheerleaders (who may still include one or two genuine long-term holders amongst the far greater number pretending to be just that).