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Ask now at $4.00! Go NMGL!!!
OldBen: Thanks for the reminder and healthy dose of common "cents". 3400%+ ROI makes waiting much easier and allows those who are able and willing to accumulate while waiting.
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goforthebet: Congrats to you! Sounds like a shortseller who wants to get the price down to ease margin pressure to me. Your good fortune. Go SRSR!!!
Last call Etraders! EIGH REQUEST TO ALL SHAREHOLDERS WITH ETRADE!!
The Company asks that all shareholders who have shares in an E*Trade account send confirmation of their shareholdings to the Company urgently (enquiries@8000inc.net). There is a window of opportunity to address the "share imbalance" immediately but only with your support.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/8000inc/application-form-just-print-this-off-or-paste-it-in-to-an-email/10150200722527844
Please act on this request immediatly Etrade clients, you can make a difference. A few minutes of your time can make a huge difference and benefit all shareholders. Go EIGH!!!
My one allowed post for the day!
What the he** is our country coming to!! Here is a link about not being able to buy and sell precious metals over the counter!
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/gold-and-silver-no-longer-legal-to-be-traded-over-the-counter-as-of-july-15th/5016
original post by wdaubie
Casper is never dull:
CASPER for JUNE 18th: OPINION
Posted By: hobie [Send E-Mail]
Date: Saturday, 18-Jun-2011 19:48:25
In Response To: POOF for MAY 1st: Who's on First? (hobie)
Hi, Folks -
Toward the end of this writing, Casper mentions the rumored suicide death this week of Amschel Rothschild. I believe that rumor is in considerable error, about the date - I think Amschel Rothschild died in Paris in 1996.
More about that - From the RMN Archive, text of the third article in the first print edition of Rumor Mill News:
3RD ARTICLE - DOW PLUMMETS - INTERNECINE WAR DRIVING MARKET DOWN
Rayelan -- Sunday, 27-Jul-2008 22:04:23
Received from Wendy via e-mail - discernment is advised:
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· Speaking to a black tie audience at Mansion House in London Thursday, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Secretary) George Osborne, in what must surely be the most important financial announcement in months, announced that his countries retail and investment banks will again be separated and depositors accounts insulated a la Glass Stegall in the U.S.. The cancellation of Glass Stegall in the U.S., an effort led by Bankings' Political WHORES in the Senate, Gramm, Leach and Bliley, opened the door to the corruption, rape and pillage of taxpayer assets by Wall Street as Investment Houses suddenly had access to Retail Bank Deposits. Reversing this in England is a very major item leading to questions regarding a possible split with the Fed or perhaps a signal that huge banking changes are afoot world wide as England/London/The City is not exactly a Bangladesh backwater. Some French Banks have announced limited checking account withdrawals come 8-1-11 no matter how large the customers balance. So where would you rather have your accounts, French Banks? The U.S. cesspool of Banking Corruption and outright FRAUD? Or English Banks where deposits will once again be ‘ring fenced’. How long before America’s Banks and their Political Whores in the Senate are forced to bring back Glass Stegall to negate this foreign banking advantage? Dodd/Frank is a joke. Senator Dodd and Blarney Frank are both jokes and should have been Community Organizers like you know who so they could have become financial and economic experts like him (ROFL).
· Did you see Obama spokesman Carney lecturing Greece that they must continue with and increase their commitment to ‘Austerity’ as these White House Hypocrites spend Trillions of OPIUM (other peoples money) like drunken sailors. I sometimes wonder if they have any idea how stupid and foolish they look.
· New Bumper sticker: A nation of sheep breeds a Government of wolves.
· In a recent survey 35% of Medical Doctors said they will be forced by ObamaCare to leave the Medical Profession. Under Gov’t Control they can’t repay their loans, they can’t make a living. Medicare will lose 500 BILLION to ObamaCare which is the most horrible legislation ever to come out of Washington D.C.. It was/is supported by 100% of the Democrats and zero percent of the Republicans. ‘Democrats’ are actually Communist at heart as demonstrated over and over again as with ObamaCare. The NWO is also Communist as is the IMF, the United Nations, the World Bank and virtually all International Institutions not to mention the vast majority of America’s Media, print and broadcast. I dare say America’s Media Conglomerates house a cesspool of snakes, traitors and Communist masquerading as ‘Journalist’. Their job is to lead the average ignorant American sheep down the path to Communism. They are traitors plain and simple. They have sold out their country and their own families and it goes without saying that 90% of them are “Liberals” which means ‘Baby Communist’. JUDAS should be emblazoned upon every forehead.
· I love this quote from Milton Friedman: “If you put the Government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years there would be a shortage of sand”.
· The Obama Administration is telling Boeing they can not open a plant in a non-union state (So. Carolina). This, citizens, is called COMMUNISM. Will you PLEASE wake up?
· In still another Wall Street Scam involving the usual criminals Goldman and JP Morgan/Chase, they have bought up the warehouses where metals such as aluminum are stored and now refuse to release the metals on a timely ‘as needed’ basis, often holding back orders/shipments for many months as they collect RENT for storing the metals they refuse to release. They are Criminals and Con Artist and they own and control the Politicians via their campaign contributions. Morgan/Chase controls the CFTC and thereby the Gold and Silver Markets while Government Sachs basically controls the White House and Treasury Department not to mention that they are one of the owners of the FED. It is corrupt, we as a nation are corrupt, Washington D.C. and Wall Street are corrupt beyond your wildest imaginings. Is it any wonder the world despises us?
· With no authorization from Congress Obama, Hillary, Sarkozy, NATO,, et al are doing their best to murder Gadhafi. Like Iraq, Libya was trying to throw off Illuminati Control refusing use of the Dollar and attempting to organize the African Continent behind a Gold Backed Dinar to be common to many African Nations. So a ‘Rebel Group’ suddenly pops up, backed by the CIA, and what is the very first thing they do? They form a new ‘Libyan CENTRAL Bank’ even before cleaning their guns in keeping with the instructions of their masters. Gadhafi’s NATIONAL Bank was not part of the BIS Fiat chain of Central Banks which rule the western world via ‘Debt as Money From Thin Air’ soooo ‘Gadhafi must die’ along with anyone else any where else who opposes the Empire, The Corporation, The Octopus, The Illuminati, Obama, the Fiat Monetary Powers, not to mention that his NATIONAL Bank held 144 tons of Gold and Libya’s ‘Sovereign Wealth Fund’ is among the biggest in the world. Gadhafi was spending big money, Libyan Money, to help other African Countries and funded ‘The Great Man Made River Project’ to benefit his part of the world. Again and again the U.S. and its Illuminati Partners move to ‘take down’ anyone anywhere who dares to defy its Satanic Ponzi Financial Control of the world. But oops, Gadhafi has not ‘rolled over’ or hidden in a hole so Obama/Sarkozy/NATO et al have not completed their latest heist, conquest, murder in order to obtain the funds, oil, gold, necessary to the continuation of their status quo.
· White Hat Report #21 is out today telling you what WE have been telling you for two years, Obama is blocking deliveries, has said and continues to say-“never never never”, was born in Kenya and is the biggest Liar and Con Artist our country has ever known and is supported in his TREASON by the Communist Party in America sometimes called The Democratic Party.
· Our Intell does not always agree completely with all that the White Hats have to say but we are close most of the time. One current example of disagreement is their letter (actually Hodges letter) to the Chinese Ambassador in D.C. with a copy to Hu Jintao in China. WE have identified these chaps in times gone by as ‘the enemy’ of the funding along with most of the Chinese Politburo which had secret Vatican Bank Accounts provided to them by the U.S.. Also Ying, Lee and Lei are other examples of Chinese who pretended for years to be on ‘our side’ but turned out to be assisting in the sabotage of deliveries and funding. WE related the outcomes of personal meetings with some of these people along with many dozens of updates dealing with ‘the sorting’ of various Chinese Factions as WE struggled for years to understand and identify ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ in China. These updates are archived at www.fourwinds10.com . WE are no longer able to talk to ‘the old man’ or ‘granny’ or others in China any longer as our calls are intercepted and diverted just as we were warned by the domestic ‘bad guys’ that they would be. And so WE say to The White Hats and to Hodges “Know to whom you are speaking” or you may spend years on the ‘Chinese Ferris Wheel’ ( Merry-Go-Round).
· Regarding the Iraq Dinar R.V. you are aware of our Intel as previously reported. From the beginning WE were informed it was another scam by TPTB looking desperately for ways to recapitalize themselves. Now comes W.H.R. #21 saying TPTB (Obama) is attempting to use this as a method of extortion. WE hear Obama is just the ‘front man’, the scheme originated with those much smarter than he (Bush). WE believe, having paid close attention to this Dinar R.V. proposition for many months now, that the R.V. has already occurred. It occurred when this virtually worthless ‘wallpaper’ currency was ‘flipped’ to the general public over time via the internet for whatever multiple of worthless people were willing to pay. Our intell continues to say that the ‘bad guys’ will not be allowed to recapitalize themselves in this manner so naturally bad guy Obama is throwing another fit and attempting to ‘extort’ the world into making himself, the Clintons, the Bushes and many others personally wealthy and to hell with the country and the people of the country. Pure unadulterated EVIL is not that difficult to spot if people will simply open their eyes. While WE feel an obligation to report this negative R.V. outlook to you it is possible WE are simply wrong in our analysis or perhaps TPTB will somehow be excluded from cashing in as Iraq and the ‘regular folk’ do participate in an R.V.. WE could write more about this but it is not our business and WE are not currency experts although WE have discussed this with currency experts and many bankers from New York to Europe to China who each say ‘nothing to it’, ‘good guys not going to allow bad guys to get rich in this way’.
· While typing this today's “Golden Jackass” (Jim Willie) Financial Letter has just arrived and discusses OUR BUSINESS saying some of the things said above. Please read as it fits right in and supports what WE and others are reporting to you right now. He also affirms, for those of you who remain deaf, dumb and blind (Liberals), Obama’s vast ongoing financial frauds and ongoing attempts to stop the new and retain the old.
· WE believe things are about to ‘POP’ wide open. WE believe Obama AND the Fed are out of bullets. WE believe the posse has the criminals surrounded. Even so we can’t explain how the U.S. sold almost 60B in debt at the auction Monday with no increase in the Debt Ceiling, or how The Fed continues to buy the debt when they are supposedly ‘out of business’. WE believe Gov’t Operations are being funded by raiding every dept and agencies slush funds including Public Employee’s Pension Funds. Next, unless the D.C. Criminals are stopped, they will force all Pension Funds, 401K’s, etc. to invest in Govt Debt in order to keep their Fraudulent Financial Playpen going. WE hope and pray that bringing down the evil Satanic money powers controlling our country will be accompanied by exposure and disclosure announcements as this is the only thing that will preclude the people from being duped by still another renegade band of corrupt Bankers, Lawyers and Politicians.
· 10 year Greek Govt Bonds are at 17.40%. Some Greek Bonds are at 28%. The U.S. is in worse financial shape than Greece. Greenspan made a statement this week that Greek Default is almost certain. Such a default would bankrupt French and other Euro Banks and U.S. Insurance Companies that insured Greek debt. A domino effect equal to Lehman Bros.. Another failed SOCIALIST STATE. They all fail eventually, ALL of them. Is this why Obama so desperately wants Socialism in America? Is Obama an ‘in the closet Muslim’ as well as an ‘in the closet Kenyan’? Why do you suppose Obama supports Shia Muslim Nations and bombs Sunni Muslim Nations?
· In today's G.Jackass report referred to above Willie refers to stolen interest payments, as much as a Trillion Dollars, on various Trust Accounts. Our Intel says this SCAM has been running worldwide for some time with many of the world’s major banks involved and now that they have been caught they can not repay the stolen interest. This means the entire Western World Banking Establishment, even including the big Swiss Banks, were in on the ‘Save our Asses at any Cost Scam’ and to hell with the people, to hell with all people, to hell with the world economy, to hell with everything and everyone, the only thing that matters is saving ourselves, saving our banks, saving ME ME ME……
· Besides ‘our’ funds which the bad guys have not been able to steal, it appears the Public Pension Funds, 401K’s, etc. is the only other ‘pile of money’ sufficient to keep the status quo going (assuming they can’t steal Libya’s Oil or Gold, can’t get the ObamaCare income stream securitized in time, can’t continue the ‘interest theft scam’ reported today, can’t get the ‘cap and trade’ income stream SECURITIZED scam up and running in time, etc etc etc). So watch this very closely. If there comes a move in Congress to grab private sector Pension Funds (Trillions of Dollars) it will be time for the American People to EXPLODE in their faces. WE don’t think it will come to this, we think ‘our business’ is about to ‘pop’ in spite of Obama’s best efforts to stop it.
· Total U.S. debt including ‘unfunded liabilities’ is presently within an eyelash of 100 Trillion Dollars.
· Forty something year old Amschel Rothschild was found hanged in a Paris hotel room this week. The founder of the Banking Empire was named Mayer Amschel Bauer (Rothschild) six generations ago. Twenty years ago in a chance encounter with one of the ‘younger Rothschild's he said the upcoming generation of Rothschild's wanted to split with the parents and grand parents and wanted to see our funding completed. WE are not certain of this but WE believe this particular Rothschild was recently in the U.S. and was one of those wanting our funding to occur. If so we have lost another soldier.
· No leaks of substance to report from the Bilderberg’s in St Moritz last week.
· The Fed has passed China and is now the largest holder of U.S. Treasury Debt. Then China, then ‘the Household Sector’, then Japan, then State and Local Govt’s, then Priv Pension Funds.
· A current candidate for the Republican Nomination tells us “it is unbelievable the amount of corruption and dirty dealings going on behind the scenes in D.C”.
· WE have said it before, I will say it again. I believe Obama is insane. Mentally disturbed/impaired. Ego, arrogance, narcissism, God Complex, you name it and he’s got it, IMO. He pays zero attention to the Constitution or the ‘Law’ generally and there is nothing, absolutely nothing he won’t attempt to do to preserve himself in power and to stop the exposure of his previous thefts and criminal acts and this includes the FRAUDS surrounding his Birth Certificate, Social Security Number, College Records and personal history. For this reason NO ONE KNOWS what he is liable to do next to stop deliveries, funding and exposure and to maintain himself and his Communist allies in power. Watch out America. He may start a war in the Middle East. He may do a ‘False Flag’ at home or abroad. He may declare a ‘Banking Holiday’. He may help with a ‘natural disaster’. Crazy people do crazy things, especially those who think they are god.
Casper 6-18-11
Bernanke must go
Posted: June 16, 2011 - updated 6/18
By MARK WEISBROT
WASHINGTON — The recent release of documents showing that the Federal Reserve lent tens and possibly hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign banks in 2008 and 2009 has raised more questions about Ben Bernanke’s chairmanship of the Fed.
The lending may or may not have been the right thing to do at the time, given the financial crisis. But it was done in secret, and the only reason that we have the information now is because Bloomberg News and Fox Business News won a two-year court battle, using the Freedom of Information Act, to get the documents released.
The official excuse for such secrecy at the time of lending is that the borrowing institutions could suffer “bank runs” if their loans were made public. That is debatable, but there is no excuse for keeping the information secret for years after the crisis has passed.
This kind of secrecy is maintained to avoid political accountability, not for reasons of financial stability. Such practices are what we would expect from authoritarian governments, not the government of a democratic republic.
Accountability is really the main problem at the Fed. If there were any significant accountability, Ben Bernanke would never have become chairman of the Fed in 2006, and certainly wouldn’t have kept his job after the economy collapsed.
Bernanke was a governor of the Federal Reserve in 2002, when the housing bubble was already identified by my colleague Dean Baker. Bernanke was oblivious to the bubble as it continued to expand to $8 trillion in 2006, before bursting and causing our worst recession since the Great Depression.
Bernanke should have been aware of Baker’s analysis, which looked at house prices over the post-World-War II era, and especially the record run-up of 70 percent —after adjusting for inflation — from 1996 to 2006.
Before the bubble burst, Baker became the most cited source on the housing market for The New York Times. Economist Robert Schiller followed with an analysis of a century of house price data and came to the same conclusion — that this was a bubble that would inevitably burst. He was also frequently cited in the major media.
Baker showed clearly that this price run-up could only be explained by an asset bubble — that other explanations attributing it to demographics, building restrictions, or other changes in demand or supply were not consistent with the data. This was not rocket science for an economist of Bernanke’s skill level. He is well-versed in economic history, including that of the Great Depression.
Yet as late as July 2005 Bernanke was asked directly if there was a housing bubble, and he replied: “I don’t know whether prices are exactly where they should be, but I think it’s fair to say that much of what’s happened is supported by the strength of the economy.”
In May 2007, just seven months before the Great Recession began, Bernanke stated: “We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system. The vast majority of mortgages, including even subprime mortgages, continue to perform well.”
Bernanke therefore missed the biggest asset bubble in U.S. history, and then failed to anticipate the inevitable destruction that its bursting would cause in the overall economy. This is analogous to Japan’s nuclear regulators’ determination that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was safe from any tsunami.
The problem with rewarding incompetence and failure in high places is that even a well-regulated financial system — which we are still very far from achieving — cannot serve the public interest if the chief regulators don’t do their jobs. Secrecy, lack of accountability, and incompetence — these are weapons of mass destruction for America’s economy.
http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-06-16/bernanke-must-go
The Miscreants’ Global Bust-Out (Chapter 17): A Brief Note on the Unimaginable
by Mark Mitchell
18 June 2011
A brief look at the nexus between market manipulators and nuclear traffickers -- not a good combination.
http://www.deepcapture.com/the-miscreants-global-bust-out-chapter-17-a-brief-note-on-the-unimaginable/
original post by basserdan
EIGH REQUEST TO ALL SHAREHOLDERS WITH ETRADE!!
The Company asks that all shareholders who have shares in an E*Trade account send confirmation of their shareholdings to the Company urgently (enquiries@8000inc.net). There is a window of opportunity to address the "share imbalance" immediately but only with your support.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/8000inc/application-form-just-print-this-off-or-paste-it-in-to-an-email/10150200722527844
Please act on this request immediatly Etrade clients, you can make a difference. A few minutes of your time can make a huge difference and benefit all shareholders. Go EIGH!!!
My one allowed post for the day!
EIGH REQUEST TO ALL SHAREHOLDERS WITH ETRADE!!
The Company asks that all shareholders who have shares in an E*Trade account send confirmation of their shareholdings to the Company urgently (enquiries@8000inc.net). There is a window of opportunity to address the "share imbalance" immediately but only with your support.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/8000inc/application-form-just-print-this-off-or-paste-it-in-to-an-email/10150200722527844
Please act on this request immediatly Etrade clients, you can make a difference. A few minutes of your time can make a huge difference and benefit all shareholders. Go EIGH!!!
My one allowed post for the day!
Received via email:
this the first crack in the dam????
« Thread Started Today at 10:49am »
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See last sentence in this post - Maybe we should register as a lobbyist with the Federal Government.
Why would this guy be registered as a lobbyist??????
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Could this be another indication of a huge fail to deliver or Naked short sale similar to CMKM.
If that is so, this is a crack in the dam and an indication of huge fail to deliver and the beginning of public disclosure by investors of naked short sale of epic proportions?
Look at the names of the Companies, Microsoft, Exxon, CITI, and other banks.
No wonder the SEC deleted the posts.
This is an excerpt from the SEC.
read the full document.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/20....#ixzz 1Pa1aOBzE
'-Texas man files investments that indicate holdings worth more than $8 trillion
--One filing claims ownership of nearly a trillion Microsoft shares
--Recent questionable filings with the SEC vanish from agency filing system
A spate of recent documents submitted by a Texan indicate nearly trillion-dollar stakes in some huge publicly traded companies, highlighting the open and unmonitored nature of the Securities and Exchange Commission filing process.
Since the beginning of the month, Johnny Earl Satterwhite has indicated huge holdings of Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), City National Bancshares Corp. (CYN) and other companies and securities in a series of SEC filings. Combined, the claimed investments are worth more than $8 trillion, according to the documents.
A Satterwhite filing on Tuesday claimed ownership of nearly a trillion shares of software maker Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). That is about 1,500 times more than company co-founder Bill Gates owns, and, in fact, more than the 8.4 billion shares Microsoft has issued in its 36-year history.
Satterwhite's filings on Exxon Mobil, City National Bancshares and other companies claim similar-sized stakes, which exceed the number of shares outstanding at those companies.
On Thursday, the spree of Satterwhite filings came to an end, when the 69 documents vanished from the SEC's electronic filing system.
A SEC spokesman said he was investigating the disappearance.
Satterwhite didn't respond to a request for comment.
The spate of now-vanished filings underscores the open nature of the SEC's filing process. The agency receives thousands of documents daily and allows companies and individuals to file electronically through its Edgar system to speed the process.
Securities lawyers say the SEC does little review of filings.
Earlier, an SEC spokesman declined to comment on Satterwhite or the filings.
Stephen Fox, a securities lawyer at Herrick, Feinstein in New York, said the SEC doesn't conduct "substantive review" of filers, but he's never seen anything like the Satterwhite filings before. Although the filings appear official, careful study of details -- such as the number of shares owned -- makes them "look like a practical joke," he said.
In a phone interview earlier in the week, Satterwhite said the filings were made on behalf of a group of individuals, whom he declined to identify. He said he doesn't act as adviser to the group and has no connection with the companies they claim to be invested in. "
" Satterwhite, 51 years old, made his first submission to the SEC on June 2 and picked up steam throughout the month. In addition to companies, the filings indicate large holdings in investment vehicles.
Satterwhite said he has lived in Texas most of his life and moved to Killeen about a year ago from San Antonio. He said he also is registered as a lobbyist with the federal government on behalf of the same group he represents in the SEC filings. "
Read more:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/20....z 1Pcwls5MWhttp://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/06/16/recent-trillion-dollar-filings-suggest-weakness-in-sec-system/#ixzz1Pc wls5MW
ctrumabll: First the record and payment date for our Preferred A & B shares are declared and then according to the terms we are paid those shares. The price per ounce of gold and the trend for same has an impact on the sale price and demand for our claims which in turn will determine when our Preferred shares are cashed in. Hope that helps. Go FFGO!!!
A 3400%+ return is worth waiting for imho!
Looking for gold in the distant past.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_26/b4234015254996.htm
Go FFGO!!!
Looking for gold in the distant past.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_26/b4234015254996.htm
Our gold is not nearly so distant and we have tailings that are able to generate revenue and earnings this year and no mining permit is necessary! Go RENS!!!
BY TATYANA SHUMSKY AND ANDREA HOTTER
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other owners of large metals warehouses are being scrutinized by the London Metal Exchange after being accused by users like Coca-Cola Co. of restricting the amount of metal they release to customers, inflating prices.
The board of the LME met on Thursday to discuss complaints from aluminum users and market traders, who say operators of warehouses, which also include J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Glencore International PLC, should be forced to allow the metal out more quickly to meet demand.
Aluminum prices have jumped 13% since the start of 2010 even though economic growth ...
more...
http://gata.org/node/10014
SevenTenEleven: Spot on and awesome post! This mumbo jumbo about multiple legs, hidden invisible trades is just that, mumbo jumbo. FINRA knows, the SEC knows and we know and were there some legal logical explanation it would have been posted months ago on the regulators websites. 99% of investors do not have a clue about how they are being defrauded on a daily basis by these criminals and the regulators want it to stay that way.
Finally, the SEC is being forced after the Madoff embarassment to take a look at the fraud being committed by the hedge funds. Our markets are filled with fraud and it has always been easy to catch crooked CEO's and collect fines or prosecute them. The regulators either knowingly or unknowingly worked hand in hand with many of the hedgies by encouraging them to naked short small companies into bankruptcy. When a small company did not roll over easily complaints could be made to regulators and either an investigation or trading halt often resulted bailing out the shorts. FFGO has been cellar boxed for a long long time and were management not both sharp and prepared to deal with a very strong enemy would have given up years ago. No doubt in my mind the short here gets larger each and every trading day. Our management did not cave in to the shorts and as a result FFGO shareholders will be the recipients of a ginormous return of 3400%+. Thanks to all the white hats that have gone the extra mile to see that FFGO shareholders will be well rewarded for having stood their ground in the face of enemy fire! Go FFGO!!!
I am seeing $2.00 bid and $2.75 asked, seems to be moving on up.
Could it be we are almost there? NMGL stands to make millions upon the consumation of the deal! Go NMGL!!!
Ouch! I read a bit about that CEO Leonard and he seems like a straight shooter.
Tom: Nice to see you have taken me off ignore for the moment.
I called Dave and the assertions you made about him were not true.
Now getting back to the post of mine that you are claiming contains false information, please post the link from the FINRA website supporting your claim. That cold day in February when over half a billion shares were purchased and was reported to FINRA as a short sale can still not be explained away by anyone. I was on vacation in St. Marten and missed seeing that transaction but know that the RocketMan and others were watching closely. Perhaps someone else will do a repeat.
Go FFGO!!!
For six years Overstock.com has waged a war to expose Wall Street mischief. We did not go looking for a fight, but our company was attacked, and we learned we were not alone: the same manipulation-for-profit tools that Wall Street had deployed against us had also been deployed against many American companies, harming job creation, innovation, and economic growth. We knew that if left unchecked and unexposed, Wall Street's games could ultimately damage U.S. capital markets.
So in 2005 and 2007 we filed two lawsuits. The first case was against a hedge fund (Rocker Partners) and hatchet-job-for-hire research team (Gradient Analytics), both with ties to Jim Cramer. The second case was against a group of eleven Wall Street prime brokers, culminating in Goldman Sachs. The hedge fund in question (Rocker Partners) hired famed lawyer David Boies, and the prime brokers showed up with an army of the most prestigious law firms in America. Our lawyers were Dore Griffinger, Ellen Cirangle, Jonathan Sommer and Catherine Jackson of Stein & Lubin, a small but excellent San Francisco law firm.
We won the hedge fund case against Gradient and Rocker, extracting an apology, a retraction and over $5 million in cash (it felt good to beat David Boies' firm). In our prime broker case, one of the Wall Street banks (Lehman Brothers) has gone under (two, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch were sold at fire sale prices), and another seven paid us millions to let them out.
That leads us to the main event this coming December, when Overstock.com will square off against Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch (and Merrill's parent, Bank of America) in a San Francisco courtroom. Recently, in the prosecution of this case, we uncovered evidence of collusive action between Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street bad guys, in a scheme designed to fool regulators and profit illegally at the expense of Overstock.com. As a result of this discovery, in December 2010, we added a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act claim and requested treble damages under this RICO claim. We firmly believe the conduct of Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch were "racketeering" and "corrupt." We are moving forward: trial is scheduled to commence this year, on December 5, 2011. At trial we will hold Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch accountable and expose a slew of illegal Wall Street practices to the public.
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For six years Overstock.com has waged a war to expose Wall Street mischief. We did not go looking for a fight, but our company was attacked, and we learned we were not alone: the same manipulation-for-profit tools that Wall Street had deployed against us had also been deployed against many American companies, harming job creation, innovation, and economic growth. We knew that if left unchecked and unexposed, Wall Street's games could ultimately damage U.S. capital markets.
So in 2005 and 2007 we filed two lawsuits. The first case was against a hedge fund (Rocker Partners) and hatchet-job-for-hire research team (Gradient Analytics), both with ties to Jim Cramer. The second case was against a group of eleven Wall Street prime brokers, culminating in Goldman Sachs. The hedge fund in question (Rocker Partners) hired famed lawyer David Boies, and the prime brokers showed up with an army of the most prestigious law firms in America. Our lawyers were Dore Griffinger, Ellen Cirangle, Jonathan Sommer and Catherine Jackson of Stein & Lubin, a small but excellent San Francisco law firm.
We won the hedge fund case against Gradient and Rocker, extracting an apology, a retraction and over $5 million in cash (it felt good to beat David Boies' firm). In our prime broker case, one of the Wall Street banks (Lehman Brothers) has gone under (two, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch were sold at fire sale prices), and another seven paid us millions to let them out.
That leads us to the main event this coming December, when Overstock.com will square off against Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch (and Merrill's parent, Bank of America) in a San Francisco courtroom. Recently, in the prosecution of this case, we uncovered evidence of collusive action between Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street bad guys, in a scheme designed to fool regulators and profit illegally at the expense of Overstock.com. As a result of this discovery, in December 2010, we added a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act claim and requested treble damages under this RICO claim. We firmly believe the conduct of Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch were "racketeering" and "corrupt." We are moving forward: trial is scheduled to commence this year, on December 5, 2011. At trial we will hold Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch accountable and expose a slew of illegal Wall Street practices to the public.
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Interesting that according to IHUB the after hours bid is now $1.55 and the ask is $4.00. Perhaps Puppy or Tom can explain what is going on? Sure doesn't look like it would take much buying to cause this to fly. Go NMGL!!!
Recent Trillion-Dollar Filings Suggest Weakness In SEC System
Date : 06/16/2011 @ 3:11PM
Source : Dow Jones News
Stock : Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
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Recent Trillion-Dollar Filings Suggest Weakness In SEC System
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM)
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Today : Thursday 16 June 2011
A spate of recent documents submitted by a Texan indicate nearly trillion-dollar stakes in some huge publicly traded companies, highlighting the open and unmonitored nature of the Securities and Exchange Commission filing process.
Since the beginning of the month, Johnny Earl Satterwhite has indicated huge holdings of Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), City National Bancshares Corp. (CYN) and other companies and securities in a series of SEC filings. Combined, the claimed investments are worth more than $8 trillion, according to the documents.
On Tuesday, a Satterwhite filing claimed ownership of nearly a trillion shares of software maker Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). That is about 1,500 times more than company co-founder Bill Gates owns, and, in fact, more than the 8.4 billion shares Microsoft has issued in its 36-year history. Satterwhite's filings on Exxon Mobil, City National Bancshares and other companies claim similar-sized stakes, which exceed the number of shares outstanding at those companies.
The spree of Satterwhite filings, which now total 69, underscores the open nature of the SEC's filing process. The agency receives thousands of documents daily and allows companies and individuals to file electronically through its Edgar system to speed the process. Securities lawyers say the SEC does little review of filings.
An SEC spokesman declined to comment on Satterwhite or the filings.
Stephen Fox, a securities lawyer at Herrick, Feinstein in New York, said the SEC doesn't conduct "substantive review" of filers, but he's never seen anything like the Satterwhite filings before. Although the filings appear official, careful study of details--such as the number of shares owned--makes them "look like a practical joke," he said.
In a phone interview, Satterwhite said the filings were made on behalf of a group of individuals, whom he declined to identify. He said he doesn't act as adviser to the group and has no connection with the companies they claim to be invested in.
"These people don't want it known who they are," Satterwhite said.
Satterwhite also said the SEC contacted him last week about one filing, but he said the official didn't question the legality of the documents. "That never came up," Satterwhite said of his conversation with the SEC official.
Questionable filings with the SEC are unusual but not unprecedented. Civil and criminal charges are possible for filing phony documents with the SEC, although it isn't done often. "The crazier the people, the less likely criminal charges become," said Steven Feldman, a former federal prosecutor who served on the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.
In 2005, a New Zealand-based company called King Win Laurel Ltd. filed documents stating its intention to pay $450 billion in cash for Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM). It proposed using a combination of U.S. dollars and Chinese yuan--a currency rarely used outside of China--to pay for the acquisition. Exxon Mobil remains a standalone entity.
In the same year, a Canadian company called Apollo Publication Corp. filed to go public in a $3.6 billion offering it hoped would fund its ambitions to found an "Imperial of Earth" with one language, one culture and one currency. The company claimed a star-studded board that included a former Canadian Prime Minister, several former U.S. presidents and "Al Greenspan."
The SEC later alleged that Apollo Publication had misled investors.
Satterwhite, 51, made his first submission to the SEC on June 2 and picked up steam throughout the month. In addition to companies, the filings indicate large holdings in investment vehicles.
Satterwhite said he has lived in Texas most of his life and moved to Killeen about a year ago from San Antonio. He said he also is registered as a lobbyist with the federal government on behalf of the same group he represents in the SEC filings.
The filings list an address on the west side of Killeen in a neighborhood that sits between the Foot Hood Army base and the Robert Gray Army Airfield.
A neighbor described the area as working class and made up of mostly military families living in two- and three-bedroom apartments and rental homes. She said she doubted there were any millionaires living in the neighborhood.
-By Steven D. Jones, Dow Jones Newswires; 360-834-1865; steve-d.jones@dowjones.com
original post by lucky my dog
Tom: RC purchased shares through his broker by agreeing to have x amount of dollars deducted from his account upon delivery of the shares/markers. His brokerage firm went to a market maker and bought the shares. That market maker, likely NITE, sold shares to RC's broker that he did not have in inventory. Because he had no shares in inventory and noone sold any shares to him today, it was reported as 100% short to FINRA. Seems fairly straightforward to me. Go FFGO!!!
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It has been suggested that the tradable float of RENS is a mere 3 million shares. Selling presently for a tad under .02 this sure seems like a bargain to me in light of the fact that tailings are available which could begin generating revenues and earnings this year. It is my understanding that a mining permit is not required for this. Now couple those items with this new rule recently announced by the SEC which surely cannot hurt RENS and could help it significantly and I am feeling very comfortable with my RENS investment especially with the price of gold continuing to rise. Go RENS!!!
Here is the new rule:
The Quarterly Security Count Rule (Rule 17a-13). This SEC rule requires a broker-dealer on a quarterly basis to count, examine, and verify the securities it actually holds for customers and for itself — and compare that with the amounts of such securities it should be holding as indicated by its records. This process includes verifying the actual amount of securities located at sub-custodians such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. If there are differences between the actual amounts held and the amounts that should be held, the broker-dealer must take capital charges until the differences are resolved.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-128.htm
GrooveMaster: I agree it is very sad that this can be going on in America and yet I have been fighting naked shorting for over 11 years and it is still being done today. I don't think Jeff Mitchell would dare make statements unless he had facts to back up his assertions and we do know he came into posession of ElGindy's computer somehow and I'm sure that has some incredible stuff and names on it.
Hopefully this new rule by the SEC will in fact make a difference:
The Quarterly Security Count Rule (Rule 17a-13). This SEC rule requires a broker-dealer on a quarterly basis to count, examine, and verify the securities it actually holds for customers and for itself — and compare that with the amounts of such securities it should be holding as indicated by its records. This process includes verifying the actual amount of securities located at sub-custodians such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. If there are differences between the actual amounts held and the amounts that should be held, the broker-dealer must take capital charges until the differences are resolved.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-128.htm
Is this an example of moving forward at the speed of government?
Is BCIT one of the primary reasons this new rule is being proposed by the SEC? Is this what TM has been waiting for?
The Quarterly Security Count Rule (Rule 17a-13). This SEC rule requires a broker-dealer on a quarterly basis to count, examine, and verify the securities it actually holds for customers and for itself — and compare that with the amounts of such securities it should be holding as indicated by its records. This process includes verifying the actual amount of securities located at sub-custodians such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. If there are differences between the actual amounts held and the amounts that should be held, the broker-dealer must take capital charges until the differences are resolved.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-128.htm Go BCIT!!!
Go BCIT!!!
Will FFGO benefit from this new rule by the SEC? Obviously some brokerage firms have not been doing a good job of making sure the shares their clients held in their accounts were in balance with what the brokerage firm actually had. This new rule will force them to do what they should have been doing for years and no excuse for not doing so will be acceptable. I think this could prove to be very helpful to FFGO longs.
The Quarterly Security Count Rule (Rule 17a-13). This SEC rule requires a broker-dealer on a quarterly basis to count, examine, and verify the securities it actually holds for customers and for itself — and compare that with the amounts of such securities it should be holding as indicated by its records. This process includes verifying the actual amount of securities located at sub-custodians such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. If there are differences between the actual amounts held and the amounts that should be held, the broker-dealer must take capital charges until the differences are resolved.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-128.htm
Go FFGO!!!
With the trading suspension in place it sure should make things easier to count all the outstanding shares and I sure hope CDIV is doing just that. Obviously the SEC realizes that some brokerage firms have not been keeping a close watch on things hence this new rule which will force them to do so without excuse:
The Quarterly Security Count Rule (Rule 17a-13). This SEC rule requires a broker-dealer on a quarterly basis to count, examine, and verify the securities it actually holds for customers and for itself — and compare that with the amounts of such securities it should be holding as indicated by its records. This process includes verifying the actual amount of securities located at sub-custodians such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. If there are differences between the actual amounts held and the amounts that should be held, the broker-dealer must take capital charges until the differences are resolved.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-128.htm
Go CDIV!!!
Not sure why we need a comment period....this should have been done 10 years ago!!!!!!
The Quarterly Security Count Rule (Rule 17a-13). This SEC rule requires a broker-dealer on a quarterly basis to count, examine, and verify the securities it actually holds for customers and for itself — and compare that with the amounts of such securities it should be holding as indicated by its records. This process includes verifying the actual amount of securities located at sub-custodians such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. If there are differences between the actual amounts held and the amounts that should be held, the broker-dealer must take capital charges until the differences are resolved.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-128.htm
original post by ezaltheladispa
Not sure why we need a comment period....this should have been done 10 years ago!!!!!!
The Quarterly Security Count Rule (Rule 17a-13). This SEC rule requires a broker-dealer on a quarterly basis to count, examine, and verify the securities it actually holds for customers and for itself — and compare that with the amounts of such securities it should be holding as indicated by its records. This process includes verifying the actual amount of securities located at sub-custodians such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. If there are differences between the actual amounts held and the amounts that should be held, the broker-dealer must take capital charges until the differences are resolved.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-128.htm
original post by ezaltheladispa
MONEY IS NOT ENOUGH...20 YEARS IN PRISON WILL GET THEM TO STOP.
Looks like damages can be quantified for spreading false rumors, which is a naked shorters biggest weapon.
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2011/06/15/lennar-wins-judgment-against-minkow.html
original post by ezaltheladiespa
puppy: This looks to be crashing upward rather than downward as you predicted. Go RENS!!!
How many drugs that might have saved lives are not available because of naked shorting? How many companies with promising new drugs have been bankrupted by these SOB's? When I ask are Americans going to stand up and be counted and take their country back from the slime that is conciousless and preys on others.
When will be able to say our regulators are not captured by these scumbuckets? I hope all the readers of this thread are helping to see that deepcapture.com message is going viral. Our mainstream media sadly appears to not have the courage or integrity to tell the story so we must see that it is widely read.
basserdan: With each new chapter comes increasing exposure of the miscreants. I sure hope folks are reading the comments that follow the chapter since some of the comments are very telling.
Can you say Gary Weiss? Looks like Penson is going to be getting lots of coverage in the next few chapters!
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The Miscreants’ Global Bust-Out (Chapter 16): The Deep Capture of America, and Some Clues as to the Once and Future Cataclysm
by Mark Mitchell
14 June 2011
A look at the government's failure to catch financiers with ties to the Mafia and the Grand Jihad. Followed by a look at just some of the damage such financiers have done.
http://www.deepcapture.com/the-miscreants-global-bust-out-chapter-16-the-deep-capture-of-america-and-some-clues-as-to-the-once-and-future-cataclysm/
Gold to Reach $5,000 Due to Supply Shortage
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43396080
An exhaustive report by Standard Chartered predicts that gold [GCCV1 1519.30 -5.10 (-0.33%) ] will more than triple to $5,000 an ounce because of a lack of supply, not just because of a surge in demand that most bullion bugs cite in their bullish calls.
AP
“There are very few large gold mines set to commence operation in the next five years,” said Standard’s analyst Yan Chen in a report Monday. “The limited new supply comes at a time when central banks have turned from being net sellers to significant net buyers of gold. The result, in our view, will be a gold market in deficit, even assuming flat growth in demand. With the supply-demand balance so out of kilter, we see the gold price potentially going to US$5,000/oz.”
The London-based firm is among the first to focus on the supply-side of the gold equation amid the many bullish forecasts out there on the metal. After analyzing 345 gold mines and 30 copper/base metal gold mines around the globe, the team estimates annual gold production will be just 3.6 percent over the next five years.
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“They make a pretty compelling argument, especially when it comes to mine supply,” said Brian Kelly, head of Brian Kelly Capital and a ‘Fast Money’ trader. “Most analysis focuses on demand from China and India, which of course can disappear as quickly as it materialized.”
But that’s unlikely to happen over the next five years as central banks look to further diversify their holdings of U.S. dollars and as emerging countries buy more gold in the aftermath of the global paper currency crisis.
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“Currently, only 1.8 percent of China’s foreign exchange reserves is in gold,” wrote Chen and the Standard team in the 68-page report. “If the country were to bring this proportion in line with the global average of 11 percent, it would have to buy 6,000 more tonnes of gold, equivalent to more than 2 years of gold production.”
Beyond the money
The bold call is among the most bullish out there. In a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch survey of global money managers released Tuesday, just about a third of money managers felt gold was overvalued. However, that is the highest reading in that survey in more than a year.
Standard Chartered recommends that clients buy shares of smaller gold miners to get the most upside from its prediction but also said clients could buy physical gold and gold exchange-traded funds.
original post by Mattyhoho
Danielle Chiesi’s Lawyers Seek Leniency, Blaming a Love Affair
By PETER LATTMAN
Danielle S. Chiesi, the former beauty queen turned convicted Wall Street trader, deserves a light prison sentence because her crimes were the result of a tortured love affair with her boss, her lawyers said.
A lawyer for Ms. Chiesi laid out his case for leniency in a court filing late Monday that at times read more like a Harlequin romance novel than it did a legal brief.
“The punishment due for the conduct at issue here should be mitigated once it is recognized as the manifestation of the psychological and emotional forces impacting on Danielle Chiesi, rather than the result of greed and venality,” said Alan R. Kaufman, the lawyer.
Federal prosecutors countered the defense’s argument by calling Ms. Chiesi the “consummate Wall Street insider” who engaged in a “broad and far-reaching” criminal scheme. They asked Judge Richard J. Holwell to sentence her to as many as three years and 10 months in prison. Her sentencing is set for June 30.
Ms. Chiesi pleaded guilty in January to participating in an insider trading conspiracy with Raj Rajaratnam, the Wall Street investor who was found guilty by a jury last month.
Her lawyers blamed her actions in part on Mark Kurland, her boss at New Castle and lover for almost 20 years. Her “emotional and financial well-being were inextricably linked with Kurland,” her lawyer said.
Mr. Kurland pleaded guilty to insider trading crimes in January 2010 and was sentenced to 27 months in prison. Ms. Chiesi’s lawyers argued that her sentence should be less than that.
Ms. Chiesi began dating Mr. Kurland in 1988 when she was a 22-year-old saleswoman at Mabon Nugent, a brokerage firm where Mr. Kurland, then 40 years old, was an executive, according to the court filing. The married Mr. Kurland moved to Bear Stearns, where he became chief executive of its asset management business and later started New Castle, the bank’s hedge fund. He hired Ms. Chiesi in 1996.
Ms. Chiesi’s lawyers said that although Ms. Chiesi trafficked in inside information from corporate tipsters while at New Castle, she never paid for information and never traded in her own account. She instead shared it with Mr. Kurland, her lawyer said.
“The dozens of recorded conversations between Ms. Chiesi and Mr. Kurland are replete with examples of Kurland encouraging her to get information, of Kurland belittling her ability to analyze financial data, of Kurland being the New Castle decision maker regarding investment decisions,” Mr. Kaufman said.
“Dani was, and will say today that she still is in love with him,” he said. “She resists the idea that Kurland used her for his own purposes, and the truth of that long relationship is probably far more complicated than any of us can know.”
A former boyfriend of Ms. Chiesi’s referred to only as “Billy” apparently claims to know. Quoting a letter from Billy submitted to the judge, her lawyer said that Mr. Kurland engaged in a “vicious cycle of abuse” and “psychological exploitation” to turn Ms. Chiesi into his “virtual servant.”
A lawyer for Mr. Kurland did not return requests for comment.
Ms. Chiesi used her sexuality to gain an investment edge on Wall Street, engaging in affairs with other sources. She had an intimate relationship with Robert Moffatt, a former I.B.M. executive who is serving prison time after admitting to leaking confidential information to Ms. Chiesi.
During one wiretapped phone conversation played during Mr. Rajaratnam’s trial, Ms. Chiesi told Mr. Rajaratnam that pumping corporate insiders for secret information excited her.
“It’s a conquest,” she said. “It’s mentally fabulous for me.”
Federal prosecutors dismissed the idea that Ms. Chiesi was controlled by her boss or anyone else. “Chiesi operated largely on her own, and she was sufficiently experienced and sophisticated that she knew precisely what she was doing,” the government said in its filing. “In short, she was not merely Kurland’s minion.”
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/chiesi-seeks-lighter-prison-term-citing-love-affair-with-boss/?ref=business
original post by bull n bear