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Dear Mr. Nussbaum:
As I have stated in a previous missive, Arthur Levitt should not be nominated as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Arthur Levitt was totally incompetent as Chairman of the American Stock Exchange. It was during the tenure of Arthur Levitt that the Mafia exerted its influence on the floor of the American Stock Exchange. Al Avasso, a convicted felon, was a member of the AMEX under the tenure of Arthur Levitt.
Avasso set up a trading account using his wife's name to back individual traders. Avasso, himself, traded this account. Peter Orloff would execute orders for Avasso and place them in this account.
A list of the brokers who maintained financial ties to Al Avasso, a Mafia associate, during the tenure of Arthur Levitt: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Peter Berkman Sam Gottfried Robert VanCaneghan
The list expanded during the tenure of James Jones: Louis Miceli Harry Pierson George Wellington
There are others.
Perhaps the FBI should interview me.
http://www.wallstreetscandals.com/PARTI/criminal_activity/whitehouse.html
AFFIDAVIT OF XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I volunteered to give this affidavit, and have been promised no money or other gratuity in exchange for my testimony.
I have known Edward Manfredonia for approximately eight years.
On many occasions, beginning in October 1993, Edward Manfredonia requested that I observe him as he stood near the rear entrance of the American Stock Exchange, which is situated at 123 Greenwich Street, and as he stood near the front entrance of the American Stock Exchange, which is situated at 86 Trinity Place.
It was while standing outside the rear entrance of the American Stock Exchange, which is situated at 123 Greenwich Street, close to Papoo's, on 19 November 1993, that I observed two short individuals (Alan Umbria and Richard Weppler) run up to Edward Manfredonia, stop suddenly and then run into the American Stock Exchange. These two individuals were encouraged by the shouts of two other individuals (Louis Miceli and Peter Orloff) who would encourage them with shouts of "Don't hit him!" and "Don't get him!"
It was while standing outside the rear entrance of the American Stock Exchange, on 22 November 1993, that I observed one large individual (Even Lovett) and one shorter, balding individual (George Roeser)
scream at Edward Manfredonia "Eddie Manfredonia, how the fuck are you!" This foulmouthed discourse was both unprovoked and unanswered. When I questioned Edward Manfredonia as to why these individuals had yelled at him, Edward Manfredonia replied that he had reported criminal activity at the American Stock Exchange to both the Securities and Exchange Commission and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Edward Manfredonia further informed me that he had been instructed by FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski that he should not respond to threats and foul language directed at him.
On 3 December 1993, while Edward Manfredonia was standing outside the rear entrance of the American Stock Exchange on Greenwich Street, engaged in a discussion with an African-American man, a short individual (Alan Umbria) ran out of the rear entrance of the American Stock Exchange and ran up to Edward Manfredonia and screamed: "I'm gonna have your name put on a death list!" Edward Manfredonia did not reply. According to Edward Manfredonia, this individual, Alan Umbria, had boasted that he was a front for the Mafia on Wall Street and in a restaurant, The Court of the Three Sisters.
On 17 December 1993, I was present when a condom filled with water was hurled at Edward Manfredonia from the American Stock Exchange.
I was present, when in early April 1994, an empty liquor bottle was hurled at Edward Manfredonia from Two Rector Street. The bottle missed Edward Manfredonia by perhaps six feet and exploded upon impact.
On many occasions afterwards in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996, while I was walking along Greenwich Street, either behind, or to the side of Edward Manfredonia, a short individual (Alan Umbria) would shout, "Fuck you," at Edward Manfredonia.
On many occasions afterwards in 1993, 1994 1995, and 1996, while I was walking either behind or to the side of Edward Manfredonia, as we strolled along Greenwich Street, a short balding individual (George Roeser) would pass and greet Edward Manfredonia with, "Fuck you!"
On several occasions in 1993 and 1994, Edward Manfredonia would invite me to his apartment in Queens where he would telephone FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski and receive telephone calls from FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski.
I listened to these telephone calls when FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski would ask Edward Manfredonia for information concerning money laundering and the registration of stock in offshore havens.
I was present when Edward Manfredonia informed FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski that individuals (specifically, Heinz Grein) connected to Frost and Sullivan had laundered money for Al Avasso in Luxembourg.
I was present when Edward Manfredonia informed FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski that Heinz Grein, while employed by a German bank, had stated that he had moved money for Ferdinand Marcos into Switzerland.
FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski frequently asked Edward Manfredonia for information concerning Al Avasso and certain of his associates.
On one occasion, circa September 1993, FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski asked Edward Manfredonia to obtain the telephone numbers of Louis Miceli and Robert Van Caneghan at the American Stock Exchange. Edward Manfredonia informed me that he did not desire to do this because he did not wish to have their telephone numbers in his possession. Edward Manfredonia did obtain these telephone numbers for FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski.
On another occasion circa October 1993, FBI Agent Joseph Yastremski asked Edward Manfredonia if he could obtain photographs of individuals (Louis Miceli and Robert Van Caneghan). Edward Manfredonia did not comply with this request.
http://www.wallstreetscandals.com/PARTI/affidavit.html
The Honorable Sidney Stein
United States District Court
500 Pearl Street
New York, N Y 10007
Re: Edward Manfredonia,
Plaintiff Against
Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange
Civil Action No.
02 CV 6261
Dear Judge Stein:
I apologize for troubling you with this extraordinary request, but I have been apprised of horrifying news.
First, I shall state the request. Second, I shall enumerate the reasons, both major and minor, for this request. Third, I shall request that appropriate action shall be taken. Fourth, I shall address certain matters.
Once again I apologize for this intrusion, but my lawsuit is a very unusual lawsuit and the consequences shall be far reaching.
I must request that Judge Peck either be removed from my case or that he recuse himself from this case. There exist two reasons for this request and I believe that one has definitely led to the more egregious offense.
The first reason for my requesting the removal of Judge Peck is that Judge Peck is biased against my attorney, Michael Bressler and me. In chambers Judge Peck vociferously attacked my attorney and requested that the case be dropped. Judge Peck threatened my attorney with sanctions and the loss of his license to practice law. Judge Peck threatened my attorney and me with payment of the legal fees of the Board of the American Stock Exchange, should we the case not be proved- and this must be remembered for the second reason. Judge Peck repeatedly stressed that the case would be impossible to prove insofar as to the involvement of Mayors Dinkins, Giuliani, and Bloomberg.
There also appears to be either a misunderstanding by Judge Peck or a misrepresentation by Ms. Dontzin, counsel for the defendant Board of the AMEX. I never stated that the various mayors Dinkins, Giuliani, and Bloomberg either operated in concert or contacted the American Stock Exchange. I have always assiduously maintained that the American Stock Exchange contacted the various mayors and probably lied to them when requesting the assistance of the Mayor. Of this fact I have been informed by various governors of the American Stock Exchange.
Furthermore, the various governors of the American Stock Exchange have always loudly proclaimed, regarding Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan District Attorney: Morgenthau did the AMEX a favor. We didn't have to pay him.
The above comment regarding Morgenthau was made in reference to my illegal harassment by Assistant District Attorney Tom Wornom, who famously telephoned the AMEX and stated:
1. Manfredonia never spoke to VanCaneghan's victims
2. No penetration had occurred
Thus, Robert Morgenthau, the self-proclaimed paradigm of justice, willfully protected Robert VanCaneghan, a confessed serial rapist- as a favor to the American Stock Exchange. The individual, with whom Wornom so willfully acted in concert, Joel Lovett, Vice Chairman of the AMEX, permitted the Russian Mob to take over harbor Securities. And the various governors of the AMEX stated that Morgenthau refused to investigate the bankruptcy of Harbor Securities and the takeover of Harbor Securities by the Russian Mob as a favor to the AMEX.
When I stated that I desired the records of the private investigators hired by the AMEX, Judge Peck stated, "They would be lost." This despite the fact that the American Stock Exchange is aware of all my movements: The twice monthly Saturday night dances in a Manhattan Church; my favorite restaurant for breakfast in Chinatown; the movie theater which I sometimes frequent; the Buddhist temple which I attend for my friends' religious festivals and memorials; etc. The Board of the AMEX has had me photographed and extensively followed. Detailed records such as these cannot be lost. The private investigative firm has records and these can be obtained through billing records, etc.
The second reason is much more serious and is particularly egregious. On 28 April 2003, I returned to the vicinity of the American Stock Exchange after my meeting with Judge Peck. While there, I stated to numerous individuals that Mary Dontzin, attorney for the American Stock Exchange, and the Board of the American Stock Exchange had refused to negotiate. Several individuals informed me of a most egregious situation.
Anthony Boglioli, Vice Chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and Joseph Palmeri, Governor of the American Stock Exchange, stated that the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange, had refused a deal because: "No one will support Manfredonia and tell the truth." If true this is prima facie evidence of a conspiracy by the Board of the American Stock Exchange to commit perjury in federal court. This also suggests that Mary Dontzin, attorney for the defendant Board of the American Stock Exchange, may be aware of this conspiracy to commit perjury. If true, this would explain Mary Dontzin's unrelenting demand for sanctions against my attorney.
Judge Peck has shown himself to plaintiff and plaintiff's attorney to be so biased against plaintiff's lawsuit that if defendant Board is aware of the position of Judge Peck, defendant Board has been strengthened in its resolve to commit perjury.
I therefore request that Judge Peck either be removed or recuse himself from this case.
Due to the serious nature of this perjury, I am requesting that the plaintiff, Edward Manfredonia; plaintiff's attorney, Michael Bressler; defendant Board of the American Stock Exchange (most notably including the floor governors, especially Joseph Palmeri; Vice Chairman, Anthony Boglioli; and Chairman Sal Sodano); defendant Board's attorney, Mary Dontzin; and Corporation Counsel of the City of New York be compelled to appear before your Honor, Judge Stein. I request that United States Attorney James Comey be present if that is possible.
I request that your Honor, Judge Stein, explain the penalties for perjury and that if any perjury is committed that individual shall be punished severely.
There is a simple test to determine if the defendant Board is willing to commit perjury. It merely requires that two questions be asked of Sal Sodano, Joseph Palmeri, and Anthony Boglioli.
The first question is: Were you notified that Robert VanCaneghan had sexually assaulted his female employees?
The second question is: Were you informed by attorneys for the American Stock Exchange that the American Stock Exchange would be responsible for all your civil and criminal penalties which you may incur for and would reimburse you for your legal fees for covering up the sexual assaults of Robert VanCaneghan?
The answer to both these questions is: Yes. If Sodano, Boglioli, and Palmeri answer in the negative it is prima facie evidence of conspiracy to commit perjury.
And to further demonstrate the degenerate moral nature of the governors of the American Stock Exchange, I wish to state most emphatically that after Robert VanCaneghan had admitted to members of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange, including current members, Joseph Palmeri and Anthony Boglioli, Vice Chairman of the AMEX, that he (VanCaneghan) had sexually assaulted/raped his female employees, the AMEX Board of Governors permitted VanCaneghan to remain as a member of the Board of Governors until the expiration of his term as a governor.
Furthermore, the Board of Governors permitted VanCaneghan to retain an interest in LETCO Specialists after VanCaneghan left the AMEX even though the Board of the American Stock Exchange knew that VanCaneghan had admitted to the Board that he (VanCaneghan) was a serial rapist. And that the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange permitted Robert VanCaneghan to maintain this interest in LETCO even after the governors were apprised that Robert VanCaneghan and Louis Miceli had been involved in the laundering of drug money through their brokerage accounts.
Joseph Palmeri, a current governor of the AMEX, proudly boasted that he would protect VanCaneghan because he (Palmeri) had an interest to protect. Palmeri even taunted me with this boast.
I wish to state that when the Officers of Internal Affairs, visited me on 10 October 2000, these officers were not disturbed by the cover up of financial crimes at the AMEX involving in excess of one billion dollars. Only when I mentioned that the AMEX was covering up a series of rapes was I assured that action would be undertaken to correct this illegal harassment.
Inspector O'Hare and his subordinates at the Wall Street Substation were removed for covering up the rapes perpetrated by Robert VanCaneghan.
In this respect FBI Agents Joseph Yastremski and Michael Degnan, who stated to me that they were investigating the involvement of AMEX governors in stock fraud, money laundering, and narcotics smuggling at the American Stock Exchange, were no better than Palmeri and his fellow AMEX governors. Yastremski and Degnan refused to investigate Robert VanCaneghan for violating the civil rights of the women whom VanCaneghan had raped.
VanCaneghan told his victims that the AMEX would back him and utilize its influence with the New York City Police Department and the Manhattan District Attorney to ensure that no action would be undertaken. This is a policy that has continued to the present- especially with the New York City Police Department following, harassing and initimdating me.
In conclusion I wish to state that Joseph Palmeri and Anthony Boglioli willfully lied to protect a confessed serial rapist and to have the police illegally harass me and they have once again affirmed that they shall lie again to cover up criminal activity at the American Stock Exchange.
Sincerely,
Edward Manfredonia
Cc: Mary Dontzin
Corporation Counsel of the City of New York
http://www.wallstreetscandals.com/LAWSUIT/lawsuit.stein.html
The Gadfly of Trinity Place
Edward Manfredonia has been crying in the Amex wilderness
His friends had warned him to stay away. But on Feb. 9, 1999, Edward R. Manfredonia decided to take a chance. For the first time in eight years, he walked through the front door of 86 Trinity Place, headquarters of the American Stock Exchange Inc., and asked to use the library on the fifth floor.
The Amex library is open to the public. Anybody who walks in off the street can just drop by and use it without even calling ahead. The visitor standing directly behind Manfredonia had no trouble getting a visitor's pass to use the library. But not Manfredonia. After waiting 20 minutes, the answer came down from an Amex manager: No. Manfredonia could use the library only if he were accompanied by a security guard, who would watch him while he was there. No one was available to keep an eye on him, so he had to leave. ''They let all kinds into this building,'' said one of the guards. ''I don't see why you should be the exception.''
But the real reason was made plain in the lobby of the Amex building. While Manfredonia was kept waiting, a trader on the floor of the exchange came by and said hello. Then another. And then others. Some were merely acquaintances. But others were contacts who had provided Manfredonia, at considerable risk to themselves, sensitive information about the inner workings of the exchange.
VOCAL THORN. That is what makes the diminutive, 51-year-old Manfredonia persona non grata at the American Stock Exchange. For the past eight years he has become a familiar figure in the vicinity of the Amex building. Talking to people. And then going home and writing letters. This former Amex trader works full-time with one aim in mind--to ferret out wrongdoing on the American Stock Exchange and pass it on to anyone who will listen.
Amex Chairman Richard F. Syron says that Manfredonia has made ''wild'' accusations and that the volume and extreme tone of his letters have hurt his credibility. And other Amex officials had little to say about Manfredonia on the record, though privately they sought to discredit him. But some Amex members privately take a far different view. ''Over the past couple of months, we've talked about a whole bunch of subjects, and I've taken a liking to the guy,'' says one former high Amex official. ''I think he's trying to do what he thinks is right and deal with things he thinks were unfair.''
Manfredonia first came to the Amex floor as a clerk in the early 1980s and then worked his way up to trader in 1984. Occasionally he would quietly go to the media with tips. In 1988 it came to his attention that certain brokerages were involved in ''index front-running''--trying to make a killing in index options by manipulating the price of the underlying index. Manfredonia learned his first lesson as a whistle-blower--some people just don't want to listen. One prominent financial journalist ''wanted trading records, which was just impossible. When I couldn't get them, he lost interest,'' he recalls.
Manfredonia became a permanent, vocal thorn in the side of the exchange after disturbing information came his way in 1989 and 1990. He learned that employees of a specialist firm, run by a highly placed figure at the exchange, had allegedly been sexually assaulted by the official. The women would not come forward--but Manfredonia did, in complaints to the authorities that, evidently, did not endear him to exchange officials. A year later he was fired from the now-defunct trading firm that employed him at the time--at the behest of the Amex, he insists, for ''spreading rumors.''
Manfredonia says he was blackballed--barred from employment with any firm doing business on the exchange. He has been unemployed since leaving the Amex floor, subsisting on savings and help from friends--and spending a good part of his time fighting the Amex, and losing. Manfredonia has written hundreds of letters to regulators, law enforcement, and the media, leaving him with little more than piles of green certified-mail receipts. ''We are well aware of the information you've given us, and we are in fact looking into it,'' one prominent newspaper executive assured Manfredonia back in 1993 after getting a series of letters about alleged transgressions at the Amex. ''We know how to reach you,'' the exec continued, ''and there's no need to keep sending letters.'' Manfredonia stopped sending letters--and the newspaper, he notes ruefully, did nothing.
Among the subjects of his letters was former Spear, Leeds & Kellogg Managing Director Pasquale ''Pat'' Schettino (page 102). Manfredonia wrote letters to, among others, officials of companies whose stocks were allegedly traded by Schettino. That led to a libel suit by Schettino. Manfredonia, who is struggling to fight the case without an attorney, says the suit was an effort to silence him and force him to reveal his contacts. He maintains the suit was inspired by the Amex, which the exchange's head of member-firm regulation, Stephen Lister, vigorously denies. Schettino's attorney, Eric Levine, declined comment on the suit.
Manfredonia's letter-writing campaign has hardly been an example of effective business communication. His letters are often filled with trading-floor jargon and accusations in screaming-headline boldface. ''We got letters. I think we looked into it or referred to it to someone else. I didn't give it much merit or credibility. I never really looked into his allegations,'' says one former regulator who has received letters from Manfredonia. ''That's the problem with whistle-blowers. They may have a very meritorious claim, but they don't convey it well.''
Manfredonia has become a figure of fun, sometimes openly taunted by Amex traders and clerks. But one thing is certain. Regulators and law enforcement cannot claim that they could not have known what's been going on at the American Stock Exchange. Ed Manfredonia has been telling them for years.
http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_17/b3626009.htm
My name is Edward Manfredonia, and I am a former member of the American Stock Exchange. I wish to inform you of criminal activity at the American Stock Exchange. Read the information on this web site and you shall learn how a stock exchange truly operates.
My allegations were featured in a Business Week cover story; the April 26, 1999, which you can read here. [An archived version can be found here.]
The entirety of the story is much bigger than Enron, Arthur Andersen, World Com, Xerox, and even previous scandals such as Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. The reason: The federal government actively covered up these crimes and assisted in the perpetration of these crimes. My primary motivation is that the federal government and the Manhattan District Attorney have protected Robert VanCaneghan, a millionaire and former governor of the American Stock Exchange, who has admitted that he is a serial rapist. Robert VanCaneghan raped his female employees and Mary Jo White and Robert Morgenthau have protected a confessed serial rapist.
Would you want your daughters and wives to work in a city where white serial rapists are protected even after they have admitted to raping women.
This website is divided into two parts.
PART I
You must read my missives to Janet Reno and to Federal Judge Casey as an introduction. Part I exposes major criminal activity at the American Stock Exchange which was covered up by the federal government (Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, etc.); the State of New York (Manhattan District Attorney, Attorney General of the State of New York, and New York City (New York Police Department) because Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and afterwards, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, did not wish crimes such as rape, sexual enslavement, money laundering, narcotics smuggling, etc.- all of which occurred at the American Stock Exchange during Levitt's tenure as Chairman of the AMEX, and which continued after his resignation, to become known.
These crimes were covered up because Arthur Levitt wished these crimes, especially rape, to be covered up. To this end, his friends, Howard Safir, Police Commissioner; Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan District Attorney; Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of the State of New York; Peter Kann, Chairman of Dow Jones; and Arthur Sulzberger, Chairman of The New York Times, were willing to permit Caucasian women to be raped by Robert VanCaneghan, a millionaire and governor of the American Stock Exchange, and were willing to have African-American and Latino women submit to sexual enslavement by Richard Mondarine, a manager of the American Stock Exchange. All this to protect Arthur Levitt and the American Stock Exchange.
Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and a member of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange, also led in this cover up. Volcker induced Richard Syron, one of his disciples and an individual with a history of mental illness, to become Chairman of the American Stock Exchange.
PART II
Part II details criminal activity at the American Stock Exchange. The American Stock Exchange covered up criminal activity involving its stocks and options. Stocks such as Hanover Direct, IVAX, Forest Drugs, etc. the principal officers of which were governors of the American Stock Exchange were illegally traded. Other stocks, such as PSI, OnSite Energy, Bowmar, Hanover Direct, etc. were not only illegally traded but were manipulated. I mailed missives to the public governors of the AMEX, especially some of those chief executive officers whose stocks were illegally traded and informed them of stock manipulation and illegal trading. These public officers did nothing, but covered up the illegal trading of the stocks of their companies.
This covering up of illegal trading, with the blessing of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, has occurred to the present with Jonathan Frey, a specialist, illegally selling the stock of Devon Energy short on a minus tick and illegally trading other stocks in which he (Frey) is the specialist.
I wish it to be known that Pat Schettino initiated his lawsuit against me with the knowledge and approval of Joel Lovett, Vice Chairman of the AMEX; Richard Syron, Chairman of the AMEX; and Steven Lister, Senior Vice President of Compliance, (who according to the FBI accepted bribes to forego disciplinary action against white collar criminals and the Italian Mafia). The American Stock Exchange wished Schettino's crimes to be covered up.
http://www.wallstreetscandals.com/NEW.011204/PriceWaterhouse-Goldman-2.html
File No. S7-24-99 Comments
To Whom It May Concern:
I am a retired member of the Wall Street Community after spending years in the
Operation & Compliance (as both a senior member and director of both
departments) sides of NASD member firms. This included the oversight of the
trading activities of numerous branches, registered representatives, and the
actual Trading Departments of the last two firms I worked for. As part of these
activities I have spent numerous hours reviewing trading operations and
compliance as well as immeasurable amounts of contact with both NASD and SEC
regulatory officials.
I am writing this to you regarding the above referenced matter as I feel
compelled to offer my comments on the subject at hand.
It is my persona belief that it is of the utmost importance to maintain, and
strive for, the concept of "fair markets". To that extent I believe that it is
absolutely necessary that you level the playing field for the investing public
with regard to the trading strategy of short selling.
It is time to create, and enforce, a single set of short-selling rules which
will apply to specialists, market makers, broker/dealers, and the investing
public. As such, I urge you to remove what I believe to be the inequitable and
discriminatory regulations that restrict the public investor's ability to
short-sell stocks, while providing preferential treatment only
for the market makers and broker/dealers.
While I understand that most novice investors do not understand, or appreciate,
the critical check-and-balance afforded by the action of short selling in the
exercise of free markets. Since the industry itself makes no effort whatsoever
to educate the public with regard to short selling (this is one of the more
sophisticated investing strategies that they fail on, much less the proper use
of margin and/or the trading of options), the public is left to draw the
erroneous conclusion that it is short sellers who should be blamed when a stock
goes down in price.
Regrettably, this lack of understanding applies most directly to the new
generation of "do-it-yourself" investors spawned by the proliferation of access
to information and gossip enabled by the internet. Many treat the internet as a
tool to generate "momentum" for stocks as though it is a football game. Rapid
runups are easily fabricated for reasons having nothing whatever to do with the
value of the underlying security. Furthermore, as I know the SEC actively is
monitoring "chat rooms" on various internet investing websites this should be
quite apparent to regulatory officials. It is extremely disheartening when you
see this in those rooms dedicated to the trading (loosely defined in some
occasions) of stocks that trade on the NASDAQ Small Cap and/or OTCBB markets.
In these cases the promoters, and/or the issuers paid posters who hype the
stock, use the specter of short sellers to soothe the long stock holders who are
being materially damaged when the insiders in these stocks liquidate their
shares into the buying of the unsuspecting public. For example, most OTCBB
investors on these sites are completely unaware that, in the US, you cannot
short sell an OTCBB stock, yet this blaming of the short sellers routinely
occurs. A better educated public would not be so susceptible to this tactic.
However, on the flip side, market makers and broker/dealers have rigged the game
so they can play by a different set of rules than the general public and, to
date, this ha been protected by the regulatory bodies. These market makers and
broker/dealers have done this for no other reason than to line their own
pockets, under the sham of maintaining "fairness" in the market. Every day,
market pros short sell IPO's, short sell on downticks, and short sell without
regard to the availability of certificates, all things done at the expense of
individual investors, who do not have the right to do the same. They do it
quietly, without regulation, and without a requirement for disclosure; often in
direct contradiction to the public "recommendations" of analysts
from the very same firms which I believe is another area that the regulatory
bodies should be aware of (for example look at the recent action in AMZN where
outlandish price targets were placed on the stock creating a price run right
before the stock pre-announced a financial warning). The public will be best
served by administering the markets so that every investor wishing to place
their own money in an "at-risk" trade be allowed to do so under the same rules.
Therefore, I urge you to eliminate current restrictions on short selling, and
allow the public to sell short by the same rules as market makers.
I thank you for your time and consideration and would be more than happy to
discuss this with anyone on your staff.
Sincerely,
J. Bernard LoVerde, Jr.
http://www.sec.gov/rules/concept/s72499/loverde1.txt
Company hunting Internet users
Published in the Courier News on March 14, 2004
A Superior Court judge has ruled that a Flemington company can subpoena two Internet service providers to obtain the names of individuals who allegedly posted defamatory remarks about the company on stock message boards.
Judge Rosemarie Ruggiero Williams ruled that Digital Broadband Networks Inc., now called Secured Digital Applications, has 60 days to subpoena Yahoo and Lycos to find out the names of at least seven individuals who anonymously posted messages about the company. The ruling is part of the pretrial discovery phase of a complaint Digital Broadband filed against the individuals.
According to the complaint, filed in Superior Court in Flemington on Dec. 24, the disparaging remarks were posted on the electronic bulletin board dedicated to Digital Broadband on Ragingbull and on general messages boards on Yahoo. The individuals posted the messages under the names Dbbdisfunny, Dalilama, Stock_pick, Smother_1999, Wnsfer, Mrwrightaide and Pseeker.
The complaint alleges these individuals posted "false and often defamatory information on the Internet in order to wrongfully manipulate the price of the common stock of Digital Broadband Networks."
Digital Broadband Networks is a publicly traded company that has its principal offices in Malaysia and its main U.S. office in Flemington. It develops and sells broadband network operations, devices that utilize broadband network operation and biometric security devices.
"Secured Digital Applications, and previously Digital Broadband Networks, is very aware of and respectful of people's right to discuss their business; however, the management has decided that it had to attempt to stop and hold people liable for making outright accusations of fraud and illegal conduct," Jay McDaniel, attorney for Digital Broadband, said.
According to the complaint, the company's stock had risen sharply in 2003. In early December, Dalilama started posting messages touting Digital Broadband but within days,Dalilama and the other individuals started circulating false rumors about the company and its management.
Digital Broadband claims these postings were made to manipulate the price of the company's stock.
McDaniel said the management of Digital Broadband has profound concerns about the effect these posting had on the price of the company's stock and the long-term consequences for the company's shareholders.
McDaniel said the postings have slowed down in recent weeks and the majority of the activity disappeared about three weeks ago.
Do fish rot from the head down?
Description of scandal.
(1) In 1989, Harken Energy sold off an 80% stake in Aloha Petroleum (a small chain of gas stations in Hawaii that Harken had acquired with its 1986 purchase of E-Z Serve Inc.) to Intercontinental Mining and Resources Ltd, which was owned by a group of investors who included Harken�s chairman, Alan Quasha and another Harken board member. In a deal of obvious advantage to the buyer, Harken financed $11 million of the $12 million purchase. The buyer wasn�t required to make the first $1 million installment on the loan until mid-1992, three years after the purchase. Harken�s accountants however, recorded an immediate $7.9 million profit on the sale. This was in spite of the fact that according to the terms of the sale, Harken Energy remained liable for any environmental problems stemming from the operation of Aloha under Harken�s past management. The $7.9 million profit, inappropriately entered into the books by Harkens accountants, reduced the companies 1989 loss to only $3.3 million. Harken's hired independent auditors, the now infamous Arthur Andersen LLP, approved the company's annual report to the SEC as an accurate portrayal of Harken's finances. (Vieth 7-12-2002; Allen and Lardner 7-14-2002; Krugman 7-2-2002; Milbank 7-4-2002; Scheer 7-9-2002)
(a) Interesting aside on Alan Quasha, the former chairman of Harken Energy. He was the son of attorney William Quasha, who defended figures in the Nugan Hand Bank scandal in Australia. Closed in 1980, Nugan Hand was not only tied to drug-money laundering and U.S. intelligence and military circles, but also to the CIA's covert backing for a �constitutional coup in Australia that caused the fall of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. (Colhoun 1992)
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/eliteprofile/bush/bushandharken.html
"I absolutely had no idea and would not have sold had I known" - - George W. Bush
Truth or Dare Georgie?
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/eliteprofile/bush/bushandharken.html
I think GW should send over some of his boys to have a nice little chat with me and offer me about $2 billion to keep my mouth and mouse shut...I'd accept it and go retire and never post another bit of evidence ever again... promise...
BTW...this is about market scams...
in a short interview with George Soros who at the time was a part owner of Harken. Corn asked, "can I ask you about some ancient history? . . What was the deal with Harken buying up Spectrum 7? Soros answered, I didn't know him. He was supposed to bring in the Gulf connection. But it didn't come to anything. We were buying political influence. That was it. He was not much of a businessman. (see also Kranish 7-19-2002)
George Soros.
(1) Biographical information.
(a) Billionaire.
(b) Founder of the Quantum investment fund family, mega-speculator in financial markets.
(c) His huge speculative currency trades were blamed for the fall of the Bank of England, and the crash of the Malaysian currency.
(d) He is considered a philanthropist.
(2) Equity stake in Harken.
(a) He acquired equity in Harken after his own company, Soros oil, was purchased by the company in 1985. As a result he was a major shareholder, owning about one third of the company. In spite of his large stake in Harken, Soros left management of Harken to others. He sold his shares back to Harken in 1989. (Kranish 7-18-2002; 7-19-2002)
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/eliteprofile/bush/bushandharken.html
So it looks like Bush and Soros have crossed paths before. Soros got busted by the French for securities trading on insider information not too long ago.
What a world we live in...
Don't, you will need to vomit yourself if you do, delete it if you want...its sickening...
Understood...will stay on topic..feel free to delete the political crapola... and this post as well...
What will humans think of next?
Victims fed to the pigs
21mar04
CANADIANS horrified by the discovery of an alleged serial killer in their midst have been confronted with even worse news -- they may have eaten animals that ate the victims.
The farmer suspected of killing at least 22 women is feared to have disposed of their bodies by feeding them to his pigs.
The pigs were then slaughtered on his farm, 30km east of Vancouver, and the meat given to hundreds of locals.
Police this week confirmed samples of the pig meat probably contained human DNA, raising the prospect that those living near the farm of suspected killer Robert William Pickton "ate" his victims.
Pickton, 54, apparently had a habit of slaughtering pigs, wrapping up the meat and distributing it to associates and friends.
Many of Pickton's victims were prostitutes. The killer regularly gave pork from his farm to other sex workers.
"Those are my friends that he served up," said one prostitute this week after learning she may eaten meat contaminated with her friends' DNA.
Families of the missing women expressed shock at the news, with one telling a Vancouver radio station: "I'm not eating dinner tonight."
Police have asked anyone with frozen pork products from the farm to turn them into authorities immediately.
Health officials are examining whether human pathogens and diseases such as hepatitis and HIV could have been transferred through the meat products.
Police arrested Pickton in February 2002, but only announced this week they had found human remains and other DNA samples at the farm.
Pickton has been charged with 15 counts of first-degree murder in the disappearances of women over the past 20 years.
Many of the victims vanished from Vancouver's drug-ridden areas. More than 60 prostitutes went missing over the past decade and are feared to have been murdered at the farm.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9024098%255E663,00.htm
It was Isreali intelligence that warned the United States of 911...do you think they have good brainwashing technology over there?
Get ready for World War Four
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
Add a whole bottle of vodka to that last order:
Where did Isreal get the AWACS technology? em
Word History: It is fitting that the name of an authoritarian political movement like Fascism, founded in 1919 by Benito Mussolini, should come from the name of a symbol of authority. The Italian name of the movement, fascismo, is derived from fascio, “bundle, (political) group,” but also refers to the movement's emblem, the fasces, a bundle of rods bound around a projecting axe-head that was carried before an ancient Roman magistrate by an attendant as a symbol of authority and power. The name of Mussolini's group of revolutionaries was soon used for similar nationalistic movements in other countries that sought to gain power through violence and ruthlessness, such as National Socialism.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fascism
Bush doesn't know Hungarians so how could he hate them? He knows lots of black folks and will smile to their faces just like he smiles to the faces of the American public while he stabs them in the back.
Ok, so fascism has a new meaning...the old meaning is:
often Fascist An advocate or adherent of fascism.
A reactionary or dictatorial person.
Fascist Of or relating to the regime of the Fascisti.
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
The Dicktator lied to the American public. Do you have stringent socioeconomic controls?
Fascism is full of hate, I am full of love...go ahead shoot me...I'm just blowing my horn.
Yes, TJ wrote that...I am amazed you didn't know that...
Yes, the entire establishment has to go...and go quickly they will with the boots of the public...
Better load your guns... the nukes are just around the corner...
Here is the quote again linked:
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/thomas_jefferson.htm
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
I answered you, neither Bush nor Kerry, they are both politicians...and besides I don't vote, what for? it doesn't mean anything any way...your vote is not what determines the next president...it is the military industrial financial media complex....and the electoral college which is bought and paid for by their minions.
Did you vote for the IRS?
Did you vote for the SEC?
Did you vote for the Patriot Act?
Did you vote for any war?
Did you vote for anything at all and get what you voted for?
Maybe you voted for Bush last time, but I have never voted in my life, so frankly I can be as impartial as I chose...I don't know much about Kerry...I am more concerned about the inventor of the evil axis and making sure he doesn't screw us over again...
You want evidence of betrayal?
Start here:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2636838
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2634626
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2616008
I don't stoop to nazi neo conservative invitations to hate...I love you brother...hope you see the light before the next fight...
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Ronald Reagan -October 27, 1964
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/ronald_reagan.htm
Do I hear an echo from a man dying of some rare disease?
And Bush is the greatest genius that has ever kissed the asses of the military industrial financial media complex..
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
Ronald Reagan -September 29, 1981
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Ronald Reagan -Address to National Association of Realtors, March 28, 1982
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/ronald_reagan.htm
You must be a Nazi Sympathizer...
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.-Thomas Jefferson
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/thomas_jefferson.htm
No dude, I love you, I love 55% of Americans, and I love this country, greatest place to go hunting ever, and we still have a few trees left, and yeh, so what, Bush is using Hitler philosophy...does it take some ranting Hungarian to point that out to you people? And I don't hate anyone...really...I just don't agree with stupid Americans who plan to vote for more genocidal suicide policies....watch the headlines next week...how many more Americans will die? How many more companies will go bankrupt? How many more will be given bad justice? You can't count them, you don't have the time or the inclination...How are you going to make any bit of difference? What the hell can you do about the fascist regime that is currently in power? Yep, you tried and died...tell that to the innocents...At least you have your guns ready for when they come for you...all I have is a bottle of pills to committ hari kari with...
All conjecture and opinion which you are entitled to, but there is nothing to fear, not even fear itself.
Kerry is the poster boy for the new military industrial financial media complex - do you really believe that your vote counts for anything in this day and age of Orwellian nightmares?
Bush is Bad Business
Kerry is just another arbitrary solution to hoodwink...so what other choice do you have?
Vote for God - He might be able to help you.
You didn't say what an ABB is and frankly you called the first shot with this post so ask yourself this;
Do you feel lucky? Well do ya?
Bush - Love Him or Let Him Live and Let Die
You want my honest opinion, I don't think either Bush or Kerry make good leaders, in fact there is no one in this country that is qualified to lead America for they are all corrupt that run for office and have taken bribes, and have hidden their sex lives, and have buried the truth so deep that not even a rocket scientist could figure it out. I have no claim to the truth.
The Non-Patriot Act is another form of Nazi Fascist Policy..study history for yourself...America is being set up for the big day when you will not longer be free to even post this kind of viewpoint on any public message board otherwise you will be jailed...
As for Bush, betray us once, shame on you, betray us twice, shame on us. Only a fool would allow himself to get bilked again...so stop praying for the greater evil and at least settle for the lesser of the two.
Saddam Insane had to go...but a covert military operation could have excised him at a far lesser cost to the public than the additional $1 trillion my great kids are going to have to cough up in the form of more slavery...employment = slavery...
Remember, crazy Hungarians are from Mars and always stir up debate wherever they go, at least if they were born there. I love America, the land, and the majority that live here, don't get me wrong, it's just when you see stupid people doing stupid things that impact your livlihood, it should piss you off, but still 45% of Americans are asleep at the wheel and letting a Nazi lead them to suicide.
Yes, I am calling Bush and his administration a Nazi group. And there are many Hungarians right now fighting in Iraq and they have fought more wars than any dumbshit Americans can count to. But the Pollacks and the Spics are getting ready to pull out because they know a Nazi when they see one.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first".-Thomas Jefferson
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/thomas_jefferson.htm
Sadly, the second have become the first and democracy has failed...and our constitution has been totally usurped by the military industrial financial media complex.
Call it what it is...Nazi Fascist Racist Politics. Bush will privately admit himself he hates "niggers". After all, he is a Texan and most Texans are extremely racist. I know, I used to live there myself and I married a Texan from Houston.
What is the definition of fascism anyway?
Fascist = George Bush and Family
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.-Thomas Jefferson. That is my response to your snideness jacko.
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/thomas_jefferson.htm
Thanks for straightening me out Phil...
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.-Thomas Jefferson
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/thomas_jefferson.htm
Yes, that is where I got it, but I threw my own two cents in before and after and in the middle, sorry I didn't have time to post the link...here is another one I think you will like:
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.-Thomas Jefferson
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/thomas_jefferson.htm
We should all Love George Bush so much come November that he vanishes into thin air. I just wish we could do that with all politicians so we could all get back to being the greatest country in the world. We are bruised badly by the Bush doctrine.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
The time has come to abolish and replace the current government with a new one without bloodshed but how? Such an action would require good men to do more than just post on bulletin boards and rant and rave about the injustices. It requires some action that decimates the current government.Go fish!
Some valid points, the deadline could be moved again, and regardless, it does not appear that corruption in the financial system will be going away any time soon no matter how much it is regulated, after all, those in power politically got their by serving the predecessors who were corrupt themselves...a la Joseph P. Kennedy.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
The time has come to abolish and replace the current government with a new one without bloodshed but how? Such an action would require good men to do more than just post on bulletin boards and rant and rave about the injustices. It requires some action that decimates the current government
No, just reiterating my predictions for the future, there is nothing you or anyone will be able to do about it, the seeds of destruction have been laid already.
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to "the common good," but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." (Ayn Rand)
"Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals. That it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the Government. That it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." --Ayn Rand
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, and destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear." --Ayn Rand
You forgot one:
I am the biggest liar to the masses since Adolph Hitler.
George W. Bush - Confessions of a Lunatic Leader
"Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless." --Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Thought you could use that one ONEBGG on your site.
Contrary to popular opinion and media aggrandizement, communism is alive and well in America.
Al-Qaida has suitcase nuclear bombs: Pakistani journalist
Sat Mar 20,11:27 PM ET
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on a Central Asian black market, the biographer of al-Qaida's No.2 leader was quoted telling an Australian television station.
In an interview scheduled to be televised Monday, Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir said Ayman al-Zawahri claimed "smart briefcase bombs" are available on the black market.
It was not clear when the interview between Mir and al-Zawahri took place.
U.S. intelligence agencies have long believed al-Qaida attempted to acquire a nuclear device on the black market but said there is no evidence they ever succeeded.
In the interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. television, parts of which were released Sunday, Mir recalled telling al-Zawahri it was difficult to believe al-Qaida had nuclear weapons when the terror network didn't have the equipment to maintain or use them.
"Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri laughed and he said: 'Mr. Mir, if you have $30 million, go to the black market in Central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist and a lot of...smart briefcase bombs are available,"' Mir said in the interview.
"They have contacted us, we sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other Central Asian states and they negotiated and we purchased some suitcase bombs," Mir quoted al-Zawahri saying.
Al-Zawahri's boast would not in itself prove the al-Qaida has actually succeeded in acquiring nuclear weapons.
Al-Qaida has never hidden its interest in acquiring nuclear weapons.
The U.S. government indictment of bin Laden charges as far back as 1992 he "and others known and unknown, made efforts to obtain the components of nuclear weapons."
Bin Laden, in a November 2001 interview with a Pakistani journalist, boasted of having hidden such components "as a deterrent." And in 1998, a Russian nuclear weapons design expert was investigated for allegedly working with bin Laden's Taliban allies.
It was revealed last month Pakistan's top nuclear scientist sold sensitive equipment and nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea (news - web sites), fuelling fears the information could have also fallen into the hands of terrorists.
Mir describe al-Zawahri as "the real brain behind Osama bin Laden."
"He is the real strategist, Osama bin Laden is only a frontman," Mir was quoted saying during the interview.
"I think he is more dangerous than bin Laden."
Al-Zawahri - an Egyptian surgeon - is believed hiding in the rugged region around the Pakistan-Afghan border where U.S. and Pakistani troops are conducting a major operation against Taliban and al-Qaida forces.
He is said to have played a leading role in orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
As predicted in previous posts, Italy, probably Rome, is the next target of the terrorists, and the Pope will be dead within a year!
There are no liberals or right wingers or neoconservatives, these are all merely labels invented by the psycho-politically motivated intellegensia to conquer and divide this nation.
In his devastatingly prophetic book, Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell points out that one reason why it is possible for those in authority to maintain the barbarities of the police state is that nobody is able to recall the many blessings of the period which preceded it. . . The great majority of American people today have known only a world ravaged by war, depressions, international intrigues and meddling, vast debts and crushing taxation, the encroachments of the police state, and the control of public opinion by ruthless and irresponsible propaganda. . . . Military state capitalism is engulfing both democracy and liberty in countries which have not succumbed to Communism despite its early demise before the capitalist agenda. . . . During the years since 1937, the older pacific internationalism has been virtually extinguished, and internationalism has itself been conquered by militarism and aggressive globaloney. (Global Baloney) Militarism was, formerly, closely linked to national arrogance. Today, it stalks behind the semantic disguise of internationalism, which has become a cloak for national aggrandizement and imperialism. . . . The obvious slogan of the internationalists of our day, who dominate the historical profession as well as the political scene, is ‘perpetual war for perpetual peace.’ This, it may be noted, is also the ideological core of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ society. . . . The security measures alleged to be necessary to promote and execute global crusades are rapidly bringing about the police state in hitherto free nations, including our own. Any amount of arbitrary control over political and economic life, the most extensive invasions of civil liberties, the most extreme witch-hunting, and the most lavish expenditures, can all be demanded and justified on the basis of alleged ‘defense’ requirements. . . . This is precisely the psychological attitude and procedural policy which dominate ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ society...this accelerated erosion of freedom can only be witnessed by those who are aware enough of its consequences. Capitalism is facing its biggest crisis and that crisis is its slow death at the hands of mad men. Our society is living out the prophecies of 1984 and only the few among the many can see that.
Hows that Phil, do I get my Pulitzer now?
Quotes On Power
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, Lord Chancellor
Solicitor General, Attorney General, Philosopher, Author
“It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty.”
Joan Baez (1941-)
Folksinger, Songwriter and Antiwar Activist
“If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”
“The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.”
“That’s all nonviolence is--organized love.”
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
English Economist and Journalist
“The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.”
“The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions.”
“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”
“An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too--at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.”
“Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.”
“The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.”
F. Lee Bailey (1933-)
Defense Attorney
“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.”
Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
Russian Revolutionary and Author
“Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.”
“Man is only truly free only among equally free men.”
“The State is the organized authority, domination, and power of the possessing classes over the masses the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest. This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue. Thus, to offend, to oppress, to despoil, to plunder, to assassinate or enslave one’s fellowman is ordinarily regarded as a crime. In public life, on the other hand, from the standpoint of patriotism, when these things are done for the greater glory of the State, for the preservation or the extension of its power, it is all transformed into duty and virtue. This explains why the entire history of ancient and modern states is merely a series of revolting crimes; why kings and ministers, past and present, of all times and all countries--statesmen, diplomats, bureaucrats, and warriors--if judged from the standpoint of simply morality and human justice, have a hundred, a thousand times over earned their sentence to hard labor or to the gallows. There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: ‘for reasons of state.’”
“The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.”
“To do away with this reciprocal influence is tantamount to death. And in demanding the freedom of the masses we do not intend to do away with natural influences to which man is subjected by individuals and groups. All we want is to do away with is factitious. legitimized influences. to do away with the privileges in exerting influence.”
“And in this day and age what is it that constitutes the principle underlying the power of the State? Why, it is science. Yes, science--Science of government, science of administration and financial science; the science of fleecing the flocks of the people without their bleating too loudly and, when they start to bleat, the science of urging silence, patience and obedience upon them by means of a scientifically organised force: the science of deceiving and dividing the masses of the people and keeping them allays in a salutary ignorance lest they ever become able, by helping one another and pooling their efforts, to conjure up a power capable of overturning States.”
“It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.”
“Man does not become man, nor does he achieve awareness or realization of his humanity, other than in society and in the collective movement of the whole society; he only shakes off the yoke of internal nature through collective or social labor. . . and without his material emancipation there can be no intellectual or moral emancipation for anyone. . . man in isolation can have no awareness of his liberty. Being free for man means being acknowledged, considered and treated as such by another man, and by all the men around him. Liberty is therefore a feature not of isolation but of interaction, not of exclusion but rather of connection. . . I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows. . . I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation.”
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.”
“The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.”
“In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.”
Honore de Balzac (1800-1850)
French Novelist
“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Stanley Baldwin (1864-1947)
British Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Member of Parliament
“War would end if the dead could return.”
“Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.”
“The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.”
“[Politicians] rather resemble Alice in Wonderland, who tried to play croquet with a flamingo instead of a mallet.”
http://www.onpower.org/quotes/b.html