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Hey. Scammers gotta stick together.
Looks like Frank is providing plenty of fluff PR's for Joe to dump into. How nice of him.
Companies acting as their own TA is far more common than I thought.
http://www.otcmarkets.com/research/service-provider/Company-Acts-as-its-Own-Transfer-Agent?page=1&pageSize=25&id=2206&filterOn=6
Why no buyback. Courtesy of 1manband.
A share repurchase (or buyback) is considered to be a distribution to common shareholders. In order to do that legally, a company may only use assets which are already owned by the common shareholders. Common shareholders are dead last in line for assets. The debtors are first, then creditors, then preferred shareholders, and finally common shareholders. Which means, the company must be in a positive asset position - the Company must have enough net assets (assets minus liabilities, including any amounts due preferred shareholders, which is important to recognize) to pay 100% of what is owed to all the classes in front of the common shareholders before they can buy back shares. And then they can only use the assets above that threshhold. AND, the company must have current financial statements which prove this is the case - no "take our word for it".
The Company must also have sufficient current assets to meet its obligations as they come due. A company having a lot of fixed or intangible assets, but little cash, is unlikely to meet this requirement as those assets are not readily convertible to cash to pay off debt maturing or its current liabilities.
Those 3 criteria (positive assets, current financial statements and sufficient current assets) are the 3 legal criteria a company must meet in order to repurchase shares under State laws. BUT, there is another consideration. Note that almost every contractual agreement for the issuance of toxic death spiral convertibles specifically states the Company is prohibited from repurchasing shares while any part of the debt remains unpaid. And this is important. We know most of these toxic convertible buyers will sue issuers immediately if they violate the purchase contracts. But recently, a lot of toxic death spiral issuers have issued news releases, and 8-K's, announcing repurchases plans when not only are they broke, but they cannot legally repurchase shares under the legal criteria above, AND they are prohibited from doing so under their contractual agreements. But yet the toxic note holders do nothing. Why? Because the fake "buybacks" are almost certainly being orchestrated by the toxic note holders as a scheme to pump the stock and increase buying volume which they can then convert and dump into. I have seen it quite a bit recently, and they all involve the same group of toxic note holders. And in each case, the Company in question is on life support and unquestionably near death. The bogus buyback announcement is the last gasp which gives the note holders one last dumping opportunity before the Company disappears for good.
A man walks into a rooftop bar and takes a seat next to another guy. “What are you drinking?” he asks the guy.
“Magic beer,” he says.
"Oh, yeah? What’s so magical about it?”
Then he shows him: He swigs some beer, dives off the roof, flies around the building, then finally returns to his seat with a triumphant smile.
“Amazing!” the man says. “Lemme try some of that!” The man grabs the beer. He downs it, leaps off the roof —and plummets 15 stories to the ground.
The bartender shakes his head. “You know, you’re a real jerk when you’re drunk, Superman.”
Frank is pumping the crap outta SANP.
DORAL, FL -- March 15th, 2017 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire -- Santo Mining Corporation (the "Company"), (OTCBB:SANP). The Company announces, that it has registered with the State of Florida its new DBA “Doing Business As” CANNABIS DEPOT COMPANY, this DBA will allow the Company to legally do business under the name CANNABIS DEPOT COMPANY without having to create an entirely new business entity. This will also allow the Company to accept payments, advertise and otherwise present itself under the name of CANNABIS DEPOT COMPANY. Once the audits are finalized and the Company files its Super 10-K with the SEC; the Company will do an official name change to CANNABIS DEPOT COMPANY
This is the same pr nearly as when he redomiciled the company to Florida from Nevada to create his new cigar business and change the name to Cathay.
He abandoned CAGR, the wine business. Now, is he doing the same to the cigar business?
Joke of the week.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/saudi-arabia-launches-girls-council-without-any-girls/ar-AAol5Vi?li=BBnbcA1
Saudi Arabia launches girls' council - without any girls
There were a total of 13 men (not all pictured) on stage to launch the Qassim Girls Council in Saudi Arabia© Qassim Girls Council There were a total of 13 men (not all pictured) on stage to launch the Qassim Girls Council in Saudi Arabia It was an encouraging initiative for a country not known for giving women a platform in public life.
But when Saudi Arabia wanted to show off its inaugural girls' council in al-Qassim province, they overlooked one thing: the women.
Pictures released to mark the first Qassim Girls Council meeting showed 13 men on stage, and not a single female.
The women were apparently in another room, linked via video.
The male-dominated photos have been circulating widely on social media, after the meeting took place on Saturday.
The Saudi launch was led by Prince Faisal bin Mishal bin Saud, the province's governor, who said he was proud of the conference and it was the first of its kind in the kingdom.
"In the Qassim region, we look at women as sisters to men, and we feel a responsibility to open up more and more opportunities that will serve the work of women and girls," he said.
The girls' council is chaired by Princess Abir bint Salman, his wife, who was not in the photograph.
In Saudi Arabia, a state policy of gender segregation between unrelated men and women is rigorously enforced.
But the country may be moving toward loosening some of its rules as part of its Vision 2030 programme.
Its goals included increasing women's participation in the workforce from 22% to 30%.
Another pot stock wannabe. SANP
Santo Mining Enters the $2 Billion Dollar Cannabis Industry and Prepares to Release Details for Rapid Expansion
Wow. I did not know this!
U.S. Border Agents Can Search Your Cellphone
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/traveling-while-brown-us-border-agents-can-search-your-cellphone/ar-AAogXlE?li=BBnbcA1
"The president is a neophyte to politics," the chairman said. "He's been doing this a little over a year. I think a lot of the things he says, I think you guys sometimes take literally."
Today's the day.
The Trump administration faces a Monday deadline to back up the president's incendiary claim – offered without proof – that Trump Tower was wiretapped under President Barack Obama's orders during the 2016 election campaign.
That didn't take long. ( :
“I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life,” Mr. Bharara wrote on his personal Twitter feed, which he set up in the last two weeks.
Good for you, Preet. So, what's Trump's next move?
US attorney Bharara won't resign despite Trump demand.
Is this possibly why he wants him gone?
Bharara's office is working through an investigation of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and about to start the trials of two close allies to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
SANP is the latest ticker that I follow to begin a pump and dump campaign. The CEO was kind enough to make it known beforehand that he was going to make some nebulous reference to expanding his interests to other hot sectors of the market in addition to hiring an auditor to bring all filings current. The same "bring filings current" announcement was made over a year ago and obviously that never happened.
After a little prompting on Twitter, the CEO, Frank (or Franjose) Yglesias seemed to let it "slip" that MJ was the hot sector he was referring to in the pr. Along with other hot sectors, of course. I mean, why limit yourself to one when you can infer many? And not have to produce any.
Stay tuned, boys and girls. After what he pulled with CAGR/GDHI, things could get interesting.
There are frivolous lawsuits. Then, there are frivolous bills.
A Maine lawmaker recently proposed a bill that would require dogs to be harnessed or tethered in moving vehicles.
In other words: No more dogs joyously hanging out the window, jowls and ears flapping in the breeze. No more small pooches perched on drivers’ laps like mini co-pilots.
If comments on local news stories about the idea are any guide, this proposal did not go over particularly well.
“My dog’s going to be so pissed when he finds out,” Andrew Hesselbart wrote on the Facebook page of the Portland Press Herald. “Stop trying to control everyone,” wrote Jeremy Collison. “Opioids destroying lives across the state and these people are wasting time on legislation like this?” Robert Alan Parry asked.
On Wednesday, one day after the newspaper’s story on the bill ran, state Rep. Jim Handy (D) withdrew the bill he had sponsored, which was soberly titled “An Act Concerning the Transporting of Dogs in Passenger Vehicles.” In a statement, Handy said the constituent who had suggested it had changed his mind.
Handy, for his part, seemed pretty lukewarm on the idea from the start. He told the New England Cable Network that he wanted pets to “have the freedom to stick their head out of the window,” and that his own dog “loves the fresh air coming into his face.”
“As a dog owner myself, I had reservations about whether that’s a good idea from the beginning, but it’s my job as a legislator to hear and represent the concerns of my constituents,” Handy said in his statement on withdrawing the bill.
So, any crackpot with a hair brained idea can have their local representative waste time drafting a bill and introducing it for consideration? Frivolous lawsuits were not just frowned upon for the time they wasted but now subject to fines if I'm not mistaken. Hint, hint lawmakers everywhere.
I don't believe you can take the attitude and concern that's generally prevalent at the local level and move it up the line much further and nothing will ever be put in place to make it possible. Something about power and corruption....? ( :
And then, there's megalomania.
That's why change has to come first at the state and local level and work its way up. You said -
That would be great, but unfortunately, we're too big for that kind of solution. The larger something like government gets, because of the power that goes along with it, the more corrupt and uncaring, the people in charge become, in general.
I'd like to see a benevolent dictatorship, myself. ( :
First course of action would be to create a Department of Common Sense with the ability to dictate something be done immediately and have the details be worked out later.
About as strange as it gets- hadn't seen this one.
If anything this "administration" is absolute proof that our government is totally corrupt. I suggest we adopt the Norwegian Plan:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/01/26/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-1-percent?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork
Btw, DRNK is a no bid issue in what else? The MJ field.
LOL The Trump bullshit continues.
He makes an outrageous claim about illegal wiretapping by a sitting president without providing any support or proof. Then, when confronted says he's not going to comment further on it but demands Congress investigates it as part of their investigation about his ties to Russia? Based on what, exactly, Donald?
I'm sure he's filed a few restraining orders so he should know they're not even considered without some reason given. Same goes for here, I would expect.
No one with a brain can believe his isn't scrambled. I can't see him making it through the full term.
Sure. Why not.
Oprah Winfrey is rethinking her chances of becoming president
Or maybe Whoopie.
The Trump administration seems to be imploding.
I'd be surprised to see it make 4 years at the rate it's going.
DUMP IT! The pump was bogus.
The next bit of news might involve the approved R/S.
Daniels Corporate Advisory Company, Inc.
Shareholder Update
New York, New York - June 7, 2016.
Daniels Corporate Advisory Co. Inc (OTC:QB "DCAC") is pleased to announce it is continuing to move forward with some of the most promising previously announced deals as well as some promising new ones that will be announced as they move from development to operational stage. The most promising of these will be groomed for public offering by means of spin-off or through some form of alternate public offering. In any event, the current shareholder base will benefit if they persevere.
The above being said, in order to move the company forward the Company was advised to make several moves that on the surface may appear problematic but in actuality will, in the long run, produce a much stronger company.
The Anti Dilutive Convertible Preferred Dividend that was originally filed with FINRA on March 7, 2016 has been postponed. The Corporate Action that needs to be addressed first is the reverse split so activity in the DCAC common stock can resume. Once the reverse split is cleared and implemented, the Company will re-file with FINRA so that the shareholders as of record on April 15, 2016 will receive the promised Preferred Shares.
In the near future a post office box address will be supplied to the shareholders to which they are to mail copies of their initial confirmations for purchase of DCAC shares prior to the record date. Also, the brokerage statement for April, 2016 evidencing that ownership took place on or prior to April 15, 2016 must be provided.
A new formula will be developed for the issuance of the Preferred Stock to the April 15, 2016 record date holders that will give them greater participation in the future of the Company. This is necessary because of the need to change the Company's position on the size of the reverse split, which is now 2,500 for one and no longer 500 for one.
DCAC
As of December 7, 2016 the registrant had 2,686,756,136 shares of common stock outstanding
Outstanding Shares 3,063,247,802 a/o Jan 30, 2017
No idea what it is now. But volume is approaching 500K so all those new shares seem to be finding new homes today.
DCAC announces new people coming on board and all hell breaks loose.
Harry J. Orfanos:
Co-founded Magellan Global Fund, a multimillion dollar global hedge fund investing in BRIC private companies and taking them public. Prior to MGF, he served as Vice President of Capital Markets with Cornell Capital Partners, a $1 billion New Jersey-based PIPE fund which focused on investing in micro-cap publicly listed companies. Prior to working at Cornell, he worked at Sepulveda & Smith Securities as the Director of Private Placements. At Sepulveda & Smith, my responsibilities included originating, structuring and brokering private transactions. Prior to Sepulveda, he was a Vice President of Corporate Finance with Zanett Securities, a $250 million New York-based PIPE fund which focused on investing in small to mid-cap public companies. Prior to Zanett Securities, he was an Institutional Equity Sales Trader with Santander Investment Securities in New York. He received his B.S. in Finance from New York University.
Bruce Blechman:
Is a nationally recognized speaker and is considered to be one of the country's top experts on the subject of entrepreneurial finance. He is the author of The Secret to Getting Money in Northern California and co-author of the best-selling book. Guerrilla Financing, published by Houghton Mifflin in a number of languages and used in college courses nationwide. He has been a national columnist, author of the monthly column, "Creative Financing" in Entrepreneur Magazine and host of the New Venture Money Show' on the Business Radio Network, as well as a guest on numerous radio and TV programs. Articles about him have appeared in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times and other national publications. He graduated in the top quarter of his class at the Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania and has taught courses on Entrepreneurial Finance as an Adjunct Professor, was a mentor in the Wharton Business Plan Program.
How fitting that someone who worked for Cornell Capital Partners teams up with someone who wrote Guerrilla Financing to take over a $.0001 shell
The technology available these days is amazing and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them actualy work. Some are hard to figure out, though, like using a microphone to diagnose asthma. So far, I've only had one of the tickers I follow switch to an app business model.
some good fertile ground for penny scammers:
"You can use the microphone to diagnose asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder)," Patel said.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-02-smartphones-revolutionizing-medicine.html#jCp
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-smartphones-revolutionizing-medicine.html
Researchers are finding new benefits to smartphone features such as camera and flash, which can help examine and diagnose patients
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-02-smartphones-revolutionizing-medicine.html#jCp
Trump family’s elaborate lifestyle is a ‘logistical nightmare’ — at taxpayer expense
On Friday, President Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.
On Saturday, Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab Emirates, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.”
Meanwhile, New York police will keep watch outside the Trump Tower in Manhattan, the chosen home of first lady Melania Trump and son Barron. And the tiny township of Bedminster, N.J., is preparing for the daunting prospect that the local Trump golf course will serve as a sort of northern White House for as many as 10 weekends a year.
Barely a month into the Trump presidency, the unusually elaborate lifestyle of America’s new first family is straining the Secret Service and security officials, stirring financial and logistical concerns in several local communities, and costing far beyond what has been typical for past presidents — a price tag that, based on past assessments of presidential travel and security costs, could balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a four-year term.
Adding to the costs and complications is Trump’s inclination to conduct official business surrounded by crowds of people, such as his decision last weekend to host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a working dinner while Mar-a-Lago members dined nearby.
The handful of government agencies that bear the brunt of the expenses, including the Defense and Homeland Security departments, have not responded to Washington Post requests for data laying out the costs since Trump took office.
But some figures have dribbled out, while others can be gleaned from government documents.
Trump’s three Mar-a-Lago trips since the inauguration have likely cost the federal treasury roughly $10 million, based on figures used in an October government report analyzing White House travel, including money for Coast Guard units to patrol the exposed shoreline and other military, security and staffing expenses associated with moving the apparatus of the presidency.
Palm Beach County officials plan to ask Washington to reimburse tens of thousands of dollars a day in expenses for deputies handling added security and traffic issues around the cramped Florida island whenever Trump is in town.
In New York, the city is paying $500,000 a day to guard Trump Tower, according to police officials’ estimates, an amount that could reach $183 million a year.
This month, The Post reported that Secret Service and U.S. embassy staff paid nearly $100,000 in hotel-room bills to support Eric Trump’s trip to promote a Trump-brand condo tower in Uruguay.
“This is an expensive way to conduct business, and the president should recognize that,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, which closely tracked President Barack Obama’s family vacation costs and said it intends to continue the effort for the Trump administration.
“The unique thing about President Trump is that he knows what it costs to run a plane.” Fitton added, noting that Trump should consider using the presidential retreat of Camp David, a short helicopter ride from the White House, or even his golf course in northern Virginia. Of Mar-a-Lago, Fitton said, “Going down there ain’t free.”
For Trump, the costs come with an additional perk: Some of the money flows into his own pocket. While Trump has removed himself from managing his company, he has refused to divest his ownership, meaning that he benefits from corporate successes such as government contracts.
The Defense Department and Secret Service, for instance, have sought to rent space in Trump Tower, where leasing a floor can cost $1.5 million a year — though neither agency has disclosed any details. In addition, Trump’s travel to his signature properties while trailed by a press corps beaming images to the world allows the official business of the presidency to double as marketing opportunities for his brand.
The White House did not address broader concerns of the costs and potential conflicts inherent in Trump’s early travels. But White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told The Post this week that Trump is always working, even when he has left Washington behind.
“He is not vacationing when he goes to Mar-a-Lago,” Grisham said. “The president works nonstop every day of the week, no matter where he is.”
Trump’s frequent travel belies his repeated criticism of Obama as a “habitual vacationer” enjoying taxpayer-funded golf getaways. It also comes after his own promises: He told the Hill newspaper in 2015, “I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done.”
Presidential families have for decades been guaranteed round-the-clock protection, no matter the expense or destination. Every presidency has brought new operational challenges and lifestyle habits, from George W. Bush’s frequent stays at his remote ranch in Texas to Obama’s annual trips to Martha’s Vineyard and his native state of Hawaii. Judicial Watch estimated Obama-related travel expenses totaled nearly $97 million over eight years.
But based on the first four weeks, Trump’s presidency appears on track to cost hundreds of millions of dollars more.
The burden is especially acute for the Secret Service, the presidential protection force that has endured years of budget shortages, low morale and leadership shake-ups, including the announcement this week that its director, Joseph Clancy, is stepping down.
Agents are now tasked with guarding multiple homes and protecting Trump’s four adult children, including the globe-trotting sons running the family business and daughter Ivanka, whose family recently moved into a Northwest Washington neighborhood.
“There was an anticipation of how stressful it was going to be on the agency, but the harsh reality is that the stress is just overwhelming,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a 14-year Secret Service employee who served in Obama’s detail and now works as executive director of the risk-mitigation company RANE.
Even veteran agents, Wackrow said, are feeling the pressure of the “monumental” task, including manning high-security perimeters in Washington, Florida and New York, along with protecting family members’ private-business travel across three continents.
“It’s a logistical nightmare,” Wackrow said. Agents are “at severe risk of burnout, and the very last thing you want is to have your agents burned out.”
A Secret Service spokesman said the agency is equipped to handle the demands of a Trump presidency. “Every administration presents unique challenges to which the Secret Service has effectively adapted,” according to an agency statement. “Regardless of location .?.?. the Secret Service is confident in our security plan.”
Experts and local officials have pointed to a string of security and logistical concerns surrounding Mar-a-Lago, the lavish estate Trump turned into a club in 1995 and now calls the “Winter White House.”
Club members pay $200,000 to join — a fee that has doubled since his election — and $14,000 a year to belong, giving them access to the beach, tennis courts, a spa and, now, on occasional weekends, to the president.
But Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), who represents Palm Beach, said Mar-a-Lago is a poor choice for a president’s long-term home: an exposed oceanfront club on a narrow, busy island, where traffic problems were already routine.
“Mar-a-Lago is no Camp David,” Frankel said. “It’s not set up with the intention or the forethought of keeping the president safe.”
The challenges for Mar-a-Lago as a presidential home were apparent from pictures posted on social media last weekend by club guests — including close-up images of the presidential limousine and a picture of a military official carrying the nuclear “football.”
In one Instagram video recorded Friday night outside Mar-a-Lago, a woman fawns as men with earpieces inspect under the hood of a line of cars heading into the club, “The Secret Service is so hot.”
The weekend brought the presidential entourage to two other Trump properties, as Trump and Abe golfed 27 holes at the president’s courses in Jupiter and West Palm Beach. The events meant global publicity for the Trump brand — and even more security complications.
The federal and local governments have spent considerable sums to help safeguard the sprawling estate on items big and small.
In advance of Trump’s Super Bowl weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago, the Secret Service paid for a bevy of security costs, including more than $12,000 for tents, portable toilets, light towers and golf carts, purchase orders show.
The bills have racked up outside the club, too. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said Trump’s 25 days in the county since the election have cost local taxpayers about $60,000 a day in overtime police payments.
Local officials said the U.S. Coast Guard has run round-the-clock shoreline patrols alongside Mar-a-Lago when the president is in town. A Coast Guard spokesman declined to share costs or specifics, citing security concerns.
The Town of Palm Beach recently implemented a “presidential visit seasonal traffic mitigation plan” in hopes of stemming the island’s worsening traffic woes. Running every weekend until May, the plan includes a town order demanding sanitation and public-works crews leave the island every Friday by 3 p.m.
Local officials usually only learn a few days in advance that the president is coming, said Kirk Blouin, the town’s director of public safety. “We plan as if he is going to be here most weekends,” Blouin said, “because otherwise it’s too hard to plan.”
Overseas travel by Trump’s adult sons is adding to the burden on taxpayers.
Eric Trump and his security detail flew this month to the Dominican Republic, during which the president’s son met with developers proposing a Trump-brand luxury resort. Purchase orders showing government expenditures for that trip are not yet available, but records show that Secret Service officials traveled there in advance to scope out the area — staying at the five-star, oceanfront AlSol Del Mar hotel at a cost of $5,470.
After this weekend’s trip to Dubai — during which early Secret Service hotel bills have already surpassed $16,000, records show — the Trump brothers will travel to Vancouver for the Feb. 28 grand opening of another Trump-brand skyscraper.
The State Department has declined to provide details related to its expenditures for Trump family travel around the world, including the participation of embassy staff when Eric Trump and Don Trump Jr. travel on behalf of the family business.
The best public estimate for the full cost of Trump’s presidential getaways may come from a U.S. Government Accountability Office report in October, which estimated that a four-day trip for President Obama cost taxpayers more than $3.6 million.
During that Presidents’ Day weekend trip in 2013, Obama flew to Chicago to give an economic speech, then to Palm City, Fla., to golf with Tiger Woods and the owner of the Houston Astros baseball team.
That money went toward operating aircraft flown in from 10 states — including Air Force One, which costs an estimated $200,000 an hour to fly — as well as assorted watercraft, military working dogs, rental cars, hotel rooms and a Coast Guard rescue helicopter.
The trip drew the ire of many Republicans in Congress, including U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who requested the GAO review Obama’s costs. Asked whether Barrasso would file a similar request for Trump’s trips, his spokeswoman said equating the two presidents’ trips would be “misleading at best.”
“Former President Obama flew to Florida for the express purpose of a golf lesson and a round of golf with Tiger Woods. President Trump was in Florida with the Prime Minister of Japan,” Barrasso’s press secretary Laura M. Mengelkamp said in a statement. “Regardless, every level of the federal government needs to be mindful of the way it spends taxpayer dollars.”
In November, when Trump spent a weekend at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., the 8,000-resident township received just 48 hours’ notice demanding an all-hours security detail of six police officers from its 16-officer force.
Township officials have begun preparing for the possibility that Trump will make up to 10 visits this year, including a potentially extended summer stay for the first lady. Officials there offered a projection, based on seven Trump trips, that could cost the township more than $300,000.
“Bedminster is a small municipality with a small police force and a small budget,” Mayor Steven E. Parker (R) wrote in a letter asking for federal help in recouping security costs. “We want to welcome President Trump with open arms, but we don’t wish to burden our taxpayers disproportionately for these visits.”
Whether this medication is safe for individuals holding political office remains to be seen.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/potential-side-effects-of-the-drug-trump-reportedly-takes-for-hair-loss/ar-AAmB90S?li=BBnba9O
Add this to "What's the world come to" file.
Police in northern India have uncovered a sprawling racket whereby mobile-phone outlets sell women’s phone numbers, which are valued on a woman’s appearance, to men who then use the numbers to harass them.
The Hindustan Times reports that the scheme was discovered by authorities in Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous state —after a flood of calls to a government sexual-harassment helpline were found to be about incessant phone calls from strangers.
The Times said about 90% of complaints made through the helpline over the past four years pertained to unsolicited phone contact. Men who practice this type of harassment commonly call random women and tell them they “want to make friendship.”
Men have been purchasing the numbers from mobile-credit-recharge shops, the Times reports, where the sellers charge up to about $7 to reach a woman deemed “beautiful.” The number of an “ordinary-looking” woman is much cheaper at about 7¢.
A 24-year-old man who uses the service told the Times that harassing women over the phone was an amusing pastime, and said that he and his friends occasionally “send vulgar pictures over WhatsApp” to unsuspecting women in an attempt to befriend them.
But those on the receiving end don’t seem eager to meet the anonymous callers sending them often highly offensive messages. One woman told the Times she even worried that the calls she was receiving late at night from a stranger could lead her husband to mistrust her and cause bigger problems in the home.
Police officials reportedly said they don’t intend to crackdown on merchants in the illicit trade any time soon, as the offenders could be so numerous that jailing them would overburden prisons.
Add the Australian PM to the list of people who think Trump's an ass.
My, my. What will they think of next?
Moon Express, the first private company in history to receive government permission to travel beyond Earth's orbit, announced Tuesday that it raised another $20 million in private equity financing to fund its maiden lunar mission to take place in late 2017. This brings the total amount of private investment to $45 million from investors that include Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Collaborative Fund and Autodesk (ADSK).
What may have added impetus to investor interest in Moon Express is President Trump's picks for the NASA transition team — Charles Miller and Chris Shank — and the leading candidate to become the next NASA administrator, GOP Rep. Jim Bridenstine. All support commercial space ventures and manned exploration — including lunar missions.
If successful, the new MX-1 lunar lander from Moon Express would not only win the $20 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, it would also help jump-start a new era of space exploration. Up until now, only government-funded missions from the United States, China and Russia have landed on the moon.
Last year the U.S. government made a historic ruling to allow the company to engage in peaceful commercial lunar exploration and discovery following consultations with the FAA, White House, State Department and NASA.
The company's challenge now is to meet the XPRIZE requirement: Make a soft landing on the moon, travel 500 meters across its surface, and transmit high-definition video and images back to Earth. All tasks must be done before the end of this year.
According to co-founder and chairman Naveen Jain, "Moon Express now has all the capital it needs to land its small robotic spacecraft on the surface of the moon in November or December of 2017." The company's goal is twofold: 1) mine the moon for valuable resources, such as Helium-3, gold, platinum group metals, rare earth metals and water; and 2) help researchers develop human space colonies for future generations.
The ability to mine Helium-3 could have a tremendous impact on Earth and the environment. Helium-3 is a clean, non-radioactive energy source that could potentially power nuclear fusion reactors. Theoretically, a relatively small amount could produce enough clean fuel to power entire industries, if not the entire planet. It's for this reason that the Chinese have also announced plans to mine Helium-3 on the moon.
Another draw is tapping water on the moon's surface. Hydrogen and oxygen can then be separated to create rocket fuel for deep-space missions to Mars and beyond. Essentially, the moon can serve as a fueling station for spacecraft.
"This year is a watershed year for Moon Express and America's commercial space industry," said Bob Richards, Moon Express' co-founder, president and CEO. "Just before the presidential election, NASA released a call for concepts for payloads to the moon to be delivered by private companies. That shows a rising tide of interest in the moon by our nation's space industry."
Thanks to a unique public-private partnership with NASA, Moon Express has access to NASA engineering expertise. It has licensed space launch complexes 17 and 18 at Cape Canaveral from the U.S. Air Force. The six-year-old start-up with a team of 30 already has contracts for payloads from the private sector and scientific community. They include the delivery of the international lunar observatory on the moon, retroreflector arrays to test principles of Einstein's general relativity theory and lunar geology, and human remains and DNA samples for space burial from Celestis.
In addition, Moon Express hopes to snare a contract for a payload from NASA for its first mission, said Richards.
Moon Express has contracted five electron rockets from New Zealand-based launch provider Rocket Lab for its missions. In the future, it plans to be rocket agnostic and use a variety of rocket providers.
European Space Agency has also expressed interest in partnering with Moon Express. ESA has plans to develop lunar colonies in the future.
Now the race is on to see who will win the Google Lunar XPRIZE and what player will land on the moon first. Contenders include SpaceIL from Israel, Team Inus from India and international team Synergy Moon.
At the same time, superpowers are busy preparing their own missions. China has unveiled plans to visit the moon's north and south poles late this year and return to Earth with rock samples. In 2018 it plans to send its Chang'e-4 lander to the dark side of the moon to carry out patrolling surveys. At the same time, Russia's Roscosmos is planning a manned space exploration base on the moon.
As Naveen explains, "he and his partners are just a group of entrepreneurs trying to move humanity forward. We want to leave a legacy for future generations."
Well said, Miss Canada.
Dump the body shamers!
One day there'll be a book written called Trumpisms. It'll be a best seller.
Days after being sworn in, President Trump insisted to congressional leaders invited to a reception at the White House that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions of illegal votes, according to people familiar with the meeting.
WLSI is being pumped as a weed stock.
Nothing could be funnier. It's a dead stock. Been that way since abandoned back in 2011 by the CEO himself with this 8-K announcement.
On April 6, 2011, Wellstar International, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it has ceased operations. The Company phone number has been disconnected and the lease for the Holland, Ohio facility has been terminated.
Date: April 6, 2011 By: /s/ John Antonio
Name: John Antonio
Title: CEO
OTCMarkets has it as Skull and Crossbones.
It's revoked at Nevada SOS and has fees accumulated of $63,475.
The registered agent resigned in 2014.
And as Renee was so kind to point out this summer, it's a delinquent filer.
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Another of Trump's faithful followers/advisors.
Carl Paladino, a former Republican nominee for governor of New York and an adviser to president-elect Trump, included the death of President Obama and “return” of first lady Michelle Obama to Africa on his list of things he wanted for 2017.
Paladino was responding to a survey by an alternative weekly magazine, Artvoice.
Asked what he would like to happen in 2017, he said he hopes that “Obama catches mad cow disease” and dies after having relations with a Hereford, a type of cow. Asked what he would most like to see go, Paladino responded that Michelle Obama would “return to being male” and be “let loose” in Zimbabwe.
Full exchange:
Artvoice: What would you most like to happen in 2017?
Carl Paladino: Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her.
Artvoice: What would you most like to see go in 2017?
Carl Paladino: Michelle Obama. I’d like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.
In a statement to The Post, Paladino denied that the comments were racist.
“It has nothing to do with race,” Paladino said. “That’s the typical stance of the press when they can’t otherwise defend the acts of the person being attacked.”
“It’s about 2 progressive elitist ingrates who have hated their country so badly and destroyed its fabric in so many respects in 8 years,” he added.
Reached briefly by phone Friday, Paladino confirmed that he made the comments and that he is currently involved in Trump's transition efforts.
“I don't think Mr. Trump particularly cares what I have to say,” Paladino said. “He knows me. I was active with him, and I still am active with him.”
“And that's it. I'll say what I feel like saying.”
No stranger to controversy, Paladino has repeatedly over the years attacked Obama privately and publicly — including pushing the falsehood that Obama is Muslim. During his gubernatorial race, Paladino was accused of sending graphically racist and sexist emails — some of them concerning Obama — to his circle of friends. Paladino never denied sending the emails but called them a “smear.”
In a statement, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, slammed Paladino for a "long history of racist and incendiary comments."
"Carl Paladino, a Republican Party official from Western New York, made racist, ugly and reprehensible remarks about President Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama," Cuomo said. "While most New Yorkers know Mr. Paladino is not to be taken seriously, as his erratic behavior defies any rational analysis and he has no credibility, his words are still jarring.
"His remarks do not reflect the sentiments or opinions of any real New Yorker and he has embarrassed the good people of the state with his latest hate-filled rage," he added.
As recently as Dec. 5, Paladino visited Trump Tower after the election.
“We're friends,” Paladino told reporters afterward. “My meeting was good.”
And this week, Paladino, a Buffalo school board member, sought to have photos of Trump hung in all of the city's schools.
In a statement Paladino's alma mater St. Bonaventure University, where he once served on the board of trustees, denounced his comments.
"Mr. Paladino’s remarks in ArtVoice are reprehensible and in complete contradiction to the values of St. Bonaventure University," said Andrew Roth, the University's president. "At St. Bonaventure we believe in an inclusive community that values diversity as a strength.
"While as educators we know we never attain 100%, it is reasonably certain that the vast majority of St. Bonaventure’s extended family – students, Franciscans, faculty, staff and alumni – share in the rejection of Mr. Paladino’s comments and the comments of any who violate our shared values of individual dignity, community inclusiveness and service to others," he added.
Trump transition officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Ridiculous.
http://www.kvue.com/life/holidays/hutto-police-give-gifts-instead-of-tickets/377085376
There are lots of better causes/people to give money to.
Especially the woman who didn't go through the stop sign. The cop was lying! I wonder if that woman would have still gotten the $50 if she had caused an accident and killed someone when she ran that stop sign.
Is Trump short Lockheed Martin stock? ( :
Shares of U.S. aerospace giant Lockheed Martin (LMT) fell Monday after President-elect Donald Trump tweeted criticism of defense spending for the Maryland-based firm's F-35 stealth jets.
The stock lost 2.47 percent to close at $253.11 a share.
The drop came as Trump used Twitter, one of his favored social media platforms, to characterize the cost of the jet development program for the U.S. Department of Defense as "out of control."
"Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th," tweeted Trump
The world's going to Hell in a hand basket.
Just a small example.
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This reminds me of a pinky CEO promising things to shareholders.
"I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Two pence a week, and jam every other day."
Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me – and I don't care for jam."
"It's very good jam," said the Queen.
"Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate."
"You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day."
"It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day'," Alice objected.
"No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know."
"I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing!"
"The (blank) will be out tomorrow."
Well, tomorrow comes, but then it's today. The CEO didn't say it would be out today! LOL
Now, here's a real winner!
MANAGEMENT'S STRATEGIC VISION
We strive to create a complete co-parenting solution. It is our ultimate goal to improve the lives of families especially the lives of children that are affected by a divorce.
“Two Hands” is the product of years of searching for the ideal solution that will reduce the stress and worries of co-parenting. Our application fulfills our mission and vision that focuses on organization and communication to improve family relationships despite a divorce.
We would like to be recognized as the company that improves family relationships and improved organization and communication between family members.
Our mission is to equip parents with the best tools to be able to communicate with each other in a divorced or separated household. “Two Hands App” began as an idea to help ease the worries of parents when it comes to co-parenting after a divorce or a separation.
A personal experience has led the creator of the app to come up with a better solution that uses the internet foremost to provide better communication and organization between divorced parties.
After years of collaborating with fellow parents and co-parents, and through the help of our designers and programmers, “Two Hands App” was conceived. It has all the important features that any parent, co-parent or caregiver would ever need to deal with any kind of activity concerning children. “Two Hands App” focuses on reducing the stress of parents and their children.
“Two Hands App” is accessed primarily through the internet which makes it easier to connect to people and manage one or two households at the same time. We have made it possible for the application to be accessed from all kinds of devices and have made it easier to understand even for someone who is not tech savvy.
“Two Hands App” is under development. Our team of designers and developers understand that along with constant changes in technology, the lives of families and children are also changing as well. There is no doubt that we keep abreast with life’s constant changes to provide the best service for co-parents everywhere.
We plan to launch our application in the first quarter of 2017
KIDDING!!!!! (Did I have to tell you that??
Will some electors go rogue?
Dump the electoral college!
The writer here is missing something.
If the women playing in the tournament simply refused to play, the USGA would better be able to take the action he wants them to take. So, it's the players call.
USGA stands with Trump by refusing to move Open
Golfers practice on the green at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, New York.© Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Golfers practice on the green at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, the U.S. Golf Association undoubtedly wishes that questions about where it is hosting the 2017 U.S. Women’s Open will just go away.
“The USGA has not changed its position on the 2017 U.S. Women’s Open at this time,” spokeswoman Janeen Driscoll told USA TODAY Sports this week.
That means that the tournament is scheduled to go on as planned at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., July 13-16, 2017.
A national championship hosted by the President of the United States? Isn’t that the stuff of our dreams?
Actually, with this man, it’s more like a nightmare.
The USGA, a national governing body whose mission is to grow the game of golf for women and girls, has not only failed to rebuke a man who bragged on video that he sexually assaults women, it continues to do business with him.
It could have taken the crown jewel of women’s golf away from him when the video of his repugnant comments was made public more than a month ago. It could have left him at any point in the campaign, when he said one vile thing after another about women, minorities, immigrants and so many others.
Instead, the USGA said nothing and did nothing. The silence was a de facto nod: We’re with him.
Then came the election, and the shocking Trump victory. If the USGA had been thinking a Trump loss to Hillary Clinton could justify moving the tournament, it was stuck now. How could you possibly defy the president?
If you had a spine you could. If you had a moral compass. If you were outraged at the way Trump so brazenly admitted he treated women. If you truly cared about the image you’re projecting for the women and girls you’re desperately trying to attract to your game.
That’s a lot of “ifs” for a country-cluby, old-boys-club organization like the USGA to overcome.
I know what you’re thinking. If millions of voters in the right combination of states condoned or overlooked what Trump did, why shouldn’t the USGA?
Because the USGA is not governed by the Electoral College. It is governed by people working in a particular sliver of our society, people who are specialists about the demographics and future of their sport, people who were chosen to make decisions in the best interest of their game.
The USGA has made a visible effort over the past few years to try to start digging out from decades of discrimination against women and girls. With millions of 20-something and 30-something female athletes out there looking for sports to take up in adulthood, golf is not thriving. It is flailing.
Its biggest problem in attracting new golfers from an increasingly diverse America? The perception that golf is a sport for rich, white men.
And now the USGA is unable to act, paralyzed by a rich, white man who has ridiculed almost everyone but his cronies and peers, almost all of whom are rich, white men.
Stereotype confirmed.
What should the USGA do? It should immediately renounce Trump and his golf course and find a replacement location, something that is eminently doable for a tournament of its size with eight months to go. Late Tuesday evening, ESPN reported that at least three NBA teams have decided not to stay at Trump-branded hotels when on the road this season. That’s not the same as moving an entire golf tournament, obviously, but there’s a theme developing here.
We know Trump wouldn’t be happy. There would be tweets.
But if the USGA had the guts to stand up to Trump and take the Women’s Open away from him and his golf course, it would be delivering the most significant message of inclusion to women and girls in the history of the game of golf. It would be that big of a deal, eclipsing the moment more than four years ago when Augusta National, home of the Masters, announced its first two female members.
So this is your choice, USGA. You can stand up for women and minorities and immigrants, here and around the world. Or you can bring the best female golfers in the world to a golf course owned by the best-known admitted sexual predator in the world.
Your call.
DRNK Nice header in this pr. It certainly caught my eye! ( :
DRNK Enters Final Negotiations of Two Acquisitions - Retires 54 Billion of Common Shares
Nov 14, 2016
OTC Disclosure & News Service
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 14, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On November 1, 2016, NOHO, Inc. (OTCQB:DRNK), a Wyoming corporation (the “Company”) announced the following:
The Company has negotiated letters of intent to acquire the assets two companies:
- Essential Marketing Systems, LLC, of Scottsdale, Arizona
- ChoiceAdz.com, Inc., operating as BizConnect360.com, of Yorba Linda, California.
ChoiceAdz.com has already done $350,000 in revenue in 2016 and is operating profitably. Its projected revenue for 2017 is well beyond $1,800,000.
These companies presently operate in the advertising technology space and the acquisitions will expand the Company’s product lines to offer customers a bundled suite of advertising and business services from a streamlined and direct platform.
These acquisitions are anticipated to be completed by December 15, 2016. These acquisitions will be achieved by using the newly issued preferred shares and there will be no dilution to the existing common shareholders.
The 54 billion shares of common stock exchanged by NOHO in the share exchange agreement with Media360 Licensing, Inc. on September 9, 2016, shall be retired and reissued as preferred shares on a ratio basis consistent with the share exchange agreement. In order for the Company to convert the newly issued preferred shares, a filing will be required.
Expansion of Cannabis Advertising Platform
Based on the results of the proven concept in Colorado, the Company is expanding its Cannabis advertising platform to all states where recreational Cannabis is permitted under state law.
NOHO, Inc., CEO David Mersky stated: "These are exciting times for the company. Our strategy for growth will see us continue making revenue producing acquisitions. In keeping with our plans to expand within the cannabis sector we have started due diligence on several acquisition candidates. We look forward to announcing updates as developments occur."
The Company has authorized its counsel to effectuate a name change from NOHO, Inc. to IMBUTEK Corporation, seeking to trade under the new proposed symbol of “IMTK”, or if not available then “IUTK’ or “IBTK.” This change is intended to more accurately reflect the nature of the Company’s core advertising technology business. Until that process is completed, the stock will continue to trade under its current symbol: DRNK.
Further, pursuant to the Spin-Off Agreement with Purple Investment Group, Inc. dated September 9, 2016, the 2,609,527,445 shares belonging to Dolce B Investments have been transferred to NOHO as collateral and a guarantee of Purple Investment Group, Inc.’s assumption of liabilities of NOHO, until such time as those liabilities are satisfied and no longer pose a contingent risk to NOHO.
About NOHO, Inc.
NOHO Gold Premium and Functional Lifestyle beverage is setting the standard for beverages that not only taste great, but also serves a functional purpose. The 8.4 oz can has a light, refreshing flavor and can be used as a healthy alternative to high sugar sodas and juices. With only 6 grams of sugar and 30 calories, it proves that healthy can taste good.
For additional information on NOHO please visit www.nohodrink.com.
Don't Drink the Kool-Aid!
About Kool-Aid:
Kool-Aid is the 'drink' by which investors lose their money, much like the drink that Jim Jones 'followers' lost their lives. It is prevalent with stocks having great 'stories' but lacking in strong fundamentals. Investors that get 'drunk' on the 'words of the CEO' are the most common of all Kool-aid drinkers. Often though, naive investors will become 'drunk' by other followers of same issue. As the old saying goes, misery loves company, and where 'faith' has caused a group of investors to hold their stock longer than sensibility would dictate (and usually holding a loss), they become known as kool-aid drinkers.
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Greed kills, and pigs get slaughtered.
"There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized."
-- James Randi
The Game
You will see anytime you attempt to question the fundamentals of a stock you will be labeled a basher. Pump crews do not need anyone planting seeds of doubt in the minds of the "low hanging fruit". This is how they make a living. They will get very nasty when you even suggest a particular stock might not be 10 bagger. The key is to get into the run quickly and get out before the pumpers can take your money. Shave their profit by being the first to sell into the run. NEVER hold an OTC or .pk stock EVER! Play the Mo, if you get your buy in soon enough, you will make profit. If you missed it DO NOT, and I repeat DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIES ON THE BOARD. It is NOT just consolidation, it is NOT flippers, it is NOT the MM's holding it down for a bigger run, etc... It is the vermin taking advantage of novice investors by telling you they are averaging down. They are not. They are liquidating their position and if you are buying to average down you are buying the very same shares they claim to be holding. DO NOT believe the biggest lie of all "This is the real deal" because it's not. The overwhelming vast majority of penny stocks are plays. THAT'S IT! Do not be suckered into being a bag holder. ALWAYS take profits.
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They love to throw THIS around but I ask you, why are there no compensated bashing sites???
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No they were not.
IBM's stock debuted on Jan 2, 1962. Its price was $578.50
Microsoft's stock debuted on March 13, 1986. Its price was $21
Google's stock debuted on August 18, 2004. Its price was $85
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