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How to set up a hedge fund
1 Chose a name
A posh part of London or New York can be suitable, as in Pershing Square Capital, Cheyne Capital and Thames River Capital.
Or you could choose something slightly aggressive such as Tiger Capital, Citadel Capital or Centaurus. Among the big financial firms, it is voguish to squeeze as many meaningless words as possible into the title of a hedge fund. Length is not a sign of quality, however; a Bear Stearns hedge fund which went from $642m to zero was called the "high-grade structured credit strategies enhanced leverage fund".
2 Get a brass plaque in the Cayman Islands
Nearly all hedge funds are legally registered in tax havens to avoid both the taxman and to skirt regulatory hurdles - the sunny climes of the Caymans and Bermuda are particularly popular. Theoretically, a fund registered in London would have to register with the Financial Services Authority, but this has never actually happened. An FSA spokeswoman says: "Nobody ever registers hedge funds in the UK. If somebody did, we'd be scratching our heads over how to deal with it. We'd have to devise something."
3 Set your fees
The real fun starts here. Hedge funds are enormously lucrative - their standard fee arrangement is "two and 20". This means that as a fund manager, you can take 2% of clients' money up front before you do anything, then keep 20% of any appreciation on the value of your fund. For successful hedgies, that means a phenomenal payday. For example, if a fund raises $1bn from investors and achieves a 30% rise in value over a year, the fund's management earns $78.8m. Crispin Odey - one of London's leading hedge fund managers - has just paid himself £28m after his firm successfully negotiated the credit crunch to make more than £55m profit in the past financial year. Most of the remaining £27m will be shared among Odey Asset Management's 11 other partners. The fund manages around £2.7bn of assets. London's top hedge fund duo - Noam Gottesman and Pierre Lagrange of GLG Partners - each took home $350m in 2007, according to Alpha Magazine, an industry publication. Gottesman recently sold his six-storey townhouse in London's Mayfair to steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal for £117m. When asked the secret of his success, he once replied "paranoia".
4 Raise some money
This is the tricky bit. You will need £50m at the very least to have any kind of credibility. It helps if you have private wealth or rich, trusting friends. In Britain, hedge funds are not allowed to advertise directly to the public so much of the fund-raising is done behind closed doors through contacts, conferences and presentations. Good relations with City and Wall Street banks are essential - in return for brokerage business, firms such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will often arrange introductions for hedge funds to potential investors. It is wise to accept money only from extremely well-off people. The last thing you want is to have clients pestering you every day because their entire savings are tied up in your fund. In the US, only individuals with assets of $1m or an annual income of more than $200,000 are allowed to invest in hedge funds.
5 Rent an office
Mayfair is a good spot. It's handy for a lunchtime plate of yellowtail tuna at Nobu. Rents can be as high as £90 per sq ft, compared with an average of £65 in the Square Mile, which means premises of 2,000ft for a fledgling fund will cost £180,000 per year. Joshua Gilbery, a commercial property consultant, says hedgies want "class A" premises with raised floors, suspended ceilings, a concierge and acres of space. "There might be only four or five chaps in a hedge fund office but they have so much money that it doesn't make much difference. These guys will have big, huge desks and lots of screens." Greenwich, Connecticut, has become a global hedge fund capital - it is home to more than 380 firms. The wealthier hedgies live in sprawling palaces with ice rinks, private cinemas and ballrooms and some commute by speedboat. Mike Tedesco, a local estate agent, can find you something top-class for $150 per sq ft, more than twice the typical Manhattan rent of $60 to $65.
6 Recruit some staff
Fund managers should be easy to find given the number of people recently laid off by Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and other banks suffering fallout from the global credit crunch. One pin-striped banker in New York has even taken to wandering around with a sandwich board declaring "experienced MIT graduate available for hire". Your back office and accounting functions can be contracted out to the many firms specialising in servicing the hedge fund industry. Scott Epstein, US head of HSBC's alternative fund services arm, says his staff can do your book-keeping, maintain your shareholder register, send out monthly statements to investors and do any regulatory paperwork. But you will have to be vetted first. "When we look at clients, we go through a very, very robust process of due diligence," says Epstein. "It's very much establishing a relationship with a counterparty - both parties want to be confident it's going to be comfortable mutually."
7 Choose an approach
Do you want to be a "quant" or a fundamental? The most hi-tech operators on the block are quantitative funds, which use highly complex software to trade at lightning speed. Buying and selling by the second, their programs
pick up trends in prices that are often imperceptible to the naked eye. Their software will process variables such as companies' earnings ratios and price history to determine what to buy - or they might pounce on tiny discrepancies between the price of the same stock on different stockmarkets. The downside is that when the market takes a knock, the quants' machine-driven trading can cause chaos. Last year, one Goldman Sachs fund lost a third of its value in a week - a drop of $1.8bn - as a "herd mentality" prompted scores of quant programs to dump stocks simultaneously. More traditional-style funds with a "fundamental" approach spend time researching the prospects of companies, currencies and commodities. They might take the time to talk to analysts, meet corporate management and attend shareholders' meetings.
8 Adopt a strategy
The classic hedge fund is called a "long/short", which means it takes straightforward positions to bet on different shares going either up or down. In addition to buying shares that you think will rise, you can "short" those you expect to fall. This is done by borrowing shares from a broker and selling them on the open market, in the expectation that you will be able to buy them back for a lower price and return them to the owner, pocketing a tidy profit on the way. During an FSA clampdown this summer on traders, Odey Asset Management was outed as one of several funds shorting shares in the troubled Bradford & Bingley. Other strategies are more sophisticated. A "convertible arbitrage" fund finds and exploits discrepancies in pricing. A "distressed debt" approach involves high-risk dealing in struggling companies, while a "global macro" fund bases its decisions on broader economic calls. An "event driven" strategy means watching the news carefully - after an air crash, for example, these funds might short airline stocks and in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, some attempted to invest in Sri Lankan construction firms.
9 Accessorise
As the money rolls in, it is a good idea to install quirky diversions to make sure your big-brained staff don't get restless and leave. One American fund, Pequot, boasts a basketball court beside its trading floor. Aquariums,
waterfalls, pinball machines and games rooms are useful symbols of quirkiness and success. Art is an obvious way to spend all your profits. One of the world's top hedgies, SAC Capital founder Stevie Cohen, has amassed a
collection which includes works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Manet and Jackson Pollock - not to mention Damien Hirst's shark pickled in formaldehyde.
10 Hope for the best
It could, of course, all go horribly wrong. Although 1,152 new funds opened for business last year, Hedge Fund Research reckons that 563 funds shut down. As many as one in five funds fail within their first year. And the strain can be telling - therapists in New York reported an increase of 25% in enquiries from distraught Wall Street workers towards the end of last year as the markets went crazy.
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Im stuck in sweeping mode...guess its a nervous habit......
CNN Reporter Put On Watch List After Criticizing TSA
Government reports violations of limits on spying aimed at U.S. citizens
Discussion Policy
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 3, 2010; 12:41 AM
The federal government has repeatedly violated legal limits governing the surveillance of U.S. citizens, according to previously secret internal documents obtained through a court battle by the American Civil Liberties Union.
In releasing 900 pages of documents, U.S. government agencies refused to say how many Americans' telephone, e-mail or other communications have been intercepted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - or FISA - Amendments Act of 2008, or to discuss any specific abuses, the ACLU said. Most of the documents were heavily redacted.
more...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120206052.html
I know..lol.very frustrating...but most dont want to believe their country is run and controlled by foreigners & treasonous americans...
just cant let it get to you..after watching that video on wiki leaks ,I had to go get a beer......that really got to me,because we are funding all that evil stuff Washington is doing in the world.....
There are people becoming more aware here in the states..but a hell of alot more people are aware in other parts of the world,and wiki leaks prove that..But American citizens have lost their balls for now.
Its just a shame Washington is hell bent on becoming an empire instead of a country that caters to its citizens like its suppose to...Here we are paying to bail out other countries and only banks and leaving our own on the streets ,and if they do help some..its minimal as we see in Georgia .Its a shame we live in a country where it citizens are striped searched ,and its against the law to ask a foreigner for ID.or even question their citizenship. I could go on and on ,but we all know where Washington's heart is,and it not for us...unless you work for them.
well, after wiki pissed on the elites leg,
more people are becoming aware..
cant wait till they release the banking leaks.!!
Goldman sacks ,and Paulson im sure will be in it.!
TITLE: Publishing the Declaration of Independence
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3709
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/uc06330.jpg
Library of Congress Is Latest Government Institution to Block Wikileaks
http://gawker.com/5705492/library-of-congress-is-latest-government-institution-to-block-wikileaks
U.S. Military in Iraq Tries to Intimidate Soldiers Into Not Reading Wikileaks
http://gawker.com/5705639/us-military-in-iraq-tries-to-intimidate-soldiers-into-not-reading-wikileaks?skyline=true&s=i
absolutely..2weeks im giving it..
AND.,
regardless if fbi knocks on my door or not..
IM posting this.
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
this is what we can expect from the heartless elite in the future !
with all the bullshit human rights talked about in this country ,our government is the worst violator in modern history,!wondering if the national guard when deployed will turn on their own countrymen?
Wave goodbye to Internet freedom
FCC crosses the Rubicon into online regulation........
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/2/wave-goodbye-to-internet-freedom/
+39,000 JOBS IN NOVEMBER...
have to find what sector growth was in..?
my guess would be prison guards,,and homeland security jobs..nothing more!
we are being caged in.soon the gate will close.
charts are setting up for a big move nicely...figure without jumping the gun 2 weeks?
time is getting short for when time tells all lies.!
U.S. International Reserve Position
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/201011261627383591.htm
interested in auto trading?
here is a post from MDunleavy on the other forum with all different auto trading packages...personally I've never used auto trading software because im the capt of my own trading .I like being a hands on trader ..
for those interested go here.
http://forextraders.freeforums.org/secrets-of-successful-forex-scalping-t226.html
well that took forever.....but,
the website is back up and running....Now the site is named in my area.....heres the link to the new website .
http://www.northcountrycurrencyclub.com
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buying the dip
http://ih.advfn.com/videos/market-commentary/buy-the-dip_jllJ-HeErjU
finders fee owed to TickettorideG1..thanks
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thefxhub.com is down...
have to switch to the ...northcountrycurrencyclub.com,which I own but,it will take me a few to transfer,but thefxhub.com is owned by jbrcrazy and I cant get a hold of him so...I have to transfer to the new domain......?where is jbr..im starting to get worried for him..did he get his head kicked in in the ufc? that was his sport...jbr if you read this ,email me.
wow ,joe..your batting a 1000 so far in my book..another great find..thanks.!
sooner or later my big mouth and thoughts will be my demise..,locally or internetly..,if there is such a word ..if not ,again .I made a NEW WORD..maybe I should be known as the new word order?
anyways....freakin market is elusive at the moment..not down or up ..just in. lol
im going south on the usd/chf.its playing the holdem game and I am,,just hoping or actually banking on the usd/chf will break and fall with the rising wedge Im trading on,and watching the Dog on TV bringing in the bail jumpers..nether one is interesting and sitting here bored on a boring market that will not follow suit to todays market moves...but i do expect action tonight..hopefully.
I'm curious to know, if I post a wiki leak am I subject to criminal prosecution? Dont know for sure,so I have to keep it all to my self.
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test,
1.3297 on dec 4,2010 @200am exactly short eur/usd.
meaning euro rise till dec, 4th ..but slow and steady..then short euro and buy the dollar..
kinda new tech analysis test.. but lets see if it works..
nothing else ive tried works ..lol. but still have to look for a grail in all these market conditions to find the secret to the triggers of the elite.el o el..
Euro Surges on Potential for Continued IMF Support on Bailout
Wednesday, 01 December 2010 17:42 GMT
The Euro surged and the US Dollar tumbled on news that the US is prepared to support an extension of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) through extra funding via the International Monetary Fund. Though yet uncorroborated, such news would be bullish for the Euro and bearish for the US Dollar.
Dont spend money this year for Christmas...
Let this year be the year of bringing your families closer ,by good hearty feasts,and gifts from the heart and not the wallet... you'll be glad u did come next year ..save ..save ..save !..your dollars will be worth money in the near future, then invest in real estate in 2012..you will be glad you did unless in the next 2 years they introduce the chip implant...then some of us will be villains of the world..or at least I will be.
I've been reading the wiki leaks,.....
finding it hard to retrieve cables either because of Washington or just heavy traffic..so i decided to download the whole site before its taken down...so far from what Ive read..we here, have been so right on our insights in the past..scary..!
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its not in the leaks ,but I still believe Obama and bush were punched .....!
dow up 256 points........
totally an unbelievable number for a free market..what happened to the secs new rules on unbelievable rise or fall of the market?
anyways ..totally manipulated market..the currency market isn't following suit...like I said a while ago, dow @11500 will be the end of the end..,then my intuition and technical analysis sees dow around 7000 ,oil at $20 A BARREL..gold at $6-800 per ounce,and the dollar at wild unbelievable levels due to interest rates around 20%......
and of course housing prices at half the value purchased.{if purchased within the last ten years). and ..a whole lotta people in prison or jail....at those times people will do what they have to do to survive..and a whole lot of army men instead of local police ..sounds like the US will be like Ireland except ,we will be controlled by our own military.
we have a very bright future to look forward to, in the new year..think i'll wear a grim reapers costume to the new years party this year..I guess they (Washington)are pushing the dow up right now so everyone has holidays that are filled with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads,,,!!!and that all the sugar they will see this new years.
I cant wait..!
In a rare interview, Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning. His next target: big business.
Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on.
US Dollar Rally Poised to Accelerate
By Ilya Spivak, Currency Strategist
30 November 2010 06:01 GMT
EURUSD: Stay Short, Target Below 1.31
GBPUSD: Sellers Clear Channel Support
USDJPY: Stay Long as Bulls Break 84.00
USDCAD: Entry Elusive as Prices Rise
AUDUSD: Chart Hints Bearish Breakout
NZDUSD: Upswing Possible, Bias Bearish
very interesting set ups happening this week......
think we are at a entry point for longterm trades..meaning weeks to months.
My trade will be long USD/CHF.
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U.S. stock futures were down modestly on Tuesday as investors now focused their European debt concerns on Spain and Portugal.
Thats exactly the way the IMF works..
Everything they do is in plain sight..but they put out so much information on a daily basis ,it takes more time than you have.., to sift through it. ..the best you can hope to do is stumble on the info by accident .The elites hide everything in plain sight!
Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling!
As of November 7th, the total U.S. public debt outstanding reached an astonishing $13.7 trillion. This means that although Congress just raised the debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion back in February, the new Congress will face another debt ceiling vote almost immediately next year. Otherwise, the Treasury will not be able to continue issuing debt to fund government operations.
Click here to read the full article: http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1799&Itemid=69
WikiLeaks: Clever PsyOps?
Monday, November 29, 2010 – by Staff Report
Julian Assange
WikiLeaks Drop Shows U.S. Striving to Maintain Order in Chaotic Global Relations ... Some of the diplomatic papers stolen from the State Department and leaked Sunday by WikiLeaks show more than just potentially embarrassing revelations about U.S. views of allies but disturbing developments among alleged friends as well as foes and competitive states. The details from the cables being released – among 250,000 illegally taken from secret State Department records – include discussions on the U.S. being unable to stop Syrian arms to Hezbollah, its disappointment in Qatar to stop funding terrorism and hacking by the Chinese government of U.S. computers. Other communiques passed forward by the website to several newspapers also reveal U.S. talk about individual leaders like Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who the Guardian reported was noted to be "accompanied everywhere by a 'voluptuous blonde' Ukrainian nurse." The Guardian also cites cables that call Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin an "alpha-dog," says Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is "driven by paranoia" and describes German Chancellor Angela Merkel as one who "avoids risk and is rarely creative." The cables also suggest that the U.S. had sought to use its embassies in the global espionage network. – FOX News
Dominant Social Theme: Julian Assange is a low-life, thieving sexual pervert who has placed US security at risk, endangered the lives of hardworking US bureaucrats, shown us what the Internet really is (a place good only for use by thieving, sexual perverts who want to put the hard-working men and women of the US State Dept at risk.) The Pentagon should immediately tighten its security, refuse further requests for information and draw up plans to bomb Iran.
Free-Market Analysis: Is Julian Assange the rebel-with-a-cause that he makes himself out to be? We gave him the benefit of the doubt for months, and still do, but with less and less certainty. We don't remember when our suspicions became more pronounced, but (credit where credit is due) the ever-sleuthing blogger and Bell feedbacker Lila Rajiva was there before us, believing for one reason or another that Assange was part of a larger disinformation campaign by the powers-that-be.
Now we are not willing to suggest this is a certainty (and maybe Ms. Rajiva is still not certain either.) But every time his WikiLeaks does another one of these data dumps, Assange takes another step backward in our view. Back in July after a massive WikiLeaks "dump" seemed to set a narrative that Pakistan was at fault for the Afghan war, we'd had enough and wrote a fictional narrative in which we imagined two CIA agents coming up with the idea for an Assange-like character. You can read our analysis here: Comes a Blond Stranger.
This latest effort by Assange raises even more doubts so far as we are concerned. First, there is the constant (annoying) advance dissemination of information to the likes of the UK Guardian and the New York Times. Anyone who believes that the New York Times (or the Guardian for that matter) is not in cahoots with the powers-that-be, has got to be terminally naïve in our opinion. That goes for Assange, too. He's making all his information available beforehand to these media institutions, but the New York Times in particular is a mouthpiece for the power elite that Assange is supposed to be attacking.
Does Assange, for all his apparent cynicism, not get it? He believes that the mainstream media is worth cultivating for his purposes? Apparently, he is fairly sure of their cooperation. Not that Assange puts it that way. There's plenty of information on the Internet about the way the world works. But rather than focus on the mercantilist intrigues of the Anglosphere, which uses the levers of government to advance its own private interests, Assange focuses attention on the government itself with his endless leaks of hundreds of thousands of low-level documents that are somehow "classified."
It's early days and much more is sure to emerge from this latest massive dissemination of raw, "secret" data, but from our point of view the Anglosphere, maybe, doesn't have much to worry about. (We could still be wrong.) Here's the narrative – the COINTELPRO promotion (if that is what is) – as we see it. Below we list the "news" as it pertains to the secret data that's been revealed and then the "result" – which is often favorable to the Anglosphere and its "war on terror" in our humble view ...
• Assange provides various mainstream publications with advance information so they can "break" their stories. RESULT: Wonderful anti-establishment credibility for failing mainstream pubs that are seen more and more as mouthpieces for the elite.
• Information bluntly characterizes foreign leaders and often in a snide or patronizing manner. RESULT: This is terrible for the US diplomatic corp? To get their opinions on world leaders out in an open forum while the foreign leaders themselves have no way to respond? If it is a disinformation campaign, it's a brilliant one.
• The US diplo corps is shown as pleading with allies for more responsibility and less support for terrorism. RESULT: A perception that the Americans seem to be fighting a valiant uphill battle. The world is encouraging terrorism and Foggy Bottom is doing its level best to protect the American people.
• The Chinese are suspected of hacking US computers. RESULT: And how exactly is this a black eye from the Anglosphere's standpoint? The Chinese are "bad guys." This is a negative for the Anglo-American axis how exactly?
• The US is using its embassies for spying. RESULT: The perception that the US is pulling out all the stops to keep its citizens safe from terrorism. Diplomacy is an ugly business, but the US is doing what it needs to do.
• Iran seems to be winning in Iraq, and US diplo and military correspondence seems to indicate that. RESULT: Evidence accumulating that it will be necessary to bomb Iran. In fact, bomb now. Before its leaders can do more damage.
• US allies like Saudi Arabia have been pleading with the US to take out Iran by any means necessary. RESULT: Evidence accumulating that even Islamic countries are alarmed by this crazy, out-of-control-nation Iran. Bomb Iran now! – Before its leaders can do more damage.
• The data being released by Assange is dangerous and his methodology is unforgivable. He is jeopardizing many lives. RESULT: The perception is increasingly clarified that the Internet is a dangerous instrument that must be brought under control so that people like Assange don't abuse it.
• Who is this man, Assange? This blond stranger? His actions are questionable to say the least, and he may be a rapist as well, according to Swedish prosecutors ... RESULT: We begin to see that he is in fact quite obviously and evidently a sexual pervert. This is the sort of riffraff that the Internet attracts. Only a pervert would seek to do this kind of damage to the national security of the US. The Internet attracts perverts of this sort, that seek to use the Internet perversely, causing great damage to national security, embarrassing hard-working bureaucrats, making it difficult for soldiers to kill more Taliban and generally threatening the lives and reputations of those who have supported America's serial wars and quasi-genocidal campaigns at great risk to themselves ...
• These revelations are simply out of control. The US intelligence agencies (all 16 of them) are seeking Assange and are constantly releasing "open letters" to Assange asking him to stop it. RESULT: Where is this massive and feared US intel operation? Where is the evidence of its fiercesome power – all the renditions, all the torture. Doesn't seem so terrible after all. Paper tiger? Pussycat. Nothing to fear here. Heck, nothing to see.
• These revelations must stop. The US government in particular has been very lax about security. But from now on the Pentagon in particular is simply not going to release much information pertaining to its operations at home and abroad. RESULT: Can those in leadership positions at the Pentagon be blamed for acting this way? Sure the Pentagon has been virtually transparent all these years, but now, well ... no more Mr. Nice Guy. The walls are going up. What we can't burn, we're gonna shred. And not a morsel is going to be provided to the press. Hey, what else can we do?
These are just some of the points that we have noticed the mainstream media making. The "results" are not being stated in so many words, but of course they don't have to be. The "data dump" speaks for itself. Of course in the days to follow, maybe we shall be proven wrong and there will be revelations that won't be "embarrassing" but that will actually prove detrimental to the US war-making effort, especially in Afghanistan. (Alternatively, there ARE such revelations, but the mainstream press is simply not covering them; this latter possibility makes certainty regarding WikiLeaks' role harder to define. We will be glad to write a followup article if we begin to believe our current analysis is incorrect, as we do believe the US has been waging unjustifiable wars, creating more enemies for the West and contributing to rising military tensions around the globe.)
Conclusion: But for now these leaks seem to: ridicule diplomats and leaders outside the US; show that the US is not an all-powerful global entity but a paper tiger that cannot even track down Assange; show that the Internet is being employed by perverts like Assange to ruin the credibility of the US and Foggy Bottom's ability to protect US citizens from harm; illustrate clearly a need to go to war with Iran; proffer evidence of China's perfidy in attacking US military/Internet facilities; make the point that US and European mainstream media organizations are "where the action is" when it comes to wholesale revelations of the US military-industrial complex. None of this is bad for the US as we see it, or Assange's intelligence handlers, if that is indeed what is going on.
Editor's Note: Regarding our use of the word "pervert" in this article. We have no idea if the charges against Assange are true. We believe him innocent until proven guilty. State monopoly justice, in which the state pays the prosecutor, the legislators, the judge and the penitentiary keepers means that it is almost impossible to get a fair trial in the West. Our use of the word was intended to show how the powers-that-be, in our view, are demonizing Assange (and the Internet) by smearing him sexually. it is an old trick and one the intelligence agencies inevitably use these days, to play on shame-based instincts, etc. We do not call Mr. Assange a pervert. Anyway, we would never use such language, and thus were putting the word in the mouths of others. it is disgusting and dehumanizing. The mainstream media, unfortunately, uses it all the time, especially in the US.
Further Note: Maybe, as a result of all these releases Assange will be proven to be a courageous and committed man. That would be our hope. Perhaps these releases will incite world opinion to turn more strongly against the US's serial wars and endless "collateral damage" (ongoing killings of women and children in various "theatres of war."). Yes, we wish ferverntly that the wars will end. They are manipulated wars in our opinion. The US needs to return to its founding Jeffersonian principles and reduce its 1,000 overseas military bases. The military industrial complex needs to be pared back. Will Assange actions help in this regard? That is what we are trying to determine as a publication devoted to tracking the promotion of the power elite and money power generallly. That is the reason for this article ...
no ..I really appreciate the work involved to give us that..!
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WOW,
ripe em off imf...robbers..no actually in the real terms ,loan sharking.
Ireland to pay 5.8% interest rate on 85 billion euro aid package.
lol...
thats why I reposted.....it wasnt ment that way..
but the picture..do you see bozo too?
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thanks joe!
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that was created with the theories of tesla....
he has always been the brains behind most of Edison's accomplishments.has been my hero since I first read about him a long time ago.
http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm