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it's a pretty dirty shell, so I don't see what it can be about.......but sometimes these unexplained blips happen with stale stocks, then they reverse right back to where they where, so take it with a few grains of salt....
all I have seen in stock at Natchez is the high priced CCI .22LR, almost 40 cents per round!!!!....sucks!!!
PS: glad I have a few bricks stocked.....
Triggers has been airing some new episodes on the Military Channel.....good show!!!!
(being a shotgun fan, I especially liked the Combat Shotguns episode.....an interesting segment was when a WWI solder with a trench gun secured an entire village single handed against over 30 Germans, using his pump shotgun!!!)
http://press.discovery.com/us/mil/programs/triggers/
Returning with a bang, the new season of Military Channel's TRIGGERS: WEAPONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD premieres on Wednesday, February 13 at 10 PM (E/P). Hosted by former Army Ranger and Air Force Pararescueman Wil Willis, this cutting-edge series examines the evolution of military firearms and how the development of each one changed the face of combat forever. With access to the top firearms collections in the world, Willis takes viewers on an all-inclusive look into each weapon as he thoroughly examines, tests, critiques and fires each one. In each episode of TRIGGERS, Willis is joined by historical and technical experts who provide personal insight on the weapon and what makes them unique from competitors in its class.
The premiere episode of TRIGGERS, Willis examines if the mighty M2 could be the greatest machine gun in history. Nicknamed the "Ma Deuce," this American machine gun has been rocking the battlefield for over 80 years. In this explosive hour, Willis puts the M2 in a head-to-head contest against international rival the Soviet DShK, and then joins former Marine firearms instructor Grant Reynolds in a long-range competition. Finally, Willis compares the classic M2 against its 21st Century version, the XM806, in an ultimate shootout.
Additional episodes this season include:
Combat Shotguns Premieres February 20 at 10 PM Deadly at close quarters, a combat shotgun is a powerful tool of any army. In this episode, Willis fires history's greatest shotguns, from the Blunderbuss to the modern semi-auto Benelli M4 and the pump-action Mossberg 590. Rounding out the episode, Willis gets some shooting tips from two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Sgt. Vincent Hancock.
Gatling and the A-10 Premieres February 27 at 10 PM The Aerial Gatling Gun has the highest rate of fire of any military machine gun in the world. Willis takes to the sky in an F16 to spray the 6,000 round a minute M61 "Vulcan," then lifts off in a helicopter to fire the GAU-2 Mini-Gun at 4,000 rounds a minute.
Spec OPS Pistol Premieres March 6 at 10 PM For today's elite warriors, their last line of defense are the Spec Ops Pistols. Willis tests the Navy Seal Sig Sauer P226 then fires its forerunners like James Bond's Walther PPK, the Soviet Tokarev and the massive Desert Eagle. With 3-D graphics and weapons tests against ballistic gel torsos, this is the ultimate look at the Spec Ops Pistols.
The Abrams Tank Premieres March 13 at 10 PM The M1 Abrams Tank is the world's most potent armored vehicle due to its reactive armor and stealth on the battlefield. This episode tracks the tank's development through such forerunners as the WWII-era M18 Hellcat and the Cold War-era Soviet T-55 tank. To see why these "beast-boxes" have ruled ground warfare for decades, Willis joins an Abrams crew in in their intense training.
The SAW Season 2 Finale Premieres March 20 at 10 PM The SAW or "Squad Automatic Weapon" is the heavy hitter in U.S. infantry teams. Follow the explosive history of this revolutionary weapon that launched mobile warfare by blending massive firepower with the accuracy and portability of a rifle.
who was doing this alleged HIJACKING???
U.S. ENERGY INITIATIVES CORP (OTC Pink: USEI) today announces that it has changed its name, which it initially had since 1996 and has had since 2008 in Delaware to U.S. ENERGY INITIATIVES CORPORATION INC. because its name was hijacked in the state of Delaware by certain individuals.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch aka JBII in Niagara Falls NY, it is business as usual.
I think that's part of the PROBLEM!!!!
another goal (this time CFP) moved out, just repeatin' the 'ol tick-tock and collectin' salaries.....
One dollar, Mortimer!!!!
Ghost of Rivera making wash-trades????
maybe the CEO title was dead weight!!!!!
did the DE listings show a CEO?????
I don't even SEE a CEO listed in the NV filings.....just a president.....
(check "include inactive officers" if needed)
http://nvsos.gov/sosentitysearch/CorpDetails.aspx?lx8nvq=IFfazXgdin%252bKAtcv5ZIA%252bQ%253d%253d&nt7=0
Maybe I'm too small a fish
they are looking for a lead plaintiff, the bigger the better....did you supply them with your paper loss?? (assuming last price, or whatever baseline)
Effort for effort, one of those might be less drama.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=82701700
I've read much of Baxter's other works (loved the Xeelee Sequence universe books!!!), mostly his older hard SF books.....thanks for the recommendation......he is a great writer.....I have at least a dozen books by him.....
Ring is one of my favorites, this one will blow your mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(book)
http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0061056944
also, The Time Ships is a nicely done sequel to the classic H.G. Wells book The Time Machine, obviously one of the most seminal SF works ever!!!!......Baxter's modern continuation of the story is highly recommended!!! a must read for any SF fan...
The Time Ships is a 1995 science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. A sequel to The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, it was officially authorized by the Wells estate to mark the centenary of the original's publication. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Philip K. Dick Award in 1996,[1] as well as the British Science Fiction Association Award in 1995.[2] It was also nominated for the Hugo, Clarke, and Locus Awards in 1996.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Ships
An SEC employee was force to seek other employment over the whole embarrassing mess.
got a link for that???
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that in the settlement the SEC is basically placing a gag order on JB so he cannot even defend himself or speak of it anywhere.
if he wanted to DEFEND himself, and be fully exonerated, he should have not settled, and taken it to a trial.....you can't have your cake and eat it too....
GAG ORDER???...who said he can't speak of it anywhere???....the settlement says he/they can't deny the allegations of the complaint..... obviously it can be spoken of, but in the context stipulated within the settlement agreement....
the terms of the settlement are in no way a GAG ORDER, unless one considers not being able to deny fraud (as agreed) a "gag"!!!
there are several version that floated around, as I understand......ex: TRTNBrochure.doc, JBIIBrochure.doc.....but it looks like the author pulled the links to it......I have a copy saved, but not online....if enough folks would like a copy, let me know and I'll see if I can accommodate...
http://tinyurl.com/avv4edk
also, there might be a few still floating around in doctors offices, etc....who knows!!!
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=39300157
PS: fantastic Mortimer, one dollar!!!!.....I think during the "brochure era" PPS peaked over $7, and guesstimate averaged $4 or so......'course there was also lots fewer shares then as well.....traders lose, shareholders win!!!! (depends on the specific "shareholder", it seems......)
I think .30 would be a gift.......most who are (still) posting here are talking of unloading, so it's almost a given sellers are going to swamp the tape......who is going to buy????....and the longer it doesn't trade, the lower it will open at, whenever THAT miraculous event takes place.....
the story was too true good to be true......and still no 10-Q (why they bothered with the NT is a mystery, since it's not trading......just to buy time and hope some might lose interest in the lawsuit plaintiff search????)
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=longwei&match=contains&action=getcompany
it was an "anti-hit-piece", read what I was replying to.....never said it came from the Co......it was a rebuttal example of what I see as a TRUE abuse, no matter who wrote it....when someone claims an EPS number, it goes beyond opinion, no???
but I did note that the previous CEO had reported a past contact from the author (before it was written, it seems), according to posts made here......just pointing it out.....
who claimed IR says BUY directly???....their job is a subset of PUBLIC relations, which I find incredible to not be considered PROMOTIONAL:
pro·mo·tion·al
/pr?'moSH?nl/
Of or relating to the publicizing of a product, organization, or venture so as to increase sales or public awareness.
it is what is is, like I said not a dirty word.....still bewildered why it gets dismissed as so.....or is JBII IR not involved in public awareness, the very DEFINITION of promotional activities??? lol!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor_relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations
The aim of public relations by a company often is to persuade the public, investors, partners, employees, and other stakeholders to maintain a certain point of view about it, its leadership, products, or of political decisions
Investor Relations (IR) is a strategic management responsibility that integrates finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a company's securities achieving fair valuation. (Adopted by the NIRI Board of Directors, March 2003.) The term describes the department of a company devoted to handling inquiries from shareholders and investors, as well as others who might be interested in a company's stock or financial stability.
Typically investor relations is a department or person reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or Treasurer. In some companies, investor relations is managed by the public relations or corporate communications departments, and can also be referred to as "financial public relations" or "financial communications". Investor relations is considered a specialty of public relations by the U.S. Department of Labor. [1]
Many larger publicly traded companies now have dedicated IR officers (IROs), who oversee most aspects of shareholder meetings, press conferences, private meetings with investors, (known as "one-on-one" briefings), investor relations sections of company websites, and company annual reports. The investor relations function also often includes the transmission of information relating to intangible values such as the company's policy on corporate governance or corporate social responsibility. Recently, the field has trended toward an increasingly popular movement for "interactive data", and the management of company filings through streaming-data solutions such as XBRL or other forms of electronic disclosure have become prevalent topics of discussion amongst leading IROs worldwide.
The investor relations function must be aware of current and upcoming issues that an organization or issuer may face, particularly those that relate to fiduciary duty and organizational impact. In particular, it must be able to assess the various patterns of stock-trading that a public company may experience, often as the result of a public disclosure (or any research reports issued by financial analysts). The investor relations department must also work closely with the Corporate Secretary on legal and regulatory matters that affect shareholders.
traders lose, shareholders win!!! (or do I have that quote backwards???!!!!!)
I bet if that "A" company becomes public, it will be as a listed stock (the irony!!!)......not as a R/M "arm's length" into a penny shell.......
yep, exactly, that's the problem, it's now 2013 and the Co has yet to prove any profitability long term in their filings......
which is why saying .18 "now" back in 2009 is such a joke.....4 years later, and not even CLOSE to such rubbish.....and I would think THAT fits the definition of "abusive".....no????
PS: certainly most must understand by now that the entire MO of unprofitable penny stock operators is to keep moving the goal posts, and play for time as long as possible, while their salaries keep rolling in.....milk the cow as long as possible without killing it.....I wonder what we will be looking back at in a few more years, saying what is (was) going on NOW no longer matters!!!!...."it's now 2017", or whatever.....
isn't IR promotional by it's very nature????....I hope that's part of what Irons was hired for!!!!.....he sure had zeal when posting here!!!!
also, being a manager to me implies he is managing SOMETHING!!!....I would certainly hope that too....
(funny how promotion is such a dirty word!!!!....it's OK if done *right*.....why keep denying it if there's no problem???)
PS: plenty of links can be found with his name on them......
and I can show a deceptive brochure claiming false earnings!!!
The company is profitable with an approximate .18 EPS.
source: JBIIBrochure.doc 2009
(still waiting!!!!)
the sword cuts both ways, but when one claims a concrete false number, it goes beyond opinion!!! (in my opinion!!)
PS: Sideline interesting story: The day I purchased 310 Holdings (April 2009), Hans (zardiw)contacted me. His program (Amanda) alerted him to the 8k. He advised me he bought on that day.
from John Bordynuik's 12/13/09 consolidated FB posts
PPS: all those consolidated posts facebook posts
Company Owned/JV/Franchisee Open Discussion (please comment): I have received many requests for P2O JV's and so if you are considering one this might help. First, FL,NY,and PA is out of the question. NY is all company & R&D, FL is exclusive JV, PA is company. Structure: JV1 (op to pay $50k and receive 10% revenue), operate site. JV2 (op to pay $400k and receive 35% revenue) -- very few of these will be considered.
--Florida is out - sorry - too many land rushes start in FL(Outback, Checkers, etc..) so there are great operators there already to go.
I have been approached to allow funds to equity invest in large blocks ($100M+) to roll out sites (stock price must be significantly higher). They like this because all revenue stays within company, we like it because of above. Massive land rush would require $2.5B of fund equity, all agree this must be a massive concurrent implementation.
--I wouldn't be issuing much at $2.50, I wouldn't start equity financing until above $18 in any sort of volume.
--We have an inhouse cost/rev/earnings model for the P2O. Now it's applying it to the various options and building a dynamic model. Ie: PIPE at $4/share (3M shares) -- to ladder to $8/share (5M shares) -- etc... It's finding the right model + take into consideration state tax credits (then monetize them upfront), then JV's (funds prefer wholy owned due to earnings growth).
--And.. how long does it take to get the earnings to take it to $xxx/share , or for that matter, how long it takes the analysts (Funds) to push it there.
Outback Steakhouse structured 90/10's, 50-50, etcc, and manager agreements because they did not have the capital to go to market. We can head this off on the pass with equity funds & a few key JV's. Suggestions? I'll provide the math -- our mgmt is working out the gotomarket strategy as well.
Lockup of plastic is simple: pay me less for 10 years or continue to pay $80/ton and continue to lose money and you're not green. Very simple. As no one else can convert it, I will not allow a market to be created.
(LOL, my comment...guess he was planning on controlling the waste plastic market somehow???...WTF, "will not allow a market to be created"???..... seriously???)
Please do the math and explore other similiar business models where a national rollout was required (ie: Checker's restaurants). Case studies like Lowen Funeral Homes don't apply because the costs of the funeral homes increased due to competition to buy clusters. We can benefit from clustering but not essential.
We are exploring the right balance: company (through equity PIPEs), JV's (10% and 35%), and franchisee (last resort).
In any event, FL should be a good quick test. I'll supply the math and maybe someone has some creative ideas to determine the ladder financing required to take it through (we are doing this inhouse but shareholders may think of something we have not).
BTW, the numbers presented (10%) is net revenue. Outback has a similiar model whereby they allow a JV to come in for $XXX at get 10%, the manager also must pay for his position (I believe $25k) for another %. Overhead is low.
Sideline interesting story: The day I purchased 310 Holdings (April 2009), Hans (zardiw)contacted me. His program (Amanda) alerted him to the 8k. He advised me he bought on that day.
speaking of CA, what's the status of that P2O Palm Springs site??
Plastic2Oil Comes to Palm Springs
A solution to the tons of plastic disposed of daily by residents of the Coachella Valley is coming to Palm Springs.
Plastic2Oil is a revolutionary new technology that converts waste plastic to oil. The oil needs minimal refining in order to enter the diesel fuel market.
Plastic2Oil Palm Springs is currently looking for a suitable site, and is scheduled to break ground in January 2010.
All construction will be performed by local companies. The company will recruit all management, and employees from local residents of the Coachella Valley.
Hans Brost, the CEO of Plastic2Oil Palm Springs, is quoted as saying. "We are extremely pleased to do our part in decreasing landfill waste, putting local residents to work, and solving this ecological problem".
In order to put this technology into production, Plastic2Oil Palm Springs Inc. will purchase a franchise from the parent company, 310 Holdings, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. (Stock Symbol: TRTN).
310 Holdings CEO John Bordynuik is quoted as saying:
By integrating this technology into a large batch processor, the Company believes
that it can accomplish the following:
* Approximately one liter of fuel is extracted from a kilogram of
plastic.
* The gas byproduct provides the energy necessary to fuel the process
thereby eliminating energy costs.
* Due to our catalyst and a highly optimized process, fuel can be
extracted in four hours from a large source of raw unwashed, mixed
plastics.
* Raw plastic materials can be acquired in many forms at little or no
cost.
Contact:
Plastic2Oil Palm Springs Inc.: Hans Brost: 760 329-5700
310 Holdings Inc: 905 354-7222
that's one of those "newswires" that anyone can write, correct???
(seen lots of those going 'round in the past year or so)
PS: click on "send a release"
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/minera-san-jorge-sa-de-cv-responds-to-bandera-gold-ltd-171268831.html
https://portal.prnewswire.com/Login.aspx
every rule has a few exceptions, I guess!!!!...
OK, you know better than me, I'm just a popcorn fan!!!.....but there was talk of a "property" hijack, no???
Stephen Roehrig, President and CEO of Bandera Gold comments: “A concerted effort has been made to hijack the identity/ownership of the Cinco Minas project and create doubt in the public’s mind regarding the status of this property. Individuals and entities that have made or are linked to false public statements about current mining activity and alleged ownership representations are being thoroughly investigated by Bandera Gold. Decisive action will be taken against those parties found to be complicit in this matter.”
is there a single legit penny stock mining Co out there???
mining for suckers.....that's all I have ever observed.....
PS: or maybe I should rephrase, is there a single legit penny stock, that cares beyond enriching the stock operators as priority one???!!!
anyone have an idea WHO was behind this scam????
for some reason, the word HIJACK comes to my mind.....
nice call!!!!....almost eerie....
I'm anti-fraud......so sorry that SRGE fits the description!!!!!
DEAL with it.....
PS: pat, pat......
lol, that's like saying because someone settled, they didn't do anything????.....better read that a bit closer, especially the part about future fraud (which goes without saying for EVERYONE, so why say it????!!!!)
like I said, let's see the Co deny this comment....they NEVER will, unless they suddenly don't like the settlement!!!:
I would like to see a statement in writing from the Co claiming that!!!!
PS: bonus points for why not make such a statement???!!!
.....once the SEC signs off on the settlement since they were unable to find any fraud or anything else for that matter.
one of the most outrageous penny stock scams in recent history!!!!
I've never seen any made-up things coming from your direction, so your reputation is OK with me, lol!!!!.......wish I could say that of everyone!!!!!!
(like those fabricating deaths to hide tracks!!!!)
PS: nice work to Janice also:
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20130214-the-mystery-of-southridge-enterprises-and-its-ghost-executives-who-were-supposedly-murdered-in-mexico.ece
wow, never a dull moment!!!!
PS: way to go, Janice!!!!
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20130214-the-mystery-of-southridge-enterprises-and-its-ghost-executives-who-were-supposedly-murdered-in-mexico.ece
The mystery of Southridge Enterprises and its ‘ghost’ executives who were supposedly murdered in Mexico
By GARY JACOBSON and ALFREDO CORCHADO Staff Writers
Published: 14 February 2013 09:09 PM
Stock scam sleuth Janice Shell, once hailed as the “unofficial queen” of cybervigilantes by Fortune magazine, says she has never seen anything like it.
“It’s very metaphysical,” she said of Southridge Enterprises Inc. and recent reports that two of the allegedly Dallas-based mining company’s executives were murdered in Mexico. “How can you kill people who never existed?”
One U.S. law enforcement official familiar with the case agreed with Shell. “No bodies have been found,” the official said. “I don’t think these men ever existed. They’re ghosts.”
Shell said a joke photo making the rounds of her online community purports to show one of the “departed” Southridge executives taking a shower with the fabricated girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o. There’s nobody there.
In the world of penny stocks, where stretch limo dreams intersect with bus fare means, there are often far more questions than answers. That’s definitely true in this case.
No answers
Are Southridge and the person, or persons, ultimately behind it somehow connected to Mexican drug cartels or the Russian mafia, as claimed on Internet chat boards?
Is it just a big pump-and-dump stock scheme designed to make quick profits for a few?
Are the company’s gold and silver mining concessions in Mexico real, and if they are, are they worth anything?
Who’s really running the show — the person behind the wizard’s curtain, if there is a curtain?
Is this all an elaborate artifice, a la Manti?
All good questions. No good answers.
What we do know:
Southridge doesn’t have a headquarters office in Dallas, as it claims.
It doesn’t have a Mexico office, either. The “fifth floor” of the suburban Guadalajara building where it is supposed to be doesn’t exist, a reporter from The Dallas Morning News discovered when he went there Thursday. A person who worked in the building said he had never heard of the company.
The Mexican newspaper reporter who wrote the original “murder” story now admits doubts about its veracity.
Thursday, the LinkedIn profile page for one of the supposedly slain executives carried the same mug shot as the profile for a person identified as the owner-operator of a Wisconsin trucking company. Each had previously viewed the other’s profile, according to LinkedIn’s tracking.
The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading in Southridge stock in December.
The company didn’t answer phone calls to its listed number Tuesday and Wednesday. And apparently, according to Shell and another cybersleuth, it has begun auto-forwarding calls to a shareholder who once complained to Southridge. The party didn’t return a call from The News.
Southridge stock is very cheap. Thursday, in what the industry calls gray-market — post-SEC suspension — trading, a penny would fetch about 7 shares, according to Google Finance.
Shell said she has been monitoring Southridge-related companies for a while and quickly cautioned that the truth may never be known. “You can’t assume that any of this actually makes any sense,” she said.
It sure didn’t make sense earlier this week to Linda Coker, the tenant relations manager at 3625 N. Hall St., the Oak Lawn office building with the supposed headquarters — Suite 900 — of Southridge and its mining subsidiary, Southridge Minerals.
“Three federal agents were here this morning asking the same questions you are,” she told a reporter.
She said Southridge doesn’t lease space in the building. Later, after searching records, she indicated that at one time, years ago, Southridge might have been serviced by a temporary or virtual office operation that had space in the building.
And those federal agents?
“Homeland Security, I think, but I’m not sure,” Coker said.
Contacted for comment Wednesday, a spokeswoman at the Department of Homeland Security instead asked The News for details about Southridge and the supposed Mexican murder story. She said the agency would investigate and respond but cautioned that it would take time. The department has not yet responded.
David Peavler, associate regional director for enforcement for the SEC’s Fort Worth office, said Thursday that he could not confirm or deny whether his agency was investigating Southridge.
More broadly, he said:
“The agency as a whole has taken a number of steps toward trying to cut off the fraud that has occurred in the microcap market.” On a single day last year, he said, the SEC suspended trading in nearly 400 penny stocks for violations of various rules, such as missing deadlines for financial filings.
Southridge Enterprises, according to its filings, was formed in Nevada in 2004 and originally was based in Edmonton, Alberta. It began using the Hall Street address for its SEC filings in 2006, a review of the records show.
The company has missed many filing deadlines and is definitely a microcap. According to Google Finance, it has nearly 1 billion shares outstanding and a market capitalization of about $1.5 million.
Of course, Shell cautions, be skeptical about everything, especially numbers.
In its 2012 annual report, for example, Southridge claims $3.1 million in revenue, which, since it’s a mining company, presumes some mineral production. Yet no production costs are listed.
“You can’t have production without production costs,” Shell said.
On Dec. 28, the SEC suspended trading in Southridge stock on OTC Link because of questions, in part, regarding the company’s claims of a joint partnership in Mexico with Kinross Gold Corp. of Canada. Kinross said there was no such deal.
In January, Southridge issued a press release saying “the joint partnership is no longer valid.”
Then, last week, things got very interesting.
‘A country of rumors’
On Saturday, a newspaper in Guadalajara published a story about the killings and even carried a photograph showing bodies, identified as Southridge’s CEO and CFO, Michael Davies and Derald Johnston.
The reporter, Antonio Neri Johnston, said he had received a call last Friday from a person identifying himself with the municipal police in Hostotipaquillo, in Jalisco state.
The alleged cop reminded Johnston (no relation to the alleged victim) that they had met days earlier when the reporter was covering the killing of a police chief. This time, the alleged cop said, he had an exclusive: the bodies of two Americans found floating in a river between the municipalities of Ixtlan del Rio, in the state of Nayarit, and Hostotipaquillo. Near them were briefcases with information that identified the men and traced their company to Dallas.
Since then, Mexican authorities in both the states of Nayarit and Jalisco have denied any knowledge of recovering the bodies of any Americans. One Mexican official in the state of Nayarit said, “There have been bodies, but no Americans. If they were Americans, everyone would know.”
Johnston, the reporter, said, “In retrospect, I should have verified the information more because Mexico is still a great place to disappear, especially in that part where killings are very common. Impunity is so high that nothing is ever solved, or clarified. We live in a country of rumors.”
‘We were fed a story’
Johnston said his newspaper hasn’t printed a correction or clarification because no one has stepped forward to “tell us we were wrong.”
“We were fed a story, and many of us ran with it,” he said. The photographs “were archived photos of past dead bodies recovered.”
The story appeared in at least six publications in Guadalajara, and on radio. On Monday, a company calling itself Minera San Jorge SA said it had acquired Southridge’s Cinco Minas mine. But the phone number attached to the press release doesn’t work. The company has no address.
“Whoever did this knew what they were doing,” Johnston said. “They called us, got the story in public. They needed these people dead, part of a fairy tale.”
Shell said that, over the years, she has never found anyone who has talked in person to Davies or Johnston. She said the biographical information for them, since deleted from the corporate website, was cribbed and compiled from other online bios.
In its own investigation, The News found many, many “Michael Davieses” who live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but none linked to Southridge. The News wasn’t able to find a “Derald Johnston” who lived in Texas.
Somewhere, maybe, Davies and Johnston do exist.
But not at Southridge’s fake headquarters in Dallas. And people do come looking, a security guard there said.
Any of them angry?
“Now that you mention it, yes,” he said.
Staff writers Marina Trahan and Darlean Spangenberger contributed to this report.
Comet Of The Century Passing Through Sun’s Atmosphere In November
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112767014/comet-ison-sungrazer-november-011913/
another week, another snoozer of trading......
looks like the 10-Q is also MIA.....what a surprise!!!.....now you see a "low PE" china stock, now you don't.....magical money disappearing act!!!