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see NTU main/older<div>=</div><div>chip b:</div><div>At the very least, Scaife’s funding produced an echo effect that amplified the voices of critics and conspiracists targeting Clinton, creating the illusion that these ideas had widespread support at a time when they did not. Credulous media coverage of scandal mongering then helped create a broader base of support than the original relatively small base in the Christian Right and populist right. There was much inbreeding. For instance, Scaife funded Gingrich projects, and Gingrich raised questions about the death of Vincent Foster, a pet project of Scaife’s. There were circles within circles. Anti-Clinton authors and publications funded by Scaife gave coverage and favorable reviews to other anti-Clinton authors and publications funded by Scaife. Nontheless, there were a substantial number of Clinton critics and conspiracy peddlers who did not receive funds from Scaife.
WESTERN JOURNALISM CENTERThe Western Journalism Center (WJC) is a project of Joseph Farah, former publisher of the ultra-conservative Sacramento Union—once owned by Scaife. The Carthage Foundation, controlled by Scaife, is one of the largest funders of the WJC. Founded in 1991, for several years the major product of WJC was a small newsletter, Dispatches, once billed as “from the front lines of the culture war.” According to reporter Trudy Lieberman, Farah has assembled for the Western Journalism Center:a high-profile board of advisers to help with fund-raising, including such conservative luminaries as Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute, Marvin Olasky, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, and Arianna Huffington. Both Olasky and Huffington are senior fellows at Newt Gingrich’s Progress & Freedom Foundation. Scaife also funds the Pacific Research Institute and GOPAC.The Center placed some 50 ads reprinting reporter Christopher Ruddy’s anti- Clinton stories—first published in Scaife’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review—in the Washington Times. WJC then repackaged the articles as a packet titled “The Ruddy Investigation,” which sold for $12. Farah also bought full page ads publicizing Ruddy’s allegations that appeared in papers including The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. The ad campaign brought in over $500,000, half from individual donors— many of whom bought Foster conspiracy materials—and half from foundations, including $100,000 from Carthage.WJC circulated a video featuring Ruddy’s claims, “Unanswered—The Death of Vincent Foster,” that was produced by ultra-conservative James Davidson, chairman of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and co-editor of the Strategic Investment newsletter. NTU’s research arm receives funds from Scaife. Davidson is a large financial contributor to Farah’s Western Journalism Center, which gave its first “Courage in Journalism Awards” to Ruddy, reporter David Brock of the Scaife-funded American Spectator, and ABC correspondent John Stossel, whose reports often repackage themes from conservative and libertarian think tanks.In 1997 Farah started a daily Internet newspaper WorldNetDaily.com, which featured anti-Clinton stories. In a three-page interview in the John Birch Society’s magazine The New American, Farah claimed that by March 1998 the website was receiving 20,000 to 30,000 hits per day. In the April 17, 1998 issue of Dispatches, Farah claimed 150,000 hits per day. That issue carried a lead story rife with anti-communist redbaiting aimed at Barbara Lee, an African- American elected to Congress from California. She is described as filling the seat of retiring “Ron ‘Red’ Dellums.” Christopher Ruddy is listed as a Contributing Editor.
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARDThe work of British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is a mix of industrious investigative reporting and irresponsible rumor-mongering. His book, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories, is an example of material that should remain unreported by the general media until it is corroborated with further documentation. A significant number of footnotes track back to rightist anti-Clinton sources, especially to the American Spectator, a neo conservative magazine that ran articles on Clinton with allegations that often lacked adequate corroboration.
The Secret Life of Bill ClintonOne chapter in The Secret Life of Bill Clinton alleges official misconduct and a cover-up in the death of Vincent Foster, tracing the conspiracy all the way to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Other assertions in Evans-Pritchard’s book include the claimed assassination of two teenagers who, Evans-Pritchard says, stumbled across a major drug delivery tied to Clinton. Other deaths attributed to Clinton or his operatives are discussed: “Already, people associated with the case were beginning to die in what amounted to a reign of terror among young people in…Arkansas.” Evans-Pritchard tells the story of one parent who “joined up with a California film producer named Pat Matrisciana to make a documentary on the deaths.” Matrisciana runs Jeremiah Films, which produces hard right Christian apocalyptic videos riddled with conspiracy theories, and made a widely circulated anti-Clinton video,The Clinton Chronicles.Evans-Pritchard uses James Davidson of the rightist newsletter Strategic Investment to introduce the idea that Clinton’s actions mirror those of Nazi totalitarians. In his role as a far right prophet of financial doom, Davidson has written a book, The Story of a One-Term President, which forecasts a vast economic collapse and “bloodbath in US stocks and bonds” under Clinton. Davidson’s in-house “muckraker” for Strategic Investment is Jack Wheeler, described in his bio as a “veteran of six anticommunist guerilla wars [and] anti-Soviet insurgencies, including those in Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia, and Laos.”Evans-Pritchard cites Davidson’s Strategic Investment several more times, noting that Davidson financed examinations by several handwriting experts of the Foster suicide note. Claims that the suicide note was a forgery were later debunked, and one “expert” was later revealed as having misrepresented his credentials. Hard-right ideologue Joe Farah from the Western Journalism Center is introduced as a dispassionate media ethics expert.According to the 1995 White House memo, Evans-Pritchard was a crucial link in taking hard right conspiracism and publishing it in the Sunday Telegraph of London where it was picked up and reported on by mainstream US media. Another British journalist who played a similar role was William Rees- Mogg of The Times of London.
CHRISTOPHER RUDDYChristopher Ruddy, the most energetic of the journalists claiming vast Clinton conspiracies, left the New York Post after his early 1994 stories on the death of Vincent Foster were heavily criticized in other media outlets. Hired by The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Ruddy was assigned by publisher Scaife to pursue stories about Clinton. Scaife learned of Ruddy through the Western Journalism Center, a Scaife grantee, which had placed ads consisting of republished Ruddy articles on Foster.Some of the most interesting information on Ruddy comes from his ally, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. While praising Ruddy in his book, Evans-Pritchard details how Ruddy was an activist in a nationwide right-wing network:He waged war on the airwaves, broadcasting night after night across the country on the radio talk circuit where he soon became a folk hero. He gave speeches, endlessly. He lobbied on Capitol Hill. He lobbied at the Christian Roundtable meetings in Tennessee. He lobbied wherever people would listen. He built alliances: with Reed Irvine’s Accuracy in Media in Washington; with Jim Davidson’s Strategic Investment; with the Western Journalism Center in California; with Jeremiah Films (which made the Clinton Chronicles). He signed up with Richard Scaife, writing about the Foster case for The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. It was a modest little brigade. But it was enough for insurgent warfare.Evans-Pritchard also discusses the crucial role played by the Internet: “What was bothering the White House most about the Internet was the enormous amplification it gives to newsletters like Strategic Investment,” or articles by Evans-Pritchard or Ruddy. According to Evans-Pritchard:In the 1980s our stories would not have gained any traction. Now they are “posted” within hours of publication, and are then perused by the producers of radio talk shows, who surf the Net in search of avant-garde material. A good scoop may be picked up….[and] read on the air by G. Gordon Liddy, Paul Harvey, or Chuck Harder. It might be featured by Blanquita Column, or by Rush Limbaugh, with his 20 million “ditto heads.”Ruddy has become a commodity. The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation by Christopher Ruddy, was published by the mainstream Free Press in 1996. Ruddy even started a monthly newsletter, Vortex, and solicited subscriptions in a letter headed, “Investigative reporter Chris Ruddy, the man who blew the whistle on the Clinton cover up of Vincent Foster’s death has an urgent message for you.” The message was simple:Our country is in crisis…Monica Lewinsky and her mother…could be murdered if details of her relationship with Clinton ever got out….This man and his wife have abused the power and trust of their office…. Slick Willie earned his nickname because his lack of integrity governed his actions as a family man, lawyer, and politician.In his style of demonizing rhetoric, Ruddy goes on: “Clinton is the quintessential slippery lawyer. Just as a weasel sucks the blood from its prey, so Clinton sucks the ordinary meaning out of words to deceive others…Clinton is a filthy-minded, self-centered man who fits the criteria of a sociopath….” Ruddy reveals that “In recently released grand jury testimony, Linda Tripp, who worked as Foster’s secretary, said she knew of one Clinton ‘body count’ list of some 40 people who have died suspiciously.” Vortex, claims Ruddy, will bring you the truth, “Stories too hot for the Clinton-compliant, Establishment media to handle.”Subscribers to Vortex get “FREE BONUSES” including a new video, “The Death of Ron Brown,” with vivid death-scene photos suggesting a bullet hole in the brain. With the warning, “THIS FREE TAPE IS GRAPHIC,” the video suggests Brown may have been murdered, a theory covered in Ruddy’s own “special report on the Ron Brown case…a $15 value.” Ruddy also sells a report on the TWA Flight 800 explosion “cover-up” by a former naval officer, and an audiotape interview by Ruddy of Larry Nichols, a former aide to Governor Clinton.In addition to Vortex, Ruddy started an Internet news site at www.NewsMax.com. Its breathless, near hysterical tone is common to the genre. And don’t think the failure of the impeachment drive has stopped Vortex. A March 5, 1999 ad in Human Events announces that Vortex, “America’s most controversial Journal,” now features “special reports by Chris Ruddy, Carl Limbacher, Jr., Jeffrey Nyquist and many others.”
MATT DRUDGE</div><div></div><div>wiki</div><div>James Dale Davidson is an American private investor and investment writer, co-writer of the newsletter Strategic Investment,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson#cite_note-mt-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a> and co-author with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg" title="William Rees-Mogg" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">William Rees-Mogg</a>of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Sovereign_Individual&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Sovereign Individual (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Sovereign Individual</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Great_Reckoning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Great Reckoning (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Great Reckoning</a> (1991),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson#cite_note-mt-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blood_in_the_Streets(book)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Blood in the Streets (book) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Blood in the Streets</a>: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad (1987<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a>). He also wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Plague_of_the_Black_Debt-How_to_Survive_the_Coming_Depression&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Plague of the Black Debt - How to Survive the Coming Depression (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Plague of the Black Debt - How to Survive the Coming Depression</a>. He is also the founder and former head of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Taxpayers Union</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a> In a video presented at his website, Davidson claims to be a "famous economist", although there is no evidence he has any higher education degree in that field.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Dale_Davidson&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; 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</div><div>William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 1928 – 29 December 2012) was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people" title="English people" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">English</a> journalist and public servant. He served as editor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Times</a> (1967–81), chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Council_of_Great_Britain" title="Arts Council of Great Britain" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arts Council of Great Britain</a>, and vice-chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BBC</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2Career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3Personal life</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#Death" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1Death</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#Styles_of_address" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4Styles of address</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life and education[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Rees-Mogg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>William Rees-Mogg was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bristol</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">England</a> in 1928 to an English Protestant father, Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg, and an Irish-American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roman Catholic</a> mother, Beatrice (née Warren).He was educated at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_College" title="Clifton College" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clifton College</a> Preparatory School in Bristol and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charterhouse_School" title="Charterhouse School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charterhouse School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godalming" title="Godalming" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Godalming</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-this_is_bath-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a> He was head boy at Charterhouse and won a Brackenbury Scholarship in 1948 to read history at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balliol_College,Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Balliol College, Oxford</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-The_Independent_profile_1993-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> He was President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Union" title="Oxford Union" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oxford Union</a> in 1951.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Larman_review-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Rees-Mogg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Rees-Mogg began his career in journalism in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">London</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Financial_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Financial Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Financial Times</a> in 1952 becoming chief leader writer in 1955 and, in addition, assistant editor in 1957.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Byrne-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Griffiths-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a>During this period, he was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Conservative</a> candidate for the safe Labour seat of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester-le-Street(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chester-le-Street (UK Parliament constituency)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chester-le-Street</a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By-election" title="By-election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">by-election</a> on 27 September 1956, losing to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Labour</a> candidate<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pentland" title="Norman Pentland" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Norman Pentland</a> by 21,287 votes,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Dennen.27s_review-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a> as he did in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,1959" title="United Kingdom general election, 1959" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">the subsequent general election</a> by a similar margin.He moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Times(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sunday Times (UK)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Sunday Times</a> in 1960, later becoming its Deputy Editor from 1964<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Griffiths-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a> where he wrote "A Captain’s Innings",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Budden-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a> which many believe convinced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home" title="Alec Douglas-Home" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alec Douglas-Home</a> to resign as Tory leader, making way for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Heath" title="Edward Heath" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Edward Heath</a>, in July 1965.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Dennen.27s_review-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a>Rees-Mogg was editor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Times</a> from 1967 to 1981. He criticised, in a 1967 editorial entitled "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_breaks_a_butterfly_on_a_wheel%3F" class="mw-redirect" title="Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?</a>",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Budden-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a> the severity of the custodial sentence for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mick Jagger</a> on a drugs offence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Bates-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a> With colleagues he attempted a buyout of Times Group Newspapers in 1981 in order to stop its sale by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Thomson_Organization" title="International Thomson Organization" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Thomson Organisation</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rupert Murdoch</a>, but was unsuccessful.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Telegraph-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Murdoch replaced him as editor with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Evans" title="Harold Evans" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Harold Evans</a>. Rees-Mogg wrote a comment column for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Independent</a> from its foundation in the autumn of 1986 until near the end of 1992,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Rees-Mogg.40_The_Independent-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a> when he rejoined The Times<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Debert.27s-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a> where he remained a columnist until shortly before his death.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Daily_Mail_obit.-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a> In his Memoirs, published in 2011, he wrote of Murdoch: "Looking back, he has been an excellent proprietor for the Times, but also for Fleet Street."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Preston_review-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a>Rees-Mogg was a member of the BBC's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_BBC" title="Board of Governors of the BBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Board of Governors</a> and chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts Council" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arts Council</a>, overseeing a major reform of the latter body which halved the number of arts organisations receiving regular funding and reduced the Council's direct activities. Having been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Somerset" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sheriff of Somerset" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">High Sheriff of Somerset</a> from 1978 to 1979, he was made a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">life peer</a> in 1988 as Baron Rees-Mogg of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinton_Blewett" title="Hinton Blewett" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hinton Blewett</a> in the County of Avon, and sat in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House of Lords</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-bencher" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-bencher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">cross-bencher</a>. He was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Reform_Forum" title="European Reform Forum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">European Reform Forum</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bath" title="University of Bath" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Bath</a> awarded him an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) in 1977.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Bath_degree-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a>He co-authored, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson" title="James Dale Davidson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">James Dale Davidson</a>, the following: The Sovereign Individual, The Great Reckoning, and Blood in the Streets.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[15]</a>He was chairman of The Zurich Club, "a private, international network of trustworthy and knowledgeable investors and entrepreneurs", and was a regular contributor to a subscription investment advice newsletter, The Fleet Street Letter. Writing in The Times in 2001, Rees-Mogg, who had a house in Somerset, described himself as "a country person who spends most of his time in London", and attempted to define the characteristics of a "country person". He also wrote that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tony Blair</a> was as unpopular in rural England as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mrs Thatcher</a> had been in Scotland. By now his liberal attitude to drugs policy had led to his being mocked as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadon" class="mw-redirect" title="Mogadon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mogadon</a> Man" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye" title="Private Eye" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Private Eye</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Bates-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a>The magazine later referred to him as "Mystic Mogg" (a pun on "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Meg" title="Mystic Meg" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mystic Meg</a>", a tabloid astrologer) because of the perception that his economic and political predictions were ultimately found to be inaccurate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Telegraph-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Prints_of_darkness-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a>Rees-Mogg served as the chairman of the London publishing firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering%26_Chatto_Publishers" title="Pickering & Chatto Publishers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pickering & Chatto Publishers</a> and of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsMax_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="NewsMax Media" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">NewsMax Media</a> and wrote a weekly column for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mail_on_Sunday" title="The Mail on Sunday" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Mail on Sunday</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-The_Mail_on_Sunday-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[17]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Rees-Mogg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In 1964 Rees-Mogg purchased <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ston_Easton_Park" title="Ston Easton Park" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ston Easton Park</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bath, Somerset</a>, the former home of the Hippisley family. The house had been threatened with demolition and Rees-Mogg partially restored it.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[18]</a> He sold the house to the Smedley family in 1978.Rees-Mogg has a daughter, Hon. Emma Beatrice Rees-Mogg, born in 1962.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a> She is the daughter of William Rees-Mogg and Gillian Shakespeare Morris.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a> Emma married David William Hilton Craigie, son of Major Robin Brooks, in 1990. She is a novelist under the name Emma Craigie.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a>Rees-Mogg's youngest daughter, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunziata_Rees-Mogg" title="Annunziata Rees-Mogg" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Annunziata</a> (born 25 March 1979), stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,2005" title="United Kingdom general election, 2005" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2005 general election</a> in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberavon(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberavon (UK Parliament constituency)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Aberavon</a>, and in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_and_Frome(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Somerton and Frome (UK Parliament constituency)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Somerton and Frome</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,2010" title="United Kingdom general election, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2010 election</a>. His son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rees-Mogg" title="Jacob Rees-Mogg" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jacob</a> stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,1997" title="United Kingdom general election, 1997" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1997</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,2001" title="United Kingdom general election, 2001" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2001</a>general elections (in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Fife(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Central Fife (UK Parliament constituency)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Central Fife</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrekin(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="The Wrekin (UK Parliament constituency)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Wrekin</a> respectively), but in 2010 was elected Conservative MP for the new constituency of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_East_Somerset(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">North East Somerset</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Budden-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a>Rees-Mogg, a Catholic, argued that the image of an ultra-conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Papacy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">papacy</a> is false and that the Vatican must overhaul its PR machine.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Rees-Mogg_on_Pope.27s_Message-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Death<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Rees-Mogg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>He became ill just before Christmas 2012 and died on 29 December at the age of 84, of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oesophageal_cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Oesophageal cancer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">oesophageal cancer</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-Daily_Mail_obit.-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rees-Mogg#cite_note-The_Times_obit-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></div><div>=</div><div>
</div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">THE FALL OF CAPITALISM</h1><div class="post-info" style="margin: 5px 0px 15px; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="date published time" title="2012-04-13T16:25:43+00:00" style="padding: 2px 0px 2px 21px; background: url(" images="images" icon-time.png="icon-time.png" left="left" top="top" no-repeat="no-repeat">APRIL 13, 2012 BY <a href="http://www.planorperish.com/?author=1" rel="author" style="text-decoration: none;">ADMIN</a></div><div class="entry-content" style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td>“The  Man Who Predicted the Fall of Communism is
Now Predicting the Fall of  Capitalism“<img src="http://sovereignsociety.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/fall_capitalism_1/1b.jpg" alt="" width="149" height="130" align="left" style="max-width: 100%;" />On July 1st,  2012, America’s
Most Popular Investment Will Reach its Use-by Date               It  will be as a civilization-altering development that will jam up our credit  lines…mute the roar of our mighty military engine…topple the world’s biggest  monopoly…and send shockwaves across markets…finally bringing the Curtain down  on Capitalism…Dear Reader:My name is James Dale Davidson.In  1984, I launched a financial newsletter called Strategic Investment with  Lord William Rees-Mogg (former Editor-in-Chief of The Times London,  Vice Chairman of the BBC and confidant of powerful figures like Margaret  Thatcher and Lord Rothschild).With  the launch of this newsletter I made an equally “outrageous” prediction.At  the height of Soviet power, I predicted that Communism would fall by the end of  the decade.So  radical was my forecast at the time that it was rendered rank nonsense by the  “guardians of conventional thinking.”A  reviewer in Newsweek dismissed it as “an unthinking attack on  reason.”And the Wall Street Journal categorically denounced it as no more than the  natterings of a “dopey aunt.”Then  on January 1, 1989, I told my sometimes friend Bill Clinton (we had the same  tutor at Oxford) and a room full of other skeptical political titans,  that the Berlin Wall would soon fall.To  the shock of almost the entire planet, on the eve of the new decade, the Wall  came down, and revolutions swept away communist regimes from Budapest to  Bucharest.This was an event that according  to the so-called experts “no one could have predicted.”Yet  for readers of Strategic Investment, it came as no surprise at  all.In  fact, we had been preparing for this momentous event for the better part of the  decade.We  knew exactly why Communism was doomed to collapse. We also knew that when it  did, that although it would be seen by many as a triumphant event, it would  also cause violent disruptions in the global marketplace, and alter the  equation of the game for many an economic player. And if you weren’t on the  right side of this shift, you might find yourself scrambling for new meaning  and methods in an entirely new world order…But  if you were on the right side, you could seize opportunities that only come  along once or maybe twice in a century…I  come to you today, to make the same kind of polarizing market prediction I made  back then…And  although I’m sure the media mafia will once again be swift to reject my  proclamation, I implore you to hear me out and listen to my reasoning…For  I believe, just like the Fall of the Berlin Wall became the defining moment that marked  the end of Communism, so too will this event become the defining moment that  will mark the end of Capitalism…at least as we know it…So  passionate and assured of my reasoning (and I believe you will be too once I  present the evidence) that it has compelled me to come out of retirement  and release this video, to fire the distress flare (if you will) about the  titanic event that could erupt just weeks from now…So  destabilizing is this event that the biggest names in politics and finance have  tried everything in their power to prevent it…and for some years they  succeeded. But due to America’s weakening economic and military muscle, we are  finally coming up against resistance from our neighbors and trading partners…For  generations it appeared that the Empire’s power and reach knew no bounds. But  in the past few years, we have been crushed under the monumental financial  stress of policing the globe, launching failed wars, securing oil and other  strategic assets, bailing out “buddies” and zombie banks.And  this has all been at a time when our Social Security and Medicare costs are  sky-rocketing (Their unfunded liabilities have been growing by $5 trillion  annually – at a rate of more than 33% of GDP – while the economy has grown at a  rate of less than 1% annually over the past four years). And our tax revenues  and T-Bill sales are plummeting…In  short: We have lost our leverage…We  have reached the physical limit on our exercise of power…and we are no longer  having as much success at bullying the world into getting what we want, whether  it be oil, gas, credit, trading agreements…or any other such strategic assets…Our  Bloated Empire is starting to feel the pains and consequences of Her Crimes of  Consumption…But  now, since we are losing the war on the physical front, our leaders are  igniting a new war on the cyber-front…employing “virtual vandalism” and other  acts of info-terrorism, in order to delete any kind of evidence that might  suggest that major swings in sentiment are occurring right now in the demand  for America’s most powerful investment…even going so far as to propose  censorship laws so draconian that it has moved China, and more than 10,000  Internet sites, including ones as big and as powerful as Wikipedia to strike out  against them…But  I have tapped into my contacts and my sources from across the global  geopolitical plains, and gathered inside intelligence from some of the highest  offices and from some of the biggest money-movers-and-shakers in the business  (it’s probably why Strategic Investment was often referred to as“An Investors CIA”), and I have uncovered a pivotal development, which I believe will set off the  most violent economic reversal we’ve ever known…<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">“FINAL CURTAIN FOR CAPITALISM”</h3>Civilization  is about to confront its greatest crisis ever.It’s  why I have been impelled to return from retirement…and produce this video…for I  have been warning that this day would arrive for many years now.And  I am returning to the public eye to complete the job I began long ago…It will  be the fulfillment of my life’s work. It’s why I  founded institutions like the National Taxpayers Union, Agora Publishing, and  Newsmax. It’s why I advocated through eight administrations…and why I helped  move 32 States to call for a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution –  (a change which if it had not been squelched by Washington’s powerful lobby  groups could’ve spared you from the terrible day of reckoning that could now be  only weeks away…)And  though this day will usher in one of the most tumultuous transitions in all of  human history, it doesn’t mean you have to get crushed by it. If you understand  the events going on in the world at the moment, including the fundamental  reasons that are driving them, then you need not panic. You can start preparing  right now for the cataclysmic upheaval ahead. While you may have to do some  immediate and dramatic repositioning of your portfolio, and maybe even your  life, you could stand to reap great rewards in the era ahead…In  fact, I believe more money  will be lost (and made) in the 18 months following this event than ever before.And  in this video I’ll tell you how it will be done…I’ll even give you the names of  some of the exact investments that I predict will be on the winning side of the  equation…That’s  where subscribers to Strategic Investment always had an  extraordinary edge over the average investor who relies on mainstream  information flows.In  fact, even once the world finds out about this event , the media and its mollified  listeners will still fail to truly understand the fundamental forces  behind it…The  media with all its bells and whistles, sensational sound-bites and meaningless  montages, is designed not to educate you, but to entertain you…not to answer questions, but to question answers…to detract and  distract…amuse and confuse…paralyze and terrorize…motivating investors to make  decisions based on their emotions and not on logic…which  almost always, as I’ve witnessed through four decades of crises, cause investors  to make all the wrong choices at all the wrong times…sellingwhen  they should buy…and buying when they should sell…The  media’s employees are like birds skimming for bugs on the surface of the water,  shying too far away from the deeper currents and undertows, to know, care or  dare where they are tending…But  at Strategic Investment, we are like marine biologists, diving  deep to discover the secrets beneath the surface…And  we do it, by applying a completely novel approach to the art of forecasting…It’s  an approach we call Megapolitics.<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">PREDICTING “THE  IMPOSSIBLE”</h3>Lord  William Rees-Mogg and I first invented the theory of Megapolitics in the ‘80s,  and it is one on which we have based all our forecasts to date, including the  ones we set out in our 3 best-selling books (Blood in the Streets, The Great Reckoning and The Sovereign Individual.)And  we believe it is the reason behind our success, and the reason why we have been  able to predict (and even profit) off events that others claimed were “impossible”…and  why everyone from the World Bank to Heads of State…from the titans of yesterday  to the titans of today have subscribed to our advice…It’s  how we predicted:<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">Black Monday (over 6 months before it happened.) We warned readers that  America would soon experience another 1929-style stock market crash that would  catch investors with the shock of their lives, erasing virtually overnight all  the profits (and more) that it had taken them the better part of the decade to  gain. Experts were almost unanimous in denying such a thing could happen.  Caught in the throes of what was at the time our greatest market boom ever,  they refused to see reason. But come October 1987, world markets began to  hemorrhage in what became the most violent sell-off of the century.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The Japanese Depression of the ’90s and 2000s. Once again, at the height  of the unprecedented Japanese stock and real estate market boom of the ‘80s,  experts got completely blinded by Japan’s Rising Sun! In fact, the consensus  was almost unanimous. Japan was about to take over the world. We said  otherwise. We forecast that it would slip into a deep depression…from which it  would be difficult to return. We even went so far as to say that Japan’s stock  market crash would match or exceed the 89% loss that Wall Street suffered after  its 1929 crash. Decades later, Japan’s stock market is still 80% off  its 1989 high!</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The Rise of a Whole New Wave of Islamic Terrorism in the 90s and 2000s…and how it would displace  Marxism as the new ideology of confrontation with the West. This again was at a  time when no one wanted to hear it, let alone report on it…and we forecast that they wouldn’t reallystart hearing  about it until our tallest buildings were toppled. Once again, this was  a Megapolitical event that we knew would impact global markets on a profound  scale, and for which few would be prepared. Caught atop the dizzying heights of  the dotcom boom, no one could even see that war was brewing on the geopolitical  ground…let alone understand the profound implications it would have on their  investments…But a momentous reversal in sentiment was about to occur, as New  Economy type stocks were about to be dumped for Strategic assets…war and oil  would become the new names of the game again…</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The Micro-Media Revolution. And in my book The Sovereign Individual published on the eve of the millennium I made sweeping predictions about how  the rise of the Internet, and other such micro-media technologies would have  the power to subvert and destroy the macro-state…and redefine media (and life)  at the margin. The events I wrote about in my book back then are beginning to  unfold right now at a breath-taking pace…</li></ul>This  is the power of Megapolitics.And  once you understand the theory behind it, you’ll start to see the world as it really is….Megapolitics  is the prism through which we look back into the past…in order so that we can  peer into the future…I’ll  tell you about this radical new way of looking at the world in this video.Armed  with this unique and powerful forecasting tool, the mysteries of the markets’  muddied waters will start to clear…and the geopolitical and economic fog will  begin to lift…By  understanding the fundamental reasons that drive economies and shape markets,  you can take back control of your life and your finances…In fact, in one of my favorite reviews to date, the  famous Internet billionaire Peter Thiel (co-founder and creator of  revolutionary innovations such as  Paypal  and Facebook) recently wrote me and said:“I am an extremely big fan of your writings, which have  shaped my thinking about the markets (and the macro world as a whole) perhaps more than anything else.”<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE BIGGEST MOMENT IN MEGAPOLITICS MAYBE JUST  WEEKS AWAY NOW</h3>In an  overlooked article published in the Tehran Times on January 12th,  2012 Iran (the world’s second largest oil producer) made a shocking  announcement…one that the western media establishment has suppressed…It stated that  starting this Iranian calendar year (which begins March 20th) Iran  would make its first dramatic move away from the Petrodollar…This is a game-changing move…one that I believe will spread  around the world like wildfire…and which I predict by July 1st will  bring an end to the 39-year secular bull market in dollars.America’s  most popular investment will have finally reached its use-by date.And the consequences for every single American will be so  dire, it will be difficult at first to accept, let alone believe.It’s why Washington has spent over ten years and four  trillion dollars trying to thwart it.And until recently it succeeded (if only just)…The  preservation of Petrodollar Power was the real reason we went to war with Iraq.It  is the real reason behind all the strife we are igniting today with Iran…It’s  the real reason why all our trade and economic, information and military wars  are now reaching a boiling point…It’s  the real reason why – in yet another history-making event – Wikipedia and over  10,000 other web sites recently went dark…And  it’s the real reason why the wife of my sometimes friend Bill Clinton (and  current Secretary of State) is trying to create draconian laws that (if passed)  would deliver a terrible blow against the freedom of information…and why  Hillary recently announced that “we are in an information war. And we are  losing that war.”In  the past, western media outlets enjoyed a monopoly on the coverage of world  news.But  today a growing number of viewers from across the world tune into various  alternative foreign media outlets to get a fresh take on current events.It’s  a numbers game. And we are clearly losing that game.For  instance, the most striking example of this comes from the launch of the RT  Media Empire…which within just seven years has become the most dominant and  pervasive force in media of all time.RT stands for Russia Today.It  currently holds a record number of viewers on YouTube, boasting over two  thirds of a billion hits…

CNN  International in contrast is struggling to reach an audience of just 1% of RT’s size!And,more viewers in Washington  and New York today tune into the English version of RT than tune into almost any other foreign-based international  news channel.The  days of American media monopolies are over.I  predicted, 25 years ago, that this Megapolitical event would occur…long before  the producers of these alternative media empires had even graduated from high  school!But  mark my words: It is merely the symptom (and not the cause) of the real  transformation that is going on in the world right now…and while this transformation  will bring great peril, it will also bring great promise…and for those who keep  listening – an opportunity for great profits too!<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE PETRODOLLAR WAS THE ULTIMATE MONOPOLY</h3>The  Petrodollar was a game-changing deal that Washington made with OPEC 39 years  ago.At the time OPEC wanted to create a Petrocurrency in which  to trade its oil. This currency however was to be made up of a basket of  currencies, which  although was to include the dollar, was also to include gold, the Japanese yen,  the French franc, the British pound and the German mark.America had recently hit peak oil and had abandoned the  gold standard.After racking up enormous debts on a failed war  (Vietnam)…we were fast running out of oil…of gold…and of money…And the inflation monster, which had barely raised its head  since World War II, was suddenly backfrom the grave…terrorizing the streets again…Plus our supremacy was being challenged by the remarkable rise of the emerging markets of the East (like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan)…Something had to be done.And  the Powers that Be, spied an ingenious little way to keep the empire’s engine  running….President  Nixon convinced King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to accept U.S. dollars (and only  dollars) as payment for oil. In exchange, he pledged to protect the Saudi  Monarchy, and all its oil fields, from anyone who might choose to seize  them…enemies like the Soviet Union, Libya and Israel, and many other interested  parties.The  King agreed.And  by 1975, he had got all the other OPEC members to agree too.<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE PETRODOLLAR WAS BORN</h3>And  so successful was it, that it made the dollar go viral…and mounted Capitalism’s  biggest monopoly ever…It  was a Megapolitical innovation that won for the Empire, and each and every  citizen in it, all kinds of special privileges…Megapolitics  are the big events that change history.They  are usually either a technological or monetary innovation that tip the balance  of power into the hands of its creators and alter the equation of the game.Two  of the greatest Megapolitical innovations of all time were gunpowder and  Guttenberg’s printing press.But  they were technological innovations.The  Petrodollar is a monetary innovation.But its impact in the last 39 years has been equally  as powerful.It was the deal that would rewrite history and shift  the balance of power back heavily into America’s favor.What it did was essentially create a 39-year secular  bull market for dollars…as all oil-importing countries would now have to stuff  their Central bank vaults full of dollars so they could pay for their oil.Now in order to acquire those dollars, they would  either have to borrow them off America, or they would have to work for it, by  manufacturing and selling all manner of goods and products to us…<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The Japanese sold us Kawasaki’s and luxury cars.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The Taiwanese sold us TVs, telephones and electronics.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The South Koreans sold us air-conditioners, fridges, washing machines  and all manner of modern conveniences.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">And the Chinese sold us toys and trinkets, gadgets and gizmos.</li></ul>And  while all these foreign oil-importing nations had to toil through sweat, blood  and tears to earn their Petrodollars in order to pay for their oil, we merely  had to print them… <h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">A NEW WORLD WAR WAS LAUNCHED</h3>But  this war wasn’t a military one fought with guns and grenades.This  one was a consumer war fought with low-cost unskilled labor and  mega-manufacturing plants.The  goal was to simply win the custom of the American consumer.The  reward was not kingdoms and countries, or gold and precious metals, but rather  it was merely paper dollars, printed without limit, at virtually no cost, by  the only institution in the world with the power to do so: the Federal  Reserve.It  became like Christmas every day for the American consumer.Santa  would arrive at ports all over America, with sea-containers full of all sorts  of goodies and gadgets, made by his worker elves at home…and sold at mercifully  modest costs to the American consumer.But  it wasn’t just cheap goods that Americans won.We also won cheap credit!You  see all these nations who were competing to sell goods to us began to  accumulate vast stores of surplus dollars in their vaults. And rather than let  these dollars just sit there and gather dust, they decided to lend them back to  America and collect the albeit pithy (yet better than nothing) interest rate we  gave them on the loan.And  thus the phenomenon, now infamously known as Petrodollar  Recycling, was born.And  it was this phenomenon that gave birth to our unprecedented 30-year secular  bull-market in U.S. bonds…(one Warren Buffett is quoted to have dubbed as  one of the most “extraordinary” bubbles in financial history…a bubble  by the way that is just moments away from bursting…with terrifying implications  for every single American, particularly retirees and baby boomers whose pension  funds and retirement accounts are simply stuffed with them – whether they know  it or not! I’ll tell you how to prepare for the bursting of the American bond  bubble in just a moment.)<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE PETRODOLLAR PRIVILEGE HAD POWER</h3>In  short: it allowed us to live beyond our  means…print unlimited amounts of money at virtually nocost…spend more than we earned… consume more than we produced… import more than weexported…It allowed us to borrow excessive amounts of money at obscenely low rates…and build up enormoustrade and budget  deficits with few adverse effects…It allowed us to build a mighty military machine and undertake expensive missions right round the  globe…We expanded our Empire…and extended its reign…Seen in this light, the  importance of the Petrodollar comes into perspective.You can see why we would  be prepared to go to war over it.The Petrodollar is now the last thread that is  holding the American Empire together.But  it’s about  to go poof…<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">CAPITALISM  IS ABOUT TO FIND ITSELF
WITHOUT A CURRENCY</h3>Iran  has announced its historic  launch of the  world’s first commodity exchange that will trade oil in currencies other than  the U.S. dollar…This  will mark OPEC’s latest attempt to move away from the Petrodollar.In  fact, in 2006, a report titled Iran Next  U.S. Target sighted the launch of this exchange as Americas #1 threat,  hailing it to be the  real “economic weapon of mass  destruction.”The  report was voted by alternative media outlet, Project Censored as one of the top 10 censored stories of the year.By  2008, despite all U.S. efforts to crush it, Iran managed to successfully and  silently get a version of this exchange up and running…This  first version of it, however, was merely to establish its validity on global  commodity markets…So rather than actively engage in Petrodollar Warfare with  America by selling its oil and gas in other non-dollar denominated currencies,  it merely offered petroleum-based products instead…But  this year that is set to  change.Iran’s  Oil Bourse will offer oil on the open market for the first time in currencies other than the U.S. dollar.This is the real reason why we are levying sanctions on Iran, and anyone else who dares do  business with them.This is the real reason why we’re sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz, and why we’re  accusing Iran of building Weapons of Mass Destruction.But  it doesn’t make sense.The IAEA (International  Atomic Energy Association) has just completed a full inspection of Iran’s  nuclear capabilities, and confirmed that there is no evidence Iran has decided  to actually build nuclear weapons.What’s  more, we have 2,150 nuclear warheads. And even by the most ambitious of estimates it would  take Iran about 10 years to build two at most.And  if Iran’s two nuclear warheads by 2020 are so dangerous, then why have  we allowed North Korea and Pakistan to build literally hundreds of them!So  now Washington is bullying the entire globe to boycott all trade with Iran.But  that doesn’t make sense either.For  example, Iran has been trading with mega-economies like India, Japan, South  Korea for over two decades. These are not relationships that are going to be  severed anytime soon by third-party sanctions. They’ve been trading over hundreds  of billions of dollars worth of oil and other commodities with Asia alone for a long time…not to mention dozens of other nations.Iranian  oil is an integral part of many nations’ lifeblood.And while America is running around bullying everyone with  sanctions and saber rattling, nations the globe over are quietly and silently  doing their own private little deals…deals that are collectively worth over a trillion  dollars…<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE WORLD HAS BEGUN TO BLINDSIDE THE DOLLAR</h3>China, Russia, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, South Africa,  Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Columbia, to name but a few, are all doing direct deals and swaps with one another.They’re basically blindsiding the dollar.For example:<ul type="disc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The Dollar Has Drowned In The       Yellow Sea! Hands down, Japan and China landed the biggest       punch to the Petrodollar in December 2011 when the two G20 giants       announced plans to dump the dollar and trade only in Yuan and Yen. Value:       Minimum $339 billion.</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The BRICS Are Now Glued       Together! Brazil, Russia, India and China (South Africa too) agreed to establish mutual       lines of dollar-free credit. According to IMF figures – Value:       $170 billion.</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">You’ll Hear of Asian Contagion No More! Watch out for the “Chiang-Mai       Multi-lateralized Initiative”! It is already in effect. And it links the       economies of the 10 ASEAN nations – plusChina, Japan, South Korea and the       Monetary Authority of Hong Kong in a super-liquid juggernaut kitty of       non-dollar credit and local       currencies. Value: $120 billion.</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">Weeks Ago, Tsunami-Tattered       Japan Threw India A $15 billion Lifeline. This       “little” agreement gives India immediate access to $15 billion worth of       yen to help it buy its Iranian oil.</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">And the Silk Road is Now Being       Paved With Yuan and Dirhams. On Tuesday, January 17th,       2012, China threw the dollar into one more ditch, when it penned yet       another  “greenback-less” agreement       – this time with the United Arab Emirates. Value: $5.5 billion.And this is just one of more than ten such       deals that we’ve seen inked by the Asian Giant in recent years.</li></ul>The world has begun to enter an unprecedented new era of monetary  co-operation. Instead of raising voices and guns – they are raising solutions.And U.S. sanctions to curb  the flow of Iranian oil are now hitting a kink. Though you won’t hear  about this  from the mainstream media  (where the word Petrodollar has been practically banned since 2007).But the word Petrodollar and  the details of new Swap Lines are bandied about every day on alternative media  stations like RT, Al Jazeera and China  Central Television.And this is just the beginning…<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">COMMERCE IS FREEING ITSELF OF FIAT CURRENCIES</h3>We  are re-entering a New Era of Barter and Exchange.To  circumvent U.S. sanctions, Iran and China, even back in 2010, started their own  little “oil-for-refineries” program. You see, Iran is not only far from  atomic; it’s also far from modern…With  its creaky and crumbling infrastructure, OPEC’s second largest oil and gas  producer can’t even refine its most abundant natural resource: crude oil… To  this day, it still has to export nearly all of its crude and  later import it back as gasoline, kerosene and other petroleum  products – and they usually do this at a loss.What’s  more, it has new Super-Fields (that were discovered in 1999) that have boosted  its country’s proven reserves to150 billion barrels – but this “little” asset  has still hardly been developed.So  as China’s thirst for Iranian oil continues to grow (49% last year alone) and  trade mechanisms to pay for it keep getting cut off, the two are swapping oil  for infrastructure.China’s  already signed up to build what will become two of the largest oil  projects Iran’s seen in years.And  this is just but one example, where the dollar has been cut out of  foreign trade, and has been replaced by good old barter and exchange.<blockquote style="clear: both; margin: 5px 15px 20px; padding: 15px 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Iran’s oil swaps with various nations are projected  to reach 500,000 barrels per day once the third phase of an ambitious plan to  further barter and refine oil is completed. That’s more energy than the  Department of Defense (the world’s largest single oil consumer) burns each day!  These new pumps and pipelines are slated to come online in the next 12 months.</blockquote>But  it’s not only foreigners that are dumping the dollar.Americans,  displeased with Washington’s fiscal recklessness, are dumping it too!A  recent report in The New York Times has announced the birth of an  entirely new currency in the U.S. – the BerkShare.Also,  Jim Rogers (one of the world’s shrewdest investors) has denounced the dollar  too, saying if something isn’t done soon to resurrect it, it will “lead to a  huge decline in the standard of living of U.S. citizens like nothing we’ve seen  in nearly a century.”And  Bill Gross, the world’s biggest bond investor has advised all his clients that  if they had just one investment idea, it should be an investment in a  non-dollar, non-euro currency.As  Brazilian economist and strategist Ricardo C. Amaral, recently said:“The  US dollar served its purpose since the end of WWII and became the major foreign  exchange reserve currency…(but) the days of the U.S. dollar playing that special role…has reached the  end of the line…today that system is very sick.” <h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE FIATS ARE FALLING</h3>But  all this is part of a much wider trend…one I predicted would occur in my book The  Sovereign Individual in 1998.<img src="http://sovereignsociety.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/fall_capitalism_1/3.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="162" align="right" style="max-width: 100%;" />In  this book I alerted readers that we were about to go from an era of  macro-states to micro-states…macro-currencies to micro-currencies…In  Europe in the 16th Century there were literally thousands of forms of exchange, and thousands of states (feudal systems).Now  Europe is down to 16 major states and one major currency. But  I believe the trend is about to reverse.In  fact, just like the break up of the Soviet Union, so too will we now see the  break up of the European Union…and of the Euro…But  the greatest (and most shocking) event of all…the one that most Americans will  not even be able to imagine, let alone believe…will  be the break up of our own Confederacy, and of our own Currency…and of Capitalism  itself. Sure the word will be bandied about, but it will take on a whole  new form…I’ll  tell you about that new form in a moment…But  first let me show you how to make yourself a bundle from the coming crash of  the Petrodollar…an investment I believe will go down as:<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">“THE BIGGEST SQUEEZE PLAY IN MARKET HISTORY”</h3>I’m  about to smash one of the market’s biggest myths.Most  investors believe the best way to make money is to get in on an investment when  it is soaring.On  the contrary, the best (and quickest) way to make money is not when it is  soaring but when it is crashing.This  is what I call a “squeeze play.”Squeeze  plays come at moments in history when sentiment shifts…when the crowd realizes  it got it wrong – and the market all piles out of an investment at once –  selling in a frenzy…like when investors dumped tulips in 1637… railroad stocks  in 1873…shares in 1929…bonds in 1981…tech stocks in 2000…banking stocks in  2008…These  dates marked the end of some of history’s most “irrational” manias…For  those who pinpoint the timing of these frenzies, and identify the set-ups that  are leading to these volatile moments before they happen, by betting against them  you can realize a decade’s gains in just months.In the past few decades, savvy investors who watched  countries like Mexico, Argentina and Turkey start to crumble could have made  profits of as much as 838%, 1471% and  1255% in as little as 6 months – just by betting against these country’s  currencies.But now the biggest squeeze  play in the history of modern capitalism is about to occur…<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">YOU COULD TURN $50,000 INTO $120,000
IN NO  TIME FLAT</h3>The dollar’s last great crash was  in the ‘70s. Back then you could’ve turned a $50,000 portfolio into $120,000 –  in a matter of years.And if you used a standard  technique in the currency markets, you could have made ten times that  much, turning $50,000 into $1.2 million.Problem  was, at the time, there was no easy way to do that. But  today you can do it at the click of a button.But this time, you won’t have to  wait years for those kinds of gains…you could see them in just a matter of  months. But you’d better make your move before July 1st.  For  example, one of these investments is a specialized (but simple) ETF (exchange  traded fund). Its performance seeks to follow the U.S. Dollar Index. But it is  an inverse ETF. It allows you to short the dollar against a basket of major  currencies, which are set to rise as the Petrodollar dies.The ETF is called the  Direxion Monthly Dollar Bear 2X Fund. And you can buy it at the click of a  button from your online brokerage account. Or just call your broker. The ticker  symbol is DXDDX.Playing this inverse ETF is one of the safest  and easiest ways to profit off the death of the Petrodollar.But the  Petrodollar-dumping profit opportunities don’t stop there.I’ll tell you about many  more of them in a new report I have just completed called: The  Death of the Petrodollar is as Good as Gold.And I’m more than happy  to e-mail you a copy of this report right away – FREE of charge.To claim your free report, click on the button belowThis is the kind of open  information flow that I predicted would occur many decades ago now, and which I  predicted would have the power to topple mighty monopolies, oligopolies,  cartels – and evenentire nation states…and that would usher in a  completely new configuration of social and economic organization.<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">THE DEATH OF THE PETRODOLLAR
IS AS GOOD AS  GOLD</h3>In this report, I’ll show  you how gold is about to become part of a whole new world monetary order.While,  the U.S. may have dropped the gold standard over 40 years ago, gold is the one  thing thatevery nation still has.Hell,  even Greece has gold.In fact, the bankrupt PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland,  Italy, Greece and Spain) have over $180 billion dollars worth of gold in their  vaults.The  PIIGS may default on their debts. But mark my words; they’ll save some ingots  for their oil. Sanctions, be dammed!And  with China-like courage, India (the world’s largest democracy) is also setting  the stage for a new“gold standard”.And in my special new  report, I’ll tell you all about it.I’ll also tell you:<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">How  to Double Your Wealth When the Bond Bubble Bursts. The  death of the Petrodollar, will also mean the death of the phenomenon known as  “Petrodollar Recycling” (which I explained before). This will mean the  long-overdue end of the 30-year secular bull market in U.S. Treasury bonds…an  event that will unleash an inflationary fire that will consume millions of  Americans’ savings and dollar-based assets. Retirees on fixed incomes will be  hit the hardest. Most will end up on the breadlines. But there’s no reason you  have to join them. Investors who are well prepared should see their portfolios  soar, even when almost everything else is crashing around them. I’ll tell you how  to be one of those well-prepared investors in this special report.</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The “Little”       Ultra-Safe 7% Income Secret, Which You Can Get Courtesy of What’s Poised       to Be Our Country’s First Dynamic Modern Micro-State. As the founder of the National Taxpayers Union, it’s true       I advocated against the gross fiscal negligence of our Governors and of       their imbalanced budgets. But I       also learned a few loopholes hiding in their legislatures. And now in this       special report, I’ll show you how you can use them too. You could not only       get a 7% return for the rest of your retirement days…but you’ll also get       many other benefits too!</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The Choice       Cut of the Foreign Bond Market That Will Pay You 12.5% Per Year…with a currency kicker to boot!</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: square;">The World’s #1 Income Performer! It’s one of the globe’s strongest and most  famous franchises. If you’d invested $1000 in this company in 1957 and  reinvested your dividends you would have had over $4.6 million today. It is one  of the best-performing investments of all time. And the fall of the Petrodollar  is set to pump up this investment’s already supercharged gains. No wonder it’s  been (for a long time) one of Ben Bernanke’s favorite income investments!</li></ul>Gold, precious metals,  and undervalued income investments will be among the best-performers going  forward…and you’ll learn about many of them if you choose to claim your FREE  copy of The Death of the Petrodollar is as Good as Gold!But even beyond these  investments, there’s still one more market that is poised to outshine all the  rest…<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">BUSINESS WEEK CALLS IT A
“GLOBAL COMMERCIAL PHENOMENON”</h3>This  market lies in a place you’d probably never imagine…And  it is populated by people you’d probably never suspect…It’s  a market that is not bound by the economics of oil…nor bound by regulations and  red tape…It  is not dominated by monopolies and cartels and oligopolies…Here  you’ll find no corporate accounting scandals…no crippling taxes…no billion  dollar financial blunders…no gangs or guns…no armies or wars…And  it’s the offspring of a wild, freewheeling economic oasis that’s actually  growing at a ratefaster than China.The  population is exploding.And  business is booming.Its  parent market already hosts some of the world’s biggest highways and some of  the world’s biggest hypermarkets…with superstores that boast extraordinary selections (that are many times that of Wal-Mart’s, Target’s or  K-mart’s) yet prices are at a fraction of the cost.In  fact, it’s one of the few places where incomes are rising and prices are  falling…and where businesses and social systems are opening up when the rest of  the world is closing down…No  wonder it is undergoing the greatest migration…The  best companies and the best minds are moving in on this new phenomenon…It’s  an open-source, outsourced, networked, knowledge-based, innovative economy on  the brink of forging an entire new form of commercialism.And  while everyone from Honeywell to Wal-Mart…Coca-Cola to Procter and Gamble races  to get a piece of this emerging new market, a few dynamic new players are  already dominating it.Buy  them today, and you could dominate too…I’ll  tell you all about this dynamic new market and the players that are pioneering  it, in another report I’ve just completed, and which I’m happy to send you free  of charge, called: The Rise and Rise of the World’s Last Great FREE  Market.  I’ll  e-mail you a copy of this report right away.[buy button]<h3 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">
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</div><div>larouche has wacko page</div><div>eg</div><div>...The Rees-Mogg firm set up a subsidiary, Agora Entertainment, to produce the movie, "IOUSA," with the same "gold-bug" debt-and-spending themes pitched for many years by Lord Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the London Times, and now a regular columnist for British media mogul Rupert Murdoch. In July, Agora sold the movie to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. It will appear in 400 U.S. theaters on Aug. 21, with a live-video address by Peterson and his fellow billionaire, Warren Buffet—all part of the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour sponsored by Peterson's foundation and the pro-austerity Concord Coalition, which is chaired by Peterson....</div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div>oops alaso wacko</div><div><div class="headers" style="line-height: 19.2px; border: 1px solid rgb(141, 163, 196); padding: 3px 6px; margin: 12px 0px; background-color: rgb(212, 220, 232);"><div class="heading" style="line-height: 1.6; font-weight: bold;">J.D.Davidson of 'Clinton killed V.Foster',a fraud pt.1</div><div class="author" style="line-height: 1.6;">by Tony Ryals (<a href="mailto:ncansisscam@yahoo.com" style="border: none;">ncansisscam [at] yahoo.com</a>) 
Friday Jul 29th, 2005 3:26 PM</div></div><div class="summary" style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 20px 64.875px 24px;">I wish to try to tell the story of my encounters with James Dale Davidson,Rhodes scholar like Clinton and a Clinton supporter until,for whatever reasons of his own,or others,he wasn't. 
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I am here to state as much how little is known as how much is.He is the founder of the far right National Taxpayers of which Steve Forbes has been a president.And if he were to catch you in a dark alley of the internet he would rob you blind,as he did to me.But it's nothing personal and he's sorry for your losses just the same. 
Of course I had no idea who James Dale Davidson was at the time I became his victim.I thought I was investing in a Stanford patent among other things and from a distance outside the U.S. and having no experience with either investing or the internet I had no idea what I was in for. 

I did say to Mr.Davidson much later,through email correspondence,that his and the Lord Rees-Mogg's book,'The Sovereign Individual',did explain his modus operendi to a 'T'.THAT WAS TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE INTERNET FOR PURPOSES OF ANONYMITY AND TO USE OFFSHORE COUNTRIES AND ENTITIES TO HIDE ASSETS GAINED THROUGH STOCK OR SECURITIES FRAUDS OR ILLEGAL PUMP AND DUMP ACTIVITIES AND LAUNDERING AND OR HIDING THAT ILL GOTTEN MONEY,OFTEN FROM DEFRAUDING HIS FELLOW AMERICANS,OFFSHORE. 

All with a pretense of 'nationalism' and 'patiotism' operating his scams mainly from the Beltway and taking advantage of years of political and financial contacts made there and elsewhere.He is founder of newsmax.com of which the likes of Al Haig and many other far right and one might say neo-fascists contribute. His years at Oxford and as a Rhodes scholar,I believe, distanced him further from his fellow Americans and made him feel and act as an elite who only associated with those of like mind and economic class. 

I believe he is James Dale Davidson III but his youth is left out of his self-agrandizing business auto-biographies is if he is hiding or ashamed of something in his earlier years.But this is only a guess as little or nothing is known for the public record. I find no mention anywhere from him or anybody else as to who James Dale Davidson I and II were.And no mention of his childhood although I am sure he had one.He no doubt entered IOxford sometime before Clinton and is older but this has rarely been a topic of his 'I'm a great businessman' autobiograhies.Funny if one looks at the companies he sites as examples,they all fail or go out of business,yet he is always doing better than ever. 

Below is the now famous or infamous quote from Hillary Clinton regarding 'the vast right wing conspiracy'.Funny,James Dale Davidson has a habit of saying 'good guys' and 'bad guys.He's always one of the 'good guys',of course.Well I don't know,I always thought liberal' and 'conservative' like 'communist' and 'capitalist' were inadequate and artificial ways of labeling people.But I will say Davidson prides himself on being far right and I believe elitist,not my ideal of America.And like the Lord Rees-Mogg he collaborates with he believes in class and being in the upper tiers strongly,at whatever cost. 

It was Baron Rothschild who in the early 19th century advised investors to ' Buy when there is blood on the streets.' ' Blood in the Streets', is also,not so coincidentally a title of a book co-written by the Lord Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson.Yet I have met what I would consider 'conservative' Americans and they are still not blood thirsty and many do hold high standards and morals just as the so-called 'liberals',that in todays America for political purposes are made to be 'radicals' or the equivalent of old line Russian communists by the likes of Rupert Murdoch who is a friend to Davidson's Lord Rees-Mogg and owner of the London Times where Rees-Mogg was once editor. 

“…this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President.” —Hillary Clinton. on The Today Show, after the Monica Lewinsky story broke. 

Below is a hodge podge of writing from different sources including James Dale Davidson's far right newsmax.com that describes in his,or his sympathetic British writer Christopher Ruddy's words, an encounter between Bill Clinton and James Dale Davidson during Clinton's first inauguration. Christopher Ruddy it should be remembered,was inspired to write much of the slander that 'Clinton killed Vince Foster'.It was Davidson who found and paid the 'handwriting 
experts' to prove or at least insinuate it.Had the handwriting on Foster's suicide note been forged and the FBI said no,it would not have proven a thing.But proof was never Mr.Davidson's strong point,like his 'newsmax.com' etc.and his fraudulent penny stock mailings and and websites,inference is everything,proof nothing. 

Mr.James Dale Davidson never had any more proof for his fraudulent claim that the corrupt penny stock companies he has been involved with were victims of 'naked shorting' ,or of brokers etc.,inundating the market with non-existent 'electronically counterfeitted' shares than he did that Clinton killed Vince Foster,but he didn't care,it was the idea that counted.It is all 
psy-ops whether it be promoting wothless companies to dump their shares on naive investors or spreading the idea Clinton killed Vince Foster.It was and is,all the same.Promote and sell a perception or the perception of an idea you speadnnot the truth and not 'facts'. 

So while Richard Mellon-Scaife and other far right contributers to the cause made their contributions most Americans who carry around the idea in theuir heads that Clinton killed or maybe killed Vince Foster virtually none can say where they got the idea.Well in great part and for the most part hats off to James Dale Davidson and his behind the scenes propaganda machine. 

If you do a google search of 'naanss' or better 'naanss davidson colby' you will find my comments or complaints to the SEC of late 2003 regading James Dale Davidson and his National Association Against Naked Short Selling'.This would be closed down at its former office in Blaine,Washington sometime after my complaint.This office also housed 'Genemax' </div><div class="article" style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 27.7969px;">
penny stock that touted a 'cancer cure' but only produced an unending stream of penny stock shares inundating the market,never putting money in the coffers for research and always more shares being dumped from U.S.or Canadian accounts and through offshore entities.Davidson and the Lord Rees-Mogg promoted LOM or Lines Overseas Management of Bermuda in their book 'The Sovereign Individual' without even disclosing their substantial ownership.It is now under long over due investigation by the SEC for dumping huge volumes of shares of penny stocks from its U.S.accounts including Charles Schwab.This is what Davidson fraudulently claimed were 'naked shorts' or non-existent shares sold by Schwab.Schwab kept quiet because the fraud and what I term 'share-money laundering' was a very good business. 

Economist: Inflation Rate Is Double Official Number 
Christopher Ruddy and Ryan Troup 
March 14, 2000 
Jan. 20, 1993, and Bill Clinton was not president 24 hours when he saw James Dale Davidson at one of several Washington Inaugural Balls. 
Clinton quickly waved past the salutations and congratulations. "Jim," he said, "You may able to help me." 
Davidson, a Clinton campaign donor, a financial writer, then head of the National Taxpayers Union and someone who had known Clinton for years from annual retreats at the Hilton Head Renaissance weekends, nodded with agreement. 
"I think the Bush people were cooking the economic numbers in the months before the election," Clinton said, continuing, "Do you think you could put together a report for me on how they did it?" 
Davidson agreed but the thought went racing through his mind, "This man’s not president for one day and he’s already trying to figure out how to fix the books." 
Since his inauguration Clinton has survived an avalanche of scandals that would have crushed any other mortal. 
One factor cited by both Clinton critics and friends has been the booming U.S. economy and the longest bull market in the history of the world. 
"It’s the economy, stupid!" was the Carville-inspired slogan of the Clinton-Gore ’92 campaign. The slogan has become the White House mantra for two terms. 

- from James Dale Davidson's own newsmax.com 

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and this below also from newsmax strangely predicts former CIA Chief Colby's death a month in advance !!! You might recall Colby was head of the CIA during Nixon's Presidency and appointed by him but better described as a Roosevelt 'new deal' democrat than a Nixonite. 

For a number of reasons the far right would have reason to despise him and so paradoxical he was in James Dale Davidson's employ at the time of his death.Equally that his name was on Davidson's 'Strategic Investment' letterhead claiming Clinton responsible for the death of Vince Foster only months earlier.We have no reason to believe he believed it,he was just paid for his name and the mailings were normally only for stock promotions etc. not accusing Presidebts of murder and certainly not for journalistic investigations. 

A lesser known fact,as the article below,shown only in part to demonstrate Davidson or someone(s) in his circle appeared to anticipate Colby's death in advance,is the James Dale Davidson and his group seem to have begun the preliminary effots to insinuate the death of Colby was Clinton's doing as well then seem to have lost interest or backed off. 

Christopher Ruddy 

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William Colby's Death Mystery 

It was March of 1996. My cell phone rang. My literary agent was on the line. 

"Cross Colby off the list. He's dead." 

"Colby is dead," I said with some shock. 

"Yes, I just heard on the radio he died in a car crash," my agent said. 

I did not know former CIA Director Bill Colby, nor did my agent. But we both knew James Dale Davidson, editor of the investment newsletter Strategic Investment. Davidson was not only an associate of Colby's, but Colby had worked for Davidson as a contributing editor for his newsletter. 

At the time of my agent's call, he was attempting to find a publisher for my book on the Vince Foster case. We still had no publisher, and my agent had floated the idea of William Colby writing the proposed book's foreword. This would serve several purposes. Colby, as a former CIA chief, would give the book some credibility with a publisher. 

Colby had been a key figure in the Watergate scandal after he refused to allow the CIA to block the FBI probe on the Watergate burglary. Colby could not be accused of being part of a right-wing conspiracy. After leaving the CIA, he argued for unilateral disarmament and became a fixture at the left-wing Institute for Policy Studies. 

My agent thought Colby might be open to the idea. After all, he worked for Davidson and Davidson openly claimed Foster was murdered, pointing the finger at the Clinton White House. 

But now the idea of a Colby foreword seemed lost. 

I called Davidson and asked him if he had heard the news about Colby. His voice became strained. He sounded stunned when I told him. 

But, of course, Colby had not died that March. He died a month later. My agent was wrong. To this day, he swears he heard something, and to this day, we laugh about the Jungian wrinkle in time. Davidson was peeved at me for the false report, as he well should have been. 

On April 29, 1996, the wires flashed with hot news: Former CIA Director William Colby had disappeared from his country home on the Wicomico River in Maryland. Authorities suspected he died in a canoeing accident, as his waterlogged canoe was found on the shore near his home. 

A week later, his body surfaced in the marsh near his home. After a perfunctory autopsy, local police authorities closed the case as an accident. - newsmax.com 

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Below from rumormillnews.com furthers my argument of how little is known of the former backer and later accuser of Bill Clinton,his fellow Rhodes scholar and Oxford graduate James Dale Davidson : 

Another example is James Dale Davidson, a person surrounded by unanswered questions. Davidson is a former Rhodes Scholar and friend of Bill Clinton who started the National Taxpayers Union, publishes the investment newsletter Strategic Weekly Briefings, and did everything he could to expose the "truth" about Clinton. 

I was suspicious of Davidson for years because he was a Rhodes Scholar, which means that he is a member of the international conspiracy discussed in this paper. However, it was not until recently that his true colors were revealed. Joan Veon said in a radio interview that certain tax groups like Davidson are really wolves in sheep's clothing, because they talk about the evil IRS and push a National Retail Sales Tax (NRST). The reason they want the NRST is that America is the last Western country which does not have a value added tax (VAT) and the NRST is the first step in that direction. Once the NRST is implemented, the next step is to tax every manufactured item in every step of the manufacturing process. And, of course, in order to this every item will have to be controlled and monitored by the government. This will lead to a totalitarian society wherein every person's life is totally controlled by the government. This is the ultimate goal of Davidson and similar people. 

So the fact that someone like Davidson would appear to be doing the American public a favor by exposing the evil of Bill Clinton should make one seek to understand his true motive. The most likely explanation is that he is following the orders of the NWO plan as outlined by Rhodes, Milner and others in destroying the American presidency and bringing the U.S. into their Commonwealth of Nations, i.e. one-world government. 

As a curious aside, former Director of the CIA William Colby had retired and joined Davidson as a writer for his investment newsletter. Colby was later found floating in the water behind his house. According to what I have heard and read about Colby, he would not be one to sell America over to the NWO, so why join up with the likes of Davidson? Perhaps he took the job to spy on Davidson and his NWO cronies, who had him removed? This is just one more example of many demonstrating the NWO's ruthlessness. 

- rumormillnews.com 

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from 'Witches Of Whitewater' 

As for Lucianne Goldberg herself, who walks, talks, and acts like one of Chotiner's gangster molls, she wrote Madame Cleo's Girls, a 1992 novel with lurid details about a trio of high-class prostitutes. 
Still, before Goldberg became the den mother for Bush-leaguer Linda Bad'' Tripp, she had reportedly represented Dolly Kyle Browning for a potential book deal about an alleged, early Clinton love affair, but critics debunked Browning's story.  Next, Goldberg tried to get a book deal for the Arkansas state troopers who alleged that they had procured women for then-Gov. Bill Clinton. Witches of Whitewater Goldberg and her son, Joshua, also confirmed that she has been a frequent collaborator of the two leading British intelligence operatives assigned to trash Clinton: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Lord William Rees-Mogg. .......................................................  Lucianne Goldberg admitted to this author that she knows another leading British opponent of President Clinton, Lord William Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the London Times now owned by Rupert Murdoch. Of course I know Lord William Rees-Mogg,'' she said. I think he's been doing a great job against Clinton.'' Rees-Mogg's attacks upon the Clinton administration either appear in the London Times or in the U.S.-based newsletter Strategic Investment, which Lord Rees-Mogg co-edits with James Dale Davidson, founder of the right-wing National Taxpayers Union.  No sooner did the Goldberg-Tripp-Lewinsky scandal break, than Lord William Rees-Mogg sped to the United States, apparently in search of DNA samples and other dirt dished up by his admirer, Lucianne Ma Barker'' Goldberg. 
members.tripod.com/_{american_almanac/witches.htm }Kirez Korgan money (at) wetheliving.com 
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 23:12:05 -0700 
I don't have the time to say much that's intelligent, but... I recognized 
this product from the writing and the ideas, while I did NOT recognize the 
author's name. 
Ultimately, it's (Lord) William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson behind 
this stuff. Also, this material is a bit more hyp-ish than most of their 
other material that I've seen, in my recollection. 
They're both strong libertarians. James Dale Davidson... is an interesting 
character, to say the least. He is the founder and president of the National 
Taxpayers Union, a libertarian think-tank in DC that publishes the actual 
spending habits and voting habits of Congressmen (among other things). I 
worked for them in the summer of 1995. 
Their newsletters are fascinating. Most interestingly, their newsletters are 
actually, from what I know of them, sincere. They believe the stuff they 
write (this doesn't make it good investment advice, in fact I've seen them 
being dramatically wrong for years). They do not hesitate from combining 
their investment advice with their libertarian political analysis. 
They also produce little booklets, like "The Burning Match" and "Who Killed 
Vince Foster?" --- which is pretty rich in conspiracy theory. 
I got introduced to them in 1994 from their newsletter Taipan, which had 
me thrilled with their messages of libertarianism, coming excitement and 
revolution, access to information from spies (they cited Jack Wheeler as one 
of their principal sources --- for those of you who don't know, Jack Wheeler 
is an Objectivist philosopher-adventurer), market contrarianism... even 
scoffing at religion and international political order. 
What I've never figured out about them is: What, exactly, their theory of 
history cycles is about. This strikes me as the most ludicrous aspect of 
their messages. They think they can make these predictions by historical 
analysis, because they have these elaborate theories about how history 
operates in cycles. 
Anyway, I just thought I'd share some of my experience. I remember them 
marketing two main newsletters, Taipan and Strategic Investment. I think 
Taipan must have gotten closed down after I heard of it in 1994; I haven't 
seen or heard of it since. 
And I can never resist commenting that James Dale Davidson's wife is 
simply... amazing, somehow beautiful in a way that I can't reduce to 
particulars. She's a reporter working in DC. I met her once and, even though 
she was many years older than me, and not even my 'type,' I found her 
absolutely electrifying, so that I still remember the most minute details 
about her from that single day almost 7 years ago. I asked her about her 
husband, and I got the impression that she was perhaps accustomed to hearing 
him ridiculed. She got a very guarded, wary look on her face and seemed to 
try to duck the question and change the conversation, saying something 
cryptic about Jim having a wildly varied and eclectic past. (My meeting her 
was one of the singularly most bizarre experiences in my life, so I always 
marvel about it. My life is itself bizarre, so this says a lot, I think.) 
Kirez 

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James Dale Davidson et.al,purchase New Zealand farm and some New Zealanders do some good Davidson research but yet again we come up lacking,missing something........ 

Wharekauhau Lodge sold to U.S. interests 
Wharekauhau Lodge and Farm in the Wairarapa is being sold to four residents of the U.S.A. in order to "create one of the best and most exclusive lodges in the world". The lodge includes 931 hectares of land. The current owners, W. and A. Shaw, are retaining a 10% interest in the property and will "have an ongoing involvement in the development and management of the property". 

The new owner is Wharekauhau Holdings Ltd (WHL). Initially this was owned 24.9% by J. Davidson, 24.9% by A. Miller, 24.9% by M. Baybak, 15.3% by J. Sevo (all of the U.S.A.) and 10% by the Shaws. However in March 1996 this approval was amended to change the shareholding to include in addition Sir R. Douglas (Aotearoa), Lord R. Mogg (U.K.) and J. Blanchard III (U.S.A.). With that change, the shareholding is 24.6% by J. Davidson, 12.3% by A. Miller, 20.2% by M. Baybak, 12.3% by J. Sevo (all of the U.S.A.), 12% by the Shaws, 13.2% by J. Blanchard III, 4.4% by Lord R. Mogg, and 1% by Sir R. Douglas. 

They are paying $4,800,000 for the property through the company Wharekauhau Station Ltd. 

"The Commission is advised that the Wharekauhau lodge is one New Zealand’s leading lodges but currently has limited accommodation facilities. 

The Commission is advised that WHL propose to implement a development plan that will create one of the best and most exclusive lodges in the world, while also enhancing the current scenic splendour of Wharekauhau. The Commission also is advised that the development plan envisages building new villas and estate homes and extending or replacing the existing lodge house. 

It is also intended that the farm business will be maintained as a Romney sheep stud. This will be developed into a model farm with some hill facings being planted in trees and fencing and fertility being improved." 

Sir Roger needs no introduction. Lord William Rees-Mogg is the former chief leader writer and editor of The Financial Times, city editor and deputy editor of The Sunday Times, and editor of The Times (1967-81), "by which time he had become an accepted establishment figure, on the boards of several companies", according to the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia (1994, Cambridge University Press,<a href="http://www.intbuscom.com/ibc/about.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.intbuscom.com/ibc/about.html</a>). A former Vice-Chairman of the BBC, in 1988 he became head of the new, controversial, Broadcasting Standards Council. He is an author, business commentator and "advisor to some of the world's wealthiest investors". His business interests include being Chairman of International Business Communications Group PLC (business publishers, conference organisers etc), and Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited, and a Director of The General Electric Company Plc, and St. James Place Capital Plc (<a href="http://www.intbuscom.com/annual/directorreport.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.intbuscom.com/annual/directorreport.html</a>). As the Encyclopaedia states, he is very much a central establishment figure in the British hierarchy. He is a favourite subject of conspiracy theorists. His government and business connections are likely to have brought him into contact with Douglas. 

He has co-authored with one James D. Davidson two books on investment: "Blood in the Streets" by James Dale Davidson and Sir William Rees-Mogg, (New York: Warner Books, 1987), and "The Great Reckoning", revised and updated edition, by James Dale Davidson and Sir William Rees-Mogg, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993). The first takes its name from the advice given by Baron Nathan Rothschild in 1815: "the time to buy is when blood is running in the streets". The second predicts a major depression before the end of the century and advises investors how to prepare for it. 

The two also edit and publish Strategic Investment, an investment newsletter described by Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young (CTSY, the shareholders’ solicitors) to the OIC as "the largest circulation (135,000 per month Wall Street newsletter". Significantly, it "has been heavily promoting investment in New Zealand", so they are no novices where Aotearoa is concerned. Davidson has written for the Wall Street Journal and numerous other U.S. publications, and is a principal of Strategic Advisors Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland. 

The New Zealand Companies Office identifies the OIC’s J. Davidson as James D. Davidson of Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.. The OIC files confirm this as Rees-Mogg’s associate, James Dale Davidson. Davidson is not simply an investment advisor: he is also a political activist after Roger Douglas’s heart, and as we have seen, with a standing interest in investment in Aotearoa. He is the chairman of the National Taxpayers Union (compare ACT), which he founded in 1969. It claims 250,000 members, with a budget of $3.5 million, and 20 staff at its headquarters in Washington DC ("Encyclopedia of Associations", 31st Edition, 1996, Part 2, p.2304.) "The National Taxpayers Union [is] a public interest advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating wasteful government spending and working to reduce taxes and balance the federal budget" (<a href="http://www.foe.org/orgs/FOE/scissors95/greenpart31.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.foe.org/orgs/FOE/scissors95/greenpart31.html</a>). 

One of the more fascinating sites on the Internet is "microstates.com", which has a section, microstate.com/bermuda/intexecs.htm, devoted to Bermuda. There (presumably to attract others to the country), it lists some of the prominent businessmen who use Bermuda to avoid their taxes. It lists such names as Silvio Berlusconi, former far-right Italian Prime Minister, currently engaged in a drawn-out corruption trial ("an Italian media magnate, he was named in the Forbes Magazine billionaires list as being worth more than $2 billion. He owns the large, white home known as ‘Blue Horizons’ in Tucker’s Town, St. George’s Parish, near the home of former US presidential candidate Ross Perot. Signor Berlusconi regularly flies into Bermuda via a private jet aircraft, with his son Piersilvio and daughter Marina. He was the Italian Prime Minister a few years ago and in 1996 made an unsuccessful political bid to become so again. Like his immediate neighbours, the Perots, he has a passion for privacy."); Jack Carter, son of former US President Jimmy Carter ("his parents visited him in Bermuda for a week in mid October, 1995"); Ross Perot; George Soros; a raft of U.S. and British billionaires and millionaires (and one Australian); and James Dale Davidson: 

"James Dale Davidson 

"An investment author and consultant to a clutch of leading multinational companies with active Bermuda connections, he is a graduate of Oxford University… 

"In his business dealings around the globe, he has observed financial service opportunities in many countries. Over the last few years in particular, he has increasingly used Bermuda as a primary conduit for the range of his financial dealings – from banking and brokerage accounts to incorporating internationally active, prominent companies." 

Evidence for his (and Rees-Mogg’s) Bermuda activities comes in the shareholding of Wharekauhau Holdings Ltd: one of its shareholders is New Paradigm Capital Ltd of Hamilton, Bermuda. According to CTSY, this is a "Bermuda merchant bank" owned jointly by Davidson and Rees-Mogg "and a Jersey Island based trust" (Jersey is another tax haven). Presumably such tax avoidance is Davidson’s way of putting his anti-tax political views into action. 

However Davidson’s activities move from just right-wing straight into conspiracy theory in an escapade in 1995. It’s a long story, but the apparent suicide of Vince Foster, a bit player in the Clintons’ Whitewater scandal, led to marginally credible theories that he was actually an NSA operative and a spy for Israel with million-dollar Swiss bank accounts, and was murdered after the CIA got on to him. Davidson dived in to the controversy by financing an examination of Foster’s suicide note by three forensic handwriting experts, which, they said, was a forgery (<a href="http://www.en.com/users/bthomas/cs/foster/forg.txt:" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.en.com/users/bthomas/cs/foster/forg.txt:</a> "An Independent Forensic Examination Of a Torn Note Allegedly Written by Vincent W. Foster, Jr.", Prepared for Strategic Investment, James Dale Davidson, Editor, 25 October 1995). One suspicion was that Davidson was fanning the flames to help undermine Clinton. 

A connection with our next character, James Ulysses Blanchard III, is that a writer for Strategic Investment is Jack Wheeler, of whom more below. 

J. Blanchard III is, according to the New Zealand Companies Office record, James Ulysses Blanchard III. James Ulysses Blanchard III (where else but in the U.S.A. would parents call their children such names – and where else would the children use them!) is publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Gold Newsletter, Los Angeles, U.S.A. He writes business commentaries and advice on gold and silver investments – possibly a connection with Mogg (example: "Own a Masterpiece of the Old West in Pure Silver! … An Exclusive Offer … ingenious bonus strategy we’ve developed that will have the U.S. Treasury refund you the entire purchase price of this historic acquisition ...": ref<a href="http://www.shopsite.com/libmint/images/oldwest.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.shopsite.com/libmint/images/oldwest.html</a>). However that is not his most interesting side. 

The following comes from Africa News On-Line, 29/1/96 (<a href="http://www.newsnet.com/libiss/it15.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.newsnet.com/libiss/it15.html</a>) and was originally published in Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg), 19/1/96, as "Mozambique: US Millionaire Plans Indian Ocean Dreampark", by Eddie Koch. It is more than a little astounding. 

"Johannesburg - "Yo! You and you! Yo!" The big Texan is standing beneath the thudding turbine of a chopper in the middle of the Mozambican bush. He is whooping and yelling and pointing at a group of bewildered peasants who huddle behind a tree to protect themselves from a sandstorm whipped up by the helicopter as it swooped into their settlement. 

"Gradually, above the cacophony, the villagers realise the American is telling some of them to "stop fiddle fucking" (a phrase repeated so often it could be called his company's motto), get into the air and take a look at the natural beauty that surrounds them. This is John Perrott, general manager for flamboyant millionaire James Ulysses Blanchard III, and he is bringing his employer's version of rural development to one of the poorest countries in the world. 

"The vision of Blanchard Mozambique Enterprises is to create a massive wildlife and tourism mecca stretching from Inhaca Island off Maputo through the staggeringly beautiful Machangulo Peninsula, across the Maputo Elephant Park, where one of Africa's last free-ranging elephant herds lives, and then down to the South African border in the south. 

"The Machangulo Peninsula has the world's highest forested dunes which jut, south of the island, into a subtropical sea abounding with coral reefs, dolphins, rays, sharks, marine turtles and endangered dugongs (strange sea mammal which gave rise to the mermaid legend because it has breasts to suckle its young). 

"The $800-million masterplan, outlined in a book called the Black Bible by Blanchard's men, includes hovercrafts to ferry jetsetting tourists from Maputo to Inhaca; a Mississippi Steamer which will become a floating hotel and casino off the island; a chain of upmarket lodges on the beaches and inland lakes that dot the pensinsula; a national park that will be supplied with the big five and other animals in the biggest game restocking exercise ever undertaken in human history; scuba diving schools; game fishing expeditions; an aquarium; and a steam train to ferry tourists through this wonderland of wild game and marine life. 

"South African consultants have advised Perrott that his dream to import a group of Bushmen from the Kalahari into the Mozambican theme park is likely to discredit the project. So has he given up the idea? ‘Hell no! If I get my way, I'll bring some of them little guys out here. Can you imagine tourists on the steam train looking out of one window and seeing elephants and rhino? Then they'll look out of the other and see the little bastards running around with their loin clothes and poison-tipped arrows ... The way I see it we'll bring them rhino here and save them from going extinct so why not bring the little guys who are also going extinct?’ 

"It is unlikely that either the Botswana or Mozambique governments will grant permission for Bushmen to be part of the scheme. But the masterplan is being taken seriously by the government in Maputo. 

"The biggest obstacle in Perrott's way is that in 1987, at the height of Renamo's civil war, the Frelimo-led government granted South African timber giant Sappi a concession to plant more than 30,000 hectares of land with a plantation of bluegum trees -- in partnership with two Mozambican firms. 

"The Maputo government's aim was to bring a big South African business into the area as a bulwark against bands of Renamo rebels, who waged a destructive civil war in the area, with clandestine support from elements in the South African military. 

"Little thought was given, at that stage, to the fact that the concession zone is part of an incredibly rich area of plant diversity, known as the Maputaland Centre of Endemism, and that the commercial plantation will destroy botanical species which occur no where else on Earth and also one of the last tropical grasslands left in southern Africa. 

"An environmental impact study commissioned by Sappi has recognised that the plantation could have serious negative impacts on the biodiversity and water resources of southern Maputo province and has recommended the planted area be reduced from 32,000 to 21,000 hectares so the bluegums can be kept away from rivers and inland lakes in the area. The study points out that the plantation, which could earn Mozambique some R80-million (about $23-million) a year and create 12,000 new jobs (not all of them full-time), does not prevent other companies from implementing ecotourism programmes in the Elephant Park and on the Machangulo Peninsula. 

"But Perrott will have none of this. The Blanchard proposal, he explains, could bring in an investment of $800-million and will create 20,000 jobs in the long run. However, it depends on "critical mass", a realisation of the grand plan, and it cannot have a patch of bluegums in the middle of it.

"So James Ulysses Blanchard III has presented an ultimatum to the Mozambicans. He will not go ahead unless Sappi is out. Perrott's job is to persuade the local population and the media that his boss is right, which is why he is now in the middle of the bush with a chopper and a convoy of four-by-fours conducting an exercise in what the newspaper contingent on the trip dubbed the Texas School of Community Communication. 

"While the local chief, his wife and two other volunteers from the village are taking a flip in the helicopter, the Texan begins dishing out colourful T-shirts with a huge map of southern Mozambique on the front proclaiming that the area is now a national park. The logo on the back says – in English even though the villagers speak only Shangaan or Portuguese – ‘Nix to water guzzling bluegums’. 

"Women, men and children scramble for the T-shirts while a group of men gather around Perrott and his Mozambican translator. ‘Tell them they gonna have shares in this project,’ says Perrott. ‘The elephants we bring here are gonna belong to them too. Now you tell them that in your best Shingaan (sic).’ 

"Perrott insists that a democratic approach is vital for conservation to work and that his company will treat the local communities as equal partners. ‘We're gonna put a fence up and make this place a national park and they will be able to choose. We gonna come here and say: "Okay, now you're in a national park. Your village can either get fenced in or you can have them wild animals walking right through your main street".’ 

"Early in February the Cabinet will meet in Maputo to decide on the bluegum-plantation-versus-ecotheme-park row. The debate has become Mozambique's equivalent of the St Lucia controversy in South Africa and is likely to be the biggest and most complex economic decision the Mozambican government has ever had to make. 

"Cabinet members appear divided on the issue. The agriculture ministry favours the plantation because it is ready to proceed and will bring immediate jobs to the depressed area. The environment ministry wants the ecotourism plan because the plantation will cause irreversible damage to Mozambican wildlife while it provides raw materials for the South African paper industry. 

"Another source of concern in the Cabinet is that Blanchard – a cold-war warrior from the 1980s with close links to far-right groups in the US – has good friends in Renamo and also the Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal. 

"For the time being though, it appears that opinion in Maputo's government and intellectual circles is swinging Blanchard’s way. The government will insist on a proper land-use plan and assurances that the ecotourism project will not be used to benefit Renamo during the next elections, or link up with seccessionist movements in KwaZulu-Natal. It also plans to set up a group of monitors to ensure that the rhetorical commitment to a partnership with the local landowners is put into practise. 

"But it now seems that the man who once bankrolled a rebel army to wage a war of incredible destruction and brutality (the US State Department once described Renamo atrocities as worse than those of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia) is likely to be rewarded with control over a huge chunk of Mozambique's richest province. 

"It is just one of the many paradoxes that pervade this poor country. ‘To understand it,’ says one of the officials who works with Perrott on the project, ‘you must realise that Mozambique in the past hasn’t had bulldozers that work. Now we have one that does.’" 

The New York Times (22/5/88, "Right-Wing U.S. Coalition Aiding Mozambican Rebels", p.14) reported that 

"James U. Blanchard 3d, a Louisiana businessman, said he started providing assistance to Renamo in 1986 by purchasing medical supplies and radios for the rebel group. He said he contributes $3,000 a month to advance the guerilla group’s interests. For example, he said, he helps pay for the Washington operations of the Mozambique Research Center and provides cash payments to prominent Mozambican refugees sympathetic to Renamo. 

"Mr Blanchard estimated that he had given a total of $50,000 to $75,000 to aid Renamo in the last two years." 

The same article reported that the State Department had issued a report the previous month 

"asserting that ‘100,000 civilians may have been murdered’ as a result of widespread violence and brutality by the rebel group [Renamo]. Victims were beaten, mutilated, starved, shot, stabbed or burned to death, the report said." 

Renamo was heavily supported by the South African apartheid government. It was a terrorist group in the truest sense of the word. 

Also mentioned in the same New York Times article is Jack Wheeler, director of the "Freedom Research Foundation" in La Jolla, California, and a writer for Davidson’s Strategic Investment. He is said to consider himself one of the fathers of the "Reagan Doctrine" which amounted to supporting anyone who opposed any friend of the Soviet Union. He 

"visited the guerillas in Mozambique for two weeks in June 1985. When he got back, he urged Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North to use his influence to help Renamo. Colonel North, who was then on the staff of the National Security Council, turned aside the request. ‘Ollie was very sympathetic, but felt he had to concentrate his efforts on Central America,’ said Mr Wheeler, whose foundation studies anti-Soviet insurgents around the world." 

Blanchard is a supporter of the extreme right Libertarians in the U.S.A. He was on the campaign committee of the Libertarian Party’s U.S. Presidential candidate in 1996, Harry Browne (<a href="http://www.harrybrowne96.org/campaign_committee.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.harrybrowne96.org/campaign_committee.html</a>). He is also an "advisor" to the Washington-based "Free Africa Foundation" (<a href="http://www.webperfect.com/afrinet/orgs/faf.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.webperfect.com/afrinet/orgs/faf.html</a>): 

"Africa is a continent in crises: famine, civil wars, AIDS, environmental degradation, economic disintegration, political tyranny, social destitution, and state-sponsored terrorism… The situation remains bleak despite noble efforts by multilateral lending institutions (World Bank, IMF, and UNDP) and Western donor governments to reverse Africa's economic atrophy… [The] solutions entail returning to Africa's roots and building upon its own indigenous institutions of participatory democracy based upon consensus, open borders (free movement of goods and people), freedom of expression, free trade and free markets." 

The New Zealand Companies Office identifies M. Baybak as Michael Baybak of La Canada, California, U.S.A. He appears to own his shares through Star Financial Ltd of Hamilton, Bermuda. There are only two Baybaks in the entire on-line telephone directories of the U.S.A.: Michael Baybak of Clearwater, Florida; and Michael Baybak of La Canada, California. Standard and Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives 1995 (Volume 1, p.205) lists a Michael Baybak as Chairman of Athena Gold Corporation of Reno, Nevada (famed for casinos and quick divorces, just across the border from California). This is where things get interesting. 

In its 6/5/91 issue, Time published a story (p.46 of the Pacific edition) entitled "Mining Money in Vancouver", by Richard Behar, highly critical of a California businessman, Michael Baybak and his business practices (<a href="http://www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/scien-04.txt" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/scien-04.txt</a>). Unsurprisingly, this item led to Baybak suing Time. The out-of-court settlement was scarcely a victory for him. It was resolved by Time agreeing to publish a brief statement which appeared in the 11/11/96 edition of Time (p.8 of the South Pacific edition). Its crucial sentence said "Time’s report on Mr. Baybak, a member of the Church, was not intended to suggest that Mr. Baybak was a ‘front’ for the Church of Scientology or that his actions were in violation of any law or regulation". Time would not comment as to whether any money changed hands, but said it was "very happy with the settlement". (Ref: wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/_{krasel/CoS/ars1/ars1_28.html.) }George Cross News Letter, Vancouver, no.193 (1996), 30/10/95, in reference to Minefinders Corporation Ltd, reports: "Minefinders has engaged National Media Associates (NMA), of Los Angeles, California, to provide investor relations services for an initial term of one year, effective immediately. Under this agreement, NMA, a company controlled by Michael Baybak, will be paid a fee of US$5,000 per month plus approved disbursements." (<a href="http://www.minefinders.com/profile/gcnloc30.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.minefinders.com/profile/gcnloc30.html</a>.) 

In its Insider Trading Report for the period ending 24/5/96, the British Columbia Securities Commission included trading by a Michael Baybak with regard to International Avino Mines Ltd on 23/5/96 (204.174.18.3/financial/vse/sob/insider/960524i.html). 

A Michael Baybak also appears on the Finance Committee of the Committee for the Nomination of Harry Browne as the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. President in 1996 (<a href="http://www.harrybrowne96.org/finance_committee.html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.harrybrowne96.org/finance_committee.html</a>). 

Both this and the gold interests (if all these Michael Baybaks are the same person) make a connection with Blanchard plausible. 

Intriguingly, in the files the OIC released to CAFCA almost all details relating to Wharekauhau shareholder Michael Baybak have been blacked out. He may of course be an entirely different person from the above, but his penchant for secrecy is interesting. 

Again, according to the New Zealand Companies Office, A. Miller is Andrew Scott Miller of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., whose shareholding is via Wharekauhau Ltd of the same Colorado address. Miller is an active participant in this deal. For example, he acted as trustee for the purchasing companies before they were formally formed. The OIC file names Sevo as John Sevo. Judging by the shareholdings, Sevo and Miller jointly own the Colorado company Wharekauhau Ltd. According to the OIC file, the two "own and operate the largest real estate firm in Denver Colorado, Sevo Miller Inc. The business owns and operates 15,000 apartments and 38 shopping centres across America." 

This may be only the beginning for the above investors. The OIC file notes that 

"the investors or their associates … are expected to make other investments in New Zealand. [several words deleted] Investment projects in property development, hotel/resort development, forestry, dairy and vineyards are being researched." 

These contacts will be useful for the lodge’s business. In June 1996 when the lodge expanded by a further 563 hectares (see the OIC decisions for that month), the reason for the new developments was said to be to provide "an exclusive retreat for diplomats and visiting heads of Government; … a corporate retreat/conference centre for the Southern North Island; … a high class tourist facility." 

canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/cafca95/nov95.html 

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Now dear dc.indymedia reader: below is a question posed by the prestigious writer for Barron's magazine,William Alpert,enquiring of founder of<a href="http://www.ncans.com/" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.ncans.com</a> website and the 
<a href="http://www.nfi-info.com/" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.nfi-info.com</a> website as to whether or not he is James Dale Davidson.I began that claim on Mark Cuban's blogmaverick.com in February when it became the topic of discussion after the anonymous 'Bob O'Brien' and Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne placed a $100,000 ad-letter to W Bush in the Washington Post warning that the chief danger to investing SS funds in the stock markets was 'naked shorting.Shortly after or immediatley <a href="http://www.ncans.net/" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.ncans.net</a> appeared,first coming from a webserver in the British Virgen Islands known for stock scams and money laundering and then from San Diego California . 

At the time the unidentified 'Bob O'Brien' admitted to be posting on Yahoo's NFI message board as 'dirtydirtydeeds'.Later he would post the address of a hedge fund manager named Marc Cohodes as well as his wife and son's address and make subtle threats.This among other things drew attention and both Reuters and William Alpert did not so flattering stories 
about 'dirtydirtydeeds' or 'O'Brien' of the expensive Wshington Post letter that he erroneously claimed at first was paid by 'mom and pop' investors who were 'naked shorted'. 

Alpert, William to NCANSmail 
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Are you James Dale Davidson ? 
 
To: Alpert 
Ha ha ha ha ha. You're kidding me, right? 
No. The only one that advances that lunacy is a presumably paid 
message board basher who posts 50 or so times per day, and appears to have been stalking me on various blogs - his agenda appears to be 
character assassination. he is either a pro, or unbalanced. My gut 
says pro. 
So not JDD. I'd never even heard of him until that guy brought it up. 
It is funny how insidious the rumor mill is, though. 
I'm just a private citizen, nobody famous or notorious, and will no 
doubt disappoint one and all at my ordinary-ness once I step forward 
and take off the mask. FWIW, I've been asked if I'm Penn Gillette (of 
Penn and Teller), Ben Stein, and a host of other folks. 
I'm not any of them, either, although nobody has ever seen Penn and I 
in the same place... 
Help me understand something - why is a senior editor of Barrons 
interested in a trivial conflageration on an obscure message board for 
a small midwestern MREIT? What's the news value? Why does anyone care, much less you? 

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This later from Yahoo NFI board,ncansd3 or James Dale Davidson utters his own name in the form of a boat and telephone and ncans.net records for the first time !!!!! : 

Now this below from ncansd3 who is either James Dale Davidson or his parrot .Note after previouasly denying to have ever heard of a James Dale Davidson until a 'basher'(me) brought it up,who 'stalks' him on the internet,below after an email conversation with Jesse Eisinger he all of a sudden hints a doner to ncas.net IS James Davidson and there is a 'boat' named 'James Davidson'. 

ncand3 recently hinted he could have me assassinated in Guatemala for $500. 

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Re: Send, or not? Comment, or copy? RVA 

by: ncansd3 Long-Term Sentiment: 
Strong Buy 06/02/05 12:02 amMsg: 310727 of 310731 

I would add that copies of emails in which Mr. Eisinger cites very granular banking info regarding NCANS deposits are available if they wish to email me.What is actually funniest to me is that through all of this, the reporter hasn't considered that he might have found a guy who contributes to NCANS and has used his cash to help the cause - but is someone different than me. Someone who actually has been very helpful with things like procuring anonymous cell phones and the like, but is no more Bob O'Brien than the Granny he went to terrorize. Oh well, I'm sure it will all make great theater, and the attorneys are likely to have a ball with it. 
Like I said in the beginning - they require a Bob O'Brien at all costs, and it really doesn't matter much whether he is the genuine article or not at the end of the day. 

And I'm not telling - not going to do it. Kind of pisses everyone off, I can tell. Sorry guys. But I'm quite sure you have the right guy - keep on keeping on - he sounds like a bad 'un to me. Very mysterious. I was told a sandwich shop was involved. One shudders to think what goes on there. And a boat. I think it's named the James Davidson. It is all unclear at present. Or maybe the sandwiches are subs - those are marine sounding. 

Actually, I do kind of wish it was me. Not that it isn't. Or is. Or may be. Or not. 

But what I do know is that violating federal laws is a no no last time I checked - and if what they discovered was a big donor to the cause - I hope it was worth someone going to jail over. That's what happens when you violate federal law, I think - I haven't done any federal lawbreaking, so couldn't tell you.So what do we have at the end of all of this? People who can easily be shown to do anything it takes to get their way, regardless of the law, and who aren't bright enough to get that they are holding nothing. Capital N. Nada. 

Which they will ultimately find out, as do most who have nothing, over time. In the meanwhile, I think maybe this will be a good mechanism to launch the fiction book - it's about a corrupt, criminally linked hedge fund who sets out to crush a company as part of its serial killing mechanism, who uses the press to do its dirty work and considers itself above the law due to its political contacts, and decides to go after a guy that creates a website that exposes their scheme and creates considerable difficulty for them. I even have a corrupt reporter or two in it. 

Sort of wrote itself. I think it's a good read. Fast, and believe it or not, has a few similarities to real life.Have to figure out how to get it out there. I suspect now is the time.Oh well, good night all. Thanks for all the FBI and WSJ complaints - they will follow up, and they don't just poo poo this sort of thing when it involves attorney trust accounts and feloniously obtained bank records.We shall see what the day brings. 

Posted as a reply to: Msg 310685 by rvac106 

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J.D.Davidson in his own words about his 'naked short'securities fraud and penny stock touts.I,no doubt,am the 'crazy dog'of his obsessions.Note how similar James Dale Davidson's fraudulent claims re 'naked shorting' in his Agora Publications' 'Vantage Point' to those of the 'O'Brien' or 'ncansd3' of <a href="http://www.ncans.net/" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.ncans.net</a> and the Yahoo NFI board : 

<a href="http://www.vantagepoint-ia.com/Secure/IssueArchive/html" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.vantagepoint-ia.com/Secure/IssueArchive/html</a> versions/2004.05.18.html 

Lies, Lies, Lies: Stalkers Meet the Stock Market 

It is hard to imagine a retiree or a housewife with time on her hands suddenly deciding to make a hobby of posting anonymous slanders on the GeneMax thread. But one can read dozens of embittered messages there complaining of everything but the real problem. For example, some bozo whose screen name translates to "crazy dog" recently posted an outrageous slander of me: "Does Davidson, as founder of National Taxpayers Union, ever pay taxes on fraud pump-dumps he"s orchestrated using "naked shorting" as a subterfuge to mask his fraud?" In one sentence he manages to falsely imply that I have engaged in a whole range of felonies. I don"t know whether to feel flattered that the naked short sellers find me so formidable an opponent that they would stoop to anonymous smears, or to hire a bodyguard. In any event, I would hope that Mr. "crazy dog" is well paid for his pains. With the possible exception of a few demented people I"ve crossed paths with, I can"t imagine anyone other than stalkers and major parishioners of naked short selling being so obsessed with me. And what humanitarian motive could explain the smears they pour down on GeneMax - a company that if it can raise sufficient funding may possibly help cure cancer? Go figure. 

The Electronic Counterfeiter"s Worst Nightmare: 

Circle Group Holdings Rallies 30,000% The worst nightmare of naked short sellers is that the companies they attack should survive and actually succeed. When that happens, as recently occurred in the case of Circle Group Holdings Inc. (CXN: AMEX), the counterfeiters are obliged to enter the market and buy the duly authorized shares of the capital stock of the company they have sold. CXN rose by nearly 30,000%, from 3 cents to almost $9, as naked short sellers were obliged to buy and deliver shares they counterfeited prior to CXN"s move to the AMEX.When you think of what happened in the case of Circle Group Holdings, you can see why the malicious charges leveled against me by anonymous smear-mongers on Web sites are ridiculous. If their assertions that I was orchestrating naked short selling were correct, I would hardly have become one of the leading critics of the practice. Nor would I continue to champion the causes of the companies I had "sent under" by allegedly selling wave after wave of electronically counterfeited stock.And as the example of CXN demonstrates, the damage done to the share prices of companies targeted for destruction by electronic counterfeiters is also a measure of their upside potential - for everyone but the counterfeiters.Of course, even the most virulent rantings of Mr. "crazy dog" are unlikely to carry much weight with thinking people. To orchestrate more effective smears, the electronic counterfeiters needed a more apparently credible platform. An Internet site called our-street.com emerged to fill the market arising from naked short sellers for seemingly trustworthy smears of small-cap companies that threaten to succeed.Thus for one reason or another, our-street.com and its marquee character, who writes under the pseudonym Nick Tracy, stepped up to service this market. Our-street immediately began hurling accusations about securities violations left and right. I first became aware of Nick Tracy and his tendentious exposés when someone sent me a copy of an hysterical attack he did on ChampionLyte Products (CPLY: OTCBB) , a company in which I and a group of investors took a portfolio interest as it attempted to restructure its balance sheet and realize the potential of its low-carb sports drink. 

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Questions posed by Jesse Eisinger of Wall Street Journal to 'Bob O'Brien' or'dirtydirtydeeds',or'ncansd3'of Yahoo NFI board and<a href="http://www.ncans.net/" style="border: none; word-wrap: break-word;">http://www.ncans.net</a>,or James Dale Davidson of 'Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster and my ex-employee,CIA Chief William Colby',as I like to call him,as posted on his bobosrevennge.blogspot.com.: 

Jesse Eisinger questions for 'O'Brien': 
I have some additional questions for you. 

1. A lot of people have come to trust your research on Novastar and your dissection of the naked shorting issue. How does it feel to have that responsibility? 
MY RESEARCH INTO NFI AND NAKED SHORT SELLING ARE BASED UPON READILY AVAILABLE, PUBLICLY OBTAINED INFO. I HAVE NOTED BEFORE THAT WHEN SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH THE MESSAGE, THEY SHOOT THE MESSENGER, AND TRY TO TAINT THE MESSAGE WITH INNUENDO ABOUT ME. TO YOUR QUESTION, I DON'T TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY LIGHTLY, AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE. HOW MUCH HAVE YOU DONE ABOUT NFI OR NAKED SHORT SELLING, AND HOW MUCH OF MY DISSECTION DO YOU FIND INNACURATE, IF ANY? I READ WITH INTEREST THE AFOREMENTIONED INFO, AND NOTE THAT BOAT OWNERSHIP, COMPANY FORMATION, ATTORNEYS AND LENDING MONEY NOTWITHSTANDING - NONE OF IT INVOLVE NFI NOR NAKED SHORT SELLING. LET'S ASK YOU THE SAME QUESTION - SO HOW DO YOU TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WRITING FOR THE WSJ, AND HOW MUCH EFFORT HAVE YOU INVESTED IN EXAMINING WHETHER MY DISSECTIONS ARE ACCURATE STATEMENTS OF FACT, OR FLIGHTS OF LUNATIC FANCY? WHAT INSIGHT CAN YOU OFFER, ASIDE FROM WHOM TO CALL ABOUT MARINE MATTERS? THERE IS A MAJOR HOLE IN THE SYSTEM UNSCRUPULOUS MANIPULATORS ARE USING TO SCREW RETIREES OUT OF THEIR SAVINGS – HOW MANY HOURS HAVE YOU DEVOTED TO EXPLORING THAT? 

2. How do you feel about what you've accomplished so far with regard to naked shorting and Novastar? 
I FEEL LIKE THE NAKED SHORT SELLING ISSUE IS AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM THAT THOSE WHO GENERATE MONEY FROM THE PRACTICE WANT TO PRETEND DOESN'T EXIST. I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT IT IS A HUGE CONTINGENT LIABILITY THAT REPRESENTS A POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING ABUSE OF OUR SYSTEM BY A MINORITY OF BAD APPLES, WHO HAVE ABUSED A LOOPHOLE TO THE POINT THAT IT IS A SYSTEMIC, ENDEMIC PROBLEM. I AM FAR MORE FOCUSED ON NAKED SHORTING THAN NFI EVER SINCE IT BECAME OBVIOUS TO ME THAT THIS WAS A PERVASIVE SYSTEMIC ISSUE, NOT A COMPANY SPECIFIC ISSUE. AS TO WHAT I'VE ACCOMPLISHED, WE SHALL SEE WHETHER I CAN CONTINUE TO RAISE AWARENESS OF EGREGIOUS VIOLATIONS OF THE PUBLIC TRUST BY THE CLEARING AND SETTLING SYSTEM, AND THE CAPTIVE REGULATORS THAT CONDONE THIS MISBEHAVIOR. 

3. Not many individuals get to be on conference calls of major companies and express their views, as you did in January on the Overstock call. How did that feel? 
IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO AIR ONE'S VIEWS, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE AUDIENCE - A TRANSCRIPT IS AVAILABLE AT NCANS.NET IF YOU NEED IT. I NOTE WITH INTEREST THAT NO ONE HAS SHOWN MY ANALYSIS OF THE "ANATOMY OF A MANIPULATION" TO BE INCORRECT. IN FACT, THE ONLY RESPONSES HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY CRAFTED WORDSMITHINGS FROM HEDGE FUND MANAGERS WITH THEIR OWN BLOGS, WHO ARE FRIENDS OF OR ASSOCIATES OF HERB AND MARC AND DAVID. AND THOSE DON'T ADDRESS THE SUBSTANCE; MERELY ATTEMPT TO RIDICULE THE ANALYSIS AWAY. I DON'T BLAME THEM. I THINK THAT MARKED AN IMPORTANT POINT – THE FIRST TIME THAT FLAVOR OF MANIPULATION WAS DESCRIBED IN SOME DETAIL, SO THAT THE LAYPERSON COULD UNDERSTAND THE COLLUSIVE ELEMENTS. I HAVE YET TO SEE A DEBUNKING. HAVE YOU? 

4. When did you first invest in Novastar? How did you first hear about the company? 
I FIRST HEARD ABOUT NFI AFTER HAVING INVESTED SUCCESSFULLY IN ANOTHER MREIT, AND WHILE SCREENING FOR HIGH YIELDING MEMBERS OF THE SAME ASSET CLASS. I THINK I BOUGHT THE FIRST SHARES IN DECEMBER OF 2002. 

5. About how many Novastar shares do you own? What percentage of your net worth is that? 
AT ONE POINT I HAD MY ENTIRE NET WORTH IN NFI. THAT CHANGED DUE TO MARGIN CALLS AND A MORE CONSERVATIVE STANCE TO ACCOMODATE THE MANIPULATED SWINGS TO THE DOWNSIDE. THE REG SHO LIST IS PROOF THAT SOMETHING BAD IS GOING ON WITH THEIR TRADING – IT HAS BEEN ON THE LIST SINCE DAY ONE – SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE IF THE RULES WERE BEING ENFORCED. ANY PLANS ON AN ARTICLE ABOUT THAT? 

6. I know you are worried about threats. Have there ever been any threats against you because of your anti-naked shorting activities? Would you detail those for me? 
THE CONCERNS ABOUT MY ANONYMITY FAR PREDATE MY INVOLVEMENT IN NAKED SHORT SELLING. I WON'T DISCUSS THOSE MUCH (ON ADVICE OF COUNSEL), HOWEVER THE THREATS ARE ANONYMOUS, PREDICTABLY INVOLVE REVEALING MY REAL IDENTITY, INVADING MY PRIVACY USING ILLEGALLY OBTAINED INFORMATION, AND GENERALLY USING AD HOMINEM APPROACHES TO RUINING MY LIFE. JUST AS DAVE PXXXX HAD PHOTOS OF HIS WIFE AND HIS CAR POSTED ANONYMOUSLY, IN AN EFFORT AT INTIMIDATION. ANY OF THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? HEY, I KNOW, IN THE COURSE OF YOUR INVESTIGATION ON ME, HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU FEEL MIGHT BE ILLEGALLY OBTAINED, FROM SOURCES YOU OF COURSE CAN'T REVEAL? YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE TELEPHONE NUMBERS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO LEGALLY OBTAIN, BANK DATA, ETC.? LET'S START THERE, AND FOLLOW THAT TO ITS INEVITABLE CONCLUSION – YOU MAY WANT TO GET A LAWYER FIRST, THOUGH. I'VE GOT TIME, AND WILL AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE WITH CONSIDERABLE INTEREST AND PREPARATION. I TRUST THAT WILL BE PRODUCTIVE. 

7. How did you choose the name "Bob O'Brien"? CNBC HOST – A GAG. LIKE CHEETAH'S. 

8. I understand you are self-made and retired. How much of your time is spent investing? How did you build your wealth? 
I MADE MOST OF MY MONEY BY INVESTING IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC OPPORTUNITIES. I SPEND MOST OF MY TIME INVESTING, I SUPPOSE, ALTHOUGH SINCE BEING OVERWEIGHTED IN NFI MOST OF MY TIME IS SPENT IN PROVIDING MARKET COMMENTARY AND TACKLING WHAT I PERCEIVE TO BE INEQUITIES IN THE MARKET OR THE SYSTEM. 

9. Other than sailing, do you have any other hobbies or interests? 
I ACTUALLY DON'T LIKE SAILING, BUT IF THE HAT THING WORKS FOR YOU...I LIKE TO WRITE – HAVE ACTUALLY WRITTEN A GRISHAM-TYPE FICTION NOVEL PREDICATED ON A VENGEFUL, CROOKED HEDGE FUND MANAGER WITH CRIMINAL TIES WHO USES HIS CONTACTS IN THE MEDIA TO PERSECUTE A GUY THAT DEVELOPS A WEBSITE TO EXPOSE HIS DIRTY DEEDS. IT'S A GOOD READ, MOVES WELL, THE INVESTORS ARE A WHO'S WHO OF CRIMINAL SYNDICATES, AND THE PLAYERS BELIEVE THEMSELVES TO BE ABOVE THE LAW DUE TO THEIR POLICTICAL CONNECTIONS. AM DEBATING GETTING A LITERARY AGENT OR JUST SELF-PUBLISHING TO CAPITALIZE ON ALL THE ATTENTION "I" SEEM TO BE GETTING. 

10. Do you own stock in Overstock.com? 
I OWNED OPTIONS FOR HALF A YEAR OR SO. LOST MONEY ON THEM WHEN THE PRICE DROPPED, IN SPITE OF THE COMPANY'S PROFITABILITY. I INVESTED IN THEM BECAUSE I LIKE AND RESPECT THE OPINION OF THEIR CEO, AND BELIEVE THAT A GOOD DISCOUNT ONLINE RETAILER IS FOLLY TO BET AGAINST. I MAY BUY SOME MORE AS WE APPROACH THE HOLIDAYS AGAIN – RETAILING, THE HOLIDAYS, SORT OF GO TOGETHER.

12 How did you decide to create the NFI Info site? 
I GOT TIRED OF THE VOCATIONALLY DILIGENT CLOGGING OF THE YAHOO MESSAGE BOARD BY TEAMS OF BASHERS, WHOSE ONLY OBJECTIVE WAS TO DISRUPT THAT FORUM AND RENDER IT USELESS AS A COMMUNICATION TOOL. IT STARTED BY ME TAKING SOME OF HHILL'S POSTS AND CONSOLIDATING THEM INTO A RESOURCE THAT WAS RANDOM ACCESS, THUS NON-DISRUPTABLE, AS OPPOSED TO THE CONTIGUOUS STREAM THAT THE BOARDS REPRESENT. IT HAS SINCE MORPHED INTO THE BEAST THAT IT REPRESENTS TODAY, WHICH IS THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE SITE OF ITS KIND THAT I KNOW OF. 

13. Are you still 44 years old? 
WAIT A MINUTE – YOU KNOW THE GUY'S BOAT GUY'S NAME, BUT NOT HIS BIRTHDAY? IF HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE 44, AND WAS NOW 41...NOW THAT WOULD BE A STORY. 

14. When did you become concerned about 
naked shorting? How did you find out about it? 
IT FIRST CAME TO MY ATTENTION AFTER THE WSJ PRINTED ITS BADLY COMPROMISED ARTICLE ABOUT NFI ON APRIL 12 OF 2004 – I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE TRADING VOLUMES WE WERE SEEING. IT WENT FROM SUSPICION TO CONFIRMED FACT WHEN SHO WAS PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER OF 2004 (IN PRELIMINARY FORM). UNTIL THEN, IT WAS MOSTLY GUESSWORK AS THERE WAS NO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO BE HAD. IT BECAME FACT THEN, AND MY EMPHASIS SHIFTED. 
15. I understand you made a Feb. 4 donation to NCANS of $XXXX into (sic – should be from) Peoria, Ill., Merrill Lynch brokerage account # XXXXX in the name of XXXXXXXXXXX, Inc. Is that correct? Have you made any other donations to NCANS? 
NCANS DONATED MONEY TO MERRILL, OR SOME COMPANY? REALLY? HUH. WONDER WHY? OR ARE YOU SAYING THAT THIS XXXXXX COMPANY DONATED TO NCANS OUT OF THAT ACCOUNT? I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU MUST MEAN. NO COMMENT</div></div><div>==</div></div>