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This book details a modern organized crime effort, conducted by employees of the U.S. Government,
and organized by oligarch sociopath Silicon Valley billionaires.
In a recent election, Mark Zuckerberg PERSONALLY spent over $400 million to manipulate election
results. “One person – one vote” and “O ne person - one dollar of election payola” do not seem to apply
to Silicon Valley.
It details historical and sociological events which led to the crimes, the players who engaged in the
crimes and the tactics they employed to engage in those crimes with taxpayer money and resources.
Silicon Valley Campaign financiers, White House Staff, Investment bankers (led by Goldman Sachs),
and state, and federal, agency appointees executed the scheme.
The tools for the exploitation included Afghan War profiteering, green-washing the public with feel-
good smoke-screens about “clean” investments that were actually dirty corruption scams, the auto
industry and Silicon Valley technology collusion.
The losses, to date, include over six trillion dollars of taxpayer funds, lives, the loss of domestic
innovation and the loss of public policy credibility.
So far, law enforcement, and the justice system, have been, either, ordered to take no action, or
blockaded from taking any action. Vast sets of hard evidence, which provide incontrovertible proof of
the crimes, has been submitted to those agencies but still, none of the victims have received justice.
This book is authored by Internet users in wiki-form, as well as each listed sub-item author, and
references thousands of sources of facts. The main rule, for contributors, is that every charge, or
implication must be backed-up by, at least 100 points of evidence and source links. Those evidence
points must stand up in federal court, open public hearings before a Special Prosecutor and un-biased
public investigation.
The purpose of this book is to document the crimes so that no society may, again, allow an extreme,
and disturbed, few to corrupt and circumvent the rights of the many.
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Figure 1: THIS IS HOW THE MONEY IS LAUNDERED
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Coup – Coup d'état: Definition
The venture capitalists, founders and executives of Google, Tesla, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, et al
have attempted to over-throw the U.S. government and domestic ideology with a coup. A coup d'état
ɪˈtɑː / listen (help·info); French: [ku deta], literally "blow of state"; plural: coups d'état, pronounced like the singular form), also known simply as a coup (/ ˌkuː
/ ), or an overthrow, is the
sudden and illegal seizure of a state, [1]
usually instigated by a small group of the existing
government establishment to depose the established regime and replace it with a new ruling body. A
coup d'état is considered successful when the usurpers establish their dominance. If a coup fails, a civil
war may ensue.
A coup d'état typically uses the extant government's power to assume political control of a country. In
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook , military historian Edward Luttwak states that a coup "consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the
government from its control of the remainder". [4] The armed forces, whether military or paramilitary,
can be a defining factor of a coup d'état.
The phrase coup d'État (French pronunciation: [ku deta]) is French, literally meaning a "stroke of state" or
"blow against the state". In French the word "État", denoting a sovereign political entity, is capitalized.
Although the coup d'état has featured in politics since antiquity, the phrase is of relatively recent
coinage;[6] the Oxford English Dictionary identifies it as a French expression meaning a "stroke of State". The phrase did not appear within an English text before the nineteenth century except when
used in translation of a French source, there being no simple phrase in English to convey the
contextualized idea of a "knockout blow to the existing administration within a state".
One early use within text translated from French was in 1785, in a printed translation of a letter from a
French merchant, commenting on an arbitrary decree or "arrêt" issued by the French king, restricting
the import of British wool. [7] What may be its first published use within a text composed in English, is in an editor's note in the London Morning Chronicle, 7 January 1802, reporting the arrest by Napoleon
in France, of Moreau, Berthier, Masséna, and Bernadotte:
There was a report in circulation yesterday of a sort of coup d'état having taken place in France, in
consequence of some formidable conspiracy against the existing government.
In post-Revolutionary France, the phrase came to be used to describe the various murders by
Napoleon's hated secret police, the Gens d'Armes d'Elite, who murdered the Duke of Enghien:
...the actors in torture, the distributors of the poisoning draughts, and the secret executioners of those
unfortunate individuals or families, whom Bonaparte’s measures of safety require to remove. In what
revolutionary tyrants call grand[s] coups d'état, as butchering, or poisoning, or drowning, en masse,
they are exclusively employed. [8]
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Smedley and Franklin: The Business Plot, The First Try - 1934
The first time this type of Coup was attempted in Washington, DC.
An attempted coup d'etat censored out of our history books, courtesy of corporate America, but not
supported by the military, so European fascism didn't happen that time. Fascism has to have the support
of both corporate power and will and military/police power and obedience together or it doesn't
happen. Watch out America; the Pentagon and the Multinationals are already in alignment and have
instituted Friendly Fascism outside our borders already; just ask Afghanistanis, Iraqis, Iranians,
Colombians, Nicaraguans and the rest of the exploited and raped third world and the suffering poor in
our own American ghettos and concentration camps.
Gary G. Kohls and Clayton Kramer describe the biggest previously attempted American Coup d'État
that may have inspired the Silicon Valley Cartel:
Some Americans regard our country as superior to other nations because we don't change governments
by coup d'état -- and we never have. Perhaps because of our long tradition of power changing hands by
election, we regard our nation as immune to the use of force for political purposes. True, assassins have
killed four of our Presidents, but these deaths did not lead to turmoil and chaos; the government
followed well-established procedures for transferring control to the men previously elected Vice
President. Unlike other nations where assassination often leads to civil war, the United States has
avoided this.
How different is America from nations where political power comes quite directly "from the barrel of a
gun"? A curious footnote to American history suggests that, except for the personal integrity of a
remarkable American general, a coup d'état intended to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from
office in 1934 might have plunged America into civil war. Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page,
Eric Schmidt, etc have armies of fawning sycophants like Steve Spinner, David Plouffe, Rahm
Emanual, Jay Carney, Steve Westly, Nicholas Guido Denton and other stooges who would, literally, kill
for them. We need a man, today, like America had in 1934. Who was the remarkable hero back then?
The General
This remarkable man was Smedley Darlington Butler, retired U.S. Marine Corps Major General.
Butler is the sort of person for whom the word "colorful" is woefully inadequate. Butler won
America's highest military award for bravery (the Congressional Medal of Honor) twice. His style
of warfare was unusual not only for his personal courage, but for the energy he put into avoiding
bloodshed when it was possible to achieve his aims in other ways. Not surprisingly, this
engendered a remarkable loyalty among the men who served under him -- and that loyalty was
why certain men asked Butler to lead a military attack on Washington, D.C., with the goal of
capturing President Roosevelt.
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Butler was more than a remarkable soldier. He served as police commissioner of Philadelphia
during 1924-25 (on loan from the Marines), in an attempt to enforce Prohibition. While the effort
was a failure, his insistence on enforcing the law against wealthy party-goers as well as poor
immigrants established his reputation as a man of high integrity. He was not universally loved,
but he was widely respected.
Butler is best remembered today for his oft-quoted statement in the socialist newspaper Common
Sense in 1935:
“I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped
make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I
helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The
record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of
Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar
interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In
China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.... Looking back on it,
I felt I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in
three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents...”
In War Is A Racket, Butler argued for a powerful navy, but one prohibited from traveling more
than 200 miles from the U.S. coastline. Military aircraft could travel no more than 500 miles from
the U.S. coast, and the army would be prohibited from leaving the United States. Butler also
proposed that all workers in defense industries, from the lowest laborer to the highest executive,
be limited to "$30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get." He also proposed that
a declaration of war should be passed by a plebiscite in which only those subject to conscription
would be eligible to vote.
From 1935 through 1937, Butler was a spokesman for the League Against War and Fascism, a
Communist-dominated organization of the time. He also participated in the Third U.S. Congress
Against War and Fascism, sharing the platform with well-known leftists of the era, including
Langston Hughes, Heywood Broun, and Roger Baldwin. When the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
threatened the collapse of the Soviet-supported Spanish government, the League's pacifism
evaporated, and they supported intervention. Butler, however, remained true to his belief in non-
interventionism: "What the hell is it our business what's going on in Spain?" But before Butler
became involved in these causes, he had already exposed a fascist plot against his own
government.
The Plot
Butler had friends in the press and Congress, so he could not be ignored when he came forward in
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late 1934 with a tale of conspiracy against President Roosevelt, in which he had been asked to
take a leading role. At first glance, Butler seems an unlikely candidate for such a position. While
Butler was a Republican, in 1932 he campaigned for Roosevelt, calling himself a "Republican-
for-Ex-President Hoover." (Butler had a poor relationship with Hoover going back to their time
together during the Boxer Rebellion.)
But there were good reasons why someone seeking to overthrow the U.S. government would have
wanted Butler involved. Butler was a powerful symbol to many American soldiers and veterans --
an enlisted man's general, one that spoke out for their interests while on active duty, and after
retirement. Butler would have attracted men to his cause that would not otherwise have
participated in a march on Washington.
Butler would have been a good choice also because of his military skills. His personal courage
and tactical skill would have made him a powerful commander of an irregular army. Finally, his
ties of friendship to many officers still on active duty might have undermined military opposition
to his force, as friends and colleagues sought to avoid a direct confrontation with him.
Another reason that the plotters might have approached such an unlikely candidate was that
Butler was not regarded as a great intellect. After World War I, the Marine Corps had began to
emphasize a new college-educated professionalism. Butler, one of the less educated
"bushwhacker" generals, might have seemed easy to manipulate.
Butler testified that bond trader Gerald MacGuire had approached him in the summer of 1933.
MacGuire claimed to represent wealthy Wall Street broker Grayson Murphy, Singer sewing
machine heir Robert Sterling Clark, and other unnamed men of wealth. They asked Butler to
speak publicly on behalf of the gold standard, recently abandoned by President Roosevelt.
MacGuire's rationale for why Butler should ally himself with the gold standard cause was that the
veterans of World War I were due a bonus in 1945. As MacGuire told Butler, "We want to see the
soldiers' bonus paid in gold. We do not want the soldier to have rubber money or paper money."
It appears that the plotters underestimated Butler's intelligence and character. When this
explanation failed to persuade Butler, MacGuire and Clark offered him money, abandoning any
pretense of civic-mindness. Butler's sense of honor prevented him from speaking in favor of any
policy for mercenary reasons.
MacGuire eventually told Butler their real goal. MacGuire asked Butler to lead an army of
500,000 veterans in a march on Washington, D.C. The stated mission was to protect Roosevelt
from other plotters, and install a "secretary of general welfare" to "take all the worries and details
off of his shoulders." But Butler saw through their supposed concern for Roosevelt. He testified
before Congress that he told MacGuire:
“[M]y interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers
advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of
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you, and we will have a real war right at home..”
Yes; and then you will put somebody in there you can run; is that the idea? The President will go
around and christen babies and dedicate bridges, and kiss children. Mr. Roosevelt will never agree
to that himself.
Butler eventually deduced that the real goal was a coup d'état to take Roosevelt captive, and force
reinstatement of the gold standard, the loss of which many wealthy Americans feared would lead
to rapid inflation. The plotters would keep Roosevelt as a figurehead until he could be
"encouraged" to retire.
That MacGuire had significant financial backing behind him seems clear, considering the
substantial bank savings books he showed to Butler. What remains unclear is whether the names
MacGuire dropped (other than Robert Sterling Clark) were really involved, or whether MacGuire
was a con man.
MacGuire's claims and financial resources alone did not convince Butler that such a conspiracy
actually existed. The fulfillment of a series of startling predictions by MacGuire did finally
persuade Butler that there was more than just hot air involved. MacGuire knew in advance of
significant personnel changes in the White House. He correctly predicted the formation of the
American Liberty League (the major conservative opposition to Roosevelt), and the principal
players in it. Especially disturbing was that many of the supposed backers of the plot were also
members of the League. MacGuire's claim that the League ("villagers in the opera" of the scheme,
in MacGuire's words) was part of the plot could not be easily dismissed.
The American Liberty League was a successor to the highly successful Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment, the lobbying organization responsible for the repeal of the "Noble
Experiment." From its formation in 1918 until 1926, the AAPA made little progress, at least partly
because it had little money. But in 1926, money poured into the AAPA from some of America's
wealthiest men, including Pierre, Irenee, and Lammot du Pont, John J. Raskob, and Charles H.
Sabin. The AAPA spent its new found wealth on distribution of literature, and on the formation of
a bewildering number of associated organizations. These associated organizations gave the
impression of a grassroots movement, rather than a collection of millionaires feeding
press releases to friendly newspapers. The AAPA also rapidly took control of the Democratic
Party, with one of their supporters, Al Smith, receiving the 1928 Democratic Presidential
nomination. While AAPA had powerful friends within the Republican Party, they never achieved
control of it.
The AAPA's motivations were a mixture of idealism and pragmatism. The stated concern was that
Prohibition had done serious damage to the principle of federalism -- that the federal
government's authority did not include the police powers used to enforce Prohibition. But it
appears that this was not the only motivation, or even the reason most important to the men who
funded the AAPA. Like many other Americans, these business leaders "found themselves unable
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to gratify what seemed a natural, more or less innocent, desire without breaking a law" (i.e., the
consumption of alcoholic beverages). To suddenly find themselves among the criminal classes
was not pleasant to a group who had always thought of themselves as law-abiding and respectable
members of American society. There is also strong evidence that the backers of the AAPA saw
Repeal as a method of reducing income and corporate taxes, by taxing alcoholic beverages
instead.
The AAPA went out of business at the end of 1933, with the end of Prohibition. But within a year,
from the same offices, with most of the same backers, many of the same employees, and much of
the same style, it reappeared as the American Liberty League. Throughout the next six years, it
led the fight against the New Deal, arguing that much of Roosevelt's program was contrary to the
letter and spirit of the Constitution. In an age when Hitler and Mussolini had commandeered
extraordinary economic powers, the fears that the American Liberty League expressed about
Roosevelt's vaguely similar gathering of economic power could not be summarily dismissed.
The League, in spite of its impressive resources, was rapidly made to appear "ridiculous or
dangerous" or both by the Roosevelt Administration. Most importantly, the leadership of the
League was largely rich men. The Depression-era gap between rich and poor had become too
wide, too obvious, and too painful for the League to be credible to the majority of Americans.
Butler's testimony before Congress claimed that some of the people associated with the League
were the very ones that had approached him – including Grayson Murphy, the League's treasurer.
In the depths of the Great Depression, in that nadir of despair before Roosevelt gave his stirring
first inaugural address in 1933, America was awash in political groups identifying in greater or
lesser degrees with communism or fascism. Rep. Samuel Dickstein (D-NY), concerned about the
threat of such groups, persuaded the House of Representatives to create the Special Committee to
Investigate Nazi Propaganda Activities in the United States. This committee investigated Butler's
charges in late 1934.
MacGuire, not surprisingly, denied that such a plot existed. Instead, he claimed his activities had
been political lobbying to preserve the gold standard, but he quickly destroyed his credibility as a
witness by giving contradictory testimony. While the final report agreed with Butler that
there was evidence of a coup d'état plot against Roosevelt, no further action was taken on it. The
Committee's authority to subpoena witnesses expired at the end of 1934, and the Justice
Department started no criminal investigation.
Part of the reason for the lack of prosecution of the alleged plotters may have been the untimely
death of the only man who could have testified against the rest: Gerald MacGuire. He died at age
37 from complications of pneumonia, less than a month after the Committee released its report.
MacGuire's physician claimed that his death was partly the result of the stress of the charges
made by Butler, but there is no reason to assume that MacGuire's death was in any way
suspicious.
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The Committee's report excluded many of the most embarrassing names given by MacGuire, and
repeated by Butler. MacGuire had claimed that 1928 Democratic President candidate Al Smith,
General Hugh Johnson (head of Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration), General Douglas
MacArthur, and a number of other generals and admirals were privy to the plot. Since Butler had
no evidence of their involvement, other than MacGuire's claims, it was certainly reasonable for
the Committee to exclude these details from the final report as "certain immaterial and
incompetent evidence." But in conjunction with MacGuire's apparent advance knowledge of the
details of internal White House staff activities, it certainly suggests that if a coup was planned, it
had significant support within the Roosevelt Administration.
Just Like Today, The News Media Agreed To Downplay The Plot
The news media gave an inappropriately small amount of attention to the report. Time magazine
ridiculed Butler's claims. The week following Butler's testimony, Time described it as a "Plot
Without Plotters," simply because the alleged plotters claimed innocence. But Time admitted that
Veterans of Foreign Wars commander James Van Zandt confirmed that he, too, had been
approached to lead such a march on Washington.
The leftist magazine New Masses carried an article by John Spivak that included wild claims of
"Jewish financiers working with fascist groups." Spivak's article spun an elaborate web involving
the American Jewish Congress, the Warburg family, "which originally financed Hitler," the Hearst
newspaper chain, the Morgan banking firm, the du Ponts, a truly impressive list of prominent
American Jewish businessmen, and Nazi spies! Spivak's article raised some disturbing and
legitimate questions about why much of Butler's testimony was left out of the final committee
report. But these important concerns were seriously undermined by Spivak's paranoid ravings.
The left-of-center magazines Nation and New Republic were unconcerned about it, since in their
view "fascism originated in pseudoradical mass movements," and therefore could not come from
a wealthy cabal.
Newspaper descriptions of the final report are also astonishing for how lightly most treated it. A
New York Times article about subversion and foreign agitators started on the front page, but gave
only two paragraphs to the coup plot inside the paper. "It also alleged that definite proof has
been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington... was actually contemplated."
It was not a major story.
The San Francisco Chronicle took the story more seriously. The only headline with a larger type
size that day concerned the recent fatal crash of the airship Macon. The Chronicle carried an
Associated Press story headlined, "Justice Aids Probe Butler Fascist Story." The first five
paragraphs were devoted to Butler's allegations. The Chronicle quoted the Committee report
that it "was able to verify all the pertinent statements by General Butler, with the exception of the
direct statement suggesting creation of the organization."
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A third newspaper sampled showed an even more astonishing lack of interest than the New York
Times: the Sacramento Bee used a substantially different Associated Press wire story that
emphasized propaganda efforts by foreign agents. Another AP wire story, at the bottom of page
five, described Butler's allegations, taking the Committee's report at face value. This wire
story includes the comforting knowledge that the committee found "no evidence to show a
connection between this effort" and any foreign government.
An apparently serious effort to overthrow the government, perhaps with the support of some of
America's wealthiest men, largely substantiated by a Congressional committee, was mostly
ignored. Why? Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, wrote a book in 1939 about the
concentration of American journalism. He claimed that, "In 1934, 82 per cent of all dailies
had a complete monopoly in their communities." Newspaper chains, in Ickes' view, "control a
dangerously large share of the national daily circulation and in many cities have no competition."
Ickes' book was largely devoted to proving that the major newspapers of the United States were
intentionally distorting the news, and in some cases, directly lying. Ickes argued that newspaper
editors did so in the interests of both their advertisers and in defense of the capitalist class. Ickes
mentioned the Liberty League as one of the "propaganda outfits" who were allied with the major
newspapers. Indeed,the New York Times, one of the papers that had downplayed the Committee's
report, had editorialized in favor of the Liberty League's formation.
Did newspapers and magazines consciously play down the plot, because it represented an
embarrassment to people of influence? Or did editors simply give it low visibility because they
regarded it as an absurd story?
We must consider another disturbing possibility. Butler was associated with the loose alliance of
progressive and populist forces that were dragging Roosevelt towards the left. It is easy to forget
that for much of Roosevelt's first term as President from 1932-36, he was the rope in a tug
of war between conservative and progressive forces in America. The popularity of men such as
Senator Huey Long (D-Louisiana) and the nationally known radio priest Father Coughlin-and the
need to short-circuit their rising political power-appears to have caused Roosevelt's increasingly
leftward movement in 1935-36.
Is it possible that Butler concocted this story as a way of creating animosity towards
conservatives by Roosevelt? If Butler had lied to the Committee, and no such conspiracy was
ever planned, why did MacGuire apparently perjure himself before the Committee? Or,
alternatively, could leftward leaning members of the Roosevelt Administration have manipulated
Butler into believing that such a plot actually existed as a way of creating animosity towards
conservatives, thus dragging Roosevelt to the left? Either theory could explain why MacGuire,
Murphy, Clark, or the other supposed plotters were never prosecuted.
Yet another possibility (though less likely) is that there was no prosecution because Roosevelt's
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own advisors had taken part in the plot, as MacGuire claimed. A criminal prosecution would have
washed the Roosevelt Administration's dirty laundry in public.
Why Is The Plot So Poorly Known?
Butler's account of the MacGuire plot was a very serious accusation. If MacGuire had told Butler
the truth, a large number of wealthy men had made serious plans to overthrow representative
government in the United States – though their concern that Roosevelt was creating a government
in the style of Mussolini or Hitler, might provide some legitimate reason for their actions. Why
doesn't this plot appear in history books? That conservatives might discount the plot is not
unexpected; that liberals have tended to ignore the plot is a little more surprising.
It is hard to imagine how different American politics was in the 1930s. The collapse of the world
economy had shaken the faith of many Americans in individualism and free market capitalism.
Many traditionalists, here and in Europe, toyed with the ideas of Fascism and National Socialism;
many liberals dallied with Socialism and Communism. Prominent populists such as Huey Long
and Father Coughlin sided with progressives in support of isolationism, redistribution of wealth,
and a federal government that would play a more active role in the American economy.
In hindsight, the moral and economic deficiencies of these various collectivized systems are now
clear. In 1934, however, people of good will persuaded themselves that Hitler, Mussolini, and
Stalin were doing good, and ignored the great evils that were already underway. To turn over the
rock exposing MacGuire's plot raises unpleasant questions about the political sensibilities of both
right and left in 1930s America.
You might wonder: How Secure Are The Institutions of Legal Government In America?
How secure, indeed? It would be tempting to write off this entire matter as a group of con men
separating wealthy conservatives from their money by pretending to hatch a plot against the
Roosevelt Administration. But there are too many disturbing pieces of evidence in this tale that
suggest that the Zeitgeist of the 1930s was not limited to Europe. If MacGuire's claims to Butler
were true, some U.S. military commanders were prepared to stand aside while 500,000 veterans
marched on Washington and took Roosevelt captive. (Between the World Wars, the United States
Army was so small that 500,000 veterans might have given them a serious fight -- even
if every officer remained loyal to Roosevelt.)
But unlike many European countries, American government was highly decentralized in 1934,
and this would have worked against any serious military action against the legitimate
government. Every state governor had control of state militia units, armed with out of date, but
still serviceable military weapons.
In addition to the regularly organized state militias, the population of the United States, then as
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now, was heavily armed with the sort of weapons well suited to military operations. Whatever the
advantages of the plotters' army of 500,000 veterans, they would have been far outnumbered by
the unorganized militia of the United States -- then as now, consisting of every U.S. citizen
between 18 and 45, and legally obligated by state laws to fight at the order of the governor in the
event of insurrection, invasion, or war.
But in a nation that was suffering from the ravages of the Great Depression, another model exists
for what might have happened: the Spanish Civil War. The divisions over religion in America
were not as dramatic as those that ripped apart Spanish society. But many Americans were
beginning to lose their faith in American institutions -- as evidenced by the growth of American
Nazi and Communist movements during the 1930s. It is frightening to think of what might have
happened if a general as capable as Butler had become the man on a white horse.
In the words of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, delivered at New York University in
1960 concerning the protections of the U.S. Bill of Rights: I cannot agree with those who think of
the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age.. The evils it guards against
are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today..
Experience all over the world has demonstrated, I fear, that the distance between stable, orderly
government and one that has been taken over by force is not so great as we have assumed.
Indeed, the plot that Butler exposed -- if what MacGuire claimed was true – is a sobering
reminder to Americans. We were not immune to the sentiments that gave rise to totalitarian
governments throughout the world in the 1930s. We make a serious mistake when we assume, "It
can't happen here!"
They are wrong.
Woodside and Atherton California in Silicon Valley are known as the whitest, most racist, richest,
snootiest homes to the tech sociopaths. In Woodside, Jacque Littlefield had a huge series of
hangers hidden out in the woods. Inside them he had assembled a fully operational military tank
battalion. Here are pictures from that private army. His ex-wife: Sandra Montenegro, has some
interesting thoughts about his motivations:
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Figure 2: Jacques Littlefield's Private Army In
Woodside, California
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Silicon Valley’s Ongoing Coup Attempts
The spoiled rich elitist pigs of Silicon Valley seem to be insanely committed to controlling the
government.
A group of Silicon Valley investors received some documents from some “friends”, either from Russian
“business men or the CIA, or both, stating that there was “A trillion dollars of lithium in Afghanistan“.
These documents, possibly acquired from the Russians, were passed around by Goldman Sachs &
Silicon Valley VC’s. This group thought they could exploit Afghanistan, and other country’s, mining
contracts on a commodity monopolization scheme fronting the use of the raw materials by “Green-
washing” it to be used for “electric car and solar programs”, under the guise of, “it’s ‘CleanTech’ the
voters should love it” , in order to try to make it pass Congressional oversight faster. Recent press
disclosures confirm vast campaign funding, by mining companies, through back-door avenues, ie: the
Guistra matter and others. The plotters estimated that they could personally acquire many trillions of
dollars in profits, mostly at taxpayer expense, and control of government policy, upon successful
execution of their scheme.
These investors were deeply affiliated with Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs was involved in almost
every aspect, stock manipulation, application “winner”, profit funnel and deployment aspect of the
case. Goldman created the computerized stock market “spoofing” algorithm process known as
the “Flash Boy Pump” stock spoofing. This used Department of Energy and TARP cash award
announcements to synthetically inflate stock values long enough to “skim” profits off those stock
holdings. Goldman is now under many investigations for this kind of“Commodity rigging”.
These investors used their campaign donations, lobbyists, stock payola and PAC’s to acquire the
services of a number of U.S. Senators and foreign diplomats via bribes. They primarily paid the
Senators in stock options for those Senators, their families and business associates. The FEC and FTC
have Congressional insider trading investigations under-way, over these very actions, which have been
stone-walled by the very Senators who engaged in the insider trading.
So much money was moving that a scheme was created to pass the money through the U.S. Department
of Energy and a new program, called TARP, so that the transactions appeared to be federal programs
The characters involved in the scandal have now been uncovered as highly unethical, disreputable,
willing to break laws and moral codes and are held in low regard by the public. They formed a cartel
now known as The Silicon Valley Cartel as a subset of The National Venture Capital Association
(NVCA) with guidance from rogue CIA/In-Q-Tel associates James Breyer and Gilman Louie. One of
the largest participants is Google, Inc. and it’s investors. The Cartel was recently exposed in the Silicon
Valley “ANGELGATE” and “NO POACHING” collusion scandals and lawsuits
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The best friend’s of the Silicon Valley Cartel were Steven Chu and Eric Holder. The cartel arranged, via
the legal firm connected to both: Covington & Burling, to get them both nominated and appointed to
the two federal agencies that control the money pass-through. Both of these individuals have been
proven to have had previous business and personal relationships with the Cartel. Steven Chu sabotaged
any technologies or companies that competed with his, and his friends, stock investments. Both have
been forced to quit.
The Cartel used consulting Company McKinsey for insider trading deal support and to author papers
and reports which were distributed throughout Washington to say that certain very specific products
and technologies were “trending in the new CleanTech industry”. In fact, every “trending company and
technology” that McKinsey raved over was already owned and monopolized by the Cartel. At least one
major McKinsey executive has gone to federal prison. A number of others are under surveillance and
investigation.
As Secretary of Energy, it was noticed that Steven Chu gave quite a lot of U.S. tax dollars to Russian
owned or controlled companies. It was subsequently discovered that the Silicon Valley Cartel had deep
Russian connections and business relations with USSR businessmen, to assist in the mining of Afghan,
and other Middle Eastern countries, for the personal gain of the Cartel. Steven Chu sabotaged over 200
applicants, for the federal programs, simply because they competed with the Cartel and were not part of
the Cartel.
John Doerr ran Kleiner Perkins, one of the lead coordinators of the Scheme and the Cartel. He is called:
“The Godfather of Silicon Valley”.
Elon Musk was a behind the scenes Google and Kleiner Perkins partner, Cartel organizer and cash
conduiting agent. THIS LINK has many confirming data points . Elon Musk, a billionaire, has now
received billions of free taxpayer dollars in out-right cash hand-outs, tax waivers, free or low-cost
resources, stock pumps and federal NASA contracts. Musk’s companies would not exist today if not for
taxpayer hand-out cash. No other living person has received this much taxpayer money from the
Obama administration. No other living person has given so much money to the Obama administration
through his companies, investors and partners, like Google. No other living person has had the Obama
administration sabotage, terminate or rule against so many of his competitors. Federal records
demonstrate this to be one of the most overt examples of a political campaign kick-back scheme in this
decade. In Musk’s carefully orchestrated, self-aggrandizing, media campaigns, all mention of his true
financial connections, extensive fraud lawsuits, and employee distrust is carefully expunged. Musk’s
companies exploited the key minerals from the mining deals and both Tesla & Solyndra, who sit next
door to each other, were kickback lobbied by Dianne Feinstein, whose family profited on both deals.
Vinohd Khosla was a key organizer in the Cartel and connected to Raj Gupta, now imprisoned. He has
been involved in a notorious public lawsuit for taking over a famous California coastal beach.
Senators Feinstein, Reid, Pelosi and Boxer received the largest amount of stock, insider trading deals
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and campaign kick-backs from the Cartel. Feinstein’s family and associates received massive resources
from the Tesla and Solyndra deals. They were, essentially, paid program facilitators. These Senators
leveraged state tax officials, including Bill Lockyer of California, to exclusively, and extraordinarily,
give tens of millions of dollars of additional taxpayer money, at a state level, to Cartel billionaire-
owned companies: Tesla & Solyndra. Which sit on the same plot of land and have supplier contracts
with the Senators families. These Senators took active steps to sabotage applicants who competed with
Tesla, Solyndra & the Cartel, such as Gary D. Conley of SolFocus; who may have been murdered.
Eric Schmidt was the core lobbyist and director of a large part of the Cartel. He spent more time in the
White House, directing policy, than most members of Congress. He used Google to put character
assassination hit-jobs on competitors, reporters and politicians.
When whistle-blowers saw through the scheme, Cartel leaders Doerr and Schmidt would organize
character assassination hit-jobs against those adversaries, sabotage their business and career databases
with negative flags, create whisper campaigns and black list them via the National Venture Capital
Association, which was controlled by a large number of Cartel members. The Cartel used it’s resources,
concurrently, at Google and Gawker Media, to put media hit-jobs on Santorum, ALICE,
Romney, whistle-blowers, and other adversaries by locking devastating hatchet jobs onto massive
numbers of search engine pages controlled by each.
Recently disclosed documents and videos prove that the Cartel spent more time in the White House,
from 2007 forward, than all of the members of Congress COMBINED. Additionally, the disclosures of
financial connections between the Cartel members, The White House, campaign financing and federal
policy decisions demonstrates the operation of a felony-level corruption activity.
The mining chemicals that the cartel sought to monopolize were “dumped” on the Cartel by the
Russians via, possibly, doctored documents which overstated the volume and value of the materials and
who knew that the materials were toxic, explosive and had no long-term economic viability. The Cartel
did not investigate the materials usage and rushed to profiteer, driven By Goldman Sachs, who didn’t
care about the long-term, they just wanted to “skim” their fees and “stock pumps” off the top.
The American GAO, Judicial Watch & Transparency Center have discovered that U.S. taxpayers lost
additional billions of dollars as the result of tax waivers, credits and reductions given exclusively to
Cartel companies as gifts in exchange for election services. In the FBI-raided Solyndra solar panel
company alone, U.S. taxpayers lost over $600M while Silicon Valley plotters profited by over $180M
in stock market skims and favorable tax write-offs.
Google executives and investors used Google, Inc. as a “central command” for lobbying, leverage,
media stock manipulation, spying on competitors, media hit jobs and revenue profiteering. The upside
was that it provided for the largest media, stock and information manipulation system ever devised. The
downside is that it focused public, agency and law enforcement scrutiny on this central point until the
voluminous indiscretions, finally, became highly visible.
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The key White House staff who assisted in this scheme were: Rahm Emanual, David Plouffe, Robert
Gibbs, David Axelrod, Steve Rattner, Jay Carney and Bill Daily. When confronted about their
involvement, historical records show that they all quit their White House jobs at the most desired
positions in America, in a bad economy, to take far lower positions, thus implicating themselves, along
with their emails, in culpability. These staffers worked harder than any other administration to cut-off
the press, attack whistle-blowers and increase NSA domestic surveillance in order to delay the
revelation of these crimes.
A key aspect of the scam was the “Pump & Go” stock swindle combined with pulling cash off-the-top
by Sachs and the Cartel. In the following evidence set, you will notice a record setting number of huge
cash intakes and sudden bankruptcies immediately thereafter. That part of the scheme seems to have
worked like this: 1.) Technically “ideal” companies were set-up, 2.) huge cash amounts were wired in
from the U.S. Treasury. 3.) Huge “fees” were paid to VC’s, executives and Sachs, right when the
money arrived at the tech company, while Sachs & the VC’s “pumped” the stock market valuations of
those companies using the sudden “free money” from the Dept. of Energy to falsify valuation
marketing. This gave short term, sudden, stock profits that they also grabbed , 4.) the companies were
managerially abandoned and then 5.) filed bankruptcy. 6. ) The VC’s and Sachs then filed tax loss
credits, on the failures, in order to get a double profit upside. Investigators called this “unjust rewards”.
This volume of award/failure scenarios has never occurred in the history of America, particularly with a
series of same-type companies who had just received massive federal funding windfalls. It seems
obvious that these sequential incidents were planned and coordinated. Investigators believe Kleiner
Perkins and Goldman Sachs were the key organizers of this tactic. Time-tracking of financial details in
the HSBC “Swiss Leaks” seems to confirm federal award/personal gain sequences.
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Everybody who got DOE cash was a campaign financier.
Everybody who got denied, and then sabotaged, was a competitor to those exact same campaign
financiers who did not pay any political bribes.
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Figure 3: Diane Feinstein And Her Family Are Investors In Elon Musk's Cartel
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A Goat Named “Aneer”
Aneer often wandered the bare rocky steppes near his owner's village, a few miles north of Kabul,
Afghanistan. His careful goat hooves negotiated the perilous cliffs and crags of sun blistered rock with
the deft skill of an Alpine climber. He was looking for the rare olive green nettles that occasionally
peeked up from between the red rock outcroppings. It was sheer delight when he discovered a short
stout nettle clump to munch on. He was in goat ecstasy.
As he bent to nip the top off of his latest herbivore harvest, a shriek, from below, caught him by
surprise. It was Samu, the young boy who tended him. He had never heard Samu yell like that before.
He arched his neck to catch the view over the crest because he sensed that something, in the urgency of
Samu's cry, felt like “danger”.
Moments later, Aneer, Samu and the entire face of the rocky steppe were consumed in an explosive fire
that turned flesh into charcoal and the Earth into blackened dust.
Elon Musk had just killed more innocent bystanders.
Let us take a deeper look into how the lithium lake-beds of Afghanistan created a multi-trillion dollar
embezzlement scheme that cost lives, economies and national positioning.
The stuff (Chemical ore) that Solyndra, Abound, Fisker, Tesla, A123, Enerdel, and the rest of the
failures, needed to make their scheme pan out, was buried under some goat farmers in Afghanistan!
Almost all of these companies had their products blow up, in average use, (Even the solar panels
caught fire) and, in most cases, release a “Cancer-Cocktail” of toxic gas; Tens of thousands of Lithium
fires and explosions have now been documented to have crashed planes, exploded cars, set data centers
on fire, burned children, blown up IPAD's and have just been a very bad chemical concept. Lithium has
gone off many, many more times than the public has been told. Over time, the compounds become
MORE likely to go off! To make the chemicals work for Solyndra, Abound, Tesla, Fisker and the rest,
these companies mixed them together into a compound that ends up being a military-grade toxicity,
carcinogenic powder. Even making the compounds kills overseas factory workers. Not very good
research on the part of the bad guys, but greed often out-paces sanity!
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A $1 Trillion insider market-monopoly scheme that “blew up!”
Ingredients: S
i licon Valley VC/Campaign funders ; Russian miners; Goldman Sachs; Knowingly
complicit federal officials; Innocent goat herders; Over $1 Trillion Dollars in profiteering; Hookers;
Taxpayer cash; Criminally corrupt senators; Toxic gas; Explosions; Dead people and Electric cars.
… and the money people behind everything were the same exact handful of bad guys in each and
every case. If Silicon Valley created the latest version of the Afghan War for private gain, they got
screwed. Not only do they now realize that the cost of the war was many, many magnitudes more than
just giving the goat herders a check and buying the rocks, but the stuff they were trying to monopolize
turns out to be explosively dangerous, hard to use and cancer-causing.
Cowboys and Indium:
Solyndra was exploiting Indium, and a large number of other key chemicals, from Afghanistan that
directly paid into the “DOE insider profit pool”.
Abound was exploiting key chemicals from Afghanistan that directly paid into the “DOE insider
profit pool”.
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Nissan‘s Smyrna plant, Tesla, A123, Ener1, Fisker and Ford were exploiting Lithium from
Afghanistan that directly paid into the “DOE insider profit pool”. Other “failed DOE winners” had the
same connected materials supply routes.
In this Watergate-type scandal (Should we call it Lithium-Gate, instead?) Secretary of Energy
Steven Chu appears to have been told to let no applicant through unless they were in the “DOE insider profit pool” . The pool consisted of Deloitte staff, Goldman Sachs staff, DOE staff, Silicon Valley
venture capitalists and, possibly, at least two White House staff. Rahm Emanual is known to have had
an intimate connection with the Argonne labs lithium ion program research funding while in the White
House and after he returned to Chicago. Dianne Feinstein personally arranged for, and opened, the NUMMI plant for Tesla. Her husband’s company CBRE were the real estate hooks for the Tesla, and
next door, Solyndra property deals. Her staff and lobby people work there now. Her husband goes to
Mongolia all the time for “special meetings” according to Sunshine. So one wonders if Feinstein got on
the intelligence committee so she could see if she was about to get caught or if a savvy NSA section
chief “helped” her get there on the premise of “keep your friends close and your enemies closer” so
the NSA could watch her in intimate detail. The recent hack of her files by intelligence officers seems
to be indicative.
Dianne Feinstein, and her family, controlled the cash, stock, construction, HR services, leases and land
contracts around Tesla and Solyndra in an epic payola and kick-back scheme.
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Many high level politicians made a grab for their piece of the trillion dollars so investigations keep
getting squashed by them. Steven Chu killed off the non-toxic fuel cell, wind and natural gas programs
while at DOE to give a clear runway to his “DOE insider profit pool”, in which he participated.
The Russian mining connections run throughout the above group but now that the U.S. is back in a
Cold War with Russia, Russian insiders are delighted to spill the beans, on the whole deal, to reporters.
One is even out taking competitive bids for exclusive whistleblower interviews.
The insider profit pool consisted of the same investors in the above efforts, who also happen to be the
same people who nominated and lobbied for the appointment of Steven Chu, according to his nomination docket. All of these people had a personal profit side deal in the same profit pool through
stock holdings, trusts, revolving doors and repercussive gains. All of the above are connected in a very
tiny business circle. The odds of that circle of 30, or so, people, out of 318 million Americans, being
the only people to have access to these profits and federal funds, without rigging the program, is
calculated on a book-makers metric at 12 billion to 1. Even now, one can easily see the disparity
between the NHTSA wave-through of the coddled White House campaign-backer funded Tesla
(hushed up by Tesla silent owner: Google) and the bone crunching hearings and fines that GM and
Toyota have had to endure, at the same time, for less dangerous defects.
The Senate Ethics Committee members have hundreds of thousands of background documents on this
matter but they have been stone-walled. The FBI has nearly a million documents on this matter and
reporters are eager to see the anticipated indictments from years of surveillance of the key parties of
interest. NSA, DIA and CIA have tens of millions of documents on this matter from nearly a decade of
surveillance of parties of interest, but they are stalled up with inter-party politics. The press has vast
amounts of this evidence. The Russians are shopping vast new repositories of disclosure. Within the
year, expectations are high for a tsunami of enforcement activity. The recent record-breaking number of
White House and Congressional “retirement announcements” may be the first wave of the storm. As
Richard Byrne Reilly found out, the “no comment” responses are piling up. That is always a good sign that the “We just got caught” Freak-Out Factor Frenzy has begun among the Politicos.
While party mouth-foamers are trying to make the Afghani-scam scandal not about their party, with
their constant drone of “Nothing’s been proven…” they are now realizing that it is not a Democrat Vs.
Republican issue. It is about being for, or against, Organized Crime. It is about being part of, or not
part of, Organized Crime. It is about losing their federal pensions because of crimes they may have
knowingly supported.
When investigative reporters found that Goldman Sachs and Silicon Valley VC’s were involved in almost every single one of the DOE money deals, they had to ask why? How much did they make in,
around and through the whole thing? Who was connected to them and decision makers? Would they
really rig a whole market (and a war?) just to get a few TRILLION dollars worth of lithium cornered?
Looks like they did…
Everything in this collaborative article can be researched and verified by YOU, online, from thousands
of published documents. If you are a reporter; acquire confirming data from your group database,
FOIA’s, associate investigators, web search and standard sources. If you are a member of the public use
Sunshine disclosure sites like those at the bottom of this page and file a FOIA request via this
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information: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-use-freedom-of-information-32508-2.html
The future of Silicon Valley may lie in the
mountains of Afghanistan
By
for VENTUREBEAT
The future of Silicon Valley’s technological prowess may well lie in the war-scarred mountains and
salt flats of Western Afghanistan.
United States Geological Survey teams discovered one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of
lithium there six years ago. (Editorial Team Note: Right about the time the DOE started rounding up
the key ATVM and LG program insiders) The USGS was scouting the volatile country at the behest of
the U.S. Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations. Lithium is a soft
metal used to make the lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries essential for powering desktop
computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. And increasingly, electric cars like Tesla’s.
The vast discovery could very well propel Afghanistan — a war-ravaged land with a population of 31
million largely uneducated Pashtuns and Tajiks, and whose primary exports today are opium, hashish,
and marijuana — into becoming the world’s next “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” according to an internal
Pentagon memo cited by the New York Times.
The USGS survey report on Afghanistan that detailed the findings also noted that, in addition to lithium, the country also contains huge deposits of iron ore, gold, cobalt, copper, and potash, among
many other valuable minerals.
“The mineral wealth there is astonishing,” said professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Montreal-based
Center for Research and Globalization, who has written extensively on Afghanistan.
A conservative estimate of the riches is $1 trillion. In some circles, it’s as high as $5 trillion.
In Silicon Valley and beyond, tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett-
Packard, Samsung, Sony, and Tesla rely on continual, and uninterrupted, access to lithium, as lithium-
based batteries are the primary power storage devices in their mobile hardware.
Without these batteries, MacBooks, iPads, iPhones, Kindles, Nooks, Galaxy IIIs, Chromebooks, and,
yes, Tesla Model S cars would be largely worthless. If forced to use older, nonlithium batteries, their
battery lives would certainly be much shorter.
The world’s current lithium heavyweight is Bolivia, the biggest exporter of the element. There, in the
swamps and marshlands of the southern region of the country near where the borders of Chile and
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Argentina meet, are the biggest deposits.
Canada, China, Australia, and Serbia also have varying amounts of lithium, but not as much as
Bolivia…. Or apparently, Afghanistan.
Enough to last a lifetime?
Depending on who you talk to, the current lithium global reserves are adequate for at least another
generation of lithium-ion battery manufacturers to produce them.
But not everybody thinks so, and some say the light metal compound may someday run dry. That could
in turn spell trouble for any company whose business depends on light and portable mobile electronics
— unless someone comes up with an alternative to lithium batteries before then.
The experts VentureBeat interviewed pointed to sharp year-on-year increases in the demand for lithium.
That’s putting heavy pressure on existing stockpiles.
According to Lithium Americas, a Canadian lithium-mining company with significant business
interests in Argentina, lithium demand will more than double in the next 10 years, while lithium prices have nearly quadrupled during the same timeframe.
Tesla, for its part, is in the process of investing up to $5 billion to build its own lithium-ion Gigafactory
in Texas, a plant capable of churning out 500,000 expensive battery packs a year by 2020 for its line of
zero-emission, all-electric cars.
A Tesla spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment.
As a potential source to feed that demand, enter Afghanistan.
“At some point, if present trends continue, demand [for lithium] will outstrip the supply. And again, at
some point, the market for lithium-ion could get so big that it actually affects the supply chain,” said
Donald R. Sadoway, a professor of the Materials Chemistry Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at MIT.
Looking at Afghanistan, Sadoway says the war-ravaged nation, which has no effective mining
infrastructure in place, may well be attractive to the world’s mining outfits.
“In this regard,” Sadoway, one of the world’s foremost experts on energy sources, says, “the deposits in
Afghanistan could be important.”
Andrew Chung, a venture capitalist with Khosla Ventures in Silicon Valley who has invested in
multiple startups producing alternative batteries, says lithium-ion batteries are limited in their lifetime
cycles, scalability, and cost. Despite this, Chung says, he can understand how the untapped reserves of
Afghan lithium are now an increasing focus.
“It is an issue of the supply chain, whether it’s Afghanistan or other [countries]. There is a finite supply,
and lithium-ion will continue to be the [power] choice for the next decade,” Chung said.
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Some of the Valley’s biggest and most powerful tech companies either declined to comment for this
story or never returned calls. But they didn’t deny the importance of lithium-ion batteries.
For instance, an Apple spokesperson declined to comment for this story but provided VentureBeat with
a 2014 “Suppliers List” of the 200-plus vendors it uses to produce its products. A related post made the
Cupertino, Calif.-based company’s commitment to lithium batteries clear, at least in the short term.
“Rechargeable, lithium-based technology currently provides the best performance for your Apple
notebook computer, iPod, iPhone, or iPad,” the Apple post says.
Sony Energy Devices Corp. invented the lithium-ion battery in 1994. It was hailed as a breakthrough, providing longer battery life and without the “memory effect” that gradually reduced the effective
capacity of previous types of batteries.
Since then, companies have gradually refined lithium battery technology but have not succeeded in
moving beyond it. Indeed, early Tesla cars are actually powered by large packs of industry-standard
lithium-ion battery cells — the same type of cells found in many laptop batteries.
And here is where it gets interesting.
Sharply increasing demand?
If electric car manufacturers begin ramping up production of lithium-ion battery-powered cars, the
global demand for lithium will skyrocket. This could potentially come about at the same time for
increasing demand for handheld consumer goods like tablets and laptops, Chung said, thus creating a
perfect storm.
“So you want to start looking at other sources producing it with current supplies being called into
question, if we move more toward production of electric cars,” Chung said.
Which is why, increasingly, eyes are turning to Afghanistan and its new purported lithium reserves, a
country long referred to as the “graveyard of empires.” The U.S. invaded Afghanistan after the terror
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and according to iCasualties, 2,315 American servicemen and women have
been killed there.
Analyst Jay Jacobs of Global X Funds in New York, which has interests in lithium mining, said demand for the compound is growing, and that “there are two regions that have been revealed to contain huge
lithium reserves: Afghanistan and Bolivia.”
William Tahil, a respected lithium expert who lives in France and is the general director for Material
International Research, argues that lithium deposits in Bolivia will at some point be depleted.
Jacobs was sanguine about safely extracting lithium from Afghanistan. He said political risks there
were considerable.
“With that being said, should there be a substantial and sustained increase in demand for lithium,
lithium miners may become increasingly interested in the country as it has an abundance of the
resource,” Jacobs said.
It was the Soviets who first discovered the country’s deposits when they invaded in 1979. Soviet
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geologists began mapping Afghanistan’s lithium, gold, and potash fields but abandoned their efforts
after the former communist superpower pulled out of the country in 1989.
But with a weak and corruption-plagued “central government,” Afghanistan is now ripe for the picking,
Chossudovsky said. Indeed, the country is still very much divided into fiefdoms, with the Muslim
fundamentalist Taliban, warlords, and drug traffickers controlling large swaths of the country — and
using violence to advance their interests.
“There’s no question the mining companies will go in there. No question. There’s no real functioning
government there to reap the foreign investment of the mineral deposits. This makes it all the more
enticing to the mining companies because nobody in the government of [President] Hamid Karzai will
be regulating the bonanza of lithium, so they can do what they want,” he said.
Jockeying for position
For its part, the U.S. government, which helped locate the lithium deposits using flyovers with a
sensor-filled Lockheed P-3 Orion and teams of geologists fielding soil samples, knows a potential gold
rush when it sees one. And it has no intention of being left on the sidelines. Especially since the
Chinese are now — and quickly — making deals with Afghan pols for mineral rights to copper
deposits.
The USGS did return multiple calls seeking comment. Nor did the Pentagon.
Despite what some say are the shortcomings of lithium-ion batteries, venture capitalists and investors
continue pouring money into them. Amprius, a lithium battery maker based in Sunnyvale, Calif.,
snared a $30 million infusion round of investor cash in January.
Over at the Afghan embassy in Washington, D.C., the Afghans are licking their lips at the potential
lithium and mineral windfall despite the country’s continued conflict with a resurgent Taliban. What
this may portend for the impoverished and war-torn nation is anybody’s guess. But the Afghans are
playing up the finds — or they were, until recently.
“In recent years, headlines from the Afghan mineral sector have competed to outdo each other in scale:
from the landmark $3 billion Chinese investment in the Aynak copper concession to the astounding
survey work of the U.S., Afghan, and British Geological Services estimating anywhere between $1
trillion and $3 trillion in mineral potential, to the historic $11 billion deal now being finalized with an
Indian consortium for the Hajigak iron ore concession,” said a posting on the Afghani Washington DC
The post has since been removed.
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S., Eklil Hakimi, presided over a press conference at the Afghan
embassy in Washington, D.C., on March 10, where he talked about the untapped deposits, along with
reps from the USGS and other U.S. politicians.
But Hakimi, through a spokesman, told me he simply didn’t have the time to talk.
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Solyndra, Abound and Tesla need these chemicals. The investors and the campaign backers and the
product owners are all the same people. Tesla doesn’t care about selling cars, they car about selling
LITHIUM. The car is like the handle for the razor blade, they want to sell the razor blades, not the
shaver. But the idiots backing the scheme rushed into it, without checking into things, because they saw
all the free Department of Energy and TARP cash. They did not realize that Lithium blows up all the
time and, when mixed, becomes a “Cancer Cocktail”, gives off toxic smoke, kills factory workers and
is just kinda’ bad stuff… ooops
The Audacity of Scope
If you think that the size and audaciousness of the crime being examined is almost inconceivable, think
again. The greatest crimes are committed in plain sight.
Who would have imagined, at the time, that regular people would try to kill all of the Jews in
Germany?
We rarely even consider the fact that a group of people captured, dragged half way around the planet,
and raped and beat the black people of Africa.
You see the great piles of skulls from Southeast Asian genocides; how did that happen?
Big crazy crimes DO happen.
While a trillion dollar lithium scam may sound like a wild proposition, so did other things until you
later realized: "OMG, these awful things actually happened!".
Even though conventional wisdom may push against the concept, history has shown that assumption to
be the fools errand.
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Lithium’s extremely low co-efficient of thermal expansion makes these products resistant to thermal
shock and imparts mechanical strength. … China, and Afghanistan however Bolivia has a backward,
… Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Fortis Investments.
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ay be the Saudi Arabia of l ithium | Bus
The New York Times story on the discovery of vast mineral reserves in Afghanistan is astonishing,
given the unpredictable political consequences. One is that the Afghanistan could rival Bolivia as the
Saudi Arabia of lithium The US US taskforce that is trying to map the reserves of …
blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2010/06/afghanistan-may-be…
Afghanistan, it turns out, is rich in minerals – trillions rich. It’s going to become the Saudi Arabia of
lithium, thanks to vast stores of that resource, plus iron, copper, cobalt and gold. … Masooma Habibi,
a graduate of Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Women” program at the AUAF, …
readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=229781
cryptogon.com » U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Deposits Worth …
U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Deposits Worth $1 Trillion in Afghanistan; “The Saudi Arabia of
Lithium“; Eventually “One of The Most Important Mining Centers in The World”; … And Goldman
Sachs will arrange the financing.
cryptogon.com/?p=15953
Vast Deposits Of Fodder For Conspiracy Theorists Discovered …
Jim Risen has a blockbuster story about a gift and a curse for Afghanistan’s blighted and … gold and
critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are … The Board
of advisors has Stephen Friedman, AIG crook, Goldman Sachs crook, Federal Reserve …
attackerman.firedoglake.com/2010/06/13/vast-deposits-of-fodder-for-…
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical
industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern
industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most …
dailykos.com/story/2010/06/13/875695/-NYT-Vast-Miner…
Afghanistan troop withdrawal, President Barack Obama, Prime Time speech, … We’ll need enough
troops in afganistan to secure their lithium, … Guess Ghadafi should have cooperated with Goldman
Sachs. Recently Aired. Listen to today’s podcast:
blogs.wsj.com/wsjam/2011/06/23/president-barack-obama…
oincidence Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s …
… gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are
essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed … Afghanistan’s gross
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domestic product is only about $12 billion dollars,” lunch money for Goldman Sachs.
infowars.com/the-afghanistan-coincidence/
Mining Afghanistan’s future By Kathleen Parker WASHINGTON – Amid all the dark news from
Afghanistan, every now and then a sliver of light slips through the cracks.
hutchnews.com/Wirecolumns/Parker-column6-16–1
fghanistan t ransformed West Seneca Marine …
Historically, the name “Afghan” designated the Pashtun people, the largest ethnic group of
Afghanistan. [33] … The country’s natural resources include: coal, copper, iron ore, lithium, uranium,
rare earth elements, chromite, gold, …
article.wn.com/view/2014/01/13/Horrors_of_Afghanistan_…
Making Lemonade From Failed Afghan Air Force G222 Acquisition
… General McChrystal General Odierno General Schwartz GFE GISP Global Hawk Global Influence
Global Strike Global Zero GLONASS GMD GMR Goldman Sachs Google Gordon England Gorgon
Stare Government … Gooden Linda Hudson Lithium-ion Batteries … in Afghanistan that the press
would …
lexingtoninstitute.org/making-lemonade-from-failed-afghan-air-…
thium : The Commodity of the 21st Century [Global X Funds …
Lithium is used as a thickener in grease, … There are also huge lithium deposits in Bolivia, China,
and Afghanistan, … Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Fortis Investments. These three majors bought in
when Talison was still a private company.
seekingalpha.com/article/252920-lithium-the-commodity-of…
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Afghanistan Has Trillion Dollar Deposits Of Iron, Copper, and Lithium. June 14, 2010. Tags:
afghanistan, Empire, Globalization, pakistan, propaganda, resources, War
mindbodypolitic.com/2010/06/14/afghanistan-has-trillion-dol…
fghanistan ? – Ron Paul Forums / Rand Paul Forums …
Endless Afghanistan? … You could say, it’s the typical MO of protecting those Lithium rights(natural
resources again) for the Fascist-Marxists Green Battery corporate manufacturers too. … Goldman
Sachs was top Obama donor. 11-20-2013 01:00 PM #7. AngryCanadian.
ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?433745-Endless-Afghanistan
Opening Afghan minds | HeraldTribune.com – Sarasota Florida …
Amid all the dark news from Afghanistan, … the cracks. Afghanistan, it turns out, is rich in minerals.
Trillions rich. It’s going to become the Saudi Arabia of lithium, they say. Thanks to vast … a graduate
of Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Women” program at the AUAF, founded an Internet …
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heraldtribune.com/article/20100617/COLUMNIST/6171039
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Lithium Ion Batteries and Organized Crime
Was Afghanistan invaded because the CIA and Goldman Sachs said there is “trillions of dollars”
of Lithium ion material there?
The ultimate goal of a career criminal politician is to run an agency, or top committee, in order to
conduit money to friends and keep the lid on cover-ups. Those at the heads of agencies and committees
are often the dirtiest of the dirty. They get themselves put there in order to run the scams. Who ran
agencies that conduit-ed money and covered up and stalled investigations? Why is the CIA's In-Q-Tel connected to every single one of the Silicon Valley billionaires?
Was Tesla funded not to build cars but to lock-up lithium ion deals for it’s investors?
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Why are dozens of conspiracy lawsuits now filed on lithium ion company racketeering?
Why is every major Silicon Valley VC who was connected to Steven Chu and massive campaign
funding involved in a lithium ion deal?
Why are there multiple “task forces” looking at lithium ion finance relationships?
Why was the Russian mob involved in Lithium Ion mining?
Did all of these people know that lithium ion blows up quite a lot and emits deadly gases?
Let’s discuss…
S- Denver Post, C- NY Times
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ttery Antitrust Class Action La
… Hitachi, LG Chem, Samsung, and Sanyo for allegedly conspiring to fix and raise the prices
of lithium–ion rechargeable batteries in violation of U.S. antitrust law …
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The Defendants’ Conspiracy Stabilized and Raised Lithium Ion …. The subject of this lawsuit and
the Defendants’ conspiracy is Lithium Ion Rechargeable.
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%20Complaint.pdf – View by Ixquick Proxy – Highlight
5 Feb 2014 … In the lithium ion battery cells case, the defendant manufacturers argued that the … A
direct purchaser subsidiary is unlikely to bring a lawsuit for damages …. 2nd Circuit Rejects DOJ’s
“Continuing Conspiracy” Theory In …
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chargeable Batteries Class Action La
Price-Fixing Class Action for Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries … agreement, or conspiracy to fix,
raise, maintain, or stabilize the prices of these batteries.
http://www.girardgibbs.com/ lithium–ion-rechargeable-batteries-antitrust-class-action/ – View by
Patent encumbrance of large automotive NiMH batteries – Wikipedia …
The current trend in the industry is towards the development of lithium–ion …. guilty of conspiring to
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buy and dismantle the Los Angeles electric street car system, … In August 2008, Mercedes-Benz sued
Cobasys for again refusing to fill a large, …
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awsuits accuse l ithium i on ba
ttery makers of price fixing …
12 Nov 2012 … The world’s largest manufacturers of rechargeable lithium ion … are being sued for
allegedly engaging in a decade-long conspiracy to fix prices …
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bsidiaries_of_price_fixing.html – View by Ixquick Proxy – Highlight
ty Attorney’s Statement Regarding Li
8 May 2013… are alleged to have conspired to fix prices of Li-Ion batteries that were included in …
Palo Alto purchased many devices containing Li-Ion batteries, … These staff costs will be fully
reimbursed in any resolution of the litigation.
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December 20, 2013, The lawsuit, on behalf of nearly a million Ontario … lithium battery
manufacturers and resellers alleging they conspired with each other to …
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ttery Antitrust Litigation | Li
ALLEGED ILLEGAL OVER-PRICING OF LITHIUM ION BATTERIES … into whether certain
manufacturers illegally conspired to over-price Lithium Ion batteries …
http://www.zimmreed.com/Over-Pricing-of-Lithium–Ion-Batteries/63629/ – View by Ixquick Proxy –
USDOJ: Panasonic and Its Subsidiary Sanyo Agree to Plead Guilty …
Jul 18, 2013 … SANYO and LG Chem Ltd. have agreed to plead guilty for their roles in a conspiracy
to fix the prices of cylindrical lithium ion battery cells sold …
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chargeable … – scott and scott llp
Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries are used as a power source for … of major securities, antitrust,
and employee retirement plan class action lawsuits.
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Class Action Lawsuits Mount Against Battery Price-Fixing Cartel
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Oct 31, 2012 … Manufacturers of lithium ion batteries face at least 10 class action lawsuits … The
plaintiffs allege the defendants entered into the conspiracy …
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Class Suits Charge Battery Makers With Global Price-Fixing …
Oct 24, 2012 … Litigation is mounting against the world’s biggest manufacturers of rechargeable
lithium ion batteries, who consumers accuse of complicity in an illegal … Class Suits Charge Battery
Makers With Global Price-Fixing Conspiracy.
http://www.njlawjournal.com/ id=1202576057659/ Class-Suits-Charge-Battery-Makers-With-Global-
Price-Fixing-Conspiracy – View by Ixquick Proxy – Highlight
Antitrust Litigation – Pearson, Simon & Warshaw, LLP
The Los Angeles antitrust litigation lawyers of Pearson, Simon & Warshaw have prevailed in class
action lawsuits against major corporations for price fixing conspiracies. … Lithium Ion Batteries:
PSW attorneys currently serve as interim co -lead …
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ttery Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit
… Hitachi, LG Chem, Samsung, and Sanyo for allegedly conspiring to fix and raise the prices of
lithium–ion rechargeable batteries in violation of U.S. antitrust law …
http://www.lieffcabraser.com/ Case-Center/ Rechargeable-Lithium-Battery-Antitrust-Class-Action-
Lawsuit.shtml – View by Ixquick Proxy – Highlight
A laptop battery cabal: Panasonic pleads guilty to price fixing …
Jul 19, 2013 … Sanyo agreed to pay $10.7 million for the battery cells conspiracy and … into
anticompetitive conduct in the cylindrical lithium–ion battery cell …
http://www.pcworld.com/ article/ 2044740/ panasonic-pleads-guilty-to-laptop-battery-pack-price-
fixing.html – View by Ixquick Proxy – Highlight
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It is the nature of human males to seek to kill each other in large numbers at regular intervals.
History has demonstrated, since the dawn of written documentation, that men will congeal and chop,
hack, maim, rape, butcher, torture and kill other groups of men in vastly large numbers.
There are always tribal wars, territory wars, regional wars and ethnic wars devastating large groups of
people at every point in time, somewhere in the world.
The women and children are, generally, hacked up too, if they are in the vicinity.
This has brought about government support for sports stadiums in every city, in order to provide an
outlet for the more brutal members of society. (There appear to be a lot of the more brutal members
according to sports participation statistics.)
Once men get mad in groups, some vapors, brain chemistry or electromagnetic mish-mosh seems to
keep increasing the anger, increasing the lack of compassion and increasing the willingness to suspend
social decency. Then the atrocity cycles begin. Atrocity, revenge, atrocity, revenge; ad infinitude.
Back at the HQ, once the statisticians finally realize that no economic gain can come from the event,
the whole thing is called off.
That part of world then mourns, despairs, cries out “never again”… and then it all starts up and repeats
again, 15 to 20 years later, or so.
In the modern world, we have some new wrinkles. You can now go from your part of the world to
somebody else s part of the world in less than a day. In most of those cases, the other side can’t afford
to get to your part of the world. The warfare scenarios can be more like slumming than like full-on
ground-for-ground battles than ever before.
The other wrinkle is that, in some countries, only four or five men can start a war for personal gain. A
factory owner, a distributor and a law firm can get together and say, for example: “hmmmm, if only we
could control the main part of the lithium production…?” “what if we made lithium suddenly become
very important after we had already roped in all of the big sources for it…?” “we could monopolize a
multi TRILLION dollar market!”
Then, if their partners said: “oh yes, that’s a great scheme”, all they need to do is put $200,000.00 into
15 senators pockets and war will happen in a region which they think they can take over.
Unless the public is paying attention. This time, the public might have been paying attention…
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The Green mobsters of the 1% and their Divine Disinformation
Campaigns. Raiding the Lithium for their electric car bank
accounts.
Like Bin Laden,
Al Capone and many of the biggest, most notorious, criminals, they hide in plain sight.
They use the Green-washing cover story of “saving the planet”.
They think that the auditors and investigative reporters won’t look at them so hard if everyone believes
they are just feeding unicorns and doing happy wonderful things instead of running secret societies,
high-end sex clubs and doing crime.
The Bohemian Club, The Stanford Guardsmen, The Key Club, Kappa Beta Phi, The Silicon Valley
Cartel, The NVCA and Skull and Bones are all “Collusion Clubs” created by a small group of rich
White Males to operate monopolies.
Kleiner Perkins, and the Silicon Valley Cartel, partnered with Russian Mobsters to stage lithium and
other mining scams. Let's take a look at some opf their partners:
Russian Organized Crime Bosses & Steven Chu Cash:
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The “Russian Businessmen” held multiple meetings with the Silicon Valley suspects and, along with
their associates who are now on FBI Watch Lists, engaged in contracts with them. Why did Steven Chu
give so much emergency Department of Energy cash to Russian billionaires at Severstal, Ener1 and
others? Was this part of a kick-back in exchange for Russian mob/”business-man” support for Afghan
mining equipment?
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Silicon Valley’s Russian Mobster: Alexey Mordashov
Here is an intelligence agency report on this fellow
Received U.S. Taxpayer Cash Via Steven Chu For Severstal:
Alexey Mordashov -General director of “Severstal group”, Chairman of the board of directors in
“Power Machines”, the largest shareholder of “Arcelor”,
http://rumafia.com/person.php?id=54
Surname: Mordashov
Name: Alexey
Fathername: Aleksandrovich
Position: General director of “Severstal group”, Chairman of the board of directors in “Power
Machines”, the largest shareholder of “Arcelor”, a member of board of RSPP.
Biography
Mordashov Alexey Aleksandrovich was born on September 26, 1965 in Cherepovets in the Vologda
area in workers’ family; Russian. In 1988 he graduated with excellence from the Leningrad
Engineering-Economical Institute. During study he got acquainted with Anatoly Chubais.
From 1988 till 1989 – Senior Economist in maintenance and repair shop #1 of the Cherepovets
Metallurgical Plant (CMP).
In 1989-1991 – Head of Bureau of Economics and Labor of MRS#1 at CMP.
In 1991-1992 – Deputy Director of planning department of CMP.
In 1992-1993 – Deputy Director of Economics and Finance at CMP.
Since 1993 – Financial Director of CMP (now CMP is renamed into Open Joint-Stock Company
“Severstal”). Simultaneously the chairman of board of directors of joint-stock company “Severstal-
Invest”. He was one of creators of the plant privatization program, and transition to active marketing
practice in metal trading. Company “Severstal-Invest” was engaged in sale of rolled metal products,
motor vehicles and the weapon, cultivation, processing and sale of fish, realtor and security-detective
activity.
Since March, 1996 – chairman of board of “Severstal-holding” LLC (Cherepovets).
Since March, 1996 – chairman of board of directors of Joint-Stock Company “Severstal-invest”
(Cherepovets).
Since September 1996 till June, 2002 – General Director of “Severstal” OAO.
Since November, 1997 – chairman of board of directors in Metkombank (Cherepovets). He was a
councilor of bank “Metallinvest”. Then he was trained on courses of managers in England (in the late
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nineties he completed the MBA program of Newcastle Business school (NBS) in the University of
Northumbria (UNN, Great Britain).
Since June, 2000 – the councilor of directors of Joint-Stock Company «Izhora pipe factory», joint
venture of «Izhora factories» OAO and “Severstal” OAO. In October, 2000 he was selected as a
member of bureau of board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).
Since June, 2001 – coordinator of RSPP Working group.
From April 2001 till April, 2003 – member of the Supervisory board of «Industrial Construction Bank»
(ICB).
Since June, 2002 – chairman of the board of directors of “Severstal” OAO.
Since 2002 – General Director of “Severstal group” ZAO.
Since August, 2002 – the chairman of the board of directors of “SSM-Tyazhmash” LLC, subsidiary of
“Severstal group” ZAO.
Since December, 2002 – the judicial arbitrator at the Commission on Ethics of RSPP created for
settlement of corporate disputes.
In May, 2003 he was included in structure of Business Council at the government of the Russian
Federation.
In December, 2003 he became the authorized representative of president Putin on presidential election
on March, 14th, 2004.
In 2003 Forbes magazine included Mordashov in the list of 500 richest people in the world (348th
place, fortune – 1.2 billion dollars).
In February, 2004 “Severstal” OAO informed that Mordashov supervised 82.75% of stocks of
“Severstal”.
Since June, 2004 – councilor of directors of bank “Rossiya” (St.-Petersburg).
In February 2006 “Finance” magazine estimated Mordashov’s capital at 6.0 billion dollars (the tenth
place in Russia).
In March, 2006 there was a next rating of Forbes Magazine in which Mordashov was on the 64th place
in the world (fortune – 7.6 billion dollars).
Member of Board of guardians of RDC «Expert institute» at Russian Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs (RSPP);
Member of Advisory council on the innovations created by Ministry of Industry and Science of the
Russian Federation.
He is awarded with the order «For Merits for Country» of the I and II degrees.
The winner of the All-Russia competition of businessmen “Career-96”. In December, 2000 Russian
Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs called him the best businessman of the year.
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Mordashov is married for the second time. He has three sons – one from the first marriage, two – from
the second one.
Takes a great interest in poetry, painting, active winter kinds of sports.
Source: http://www.anticompromat.org/
Dossier:
By 2001 there were no any compromising materials concerning Mordashov on pages of the mass-
media. As for unpleasant stories – only divorce with the wife and the ignominious alimony to the son.
The only thing that was spoken about him appeared in July, 2001. Mordashov was supposed to be
offered a post of the chairman in the Russian government. In reply to that Mordashov declared that
even if he had been offered the post he would have had to refuse of it.
Source: http://www.rb.ru
In 2004 in mass media the materials convicting Mordashov of dishonest engagement of “Severstal”
were published. The ex-general director of Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant Yury Lipuhin – who
promoted Mordashov on a career ladder – became an information source. When Mordashov was
already the director of “Severstal” the plant suffered from an attempt of raid capture. Trans-World
Group tried to persuade Mordashov to sell the plant (it was represented by well known businessmen
Vladimir Lisin, Mikhail Chernoy, Oleg Deripaska) but he resisted. After those events Mordashov
convinced Lipuhin that the plant shares needed to be privatized not to admit strangers to the enterprise.
The plant released metal under the low prices to the company “Severstal-Invest” created for that
purpose; Mordashov spent millions of gross margin from resale on purchase of vouchers and shares
from workers. So he became the owner of 51% of shares of “Severstal” and Lipuhin – 49 %.
In 1998 there was a conflict between two proprietors – Mordashov decided to diversify business and
began to buy up industrial actives: stocks of ports in St.Petersburg, Tuapse and East port, coal mines,
Kolomna diesel factory, UAZ factory. Lipuhin was against of such diversification of the business. In
the beginning of 2001 Mordashov redeemed from Lipuhin 49 % of “Severstal-Guarant” with the big
discount; Lipuhin is still offended by Mordashov for that. The latter during had enemies that period –
Zavolzhsky motor factory became a subject of his conflict to GAZ owner Oleg Deripaska. Together
with the head of “Eurazholding” Alexander Abramov, Mordashov struggled for “Kuzbassugol”, the
metallurgical market was divided with Iskander Mahmudov.
Source: «Forbes», 4/10/2004
In youth during internship in Austria Mordashov had a conflict with the son of the minister of ferrous
metallurgy Serafim Kolpakov Sergey. The minister demanded for Yury Lipuhin dismissed Mordashov,
but Lipuhin then defended the young perspective employee.
Source: «Forbes», 4/10/2004
In 2001 the first spouse of Mordashov, Elena declared that Alexey Mordashov did not help their son
sufficiently, didn’t let her arrange private life and promoted her dismissal from work. For 2000
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Mordashov declared his income at 80 million dollars (Mordashov denied the sum soon after that), his
former wife took advantage and sued for alimony and separation of jointly acquired property (he had
been paying to the wife 650 dollars monthly for the son). Mordashova demanded a share in business of
the husband and developed huge information war. The businessman considered that behind that claim
there were competitors of metallurgical holding – the Ural mountain-metallurgical plant and “Sibal”, in
particular their owner Iskander Mahmudov who was at that time the main contender of Mordashov in
the metallurgical market. In August, 2001 the former wife applied to Nikulinsky Office of Public
Prosecutor of Moscow with the requirement to force former husband to give 25% of the income for
education of the son from first marriage. In her opinion the underpaid alimony of Mordashov made
more than semi billion dollars. In maintenance of the claim the Office of Public Prosecutor managed to
arrest 32.5 % of stocks of “Severstal”. Claims of former spouse Elena Mordashova for a quarter of
incomes of the husband were recognized by Moscow court as groundless, and attachment was removed
from property. And after that Cherepovets court took Mordashov’s side and decided that he did not owe
to the former spouse 40 percent of shares of “Severstal” (Elena Mordashova had declared such
requirements in the statement of claim). As a result Elena Mordashova lost both suits.
Source: «Moscow Komsomolets», 8/20/2001, “Vedomosti”, 10/30/2002
On presidential election of 2004 Alexey Mordashov was Vladimir Putin’s authorized representative.
Support of the head of the country helped Mordashov to create the steel-making company the largest in
Russia, which possessed the largest actives abroad on the basis of the Cherepovets plant.
Source: http://www.akado.com/news
In February, 2005 Alexey Mordashov made scandal at airport Vnukovo-3. He left the plane together
with two girls accompanying him in the trip. One of his companions unexpectedly found out that she
had lost a buckle from the handbag. Mordashov unexpectedly began to behave inadequately: for about
a half an hour he loudly shouted at employees of the airport, and demanded to pay him one thousand
dollars for the lost buckle.
Source: “Life”, 2/9/2005
Alexey Mordashov tried to unite his business with metallurgical group Arcelor being absorbed, but
owners of the company refused the offer of Mordashov and group “aggressors” – Mittal Steel became
its owner.
Source: Investments ? 3(334) 01.02-07.02.2010
In September, 2006 Alexey Mordashov decided to hold again the post of the general director of
“Severstal”; in this connection he carried out administrative reform at the enterprise. General Director
Anatoly Kruchinin, the hired manager, was removed by Mordashov from the post. Later he was
appointed as the General Director of «Severstal. Russian steel» (in April, 2008 management of
“Severstal” divided it into three directions: «Severstal. Russian steel», «Severstal. Resources»,
«Severstal Internationa»). Mordashov’s return on a post of the director of according to his plan should
promote success of IPO – Kruchinin was unknown person in business while Mordashov after attempt
to become the largest owner of Arcelor received world popularity. In some months Mordashov arranged
IPO in London which observers considered to be not successful.
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Source: “Vedomosti”, 9/21/2006
Due to lack of more interesting actual metallurgical actives for purchase, Mordashov once again tried
to diversify business in adjacent spheres. New object of interest of the businessman – the main Russian
manufacturer of the equipment for electric power industry, “Power machines”. Structures “Severstal”
then requested permissions for the transaction in Federal antimonopoly service (FAS). Stocks of
“Power machines” were the personal investment of Mordashov which was not connected with
mountain-metallurgical company “Severstal”. Competitors of Mordashov in struggle for “Power
machines” became Victor Vekselberg and Oleg Deripaska.
Source: http://www.newsru.com from 6/9/2007
In December, 2003 bank “Rossiya” informed that it would make additional share issue for 30 million
rubles face value in advantage of Alexey Mordashov’s “Severstal-groups” under the price in 20 times
above face value. Thus, the holding should pay 600 million rubles for 9% of shares of bank with own
capital of 616 million rubles. The General Director of “Rossiya” Victor Myachin explained the high
cost of package with consideration of the «occurrence of the foreign investor» in the capital of bank
and dynamics of its development (for a year actives and the capital have trebled). Experts consider such
estimation of a minority package as absolutely inadequate. The most probable explanation of such an
odd act – rupture of relations with Industrial Construction Bank (ICB) and transfer of money resources
to bank “Rossiya”. At the same time Mordashov since 90th years kept partner relations with Petersburg
banker Vladimir Kogan, ex-founder of ICB – in the beginning of 2001 Mordashov sold a share holding
of “Metkombank” to Kogan.
Source: http://www.mfd.ru News
In the beginning of 2007 in the central mass-media, in particular, in newspapers “Commersant” and
“Newspaper” the information began to appear that soon there would be a merge of two largest
metallurgical companies – “Eurazholding” and “Severstal”. Besides it was written about nationalization
of branch and government plans about it. As there were no any concrete facts confirming possibilities
of such changes, there were assumptions that this “canard” in respectful newspapers was created by
their owners. The owner of “Commersant” – Alisher Usmanov was simultaneously the owner of
“Metalloinvest”, the largest metallurgical companies; “Newspaper” belonged to other large
“metallurgist” Vladimir Lisin, the owner of Novolipetsk metallurgical plant. The purpose: to press on
competitors or to force them to buy, for example, business for high price, probably even to frighten and
force to cease to put up money in development of the enterprise, to sell to competitor.
Source: «Komsomol truth», 5/30/2007
In August, 2008 at Mordashov’s company “Power machine” shareholders were replaced: 63.1 % of
shares of company have appeared concentrated in three offshore now. Among shareholders of OAO
there were two offshore, King Rail Trading and Ashington Trading, each owns 16,55 % of his actions.
Presumably, these companies are under control of Alexey Mordashov and re-structuring of actives
allows him to bypass the requirement about exhibiting of the obligatory offer by minoritaries. If Alexey
Mordashov exposed the offer, he should redeem shares from minoritaries with 9 percent award to
market quotations. He did not expose it but bought up company shares in the off-exchange market from
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many sellers. Redistribution of actives gave Mordashov also the joint-stock control over the company.
Source: “Money” ? 33 (688), 8/25/2008
The Office of Public Prosecutor accused Alexey Mordashov of legislation infringement – he, having
dismissed employees of Kostomuksha mining and concentrating mill, in October, 2009 replaced them
with less paid Gastarbeiters. Active workers of the enterprise arranged several meetings in the city, the
Office of Public Prosecutor of Karelia began investigation. Trade-union active workers were accused of
extremism and Alexey Mordashov was required by the public prosecutor of republic Karelia to exclude
infringement of the labor and social rights of citizens and to provide measures on prevention social and
political tension in «Karelian pellet OAO. Thereof Mordashev stopped employment of migrants.
Source: Rusmet.ru 24.12.09
Alexey Mordashova’s name was mentioned in a context of preparation of amendments by the Ministry
of Finance to the article 7 of the Tax code depriving Russian businessmen of possibility to minimize
taxes by using the companies in the countries having agreements with Russia on avoidance of the
double taxation. It was declared that Alexey Mordashov had supervised “Severstal” through the
Cyprian companies, thereby minimized taxes in the federal budget of our country.
Source: http://www.polit.ru/news, 12/2/2009
The family conflict of Alexey Mordashov with the first wife Elena Novitskaya passed to a new stage –
in 2004 she submitted the claim to the Strasbourg court where she accused Russia of partiality of
justice. In January, 2010 Novitskaya’s case received a priority. Few years ago the court dismissed
Novitskaya’s claim about property separation, as all agreements on property division between spouses
had been signed back in 1996, and Novitskaya did not apply for shares and refused them voluntarily.
Having lost the court, Elena Novitskaya still owed the state duty of 213 million rubles. In European
court Novitskaya demanded from Russia for compensation at amount of 500 million dollars, referring
to article 6 of the European convention about human rights. Now Russia should prove that at the
moment of divorce Alexey Mordashov did not possess influence on justice.
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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Other Russain “mobster”: Boris G. Zingarevich
Received U.S. Taxpayer Cash From Steven Chu through Ener1
Boris Zingarevich – Deputy Director General of Ilim Group
http://rumafia.com/person.php?id=204
Surname: Zingarevich
Name: Boris
Fathername: Gennadievich
Position: Deputy Director General of Ilim Group
Biography:
Date of Birth: 08 July 1959.
Place of Birth: Sebezh (Pskov region).
1981: Graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute of Pulp and Paper Industry (specialty:
machines and apparatus of PPI)
1991-1992: “Tekhnoferm”, the CEO
1985-1991: Leningrad carton factory, Master of cardboard shop, Production Manager
1981-1985: Kondopozhsky PPM, mechanic
Since 1992 – Deputy Director General of Ilim
Source: http://www.forbesrussia.ru
Dossier:
Until the early 90’s Boris Zingarevich, along with his brother Michael worked as a mechanic at the
Leningrad cardboard factory. In 1992 they created “Ilim Pulp” – a company for export of paper
products. Then they got reassigned to the woods production, and over the years have bought about 30
logging companies – then timber industry enterprises were sold at very low prices.
Easy money in the timber industry caused competition that turned into criminal fights. Most of them
appeared to be in Arkhangelsk region, where the main enterprise of the holding – Kotlas PPM was. In
the region, the company has developed a bad reputation to the extent that one day in January 2002, half
the guests did not appear on the anniversary of the governor Anatoly Efremov, having learnt that
Zingarevich brothers and their partner Zakhar Smushkin were going to be there.
In spring 1999 the house of the head of the Arkhangelsk PPC Vladimir Krupchak was bombed. In the
summer of 1999 the head of OAO “Solombalskiy LDK” Evgeny Drachev and his driver were
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kidnapped by unknown. A few months later director general of forestry complex the department of the
regional administration, Alexander Bulatov was beaten. It’s difficult to say whether those events were
connected to the activities of Ilim Pulp. However, its top managers- Smushkin and the Zingareviches
could have argued with those people, because the struggle for supremacy in the timber industry was
very tough, and Arkhangelsk region was considered a “fiefdom” of Ilim Pulp in the field. The regional
law enforcement agencies had a huge dirt on the heads of the holding, but for some reason the case
went “down on the brakes” every time.
For example, the same story happened with the murder of Dmitry Varvarin, Director General of ZAP
“Concern” Orimi”, the main competitor of Ilim Pulp. He was shot in St. Petersburg in March of 2000.
The heads of Ilim Pulp, including Boris Zingarevich had sufficient motives for the killing, including
the competition and the fact that Varvarin supported the campaign of Yuri Boldyrev for the post of
mayor of St. Petersburg, which was obviously to fail. In addition, Varvarin owned shares of Ilim Pulp,
so he begged Smushkin and Zingarevichey as his partners to allocate money for it.
A few days after the murder of Varvarin, unknown people killed another founder of “Orimi”, Sergey
Krizhan together with his family.
Law enforcement agencies considered the version according to which the two murders were connected
with the management of Ilim Pulp, as the most probable, but somehow forgot about it; the team of
investigators was excluded from the investigation.
Source: Kompromat.ru from 31.07.2002
The involvement of the heads of “Ilim Pulp” in the second killing has not been confirmed, as in 2005,
Andrey Yurevich – the son of commercial director of “Plastpolymer”, Victor Yurevich, and two
accomplices – Alexander Ulyanov and Vyacheslav Shinkarev were sentenced for that murder. Krizhan
was chairman of the board of directors of the company and clashed with Viktor Yurevich.
The newspaper “Kommersant-Petersburg” ? 216 (3300) on 17.11.2005
In spring and autumn of 2000, a new wave of crime passed.
In March, the director of Agency Company, lumber exporter – Vladimir Malkov was attacked. And in
October, the hotel “Polina”, owned by Krupchak was set on fire. As leader of the Arkhangelsk Pulp and
Paper Mill, he was a major player in timber market and he could have possibly conflicted to the
Zingarevicheses and Smushkin quite often. In 2001 Dmitry Belyaev, External Manager of LDK-4 was
attacked. Again, the connection with the management of Ilim Pulp was not confirmed, but it was on the
cards, as Ilim Pulp had been seeking for the rule in the forest sector, and Belyaev could have threatened
the interests of their company by his business, or could have simply competed with its leaders.
Boris Zingarevich together with the companions did the business of “Ilim Pulp” not very successful, at
least for their enterprises. The main one was the debts of Kotlas pulp and paper mill in Arkhangelsk
region, Bratsk Timber Complex in the Irkutsk region, as well as others, they had ruthlessly cut down
the forest, accidents happened frequently, the equipment was worn out or even broken. At the same
salaries were miserable.
Until 2000, the shareholders of Ilim Pulp had not received dividends. Ostensibly, they were invested in
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production development, but in reality everything was falling apart. The problem was that all the
investments in production then were exempt from taxation. Once the tax credit was abolished,
dividends went.
In addition, it became clear that Kotlas Pulp came under the control of Ilim Pulp illegally: during the
investment competition the money, which the company pledged to invest in a company, were
transferred to its account for one day and then were sent back to the accounts of Smushkin and the
Zingarevicheses. But formally everything looked legitimate.
They purchased equipment for the companies in an interesting way: at very high prices, while in fact
only half of it was brought. The money also flowed to foreign accounts of the firms affiliated with Ilim
Pulp.
Other financial frauds by the Zingarevicheses and Smushkin were turned in the Bratsk Timber Industry
Complex (BTIC). First they formed huge debts for electricity for the budget of Bratsk and many others.
And in 1998 the company established a subsidiary company OAO “Pulp and Cardboard Plant (PCP)
and began to place there their liquid assets. Thus, BTIC eventually had unprofitable production and
debts. The state had a stake in BTIC and did not impede the withdrawal of assets.
Only Dmitry Medvedev, the current president objected that, then in 1993 he was Director of Legal
Affairs “Ilim Pulp”, and since 1998 -a member of the Board of Directors in BTIC. His relationship with
the Zingarevicheses and Smushkin worsened, and in 1999 they were completely stopped – he was
distracted by new concerns associated with climbing the career ladder.
In October 2001 it became known that Ilim Pulp committed deals for the sale of pulp and paper factory
to offshore companies. Then the shareholders of OAO “Irkutskenergo” which was the main creditor of
BTIC – appealed to the federal agencies. They failed to find out the truth because of the legal tricks:
documents submitted to the commission, were valid, but for the period prior to the fraud.
After that the minority shareholders of BTIC went to court, and it ordered to reinstate the dismissed
general director BTIC George Trifonov. He restored an order, paid the debts. The Zingarevicheses and
Smushkin were defeated. But when in 2002 BTIC came under their control again, they began to restore
the old order by dismissing disloyal people and replacing them with loyal ones, uncomprehending in
the timber industry.
In addition, the holding company began the blockade of the Ust-Ilim Timber Complex (UiLPK) by not
sending paid commodity to the company. All forces were driven to expell the head of the trade union,
Yuri Savinkov, they wrote denunciations to the prosecutor’s office against the former Complex director
Andrey Prokopov. The new head of UiLPK Vladimir Batishchev reported that Prokopov took away the
production equipment. It was a slander – he just took jeeps belonging to the management company
“Continental Invest”.
In early February 2002 UILPK was entirely under the control of Ilim Pulp.
Source: Kompromat.ru from 13.02.2002
In April 2002, Ilim Pulp lost control over Kotlas and Bratsk pulp and paper mills. There were two
lawsuits from shareholders, after which the company’s shares were arrested, and then purchased for the
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benefit of companies affiliated with the actual new owners – “Basic Element”, “Continental
management” and “Banking House” Sankt-Petersburg”. Oleg Deripaska was behind those
machinations, who wanted to get a strategic advantage in the industry.
Source: corp-gov.ru from 29.09.2003
The management of “Ilim Pulp” disputed the transaction through numerous courts. There were
information wars. The information agencies had the news spread that the Court invalidated the new
board of directors elected by shareholders. It was misinformation. To gain access to the documents of
Kotlassky PPM they forged execution lists and sent them to the office of registry holders. According to
them it was necessary to issue registry documents. They also launched “a fake” that the registry of the
Bratsk TIC was lost.
In the end, “Ilim Pulp” prevailed in the information and judicial war. Businessmen managed to agree,
but the true owner of the enterprises is still unknown. Representatives of “Bazel” argued that the
blocking stake in the enterprises was still in the structures of Basel. Smushkin also announced that he
possessed more than 90%. As the court ruled, the enterprises passed to Ilim Pulp. Perhaps the company
paid Bazel some compensation. In any case, that was a good lesson for the Zingarevicheses and
Smushkin and a signal that the empire they built up may well falter without gaining a strong support.
Source: Kompromat.ru from 31.07.2002
In 2004, the media reported that Boris Zingarevich intended to acquire a large stake in English football
club Everton. Upon the request of Zingarevich, that information was retracted. According to British
media, the football club was really interesting to Zingarevich’s son Anton. He himself had no money to
buy it, but he practiced abroad as a football manager. There is no information confirming the purchase
plans. This episode is insignificant, but given that Boris Zingarevich studiously avoided the media
spotlight, it looks interesting. Maybe it was advantageous for someone to put Zingarevich as a reckless
spender and a wasteful man.
Source: “Kommersant» ? 155 (2994) on 24.08.2004
Also in 2004, there were rumors in the media that the company “Ilim Pulp” is going to buy the state
Vneshtorgbank, and the then owner of Promstroibank Vladimir Kogan was to be an intermediary in the
transaction. The price was to be inflated in more than a billion dollars. Journalists advanced the version
of such a bizarre waste of public funds. They supposed, the billion would be withdraw from the State
Bank and shared by individuals, including Zingarevich. In their opinion, the deal was scheduled to be
held “under the guise of” Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin. However, no further speculation happened a
the possible grand scam failed for unknown reasons.
Source: Kompromat.ru from 23.09.2004
In 2006 the Zingareviches and Smushkin sold half of the holding to a foreign company International
Paper, the world’s largest pulp and paper corporation. In the name of the company they found a strong
partner and a way to overcome the crisis that had began with the attack by Mr. Deripaska on Kotlas and
Bratsk pulp and paper mills. Once they returned the enterprises, Deripaska exchanged his remaining
shares to the stake in the Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill of Vladimir Kogan, and the latter gave them
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to the shareholders of Ilim Pulp. That is, everything returned to business as usual. However, after such
a shake-up the Zingareviches and Smushkin realized they were not omnipotent, and their old methods
to maintain the credibility in the timber industry had been no longer working. The holding company
needed a powerful protection of the parties and they found such a support in the name of the foreign
company.
Source: Journal “Secret Firmy» ? 48 (183) on 25.12.2006
In spring 2010 the authorities of St. Petersburg passed at once three buildings – the monuments of
federal importance for the reconstruction of them as hotels – to the companies close to Zingarevich
brothers. OOO “Lotus Oteli” received a historic building of the former barracks of the Life Guards of
the Pavlovsky Regiment on the Marsovo Pole, 1. OOO “Orange-Development” acquired the building
of the former court stables Office at Konyushennaya Ploshad, 1a. The third building was on Nevsky
Prospekt, 7-9A, which is the Central Agency of Aviation and airline ticket place passed to OOO “IFG-
Basis-Project”. Experts say that at the auction the buildings could cost a lot of money. However, they
gave them under the decision taken at a closed meeting of the government. Thus, not only the interests
of the city budget were violated, but of the potential buyers who could acquire the right to use the
buildings through a fair competition.
Source: “Kommersant” dated 05/21/2010
FGH-NYT
Over 120 dossiers exist on Russian oligarchs with cash connections to Silicon Valley’s Sandhill
Road. The largest hack of U.S. Intelligence and government servers was the SOLARWINDS
hack. It was facilitated by companies funded by Sandhill Road!
The Russian oligarch has spent the past decade buying up nine flats across two
buildings in the exclusive Lowndes Square. … John Doerr; John Frederiksen;
John Paul DeJoria; John Paulson; Jon and Karen Huntsman; Jose Mourinho;
Joseph Lau; Jr. Julian H. Robertson; Ken Fisher;
agent4stars.com/tag/oligarch/
Billionaire Alisher Usmanov acquired the biggest private jet in Russia, …
oligarch, percent, president vladimir putin, private flight, private jet, richest man,
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roman, roman abramovich, Russia’s richest man, sale, seat, spacious … John
Doerr; John Frederiksen; John Paul DeJoria; John Paulson …
agent4stars.com/tag/name-bourkhan-owner-oligarch-alishe…
Rebooted patriot games in ‘Jack Ryan’ – SiliconValley.com
John Doerr. Larry Ellison. Reed Hastings. Reid Hoffman. Mark Hurd. Vinod
Khosla. … He’s covertly embedded at a Wall Street bank where he uncovers a
Russian plot to buy up U.S. Treasury bonds, … Ryan’s investigation leads him to
the Russian oligarch Viktor Cherevin, played by Kenneth Branagh, …
siliconvalley.com/topics/ci_24918976/rebooted-patriot-gam…
Facebook’s friend in Russia – Fortune Tech
Left to right: John Doerr, Charlie Rose, Michael Arrington, Yuri Milner, and
Ron Conway at last spring’s TechCrunch conference. Milner has become an
informal Russian ambassador to Silicon Valley.
tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/04/facebooks-friend-in-russia/
Yuri Milner: Profile – Business Insider
DST says it hasn’t sold any Facebook shares and doesn’t want to, but some
people think DST’s main backer, Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, wants to
sell and might get his way. … John Doerr And The Rise Of Secondary Private
Markets …
businessinsider.com/yuri-milner-forbes-profile-2011-3
The Wall Street billionaire philanthropists – Financial News
• Ann and John Doerr, venture capitalist. … Russian oligarch to donate fortune
to charity 02 Feb 2010; Story Tags. Blackstone Group. Citigroup. David
Rubenstein. Julian Robertson. Michael Bloomberg. Philanthropy. Renaissance
Technologies. Sandy Weill.
efinancialnews.com/story/2010-08-05/giving-pledge-wall-street
Good Kindle and Newspaper articles for Friday Morning …
Russian Oligarchs buying French and British Newspapers. Business Week
reports on some rather interesting news – Russian oligarchs and their sons are
saving French and British newspapers. … Amazon related News – John Doerr
leaves Amazon Board.
ireaderreview.com/2010/03/19/good-kindle-and-newspaper-ar…
Nancy Ann Hunter – This house will exist
… and Oleg Deripaska, the youngest of the Russian oligarchs, 41, “king” of
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aluminum. … Other Dolby Labs president of technology titans like John Doerr
and the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, live in nearby Silicon Valley. …
thishousewillexist.org/nancyannhunter.php
Climateer Investing: Kleiner Perkins Distressed By Lousy Results
Kleiner partner Al Gore is probably not as concerned by the recent results as
John Doerr. … Russia Should Create Its Own Tax Havens … “No, … Welfare
for the Russian Oligarchs… Cyprus: …
climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2013/03/kleiner-perkins-distressed-by-l…
Market Leader : News :: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett …
… and his wife have already donated 800 million dollars.They were joined by
venture investor John Doerr and John … It should be noted that V. Potanin was
among the first Russian oligarchs to go into arts patronage by setting up V.
Potanin’s Charity Foundation in 1999mainly focused …
profi-forex.us/news/entry3000000006.html
Netizen: Vinod Khosla: For Profit Poverty Alleviation
“He was the most visionary of all the Russian oligarchs” …. … John Doerr;
Creating, Propagating; Google Apps: Open The Flood Gates; No More Beer, No
More Soda; Dell Duo: Tablet + Netbook; Web 2.0 Summit 2010: Robin Li; John
Battelle’s Search Hangover;
technbiz.blogspot.com/2010/11/vinod-khosla-for-profit-poverty.html
… we’ll tell you about, “Russian Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov: From Oligarch
to President?” Mikhail Prokhorov is a tycoon in Russia, … we’ll tell you about,
“John Doerr’s Plan to Reclaim the Venture Capital Throne” …
audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=&searchTitle=&…
Steve Westly – The Huffington Post
… Google, Steve Westly, Green Jobs, Tesla Motors, Edeniq, John Doerr,
Amyris Biotechnologies, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Facebook,
Recyclebank, Barack Obama, Apple, Energy … With billionaire Meg Whitman
spending like a Russian oligarch, it’s inevitable that the race for California …
huffingtonpost.com/tag/steve-westly
Apple, Steve Jobs, and US Foreign Policy (CFR) using Nazi …
the Stud House, the private home of the Lebedev family – one of the Russian
oligarchs … been a long time partner in Silicon Valley venture capital
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powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers whose partner John Doerr is a
member of the Google board. Another Google director, …
forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=207205.0
rmr | The personal blog of R. Martin Roscheisen
Neither VC John Doerr nor entrepreneur Martin Roscheisen has a background
in enviro. … (Then again, just a few decades later, we’ve got Russian oligarchs
needing seemingly just that kind of expertise for equipping their yachts.)
tripleyield.com
Romania arrests suspected hacker of Bush family emails | NDTV.com
Tags: Bucharest Carl Bernstein Colin Powell Corina Cretu Downton Abbey
George Roche George W. Bush Guccifer hacking John Doerr Julian Fellowes
Marcel Lazar Lehel Romania Russia Tina Brown.
ndtv.com/article/world/romania-arrests-suspected…
Scary side to the story – IronMountainDailyNews.com | news …
He raked in a gazillion bucks, give or take a few billion, as the founder of
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a venture capital firm. His letter, published
in the Wall Street Journal, … essentially from Europe west of Russia through
North America, …
ironmountaindailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/544658/Scary-sid…
ounder’s Nazi Comment Draws Criticism …
Kleiner Perkins’s website lists Perkins as one of 14 partner emeriti, a group that
includes recent partner Ray Lane and co-founder Eugene Kleiner, who died in
2003. Perkins has been a director at companies including Hewlett-Packard Co.
and Applied Materials Inc.
bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-26/kleiner-perkins-shocked…
He is a Co-Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mr. Caufield has
served on the boards of Quantum Corporation, Caremark Inc., … He also serves
as a director of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund, Refugees International, …
kpcb.com/partner/frank-caufield
n Twitter Mega-Funding – Kara …
According to sources close to the situation, the aggressive Russian investment
outfit DST Global is out of the running to fund Twitter. Instead, the prize is
almost certainly going to Kleiner Perkins, the legendary Silicon Valley venture
firm of Web 1.0 that has been making a big push …
allthingsd.com/20101206/russias-dst-out-of-twitter-fun…
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Remember all of the Russian “Oligarchs” that Silicon Valley and Goldman got in bed with?
Goldman and the VC’s made ‘deals with the devil”. Russian mining contracts for lithium ore
exclusives in Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, etc. The billionaire Oligarchs even got DOE cash. Let’s
meet some of them. Featuring The Terminator, Kleiner, Putin, A123, Enerdel, Severstal, Boris
Badinov and other shady characters. Like “Ahnold” says, it turns out it WAS “all about to go
BOOM!”. Schwarzenegger’s Russian connections run as far back as 1987 when he partied with
Russian leaders, and was inspired to run for office, while he made his film RED HEAT. The
backers of his campaign are many of the same investors in the lithium/green CARGATE scandal.
Why did a $300,000.00 U.S. built gas station in Afghanistan end up costing $43,000,000.00 more
than it was supposed to? It is the most expensive gas station in history. Was it just another book-
keeping scam to hide the SIX TRILLON U.S. dollars of taxpayer losses?
Politicians who were suppose to watch-dog the programs made insider deals to make profits off of the
taxpayer money. Senators connected to billions lost on corrupt green energy scandals: The Department of Energy has turned into a sinkhole of corruption. Does it still benefit taxpayers?
Why did Goldman Sachs and the Silicon Valley VC’s push the White House into Afghanistan?
What trillion dollar thing was there for their electric car scam?:
Insiders knew about the danger of Lithium and why some companies wanted to “dump” it so
fast. They knew these dangers 15 years ago. It was all just War Profiteering!
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John Boehner and congressional leaders take sudden secret trip
to Afghanistan this weekend to investigate AFGHANI-SCAM:
Seeking impeachable and indictment-ready actions?
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, this past weekend with
seven other House lawmakers to get a first-hand look at the political situation in the country after
the recent democratic elections, Boehner's office announced Monday.
The trip was not announced until now to maintain security, according to a spokesman.
Lawmakers met with U.S. military troops, Ambassador James B. Cunningham and General
Joseph F. Dunford Jr., commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces
Afghanistan.
The other GOP lawmakers who accompanied Boehner were Reps. John Kline of Minnesota, Doc
Hastings of Washington, Dave Camp of Michigan, Tom Latham of Iowa, Devin Nunes of
California, Greg Walden of Oregon and Steve Womack of Arkansas.
The scandal known as AFGHANI-SCAM, or "Blood for Batteries" is under a high level of
scrutiny for its connections between Congress, DOE funding and Russian Mobsters for exclusive
ore rights for electric cars and solar panels.
Afghanistan- In The Beginning. First for oil, then for batteries
Q and A with Bernard Weiner, Ph.D.
Q . I don’t understand how war against Afghanistan could have been
anticipated so early.
A . Follow the money. Various oil/gas/energy companies had wanted a
CentralAsian pipeline to run through Afghanistan (costing much less to build,
butalso so it wouldn’t have to go through Russia or Iran); that project
was puton hold during the chaos in Afghanistan, but when the Taliban took over
andbrought stability to that country, the U.S. began negotiating with the
Taliban about the pipeline deal. Even after sending them, via the United
Nations, $43million dollars for “poppy-seed eradication,” and inviting
themto talks in Texas, the Taliban began to balk. At a later meeting, the
U.S.negotiator threatened them with an attack unless they handed over bin
Ladenand reportedly told them, in reference to the pipeline, that they could
accept “a carpet of gold” or be buried in “a carpet of bombs.” (The
laterU.S. government spin was that the bin Laden issue and the pipeline
issueswere separate, and that the U.S. threats didn’t mix the two and there
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weremisunderstandings of what was said.) Shortly thereafter, bin Laden,
hidingout in Afghanistan, initiated the September 11th attacks, and the U.S.
bombing of that country began. Oh, by the way, in case you haven’t
noticed, under the new U.S.-friendly government in Kabul, the pipeline project
is back on track. Oh, by the way, the pipeline will terminate reasonably
close to the power plant in India built by Enron that has been lying dormant
for years, waiting for cheap energy supplies.
Q . You’re saying that U.S. war and foreign policy have been dictated by
greed?
A . Among other pleasant motivations, such as hunger for domination and
control, domestically and around the globe — which always ties in with
greed. That’s why Bush&Co. play such political and military hardball.
That’swhy the arrogant, take-no-prisoners, in-your-face attitude, to bully
andfrighten potential opponents into silence and acquiescence, even
questioningtheir patriotism if they demur or raise embarrassing issues.
Q . But this is a democracy, people are still speaking their minds,
right?
A . Certainly, there are areas of America’s democratic republic that
have not yet been shut down. But where there should be a vibrant opposition
party, raising all sorts of questions about Bush Administration policy and
plans, America receives mostly silence and timidity. However, as more and more
of the ugly truth begins to emerge — and Enron, Anthrax, and pre-9/11
know ledge are just the tips of the iceberg — the Democrats (and moderate
Re publicans) are beginning to feel a bit more emboldened. But just a bit,
preferring to run for cover whenever Bush&Co. accuse them of being
unpat riotic when they raise pointed questions.
Q . You’re so critical and negative about the Bush Administration. Can’t
you say anything good about what they’re doing?
A . Yes. They have moved terrorism — the new face of warfare in our
time — front and center into the world’s consciousness, and have mobilized a
global coalition against it. They may be making mistakes, which could lead to
h orrifying consequences, or acting at times out of impure motives, but
at least the issue is out there and being debated and acted upon.
Now, having said that, we must point out that the institutions in this
country — the Constitution, the courts, the legislative bodies, civil
liberties, the Bill of Rights, the press, etc. — are in as much danger
as they’ve ever been in. And the U.S.’s bullying attitude abroad may well
lead to disastrous consequences for America down the line.
Q . So, what’s to be done?
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A . The most important thing at the moment — even, or especially when,
the inevitable next terrorist attack occurs — is to break the illusion of
B ush&Co. invulnerability. The best way to do that, aside from ratcheting
up the Enron and Anthrax and 9/11 investigations (and it may turn out that
those scandals are deeply intertwined), is to defeat GOP candidates in
the upcoming November elections. If the Democrats hang on to the Senate and
can take over the House, the dream of unchallengable HardRight power will
be broken. Bush&Co. will become even more desperate, overt, nasty, and in
their arrogance and bullying ways, will make more mistakes and alienate more
c itizens. The edifice will begin to crumble even more; there will be
more and deeper Congressional and media investigations; resignations and/or
impea chments (of both Bush & Cheney, and Ashcroft) may well follow.
Q . You’re asking me to support ALL Democrats, even though in a
particular race a moderate GOP conservative would be better?
A . Yes. In some cases, you may have to hold your nose and send money
to, canvass for, and vote for a Democrat; we can get rid of the bad ones
later. The objective right now — for the future of the Constitution, and for
the lives of our soldiers in uniform and civilians around the globe — has
to be to break the momentum of the HardRight by taking the House and keeping
the Senate from returning to GOP control. Doing so would be even more
important than what happened when that courageous senator from Vermont, Jim
Jeffords, appalled by the HardRight nastiness and greed-agenda of the Bush
folks,
resigned from the GOP and turned the Senate agenda over to the
Democrats.
Q . And you think if the GOP gets its nose bloodied in the November
election, that will convince Bush to resign or lead to his impeachment? I don’t
get that.
A . Churchill once told the Brits during World War II that “this is not
the beginning of the end, but it is the beginning of the beginning of the
end.” There is a lot of hard work and organizing and educating to be done,
but the recent exposure of Bush coverup-lies about pre-9/11 knowledge is “the
be ginning of the beginning of the end.” With a GOP defeat in November,
Dem ocrats will be emboldened to speak up more, investigate deeper, and
those inquiries will unlock even more awful secrets of this greed-and-power
hungry administration. And that will be the beginning of the end — and the
beginning of the beginning of a new era of more humane values for America
and the rest of the world.
——-
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D., has taught American government & international
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relations at Western Washington University and San Diego State University;
he
was with the San Francisco Chronicle for nearly 20 years, and has published
in The Nation, Village Voice, The Progressive, Northwest Passage and widely
on the internet
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Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline.
A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about
whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan’s radical regime — and
build the pipeline — set the stage for Sept. 11.
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By Jean-Charles Brisard
A 1998 memo written by al-Qaida military chief Mohammed Atef reveals
that Osama bin Laden’s group had detailed knowledge of
negotiations that were taking place between Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban
and American government and business leaders over plans for a U.S. oil and
gas pipeline across that Central Asian country.
The e-mail memo was found in 1998 on a computer seized by the FBI during
its investigation into the 1998 African embassy bombings, which were
sponsored by al-Qaida. Atef’s memo was discovered by FBI counter-terrorism
expert John O’Neill, who left the bureau in 2001, complaining that U.S. oil
interests were hindering his investigation into al-Qaida. O’Neill, who
became security chief at the World Trade Center, died in the Sept. 11 attack.
Atef’s memo shines new light on what al-Qaida knew about U.S. efforts to
normalize relations with the Taliban in exchange for the fundamentalist
government’s supporting the construction of an oil and gas pipeline across
Afghanistan. As documented in the book I coauthored with Guillaume Dasquie,
“Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth,” the Clinton and Bush administrations
negotiated with the Taliban, both to get the repressive regime to widen its
government as well as look favorably on U.S. companies’ attempts to
construct an oil pipeline. The Bush White House stepped up negotiations
with the Taliban in 2001. When those talks stalled in July, a Bush
administration representative threatened the Taliban with military
reprisals if the government did not go along with American demands.
The seven-page memo was signed “Abu Hafs,” which is the military name of
Atef, who was the military chief of al-Qaida and is believed to have been
killed in November 2001 during U.S. operations in Afghanistan. It shows
al-Qaida’s keen interest in the U.S.-Taliban negotiations and raises new
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questions as to whether the U.S. military threat to the Taliban in July
2001 could have prompted al-Qaida’s Sept. 11 attack.
Atef’s memo is not about the pipeline alone, though it mentions the project
several times. It is an analysis of the political situation facing the
Taliban. It documents the movement’s rise, its leadership, the geopolitical
importance of Afghanistan, the Taliban’s relationship with Pakistan, as
well as the movement’s relationship with the Arab mujahedin. The document’s
intended readership is unclear. But it reveals that the pipeline was seen
as a strategic offering toward the West, in order to make the Taliban
government acceptable to the United States and Pakistan, as well as to
reduce military and investigative pressure on the country to rein in or
even extradite bin Laden.
Atef explains that the United States wants “to take control of any region
which has huge quantities of oil reserves,” and “the American government is
keen on laying the oil and gas pipelines from Turkmenistan through
Afghanistan to Pakistan.” Atef concludes that al-Qaida’s “duty toward the
movement [Taliban] is to stand behind it, support it materially and
morally, especially because its regional and international enemies are
working night and day to put an end to it and make it fail.”
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It seems clear the military chief didn’t expect the pipeline
negotiations to bear fruit…. Referring to Pakistanis as
“nonbelievers,” and noting that the pipeline “will be under American control …
and it also goes through the territories of Pakistan which are allied to America,”
Atef implies that the Taliban has no intention of ultimately cooperating with the
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project, but is trying to string along the Americans and Pakistanis to win some
breathing room for its unpopular government.
The Atef memo is the latest piece of evidence documenting a murky chapter
in recent American history — the overtures of the last two American
administrations to the repressive Taliban regime. Several U.S. oil
companies, most notably Unocal, had been advocates of diplomatic overtures
to the Taliban, in order to facilitate the building of a pipeline from the
Caspian Sea region to Pakistan and the Persian Gulf through Afghanistan. In
1996, Unocal vice president Chris Taggart described the fall of Kabul to
the Taliban regime as a “very positive step” and urged the U.S. to extend
recognition to the new rulers in Kabul and thus “lead the way to
international lending agencies coming in.”
Just 10 days after the Taliban seized power in Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad,
former National Security Council official and Unocal consultant who was
appointed special envoy to Afghanistan by President George W. Bush at the
end of 2001, argued in a Washington Post opinion article that the U.S.
should try to work with the mullahs and form a broad-based government that
included other factions. “The Taliban does not practice the anti-U.S. style
of fundamentalism practiced by Iran — it is closer to the Saudi model .”
Khalilzad contended, concluding that “we should use as a positive incentive
the benefits that will accrue to Afghanistan from the construction of oil
and gas pipelines across its territory … These projects will only go
forward if Afghanistan has a single authoritative government.”
Soon after, the State Department spokesman Glyn Davies told the New York
Times he had hope that “the new authorities in Kabul will move quickly to
restore order and security and to form a representative interim government
that can begin the process of reconciliation nationwide.” Davies also said
the United States “wanted to send diplomats to Afghanistan to meet with the
Taliban and held out the possibility of re-establishing full diplomatic
ties with the country,” according to the Times.
In November 1997 Unocal invited a Taliban delegation to Texas and, in early
December, the company opened a training center at the University of
Nebraska, to instruct 137 Afghans in pipeline construction technology. The
company also donated to the university’s Center for Afghanistan Studies.
Unocal CEO John Imle estimated that the company spent between $15 and $20
million on its Central Asia oil pipeline (CentGas) project — on
preliminary feasibility studies, humanitarian projects and other efforts to
lobby the Taliban (Unocal equipped the regime with satellite phones, for
instance.)
In February 1998, Unocal’s vice president for international relations, John
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Maresca, told a House subcommittee hearing on U.S. interests in the Central
Asian Republics that an oil pipeline “would benefit Afghanistan, which
would receive revenues from transport tariffs, and would promote stability
and encourage trade and economic development.” Emphasizing that “the
proposed Central Asia Oil Pipeline (CentGas) cannot begin construction
until an internationally recognized Afghanistan government is in place,” he
urged the administration and the Congress “to give strong support to the
United Nations-led peace process in Afghanistan.”
Until the 1998 al-Qaida embassy bombings, the Clinton administration’s
approach toward the Taliban was much the same as Unocal’s: All parties
agreed that the political stabilization of Afghanistan was crucial to the
region, and was also a way to gain access to oil reserves of the Caspian
Sea region. Though bin Laden had been in the country since 1996, the U.S.
had not pressured the Taliban to hand him over.
The embassy bombings in August 1998 changed everything. The Clinton
administration denounced the regime and Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright turned up the heat on Taliban human rights abuses. The United
Nations imposed sanctions, freezing Afghanistan’s foreign assets and
limiting its citizens’ travel. The U.S. continued to talk to the Taliban,
but the emphasis was on extraditing bin Laden in exchange for international
recognition; the pipeline was off the table. Unocal, which had been close
to finalizing its pipeline deal before the embassy bombings, cancelled it.
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, his administration made new
overtures to the Taliban, and the pipeline deal gained renewed support, as
an incentive to get the Taliban to make political concessions and form a
broader government. U.S. representatives met with Afghanistan’s former King
Shah, to see if he might be included in a new government. And American
companies began exploring the failed 1998 pipeline project. A report by an
Afghan-born Enron manager in July 2001, for instance, illustrates that
company’s deep interest in some sort of pipeline deal. Enron had begun
funding the same sorts of humanitarian projects as Unocal had three years
earlier.
In March 2001, several Taliban officials, including Sayed Rahmattulah
Hashimi, Mullah Omar’s personal advisor, were invited to Washington by
their U.S. lobbyist, Leila Helms, the niece of former CIA Director Richard
Helms. The agenda included discussions of extraditing bin Laden as well as
facilitating American companies’ access to oil reserves in central Asia.
The delegation met with representatives of the Directorate of Central
Intelligence (DCI) and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the State
Department.
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This visit provoked concern and criticism in Washington over how Hashimi
obtained a visa, a plane ticket, security clearance and access to American
institutions — including the State Department and the National Security
Council — despite travel restrictions on Taliban leadership imposed by
U.N. sanctions (the official answer was that Hashimi fell below the rank of
senior official covered by the sanctions.)
Four months later, American diplomats met with Taliban emissaries as well
as representatives from Pakistan, Iran and Russia for four days of talks in
Berlin in mid-July. Again, the message was that if the Taliban would
extradite bin Laden and form a broad-based national government, it could
win international recognition and reap extensive economic subsidies from
the construction of a pipeline. The meeting was one of several convened by
Francesco Vendrell, a Spanish diplomat who serves as the U.N.’s chief
representative on Afghanistan. The delegates at the July meeting included
Robert Oakley, former U.S. ambassador and Unocal lobbyist; Karl “Rick”
Inderfurth, former assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs;
Lee Coldren, head of the Office of Pakistan, Afghan and Bangladesh Affairs
in the State Department until 1997; Tom Simons, former U.S. ambassador to
Pakistan and the most recent official negotiator with the Taliban; Niaz
Naik, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan; Nikolai Kozyrev, a former
Russian special envoy to Afghanistan; and Saeed Rajai Khorassani, formerly
the Iranian representative to the U.N. The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan,
Abdul Salam Zaeef, attended several sessions with some of the delegates in
Berlin, according to Naif Naik, though officially the Taliban had not been
invited. Naik was expected to carry the U.S. message to the Taliban.
According to Naik, the point of the meeting was that “we would try to
convey to them that if they did certain things, then, gradually, they could
win the jackpot, get something in return from the international community.”
It might, Naik said, “be possible to persuade the Taliban that once a
broader-based government was in place and the oil pipeline under way, there
would be billions of dollars in commission, and the Taliban would have
their own resources.”
It was at the July meeting, according to Naik, that Tom Simons suggested
that Afghanistan could face an open-ended military operation from bases in
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan if it didn’t accede to U.S. demands. “Ambassador
Simons stated that if the Taliban wouldn’t agree with the plan, and if
Pakistan was unable to persuade them, the United States might use an overt
action against Afghanistan,” Naik says. The words used by Simons were “a
military operation,” according to Naik. Another participant reportedly said
the Taliban’s choice was clear: either accept a “carpet of gold” riches
from the pipeline or “a carpet of bombs,” meaning a military strike.
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Lee Coldren, a member of the U.S. delegation, also confirmed to the British
newspaper the Guardian the American position at the Berlin meeting. “I
think there was some discussion of the fact that the United States was so
disgusted with the Taliban that they might be considering some military
action.”
In statements to newspapers, Simons has offered ambiguous explanations of
his statements at the July meeting. In September, he told the British
Guardian: “I’ve known Naik and considered him a friend for years. He’s an
honorable diplomat. I didn’t say anything like that and didn’t hear anyone
else say anything like that. We were clear that feeling in Washington was
strong, and that military action was one of the options down the road. But
details, I don’t know where they came from.”
Yet in a November interview with Le Monde, Simons seemed to confirm that
there had been some talk of U.S. military action. “It is true that the
Taliban was asked to deliver bin Laden and form a [broader] government,”
Simons told Le Monde. “We said in July that we were investigating the
attack against the USS Cole in Yemen, and that if there were solid evidence
of the implication of bin Laden, one had to expect a military answer. One
can always inflate such a declaration to see a global threat against the
Taliban. But the American declaration related only to the response to the
USS-Cole.
“As for the ‘carpet of gold and the carpet of bombs,’ we actually discussed
the need for a plan for rebuilding for Afghanistan, which would follow a
political agreement,” he said, adding that “It’s possible that a
mischievous American participant, after several drinks, may have thought it
smart to evoke gold carpets and carpet bombs. Even Americans can’t resist
the temptation to be mischievous.”
The last known meeting between U.S. and Taliban representatives took place
in August, five weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, when U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State for Central Asian affairs Christina Rocca met with the
Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef.
It would be unfair to suggest that the U.S. threat in July led to the
al-Qaida strike. But while Simons doesn’t admit that he personally
threatened the Taliban with reprisal, he confirms that only a few weeks
before Sept. 11, American diplomats warned of military action against
Afghanistan if its leaders did not meet U.S. economic and political
demands. It is worth asking whether, had this threat been widely known,
U.S. intelligence agencies might have analyzed the information they were
receiving about bin Laden’s plots against the U.S. differently.
Now the newly discovered Atef memo makes clear that in 1998, at least,
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al-Qaida was well informed about negotiations between the Taliban and the
U.S. on the oil pipeline and other American concerns. The memo also shows
that those negotiations were the Taliban’s gambit to extend its power;
Mullah Omar’s government never had any intention of allowing U.S. firms to
construct an oil pipeline, or letting the U.S. dictate the members of its
ruling body. Given the inside knowledge al-Qaida had about U.S.-Taliban
negotiations, it’s reasonable to suspect bin Laden’s group also received
and understood the U.S. threat of military action delivered in late July as
a threat of war.
In the end, though, the U.S. got its way. Interim Afghan leader Hamid
Karzai decided on May 30 to revive the pipeline project with Pakistan and
Turkmenistan, signing an agreement under which the three governments agree
to implement a pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan through Afghanistan.
Would that U.S. intelligence agencies’ investigations into al-Qaida
activities in the months before Sept. 11 had such a productive ending.
1. 1991-1997 – Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil, Texaco,
Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest billions in cash bribing
heads of state in Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the huge oil
reserves in these regions. The oil companies further commit to future direct
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being willing to pay
exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines the major oil companies
have no way to recoup their investments. [“The Price of Oil,” by Seymour
Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 – The Asia Times, “The Roving Eye Part I
Jan. 26, 2002.]
2. December 4, 1997 – Representatives of the Taliban are invited guests
to the Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support for the
pipeline. Subsequent reports will indicate that the negotiations failed,
allegedly because the Taliban wanted too much money. [Source: The BBC, Dec.
4, 1997]
3. February 12, 1998 – Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca – later to
become a Special Ambassador to Afghanistan – testifies before the House that
until a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan the
trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be built.
[Source: Testimony before the House International Relations Committee.]
4. 1998 – The CIA ignores warnings from Case Officer Robert Baer that
Saudi Arabia was harboring an al-Q’aeda cell led by two known terrorists. A
more detailed list of known terrorists is offered to Saudi intelligence in
August 2001 and refused. [Source: Financial Times 1/12/01; See No Evil by a
book by Robert Baer (release date Feb. 2002).
5. April, 1999 – Enron with a $3 billion investment to build an
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electrical generating plant at Dabhol India loses access to plentiful LNG
supplies from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its only remaining option to make the
investment profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be built by Unocal
from Turkmenistan that would terminate near the Indian border at the city of
Multan. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002.]
6. 1998 and 2000 – Former President George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi
Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest
defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the Saudi
royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept.
27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 – “The Best Enemies Money Can Buy,” –
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
members/carlyle.html. ]
7. January, 2001 – The Bush Administration orders the FBI and
intelligence agencies to “back off” investigations involving the bin Laden
family, including two of Osama bin Laden’s relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who
were living in Falls Church, VA – right next to CIA headquarters. This
followed previous orders dating back to 1996, frustrating efforts to
investigate the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent
Gregg Palast – Nov 7, 2001].
8. Feb 13, 2001 – UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard Sale – while
covering a trial of bin Laden’s Al Q’aeda followers – reports that the
National Security Agency has broken bin Laden’s encrypted communications.
Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February it does
not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been
planned for years.
9. May 2001 – Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid
to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving
since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the
Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001].
10. May, 2001 – Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career
covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour
while CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with
Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep
Pakistani intelligence connections and he is the recipient of the highest
civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable to assume that
while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as “an unusually long
meeting,” also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad,
head of the ISI. [Source The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001.]
11. June 2001 – German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and Israel
that Middle Eastern terrorists are “planning to hijack commercial aircraft
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to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli
culture.” [Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2001.]
12. July, 2001 – Three American officials: Tom Simmons (former U.S.
Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant Secretary of
State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State Department
expert on South Asia), meet with Pakistani and Russian intelligence officers
in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is planning military strikes against
Afghanistan in October. A French book released in November, “Bin Laden – La
Verité Interdite,” discloses that Taliban representatives often sat in on
the meetings. British papers confirm that the Pakistani ISI relayed the
threats to the Taliban. [Source: The Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC,
September 18, 2001.The Inter Press Service, Nov 16, 2001]
13. Summer, 2001 – The National Security Council convenes a Dabhol
working group as revealed in a series of government e-mails obtained by The
Washington Post and the New York Daily News. [Source: The Albion Monitor,
Feb. 28, 2002]
14. Summer 2001 – According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain’s The
Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that, “U.S. department of
defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The
Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers were also training
special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and
Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska and Montana.”
15. Summer 2001 (est.) – Pakistani ISI Chief General Ahmad (see above)
orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, who was according
to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently
resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI.
[Source: The Times of India, October 11, 2001.]
16. Summer 2001 – An Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of
an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week of September 9th.
German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S. Secret Service would
not reveal any further information. [Source: German news agency “online.de”,
September 14, 2001, translation retrieved from online.ie in Ireland.]
17. June 26, 2001 – The magazine indiareacts.com states that “India and
Iran will ‘facilitate’ US and Russian plans for ‘limited military action’
against the Taliban.” The story indicates that the fighting will be done by
US and Russian troops with the help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [Source:
indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001.]
18. August 2001 – The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin
Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key
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member of bin Laden’s network and the FBI learns that he has been taking
flying lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of
technical information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source:
Reuters, September 13.]
19. August 11 or 12 – US Navy Lt. Delmart “Mike” Vreeland, jailed in
Toronto on U.S. fraud charges and claiming to be an officer in U.S. Naval
intelligence, writes details of the pending WTC attacks and seals them in an
envelope which he gives to Canadian authorities. [Source: The Toronto Star,
Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court Records]
20. Summer 2001 – Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25
terrorist pilots have been specifically training for suicide missions. This
is reported in the Russian press and news stories are translated for FTW by
a retired CIA officer.
21. July 4-14, 2001 – Osama bin Laden receives treatments for kidney
disease at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official who
returns to CIA headquarters on July 15th. [Source: Le Figaro, October 31st,
2001.]
22. August 2001 – Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian
intelligence to warn the U.S. government “in the strongest possible terms”
of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source: MS-NBC
interview with Putin, September 15.]
23. August/September, 2001 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops
nearly 900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock
market crash is imminent.
24. Sept. 3-10, 2001 – MS-NBC reports on September 16 that a caller to a
Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack
on the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11.
25. September 1-10, 2001 – In an exercise, Operation “Swift Sword”
planned for four years, 23, 000 British troops are steaming toward Oman.
Although the 9/11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment the massive
operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier
battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani
coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000
NATO troops in Egypt for Operation “Bright Star.” All of these forces are in
place before the first plane hits the World Trade Center. [Sources: The
Guardian, CNN, FOX, The Observer, International Law Professor Francis Boyle,
the University of Illinois.]
26. September 7, 2001 – Florida Governor Jeb Bush signs a two-year
emergency executive order (01-261) making new provisions for the Florida
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National Guard to assist law enforcement and emergency-management personnel
in the event of large civil disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism.
[Source: State of Florida web site listing of Governor’s Executive Orders.]
27. September 6-7, 2001 – 4,744 put options (a speculation that the
stock will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock as opposed to
only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is a
dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the UAL puts
are purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by
the current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard. [Source:
The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism,
http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street
Journal.]
28. September 10, 2001 – 4,516 put options are purchased on American
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT – above]
29. September 6-11, 2001 – No other airlines show any similar trading
patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The put option purchases
on both airlines were 600% above normal. This at a time when Reuters
(September 10) issues a business report stating, “Airline stocks may be
poised to take off.”
30. September 6-10, 2001 – Highly abnormal levels of put options are
purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns
25%
of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly
impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above; FTW, Vol. IV,
No.7, October 18, 2001, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
members/oct152001.html. ]
31. It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and many
other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time using highly
advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis software. This is to
alert national intelligence services of just such kinds of attacks. Promis
was reported, as recently as June, 2001 to be in Osama bin Laden’s
possession and, as a result of recent stories by FOX, both the FBI and the
Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence gathering
through at least this summer. This would confirm that CIA had additional
advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington Times, June
15, 2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001; FTW, October 26, 2001, –
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
members/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept. 18, 2001 –
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
members/sept1801.html; FTW, Vol. 3, No 7, 9/30/00 –
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
free/pandora/052401_promis.html.
32. September 11, 2001 – Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see above), friend of
Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. He is
meeting with the Chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees,
Porter Goss (R), FL and Bob Graham (D), Fl [Sources: MS-NBC, Oct. 7, The
New
York Times, Feb. 17, 2002.]
33. September 11, 2002 – Employees of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one of the
world’s largest instant messaging companies, with offices in New York,
receive threat warnings of an imminent attack on the WTC less than two hours
before the first plane hits the WTC. Law enforcement authorities have gone
silent about any investigation of this. The Odigo Research and Development
offices in Israel are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy suburb of
Tel Aviv which is the same location as the Institute for Counter Terrorism
which breaks early details of insider trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN’s Daniel
Sieberg, 9/28/01; Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, 9/27/01; Ha’aretz,
9/26/01.].
34. September 11, 2001, For 50 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with
it widely known within the FAA and the military that four planes have been
simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the President
of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are
scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft,
even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred – an
event that has never happened in history. [Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The
Los Angeles Times, The New York Times.]
35. September 13, 2001 – China is admitted to the World Trade
Organization quickly, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The
New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]
36. September 14, 2001 – Canadian jailers open the sealed envelope from
Mike Vreeland in Toronto and see that is describes attacks against the WTC
and Pentagon. The U.S. Navy subsequently states that Vreeland was discharged
as a seaman in 1986 for unsatisfactory performance and has never worked in
intelligence. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior
Court records]
37. September 15, 2001 – The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck
III has resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex (A.B) Brown
unit of Deutschebank.
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38. September 29, 2001 – The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5
million in put options on American Airlines and United Airlines are
unclaimed. This is likely the result of the suspension in trading on the
NYSE after the attacks which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission
time to be waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.
39. October 10, 2001 – The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reports
that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani oil
minister. A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from Turkmenistan, across
Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the purpose of selling oil and gas
to China, is now back on the table “in view of recent geopolitical
developments.”
40. October 11, 2001 – The Ashcroft Justice Department takes over all
terrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office in New York which has
had a highly successful track record in prosecuting terrorist cases
connected to Osama bin Laden. [Source: The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2002.]
41. Mid October, 2001 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after having
suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack losses.
Although still weak, and vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a crash
has been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on defense
programs, subsidies for “affected” industries and planned tax cuts for
corporations.
42. November 21, 2001 – The British paper The Independent runs a story
headlined, “Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban.” The story
reports that massive opium planting is underway all over the country.
43. November 25, 2001 – The Observer runs a story headlined “Victorious
Warlords Set To Open the Opium Floodgates.” It states that farmers are being
encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious Americans are “being
encouraged to plant “as much opium as possible.”
44. December 4, 2001 – Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi
is recruited by the US government to help establish control in Afghanistan
by unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opium smuggler who was one
of the CIA’s leading assets in the war against the Russians is released from
prison in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, 12/4/01].
45. December 25, 2001 – Newly appointed afghani Prime Minister Hamid
Karzai is revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le
Monde.]
46. January 3, 2002 – President Bush appoints Zalamy Khalilzad as a
special envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal, also
wrote op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban regime.
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47. January 4, 2002 – Florida drug trafficking explodes after 9-11. In a
surge of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the diversion of resources
away from drug enforcement has opened the floodgates for a new surge of
cocaine and heroin from South America. [The Christian Science Monitor,
January 4, 2002.
48. January 10, 2002 – In a call from a speaker phone in open court,
attorneys for “Mike” Vreeland call the Pentagon’s switchboard operator who
confirms that Vreeland is indeed a Naval Lieutenant on active duty. She
provides an office number and a direct dial phone extension to his office in
the Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; court records Toronto Superior
Court.]
49. January 10, 2002 – Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself
from the Enron investigation because Enron had been a major campaign donor
in his 2000 Senate race. He fails to recuse himself from involvement in two
sitting Federal grand juries investigating bribery and corruption charges
against ExxonMobil and BP-Amoco who have massive oil interests in Central
Asia. Both were major Ashcroft donors in 2000. [Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002 –
FTW original investigation, The Elephant in the Living Room, Part I, Apr 4,
2002.]
50. February 9, 2002 – Pakistani leader General Musharraf and Afghan
leader Hamid Karzai announce their agreement to “cooperate in all spheres of
activity” including the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give
$10 million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghani government workers. [Source:
The Irish Times, 2/9/02]
51. Feb 18, 2002 – The Financial Times reports that the estimated opium
harvest in Afghanistan in the late Spring of 2002 will reach a world record
4500 metric tons.
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About the writer: Jean-Charles Brisard, coauthor of “Bin Laden: The
Forbidden Truth,” is a
consultant on business and corporate intelligence.
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Famous politicians, White House staff, narcissistic technology billionaires, and renown investment
bankers played their parts in organizing one of the biggest crimes of the century. It has cost American
taxpayers trillions of their hard earned dollars but the costs continue to rise.
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John Doerr
Elon Musk
Gilman Louie- Creator on In-Q-Tel and NVCA
Joe Lonsdale – VC, charged with rape
Larry Summers- White House, charged with organizing "skims" of DOE cash to intermediaries
Larry Page- Google, In-Q-Tel
Kimbal Musk – Investor, sued for fraud
Jonathan Silver- Dept. of Energy, charged with organizing "skims" of DOE cash to
intermediaries
John Weinberg- Investor
John Doerr- Kleiner Perkins, Stock beneficiary, “Godfather” of the Silicon Valley Cartel”
James Brown Jr.- Head of California HHS software, (arrested for corruption)
James Breyer – Investor, In-Q-Tel,
Ira Ehrenpreis- Investor, Assisted with transfer of DOE funded companies to China
Herb Newman- Newman Search, Feinstein Family, Tesla & Solyndra HR provider
Harald Kroeger – Investor,
Gilman Louie – Investor, In-Q-Tel, Stock beneficiary
George Trifonov- Russian businessman, Associate of Arnold Schwarzenegger & John Doerr
Frank Giustra - Lithium Investor, Assisted with transfer of DOE funded companies to China
Eric Schmidt- Google Investor, New America Foundation Leader, In-Q-Tel
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Kimball and Elon Musk – Investor, sued for fraud, recently in major media accused of huge
kick-back scheme
David Plouffe- - Uber
David Gronet- CEO of Solyndra (bankrupt DOE "winner")
Brian Goncher- Deloitte Consulting, Assisted with transfer of DOE funded companies to China
Brad W. Buss – Investor
Boris Zingarevich- Russian businessman, Associate of Arnold Schwarzenegger & John Doerr
Antonio J. Gracias – Investor
Andy Bechtolsheim- Investor
Allison Spinner- Solyndra lawyer & wife of DOE funding reviewer (bankrupt DOE "winner")
Alexey Mordashov- Russian businessman, Associate of Arnold Schwarzenegger & John Doerr
Steve Jurvetson- VC
Yuri Savinkov- Russian businessman, Associate of Arnold Schwarzenegger & John Doerr
Vinod Khosla- Investor, sued by State of California groups, featured on 60 Minutes expose
Tom Styer- Investor
Tom Perkins- Investor, Kleiner Perkins founder, Famous for "Nazi" comments
Tim Draper – Investor, charged with organizing "skims" of DOE cash to intermediaries
Senator Calderone - (Arrested for corruption)
The CTO, CFO and CIO of New America Foundation - Sister group to In-Q-Tel- Bay Area
Chapter
The CTO, CFO and CIO of Kleiner Perkins, charged with organizing "skims" of DOE cash to
intermediaries
The CTO, CFO and CIO of Draper Fisher
The CEO of McKinsey Consulting - Manipulated DOE reports on orders from Steven Chu
The CEO of Ener1 - Charged with lying to Congress (bankrupt DOE "winner")
The CEO of Covington & Burling, LLP – San Francisco Charged with manipulation of Eric
Holder's nomination
The CEO of Abound Solar - Charged with lying to Congress (bankrupt DOE "winner")
Steven Rattner- White House (indicted for stock market fraud), Co-runs New America
Foundation, In-Q-Tel advisor
Steven Chu – Dept. of Energy- Stanford
Steve Westly- Atherton Investor
Steve Spinner- Dept. of Energy – Palo Alto
Ray Lane- Investor (charged with tax fraud)
Raj Gupta- McKinsey Consulting (arrested)
Peter Thiel – Investor, Elon Musk associate, China deals
Nick Denton- Gawker Media - Ran political media attacks against Silicon Valley Cartel
adversaries. Now being looked at in connection with the British Police investigations called
“Hydrant” and “the tabloid hacking scandal” as he is thought to have had interaction with the
parties in those cases.
Matt Rogers- Dept. of Energy - Manipulated DOE reviews on orders from Steven Chu
Martin LaGod- Lithium Investor
Leland Yee- Senator (arrested)
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Person's who had full knowledge of the scheme at the California State level:
State DOJ officer Ken Alex, assistant to Jerry Brown
State Controller Bill Lockyer
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Calderone
Senator Yee
The Fremont California Chamber of Commerce
James Brown Junior, California State IT Chief
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Steven Chu
Steven Chu, The U.S. Secretary of Energy, has been universally reviled, across the news channels, as a
“crook”, “a mobster” and a “corrupt rapist of public office”.
He is said to have raped American innovation, robbed U.S. taxpayers, ordered the sabotage of Kleiner
Perkins competitors, manipulated stock market valuations, and to have broken every code of moral
conduct, in order to operate a financial kick-back scam with the Silicon Valley Cartel. These are felony
crimes he is accused of.
His legacy, throughout history, will always be that of, what American taxpayers call: a “thieving
scumbag”. He should be proud.
Everything that he, John Doerr, Elon Musk, Dianne Feinstein, and their associated agents, discussed,
communicated and engaged in, was surveilled, documented and is now archived in multiple locations
by multiple agencies as well as hacked, apparently, by the Chinese.
Steven Chu, the
Secretary of Energy,
was placed in office
by John Doerr’s
Kleiner Perkins Cartel
in order to effect an
organized crime
operation to steer
taxpayer funds to
John Doerr, Elon
Musk and a cadre of
Silicon Valley VC’s.
White House staff Rahm Emanual, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Bill Daley and Robert Gibbs,
assisted in the scam by redirecting federal policy in order to implement the crimes. All of these staff
suddenly quit the White House, when confronted about these suspicions.
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A large portion of the crime involved manipulating mining stocks, with help from Goldman Sachs. In
particular, Afghan lithium for Tesla and Fisker, and Afghan indium for the notorious FBI-raided
Solyndra and Abound. Kleiner had relationships with Russian mobsters, for a portion of the middle-east
commodities deals. Steven Chu gave federal money to Russian controlled companies as part of the
scam. Goldman has now been caught doing the same kind of mining commodity stock manipulation.
Kleiner and Sachs promoted an extensive set of media releases entitled: “Afghanistan is the Saudi
Arabia of Lithium” and “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM in Afghanistan” in order to market
their profiteering scam. The scam was intended to provide the Silicon Valley Cartel with trillions of
dollars of personal profits and the Reid, Feinstein (Who are shareholders in the stock deals) and Obama
political campaigns, with back-door financing.
All competitors, to the Kleiner Perkins Cartel, had “hit-jobs” put on them by Chu, Doerr, Gibbs and
Musk. The hit-jobs ranged from character assassination via Gawker Media, Media Matters and Think
Progress, to economic attacks by In-Q-Tel, to political attacks via Sidney Blumenthal and New
America Foundation. Every Dept. of Energy applicant that competed with Kleiner’s holdings was
sabotaged by Steven Chu. History has proven that only Cartel companies received the DOE funding,
and that all competitors, to Kleiner companies, were targeted by government officials, and Kleiner
operatives, and terminated, or black-listed. A number of strange deaths of whistle-blowers are also
under investigation.
All of the evidence from leaks, Chinese hacks, eye-witness reports, investigators, emails, HSBC and
Welles Fargo leaks, offshore tax records, financial water-fall analysis, forensic accounting,
surveillance, phone records, Senate testimony, and a host of other sources, appears to extensively
confirm these charges and validate an organized cover-up.
Every single one of the suspects has received financial and career benefits from their crimes, which has
now been tracked, and proven, by forensic legal accountants and FOIA disclosures.
Reasons for Considering Steven Chu to be compromised:
- Emails and phone calls with Covington and Burling confirm conflicts
- Family stock ownership in companies and suppliers of DOE awardees
- Past personal, academic, fraternal, business, political, contracting and political relationships
with DOE awardees
- Nomination packet predominantly supported by DOE awardees
- Testimony from MBG
- Assertions by BD of C&B
- Directives and memos at DOE exclusively benefitted DOE awardees with whom he had a
business relationship, while damaging, negating or delaying those who competed with their
interests
- Chu created DOE policies to exclusively benefit lithium mining and denigrate competing
resources
- Chu was closely associated with the DOE insider award group before, during and after his DOE
tenure, in a vast number of compromised and illicit manners
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- Chu awarded emergency federal tax money to Russian controlled companies involved in both
lithium mining exploitation and business deals with DOE awardee insiders
- Assertions by over 20 former DOE staff
- Assertions by former White House staff
- Assertions by investigative journalists
- Assertions by federal investigators
- Assertions by private investigators
- Assertions by ATVM and LGP applicants
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Dept. Of Energy Boss Goes “Full Crony” in Broad Daylight
While the L.A. Times, and other recent articles, have exposed Elon Musk as the “King of the
Kickbacks”, a sort of federal moocher on steroids. The Moochee, who gave away the taxpayer money
to Musk, has come forward to demonstrate one of the most thumb-his-nose at the law moves, and it is
bold!
Former head of the United States Department of Energy: Steven Chu, who was nominated by John
Doerr and the Silicon Valley Cartel has joined the board of the lithium ion energy company that he
helped award taxpayer stimulus cash to.
John Doerr and his Silicon Valley Cartel owned the lithium mining and exploitation deals which Elon
Musk exploits with his taxpayer financed companies.
John Doerr and his Silicon Valley Cartel flooded Congress with “McKinsey” white-papers claiming
that they could make “Trillions of dollars of profit” and that “Afghanistan was the Saudi Arabia of
lithium” if they could get to take-over the Afghanistan mining fields for Tesla, Solyndra, A123, Ener1
and all of those corrupt Department of Energy companies that went splat. They forgot to mention that
their Cartel had pre-acquired all of the key monopoly routes for those mining commodity
exploitations.
Hillary is now facing interrogation about Middle East mining deals and shady deals involving Chu’s
buddy: Frank Guistra.
While at the U.S. Department of Energy, Chu and his top brass, acquired mining stocks for Afghan
related minerals. That is usually called: “insider trading” but with Chu, it is called ‘just another Chu
Crony Scam deal” (A “Choney”).
Even though Elon Musk did nor pass the DOE Section 136 evaluation metrics, Chu still handed him the
free cash; as a favor between chums.
While at the U.S. Department of Energy, Steven Chu cut out all domestic technologies that competed
with his and the Silicon Valley Cartel’s investment interests.
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Investigators believe that the Detroit Big 3 had as much to do with coming up with the Department of
Energy ATVM scheme as the Silicon Valley billionaires did. The evidence certainly shows some dirty
dealing by, and with GM, Ford and Chrysler.
In one case, Ford's top engineer contacted Department of Energy applicant XPV and offered to “help
them with their application”. This person stated that they had “just left Ford and were looking for a new
opportunity”. After going over some of XPV's material, under confidentiality terms, it was discovered
via Linked In, Ford Personnel records and co-workers, that the Ford executive had never actually
ceased working for Ford.
Ford got their taxpayer cash by cooking their books with off-shore allocations in order to avoid looking
bankrupt, but they used the money to pay off their debts, as shown here:
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Detroit had an inside man at the Department of Energy in the
form of Chrysler funding agent Lachlan Seward:
Seward
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previously helped hand Detroit a huge amount of taxpayer cash the last time it failed. This time he
worked with White House “Car Czar” Steven Rattner, who was later indicted for stock market fraud, to
hand even more payola to Detroit and try to keep any of Detroit's competitors from getting funded.
Chrysler was a tricky as they come:
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Not to be out-done in financial trickery with tax payer money, General Motors loses quite a large junk
of the money it got from taxpayers:
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As if the above were not audacious enough, try “collusion”. GM, Ford and Chrysler publicly state
that they are “competitors” but, on numerous Department of Energy documents and emails they are
shown to all be working together to sculpt the Department of Energy cash to benefit them and hurt their
real competitors who were the newer auto start-ups. Here is an example of one of those kinds of
collusive documents. Notice the upper right corner:
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Reasons for considering Elon Musk to be compromised:
- All of his efforts involved the exploitation of lithium mining deals which were controlled by
DOE insider-connected awardees. Tesla cars used lithium batteries, Nevada factory was to
manufacture lithium batteries, Solar City was to store energy in lithium, Space X space systems
used lithium systems
- Tesla and FBI-raided Solyndra sat on the same land, had the same conflicts of interest in
management and operations and were funding-promoted by the same people
- Musk went to Russia to coordinate deals with many of the same people that are conflicted with
many of the other parties herein and have ties to related illicit mining deals
- Musk lied about who ordered the NHTSA safety investigation into the Tesla car fires. It was the
NHTSA, and not Musk, who wanted the safety investigation started. The investigation was
never completed because Musk & Tesla paid cash to get it halted in exchange for mounting a
cosmetic PR-mitigation ballistic explosion shield on the bottom of the car.
- Senators Dianne Feinstein and Harry Reid had stock ownership, staffing provision services
relationships, construction company ownership, leasing company ownership, insider trading
arrangements, public policy ownership, supplier ownership, property ownership, tax haven
options and many other conflicts of interest between themselves and Musk
- Musk has stated, on record, that Tesla’s have had “no recalls”, in fact they have had many
recalls, at least two for fires and explosions.
- Multiple main-stream, and independent news journals have published analysis of Musk’s
financial
- Musk’s battery partner: Panasonic, has been publicly charged, by state agencies, with
corruption, racketeering, dumping, employee deaths and other illicit activities
- Elon Musk did not create Tesla Motors, he took it over, in a hostile takeover action, from the
actual founders, some of whom sued him for fraud and publicly called him a scam artist.
- The tens of billions of dollars that Musk has received from U.S. taxpayers do not equate to
actual costs of operations. Everything that Musk has shown, or sold, could have been produced
for much, much less. Non-manipulated forensic accounting seems to make it clear that some of
that money is being used for other purposes.
- A number of Tesla’s have suddenly veered over cliffs, killing the drivers, oncoming drivers,
pedestrian and bicyclists. Tesla has sought to cover this up, yet homicide lawsuits have now
been filed against Tesla for this. Tesla has denied that the car is faulty, yet hundreds of internet
user postings, detail numerous defects with the car. Additionally, 60 Minutes and many other
news broadcasts have aired demonstrations of how easy it is to hack into, and take over. Tesla is
said to be the most hackable car. In fact, around the time, that the Tesla China deal started to
fall apart, a Chinese University student team demonstrated a full Tesla takeover by hacking
remote control.
- Musk staff were caught sending out email notices, to potential buyers, to put deposits down,
before then end of the federal reporting period, so that Musk could book the deposits as “fully
paid car purchases” in order to falsify sales volumes so that he could cover that fact that he had
sold less cars, after a bigger cash loss, than any car company in history. Tesla investors were
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asked to buy as many Tesla’s as they could, in order to inflate volumes.
- Musk has “cooked the books” in reporting profits in his federal filings by stating tax credits and
taxpayer cash as profits and upside in an effort to manipulate stock valuations
- Over a five year test, the results of all internet-news media covering Elon Musk related stories
was analyzed. Whenever negative news appeared about Musk activities, all Google and Kliener
Perkins founded web assets would down-rank, or delete, the negative news while immediately
pumping PR and hype news about Musk and his projects to hide the negative news. Musk has a
financial, political, economic and personal relationship with Kliener Perkins and Google
owners. This manipulation of stock valuation perceptions for public stock buyers, based on the
use of monopolistic assets in a covert manner is a violation of securities laws and ethics.
- In the Department of Energy original LGP and ATVM filing application documents, which
Lachlan Seward thought he had destroyed, the proposed metrics from Tesla Motors, compared
with the known history as of today, demonstrate that Tesla missed almost every single
milestone, by magnitudes, yet, not only did Steven Chu not cut off their funding, he increased
it.
- The Section 136 law says that it was illegal for DOE to fund a car company on the verge of
bankruptcy, or whose survival depends on the DOE money. Elon Musk has now been recorded
saying that Tesla Motors was on the verge of bankruptcy, preparing massive severance
packages for key staff and had no hope for survival without the DOE cash. Federal records
demonstrate that Tesla used a temporary Detroit stock swap, arranged by DOE staff and Silicon
Valley investors, to temporarily manipulate the numbers in order to create the surface
appearance of a momentary positive debt-ratio. In fact, Tesla, of all applicants, had the worst
debt ratio of any applicant. Per the 136 law, Tesla should never have been funded. At the time
of application, they had no factory building. Their cars were a hundred thousand dollars over
budget, per car. They had no engineered design for production. They were facing staff revolts
and they already had written warnings about the dangers of their battery systems.
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documents disclosing that his car batteries, and battery factory, emit cancer-causing, brain-
damaging, liver and fetus damaging vapors when they out-gas during afire, explosion or
thermal event, threatening firemen, occupants and bystanders.
- Multiple news media have reported that Musk sends spy emails to his employees, under false
names, in order to find out who is whistle-blowing on his illicit actions. This has angered many
former employees, some of whom have sued Musk. Many of those are willing to testify about
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Musk illicit actions.
- Internet IP, DNS, bot and dat-pack tracking has confirmed that Elon Musk related groups use
automated shill and blogger farms to place large amounts of self-promotion, about Musk on
Musk-partner held sites such as Think Progress, Motley Fool, Media Matters, Green Car
Reports, Plugin-America, Reddit, and related covert ownerships as well as on all public social
media in order to manipulate stock market valuation perceptions.
- Numerous failed marriages, and relationships, have left a trail of unhappy women who have
testified, or relayed information to their friends, who have testified, about illicit activities by
Musk
60 Minutes: Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire
Aired: 2014- Mar 30- CORRESPONDENT: Scott Pelley; Harry Radliffe, producer..
Apparently it's fast and smoke-free. (EXCEPT FOR THE TOXIC CANCER CAUSING SMOKE
THE CAR EMITS WHEN ITS POORLY DESIGNED BATTERY PACK SPONTANEOUSLY
BURSTS INTO FLAMES) The Tesla Model S is powered by 7,000 battery cells (EACH ONE ABLE
TO EXPLODE AND SET THE BATTERIES NEXT TO IT OFF ON A CHAIN REACTION OF
DEADLY EXPLOSIONS) linked to an electric motor. No engine, no transmission, no tailpipe. As this
company video shows, the dash is dominated by a computer that's constantly connected to the Internet.
(THIS ALLOWS ELON MUSK, HIS INVESTORS, THE NSA AND CHINESE HACKERS TO
SPY ON YOU AT ANY TIME AND HACK YOUR TESLA AND FORCE IT TO DRIVE OVER A
CLIFF AND KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. MULIPLE TESLA'S HAVE SUDDENLY
SWERVED OVER CLIFFS AND KILLED THEIR OCCUPANTS AND THOSE NEARBY) It
has a fanatical (SOME MIGHT SAY THE TESLA FANBOYS ARE INSANE, OTHER SAY
THEY ARE ALL JUST ELON MUSKS MEAT PUPPETS AND MALAYSIAN CLICK FARM
FAKES) following. There's a waiting list (FALSIFIED BY ELON MUSK) t hat Elon Musk is trying
to shorten building 600 Model S's a week in this high-tech plant (MADE FOR HUNDREDS OF
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THOUSANDS OF CARS PER WEEK AND ACTING AS A FACADE BUILDING BECAUSE OF
IT'S MASSIVE AMOUNT OF DEAD SPACE) in Northern California.
Scott Pelley: I have heard a lot of people describe you.
Elon Musk: Okay, good, I mean, hopefully-- on-- on balance, hopefully, mostly good. (SAYS THE
ARROGRANT EGOTISTICAL SELF-PROMOTING MUSK)
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Elon Musk: Well, I didn't really think Tesla would be successful. I thought we would most likely fail.
But I thought that we at least could address the false perception that people have that an electric car
had to be ugly and slow and boring like a golf cart.
Scott Pelley: But you say you didn't expect the company to be successful? Then why try?
Elon Musk: If something's important enough you should try. Even if you -- the probable outcome is
failure.
(IN THESE STATEMENTS, MUSK IS ADMITTING THAT HIS APPLICATION FOR THE
FEDERAL SECTION 136 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FUNDS WAS A FRAUD AND A LIE.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO APPLY FOR SECTION 136 FUNDS KNOWING YOUR COMPANY WAS
FAILING)
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Scott Pelley: The car company is hemorrhaging money--
Elon Musk: Yeah.
(IN THESE STATEMENTS, MUSK IS ADMITTING THAT HIS APPLICATION FOR THE
FEDERAL SECTION 136 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FUNDS WAS A FRAUD AND A LIE.
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IT IS ILLEGAL TO APPLY FOR SECTION 136 FUNDS KNOWING YOUR COMPANY WAS
FAILING)
That terrible year was captured in a documentary called "Revenge of the Electric Car." His plant was
filled with flawed cars that couldn't be delivered.
(IN THESE STATEMENTS, MUSK IS ADMITTING THAT HIS APPLICATION FOR THE
FEDERAL SECTION 136 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FUNDS WAS A FRAUD AND A LIE.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO APPLY FOR SECTION 136 FUNDS KNOWING YOUR COMPANY WAS
FAILING)
["Revenge of the Electric Car:" Holy mackerel. Jesus! We have like an army of cars here. Like, Jesus!
This is frightening. It's really pedal to the metal here. I mean, each month that passes is literally costs
us tens of million of dollars we need to appreciate that.]
To save Tesla, Musk needed millions more from investors. His fortune was gone.
Elon Musk: When we'd call people and say, "Hey, would you like to invest?," they'd be angry that we
just called. That it's like-- it's not like no-- no and-- no and-- you know, various expletives.
Scott Pelley: He was essentially broke.
Kimbal Musk: Oh yeah. In debt. More than broke.
Scott Pelley: More than broke.
Kimbal Musk: Yeah.
Elon Musk: I remember waking up the Sunday before Christmas in 2008, and thinking to myself, "Man,
I never thought I was someone who could ever be capable of a nervous breakdown," but I felt, "This is
the closest I've ever come." 'Cause it-- it seemed pretty-- pretty dark.
(IN THESE STATEMENTS, MUSK IS ADMITTING THAT HIS APPLICATION FOR THE
FEDERAL SECTION 136 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FUNDS WAS A FRAUD AND A LIE.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO APPLY FOR SECTION 136 FUNDS KNOWING YOUR COMPANY WAS
FAILING)
Elon Musk: We were running on fumes at that point we had virtually no money.
(IN THESE STATEMENTS, MUSK IS ADMITTING THAT HIS APPLICATION FOR THE
FEDERAL SECTION 136 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FUNDS WAS A FRAUD AND A LIE.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO APPLY FOR SECTION 136 FUNDS KNOWING YOUR COMPANY WAS
FAILING)
Then, as often, the week of Christmas became a time when little boy dreams are answered (BY WHITE
HOUSE PAYOLA).
Elon Musk: NASA called and told us that we'd won a $1.5 billion contract. And I couldn't even hold the
phone, I just blurted out, "I love you guys."
(THIS IS NOW KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN A KICK-BACK GIFT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
IN EXCHANGE FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCING FROM MUSK AND HIS PARTNERS)
Scott Pelley: They saved you.
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Scott Pelley: Financially and maybe even emotionally.
Elon Musk: Well, I'll tell you that was, that was definitely helpful, yeah.
Two days later, on Christmas Eve, Tesla's investors decided to pour in more money.
(BASED ON THE USE OF THE DOE AND NASA KICK-BACKS TO MANIPULATE STOCK
MARKET VALUATIONS AND ILLEGALLY SKIM STOCK PROFITS)
MUSK ON THE LOANS CRITICAL TO TESLA'S SURVIVAL
Scott Pelley: So you were saved in the period of three days by two completely unexpected events.
Elon Musk: Yeah.
Scott Pelley: Merry Christmas.
Elon Musk: Yeah, absolutely. That's for sure.
(IN THESE STATEMENTS, MUSK IS ADMITTING THAT HIS APPLICATION FOR THE
FEDERAL SECTION 136 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FUNDS WAS A FRAUD AND A LIE.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO APPLY FOR SECTION 136 FUNDS KNOWING YOUR COMPANY WAS
FAILING)
Scott Pelley: What was so attractive?
Talulah Riley: Well, he was very charming and definitely the most interesting and eccentric person I
have ever met. (AND THE RICHEST; THOUGHT, THE RARELY HIRED “ACTRESS”
WHOSE NET WORTH HAD JUST INCREASED BY 1000X)
This is how it fits into the bottom of the chassis. Trouble is the battery's so expensive musk can't build a
$35,000 car with acceptable range. To make Tesla successful, he must reinvent battery manufacturing.
Musk has just announced a $5 billion factory to be built in the U.S. which, he says, will make more
lithium ion batteries than all the other plants on earth combined. (USING THE WAR
PROFITEERED LITHIUM THAT HE, HIS PARTNERS AND HIS CORRUPT SENATORS
OWN)
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Questions For Elon Musk:
Recently; Numerous ex-Tesla staff and contractors, former suppliers, federal investigators,
investigative reporters, investors and ex-partners of Tesla Motors have provided facts about Tesla
Motors which are disturbing to the public, Congress, and the market. Please provide clarification of the
following charges and concerns in order to resolve outstanding issues between the public and Tesla
Motors :
- Are Tesla and Google, essentially, the same entity by virtue of the same investors, agenda and stock
market manipulations?
- When damaging news about Tesla emerges, do Tesla and Google investors place multiple stock-buy
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orders from a multi-billion dollar slush fund in order to make it appear that individual outside investors
are excited by Tesla when, in fact, it is only a small internal group of investors “pumping the market”?
Does Google “bury” any negative stories about Tesla in their searches on orders from Tesla/Google
investors? Is that a violation of securities laws?
- It is said that the Tesla Model S has the most surveillance devices to watch, track,
listen-to and broadcast the activities of the occupants, built into it than any other car in the world. Elon
Musk has personally told reporters that his cars constantly watch the driver and occupants. Why is that?
Why are Tesla and Google obsessed with spying on the public?
- In multiple recorded interviews, Elon Musk is on public record telling the news media that, after
careful research, the NUMMI plant in Fremont California would be a very bad choice for Tesla? Why
did that suddenly change? What participation did Senator Dianne Feinstein and her husband’s real
estate Company CBRE have on that decision and the award of the loan to Tesla? Why do Senator
Feinsteins staff now work for Tesla? Why did Glenn Greenwald call Feinstein’s actions “suspicious”?
What political support or funding did Tesla or Google provide to any related political officials?
- From 2008 to 2010 numerous competing electric car companies have charged that Tesla Motors
placed Tesla Motors “moles” inside of their companies to intelligence-gather and cause disruption. Is
that true?
- Google and Tesla motors share the same venture capital investor groups and alliances. Numerous
expert at Tech-Crunch, Valleywag and other industry journals have published articles about the fact
that those VC’s actively collude with each other to lock competing technologies and companies out of
the market and create business monopolies. Did Tesla investors and associates participate in such
activities? If so, would that not be a violation of SEC laws?
- Did Tesla and/or Google reward certain politicians with campaign funding, web promotion, revolving
door jobs for staff, and other incentives, in exchange for “hot-tracking” State and Federal taxpayer
money for Tesla Motors?
- While other companies built consumer priced electric cars before and during Tesla’s existence, why
did Tesla choose to build an unaffordable car and position the marketing of it to “the 1%” when the
money for that car came from the 99% taxpayers?
- Numerous cities were told that they would have the Tesla car factory and then they stated, or sued
Tesla, saying Tesla acted “in bad faith” and “used false and misleading information” to induce them to
provide assurances which were used to pump the stock market. Why did Tesla lead so many cities on?
- The factory that builds your batteries and the U.S. Government states, in their formal technical
documents, that when Tesla batteries are on fire they emit lethal, brain-damaging, carcinogenic, liver,
lung and DNA damaging fumes and smoke. Why do you not inform the public of this danger in your
literature?
- Lithium ion production kills and terminally sickens workers overseas. Multiple Tesla
workers have been burned alive at your factory. OSHA has launched an investigation. What have you
done to prevent the accidental and long term injuries to your staff and contractors?
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- Bernard Tse, and other main Tesla Engineering staff including: electric engineer Doug Bourn,
electrical engineer Andrew Ingram, Brian M. Finn, senior manager of interactive electronics and
George Blankenship; while investigating battery purchases for Tesla Motors, received numerous white-
papers and technical documents from LG Chem, Panasonic and the U.S. D.O.E and vast numbers of
other battery-makers which specifically stated that lithium-ion batteries would be “stressed” and “likely
to combust” when used in the configuration which
Tesla intended. They stated that the batteries were “not intended for use in cars”. Why then, did Tesla
still use them? What effect did the monopolistic ownership of lithium ion mining and manufacturing
resources by Tesla and Google investors have on the decision to use lithium ion?
- Is it not a fact that a majority of your cars have been sold to your own investors or associates who act
as “fluffers” against any bad PR?
- In multiple recorded interviews, Elon MUsk is on public record stating that, at the time of application
for the DOE loan Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy. The DOE loan was mandated under a Federal
law known as Section 136. This law stated that no car company could receive money if it was on the
verge of bankruptcy. Past accountants of Tesla have stated that Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy at
the time of the loan application. Numerous Tesla staff and contractors have verified this. Did Tesla
commit a felony and acquire “unfair advantage” per the GAO?
- Relative to the number of cars sold, why has Tesla had so many Tesla drunk driver related crashes,
deaths and homicides. Why are Tesla drivers killing innocent pedestrians simply because the Tesla’s
“smell bad”.?
- Psychographic, demographic and marketing studies have been published showing that Tesla drivers
have a higher-than-average inclination towards drugs, strange sexual behavior and risk. Could this
account for the number of Tesla crashes and deaths?
- Is it true that safety testing was done on Tesla cars without fully charged batteries and in a moisture-
locked environment because Tesla staff knew that fully charged batteries and moisture in a crash
WOULD cause a fiery explosion, as they already have?
- Is it not a fact that Google deletes, or hides any bad PR about Tesla on it’s network? Would this be
considered stock market manipulation in violation of SEC laws?
- Numerous periodicals, including Valleywag, document the fact that Elon Musk sends spy emails to
his employees, each with a few words changed in order to track them and see who might reveal
anything damaging to regulators?
- Who are all of the property holders and lease-owners of the Tesla and Solyndra, past and current, real-
estate?
- According to DOE staff, who were at DOE when the Tesla application was submitted, nothing that
Tesla submitted was ever built by Tesla. In fact, these staff state that the vehicle that Tesla eventually
sold was not even designed or engineered when Tesla was approved for the loan money, contrary to the
Section 136 law requirement. They say that Tesla took the money and THEN hired people to figure out
what they were going to do with it. As shown in the DOE files, the engineering of the shipping Tesla
cars has no element that was submitted to
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- Elon Musks wives and founders have filed lawsuits and made public statements that he is a fraud and
coerced them into participation. Is it proper fiduciary practice to allow Mr. Musk to continue with the
company?
- Why did Tesla not have to pay the cash participation fee that the Section 136 law said everybody had
to pay? Tesla staff stated, at numerous documented Silicon Valley open meetings that they got a
“special applicant participation waiver”. Why did Tesla get that waiver?
- Did Tesla Motors provide falsified information in order to acquire it’s Federal funding?
- Did Tesla Motors provide falsified information in order to acquire it’s Federal waivers, tax deferrals,
credits and discounts?
- Kleiner Perkins and certain silicon valley VC’s, all investors in a number of DOE “winners”
(including Tesla, Fisker, Solyndra, A123 and others), organized meetings with a Dmitry Medvedev and
other men known by the State Department, CIA, FBI and federal investigators to be involved in
Russian mobsterism and then Ener1, Severstal and A123, dark-money funded and run by billionaires
(many of whom own lithium mining interests) known by the State Department, the CIA and federal
investigators to be involved in Russian mobsterism, were awarded taxpayer funds by Steven Chu, who
was nominated by Kleiner Perkins. Was any of this a
conflict of interest?
- Why is the only company to receive California State real estate exclusives, exclusive tax waivers,
credits and stock enhancers and free rides on taxpayer backs also the same company who’s investors
were the largest funders of certain State officials?
- Federal communications monitoring of text, voice and email communications of certain highly placed
Senators, lobbyists and venture capitalists from 2005 to today should be made available to ALL federal
criminal investigators. Have they been? Are one or more Senators blocking this effort because they are
compromised?
- Why have so many fraud lawsuits been filed against Elon Musk and Tesla Motors?
- The head of the NHTSA (Strickland) Tesla investigation quit because of increased scrutiny. The facts,
such as these, demonstrate that Tesla and Fisker never should have passed any NHTSA safety review.
How can the public be assured that ongoing NHTSA investigations regarding Tesla will not be rigged?
- Did Tesla Motors provide falsified information in order to acquire it’s State funding? Did Tesla
Motors provide falsified information in order to acquire it’s State waivers, tax deferrals, credits and
discounts? Did Tesla investors bribe, or influence Congress people?
- Did Tesla report tax credits as revenue/sales in stock reports in order to trick investors into thinking
Tesla was making profit that it was actually not making?
- Did Tesla staff or owners investors bribe, or influence Congress people? Did Tesla staff, owners or
investors provider misleading information to investors? Was there a conflict of interest between
Department of Energy staff and Tesla owners, investors or staff? Was there a conflict of interest
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between White House staff and Tesla owners, investors or staff? Was there a conflict of interest
between Senate staff and Tesla owners, investors or staff? Did Tesla Motors use taxpayer money to
hire off-shore staff?
- Marketing sales staff from the ad agencies for 60 Minutes, Consumer Reports, GQ, Fortune and other
mainstream periodicals have stated that Elon Musk purchased “puff piece” stories about himself in
those broadcasts and magazines and that none of those stories were internally generated. Is it good
fiduciary practice for an executive to use corporate resources for personal glorification?
- Did Tesla Motors use taxpayer money to purchase supplies offshore that could have been purchased
in the United States? Did Tesla Motors participate in a market rigging scam to rig lithium ion
purchasing for its investors? Did Tesla Motors participate in a market rigging scam to rig the electric
car market for its investors? Did Tesla Motors staff, or owners, sabotage competitors?
- Did Tesla Motors staff, owners or investors exchange campaign funding quid pro quo for business
financing?
- Did Silicon Valley companies, owned by Tesla investors and campaign financiers, use internet
technology to falsify information to the public in order to manipulate stock market perceptions in
violation of SEC, RICO, and various other laws?
- Did Tesla Motors lie about the safety metrics of its lithium ion battery system?
- Was Tesla Motors holding safety metric data in its files which differed fully from the safety metrics
data it provided to investors and NHTSA?
- Did Tesla Motors violate securities law by using false information to acquire a federal loan which it
then used to falsify its stock metrics in order to “pump” it’s stock?
- Did Deloitte accounting firm conspire with Tesla to manipulate market metrics in violation of RICO
Statutes and did that firm manipulate Department of Energy review data on Tesla’s behalf?
- A U.S. Senator officiated at the opening of the Tesla NUMMI plant and lobbied for Tesla’s tax
waivers, credits, acquisition of NUMMI and discounts and then that U.S. Senator had their staff work
in Tesla’s offices. Is it a conflict of interest that this senator received campaign funding and this
senator’s family received real estate deals from the Tesla and, (next door to Tesla), Solyndra real estate
deals?
- Did Welles Fargo conspire with Tesla to manipulate market metrics in violation of RICO Statutes?
- Did Goldman Sachs conspire with Tesla to manipulate market metrics in violation of RICO Statutes?
- Were Department of Energy staff manipulating Tesla funding data in order to favor Tesla and it’s
campaign funding investors in violation of RICO Statutes?
- Were Department of Energy staff manipulating Tesla funding data in order to disfavor Tesla
competitors and competitors to it’s campaign funding investors in violation of RICO Statutes?
- Did Tesla owners, staff or investors attempt to delay federal investigations and
indictments by asserting influence in violation of RICO Statutes and numerous other laws?
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- Documents show there have been more Tesla fires that actually occurred than Tesla has reported in
the media. How many actual Tesla factory fires, test car fires and Tesla battery fires have actually
occurred?
- Please provide an identification matrix showing campaign backers who were lithium ion investors
who had had their contacts exert influence over NHTSA decisions regarding Tesla?
- The Secretary of energy was friends with all of your investors. We have been unable to find the name
of even one person from OPM and Congressional nomination file wrapper for Steven Chu’s
nomination, who Chu did not later give DOE $$ or perks to. Why is that?
- The U.S. Post Office, The TSA, The DOE, The GAO, Panasonic and over 100 of the leading
technical companies in the world say lithium ion batteries can spontaneously explode. Why do you not
disclose this to your buyers in your literature?
- The Tesla can blow-up from it’s charger and/or it’s batteries. Are there other dangers that have also
not been disclosed?
- Is Tesla operating in violation of the patents of any other company?
- By Elon Musk’s own admission, at the time of the DOE loan application all of the car designs were
$100,000.00, PER CAR, over budget and they had no final design for a factory production run DFM.
How could Tesla have gotten the loan with the worst debt ratio, the least engineering, the greatest
financial risk and the least collateral of any applicant?
- Tesla lobbyists worked with Rahm Emanuel in the White House, to arrange their loan deal. Rahm
Emanuals Senior Finance Aide was recently arrested for bribes, kickbacks, corruption and money
Laundering. Steve Rattner, The West Wing “Car Czar”, who Tesla investors worked with to secure the
Tesla loan, was also indicted for corruption. Almost everyone at DOE involved in your loan was forced
to quit or fired. Does this call your dealings into question?
- Rolls-Royce Holdings said the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office has opened a formal investigation into
bribery and corruption of government officials for cars for the 1%. Does this worry you?
- The NHTSA said that Elon Musk lied about Fire Safety Review approval and who made the request
for recall and investigation. Should we trust Elon Musk?
- Tesla got another $34 MILLION of our tax money in exclusive campaign finance kickbacks for
billionaires from the State of California. Why did Tesla billionaires need a few million of our tax
money in a recession when people have no jobs?
- The German Tesla “Safety Review” was exposed as “Sham” in that they conducted no safety review
and were just told to “pass the car” by your bankers at Deutche Bank! Why did you not disclose that
the German’s conducted no testing of your battery system of any nature?
- In Tesla’s own filed patent applications you state that your batteries WILL explode spontaneously and
kill and injure people and burn down their homes. Why did you not disclose this in buyers
documentation?
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- Tesla is MORE likely to catch on fire than gasoline car”per Bloomberg & MIT. Why did you not
disclose this?
- Lithium Ion is “nearly impossible to extinguish, and “acts like solid rocket fuel” say firefighters.
Tesla never supplied required battery company CO2 fire extinguishers to car owners. Why not?
- Federal Investigators say you are using “exploding flashlight batteries that were never intended to be
used in cars, in an improperly shielded box” to power the car instead of commercial energy storage
technology. They say your car has “85% less lithium crash protection on the Tesla than ANY OTHER
ELECTRIC CAR”. All other companies had to recall EXCEPT Tesla. Why not? What special leverage
did you have?
- Over 150 defects and problems per model about the Tesla have been documented on user-forums and
in the press including: “Doors lock you in and out. Bad if car on fire!”; “George Clooney Rips Tesla:
‘Why Am I Always Stuck On The Side Of The F*cking Road?”; “Tesla “Satisfaction” survey authored
by it’s own investors/fanboys”; “Tesla seat vibration causes Anal Itching!”; “VAMPIRE POWER
DEFECT slams entire Tesla Model S fleet!”; “Numerous defects documented by
owners online.” When the NUMMI factory was in use by GM and Toyota only 5 defects per model car
produced there occurred. Even after you bought brand new robots, why did the Tesla cars get worse in
a pre-configured factory with billions of dollars of past car preparation?
Thank you for your consideration. We look forward to your public response to clarify these issues and
concerns.
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Did the LA TIMES Article actually disclose an organized
crime operation involving some very famous people?
The LA TIMES just ran an article which exposes Elon Musk's funding system, based on
Government hand-outs. Musk rushed to hold a press conference to claim the amount of
taxpayer cash, he has received, was "just a pittance”. Few, though, find over FIVE BILLION
DOLLARS of tax waivers, credits, employment freebies, buildings, exclusive contracts, and
other taxpayer provided goodies, to be "a pittance" in these tough times.
While it is true that Musk has now received more taxpayer hand-outs, than any individual in
American history, one could argue that he is just a lucky business man.
But, just for the purpose of theoretical discussion, what if some of the darker theories about
Musk's coincidental windfalls have some merit?
Let's jump right to the most sinister interpretation of things.
One of the whispered rumours, on the web holds that in 2007, right when Musk's silent
partners, Eric Schmidt and John Doerr started, practically, living at the White House in a
lobbying frenzy, the Democrats finally acknowledged that they really were the party of the
poor, because they were flat broke. So some of them came up with the idea of creating a
Department of Energy fund called the “ATVM Fund”, loading it up with $25 Billion kick-
back dollars of taxpayer cash, awarding it only to Schmidt/Doerr/Musk related companies,
and shutting out all of their competitors.
Indeed, history shows that the fund actually was created. It really got $25 Billion, in a unique
legal manner, which made the $25 Billion irrevocable. Schmidt/Doerr/Musk's buddy: Steven
Chu, was put in charge of it. He hired their friends to staff his office.
See where this is going?
So, per this theory, Musk is actually a kick-back conduit, protected by the White House, to
spiff the DNC campaign funds...according to this theory. Which is just a theory. It couldn't
really happen, right? The White House wouldn’t prop up a guy just to keep him quiet and
keep kick-back cash flowing.. right?
So this theory is kind of ironic because, in an amazing coincidence, everything that Musk
get's involved in, is exactly stuff that the White House is promoting.
In an even more bizarre coincidence, to pull a scam like this off, the Schmidt/Doerr/Musk
Cartel would need the help of U.S. Senators Reid and Feinstein, the most beloved American
politicians in history.
This whole theory must have come out of the fact that Reid and Feinstein made billions of
dollars off of Schmidt/Doerr/Musk Cartel stock investments and campaign contributions, but,
that was, of course just another funny coincidence. They even ran, and built, some of the
properties that these Department of Energy “winners” companies sat upon. But, again,
coincidence!
The main reason one might cast doubt on this theory is that there are so many hard facts to
prove it, that it is just too good to be true… right?
These internet crazies…these “theorizers” point to actual facts like the one where all of the
profitable chemicals that Tesla and Solyndra were going to buy and sell in volume were
controlled by the investors in Kliener Perkins and commodity-managed by their partners:
Goldman Sachs. That’s just another funny coincidence.
The “theorizers” point to the fact that Musk’s companies have poor business volume, but
show a profit whenever there is bad news thanks to Kleiner rushing out to “Flash Boy”
purchase Tesla stock, with an automated stock buying system, in order to pump the stock.
Federal, and private investigator, records show that this actually happened. It has also been
proven that only Google, Reddit and the other Kleiner-controlled web-news-media mask all
negative Musk/Tesla news in perfect synchronization with the stock pumps, when no other
publications on the planet do. Again, these are just coincidences. If people were consciously
doing those kinds of things it would be mobster-ism on a Godfather-class scale. But, that
couldn’t have happened.
Then..get this; “rumour people”, who seem to just be ecstatic about all of these coincidental,
highly suspect things, go off on yet another “FACT”. They point out that originators of the
scam, from the White House side, had to be Emanual, Plouffe, Axelrod, Rattner and Gibbs.
Then they go on to point out that Emanual, Plouffe, Axelrod, Rattner and Gibbs suddenly quit
the White House at the peak of their career for reasons that don’t make sense. The fact that
one of them was indicted for stock market fraud only goes to strengthen their case, but,
again…these things happen.
So, even if this really had happened, the brave and fearless protector of ethics and morality:
Mr. Eric Holder, would have cracked right down on his friends here…who he knew
personally, and had dinner with, and had the same lawyers with…oh,.. well.. but anyway.
Eric would have jumped on them, right? The White House wouldn’t order the Justice
Department and the FBI to ignore Elon Musk, John Doerr and the Silicon Valley Cartel as a
kick-back protection order, now would they?
Mobsters kill people. Rajeev Motwani, David Bird, Gary D. Conley, 3 Tesla engineers and a
large bunch of others did, certainly, die under mysterious circumstances, and they were all
people that this cartel would want dead, but to say that these billionaires are off murdering
their adversaries using mysterious CIA stealth murder tricks is overly intriguing.
Of course, as we all now know, every single one of those companies in the ATVM Fund
scam grabbed the cash, paid their CEO and Goldman Sachs insiders off-the-top, and
immediately went bankrupt in the largest government-funded sequential business-failure suite
in history. While some argue that a secret GOP Task Force discovered the plot and forced all
of the Kleiner Cartel DOE “Winners” to collapse, in punishment, this is probably another
coincidence.
Here is the main argument against this theory, Mobsters are big greasy looking guys with
bulbous broken noses and slicked back pompadours. These Musk and Kleiner people wear
khaki’s and black turtlenecks. KHAKI’S for god-damn sakes!! You never saw a mobster in
khaki’s, right? ...OR DID YOU!?
SPACE X SUED AND IN FLOOD OF COMPLAINTS FROM
WORKERS AND NEIGHBORS:
Rocket Firm SpaceX Sued Over Unpaid Wages - Sky News
4 hours ago ... An employee of SpaceX is suing the company for $5m claiming that he and
others were denied overtime pay and lunch breaks.
http://news.sky.com/story/1574396/rock[...]ket-firm-spacex-sued-over-unpaid-wages
SpaceX Sued for Laying Off 400 Workers Without Proper Notice or ...
Aug 8, 2014 ... On Monday former employees of SpaceX, Elon Musk's own private NASA,
filed a proposed class action lawsuit. The complaint alleges that ...
http://valleywag.gawker.com/spacex-sue[...]00-workers-without-proper-n-1618454323
SpaceX: Lawsuit against USAF dropped. - Slate
Jan 28, 2015 ... Last year, the space technology company SpaceX sued the U.S. Air Force
over what it saw as an unfair practice; the USAF gave a “sole source” ...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astrono[...]acex_lawsuit_against_usaf_dropped.html
SpaceX sued for laying off hundreds of workers without proper notice
Different Decades: Same Technique. How Did Al Capone
and Elon Musk Get Away With It For So Long?
“Swiss Leaks” HSBC documents, (including some the public have not seen yet),
Snowden/Assange, FTC and EU investigations, foreign hackers and probing reporters, at a
variety of media outlets, have revealed the truth behind the rise to power of these two
individuals.
They both owe their existence to Chicago corruption and organized crime culture.
Neither of them would exist if certain federal laws and policies had not been changed, or
enacted, at exactly the same time for them to exploit those very same laws, timed to follow
huge campaign “contributions”.
They both had insane ego’s, braggadocio that was off the charts, and narcissism that was
turned up to “11” because they knew they were being protected by the highest level political
figures of their times. They were, as Elliot Ness would say: “Untouchable”.
They both had the Top Cop in their pockets.
They both had a string of notorious sexual scandals.
They both created a monopoly of key supplier materials. Liquor distribution in one case.
Lithium batteries in another.
They each acted as the sole information and operations conduit for their organizations so that
no outsider could stumble upon their schemes.
All of the movies, and tales, about them involved funky-looking high speed car activities.
They both had mysterious deaths associated with their operations.
They both used women like “disposable objects”.
Russian mobsters were involved with each one.
They both had associates who helped them manipulate the stock market.
They both were able to “skim” state and federal funds.
They both always dressed in black to be more intimidating.
They, and their billionaire buddies, were both involved in huge political take-over attempts.
They each spent massive amounts of money on their own press coverage and glorification.
Later analysis, by psychological profilers, identified each as classic sociopaths.
Many corrupt politicians, including some famous Senator’s, got kick-backs from them and
participated in their upside in exchange for “greasing the skids”
They both had the backing of a special interest business-men’s cartel.
Until the very end, even on the perp-walk to prison, they still acted aloof, tone-deaf and as if
the whole world thought they were the center of the universe.
One was brought down by tax fraud and financial scams, the other will be.
Aug 7, 2014 ... Employees at SpaceX have filed a lawsuit claiming the Hawthorne rocket
company laid off 200 to 400 factory workers last month without proper ...
http://www.dailybreeze.com/social-affa[...]dreds-of-workers-without-proper-notice
Elon Musk's SpaceX Sues Government to Protest Military Launch ...
“DIRTY” CRIMES FOR “CLEAN” ENERGY: THE
AFGHANISTAN LITHIUM SCAM
At this point, enough evidence has accumulated to clearly prove that a mining scam was
underway involving trillions of dollars of lithium, which Tesla, John Doerr and the Silicon
Valley Cartel, 1.) clearly acquired the monopoly ownership of, 2.) at exactly the right
moment to time it to the Afghan War, 3.) and place their associate: Steven Chu in office, 4.)
and arrange the Dept. of Energy exclusive cash give-aways and 5.) tie in with Goldman Sachs
commodity rigging which every suspect has now been shown to have had an operational hand
in, and financial & political benefit from.
Solyndra was staged to exploit indium and other related minerals from the same mining deal.
Alas, the Afghan War failed, costing U.S. taxpayers (According to multiple news reports)
over six trillion dollars, the Republicans found out about the “Cleantech Scam” and dissected
it, almost all of the Cartel’s pool of exploitation companies went out of business, the Russian
portions went into cold war mode with their U.S. counter-parts and leaks from Dept. of
Energy staff broke the cover-up. Senior Federal employees participated in, coordinated and
benefitted from the crime.
How many Afghan farmers, soldiers and workers had to die to buy John Doerr his new
mansion?
How many Washington DC top brass think they got away with this crime?
Apr 25, 2014 ... WASHINGTON – The commercial SpaceX rocket venture is filing a lawsuit
against the federal government to protest the purchase of rocket ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/e[...]rotest-military-launch-monopoly-n89926
Another former SpaceX employee sues over alleged labor law ...
Aug 12, 2014 ... Upstart rocket manufacturer and darling of the commercial space industry
SpaceX is facing another lawsuit over its labor practices. In the ...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-[...]x-employee-lawsuit-20140812-story.html
Blog: Space X rocket explodes shortly after takeoff
Jun 29, 2015 · Musk is banking on NASA's need for a space taxi to ferry astronauts to and
from the space station. Just recently, NASA gave preliminary approval to Space X ...
bing
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/20[...]et_explodes_shortly_after_takeoff.html
- Tesla said they were going to BUILD a Factory in San Jose. They had no intention of
building a factory and just wanted to trick state and city officials into signing their appeal
letters. The factory was never built. Tesla investors sought to get real estate profits from the
land deal.
- Tesla said they were going to BUILD a Factory in New Mexico. They are being sued in
New Mexico for this lie. They had no intention of building a factory and just wanted to trick
state and city officials into signing their appeal letters. The factory was never built. Tesla
investors sought to get real estate profits from the land deal.
- Tesla said they were going to BUILD a Factory in Downey, CA. They had no intention of
building a factory and just wanted to trick state and city officials into signing their appeal
letters. The factory was never built. Tesla investors sought to get real estate profits from the
land deal.
- Tesla fired multiple workers without notice. They have been sued by those workers and lost
those lawsuits. When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get through?
Corruption?
- Tesla had no factory but DOE rejected other applicants for not having a factory. When this
got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla was $100,000.00 off on their BOM calculations per car. When this got other
applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Deloitte was both the accountant for Tesla and the accounting reviewer for DOE. With
Tesla s
at-application-time credit and numbers actually so bad, one has to wonder what was
up. When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla and DOE staff were supplied by McKinsey. Mckinsey wrote all of the green energy
plans and white papers for David Axelrod to give to the White House. Mckinsey staff have
now gone to jail. Tesla and Fisker investors are best friends with McKinsey senior executives.
One Mckinsey executive, associated with a jailed McKinsey senior executive, is now dead
from na
tural causes .
The heads of the DOE loan Program: Matt Rogers and Steve
Spinner, were working for McKinsey while also working at the DOE loan program as
de
ciders for Steven Chu. When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get
through? Corruption?
- Tesla made a deal with DOE staff to spiff the loan announcement in order to hype the stock
market in order to fake up stock sales. When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla
- DOE had IBM consulting, in Virginia, do Tesla s
due
diligence .
IBM consulting was
a contractor to Tesla. IBM Consulting supplied the DOE loan staff that McKinsey did not
supply. IBM consulting only gave Tesla their top score. The reviews by IBM consulting,
which operating under a variety of names from a fake office, now seem to have been
manipulated in favor of Tesla. When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get
through? Corruption?
- Tesla investors emailed and phone called the White House and Senior DOE staff to make
quid-pro-quo deals which are now documented. When this got other applicants declined, how
did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla got their inside Senator to give them only-for-Tesla factory tax reductions, green tax
credits and other special finance perks that allowed Tesla to book profit that did not actually
exist. When this got other applicants in trouble, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- At the time of application, Tesla had no prototype of the car that was to be factory produced
(The roadster was not at all the car produced), no design CAD, no factory production files
and no engineering for factory machine automation. When this got other applicants declined,
how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla was caught sending out letters to customers telling them to close deposits so they
could fake orders before the earnings call. When this got other applicants declined, how did
Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla engaged in a conflict-of-interest with a Senator and her real-estate family for Tesla
and Solyndra land, and adjacent land, in Fremont, Ca. How did Tesla get this through?
Corruption?
- Tesla had one of the worst credit ratings at the time of application. Even today, to pay back
all of Tesla s
investors is nearly impossible. When this got other applicants declined, how
did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla had one of the worst debt ratios at the time of application. When this got other
applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- The cost, BOM, time-to-market, range and domestic jobs metrics was lower in Tesla s
application than most other applicants. When better ratings got other applicants declined, how
did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- DOE staff made a deal with Tesla to swap Detroit stock to cook up the books for the
application. When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla made a deal to hire union workers for the NUMMI plant then fired most of them and
hired H1B foreign workers with taxpayer money. When this got other applicants declined,
how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla provided no collateral for their loan application and had no assets of value. When this
got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla has sent out PR saying they are repaying their loan many years in the future in order to
stop investigations. They have NOT paid off their loan and the facts of sales show no
possibility that they will.
- Tesla buys the majority of its parts from non-American suppliers. When this got other
applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla hired multiple fa
mous auto people w
ho then quit when they say what Tesla was
up to. When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla said they were going to build and sell over 500,000 cars as of today s
date. They
have missed every milestone and sold less than 5000 cars. When this got other applicants
declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
- Tesla could not make their payments and got their deal custom-changed multiple times.
When this got other applicants declined, how did Tesla get through? Corruption?
HOW THE CRONY CAPITALISM OF THE CLEANTECH CRASH
ALMOST DESTROYED AMERICA
See More at: http://thecleantechcrash.wordpress.com
Crony Capitalism - The Real Cause Of Society's Problems
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Since the economic downturn of 2008, the critics of capitalism have redoubled their efforts to persuade
the American people and many others around the world that the system of individual freedom and free
enterprise has failed.
These critics have insisted that it is unbridled capitalism, set loose on the world, which is the source of
all of our personal and society misfortunes. We hear and read this not only in the popular news media
and out of the mouths of the political pundits. We see it also in the election of a radical socialist to the
leadership of the British Labor party, and a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” riding high in the
public opinion polls for the Democratic Party’s nomination to the U.S. presidency.
The first observation to make is that many if not most of the social and economic misfortunes that are
most frequently talked about are not the product of a “failed” free enterprise. The reason for this is that
a consistently practiced free enterprise system no longer exists in the United States.
The Heavy Hand of Regulation
What we live under is a heavily regulated, managed and controlled interventionist-welfare state. The
over 80,000 pages of the Federal Register, the volume that specifies and enumerates all the Federal
regulations that are imposed on and to which all American businesses are expected to comply, is just
one manifestation of the extent to which government has weaved a spider’s web of commands over the
business community.
The Small Business Administration has estimated that compliance costs imposed on American
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enterprise by this mountain of regulations maybe upwards of $2 trillion a year.
At the same time, the tangled web of corrupt government-private sector relationships is also reflected in
the size and cost of special interest lobbying activities connected with the Federal government.
According to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Government, in 2014 there were almost 12,000
registered lobbyists working in Washington, D.C. Their job is to influence the writing of legislation that
serve special interest groups attempting to obtain sectorial tax breaks, anti-competitive regulations or
market restrictions, redistributions of wealth, or taxpayer funded subsidies and protections from the
realities of free market competition and trade, or to advance various ideologically motived “causes.”
Spending Big Money to Plunder Others
The Center for Responsive Government, which tracks who lobbies and for what purposes and causes
through the targeting of specific holders of or contenders for Federal elected office, including the
Presidency and both Houses of the U.S. Congress, estimated that in 2014 lobbyists spent nearly $3.25
billion in the pursuit of privileges for some at the expense of others in society.
Just alone in 2013-2014, over $500 million dollars was spent on lobbying activity by the financial,
insurance, and real estate sectors. Ideological and single-issue groups spent more than $352 million.
Lawyers and lobbyists spent $151.5 million; health industry companies spent $142 million; and labor
unions “invested” $140.6 million on lobbying.
Communications and electronic companies spent $116 million; energy and natural resource sector,
$115 million; agribusiness, $77 million; construction companies, $67.7 million; transportation firms,
$61 million, and defense companies, $25.4 million.
Based on the Senate Office of Public Records, the Center for Responsive Government calculates that
lobbyists spent close to $41 billion on lobbying activities over the last 15 years, since the beginning of
the twenty-first century.
These billions of special interest-serving dollars have influenced and affected the spending of trillions
of dollars of Federal government expenditures over the same decade and a half. The lobbyists work
with and use those who hold high political office so the special interest and ideological groups who
employ them can plunder many others in American society; they can be viewed as among the most
successful enterprisers in the country.
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But the symbiotic relationship between politicians and special interest groups of all types does not
begin or end with the formal lobbying for legislative, regulatory and fiscal privileges and favors in the
halls of Congress and the White House in Washington, D.C.
It goes on all year round all over the country in the form of campaign and electioneering contributions
to get those elected or reelected who can be depended upon to direct the powers of government in ways
that interest groups and ideological activists desire and from which they hope to benefit.
Again according to the Center for Responsive Politics, in 2013-2014, individuals and PACS donated
over $1.6 billion to 1,671candidates of both major political parties running for office in the Senate and
the House of Representatives. Democratic Party candidates received $736 million, while Republican
Party candidates received $901.5 million.
While it may seem unseemly to suggest such a thing, these amounts for legislative lobbying and
campaign funding, of course, do not include more millions of dollars that grease the palms of those in
political power or who want to be in those lofty positions that represent funding that are outside the
official channels in the form of “gifts,” travel junkets, off-the-books expense accounts, and out-and-out
bribes of one type or another.
The real world of corrupted and corrupting crony capitalism includes more than lobbying expenditures
and campaign contributions to have ringside seats in the halls of political plunderland.
The media has been in a frenzy with the revelations that the Volkswagen automobile company
manipulated information about emission standards on its diesel vehicles to deceive environmental
regulators in both the United States and Europe. This is being portrayed by many in the media as
another example and “proof” of the consequences of unbridled capitalism, when left outside of
sufficiently tight and demanding government regulation and intense oversight.
Government Partnerships and the Volkswagen Scandal
However, a closer look shows that this is, instead, another example of the result arising from
government, business and labor union “partnerships.” In Germany, labor union representatives sit on
the executive boards of large companies and corporations that work closely with various levels of the
German government to attain political and “social” goals and objectives very different and separate
from what a truly free market company does in pursuing peaceful and honest profits in the service of
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consumer demand on open, competitive markets.
On September 25, 2015, The New York Times quoted a former Volkswagen executive who said:
“There’s no other company where the owners and the unions are working so closely
together as Volkswagen. [Volkswagen] guarantees jobs for over half the supervisory board.
What management, the government and the unions all want is full employment, and the
more jobs, the better. Volkswagen is seen as having a national mission to provide
employment to the German people. That’s behind the push to be No. 1 in the world. They’ll
look the other way about anything.”
In such a politicized market economy, working for and serving “national” and “social” interests
become the guiding principle of business decision-making. Not only does it lead to wasteful and
inefficient economic business operations having less or sometimes nothing to do with cost-effective
management and allocation of labor and resources to make better, newer and less expensive products, it
also corrupts the individuals participating in these activities.
Breaking one or more regulatory standards imposed by government on these enterprises is merely one
way of “doing business” to advance other political goals such as “jobs” and “full employment” that are
expected as part of the “partnerships” with local and national-level politicians and labor union leaders.
The only thing expected from the business enterprises in these intricate political webs is: Don’t get
caught. If you do, then your political partners become like Captain Renault, the prefect of police in the
1942 movie “Casablanca.” When Renault orders the closing of Rick’s Café, the owner asks him on
what grounds. Renault declares that he is “shocked, shocked” to discover that there is gambling going
on in the café. At which point the roulette coupé appears with a stack of franc banknotes in his hand
and says to Renault, “Your winnings, Sir.”
Volkswagen got caught, and will pay handsomely in financial and other penalties that will, no doubt, be
imposed by the U.S. and European governments. And all the time, Volkswagen’s political partners,
especially in Germany, who fostered and worked with the company to play its part in the “game” of
government interventionism that has nothing to do with market-oriented enterprise, will
sanctimoniously condemn the greedy and “selfish” conduct of profit-hungry businessmen.
What all these examples and facts about lobbying activities, campaign funding and government-
business partnerships highlight is the pervasive extent to which “capitalism” as it now exists in the
United States or Europe – or in fact all other parts of the world – has nothing to do with free market,
laissez-faire capitalism.
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Corrupting Hand of the Interventionist State
The Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, described this twisted, corrupted, and politicized
capitalism over 80 years ago, in 1932, in an essay on “The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism,”
published shortly before the coming of Hitler and the Nazi movement to power:
“In the interventionist state it is no longer of crucial importance for the success of an
enterprise that the business should be managed in a way that it satisfies the demands of
consumers in the best and least costly manner.
“It is far more important that one has ‘good relationships’ with the political authorities so
that the interventions work to the advantage and not the disadvantage of the enterprise. A
few marks’ more tariff protection for the products of the enterprise and a few marks’ less
tariff for the raw materials used in the manufacturing process can be of far more benefit to
the enterprise than the greatest care in managing the business.
“No matter how well an enterprise may be managed, it will fail if it does not know how to
protect its interests in the drawing up of the custom rates, in the negotiations before the
arbitration boards, and with the cartel authorities. To have ‘connections’ becomes more
important that to produce well and cheaply.
“So the leadership positions within the enterprises are no longer achieved by men who
understand how to organize companies and to direct production in the way the market
situation demands, but by men who are well thought of ‘above’ and ‘below,’ men who
understand how to get along well with the press and all the political parties, especially with
the radicals, so that they and their company give no offense. It is that class of general
directors that negotiate far more often with state functionaries and party leaders than with
those from whom they buy or to whom they sell.
“Since it is a question of obtaining political favors for these enterprises, their directors
must repay the politicians with favors. In recent years, there have been relatively few large
enterprises that have not had to spend very considerable sums for various undertakings in
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spite of it being clear from the start that they would yield no profit. But in spite of the
expected loss it had to be done for political reasons. Let us not even mention contributions
for purposes unrelated to business – for campaign funds, public welfare organizations, and
the like.
“Forces are becoming more and more generally accepted that aim at making the direction
of large banks, industrial concerns, and stock corporations independent of the shareholders
. . . The directors of large enterprises nowadays no longer think they need to give
consideration to the interests of the shareholders, since they feel themselves thoroughly
supported by the state and that they have interventionist public opinion behind them.
“In those countries in which statism has most fully gained control . . . they manage the
affairs of their corporations with about as little concern for the firm’s profitability as do the
directors of public enterprises. The result is ruin.
“The theory that has been cobbled together says that these enterprises are too big to allow
them to be managed simply in terms of their profitability. This is an extraordinarily
convenient idea, considering that renouncing profitability in the management of the
company leads to the enterprise’s insolvency. It is fortunate for those involved that the same
theory then demands state intervention and support for those enterprises that are viewed as
being too big to be allowed to go under . . .
“The crisis from which the world is suffering today is the crisis of interventionism and of
national and municipal socialism; in short, it is the crisis of anti-capitalist policies.”
How different is today, in its essential qualities, from Mises’ description of the interventionist state and
government-business “partnerships” during those years between the two World Wars?
Real Free Markets Mean Privileges for None
If what we have today is what is widely referred to as “crony capitalism,” then how might we define
and explain what a truly free market capitalism would be like? Let me suggest that the following seven
points capture the essence of a real free economy:
All means of production (land, resources, capital) are privately owned;
The use of the means of production is under the control of private owners who may be
individuals or corporate entities;
Consumer demands determine how the means of production will be used;
Competitive forces of supply and demand determine the prices of consumer goods and the
various factors of production including wages of workers;
The success or failure of individual and corporate enterprises is determined by the profits and
losses these enterprises earn in free competition with their rivals in the market place;
The free market is not confined to domestic transactions, and includes freedom of international
trade;
Government is limited in its activities to the enforcement and protection of life, liberty, and
honestly acquired property against, violence and fraud.
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In a real free market, there is no place for politicians to offer privileges and favors, because there are
none to sell. There is no motive or gain for special interest groups to spend huge sums of money in
campaign contributions or lobbying expenses, because political benefits for some at others’ expense
cannot be bought.
Wasteful and corrupting “partnerships” between government and business enterprises cannot occur
because political authority is restrained from any task other than the securing of each individual’s right
to his life, liberty, and peacefully acquired property.
As Ludwig von Mises said, the political and economic crises through
which the world suffers is not the crisis or failure of the free market. No,
it is the crisis and failure of the interventionist-welfare state, and its anti-
free market capitalist ideology.
In current
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investigations of Tesla Motors and Elon Musk, investigators are focused on potentially unethical and
criminal activities concerning the following issues:
- The origins of Tesla and why Elon Musk had nothing to do with creating Tesla Motors
- The relationship between Tesla owners and White House staff
- The relationship between Tesla owners and Department of Energy staff
- The relationship between Tesla owners and In-Q-Tel
- The relationship between Tesla owners and political campaign financiers
- The relationship between Tesla owners and Google, including Eric Schmidt and Google investors
- The relationship between Tesla owners and Goldman Sachs
- The relationship between Tesla owners and Russian oligarch “business men”
- The relationship between Tesla owners and media outlets such as Think Progress, New America
Foundation, ALICE, Media Matters, Gawker Media, Google, and related information control
consortium's
- The relationship between Tesla owners and John Doerr's Kleiner Perkins Company
- The relationship between Tesla owners, the National Venture Capitol Association, the Silicon Valley
Cartel and the coordinated venture capital “Black-listing” of Tesla competitors
- The relationship between Tesla owners and Troll Farm services that provide “click-farm”, “meat-
puppet”, “sock-puppet”, “fake likes” and automated contrived social media
- The deaths, and traumatic injuries, of Tesla Motor's staff, investors, investigators and customers
- The war profiteering, and lobbied invasion efforts, by Tesla investors, for Afghanistan, Bolivian and
other foreign lithium mining contracts
- The details of the political campaign kick-backs, and the pay-offs of gratis taxpayer cash, tax credits,
real estate, government contracts, write-offs, stock warrants, and other payola as criminally “unjust
rewards”
- The known, and covered-up, dangers of toxic vapors, fires and explosions of lithium ion batteries
- The relationship between Tesla owners and Dianne Feinstein, her husband Richard Blum and Harry
Reid
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- The charges and lawsuits against Elon Musk, and Tesla Motors for Fraud, by wives, employees,
founders, supplies, investors and others
- Recent leaks and disclosures
- Potential criminal charges against the suspects and the financial relationships of all suspects
- Systemized corruption and kick-back programs within state, and federal, agencies
- Cover-ups created to protect political officials who benefited from stock, campaign support and other
perks
- The planting of “Moles” and the operation of sabotage efforts against multiple competitors by Tesla
staff
- Coordinated, criminal, stock market manipulations via “Flash Boy Algorithms”, “Buy Bots”,
“Pumping via buybacks”, “Valuation fraud via Google ranking manipulation”, “Media cover-ups and
news hiding via Google ranking manipulation”, “DOE PR Valuation boost coordinations” and direct
TSLA stock chart fraud
- Who, knew what, and when they knew it
MUSK'S OWN STAFF CALL HIM: “A LIAR”
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Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
By Ashlee Vance
Illustrations by The Red Dress
SpaceX started with a plan to send mice to
Mars. It got crazier from there.
In late October 2001, Elon Musk went to Moscow to buy an
intercontinental ballistic missile. He brought along Jim Cantrell, a kind of
international aerospace supplies fixer, and Adeo Ressi, his best friend from
Penn. Although Musk had tens of millions in the bank, he was trying to get
a rocket on the cheap. They flew coach, and they were planning to buy a
refurbished missile, not a new one. Musk figured it would be a good
vehicle for sending a plant or some mice to Mars.
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Tesla Motors and the Road To Corruption
By Amy Landin- Washington Digital Review
It began as an idea by a couple of guys (none of whom were Elon Musk) who wanted to stiff it
to the petroleum industry. It ended with political crime, corruption and the theft of tens of
billions of taxpayer's dollars.
Jason was a junior level accounting major at Georgetown University. He had been recruited
by Lachlan Seward, the loan program coordinator for the United States Secretary of Energy:
Steven Chu. Jason thought that his low pay would yield big resume points, because, on this
late October evening, he was going over the use of funds for a twenty five billion dollar
“special” government fund. It was “big ticket” project and he knew he would be able to
impress Wall Street, when he went job hunting at the end of this internship.
There was one problem, though, as he poured over the papers spread across the conference
table on the upper floor of 1000 Independence Avenue, in the U.S. capital.
As he looked at the figures in front of him, again, he had a shiver go up his spine.
It wasn't excitement, it wasn't anticipation, It wasn't the chill of the office. He was beginning
to think that something was horribly, horribly wrong.
The problem was, he just realized he was being ordered to arrange the materials in order to
hand the taxpayer money over to the least qualified applicant. Additionally, the least
qualified applicant was best friends with, and helped nominate, Secretary of Energy Steven
Chu.
The applicant was Tesla Motors.
Nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money has been spent on media hype about Tesla Motors
and Elon Musk. Almost the full extent of that media smoke-screen, and Internet search engine
rigging obfuscation effort, has been dedicated to keeping the public from finding out the truth
about Tesla Motors.
Tesla was started by a couple of tech nerds who really hated oil companies. It labored for a
number of years with little to show. Elon Musk then showed up, to run a hostile take-over of
Tesla, and threw the founders out, during some very nasty lawsuits in which Tesla founder:
Martin, accused him in court papers, and blogs, of being a fraud and a weasel.
Musk, and his Silicon Valley Cartel, had figured out a way to monopolize lithium mining
deals in Afghanistan, and other war-profiteered regions. He had hooked up with Senator's
Feinstein and Reid, via some spectacularly crooked insider stock, real-estate and supplier
contract kick-back schemes, in order to grease the skids for a business conglomerate based
on government hand-outs.
The $25 billion dollars had come from the U.S. taxpayers under a law called the Section 136
law. It was no ordinary pig trough bill. It had restrictions which, if violated, would meet the
legal requirements of a felony-grade crime. John Doerr, Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk had
crafted the schemed up portion of the Section 136 Advanced Technology Vehicle
Manufacturing fund. It It was rigged to put tens of billions of taxpayer dollars right in their
pockets, via an elaborate smoke-and-mirrors scam.
What Jason was looking at showed, in a side by side shoot-out, with all 200+ applicants, that
Tesla Motors, compared to all others, was not only the least qualified but was in violation of
the very law that operated the fund. Additionally, Tesla's investors were campaign financiers,
and they had been demanding that the applicants who competed with them, get “nixed”.
The documents and the Treasury, SEC and GAO reports seemed to indicate that something
was wrong in Tesla-land.
The law said that the applicant must use existing factories: Tesla was applying to build new
real estate in order to benefit Diane Feinsteins husband's realty holdings.
The law said that the applicant must not be on the verge of bankruptcy yet Elon Musk had
told Energy Department executives that Tesla would go bankrupt without the cash. Musk later
confessed to this in on-camera interviews.
The law said that Tesla must comply with NEPA non-toxicity rules yet the Tesla factories were
known to emit cancer-causing materials and had killed thousands of workers in China.
Additionally, a plan to build a Nevada Tesla battery factory was found to be so toxic that it
could kill entire towns from the toxic run-off. Additionally, disposal of Tesla batteries creates
a domestic toxic dump as bad as Three Mile Island.
The law said that the money must be used to create U.S. jobs, yet Tesla was planning on (and,
in fact, did) hiring a large number of H-1B off-shore workers.
The law said that the awardee had to pay an awarding fee. Tesla never paid the fee and their
staff even bragged about the waiver in a public presentation.
The law said that the awardee had to have a factory-ready design. During the entire time of
Tesla's application; not only did they not have any design but they used the money they got
from the taxpayers, to start from scratch and figure it out. Their submitted napkin design was
$100,000.00 over-budget PER CAR, during the DOE application period time. Nothing in the
DOE Tesla application technical design “rough idea” has any resemblance to the car that
actually emerged from the “factory”.
Outside of the Section 136 law, federal criminal law says that you must not bribe politicians
to get awarded federal money. Tesla has been shown to have bribed the very politicians that
awarded the taxpayer cash.
The section 136 law said that the applicant must have a top-level “debt ratio”. A debt ratio is
how much money has been dumped into a company vs. the likelihood of paying all of the
investors back. Tesla had THE WORST DEBT RATIO of all 200+ applicants. In other words,
based on Treasury investigators analysis: Tesla had burned up so much money, with so little
potential, and so little volume demand, that the ability to survive was almost nil. Department
of Energy staff, who were, exclusively, hand-holding Tesla through the DOE program, helped
arranged for a Detroit car company to temporarily acquire some Tesla stock in order to help
Tesla fudge their book-keeping, so that the debt-ratio would falsely appear to balance just
long enough for the award of taxpayer cash to be issued. Most of Tesla's main sales were to
it's own investors and political fan-boys, in order to inflate order reports.
Tesla's application promised to sell at least 200,000 cars by 2012. In fact Tesla, as of today,
has barely sold a tiny fraction of that number, after missing every milestone in it's original
application, and after wasting more money, per car, than any other car maker in
manufacturing history.
These violations of the rules of the programs, the laws of the nation and the realms of
morality went on and on. The list was long. Jason was now sweating.
Here was a company that appeared to be a total sham. It was a hyped up, internet-buzz
calculated, stock market skim machine. It's supporters were the leaders in the use of “Flash
Boy” stock market manipulation algorithms. Tesla shared the same plot of land with another
company, which involved most of the same people. That other company was the soon-to-be-
FBI-raided SOLYNDRA.
What was Jason going to tell his boss at The Department of Energy? He visualized his career
swirling around the rim of a toilet bowl as he tried to form the words, in his mind, to tell his
boss that the applicant, called Tesla Motors, was a stink bomb.
Jason never got to have that meeting with his boss. The next day the Department of Energy
controller, who sat in between the boss and Jason, took the briefing from Jason. He
complimented Jason on his excellent work but said that he would handle the revelation with
the boss.
Not that many weeks later, Jason was shocked to see Steven Chu on CNN announcing the
award of the vast sums of the taxpayer cash, via the $25 Billion dollar “special fund” to Elon
Musk and Tesla Motors.
What had happened?, he wondered. What could have erased a volume of dark revelations
from review? Having not yet heard of”Lois Lerner” or the “Hillary Email Caper” yet, he
could not imagine what had gone sideways.
He made his way, with urgency, to the controller's office, where he had first disclosed his
findings. The controller looked up as he walked in, gave a commiserating expression and
simply said... ” ...I know, how you must feel about now..”
“There is nothing you can do except forget that this ever happened. We got a memo. This
memo! (he held a piece of paper up, facing away from Jason). “I can't ever show it to you,
but it is a game-changer.”
Jason saw the memo, lit from behind, as the controller held it, facing away from Jason, but
back-lit by the setting sun. It had a very distinct blue circular logo, at the top, and a
watermark that is like no other in the world.
The White House had ordered the wave-through of their campaign financier's company
despite all of the known false-hoods, misdeeds and out-right lies that Tesla had engaged in.
How Elon Musk Fakes Tesla fans and stock enthusiasm with
automated troll farms:
Automated mass internet manipulation attack “Troll Farm”
Tactics used by Tesla to rig internet perceptions:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/columbia-chemical-hoax-tracked-to-troll-farm-
dubbed-the-internet-research-agency/story-fnjwnhzf-1227383608441
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3297994/posts?page=17
http://okcupidtrolls.tumblr.com/
http://mightygirl.com/2015/06/02/russian-troll-farms/
By Susan Johnlo (Based on actual events)
The sun glistened off the sleek futuristic body of the six figure Tesla sports car as it careened around
the next curve of the beautiful Malibu coastal highway.
Below, the Pacific Ocean spread out to the horizon in an endless carpet of blue, undulating waves and
sparkling wonder.
Nickleback was blaring from the speakers of the car, the driver’s hair was tossed in the wind, his
popped collar was flapping in the high speed rush of air and his Ray Bans barely hid his I-own-the-
world feeling of delight in the moment.
Then the gates of hell opened up…
The car suddenly swerved, it dived straight off the cliff. Did the driver smell the smoke, or see the
flames first? We may never be sure.
Was the, notoriously, hackable Tesla suddenly taken over by Chinese hackers, who had found his car IP
address on the internet? That is another question that has yet to be resolved.
What is certain, is the horrific death that then followed. As investigators, safety engineers and fire
officials detail the sequence of events, the results require a warning to readers: Do not read further if
you have a weak stomach –
First, lithium ion battery number 862, in the floor pan of the car, experienced the collapsing housing of
the lightweight aluminum box housing that surrounded it. The collapsing metal pierced the skin of the
first battery. This was caused by the first rock that the lower corner of the Tesla floor pan slammed into.
The rapid compression, and distortion of the 3 inch long Tesla battery caused that battery to buckle and
forced the metal compounds inside, the lithium ion core battery chemicals, to experience the force as a
pyrotechnic trigger. This, then caused that battery to release vapors, while at the same time, igniting
those vapors like a little hand-grenade.
This battery had just been struck, ignited and exploded, and in that fire and explosion it was releasing
gases which the driver was inhaling in his last moments of life. Those gasses have been publicly
documented by The FDA, OSHA, Panasonic , and hundreds of other laboratory-grade facilities, to be
the cause of cancer, liver damage, neurological damage, fetal damage and other deadly health issues.
If this driver had not been killed by the fire and explosions, he would have had a longer, slower set of
lethal issues to contend with.
Back to battery number 862; a few milliseconds after battery number 862 experienced the catastrophic
explosion, battery number 863, right next to it, experienced the same devastating failure. This was
followed by battery number 864, then number 865, then number 866, milliseconds apart. A chain
reaction of self-igniting thermal hell was underway and no fireman could stop it now, nor, could they
stop it after the crash.
The unstoppable nature of this lithium ion battery fire, set Malibu Canyon, itself, on fire.
So these flashlight-type batteries, that every Tesla driver is sitting on top of, are going off like military
grade incendiary devices, during this crash, one-after-the-other.
These flashlight batteries were never made to be used in cars. Safety engineers say that Elon Musk’s
decision to use these batteries, in this way, was based on rapid profit exploitation, and not on proper
engineering.
Be that as it may, we are now mid-way through the slow motion movie of this crash. The batteries are
exploding, one after the other, the car is plowing through the rocks and debris as it dives off the cliff.
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But the horror has only begun. How many batteries do we have to watch explode in this single vehicle?
NEARLY 8000 EXPLODING BATTERIES.
Let us stop and consider this fact.
Where only one in 40 gasoline tanks, in each regular car accident, ever explodes. Here, in one car, you
have nearly 8000 possibilities of an explosion AND each battery, that explodes, has an extremely high
likelihood of setting off, all the rest, in a chain reaction. Do you like those odds? You have a 400%
better chance of winning the lottery.
In our slow motion analysis, we have only crossed the half-way point in the accident. The front of the
car is crumpling, the heavy batteries are being thrown upwards, through the floor of the car, to cover
the driver in exploding lithium metal particles, and the cockpit of the car is filling up with some of the
most toxic fumes you can legally produce.
Still, the worst is yet to come.
The special alloys, which Tesla decided to make its car out of, turn out to interact with the exploding
batteries to cause an effect called alloy conflagration. The very metal of the Tesla car has now been set
on fire by the massive heat from these exploding batteries. The car has turned into the public version of
a military phosphorous bomb, one of the most hideous military weapons of all time. This burning metal
composition is worse than napalm, it can burn all the way through your face, your skull, and any bones
in your body. It is a fire that almost nothing can extinguish.
Molten, flaming metal is dripping on the driver and it is coming from every side of the car, surrounding
him in a fireball of deadly metal lava.
The car has finally come to a rest in a fireball. The driver is consumed in a nightmare of fire, dripping
molten metal and deadly toxic smoke. The pain is beyond comprehension.
He is, in the same moment, burned to death, asphyxiated and entombed in red hot liquid metal.
The resulting fire, in the Canyon, is, at first, unstoppable and threatens the entire community of homes.
The first responder’s attempts to douse the car fire, only make it worse! Water, it turns out, makes
lithium ion batteries explode all over again. The car has been filled with a type of battery that mere
bumps, and water, can cause to explode. Let me repeat this for emphasis: WATER MAKES LITHIUM
ION BATTERIES EXPLODE. Not only does water not put out lithium ion fires, IT MAKES THEM
WORSE!
Hours later, after the car has burned itself out, the first responders try to recover the body.
The problem is, they can’t recognize a body. The driver has been burned into an unrecognizable lump
of melted plastic, molten metal and human flesh.
His lovely drive down the coast ended in a horror as awful as any nightmare midnight movie.
So this use, of this battery, in this way, was decided by the very Senators and billionaire campaign
investors who owned the stock in this battery. If you wonder why a deadly choice, like this, was made
about a battery that already had all of these dangers fully documented, on federal record; the answer
can be found in one word: Corruption.
This massive oversight, putting the public at such risk, took place because a kick-back scheme was
created by Mr. Musk, and his campaign finance partners. They chose greed, over scientific facts. Those
chose mining commodity deals, and expediency, over proper engineering. They chose corruption, over
anything else.
So, when you buy a Tesla, you need to think about your own safety and the safety of the American political
system. Consider not supporting corruption and consider supporting the safety of yourself and your family.
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Eric Holder
The United States Attorney General was charged with some of the most overt cover ups of Wall Street
and Silicon Valley campaign financiers, in the scandal. Master of the cover-up and prosecution avoider:
Eric Holder - Crime Boss
Throughout the course of the THE CLEAN TECH CRASH http://thecleantechcrash.wordpress.com/),
one man was in charge of the Justice Department cover-ups; that one man had a financial connection to
every perpetrator in the crimes; that one man profited by those crimes and that one man was placed in
his job by those who created the scandal. The very man that was supposed to protect us, was running
the biggest part of the crime operation. Meet Mr. Eric Holder:
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Many of you probably do not recognize the name, Eric Holder. He's the Obama-appointed head of the
Justice - or rather, "Justice" - Department. He's the scoundrel who penned the Marc Rich pardon letter
signed by Clinton on his way out of the White House for the last time (and on his way to Denise Rich's
5th Avenue apartment for his "fee" to sign the letter). Marc Rich was the wealthy commodities trader
who didn't think he should pay taxes so he fled to Switzerland to avoid enforcement of the law. I guess
Eric Holder didn't think so either.
Most of you do know that, despite a rapid acceleration in Wall Street criminality and fraud, the Eric
Holder/Obama Justice Department has seen a precipitous drop in financial crime prosecutions
compared to the Bush years. Hard to believe this is the same presidential candidate who promised to
clean up Wall Street and Capitol Hill.
This one may well take the gold medal for examples of just how corrupt system has become:
Gangster Bankers: Too Big To Jail
I SERIOUSLY CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, ERIC HOLDER, JUST SAID THIS - UNDER
OATH IN FRONT OF CONGRESS:
"I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become
difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute...it will
have a negative impact on the national economy" - Eric Holder, Attorney General, United States of
America, 3/6/2013 LINK
Think about what Holder just said there for a moment. He just said that the banks can get away
with whatever they want because if the law is enforced upon them, it might hurt the economy.
This is truly mind-blowing. Basically, the Attorney General of the United States has said that the
big banks are completely above the law. There's nothing left for us to do. Eric Holder has
officially turned this country over to the big Wall Street banks.
This means that Obama and Eric Holder have COMPLETELY FAILED to do the job they are
elected to do. Which is to uphold the Constitution and Rule of Law.
By DAVE IN DENVER
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In the California portion of the incident, as a payola scam: state officials gave exclusive taxpayer
resources, as kick-back gifts, to a handful of cartel campaign billionaires including Elon Musk, John
Doerr, Steve Jurvetson, Steve Westly, Eric Schmidt and their associates.
The state officials, working with federal insiders, unethical and illegally, exclusively gave this
campaign funding cartel free, or low cost, real estate; NASA facilities and fuel; tax waivers; free
services; stock market valuation manipulations; tariff waivers; inspection waivers; employment fee
waivers; “cleantech” credits; banking incentives; tax write-off profits; stock valuation manipulation
coverage; falsification of reported income via non-GAAP acceptance; negotiation pressure to favor the
cartel over competitors in real estate and funding contracts, union interference support; and other
“unjust rewards” manipulated as quid-pro-quo favors between those officials and the Silicon Valley
cartel
Solyndra's FBI raid and the loss of over $500 Million dollars of taxpayer cash in the Solyndra portion
of the case, brought this matter into the public eye. It was discovered that California Senator Dianne
Feinstein had lobbied to fund Solyndra, and adjacent operation Tesla, while holding the property,
construction, stock, HR and other profit rights to those entities, in an overt and corrupt conflict of
interest.
These state officials were funded by these cartel individuals via various insider stock warrants,
expenses, favors and direct cash transfers. Those same state officials, at the same time, engaged in the
sabotage, stonewalling, and circumvention of the competitors to that cartel and denied, only the
competitors to that cartel, the same advantages. This resulting in organized crime-class manipulation of
public offices by government officials, for personal profit.
Numerous California businesses, and individuals, who competed with this cartel were attacked and
sabotaged by these government officials, based on orders from the Silicon Valley campaign financing
cartel. The FBI, and the Grand Jury, have been implored to issue indictments against these State,
Federal and corrupt campaign financing persons.
by James Corbett
Google Inc. is back in the news this week, with a fresh round of headlines about the search giant and
government censorship. Ironically–though perhaps not surprisingly for the corporate media–the stories
are not about Google’s admitted but classified relationship with government agencies like the NSA,
though. Instead, they portray the internet company as a protagonist sticking up for users’ privacy rights
against governments that are increasingly interested in blocking, scrubbing or banning links, search
results, and online videos that those governments want to suppress.
Under headlines like “Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in government censorship requests” and “Google
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results of a new Google Inc. transparency report detailing precisely how many times they have been petitioned by governments around the world to censor, block, or scrub material that they find unlawful
or objectionable.
The report outlines, for instance, that the US government made 6,192 separate requests for Google to remove information from its services in the latter half of 2011, up from 757 requests in the first half of
that year.
Other reports highlight government requests for Google to remove videos from YouTube, including the
Thai governments’ request to remove access to hundreds of videos insulting the king (which Google complied with) and Canada’s request to remove a video of a Canadian flushing his passport down the toilet, which Google did not comply with.
The report makes clear that governments are increasingly turning to Google to expunge information
that they don’t like–or at least access to that information–from the internet.
As a PR exercise, Google’s latest report is brilliantly executed and timed, deflecting some of the
negative press that the company has received in recent weeks over the ongoing Street View debacle,
even as it allows news outlets to portray the company as a valiant defender of users’ privacy against
increasingly invasive governments. Conveniently left out of the equation is the company’s past, its own
repeated violations and abuses of users’ privacy, and the unsettling statements that its executives have made about the very concept of privacy time and again over the years.
Google has always attempted to project itself as the white hat in the wild west of the modern internet.
Cloaked in its cutesy “Don’t Be Evil” corporate slogan and its user-friendly design, the company has
grown from a simple search engine into one of the largest assemblies of information in the history of
the world without the type of scrutiny that one would expect during such a transformation.
The company sprang from PageRank, the end result of a 1996 research project by Stanford University
graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin that helped users find relevant websites from search
queries by counting incoming links to a site. From this simple idea, the pair created the first incarnation
of their website on the Stanford University servers, then registered the google domain name in 1997
and incorporated in 1998.
The company had as its explicit goal, the quest to catalogue, organize, and make accessible the sum
total of human knowledge, and was aided in this ambitious quest by successive rounds of venture
capital funding. Within a decade, it had already made significant inroads on its quest for total
information awareness, having branched out into 3D satellite mapping services, launched highly
popular webmail and cloud storage services, created its own web browser, acquired YouTube, and
branched into mobile technologies with the Android smartphone.
It is not precisely clear when the company caught the attention of America’s intelligence agencies, but
high-level whistleblowers suggest it was early on in the company’s history. In a 2006 interview, ex-CIA agent Robert David Steele suggested that it was from the very outset.
“I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up,” Steele said in the
interview. “They’ve been together for quite a while.”
Steele also fingered the company’s point man in the CIA: Dr. Rick Steinheiser in the Office of
Research and Development. No further information has been revealed about the precise nature of that
relationship, but tidbits continue to emerge from time to time.
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It was widely reported in 2010, for example, that Google was in a working relationship with the US
National Security Agency. The donation-funded Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a lawsuit
requesting details of that relationship, but that suit was thrown out earlier this year. Details of the NSA/Google relationship are effectively classified.
There are also examples of the government-corporate revolving door that make observers of companies
like Monsanto and Halliburton uneasy. It was reported earlier this year, for instance, that Regina Dugan of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency would be leaving her post at the Pentagon to take
up a senior executive position at Google.
Still, despite the growing amount of information that Google has over every aspect of the daily lives of
its billion-plus unique monthly users, it has long avoided any serious scrutiny in the press. Initially
sheltered by its “underdog” status in the fight against the tech giants like Apple and Microsoft, even the
corporate press has been forced to cover the serious abuses that Google has inflicted on its users in
recent years, as those abuses become more flagrant and less easily dismissible.
To the extent that mainstream news stories about Google even address these issues, it is inevitably in a
throwaway quote toward the end of the article from someone who is dismissed as a “privacy advocate.”
With information on the habits, thoughts, contacts, conversations, physical location, and even financial
transactions of a sizable percentage of the population of the planet, however, it is not merely “privacy
advocates” who are concerned about the information that the company handles and how it shares that
data with governments. Indeed, for anyone who is familiar with the company, its background, its
shareholders, or its executives’ personal philosophies, the questions of power that are inevitably raised
by the staggering sums of data it holds on a growing percentage of the population are deeply troubling.
Like in so many other matters, however, what can never be mentioned is that the population does have
a choice over how their information is used and collected. That information comes from choosing to
use Google in the first place. There are plenty of alternative search engines that offer similar (if not
identical) results to those offered by Google while simultaneously respecting users’ privacy and
refusing to log IP addresses or other recognizable details of its users. There are alternative video sites,
alternative email providers, and alternative browsers. By concentrating so much on Google, the press
often makes it seem like there is no choice, and that we are all subject to the whims of this monolithic
corporation and the whims of its executives as they roll out privacy changes by decree and conspire
with government officials in secret.
Once again, it is up to the public to begin detaching themselves from this system and to stop feeding
the Google behemoth with their data. By refusing to participate with the monopolization of the web,
netizens can make it that much more difficult for their personal information to be bought, sold, or
passed to greedy businessman or prying governments, and that much more difficult for videos like this
one to be censored from the web.
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DAILY MAIL OUTS GOOGLE’S
ATTEMPTED POLITICAL TAKEOVER OF
WHITE HOUSE POLICIES!
DAILY MAIL OUTS GOOGLE’S ATTEMPTED POLITICAL TAKEOVER OF WHITE
HOUSE POLICIES!
- Google interaction with Obama goes “beyond sinister”!
- Google investors handed almost entire U. S. Department of Energy “CleanTech” funds while all
of their competitors were sabotaged by U. S. Department of Energy staff closely related to
Google.
- “Google has bought The White House and Controlled Obama since Day 1″ say Republicans
- Investigation demanded
- Google was given NASA Ames Moffet Field federal airbase for their private jets and free
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taxpayer jet fuel on White House orders
- No decisions were made by White House that did not benefit Google and hurt Google’s
competitors
- GOP says “Google Bought Net Neutrality Decision”
- Google staff were placed in White House at all times
- Google had more meetings at White House than all the members of Congress put together
- Google owns part of Tesla and Tesla got funded by taxpayer cash, per White House demand,
even though, at the time, Tesla was not qualified for federal hand-out
- Every CleanTech public funds “winner” was connected to Google investors and every applicant
who was denied was a competitor to a Google investor
- Google now shown to have rigged it’s search engines and network systems to sabotage
adversaries
Google and the Obama White House, sitting in a
tree? The search giant’s relationship with the
president stretches back to 2007 and is cozy as
can be
- Google employees donated $1.6 million to President Barack Obama’s two White House
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- The company told Daily Mail Online that it has spoken with the Federal Trade
Commission about antitrust concerns; it was investigated in 2011 but later let off the hook
- In the 2012 election, the company’s search algorithm customized results for Obama but
sabotaged and down-ranked all results for Republican Mitt Romney
- Google execs who have left to work in the White House include Obama’s chief technology
officer
- Hillary Clinton also poached her new tech chief from Google this week
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
When President Barack Obama dined with a dozen technology business leaders in California four years
ago, it was Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt who sat at the head of the table.
Obama sat on one side, between the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook pioneer Mark
Zuckerberg, but the place of honor was no accident.
Google executives and employees donated more than $1.6 million to Obama’s two White House
campaigns, and the online search giant parachuted top talent into both.
One result has been a coziness with the U.S. government’s executive branch that few other companies
can match – marked by access for lobbyists, mentions in nearly half of Obama’s State of the Union
addresses, and a personnel feeder trough serving the White House with new senior hires.
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BEGINNING: In 2007 Barack Obama had an on-stage cameo with Google’s then-CEO Eric Schmidt as
part of a presidential candidate series
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INFLUENCE: Schmidt (far left) shared the head of the table with the spouse of a venture capitalist
whose firm owned 20 per cent of Google, as President Obama dined with tech leaders in 2011
There have even been allegations that Google’s up-close-and-personal relationship with the West Wing
earned it a reprieve from what would have been an earth-shaking Federal Trade Commission antitrust
lawsuit.
Google has insisted it never received special treatment in that case, punctuating its denials with an
animated GIF of a laughing baby as a jab at the news outlet that leveled the charge.
White House visitor logs suggest a different kind of story for the company whose motto is ‘Don’t be
evil.’
Employees of the Silicon Valley behemoth have been in the White House more than 230 times since
Obama took office – approximately once per week. At least 190 of those meetings were with senior
officials.
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More than 60 featured Google lobbyist Johanna Shelton.
Overall, according to The Wall Street Journal, Google spent $16.8 million on lobbying last year. That’s four times the amount spent by Apple, whose market capitalization is twice as big.
It needed that muscle in 2011, after the FTC found Google allegedly manipulated search results in ways that favored its own for-profit products. Amazon and eBay were among the companies who complained
that Google was engaging in practices that violated antitrust laws.
The Journal reviewed emails showing that Google co-founder Larry Page met directly with FTC
officials in late 2012 to discuss a settlement. About the same time, White House visitor logs show,
Google chairman Eric Schmidt met with Obama senior adviser Pete Rouse.
REVOLVING DOOR? Google vice president Megan Smith left her job to become Obama’s chief
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technology officer
Lobbyist Joanna Shelton and General Counsel Kent Walker met with Jason Furman, then the newly
minted chair of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers. Furman followed up with a meeting
with FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz.
The government closed its investigation two months after Obama won re-election.
READY FOR HILLARY: Stephanie Hannon, director of product management, civic innovation and
social impact at Google, has become the Hillary Clinton campaign’s top technology guru
Google agreed to change its business practices but dodged a potential 10-figure fine – and saved the
cost of litigating a years-long case that could have resulted in breaking up the company into smaller,
more market-competitive units.
Both Google and the FTC said at the time that there was no undue influence.
Google pilloried the Journal, which first suggested a link between the company’s access and the
investigation’s outcome, saying the meetings its executives held with administration officials involved
discussions about ‘everything but’ the antitrust investigation.
In a blog post, the company cited ‘patent reform, STEM education, self-driving cars, mental health,
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advertising, Internet censorship, smart contact lenses, civic innovation, R&D, cloud computing, trade
and investment, cyber security, energy efficiency and our workplace benefit policies.’
The written defense Google published took specific aim at Journal publisher Rupert Murdoch, and included an animated GIF of a laughing baby in a high chair.
But a Google spokesperson confirmed Thursday on background that company executives has talked
with the FTC about unspecified antitrust concerns in the past. The spokesperson declined to be quoted
or named.
Schmidt is a one-man case study of the kinds of influence a multibillionare tech titan can wield in
Washington when the stars align.
LEFT-HAND MAN: Schmidt (right) got a prime seat at the table when newly minted President Obama
met with a group of CEOs in February 2009
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‘EVANGELIST': Online pioneer Vint Cerf is Google’s top ‘Internet evangelist’ and also a member
of Obama’s National Science Board
His ascent in Obama’s world began in 2007 when the future president visited Google’s California
headquarters for a one-on-one interview, staged for the benefit of the company’s employees, then 16,000 strong.
Schmidt asked him about Iran, Pakistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
‘Close down Guantanamo,’ Obama replied, ‘restore Habeas Corpus, say no to Renditions, no to
warrantless wiretaps.’
The exposure was vital: Obama ended up lapping the field in fundraising in the high-tech sector.
Obama offered Schmidt his choice of cabinet slots after the 2012 election – either Treasury or
Commerce – and was even prepared to create a new ‘Secretary of Business’ position for him.
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He declined all three but accepted a post on the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and
Technology. He continues to evangelize about both his company and the president’s agenda, including
‘net neutrality’ regulations that have big Internet service providers up in arms.
Schmidt’s roots with Obama run deep. When the future president visited his campaign headquarters on
Election Day in 2012, Schmidt was there overseeing final efforts to leverage ‘Big Data’ to nudge last-
minute voters to the polls.
He was by then already a donor to Obama’s White House bids, contributing the maximum amount
allowed by law both times.
Schmidt’s specialized software gave then-Senator Obama access to high-tech voter targeting algorithms
that Republican John McCain couldn’t match.
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HIGH LIFE: Google Ideas director Jared Cohen co-wrote a book with Princess Beatrice of York in
2013, three years after he left the Obama State Department to work for the search giant
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ELECTION KINGS: Michael Slaby (left) and Justin Vincent (right) were key architects of Obama’s
data-mining and voter-targeting software efforts, and both were emigres from Google
And Michael Slaby, the chief integration and innovation officer af Obama For America, the president’s
campaign organization came over from a job as technology strategist for TomorrowVentures –
Schmidt’s venture capital fund.
OFA also boasted former Google software engineer Justin Vincent as its senior codewriter, and former
YouTube/Google lead Web developer Angus Durocher as its lead online software engineer.
Google itself was accused publicly of favoring Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign in a more visible
way.
Customized search results would appear when users typed ‘Obama’ into a search window, but entering
‘Romney’ yielded no such help.
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Google claimed at the time that it was the result of a computer algorithm, not human intervention.
This week the president’s new initiative linking global warming with public health includes a specific
buy-in from Google.
The company, the White House says, will ‘donate ten million hours of high-performance computing’
and help scientists to create ‘early warning capabilities’ for climate change-related disasters and related
risks for diseases.
Some of that work could conceivably be performed by former White House staff who have joined
Google, just as the president counts several former Google executives among his advisers.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton this week hired away a top tech talent from Google for her
presidential campaign-in-waiting.
Stephanie Hannon, formerly Google’s top dog on product management for ‘civic engagement,’ will
help her navigate the digital waters in 2016.
Poaching seasoned Google veterans is a maneuver the Obama White House has perfected.
Megan Smith, a former vice president at the company, is now the administration’s chief technology
officer.
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Angus Durocher, a computer engineer who left Google to work for the Obama campaign, tweeted this
photo of himself and Vice President Joe Biden when he was at work in the campaign’s New Hampshire
nerve center
Google transforms streets into giant PAC MAN game
The deputy CTO position was held for Obama’s first two years by another Google emigre, Andrew
McLaughlin.
He left the administration in 2011 after a reprimand for sharing details of government policy matters
with his former coworkers via a personal email address.
Shortly after Obama moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, former Google project manager Katie
Stanton became his director of citizen participation.
Sonal Shah, a former Google global development chief, moved to Washington the same month to lead
the White House Office of Social Innovation.
And Vint Cerf, a widely acknowledged ‘father of the Internet,’ serves on Obama’s National Science
Board.
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Cerf has worked for Google since 2005 as a vice president and its ‘chief Internet evangelist.’
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Former Google Senior Staff Claim Google is a “dangerous cult
operation”, “10 times more powerful than Scientology ever will
– Eric Schmidt a constant voice in Obama’s ear: A “Dangerous Influence?”,
say ex-secret service – Do “Madmen” run Google with a secret “global domination plan” for their
personal interests? – Practicing bizarre sex hook-ups and the end of…
Lifting the Covers on “Obamoogle”.
Obama/Google connection takes sinister turn
- Most of the beneficiaries of the Obama’s Afghan war were Google investors –
Almost every “cleantech green cash” recipient was a Google investor – The White House gave Google
all of NASA’s best NASA airbase (Moffet Field) and free…
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WORLD WAR G !!! The Cost To American’s of
- Anonymous focusing resources on Google – International media groups
publishing expose reveals on the real Google – Journalists ramp up investigations on Google and it’s
investors – Privacy groups targeting out-reach to every Google advertiser to, first, request an…
International Media Organizations Declare
WAR ON GOOGLE: “A criminally corrupt
manipulation monopoly!” “Shut Google Down!”
HOW GOOGLE BOUGHT THE WHITE HOUSE! Eric Schmidt’s Government
Coup “SHUT-DOWN GOOGLE!” SAY MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS AND PRIVACY GROUPS! –
Over one thousand policy decisions designed to benefit Google – Electric car and battery policy made
to provide TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS…
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PROVIDER: GOOGLE CAUGHT SELLING
- Google charged as “Secret Weapon” for Obama White House – FTC
documents prove that Google manipulates it’s search engine to attack people – FTC Investigation and
Monopoly lawsuit cut-off by Democrats in order to prevent Google connections to White…
“Net Neutrality” actually means: Who do you
want spying on you more? Google or Comcast!
“Net Neutrality” actually means: Who do you want spying on you more?
Google or Comcast! Pick! – It is really about Silicon Valley Campaign Backers (DNC) Vs. East Coast
Telcos (GOP). ie: DNC Vs. GOP – Consumer gets no…
Every part of your life that touches a Google
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product or service is sent to private eye’s, spies
Every part of your life that touches a Google product or service is sent to
private eye’s, spies and salesmen. Do we rejoice the launch of the Google data-havesting drones? No!
Free drone internet (You only have to give us…
Assange: Google should be of concern to people
all over the world ! GOOGLE EXPOSED!
- Top whistle-blowers suggest the public “Give Google The NFL Treatment”.
“Abuse of our privacy as bad as NFL Abuse of our bodies” – Multiple privacy, data abuse, defamation
lawsuits filed against Google.. and now by WHOLE NATIONS! – Charges…
GOOGLE INVENTS NEW WAY TO ABUSE
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Just Watch: Some say Eric Schmidt’s dream is to build a robot sex doll that
won’t fall over when you kick it, or when you are doing it doggy style. His dream seems to have come
true, with a…
MICROCHIPS” IN ALL AMERICANS WILL
- Expansion of War Powers requested to stop Middle-East from throwing Oil
Companies out of Middle East. – Google says it is NOT a front for In-Q-Tel. – Feds assure that this
time around, all money will be wisely spent.…
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Is privacy rape the same as anal, oral, mental or vaginal rape? While Google is
oblivious to monopoly laws, ethical laws, Constitutional laws and oversight by anybody, is Google
immune from rape laws in every state, in every country? In…
Is Google actually a “Criminally Insidious”
organization created to promote the personal
agenda’s of insane billionaires?
- MANY BELIEVE THAT GOOGLE IS ACTUALLY THE UMBRELLA
CORPORATION OK. Let’s examine this claim: We can all work together to break it down. First, is
Google an organization?: Yes Would it’s activities be interpreted, via detailed analysis, as “criminally…
Google caught abusing musicians rights
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‘YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google… Cellist Zoë
Keating strikes back with YouTube transcript Andrew Orlowski IN THE REGISTER Andrew
Orlowski ‘YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google… Analysis It’s not often a
$450bn multinational…
Is GOOGLE The Most Sinister Company On
Earth? Harvesting Children for Fun And Profit!
A few years ago, the school district in San Leandro, California began receiving
visits from sales people. They had constant smiles, expensive, yet casual, suits and an astounding pitch:
“We will give your children the computers and software they need…
Google Kickbacks Google investors paid for the national election expenses and
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outside services and manipulated Google searches so they got: patent laws changed that benefit them,
business tax laws changed that benefit them, free jet gas and free money for…
Snowden’s lawyer reveals Apple and Google
Android devices have secret spy windows built
into them. Consumers constantly watched and
What happens to you when you aren’t looking? A day in your life of getting
data harvesting: In an average day a large number of strange men will look at you, look at what you
say, what you do, where…
Reporters Alliance Charges Google With
Crimes. Demands Special Prosecutor
“GOOGLE IS A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION”- Study Results by
Investigative Reporters Group From The Report By The Alliance of Investigative Reporters:
“Summary- Google is a criminal organization operating in felony violation of numerous City, State,
Federal and Constitutional laws. They are…
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Snowden, Assange and Comcast want you to
know that Google and Facebook ARE the CIA!
- COMCAST VERY HAPPY TO LET YOU KNOW THAT GOOGLE IS A
SHAM – ASSANGE ‘I Told you so’ – Snowden confirms Google Bankrolled By The CIA | Conscious
Google, Facebook, eBay, PayPaL – Evidence is mounting that these…
Many New Devices Hit Market; designed to
Shut Google Down! Buy a gadget to Un-Google
- Maker Faire people to publish specs and step-by-step for DIY version –
Jammers and blockers already available on E-BAY – More government legal actions, from more
countries, underway against Google, for data-abuse, spying, privacy harvesting; than any other
Company…
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- Is anyone insane enough to still use Facebook or Google? – How to stage
interventions for the Google/Book addicted – Subliminal “mood manipulation” and “context
manipulation” extensively used without your knowledge Tech Overload Facebook Is Not Watching You
by…
USA TODAY exposes Google Conspiracy
Thomas R. Burke and Jonathan Segal Once the fact was out, the internet giant
tried to get a judge to help them hide it again. (Photo: Jefferson Graham, USAT) Back in February, in a
San Jose courtroom, a bombshell was…
Humanoid Google Sex Robots Revealed?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2r-sVyR7mk No need for condoms
again. Germ-Free sex robots. Google Takes over NASA Ames Blimp Hanger for Robot “Experiments”.
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots – NYTimes.com Google executives said the company would
honor existing military contracts, ……
“Christmas Gift!” Threats! Sony, Facebook,
Google exposed manipulating White House
policy! “I’m happy to lie” says Amy
- Reporters are slammed with so much data they have resorted to using NSA-
like keyword and phrase search analyzers. The Verge, Gawker, Daily Beast, Re-code, Hollywood
Reporter, WSJ and the rest, have gotten the most shocking results from these keyword…
Does Google use it’s crunchy-granola employee
programs as a facade to cover it’s executives
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- Did the 60 Minutes episode on Google “mindfulness” classes expose the
epitome of young employee manipulation? Google “thought leader” shown on 60 Minutes wearing
duplicate of Dr. Evil Nehru outfit. – Is the hippie Google sub-culture designed to create…
Google Hooker-Gate Back In News! Sex Addicts
at Google Out-Number Any Other Silicon Valley
- Google’s investors face sexual exploitation lawsuit – Hooker charged with
killing senior Google Executive Sex Addict – Type “Eric Schmidt Sex Penthouse” in any search
engine, except Google, and read the results.. Schmidt charged with “sex addiction” and “Open…
New Google Glass Pandemic: Undetectable
New Google Glass Pandemic: Undetectable Upskirt Photos and Videos- Yikes!
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Freaks with Google Glass are wandering around high traffic downtown areas, public transit and,
particularly, at lunch times and commute hours, holding their Google Glass at their sides, arms
length…
Barack O’Google: How Google and It’s
Investors Took Over The White House!
- White House Gives away part of NASA to Google and It’s partners: Both
Ames NASA Center and Lucrative NASA contracts, after laying off NASA staff already working on
same things. – All Google internet assets rigged to up-rank Obama…
Google Bought Washington But they didn’t Buy
Europe: “BREAK UP GOOGLE” Plan gets hot!
- Google viewed as “sinister Empire” monopoly – Google “spying on
everything” not welcomed by Europeans You are being spied on by every service Google deploys…
Members of the European Parliament are readying a motion calling for the break-up of…
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Google charged with “steering” Tesla articles to
Per this link on Muckety: http://news.muckety.com/2013/05/16/tesla-
announces-450m-stock-sale/42801#comment-5034721 The researched chart by Muckety reveals the
secret connections to the control, and manipulation, of consumer perceptions, federal public policy and
law-making. If proven, this subjects both Tesla and Google to SEC fraud charges.…
How a Secret GOP Technical Team Destroyed
Google’s Democrat election manipulation
algorithm and took the Senate back on Election
- Google backers funded Obama campaign in exchange for “favors”. – Google
backers had Google techs rig Google so it hurt the GOP and helped the DNC in first Obama election. –
GOP went to Silicon Valley and hired some…
Are spy “back-doors” and “hacker picks”
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hidden deep within Google’s Android OS?
– Is “Google Not what it seems” as Julian Assange claims? – Is anything with
the Google Android Operating System evil? – Is this just a tactic by Microsoft to grab market-share? –
If Andoid is “Open Source”, why…
GOOGLE TO GET SUED FOR $100M+ FOR
CONSCIOUSLY MANIPULATING THEIR
SEARCH ENGINE TO PROFIT OFF THE
PAIN OF OTHERS! MULTIPLE LAWSUITS
- “Digital gang-rape” of Actors with full awareness by Google owners and
without Actor’s consent – A large team of private and federal investigators have been working on the
testing and documentation of Google’s ability to control and document images…
What Percentage of The White House Does
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Google’s Eric Schmidt Control?
- Internet conspiracy theorists wax on, and on, over which is Anti-Christ:
Obama or Schmidt? – Eric Schmidt’s Silicon Valley Dark Money PAC and stealth lobbyist cartel =
largest pot of influence cash ever turned on Washington – Schmidt…
DC-XKEY-SCORE: The Ultimate Anti-
Now YOU have the same resources as the CIA, FBI, NSA and Senate
Investigators to help you terminate corruption. You have a bad, bad Senator, a corrupt mayor or a dirty
Agency administrator. You, your community, your neighbors, your co-employees,…
How Spy Agencies Destroy Members of The
Public That Politicians Put Hits On!
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Did you piss off a corrupt Senator, The President’s press secretary or the head of
a federal agency by speaking out or reporting corruption? Then you get a “hit job” Got some dating site
profiles? Suddenly very pretty girls will…
HOW ERIC SCHMIDT TRIES TO USE GOOGLE TO TAKE OVER THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT – Julian Assange warns – Google pays more cash to politicians than any other
company – Uses secretive “NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION” to manipulate policy – Manipulates
search…
BACK-UP INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTS- ium ion 12,500+ pages of
investigative proof of corruption: December 9, 2013 by Dr. Nora Bergstrom Earlier this month, actor
Paul Walker tragically passed away when his 2005 Porsche Carrera GT supercar wrecked and caught
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on…
Delusional, Insane, Silicon Valley Billionaires
decide to become immortal. Busted By
- What do you do once you have taken over the White House, built huge “Sex
Islands” and “Sex Penthouses (Epstein, Schmidt), built tech companies to spy on every American, and
decided that you know what is best for the…
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Did Venture Capital groups run a cartel to try to control the energy and new auto industry?
Why are almost all of the venture capitalist males from one of a handful of schools who all attended the
same fraternities and were in the same clubs and who predominantly only fund others from that group,
or companies with others in controlling positions, in those companies?
The VC’s have all overtly aligned with the following organizations: ACA, WBAA, NASVF, NACO,
beAngels, Angel Associated, HBAN and the Bilderberg protocols. They have meetings where they agree
on what groups of company types to fund and which disruptive technologies to agree, together, to shun,
in order to protect their current investments. Isn’t that a monopolistic practice? Shouldn’t the justice
department be suing and regulating them?
You can read about this story:
“Bullivant, House & Bailey law firm represented high profile investors from around the U.S. and
Canada against a well-known venture capitalist and a former Big 5 accounting firm. Claims of
conversion, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract were brought against the venture capitalist.
Claims of fraud, accounting malpractice, breach of contract, conspiracy, and aiding and abetting were
brought against the accounting firm. The jury awarded more than $60 million in compensatory and
punitive damages in favor of our clients. The case showed that VC’s operate on an organized crime
modus operando.”
In http://www.growvc.com/blog/2010/09/venture-capital-conspiracy-theory-in-the-free-world/
You can also read about this story which exposes Silicon Valley VC collusion:
“Wow! Really? No Way! Wow!….this was my reaction to the ‘revelation’ of a post by Michael
Arrington’s “So a Blogger Walks Into A Bar… ”
This true account of what happens when Tech Crunch’s Mike Arrington walks into a Silicon Valley bar
has all the trappings of a gangster movie. For starters, the bar, a group of powerful early stage
investors meeting, colluding, plotting against any competition, an agenda on how to control the
industry and monopolize and this is NOT a movie! Here is an extract of Mike’s account:
I’ve never seen a more guilty looking group of people. But that alone isn’t that big of a deal. Lively
conversations often die quickly when I arrive, and I’ve learned not to take it personally. But I did sniff
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around a little afterwards, and have spoken to three people who were at that meeting. And that’s where
things got interesting.
This group of investors, which together account for nearly 100% of early stage startup deals in Silicon
Valley, have been meeting regularly to compare notes. Early on it was mostly to complain about a
variety of things. But the conversation has evolved to the point where these super angels are actually
colluding (and I don’t use that word lightly) to solve a number of problems, say multiple sources who
are part of the group and were at the dinner.
Is there room for price fixing, total control and a greed based structure in the free market world? Is this
really best for startups? For entrepreneurs? For Silicon Valley which is a renowned culture known for
promoting innovation and talent in startups?
This entire scenario is wrong on so many different levels but knowing this is what can happen within
closed doors here are some changes critical to a culture which reflects the values of a entrepreneurial
community and a better future for startups:
1. We need transparency. This is very evident from what we’ve just witnessed.
2. Do things in the open and on the record. Why can’t investors, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders
work in a transparent environment online where there is automatic accountability and governance
through open interactions and a community that can see what’s going on?
3. The system has to benefit all parties involved. Entrepreneurs, investors and others. It needs to be fair
and favor innovation. Bring up the best. Mystique, lack of transparency, complex rules are not benefit
of anything but greed
4. There is no room for protectionism in a free market. We don’t need early stage capital markets to be
exclusive to a select few who control everything. We need to make it more inclusive and involve as
many as possible. The more support, the more investors, more and better companies will be born.
“ At Bucks Restaurant in Woodside, California every morning a group of venture capitalists meet for
breakfast strategy sessions. Alas, with the age of the iphone, many of those meetings have been
recorded by equally hungry entrepreneurs and now posted on YouTube. Before some of them were
removed, it was stunning to see the audacious and mercenary mindsets of these people in their
search-and-destroy mentality regarding competing interests…”
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“The now famous Kleiner Perkins sex abuse law suit has revealed some juicy inside information
about the reduction of women and competitors in the industry to “targets and termination goals”…
There are hundreds of tales like this that can be easily researched. So the question is: Was part of
the DOE energy funding failure because a group of venture capitalists, including Goldman Sachs,
rigged the system? Did these VC’s contribute campaign finances in exchange for control of certain
industries? Who met with these VC’s during the staging period, while they still worked for the
government, that then left well paying government jobs to go work in the private sector?
A Dear John Letter – Silicon Valley Version:
Dear John:
Mr. Doer, Federal law enforcement agents, U.S. Senators, intelligence agency officers, well known
journalists, private investigators, your ex-employees, lawyers and others tell us that you:
- Ripped-off many people’s intellectual property by having your people ask to look at
entrepreneur’s technologies, under the guise of “considering an investment”, when all you
wanted to do was spy out things you could steal.
- You then rolled out 100% copies of entrepreneur’s technologies under, other names, funded by
your operation.
- YOU organized the Silicon Valley “No-Poaching Conspiracy” and screwed over quite a large
number of workers.
- You put plants into entrepreneurs companies. These were “moles” who actually worked for
you, and you sent them in to damage and disrupt many small start-up companies because their
technology was beating your competing copycat attempts.
- You ran a mining commodity scam, with your Russian “business partners” and some crooked
senators, to try to take over the lithium and silicon mineral markets working with Elon Musk
and the Solyndra crowd.
- When you got caught doing that, you put a hit job on the people you didn’t like, using the
contract character assassination groups: “Media Matters”, “Think Progress”, New America
Foundation, “In-Q-Tel”, “Gawker Media” and people like John Podesta, Lois Lerner and
Sidney Blumenthal.
- Your ex partners have “Nazi” issues, tax evasion issues, a taking-over-California-beaches issue,
a felony issue... and well, let’s just say, you really hang around with a lot of Dicks!
- You pretty much destroyed Silicon Valley and turned it into a misogynistic, frat-boy club,
abusing, black-hating nightmare of a place.
- You caused events, which caused the demise of Gary D. Conley, and other people
- You traded “CleanTech” cash for campaign finance conduit schemes and database/search
engine rigging in order to manipulate elections using your company holding: Google.
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- You financed and promoted Steven Chu and Eric Holder into office in order to effect your
“CleanTech Kick-Back Scheme”.
We see even more about you that is pretty bad, and pretty well documented in the media. You sound
like a pretty twisted guy with some deeply disturbed power-trip motivations.
So here’s the deal. Mobster-like people should, by law, be shut down and run out of town. With the
new transparent, open, world that we live in, that now seems pretty do-able.
Let’s see if everybody on the internet, without breaking a single law, can track down every one of your
assets, false fronts, off-shore tax havens, illicit deals, political bribes, PAC’s, homes, lovers, videos,
victims, lies, public policy manipulations, Russian “pals”, backdoor deals, and every portfolio asset you
have on Earth. Let’s see how the shoe fits on the other foot.
Let’s see if the world can tweet all that at hashtag #Johnsxbadguy
Let’s see if they can torrent all of it with keyword: johnsxbadguy-tor
Let’s see if anybody comes up to you, at your next speaking engagement, or restaurant visit, and arrests
you in a citizen’s arrest.
Let’s see if the class-action that led to the anti-poaching lawsuit, against your gang, can be re-invoked
as a RICO Racketeering lawsuit against your whole company.
The international law enforcement crowd is pretty busy with all of the ruckus in the Middle East. The
citizens of the world will now help those beleaguered law enforcement people, by gathering some files
on you. After all, your Guistra-esque mining manipulations in Afghanistan, Bolivia and other regions
caused some of the very instability, and corruption, that law enforcement now has to deal with.
Well John, this has been fun.
See you in Hell.
Love,
The World Outside of Your Douchebag Glass Bubble
## Can Kleiner Perkins and Goldman Sachs Rig Stock Market Prices Via Direct Electronic Back Door
Links to Stock Market Servers? YES! ##
- So why isn't anybody doing anything about it?
- Are the White House and the Fed protecting the campaign backing Musk/Doerr companies in the
stock market, no matter how bad they are actually doing?
- The Book, and coming film: "FLASH BOYS" details this trick
- Small traders already being indicted for Flash Boy tricks but big boys ignored because they are
campaign backers
- Direct evidence of rigging of Tesla Motors stock market ticker data exposed
- Doesn't allowing this to continue destroy the value and credibility of the NYSE?
- Should campaign backers get to break the system just because they want to?
One inventor/CEO crossed John Doerr, and Kleiner Perkins, and got a character assassination hatchet
job article put out on him. The victims name was Mike Chieky.
"Killing Mike Chieky: Silicon Valley Vc s
want total control of G
reen Energy ,
but only their
version, so they ki
ll off the outsiders!
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The Verge published an article, today, by a writer who, his targets say, is a
hired character killer .
The article covers a prolific inventor who is painted as a c
riminal be
cause he has invented t
oo
many things . T
he writer clearly set out to do a malicious hatchet job on the guy, including fake post-
story blog comments by the same attackers. Let s
look at both sides of the case.
The price of being a creator is high, but the price of conflicting with the Silicon Valley VC s
is PR
death.. or, in the case of Gary Connely, Real death (SEE THIS LINK:
https://somosnark.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/tesla-caught-in-lies/)! (An investigation charges Silicon
Valley VC s
with causing, or ordering, his death. The story is almost the same as Chieky except
Connely ended up with a bullet in his head)
Chieky built and sold a number of things for a few decades; like Edison, Tesla, Marconi, and tens of
thousands of other inventors. As with all people gifted with the use of more brain than the rest of us, he
was abrupt and had poor social skills, like Facebook s
Mark Zuckerberg, featured in films as a
hopeless socio-pariah. The writer had no ability to comprehend the way that Chieky communicates and
paints him from an acrimonious perspective without giving Chieky any response outlet or counter-point
within the story. The writer clearly didn t
want to hear feedback from Chieky, or his partners, he
wanted to ki
ll .
Giving the writer the benefit of the doubt: So what if Chieky was a dick in his personality style. Steve
Jobs is famous for being a dick. Half of the Google execs are screwing their staff and cheating on their
wives in glorious ValleyWag technicolor dick-ness. Larry Ellison is glorified for Dick-hood. Being A
DICK IN SILICON VALLEY seems to be the main ingredient to success. So why destroy Chieky for
using short sentences and speaking efficiently without platitude embellishment, as autistics do? There
are a vast number of pictures of Steve Jobs with an equally bad haircut and eye-glass selection as
Chieky. Did Jobs deserve to die for that? Does Chieky?
Chieky is autistic, according to his ex employees. Should Ben Popper be destroying the lives of war
veterans that have no legs? Should Ben Popper be destroying the life of Mark Zuckerberg because he
has Aspergers Syndrome? Do only those in the Frat boy club get a pass on not treating their disability
as a sin? What publisher let s
his staff write and deliver stories that tell disabled American s
that
they will never be looked at as actually enabled in special ways?
Chieky spent his life creating and building things to improve the lives of American s
, and people
around the world, and this is how we pay him back? All of his inventions are for the greater good. One
article like this ruins one s
life forever. Did Chieky actually deserve it? Where is the counterpoint. If
Chieky actually is e
vil as the article says, then let s
string him up. But if the author is evil, then
re-size the noose. Where is the counterpoint from Chieky and his representatives to the charges in the
article?
Chieky seems to have made the mistake of crossing the path of these G
REEN ENERGY VC guys
(SEE THIS LINK: https://somosnark.wordpress.com/crime-files-cargate/the-1-illuminati-lithium-gate-
vcs-rigging-washington-dc-for-profit/)! and accidentally competing with these particular VC s
grand
schemes for controlling c
lean energy resources . D
o Draper, Khosla, Perkins, Doerr and the rest,
get to destroy those that are not in t
he frat boy club with impunity?
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Chieky is terrifying to the Silicon Valley VC s
because he has 1.) a proven history of inventing things
that obsolete their older investments, 2.) a proven history of getting funded and 3.) a proven history of
launching products. The three skills that no Stanford frat boy VC can stand be
cause they can t
do
it. The VC s
are little money automatons and not c
reators . T
he VC s
can only grub up cash
from pension funds and banking groups as they follow each other like sheep.
So the article uses these classic takedown hi
t t
echniques (HERE:
https://somosnark.wordpress.com/topic-1-doetarp-manipulations/how-washington-has-people-it-
doesnt-like-killed/ )
Alas, The Verge published the article in all countries and thus gives Chieky the right to file defamation
lawsuits overseas, where there are no SLAPP laws protecting tabloids. Cyber bully laws can now be
enforced in a large number of states and countries. Writer Popper may have also violated ADA laws.
Let s
see how the story evolves
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Senator Dianne Feinstein and the California Corruption Connection
When U. S. Senators Harry Reid and Dianne Feinstein realized they could each make billions of
dollars, personally, via their family stock holdings and campaign funds, they didn't waste a minute
stabbing their own constituents in the back to get at that cash.
California and Nevada Green Car Companies, Solar Companies, Energy Technology Companies,
Green Builders and Transit Companies were hacked off at the knees because they competed with the
stock assets that Reid and Feinstein had acquired in their kick-back deals.
These other applicants were all "GREEN COMPANIES": supposedly the Democrat's favorite things. It
doesn't matter, though, how "green" your company was, if it was in the path for the "green cash" from
Tesla or Solyndra. Two of the favored companies who paid the kick-backs to federal officials.
Is the argument from Feinstein's office that: "there just wasn't enough money left at the Department of
Energy" true? No, it is a 100% out-right lie. The Federal GAO, the people that watch for corruption,
state that there has always been, and still is, billions, and billions and billions of dollars, set aside
EXCLUSIVELY for these companies, that was never used. In Fact, there was always more than
enough money to fund every single applicant.
Staff from ZAP Motors, Redwood Solar, Aptera and dozens of other companies have specifically stated
that Harry Reid, Dianne Feinstein and their Cheif's of Staff, personally wrote to them, spoke with them
and lied to them.
Under Eric Holder, (who is Feinstein's, Reid' and Steven Chu's buddy) refused to take any action. Now
it is Lynch's turn.
Harry Reid sabotaged the applicants for Department of Energy Funds if they competed with Kleiner
Perkins companies who were funding the campaigns of Reid and Feinstein through PAC's and family
trusts.
Further, Recent disclosures, such as the following, shed disturbing light on the depths of this criminal;
behavior:
"Did the LA TIMES Article on Elon Musk Kick-Backs actually disclose an organized crime operation
involving some very famous people?
The LA TIMES just ran an article which exposes Elon Musk's funding system, based on Government
hand-outs. Musk rushed to hold a press conference to claim the amount of taxpayer cash, he has
received, was "just a pittance”. Few, though, find over FIVE BILLION DOLLARS of tax waivers,
credits, employment freebies, buildings, exclusive contracts, and other taxpayer provided goodies, to be
"a pittance" in these tough times.
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While it is true that Musk has now received more taxpayer hand-outs, than any individual in American
history, one could argue that he is just a lucky business man.
But, just for the purpose of theoretical discussion, what if some of the darker theories about Musk's
coincidental windfalls have some merit?
Let's jump right to the most sinister interpretation of things.
One of the whispered rumours, on the web holds that in 2007, right when Musk's silent partners, Eric
Schmidt and John Doerr started, practically, living at the White House in a lobbying frenzy, the
Democrats finally acknowledged that they really were the party of the poor, because they were flat
broke. So some of them came up with the idea of creating a Department of Energy fund called the
A
TVM Fund , l
oading it up with $25 Billion kick-back dollars of taxpayer cash, awarding it only
to Schmidt/Doerr/Musk related companies, and shutting out all of their competitors.
Indeed, history shows that the fund actually was created. It really got $25 Billion, in a unique legal
manner, which made the $25 Billion irrevocable. Schmidt/Doerr/Musk's buddy: Steven Chu, was put in
charge of it. He hired their friends to staff his office.
See where this is going?
So, per this theory, Musk is actually a kick-back conduit, protected by the White House, to spiff the
DNC campaign funds...according to this theory. Which is just a theory. It couldn't really happen, right?
The White House wouldn t
prop up a guy just to keep him quiet and keep kick-back cash flowing..
right?
So this theory is kind of ironic because, in an amazing coincidence, everything that Musk get's
involved in, is exactly stuff that the White House is promoting.
In an even more bizarre coincidence, to pull a scam like this off, the Schmidt/Doerr/Musk Cartel would
need the help of U.S. Senators Reid and Feinstein, the most beloved American politicians in history.
This whole theory must have come out of the fact that Reid and Feinstein made billions of dollars off
of Schmidt/Doerr/Musk Cartel stock investments, "Flash Boy" stock manipulations, and campaign
contributions, but, that was, of course just another funny coincidence. They even ran, and built, some of
the properties that these Department of Energy “winners” companies sat upon. But, again, coincidence!
The main reason one might cast doubt on this theory is that there are so many hard facts to prove it, that
it is just too good to be true, right?
All of the profitable chemicals that Tesla and Solyndra were going to buy and sell in volume were
controlled by the investors in Kliener Perkins and commodity-managed by their partners: Goldman
Sachs.
Musk's companies have poor business volume, but show a profit whenever there is bad news thanks to
Kleiner rushing out to “Flash Boy” purchase Tesla stock, with an automated stock buying system, in
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order to pump the stock. Federal, and private investigator, records show that this actually happened. It
has also been proven that only Google, Reddit and the other Kleiner-controlled web-news-media mask
all negative Musk/Tesla news in perfect synchronization with the stock pumps, when no other
publications on the planet do. Again, these are just coincidences. If people were consciously doing
those kinds of things it would be mobster-ism on a Godfather-class scale.
Originators of the scam, from the White House side, were Emanual, Plouffe, Axelrod, Rattner and
Gibbs. Emanual, Plouffe, Axelrod, Rattner and Gibbs suddenly quit the White House, at the peak of
their career, for reasons that don't make sense. The fact that one of them was indicted for stock market
fraud only goes to strengthen comcerns.
So, even if this really had happened, the brave and fearless protector of ethics and morality: Mr. Eric
Holder, would have cracked right down on his friends here w
ho he knew personally, and had dinner
with, and had the same lawyers with oh,..
well.. but anyway. Eric would have jumped on them, right?
The White House wouldn t
order the Justice Department and the FBI to ignore Elon Musk, John
Doerr and the Silicon Valley Cartel as a kick-back protection order, now would they?
Mobsters kill people. Rajeev Motwani, David Bird, Gary D. Conley, 3 Tesla engineers and a large
bunch of others did, certainly, die under mysterious circumstances, and they were all people that this
cartel would want dead, but to say that these billionaires are off murdering their adversaries using
mysterious CIA stealth murder tricks is overly intriguing.
Of course, as we all now know, every single one of those companies in the ATVM Fund scam grabbed
the cash, paid their CEO and Goldman Sachs insiders off-the-top, and immediately went bankrupt in
the largest government-funded sequential business-failure suite in history. While some argue that a
secret GOP Task Force discovered the plot and forced all of the Kleiner Cartel DOE W
inners t
o
collapse, in punishment, this is probably another coincidence."
Are these coincidences or intentionally ignored facts? Is The White House ordering law enforcement to
ignore this issue because they know that a number of their top former senior staff are required to be
arrested?
Here is the main argument against this theory, Mobsters are big greasy looking guys with bulbous
broken noses and slicked back pompadours. These Musk and Kleiner people wear khaki s
and black
turtlenecks. KHAKI'S for god-damn sakes!!
Is Dianne Feinstein a Crook? Did she, and her family, engage in criminal corruption and the
"rectal hydration" of American taxpayers?
You never heard so much about "rectal hydration", "anal pumping" and "deep injection butt tubes" until
Dianne Feinstein showed up, but did she apply the political equivalent of these techniques to the
American taxpayer? Did she dive deep into the dark crevasses of political corruption and gouge out
huge globs of special interest, kickback and insider trading cash in a very unethical and illegal manner?
Let's take a look. What are the facts and what do they show?
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Given any other American citizens, if you ask the question, "What are the odds that any person would
have this many conflicts of interest?"
The answer would come back: "It is nearly impossible for these conflicts of interest to have existed
unless their was an organized criminal operation underway designed to deceive the taxpayers!"
** Herb Newman is her relative in Sausalito California at Newman Search. He ran hiring for Solyndra,
Tesla and other Feinstein schemes. He runs Chinese insider deals with Feinstein's husband. He has
been working with China (you know, the one's hacking every computer in America) since 1972 with
the sole purpose of hanging out with the People s
Republic of China. This was shortly after
completing his degree in Political Science and International Relations at UC Davis and completing two
years towards an MBA at Golden Gate University. In 1973 Mr. Newman arrived in Canton at the
invitation of the Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade. (CCPIT). He and his
company MVTC was one of fifty businesses to be invited to the Canton Trade Fair held in Kwangchow
China. He and his associate Darryl Schoon, are on travel watch-lists. His participation in Tesla,
Solyndra and Feinstein related public policy scams is a complete conflict-of-interest.
Her family owned the land, construction company, leases, contracts, insiders stocks and liaisons for
these operations.
The California Kick-Back Payola Team
California State Controller Bill Lockyer, and a large number of State Tax Officials, gave The Silicon
Valley Cartel HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of exclusive kick-backs and payola routed
through Side-by-Side neighbors and hard-wired insiders: Tesla and Solyndra. All of their competitors
were denied the same benefits and blockaded from accessing the same resources, in order to
financially, and criminally, protect the Cartel and their stock market holdings, which many State
officials also held stock in. Dianne Feinstein's family holdings also included the same stock gifts from
the Cartel, as payola.
Additionally, stock
exchanges, stock
market valuation
bumps, free real estate,
cheap real estate,
aircraft resources, tax
credits, write-offs, and
other favors were
provided by State
officers exclusively to
Tesla a Solyndra while
being denied, or
blockaded from their
competitors.
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The Players: Collateral Damage
There are too many, unexpectedly, dead innocent victims associated with this scandal. Too many lives
were destroyed by digital character assassination, corporate sabotage and economic attacks.
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Stone-walled, lied to, sabotaged and blockaded because they had a product that the Cartel could not
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A case study in pay-to-play cronyism
By Dan Epstein
News flash: Government subsidies and special-interest favors go hand in hand.
The latest example comes from a federal green-energy loan program. Last month, the DC District
Court ruled
that Cause of Action, where I am executive director, can proceed with a lawsuitagainst the Department of Energy. We’re suing the federal government for the blatant political favoritism in its $25
billion “Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program.”
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In principle, this taxpayer-funded program was supposed to support the manufacture of energy-efficient
cars. In practice, it rewarded a select few well-connected companies.
Since the program was created in 2008, numerous businesses have applied for its taxpayer-backed financial
support. Yet only a small number were approved. Among the lucky few were two electric car
manufacturers: Teslaand Fisker.
Both companies’ political connections run deep, especially Tesla’s. The company’s founder, Elon Musk,
was a max donor for President Obama. One of its board members, Steven Westly, was appointed to a Department of Energy advisory board. And another Obama bundler, Tesla investor and adviser Steven Spinner, secured employment in the department’s Loan Program Office—the very office that gave the company a taxpayer-backed loan.
Fisker also has friends in high places. The company, which has since gone bankrupt, was backed by a San Francisco venture capital firm whose senior partners donated millions to the 2008 Obama campaign and other Democrat causes. One partner, John Doerr, parlayed his support into a seat on the President’s Council of Jobs and Competitiveness.
Such connections can allow a company to exert political pressure to enrich itself. Unsurprisingly,
Department of Energy emails show that such pressure was rampant in its loan programs.
There’s no shortage of examples. The department’s leaders—including then-Secretary of Energy Steven
Chu—repeatedly promised to deliver results to politicians like Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Sen. Harry
Reid (D-Nev.). One emails reads, “DOE has made a political commitment” to approve a company’s loan.
Another says the “pressure is on real heavy” from none other than Vice President Joe Biden. And
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still another shows an employee asking, “what’s another billion anyhow?”
Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration gave Tesla and Fisker preferential treatment, and then some.
The Department of Energy revised its review process in order finish the companies’ applications faster. The
government gave them extraordinary access to its staff and facilities—even to the point of having government employees personally walk them through the loan application and approval process. The
department ignored its own lending rules in order to approve the companies’ loans. And it renegotiated the
terms of some loans after the companies could not keep their original commitments or were experiencing financial difficulties. Tellingly, Fisker has since gone out of business, despite receiving over a billion dollars
in loans through this federal program.
Now contrast this preferential treatment with what happened to XP Vehicles and Limnia, neither of which
have the same political connections. (My organization is suing the Department of Energy on their behalf).
The two companies partnered to manufacture an energy-efficient sport utility vehicle that would have
competed with Tesla and Fisker’s cars. They applied for loans in 2008 and 2009 under the same loan
program.
The department refused them both—and it used bogus reasons to do so.
For starters, the department made claims that were laughably false. To take one example: It rejected XPV’s
application because its vehicle was powered by hydrogen. It was an electric SUV. It also raised objections that it didn’t raise with other companies whose applications were approved. For instance: The
bureaucracy criticized the proposed all-electric vehicle for not using a specific type of gasoline. Yet Tesla and Fisker received the loans despite producing similar all-electric cars.
In light of these obvious problems and hypocrisy, both companies presented the Department of Energy with
detailed rebuttals. Yet the government failed to respond. To this day, both XPV and Limnia are awaiting a
satisfactory reply. In the meantime, XPV has gone out of business, unable to compete against its politically connected—and subsidized—rivals.
This casts the Department of Energy’s loan program in a new light. It was sold to the American public as a
means of promoting energy-efficient vehicles. Instead, it was used to benefit a select few well-connected
companies. It was a blatant crony handout, paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.
Sadly, similar examples are widespread in Washington. That’s no surprise considering the feds
spend roughly $100 billion a year in taxpayer-funded handouts to businesses. This breeds the sort of government-business collusion Americans think is rampant in Washington. In fact, o ver t wo-thirds of
likely voters think the federal government helps businesses that hire the most lobbyists, shake the right hands, and pad the right pockets. They’re right.
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This points to a simple conclusion: Politicians and bureaucrats shouldn’t use the public’s money to pad
private companies’ bottom lines. As the Department of Energy’s green-vehicle loan program shows, the
capacity for corruption is immense—and inevitable.
Epstein is executive director of Cause of Action, a government watchdog.
Strange Deaths
ALL CONNECTED TO THE CLEANTECH MYSTERY:
An Amazing number of individuals, connected to this case, suddenly, and unexpectedly, died. Each one
was connected to the case. Most could be said to have had "too much information", or they were
reporters, engineers or whistle-blowers who became "a problem". Some investigators believe that over
$2 Trillion dollars of public money was embezzled, kick-back, stock-rigged and re-directed. When the
numbers are that large, it is thought that Cartel members may take extreme measures:
BANKERS, ENGINEERS & REPORTERS SUDDENLY DIE IN HERDS! WHAT IS HAPPENING?
IS THE SILICON VALLEY CARTEL KILLING OFF THE EVIDENCE?
- Rajeev Motwani taught Google how to Google. Suddenly, in perfect health, he was found floating
face-down, dead, in his Silicon Valley swimming pool. It helps certain people that he can no longer
talk.
- Gary D. Conley was the CleanTech competitor to, and whistle-blower on, the suspects. He was
suddenly found with a bullet in his head behind Beale Air Force base. It helps certain people that he can
no longer talk.
- David Bird was the Wall Street Journal energy reporter who was working on a story that involved
Cleantech energy connections of some of the suspects. He was working on a story about who
controlled the modern energy industry and cleantech.He went for a walk and was found a long time
later, dead, floating in a pond. It helps certain people that he can no longer talk.
- One Mr. Breitbart was a famous blogger, who railed on the web about the political manipulations of
the suspects. Suddenly, he had a "heart attack" in his shower and died. It helps certain people that he
can no longer talk on the blogs.
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- Mr. Slym , with Tata Motors was involved in a car deal with some of the suspects for one of the
biggest Indian auto-makers. Suddenly he was a stain on the sidewalk, accomplished by his fall from the
top of a skyscraper hotel. It helps certain people that he can no longer talk.
- Doug Bourn, The senior electrical engineer at Tesla, Andrew Ingram of Palo Alto, a top systems
electrical engineer at Tesla; and Brian M. Finn the senior manager of interactive electronics, at Tesla,
had deep knowledge of financial misdeeds and technical cover-ups at Tesla Motors. They were key
parts of the Tesla operation. For some reason, they all got into a private airplane, in perfect health, and
then the airplane plowed into the ground, killing all three at once. It helps certain people that they can
no longer talk. They wrote, and helped describe, in Tesla's own federal patent filings, the fact that
Tesla's batteries would kill you, maim you and/or burn your house down. Tesla did not realize this
when they paid the federal patent filing fees. When Tesla, later realized this, they were forced to give
all of their patents away for free. These three senior engineers had deep inside knowledge of the Tesla
Motors operations. Their aircraft suffered an "Engineering failure".
The above individuals had absolute knowledge of this case and some of them were known to have been
whistle-blowers in this case.
All of these people (now over 50+ people) were in top health, had lots of money and were not likely to
have died when they did. Then they died, suddenly and suspiciously, under bizarre circumstances. They
were all connected to the suspects. Over 50 investment bankers connected to the suspects and their
Goldman Sach's finance group are also suddenly dead under bizarre circumstances.
All of these people are dead. You can read about them, and their deaths, in extensive media coverage.
There is no question about the facts: They are dead. The deaths are bizarre and mysterious. The timing
is very convenient for a certain few. None of them were in poor health. They all had dealings with the
suspect pool. They all would have been great witnesses in a federal hearing. The facts are 800 million
times against the odds of this being a conincidence.
All of the top suspects are staffed by, connected to, or financed by a Company called In-Q-Tel. In-Q-
Tel goes to great lengths to brag about their CIA relationship. The CIA are the top experts in creating
un-detectable murders. The cIA calls In-Q-Tel "A rogue Operation not affiliated with CIA core
activities". In-Q-Tel staff assisted Sony Pictures in making Zero Dark Thirty.
Over 1000 published reports and articles provide an analysis of certain Silicon Valley billionaires as
"Sociopaths". Both sociopaths and psychopaths are known to be likely to commit murder.
While nobody is directly accusing John Doerr, Elon Musk, Richard Blum, Vinohd Khosla or Eric
Schmidt of murder, the facts lead to some awkward implications. Investigators at the FBI, GAO, U.S.
Senate and State AG offices want to know more. Anyone with additional details to share, is asked to
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connect their local federal law enforcement agencies."
ADDITIONALLY, REPORTERS HAVE NOW DOCUMENTED OVER 180 SUDDEN
INVESTMENT BANKER DEATHS. 89% OF THESE DEAD INVESTMENT BANKERS WERE
CONNECTED TO, DID BUSINESS WITH, OR HAD A WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
SILICON VALLEY CARTEL:
WHY WOULD SO MANY WEALTHY PLAYBOY BANKERS SUDDENLY JUST COMMIT
SUICIDE? DID THEY REALIZE THEY WERE ABOUT TO GET CAUGHT IN THE CRIME OF
THE CENTURY?
rt.com/op-edge/death-finance-bankers-insecure-420/
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his death from the roof of the bank's headquarters in Central yesterday. Witnesses said the man went to
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Banker leaps to his death in finance world's 8th "suicide" this .A 28-year old Manhattan investment
banker has died in an apparent suicide, police sources said. Kenneth Bellando, who worked at Levy
Capital since January ...
nypost.com/2014/03/17/investment-banker-leaps-to-his...
JPMorgan suicide is 3rd mysterious death in weeks - New York PostThis suicide marks the third
mysterious death of a JPMorgan banker in the ... and investment bank ... American Foundation for
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Investment Banker Jumps To Death: Man Commits Suicide After A promising investment banker who
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was described as "talented" and a "positive force" by fellow workers jumped 200 feet to his death
Thursday from his Manhattan
inquisitr.com/2130611/investment-banker-jumps-to-death-...
London Stunned By Spate Of Banker Deaths - Business Insider A series of deaths among finance
workers has shaken London and raised more concerns about stress levels of bankers, Ben Wright and
David Enrich of The Wall Street ...
businessinsider.com/man-falls-from-london-jp-morgan-building-...
Investment Banker Jumps To His Death In ... - The Inquisitr News An investment banker jumps to his
death from the window of his New York City luxury apartment, and the incident is now making
headlines. According to Fox News,
inquisitr.com/2131908/investment-banker-jumps-from-luxu...
Financial world shaken by bankers' apparent suicides in a ...The apparent suicide death of the chief
economist of a US investment house brings the number of financial workers who have died allegedly
by their own hand ...
rt.com/business/russell-investments-chief-econom...
Another JPMorgan Investment Banker Jumps to His Death ...The string of recent banker "suicides"
continues as 28 year old former JP Morgan investment banker John Bellando has reportedly jumped
from his 6th floor E
silverdoctors.com/another-jpmorgan-investment-banker-jumps-...
Moritz Erhardt, Investment Banking Intern, Dies In London An intern working for Bank of America's
investment banking unit in London died Thursday, just a week shy of completing his summer program,
that bank told ...
huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/moritz-erhardt-investment-bank...
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Investment banker jumps to his death from luxury apartment ...An investment banker jumps to his
death from a luxury apartment building in New York City, striking a railing and becoming decapitated
before hitting the ...
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Investment banker jumps: 29 y/o jumps to his death in NYC ...An investment banker jumped to his
death from the 24th floor of his luxury apartment building in Manhattan, and witnesses to the 29-year-
old investment ...
examiner.com/article/investment-banker-jumps-29-y-o-ju...
Third prominent banker found dead in six days | 2014-01-31 ..Three prominent bankers appear to have
committed suicide in six days. The deaths, ... Dueker is the third prominent banker found dead ...
Investment News;
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The Death Of 8 World Bankers Is Mysteriously Sinister In the first video, the Pastor states that we are
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Goldman Sachs Investment Banker's Death Ruled a "Suicide" ...The death of an Indian American
investment banker with Goldman Sachs in San Francisco who jumped from an apartment building has
been ruled a suicide by police.
indiawest.com/news/global_indian/goldman-sachs-investme...
Bank of America Intern Death Sheds Light On Cutthroat World ...A view of London's Canary Wharf
financial district. The death of a 21-year-old intern inside Bank of America's investment banking unit
has set off a debate ...
huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/bank-of-america-intern-death_n...
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New York Investment Banker Jumps To His Death From Luxury Yesterday, New Yorkers walking by
the Ocean Luxury Rental apartment building at 1 West St around 10:40am, were greeted with a
gruesome sight: a 29-year-old ...
zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-29/new-york-investment-banke...
Ex-banker's courtroom death an apparent "suicide" - CNN.com The death last month of a 53-year-old
former investment banker who collapsed in an Arizona courtroom, minutes after a jury found him
guilty of torching his ...
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Father of NY banker who jumped to his death fears son turned ..Exclusive: Father of investment
banker, 29, fears son turned to drink and drugs to cope with stress and jumped to his death after a 'Wolf
of Wall Street cocaine party'
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3102513/Successful-investmen...
New Clues in Suicide of JP Morgan Banker Add to Mystery Alex His suicide was blamed on "the
stressful environment of investment banking," although its timing, ... any more mysterious banker
deaths will only add to the intrigue.
infowars.com/new-clues-in-suicide-of-jp-morgan-banker-...
THE LIST OF MYSTERIOUS BANKER DEATHS IS INCREASING | Alternative THE LIST OF
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investment bank technology department having ...
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JPMorgan employee jumps to his death in Hong Kong - NY Daily News A JPMorgan investment
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banker jumped to his death Tuesday from the roof of the bank's Hong Kong headquarters \97 the third
bizarre death for the global business in ...
nydailynews.com/news/world/jpmorgan-employee-jumps-death-...
Second JPMorgan Banker Jumps To His Death: Said To Be 33 Year ..An investment banker on Tuesday
jumped to his death from the roof of Chater House in Central, where Wall Street bank JP Morgan has
its Asia headquarters ...
zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-18/third-jpmorgan-banker-jum...
28-Year Old Former JPMorgan Banker Jumps To His Death, Latest ..28-Year Old Former JPMorgan
Banker Jumps To His Death, Latest In Series Of Recent Suicides. 0 56 0. ... The investment banker then
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Goldman Investment Banker Gupta's Death Determined to Be ... The April death of 22-year-old
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment-banking analyst Sarvshreshth Gupta in San Francisco was
determined to be a "suicide by ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-09/goldman-investme...
Banks Take Notice of Recent Deaths | Fox Business A string of deaths this year has reignited concerns
over the high-stress business of banking, and some of the financial industry's largest institutions ...
foxbusiness.com/industries/2014/02/20/concerns-over-recen...
Banker Deaths Leave Industry Concerned as Coroners Probe ..Banker Deaths Leave Industry
Concerned as Coroners Probe. by Ben Moshinsky. March 24, ... about whether working late was
necessary in investment banking.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-24/banker-suicides-...
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A Closer Look at Young Worker Deaths at JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase employs 260,000
workers in 60 ... "A 33-year-old JPMorgan investment banker leaped to his death Tuesday from the
roof of the bank's 30-story ...
wallstreetonparade.com/2014/03/a-closer-look-at-young-worker-dea...
TWO senior American bankers working in London commit "suicide" ...Two top American bankers
commit suicide in London as one jumps 500ft to his death from JP Morgan skyscraper and another
hangs himself in luxury home
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547684/TWO-senior-American-...
Why did NYC Investment banker jump to his death? An investment banker who leapt to his death from
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Carr's coworkers were shocked of his death and said that he was "special", a "gifted" journalist with
lots of "talent".
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Another International Banker Death: NY Investment Professional.. Refocus Notes: It began on January
26th, when a noted investment banker named Li Jie plunged to his death in Singapore.
conservativerefocus.com/blogs/blog5.php/2014/03/23/another-intern...
...jpmorgan investment banker jumps to his death | max. 11 comments on "ANOTHER JPMORGAN
INVESTMENT BANKER JUMPS TO HIS DEATH". sorry any banker that jumps I want DNA proof.
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Suicide, Omen or Political Murder: 2014 Banker Death Count Reaches...Kenneth Bellando, an
investment banker with Levy Capital Partners in New York, and former JP Morgan employee, jumped
from the roof of his Banker Deaths are the Result of Conspiracy.
mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/suicide-omen-or-political-murder-...
Another JP Morgan Investment Banker Jumps To His Death...(George Chen) An investment banker on
Tuesday jumped to his death from the roof of Chater House in Central, where Wall Street bank JP
Morgan has its Asia headquarters...
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4th Investment Banker Commits Suicided In A Week! | Ear Hustle 411 According To 'V' The Guerrilla
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Banker leaps to his death in finance world's 8th suicide this year A 28-year old Manhattan investment
banker has died in an apparent suicide, police sources said. Bellando becomes the eighth suicide of a
financial professional this year and the third death in as many...
nypost.com/2014/03/17/investment-banker-leaps-to-his...
...Over 40 Bankers Dead Since 2014 - Latest Banker Death. The list just got longer with this report
showing that investment banker, 32 year-old Kate Matrosova, was found dead in the The prior 36
banker deaths from 2014, found at ZeroHedge, shown below
allnewspipeline.com/Over_40_Bankers_Dead_Since_2014.php
11th Dead Banker bites the dust, 5th Dead JP Morganer, Kenneth...A 28-year old Manhattan investment
banker has died in an apparent suicide, police sources said. 28-Year Old Former JPMorgan Banker
Jumps To His Death, Latest In Series Of Recent Suicides.
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imaginarymarkets.com/11th-dead-banker-bites-the-dust-5th-dead-...
Does The Trail Of Dead Bankers Lead To Silicon Valley? An investment banker at JP Morgan jumped
to his death from the roof of the bank's headquarters in Central yesterday. Witnesses said the man went
to the roof of the...
dcclothesline.com/2014/02/19/trail-dead-bankers-lead-somewh...
28-Year Old Former JPMorgan Banker Jumps To His Death, Latest..Not a week seems to pass without
some banker or trader committing suicide. 11 - Kenneth Bellando, 28, a trader at Levy Capital,
formerly investment banking analyst at JPMorgan, jumped to his death...
zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-18/28-year-old-former-jpmorg...
Top 7 notorious banker deathswalking with the devil...The billionaire investment banker's death,
according to well placed European sources, was not suicide as the world press reported, but rather,
murder.
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7th Dead Banker, JP Morgan FX Investment Banker | Quare Beta\85..An investment banker on
Tuesday jumped to his death from the roof of Chater House in Central, where Wall Street bank JP
Morgan has its Asia headquarters...
quarebeta.com/7th-dead-banker-jp-morgan-fx-investment-b...
Death Toll: 8th High-Profile Banker Dies In Suspicious Circumstances An investment banker yesterday
jumped to his death from the roof of investment bank JP Morgan's Asia HQ in Hong Kong.
neonnettle.com/news/162-death-toll-8th-high-profile-bank...
More Bankster Deaths - LewRockwell.com The billionaire investment banker's death, according to
well placed European sources, was not suicide as the world press reported, but rather, murder.
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lewrockwell.com/2014/03/no_author/more-bankster-deaths/
Top SA banker plunges to death in London, page 1 | London - A top South African-born investment
banker who worked in London jumped to his death last week from the top of an upmarket restaurant in
the English capital, UK media reported on Thursday.
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THE COVER-UP!
When you hear two words: \93Haldeman and Ehrlickman\94; suddenly the entire case history of an
epic political crime rises in your memory.
When you hear \93Franklin Deleno Roosevelt, JP Morgan and Smedley Butler\94 another whole part of
political crime history jumps to the front of your memory.
\93Bonnie & Clyde\94
\93John Wilkes Booth\94
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Which just a few syllables, historical facts that fill history books, cultural memories, and cautionary
classroom lectures step forward from the pages of history and memory.
In each, and every case, the criminals thought they would never get caught. Their egomania made them
think they were untouchable.
In each and every case they were caught. History has proven that political embezzlement crimes never
stay secret. That has never been more true than in this new age of Everything-has-been-hacked.
You can\92t pull off a big political embezzlement crime all by yourself. When more than 3 people are
involved, the secret always, always comes out. In this case there were over 80 people involved.
The secrets are already spilling out like a waterfall of remorse.
Large numbers of White House staff, Secret Service agents, Department of Energy staff, Securities &
Exchange examiners and more, witnessed the events. Now they are starting to come forward.
Now the bad guys, and those who are clinging to the last shreds of the cover-up, need to make a
decision:
Do they want their legacy to be that of criminal or redeemer?
Do they want to be remembered, for all of digital time, as the abusers of the the public trust, thieves
and mobsters, or do they want to have a hope of redemption?
Do they want their family name, their memory and what they stand for, in the history books, to be an
icon of criminality or one of revival?
Today is the day you need to decide.
Are you going to be remembered as the rapist of the public trust or the angel?
Do you care about your \93legacy\94? History is not kind to evil public servants.
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Step up, now, and do the right thing.
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10 Cover-ups That Just Made Things Worse
by Patrick J. Kiger
10 Attempted Cover-ups That Just Made Things Worse
It's easy to dismiss conspiracy theorists who claim that the 9/11 attacks were staged by the U.S.
government or that Princess Diana was actually murdered. But just because some accusations are far-
fetched, that doesn't mean that conspiracies don't ever happen.
To the contrary, history is filled with examples of real-life conspiracies. Recently, forensic scientists
used a computerized tomography (CT) scan to examine the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses
III, who died in 1155 B.C., and spotted a wide, deep wound in his throat, probably caused by a sharp
blade. That confirmed what Egyptologists already had discovered by perusing ancient papyrus scrolls \
97 that Ramesses had been the victim of a conspiracy by members of his harem, who murdered him in
an attempt to seize power [source: ScienceDaily].
But it's also revealing that the conspirators against Ramesses didn't get away with their deed,
apparently because they were overheard discussing their plot. Before long, they were arrested and
eventually executed [source: Records of the Harem Conspiracy].
As former Nixon White House aide G. Gordon Liddy \97 a key figure in the notorious Watergate
scandal and cover-up \97 noted, the big problem with conspiracies is that people can't keep their
mouths shut [source: Shermer]. That tendency to blab may stem from a desire to take credit for an
ingenious plot, but it also may have something to do with the stress of duplicity. A 2012 study
published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that secret-keeping exacted a physical toll
on subjects, increasing the effort needed to perform tasks, and even making hills that they had to climb
feel steeper.
So it's no wonder that the bad stuff gets out, eventually. Here are 10 examples of cover-ups that
backfired.
10: The Dreyfus Affair
In 1894, France's government and army already were struggling with a series of damaging scandals
when a janitor discovered papers in the wastebasket of a German military attach\E9 indicating a
traitorous French officer was spying for the Germans. French military leaders quickly found what
seemed like a perfect way to weasel out of the mess. They framed an obscure army officer, Capt. Alfred
Dreyfus, as the traitor, possibly figuring that he made a good fall guy because he was Jewish. (Anti-
Semitism, sadly, was rampant in 19th-century France). Despite his protestations of innocence, Dreyfus
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was sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island in South America.
When the chief of military intelligence, Lt. Col. Georges Picquart, uncovered evidence that a Maj.
Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy was the real spy, his superiors removed Picquart from his post. That's
when Emile Zola, the famous French writer, published an expose, "J'Accuse," which irked the military
so much, it had him indicted and convicted of libel, forcing him to flee the country.
But the public outcry stirred by Zola grew more intense after another army officer discovered that the
conspirators had planted a forged document in the file with the authentic evidence to help convict
Dreyfus. He finally got a new trial, and despite a confession from the forger, a military court convicted
him again and sentenced him to 10 years' detention. The French premier finally stopped the absurdity
by pardoning Dreyfus in 1899 [sources: Encyclopedia Britannica, Jewish Virtual Library].
The Dreyfus affair didn't totally eradicate anti-Semitism, but it marked the beginning of a new, more
egalitarian French society [source: BBC News].
9: The Teapot Dome Scandal
If you think politics is dirty and corrupt today, it's a good thing you weren't around in the 1920s. That's
when the White House was occupied by Warren G. Harding, a charming but dim-witted fellow who
privately admitted to friends that the job was beyond his abilities. While not personally dishonest,
Harding \97 who once gambled away the White House china set in a card game \97 filled his
administration with poker and golf buddies, many of whom turned out to be crooks.
Take Harding's Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall. He secretly allowed oil companies to tap the
Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming and the Elk Hills oil reserve in California in exchange for several
hundred thousand dollars in bribes [source: Miller Center]. After the Wall Street Journal published a
1922 expose revealing that the oil had been sold without competitive bidding, a crusading senator from
Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, arranged for the Senate Committee on Public Lands to investigate
[source: U.S. Senate].
Harding's attorney-general, Harry Daugherty, who was getting heat for failing to investigate corruption,
turned to then-FBI director William J. Burns. Burns sent one of his agents to ransack La Follette's
office, to search for anything that might be used to blackmail the senator into silence [source: Jeffreys-
Jones]. But that only convinced La Follette that he was on to something, and the investigation pressed
on, exposing Fall's shady dealings. Eventually, Fall became the first U.S. cabinet secretary in history to
go to prison.
8: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Of all of the breaches of medical ethics in history, it's hard to think of one more heinous than the
"Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," which was conducted by the U.S. Public
Health Service (PHS), working with the Tuskegee Institute, from 1932 to 1972. Researchers initially
recruited 600 men, including 399 who tested positive for syphilis [source: Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention]. This sexually transmitted bacterial disease can occur over decades and causes
paralysis, blindness, dementia and damage to the brain, heart, bones and other organs and even death
[source: CDC].
Researchers didn't tell the infected men that they had the disease or that the purpose of the study was to
document how the disease destroyed their bodies. The men were only told they would receive free
medical care for "bad blood," a vague term that didn't imply a specific medical condition. And even
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when penicillin, an effective treatment for syphilis, became available in 1947, the researchers didn't
offer it to them [source: CDC]. Between 28 and 100 of the participants died from syphilis, but the death
toll may have been higher, since they may have infected others unknowingly [source: Tuskegee
Syphilis Legacy Committee].
In the mid-1960s, Pete Buxton, a government social worker came across internal government reports of
the study, and protested to higher-ups that it was unethical. After several years of inaction, he handed
over proof of the study's existence to a friend at the Associated Press. The resulting outcry forced PHS
to shut down the study in 1972 [source: Beech].
But that wasn't the end of the repercussions. The following summer, the government settled a $10
million lawsuit brought by survivors and their families and provided them with lifetime medical care
[source: CDC].
7: The Tobacco Industry Denies Health Risks of Smoking
In 1950, a physician and epidemiologist, Dr. Ernst Wynder, published a landmark study in the Journal
of the American Medical Association, pointing to cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer [source:
Blakesbee]. In response, six major cigarette makers funded a massive research effort of their own \97
not so much to find out whether their product did indeed pose a risk, but to "blow smoke" in the
public's face.
In January 1954, the Tobacco Institute Research Committee, which later changed its name to the
Council for Tobacco Research, ran full-page ads in 400 newspapers claiming that "eminent doctors and
research scientists have publicly questioned the claimed significance of these experiments" and
asserting that although the industry believed that smoking wasn't hazardous to health, it pledged to
assist "the research effort into all phases of tobacco use and health" [source: Boyle et al.].
In truth, the industry's own scientists already knew there was a possible link to cancers; a 1953 survey
of scientific literature by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco chemist Claude Teague, for example, concluded that
"studies of clinical data tend to confirm" a link between heavy smoking and lung cancer. Yet they
continued to try to cloud the issue. A 1972 industry memo described an ingenious strategy of "creating
doubt about the health charge, without actually denying it" [source: Cummings, Brown and O'Connor].
Eventually, though, attorneys-general from 46 states in the U.S. joined in a massive lawsuit against the
industry. The tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to pay out a staggering $10 billion annually \96
indefinitely \96 to make up for the damage they'd done, especially in health care costs [source: Public
Health Law Center].
6: The CIA Plot to Kill Castro
On Nov. 22, 1963, the nation was traumatized by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in
Dallas. Two days later, a second shock followed, when suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was
ambushed and shot to death by Jack Ruby while in police custody before he could be brought to trial.
Kennedy's successor, President Lyndon Johnson, appointed a special commission, headed by U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to figure out what had happened. The Warren Commission's
report, issued in September 1964, concluded that Oswald not only had fired the shot that killed
Kennedy from a window in the Texas Book Depository, but also that he had acted alone \97 as had
Ruby, his killer [source: Lewis].
But in the years that followed, skeptics attacked the massive Warren Commission report as an
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incomplete investigation. They were right. In 1967, an article by syndicated columnists Drew Pearson
and Jack Anderson posed the theory that Kennedy had been killed not by a lone gunman, but in
retaliation for U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plot to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
[source: Select Committee]. The CIA somehow had neglected to inform the commission of those plots,
even though both Oswald and his killer Ruby had a number of conspicuous links to Cuba. For example,
Oswald had attempted to contact the Cuban embassy in Mexico City at one point [source: Warren
Commission Report].
Those and other omissions led a House committee to conclude in 1979 that Kennedy "was probably
killed as a result of a conspiracy," though it could not determine who was involved [source: Select
Committee]. The mystery continues to this day.
5: Watergate
Watergate is the gold standard of botched cover-ups with disastrous consequences. In June 1972, police
arrested five burglars at the Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington, where they were
attempting to place listening bugs in the offices of the Democratic National Committee. It quickly
became apparent that the burglars had links to President Richard Nixon \97 one of them, Bernard
Barker, had a $25,000 check from Nixon's campaign in his bank account.
By October, an FBI investigation had determined that the break-in was part of a massive campaign of
political spying and sabotage on behalf of Nixon \97 who, somehow, still managed to win re-election in
a landslide. But as Congressional investigators started digging into the case in 1973, Nixon and his
aides dug in their heels \97even after former White House counsel John Dean revealed that he'd had 35
discussions with the president about the cover-up.
Nixon resisted turning over secret tapes of White House meetings, and even fired Archibald Cox, the
special prosecutor that his administration had appointed to at least give the appearance of trying to
clean house. Eventually, when Nixon turned over a crucial tape, it had a mysterious 18-and-a-half
minute gap in it. At that point, despite his earlier protestations of "I am not a crook," nobody believed
him. In July 1974, after the House of Representatives passed the first of three articles of impeachment
against him, Nixon finally quit. His successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned him, ensuring that he would
avoid being the first U.S. president to go to prison [source: Washington Post].
4: The Ford Pinto
Except for cigarettes and thalidomide, it's hard to think of a product with a worse reputation for safety
than the Ford Pinto, introduced in the 1971 model year [source: Motavalli]. But even though the car
sold well, Ford knew that it carried inside it a serious design problem. When the car had been deep into
its development cycle, low-speed rear-end crash testing had revealed that the fuel tank's filler neck had
a tendency to tear away and spill gasoline under the car. Additionally, the tank itself was easily
punctured by bolts protruding from the differential and nearby brackets.
It would have cost an additional $11 per car to fix the problems, but Ford management decided to do
nothing, figuring that it cost less to pay off Pinto owners whose cars caught on fire [source: Wojdyla].
Unfortunately for them, a dogged investigative reporter, Mark Dowie of Mother Jones magazine, was
willing to sift through the mountain of paperwork in the U.S. Department of Transportation's file
cabinets where the company had buried the problem. He unearthed a memo in which the company
calculated that settling burn victim lawsuits would save the company $70 million over installing the
parts in the Pintos [source: Motavalli].
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After Dowie's expose was published, a jury in Orange County, Calif. awarded $125 million in damages
to a man who'd been injured in a burning Pinto. Though the penalty was later reduced to $3 million, it
was the beginning of the end for the car and the start of a public-relations disaster that took Ford years
to get past [source: Wojdyla].
3: Chernobyl
In April 1986, a crew at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine \97then part of the Soviet
Union \97 ran a seemingly routine test to see how long a reactor's turbines would continue to supply
power to its circulating pumps in the event of a loss of electrical power. The reactor malfunctioned due
to an inopportune power surge, and the fuel rods got stuck, overheating the water inside the reactor and
causing a buildup of steam. The resulting explosions caused massive amounts of radioactive gases and
debris to spew into the atmosphere for 10 days \97 the biggest such uncontrolled release in history not
from a nuclear bomb.
Two workers died immediately from the explosion. Twenty-eight more, including six firemen who
struggled to put out fires on one of the plant's rooftops, died later from radiation exposure, and winds
carried the radiation far and wide across the Soviet Union and even to other European countries
[source: World Nuclear Association]. But despite the magnitude of the disaster, Soviet officials didn't
publicly admit that the accident had occurred until two days later, when Swedish officials sounded the
alarm about increased levels of radiation drifting westward.
Then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev waited an astonishing three weeks before even mentioning the
accident publicly. He later claimed, somewhat implausibly, that the Kremlin had difficulty getting the
full story, and "we realized the entire drama only later." But the rest of the world responded with such
scathing criticism that Gorbachev felt compelled to lift information restrictions, not just about the
disaster but other government misdeeds as well. That period of "glasnost," or openness, ultimately
hastened the end of the Soviet regime itself a few years later [source: Associated Press].
2: Pedophile Priests
In 1973, Massachusetts-based Roman Catholic priest James R. Porter, sent a disturbing letter to Pope
Paul VI. Porter admitted that he had been sexually abusing children for years, and asked that he be
relieved of his duties before he hurt anyone else. "I know in the past that I used to hide behind a Roman
collar, thinking that it would be a shield for me," he said.
But Porter's personnel file, obtained in 1992 by the Boston Globe, revealed that Porter had considerable
help covering up his crimes against roughly 100 young boys and girls. In the course of his 14-year
career, Porter had been removed from his duties at least eight times by superiors because he had
assaulted children, and sent to receive mental health treatment for pedophilia \97 only to be allowed to
resume his work after they were satisfied that had been cured of his predatory predilections [source:
Butterfield].
For decades, the Catholic hierachy \97 both in the U.S. and in other countries \97 engaged in a
systematic effort to cover up crimes by its clergy. But when victims of priestly abuse finally began
going public in the 1980s, widespread outrage led the truth to come out.
A study commissioned in the 2000s by church officials in the U.S. revealed that between 1950 and
2002, 4,392 priests had been accused of sexual abuse. Some, such as Porter, ultimately were convicted
and sent to prison. But the church itself also paid dearly for the cover-up. By one estimate in the late
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2000s, various U.S. archdioceses have paid out more than $3 billion to settle lawsuits by victims
[sources: Chinnici, Boston Globe].
1: Fleet Street Phone-Hacking
British tabloid journalists don't exactly have a sterling reputation for ethics. But even so, the scandal
about their hacking the phones of celebrities, politicians, sports stars and crime victims was a shock.
The first revelations emerged in November 2005, when Clive Goodman, royal editor at the tabloid
News of the World, wrote a story about a previously unrevealed knee injury suffered by Prince
William. The Royal family quickly guessed that someone had hacked into the prince's mobile phone
voicemail to get the scoop. Scotland Yard arrested Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator
employed by the paper [source: BBC News].
The pair was sentenced to jail in 2007 after revealing that they'd obtained back-door codes used by
network operators and used them to listen in on several hundred messages [source: BBC News].
But that was just the tip of the iceberg. In 2009, the Guardian, a rival newspaper, revealed that News of
the World's parent company, News Group International, had paid out more than $1 million British
pounds (about U.S. $1.5 million) to quietly settle lawsuits that might reveal the use of phone hacks and
other data thefts to obtain inside information about important people [source: Davies]. In 2011, the
Guardian further reported that police had discovered that the phones of more than 5,800 people \97
including celebrities such as actor Hugh Grant \97 had been hacked by Mulcaire [source: O'Carroll].
As a result of the scandal, international media baron Rupert Murdoch shut down News of the World in
2011 [source: Sky News] In 2012, he admitted that there had been a cover-up and publicly apologized,
claiming that had he understood the depth of the misdeeds, he "would have torn the place apart"
[source: Greene].
Author's Note: 10 Attempted Cover-ups That Just Made Things WorseI have a certain fondness for
revelations about cover-ups, because in the 1980s, I worked as a newspaper reporter. One of my big
stories was a Sunday Magazine piece on the leak of a toxic cloud from a chemical plant in West
Virginia. The company that owned the plant insisted that local residents had no reason to fear harm
from the release. But that assurance wasn't so comforting to the residents. I discovered that there had
been a long history of leaks from plants in the area, and that many residents suffered from diseases that
they blamed on them. Stayed tuned for the Fukishima cover-up, the Climate Change cover-up, The
Tesla cover-up, The Afghan gas station cover-up, The Lois Lerner cover-up, and many more.
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The Players: The Ones Who Exposed It
The reporters, employees, public servants and voters who finally said: “I'm mad as hell and I'm not
going to take it any more.”
Carol Leoning- Washington Post (Re-directed off story. Entire Washington Post company then
purchased by White House campaign financiers)
Edward Snowden- NSA (Forced to flee country. Character assassinated)
Darryl Issa – U.S. Senate (Character assassinated)
Gary D. Conley – Solar & Hydrogen CEO (Found dead with bullet in head behind California Air Force
Base)
Andrew Brietbart – News publisher (Found dead in shower)
Christine Lakatos – News Blogger (Harassed)
David Bird – Top Energy industry reporter (Found dead in pond)
Michael Arrington – (Blacklisted, Honey Trapped, Character assassinated)
Leslie Wayne – New Work Times (Re-assigned off the story)
Mathew Mosk – Reporter (Assigned off the story, harrassed)
Cheryl Atkisson – CBS Reporter (Harrassed, hacked, black-listed)
Gary D. Conley – Energy CEO (Killed)
Paul Chesser – Reporter (Harassed On-Line)
Rajeev Motwani – Creator of Concept for Google (Found floating dead in Silcon Valley pool)
Kim Jong Un – North Korean Strongman who had Sony hacked to expose Sony's secret financing of
political campaigns (Had Cyber War declared on his country)
Jofi Joseph – Senior White House staffer and White House administration spouse who tweeted
corruption and mismanagement tips from inside West Wing (Targeted and media highlighted regarding
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And hundreds more, including Jack Abramoff, here is his story:
Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook
Jack Abramoff, the notorious former lobbyist at the center of Washington's biggest corruption scandal
indecades, spent more than three years in prison for his crimes. Now a free man, he reveals how he was
able to influence politicians and their staffers through generous gifts and job offers. He tells Lesley
Stahl the reforms instituted in the wake of his scandal have had little effect.
The following is a script of "The Lobbyist's Playbook" which aired on Nov. 6, 2011. Lesley Stahl is the
correspondent. Ira Rosen, producer.
Jack Abramoff may be the most notorious and crooked lobbyist of our time. He was at the center of a
massive scandal of brazen corruption and influence peddling.
Jack Abramoff: Inside Capitol corruption »
As a Republican lobbyist starting in the mid 1990s, he became a master at showering gifts on
lawmakers in return for their votes on legislation and tax breaks favorable to his clients. He was so
good at it, he took home $20 million a year.
It all came crashing down five years ago, when Jack Abramoff pled guilty to corrupting public officials,
tax evasion and fraud, and served three and a half years in prison.
Today he's a symbol of how money corrupts Washington. In our interview tonight, he opens up his
playbook for the first time and explains exactly how he used his clients' money to buy powerful friends
and influence legislation.
Jack Abramoff: I was so far into it that I couldn't figure out where right and wrong was. I believed that
I was among the top moral people in the business. I was totally blinded by what was going on.
Jack Abramoff was a whiz at influencing legislation and one way he did that was to get his clients, like
some Indian tribes, to make substantial campaign contributions to select members of Congress.
Abramoff: As I look back it was effective. It certainly helped the people I was trying to help, both the
clients and the Republicans at that time.
Lesley Stahl: But even that, you're now saying, was corrupt?
Abramoff: Yes.
Stahl: Can you quantify how much it costs to corrupt a congressman?
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Abramoff: I was actually thinking of writing a book - "The Idiot's Guide to Buying a Congressman" -
as a way to put this all down. First, I think most congressmen don't feel they're being bought. Most
congressmen, I think, can in their own mind justify the system.
Stahl: Rationalize.
Abramoff: --rationalize it and by the way we wanted as lobbyists for them to feel that way.
Abramoff would provide freebies and gifts - looking for favors for his clients in return. He'd lavish
certain congressmen and senators with access to private jets and junkets to the world's great golf
destinations like St. Andrews in Scotland. Free meals at his own upscale Washington restaurant and
access to the best tickets to all the area's sporting events; including two skyboxes at Washington
Redskins games.
Abramoff: I spent over a million dollars a year on tickets to sporting events and concerts and what not
at all the venues.
Stahl: A million dollars?
Abramoff: Ya. Ya.
Stahl: For the best seats?
Abramoff: The best seats. I had two people on my staff whose virtual full-time job was booking
tickets. We were Ticketmaster for these guys.
Stahl: And the congressman or senator could take his favorite people from his district to the game--
Abramoff: The congressman or senator uh, could take two dozen of his favorite people from their
district.
Stahl: Was all that legal?
Abramoff: We would certainly try to make the activity legal, if we could. At times we didn't care. But
the "best way" to get a congressional office to do his bidding - he says - was to offer a staffer a job that
could triple his salary.
Abramoff: When we would become friendly with an office and they were important to us, and the
chief of staff was a competent person, I would say or my staff would say to him or her at some point,
"You know, when you're done working on the Hill, we'd very much like you to consider coming to
work for us." Now the moment I said that to them or any of our staff said that to 'em, that was it. We
owned them. And what does that mean? Every request from our office, every request of our clients,
everything that we want, they're gonna do. And not only that, they're gonna think of things we can't
think of to do.
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Neil Volz: Jack Abramoff could sweet talk a dog off a meat truck, that's how persuasive he was.
Neil Volz was one of the staffers Abramoff was talking about. He was chief of staff to Congressman
Bob Ney, who as chairman of the House Administration Committee had considerable power to
dispense favors. Abramoff targeted Volz and offered him a job.
Stahl: You're the chief of staff of a powerful congressman. And Jack owns you and you haven't even
left working for the congressman.
Volz: I have the distinct memory of, you know, negotiating with Jack at a hockey game. So we're, you
know, just a few rows back. The crowd's goin' crazy. And Jack and I are havin' a business conversation.
And, you know, I'm-- I'm wrestlin' with how much I think I should get paid. And then five minutes later
we're-- he's askin' me questions about some clients of his.
Stahl: When you look back was that the corrupting moment?
Volz: I think we were guilty of engaging in a corrupt relationship. So there were several corrupting
moments. There isn't just one moment. There were many.
Abramoff: At the end of the day most of the people that I encountered who worked on Capitol Hill
wanted to come work on K Street, wanted to be lobbyists.
Stahl: You're telling me this, the genius of figuring out you could own the office by offering a job to
the chief of staff, say. I'm having two reactions. One is brilliant. And the other is I'm sick to my
stomach.
Abramoff: Right. Evil. Yeah. Terrible.
Stahl: 'Cause it's hurting our country.
Abramoff: Shameful. Absolutely. It's the worst thing that could happen. All parts of the system.
Stahl: I'm mad at you.
Abramoff: I was mad at me--
Stahl: I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding.
Abramoff: Look I did things and I was involved in the system I should not have been in. I'm ashamed
of the fact I was there, the very reason why now I'm speaking about it. And now I'm trying to do
something, in recompense, is the fact that I thought it was-- it was wrong of me to do it.
One of the offices he keyed on was that of his good friend, the Majority Leader Tom Delay, eventually
hiring his deputy chief of staff and his press secretary, and going into business with Delay's chief of
staff.
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Abramoff: I was as close to his staff as to any staff. I had a very strong personal relationship with a lot
of his staff.
Stahl: How many congressional offices did you actually own?
Abramoff: We probably had very strong influence in 100 offices at the time.
Stahl: Come on.
Abramoff: No.
Stahl: A hundred offices?
Abramoff: In those days, I would view that as a failure. Because that leaves 335 offices that we didn't
have strong influence in.
Stahl: Did he own you?
Bob Ney: Oh, I don't believe Jack Abramoff owned me. But were we involved in the culture of
corruption together? Absolutely.
Former Republican Congressman Bob Ney was ambitious and looked at Abramoff as a way to build
alliances with the White House and the majority leader.
Ney: I wanted to be speaker of the House and Jack Abramoff was the beautiful light of day for me to
get to the person who I had had some conflicts with, Tom Delay.
Abramoff began inviting Ney on golf trips including one to Scotland and to his restaurant Signatures,
where Ney was given food and drinks on the house, a violation of the congressional gift limit laws. Ney
says he was hardly the only one crossing the line.
Ney: But I will still tell you, at that point in time, in order to get a drink at Signatures you had to shove
White House staffers of George Bush the heck away from the bar. And it was packed with people. And
there were members. Now that doesn't mean everybody did everything for Jack. But if you wanna talk
about strict interpretation of violation of the-- of-- of the laws of drink and food, Katey bar the door,
she was wide open, two shotguns blarin'.
After months of taking handouts, Ney was approached by Neil Volz, his former chief of staff, by then a
lobbyist for Abramoff.
Volz: I let you down man and I'm sorry…
Volz asked Ney to insert some language into a reform bill that would give a backdoor license to an
Indian casino owned by one of Abramoff's clients. You often hear about lobbyists getting special secret
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deals for their clients like this. It's an insidious technique that Abramoff perfected.
Abramoff: So what we did was we crafted language that was so obscure, so confusing, so
uninformative, but so precise to change the U.S. code.
Stahl: Here's what you tried to get tacked on to this reform bill.
Abramoff: Yeah.
Stahl: "Public law 100-89 is amended by striking section 207 (101 stat. 668, 672)."
Abramoff: Right. Now isn't that obvious what that means? It was perfect. It was perfect.
Stahl: So that's what you tried to get inserted?
Abramoff: Yes.
Stahl: And that was gonna provide for a casino?
Abramoff: Yes.
Stahl: And who on earth is gonna know that?
Abramoff: No one except the chairmen of the committees.
Stahl: Who stuck it in there?
Abramoff: Yes.
Stahl: And that's one of the things you used to do?
Abramoff: Yes.
Stahl: And it was deliberately written like that?
Abramoff: Precisely. Yes.
Stahl: And that's done a lot?
Abramoff: Members don't read the bills.
Stahl: You didn't even know what it was for?
Ney: Had no idea. And then when we got the written language--
Stahl: Well-- why didn't you know what it was for?
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Ney: I didn't-- I didn't care.
Stahl: Oh!
Ney: It was a great big shell game. And I was in the middle of it, whether, you know, knowing or not.
I--I was dumb enough to not say, "What's this thing do?"
Ney would eventually serve 17 months in federal prison, the only congressman who was ever charged
in the scandal. But Abramoff says that there were many other members that did his bidding that could
have been charged.
Stahl: Was buying favors from lawmakers easy?
Abramoff: I think people are under the impression that the corruption only involves somebody
handing over a check and getting a favor. And that's not the case. The corruption, the bribery, call it,
because ultimately that's what it is. That's what the whole system is.
Stahl: The whole system's bribery?
Abramoff: In my view. I'm talking about giving a gift to somebody who makes a decision on behalf of
the public. At the end of the day, that's really what bribery is. But it is done everyday and it is still being
done. The truth is there were very few members who I could even name or could think of who didn't at
some level participate in that.
Abramoff prided himself on being a man who did good. He was devoutly religious and exorbitantly
charitable and he says he gave away 80 percent of his earnings. When he fell from grace, his reputation
was in tatters because it was not just that he had corrupted Congress - it was found he had cheated his
clients, like the Indian tribes.
Abramoff: Most of the money I made I gave away, to either communal or charitable causes. So I
thought frankly I was one of the most moral lobbyists out there.
Things began to unravel for Abramoff when the Washington Post published a largely unflattering
portrait of him in 2004, reporting that he charged his clients 10 times more than any other lobbyist in
town. Abramoff: My first response was, "What's the big deal? I don't understand what this is about.
This is what lobbyists do. What he didn't understand was the part that said he and a former aide to Tom
Delay had overbilled four of his Indian casino clients by $45 million. In the end, he was brought up on
federal charges of tax evasion and ripping off Indian tribes. On the day he went to court and pled guilty,
Abramoff looked grim. The judge sentenced him to four years.
Stahl: I really think what you were doing was-- was subverting the essence of our system.
Abramoff: Yes. Absolutely right. But our system is flawed and has to be fixed. Human beings populate
our system. Human beings are weak.
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Stahl: And you preyed on that?
Abramoff: I did. I was one of many who did. I did. And I'm ashamed of that fact.
He was sent to a medium security facility in Cumberland, Maryland. When he was released last June,
he began working as an accountant at a kosher pizza parlor. Turns out Jack Abramoff was broke, partly
because he is paying off nearly $24 million in restitution to the Indian tribes. Today he lives in his old
house in Maryland with his wife, five children and the two doberman pinschers Mrs. Abramoff bought
to protect the family while he was away. After the scandal, Congress instituted a package of reforms,
making what Abramoff did - like plying members of Congress with free expensive meals - illegal. But
he doesn't see the new reforms as being very effective.
Abramoff: The reform efforts continually are these faux-reform efforts where they'll change, they'll
tweak the system. They'll say, "You can have a meal with a congressman if they're standing up, not
sitting down."
Stahl: Is that serious? Or are you joking?
Abramoff: Oh no, I'm not joking at all.
Stahl: So, it's okay if you pay for lunch as long as you stand up?
Abramoff: Well, it's actually worse than that. You a hamburger or a steak of something like that. But
buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and all the same interaction with that congressman. So
system. can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him you can take him to a fundraising lunch
and not only call it a fundraiser. And have all the same access and the people who make the reforms are
the people in the
Stahl: Could you do the same thing today? I'm asking you whether you think the system's been cleaned
up?
Abramoff: Could do the same thing that I? Yeah. No, the system hasn't been cleaned up at all.
Stahl: At all.
Abramoff: There's an arrogance on the part of lobbyists, and certainly there was on the part of me and
my team, that no matter what they come up we, we're smarter than they are and we'll overcome it. We'll
just find another way through. That's all.
He says the most important thing that needs to be done is to prohibit members of Congress and their
staff from ever becoming lobbyists in Washington.
Abramoff: If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not
yourself. When you're done, go home. Washington's a dangerous place. Don't hang around.
Former Congressman Bob Ney now works part-time as a radio host.
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His former chief of staff Neil Volz is currently working as a night janitor at a Florida restaurant.
And Jack Abramoff has written a memoir called "Capitol Punishment."
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Enabling Corruption: The lives and upbringing of the Silicon
Valley Rape-Culture boys
What kind of family structure, school life and social programming could cause such deviant, and
warped, behavior by this small group of “privileged” elitist white males from dynastic families?
There are now millions of articles detailing the hookers, rapes,
intern coercion, avoidances of hiring women who are not
secretaries, avoidances and racism of blacks, massive numbers
of misogynistic statements and actions, elitism, white male frat
house attitudes, abusive marriages, political bribes, collusion,
HR wage fixing schemes and more, that the Silicon Valley
billionaires have pervasively engaged in.
One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag:
What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street
Secret Society
Recently, our nation’s financial chieftains have been feeling a little unloved. Venture capitalists are
comparing the persecution of the rich to the plight of Jews at Kristallnacht, Wall Street titans are saying that they’re sick of being beaten up, and this week, a billionaire investor, Wilbur Ross, proclaimed that
“the 1 percent is being picked on for political reasons.”
Ross’s statement seemed particularly odd, because two years ago, I met Ross at an event that might
single-handedly explain why the rest of the country still hates financial tycoons – the annual black-tie
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induction ceremony of a secret Wall Street fraternity called Kappa Beta Phi.
Adapted
from Kevin Roose’s book Young Money, published today by Grand Central Publishing.
“Good evening, Exalted High Council, former Grand Swipes, Grand Swipes-in-waiting, fellow Wall
Street Kappas, Kappas from the Spring Street and Montgomery Street chapters, and worthless
neophytes!”
It was January 2012, and Ross, wearing a tuxedo and purple velvet moccasins embroidered with the
fraternity’s Greek letters, was standing at the dais of the St. Regis Hotel ballroom, welcoming a crowd
of two hundred wealthy and famous Wall Street figures to the Kappa Beta Phi dinner. Ross, the leader
(or “Grand Swipe”) of the fraternity, was preparing to invite 21 new members — “neophytes,” as the
group called them — to join its exclusive ranks.
Looking up at him from an elegant dinner of rack of lamb and foie gras were many of the most famous
investors in the world, including executives from nearly every too-big-to-fail bank, private equity
megafirm, and major hedge fund. AIG CEO Bob Benmosche was there, as were Wall Street superlawyer Marty Lipton and Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the former chairman of Bear Stearns. And those
were just the returning members. Among the neophytes were hedge fund billionaire and major Obama
donor Marc Lasry and Joe Reece, a high-ranking dealmaker at Credit Suisse. [To see the full Kappa
Beta Phi member list, click here.] All told, enough wealth and power was concentrated in the St.
Regis that night that if you had dropped a bomb on the roof, global finance as we know it might have
ceased to exist.
During his introductory remarks, Ross spoke for several minutes about the legend of Kappa Beta Phi
– how it had been started in 1929 by “four C+ William and Mary students”; how its crest, depicting a
“macho right hand in a proper Savile Row suit and a Turnbull and Asser shirtsleeve,” was superior to
that of its namesake Phi Beta Kappa (Ross called Phi Beta Kappa’s ruffled-sleeve logo a “tacit
confession of homosexuality”); and how the fraternity’s motto, “Dum vivamus edimus et biberimus,”
was Latin for “While we live, we eat and drink.”
On cue, the financiers shouted out in a thundering bellow: “DUM VIVAMUS EDIMUS ET
BIBERIMUS.”
The only person not saying the chant along with Ross was me — a journalist who had sneaked into the
event, and who was hiding out at a table in the back corner in a rented tuxedo.
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Several Kappas at the table next to me, presumably discussing the coming plutocracy.
I’d heard whisperings about the existence of Kappa Beta Phi, whose members included both incredibly
successful financiers (New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Goldman Sachs chairman
John Whitehead, hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones) and incredibly unsuccessful ones (Lehman
Brothers CEO Dick Fuld, Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne, former New Jersey governor and MF
Global flameout Jon Corzine). It was a secret fraternity, founded at the beginning of the Great
Depression, that functioned as a sort of one-percenter’s Friars Club. Each year, the group’s dinner
features comedy skits, musical acts in drag, and off-color jokes, and its group’s privacy mantra is
“What happens at the St. Regis stays at the St. Regis.” For eight decades, it worked. No outsider in
living memory had witnessed the entire proceedings firsthand.
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A Kappa neophyte (left) chats up a vet.
I wanted to break the streak for several reasons. As part of my research for m
oung Money , I’d
been investigating the lives of young Wall Street bankers – the 22-year-olds toiling at the bottom of the
financial sector’s food chain. I knew what made those people tick. But in my career as a financial
journalist, one question that proved stubbornly elusive was what happened to Wall Streeters as they
climbed the ladder to adulthood. Whenever I’d interviewed CEOs and chairmen at big Wall Street
firms, they were always too guarded, too on-message and wrapped in media-relations armor to reveal
anything interesting about the psychology of the ultra-wealthy. But if I could somehow see these barons
in their natural environment, with their defenses down, I might be able to understand the world my
young subjects were stepping into.
So when I learned when and where Kappa Beta Phi’s annual dinner was being held, I knew I needed to
try to go.
Getting in was shockingly easy — a brisk walk past the sign-in desk, and I was inside cocktail hour.
Immediately, I saw faces I recognized from the papers. I picked up an event program and saw that there
were other boldface names on the Kappa Beta Phi membership roll — among them, then-Citigroup
CEO Vikram Pandit, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Home Depot billionaire Ken Langone, Morgan
Stanley bigwig Greg Fleming, and JPMorgan Chase vice chairman Jimmy Lee. Any way you count,
this was one of the most powerful groups of business executives in the world. (Since I was a good 20
years younger than any other attendee, I suspect that anyone taking note of my presence assumed I was
a waiter.)
I hadn’t counted on getting in to the Kappa Beta Phi dinner, and now that I had gotten past security, I
wasn’t sure quite what to do. I wanted to avoid rousing suspicion, and I knew that talking to people
would get me outed in short order. So I did the next best thing — slouched against a far wall of the
room, and pretended to tap out emails on my phone.
The 2012 Kappa Beta Phi neophyte class.
After cocktail hour, the new inductees – all of whom were required to dress in leotards and gold-
sequined skirts, with costume wigs – began their variety-show acts. Among the night’s lowlights:
• Paul Queally, a private-equity executive with Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, told off-color jokes to Ted Virtue, another private-equity bigwig with MidOcean Partners. The jokes ranged from unfunny and sexist (Q: “What’s the biggest difference between Hillary Clinton and a catfish?” A: “One has
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whiskers and stinks, and the other is a fish”) to unfunny and homophobic (Q: “What’s the biggest
difference between Barney Frank and a Fenway Frank?” A: “Barney Frank comes in different-size
buns”).
• Bill Mulrow, a top executive at the Blackstone Group (who was later appointed chairman of the New York State Housing Finance Agency), and Emil Henry, a hedge fund manager with Tiger Infrastructure Partners and former assistant secretary of the Treasury, performed a bizarre two-man comedy skit.
Mulrow was dressed in raggedy, tie-dye clothes to play the part of a liberal radical, and Henry was
playing the part of a wealthy baron. They exchanged lines as if staging a debate between the 99 percent
and the 1 percent. (“Bill, look at you! You’re pathetic, you liberal! You need a bath!” Henry shouted.
“My God, you callow, insensitive Republican! Don’t you know what we need to do? We need to create
jobs,” Mulrow shot back.)
• David Moore, Marc Lasry, and Keith Meister — respectively, a holding company CEO, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, and an activist investor — sang a few seconds of a finance-themed parody of
“YMCA” before getting the hook.
• Warren Stephens, an investment banking CEO, took the stage in a Confederate flag hat and sang a song about the financial crisis, set to the tune of “Dixie.” (“In Wall Street land we’ll take our stand,
said Morgan and Goldman. But first we better get some loans, so quick, get to the Fed, man. ”)
A few more acts followed,
during which the veteran
Kappas continued to gorge
themselves on racks of
lamb, throw petits fours at
the stage, and laugh
uproariously. Michael
Novogratz, a former Army
helicopter pilot with a
shaved head and a stocky
build whose firm, Fortress
Investment Group, had
made him a billionaire,
was sitting next to me,
drinking liberally and
annotating each
performance with jokes
and insults.
“Can you fuckin’ believe
Lasry up there?”
Novogratz asked me. I
nodded. He added, “He
just gave me a ride in his
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jet a month ago.”
The neophytes – who had changed from their drag outfits into Mormon missionary costumes — broke
into their musical finale: a parody version of “I Believe,” the hit ballad from The Book of Mormon, with
customized lyrics like “I believe that God has a plan for all of us. I believe my plan involves a seven-
figure bonus.” Amused, I pulled out my phone, and began recording the proceedings on video. Wrong
move.
The grand finale, a parody of “I Believe” from The Book of Mormon
“Who the hell are you?” Novogratz demanded.
I felt my pulse spike. I was tempted to make a run for it, but – due to the ethics code of the New York
Times, my then-employer – I had no choice but to out myself.
“I’m a reporter,” I said.
Novogratz stood up from the table.
“You’re not allowed to be here,” he said.
I, too, stood, and tried to excuse myself, but he grabbed my arm and wouldn’t let go.
“Give me that or I’ll fucking break it!” Novogratz yelled, grabbing for my phone, which was filled with
damning evidence. His eyes were bloodshot, and his neck veins were bulging. The song onstage was
now over, and a number of prominent Kappas had rushed over to our table. Before the situation could
escalate dangerously, a bond investor and former Grand Swipe named Alexandra Lebenthal stepped in
between us. Wilbur Ross quickly followed, and the two of them led me out into the lobby, past a throng
of Wall Street tycoons, some of whom seemed to be hyperventilating.
Once we made it to the lobby, Ross and Lebenthal reassured me that what I’d just seen wasn’t really a
group of wealthy and powerful financiers making homophobic jokes, making light of the financial
crisis, and bragging about their business conquests at Main Street’s expense. No, it was just a group of
friends who came together to roast each other in a benign and self-deprecating manner. Nothing to see
here.
But the extent of their worry wasn’t made clear until Ross offered himself up as a source for future
stories in exchange for my cooperation.
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“I’ll pick up the phone anytime, get you any help you need,” he said.
“Yeah, the people in this group could be very helpful,” Lebenthal chimed in. “If you could just keep
their privacy in mind.”
I wasn’t going to be bribed off my story, but I understood their panic. Here, after all, was a group that
included many of the executives whose firms had collectively wrecked the global economy in 2008 and
2009. And they were laughing off the entire disaster in private, as if it were a long-forgotten lark. (Or
worse, sing about it — one of the last skits of the night was a self-congratulatory parody of ABBA’s
“Dancing Queen,” called “Bailout King.”) These were activities that amounted to a gigantic middle
finger to Main Street and that, if made public, could end careers and damage very public reputations.
After several more minutes spent trying to do damage control, Ross and Lebenthal escorted me out of
the St. Regis.
As I walked through the streets of midtown in my ill-fitting tuxedo, I thought about the implications of
what I’d just seen.
The first and most obvious conclusion was that the upper ranks of finance are composed of people who
have completely divorced themselves from reality. No self-aware and socially conscious Wall Street
executive would have agreed to be part of a group whose tacit mission is to make light of the financial
sector’s foibles. Not when those foibles had resulted in real harm to millions of people in the form of
foreclosures, wrecked 401(k)s, and a devastating unemployment crisis.
The second thing I realized was that Kappa Beta Phi was, in large part, a fear-based organization. Here
were executives who had strong ideas about politics, society, and the work of their colleagues, but who
would never have the courage to voice those opinions in a public setting. Their cowardice had reduced
them to sniping at their perceived enemies in the form of satirical songs and sketches, among only
those people who had been handpicked to share their view of the world. And the idea of a reporter
making those views public had caused them to throw a mass temper tantrum.
The last thought I had, and the saddest, was that many of these self-righteous Kappa Beta Phi members
had surely been first-year bankers once. And in the 20, 30, or 40 years since, something fundamental
about them had changed. Their pursuit of money and power had removed them from the larger world to
the sad extent that, now, in the primes of their careers, the only people with whom they could be truly
themselves were a handful of other prominent financiers.
Perhaps, I realized, this social isolation is why despite extraordinary evidence to the contrary, one-
percenters like Ross keep saying how badly persecuted they are. When you’re a member of the
fraternity of money, it can be hard to see past the foie gras to the real world.
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(Above)
This is
billionaire Jacque Littlefield, also connected to interesting mineral mining deals, standing next to the
fully operational armored division he kept in his garage in Woodside, California in Silicon Valley. He
was the friend and neighbor of Elon Musk, John Doerr, Eric Schmidt and the other suspects. He had an
around-the-clock maintenance crew who kept his tanks and military equipment fully functional, at all
times. His functioning armored division was larger, and better maintained, than that of many South
American dictatorships. When asked why he had all of that in his massive, custom built garage, he
replied: “just in case”.
Revealed: The Full Membership List of Wall Street’s Secret Society
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Why did the key investors of Tesla meet with persons and groups from the Russian government and
business sectors who State Department has identified as having mob connections? Could it have to do
with all of the trillions of dollars
The Psychology of The Billionaire: Why so many of them are Sociopaths
Why do billionaires have islands for sex orgy's, jet planes for pedophiles, pedophile child murder clubs,
hire a hooker-a-day, put hit-jobs on competitors, hire character assassination teams, cheat on their taxes
even though they can afford to pay them, ignore the law, abuse people in public, treat women like
cattle, fire people on a whim, abuse waiters, go through wives like butter, manipulate Congress and
have the life-style of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Because they
can or
because they
are too
mentally
disturbed to
know better?
Why do Mark
Zuckerberg,
Elon Musk,
John Doerr
and Eric
Schmidt feel
like it is there
job to take
over the U.S.
Congress and
mold
government
into their
personal
sociopathic
vision?
Why can't
they just buy
an insanely
large
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McMansion in Atherton, California and the world's most expensive fishing pole and just go fishing all
over the world?
Why does Vinod Kohsla have to get in this giant lawsuit with the whole state of California so he can
shut down part of California's pristine Pacific Ocean park system for his personal Frat Boy club?
Why did London's super-money and political elite round up young boys from the poor side of town,
sexually abuse them, then kill them and think this was an Ok organization to have around?
Why are Gary D. Conley, Wall Street Reporter David Bird and a large number of people, who whistle-
blew on billionaires, dead or missing?
As everyone has seen, these are the daily stories in the news. These people actually do these things on a
regular basis. They only hang out with other billionaires, who also do the same crimes, infidelities and
extremes so they all think they can get away with these kinds of crimes. This does not just affect the
billionaires. There actions harm millions of innocent victins. Let's take a look at the problem:
Declaring War On The Corruption Of The Silicon Valley VC's
Who Rig Elections and Policies
By Althea Winger
There are about 50 American creative inventors that have gotten shafted by Kleiner Perkins, Eric
Schmidt, Steve Jurvetson, and the Silicon Valley Cartel, via an organized system of theft, and
arrogance, that is quite audacious.
Each, and every, time these domestic creators invented a major thing, which had never existed before,
the U.S. Government, the industry and potential customers; said that these inventors were the first ones
to invent that thing. Not a single one of these VC's had ever worked on, been involved in, or developed
anything like it before.
Then, one of a handful of, closely associated, Silicon Valley VC's, asks one of the inventor's to show
them their new invention under the guise of "maybe investing in it".
Then the VC copies it, while running media troll attacks on the inventor's effort, in order to clear the
market.
The VC's then market a 100% copy of the invention, via a Kleiner, or Draper, associated "spin-off" and
never pay the inventor's a dime.
The VC's set up a legal structure designed to cost the inventor's millions of dollars to sue those VC’s
for the rip-offs. On top of that, the VC's already have most of the law firms working for them, and
threaten the firms, with revenue cut-offs, if they help any of the inventors. In addition to their “No
Poaching Conspiracy” , the VC’s also have a “No Sue Conspiracy”, going on at the same time. The
VC's also bribe federal elected officials to keep them protected.
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The FBI, The SEC, The FTC, and attorney generals, are supposed to protect citizens from such crimes,
and abuse, but the bosses of the regulatory agencies have a great fear of upsetting campaign financiers;
so not much gets done. This is one of the reason’s the public has no faith in Congress any more.
This VC scam is part of a process called "The Slip" and it is a grifter's scam to steal things from
unsuspecting members of the public, in this case American Inventors. The Slip has been
commercialized, organized, and computerized by Silicon Valley billionaires in a very systematic
program of intellectual theft.
Why would these VC’s risk legal battles and a lifetime of hatred from these inventors? It is called
“Arrogance”
The media, public and sociology has clearly analysed Silicon Valley culture and confirmed, in tens of
thousands of news reports and studies that Silicon Valley is run by:
“A private male frat-house insider-club, from Yale and Stanford, who revel in their misogyny,
racism, and mine-is-bigger-than-yours hubris, and use more prostitutes than any other American
region in the nation.”
These “privileged” white males do not EVER want anyone to know that they didn’t create many of the
things that they made their billions off of. Many of those things, the VC’s just stole. They made Silicon
Valley into a Kinko’s copy center for other people’s ideas.
Inventor Mike Chieky, digital media creator Micheal Arrington, and vast numbers of other creators
didn’t have the symmetrical facial structure of the frat boys, they didn’t have the family connections of
the “approved” elites and they didn’t hang out at the Woodside community center or hire the $2000.00
per hour hookers that some of the VC’s did. They just “didn’t fit in”. They didn’t have “the look”. They
“didn’t play the game”. They didn’t get invited in.
The VC’s say: “In Silicon Valley you are either a tool or you are The Machine”.
Many of Google’s products were created by other’s, before Google was even a real company, and
simply stolen by Google.
The same for Apple.
Guess who just funded the massive lobbying effort, in Washington DC, to make inventors “illegal” and
remove any legal protections for inventors? The investors of Google, Apple and the Kleiner Perkins
Cartel!
State and federal officials have been assisting the Silicon Valley Cartel in terminating American
innovation because the Cartel bribes them, with campaign funding, to do so.
The Cartel went very big, on their game-plan, recently. As one Silicon Valley insider described some
recent, epic, VC scams: “ If you type “Silicon Valley Cartel No Poaching” into
www.duckduckgo.com you will see quite a lot of news stories about how Kleiner and the Boys rigged
the Valley so that no Paki’s (Indian H1-B workers) could get hired by other VC holdings, so that
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they would get booted back to India before they could make IP ownership claims. This followed right
on the heels of the “AngelGate Scandal” where the VC’s were caught red-handed colluding to rig
the VC industry against founders…”
VC insiders Ravi Kumra and Forrest Hayes were murdered by their hookers. $2000.00 bucks an hour
doesn’t buy the kind of gal it used to.
Kleiner VC: Vinohd Khosla, has gotten himself sued and hated by California for taking the States
favourite beach away, just for his friends. As the lawyer suing Khosla says: “it is about his sheer
Arrogance”.
Kleiner VC, and Founder: Tom Perkins, was in the news recently for called poor people: “Nazi’s” for
not appreciating how wonderful the VC’s are.
VC Joe Lonsdale is facing rape and abuse charges. Cartel boss, and Kleiner head, John Doerr just got,
famously, sued by his own partner for sex and misogyny abuse. Kleiner associate: Ray Lane was
nailed for massive tax fraud.
As if the arrogance could not get more outlandish, VC Tim Draper just ran a failed ballot initiative to
try to make Silicon Valley it’s own state so that they could build a border-line, away from those filthy
“poor’s” in East Palo Alto. These VC’s appear to have some major issues.
This gang of white, yuppie, elitists created the National Venture Capital Association and their private
CIA hit-squad: In-Q-Tel, who funded the spy portions of Google, Facebook, Linkedin and the other
privacy abuse ops. They never miss an opportunity for a good collusion.
The problem is, these boys created a glass bubble that was so air-tight, they never saw what was
coming from the outside: What came was Mike Judge’s “Silicon Valley” TV show expose; public
disdain of their arrogance; hundreds of Snowdens, created by their abuse of their own workers; Ellen
Pao; The fall of the main-stream media, that they thought they owned; the realization that frat houses
housed “rape factories” and men who were socially programmed to abuse; and the general trend
towards really not liking arrogant pricks all that much.
Will law enforcement and regulatory agencies ever do their jobs and take action against these abusers?
Will any legal recourse ever exist to halt the abuse of America’s innovation treasure: It’s creative
inventors?
Thanks to leakers, hackers, whistle-blowers and investigations, the insider rigging of industries is now
out on the table and it is a dirty, dirty scene. The shiny towers of Sandhill Road hide a cesspool of
corruption and Mafioso-like double-dealing.
It is time to take a look at a Valley that has turned into a Pit!
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Misusing the spy agencies for personal profiteering
AFI reporters feel that they have sourced evidence that details a cartel activity among the National
Venture Capital Association leaders. Their members are also the same people who founded and run In-
Q-Tel. These same people are also the people who lobby federal executive policy, mostly to benefit
their personal stock portfolios. It is implied that the NVCA/IQT Cartel decide who gets government
contracts in exchange for certain campaign resources. The top woman at the NSA was fired for running
a privateering operation, per Glenn Greenwald. The Washington Post reported on the corruption in spy
land when Silencers for Navy kills squads were pawned off for manufacture to a friends California car
shop. The number of spies using government resources for personal profit is high but nobody has
achieved greater notoriety than a Elon Musk's, Eric Schmidt's and John Doerr's silent partners at a little
rogue spy operation called: IN-Q-TEL
You see, billionaires like to play at being “spies”. They feel a sexual rush from knowing that they
controlled an election or monopoly. It is the pure ecstasy of narcissistic power and hubris combined
with the absolute arrogance of white elitist privilege.
BULLET POINTS REGARDING IN-Q-TEL:
– Charged by Congress and Consumer Groups with HUNDREDS of violations of
Constitutional, tax, securities and commercial laws
– TechCrunch, Arrington, Buzzfeed & Alex Jones expose In-Q-Tel staff and VC’s as leaders of
“Angel-Gate Scandal” & illegal “National Venture Capital Association Blacklisting & Market
Control Collusion Cartel” . Congress & S.E.C. asked to investigate.
– Why was In-Q-Tel so involved with Google and Tesla in a covert manner?
– 6+ tons of cocaine confiscated by federal police, from IQT airplanes
– Owners of the Rendition Airplanes. Featured in Feature films: “RENDITION”, “WAG THE
DOG” and “KILL THE MESSENGER
– ACLU claims IQT owns the controlling rights in most of the domestic spying companies
(over 300 of them) plus controls Google and Facebook activities
– IQT/NAF/AFGHAN WAR PROFITEERS/VC INVESTORS/FRATERNITY GROUP are All
The SAME group of people
– Epstein Investigations close in on corrupt billionaire club
– Evolved from liaison office to unregulated, potentially criminal and mercenary, endeavor.
“Blackwater” in pin-stripe suits.
– Spins PR as “helping technology grow” but investigators say it has become a private political
spy service for Silicon Valley billionaires
– Cult-like frat-house atmosphere at their companies devoted to control of outcomes at any cost.
Almost no blacks or women in their groups.
– IQT member, or associate, connected to almost every banking group arrested or charged by
DOJ
– Per Congressional investigators IQT resources missed the boat on ISIS, Benghazi and over
1300+ other recent intelligence failures
– “If you went to Stanford or Harvard and were in the “approved” Fraternities, you could be in
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the In-Q-Tel Spy Club where dot com billionaires get to lord it over White House policy in order
to enrich their personal stock portfolios.” Web News
– Now proven that IQT “spying by computer” approach is a failed concept. Computers are
always wrong on how the human mind will process social events.
– Uses taxpayer dollars to sell hit jobs to corporations and bankers = illegal
– IQT Afghan War lithium/indium/Solyndra venture with Silicon Valley VC’s, has now cost
American taxpayers over $6 TRILLION dollars in losses per GAO, Time Magazine, Treasury
According to one senior Congressional staffer: “In-Q-Tel was supposed to be a small office that was
to help young entrepreneurs sell their wares to government agencies. Congress has been unable to
examine them, or do oversight on them, because they hide behind a non-profit cover. This lack of
regulation caused the Silicon Valley VC’s to believe they could get away with anything and use In-Q-Tel
as a private profiteering weapon for their own stock portfolios and their private political schemes. Now
we have an out-of-control operation, undertaken by a rogue group, that may, very well, be breaking
quite a number of laws…”
One contracted investigator said: “I f you run all of the names on the suspect lists into xKeyScore,
LucidWorks, Palantir, TX-7 or similar sets of crime search engines; matrix their credit cards and then
cross reference them with the database file of every major escort service, your response screen lights up
like a Christmas tree. These people hire lots of ladies. Then, if you run them with a ‘peeling program’
which strips away their corporate fronts and matrix their holdings via the Cayman’s, The Ukraine and
Switzerland, you find that one chunk of them likes to off-shore their tax avoidance into the same little
nooks. Mostly, it is the ones from Silicon Valley, but there is much to behold when you scan this group.
Ryals has reported them to the SEC for years but the new Congress will not like the DNC leverage that In-Q-Tel has been using to acquire Democratic initiatives. The Democrat IQT never saw the GOP
Congress coming…”
Chris Byron- New York Post:
“There are many sensible ways the CIA could have gone about developing the technologies it needs,
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but funneling money into Wall Street via an outfit like In-Q-Tel was never one of them. So it will be a
good thing for Wall Street – and for America, too – if the CIA’s next spymaster simply shuts the
operation down.” (Contact Chris Byron via Twitter)
Alex Jones: “I will tell you something about them that will shock you…” (Available for background
interviews)
The Corbett Report: “…they should be shut down..” (Available for background interviews)
“IN-Q-Tel was born in the Harvard and Stanford Frat Houses of the rich and “elite”. As the world has
now seen, these frat houses teach young white men that date-rape and the use of women as disposable
play things is the norm, outsiders and people of color are to be shunned, “greed is not only good” – it
is the apex of your life, and the only thing that matters is beating your frat brothers in business coups to
show who has the biggest penis.
You saw the Jewish holocaust and said: “How could those people do such a thing?”. You saw genocide
in Africa and said: “How could those people do such a thing?” You saw Enron and Madoff and a host
of epic crimes against the public and you said, in each case: “How could those people do such a
thing?”
It is called Dissociation. The IN-Q-TEL leaders lost track, they lost morality and they let blind greed
and boys club rules overcome decency and the law.” – LATIMES RESEARCHER
From Another Investigative News Report: “IN-Q-Tel (IQT) is NOT the CIA. In fact, over half of the
actual CIA feel that IQT are “Yuppie spy wanna-be A-holes” and a “stain on the intelligence
community.” Actual intelligence agents say that IN-Q-Tel began as a small business liaison office that
avoided circumspection because they got to whisper “CIA” whenever they felt pressure from law
enforcement or Congress. IQT is the modern day equivalent of the Watergate Burglars; political hit-
men and a dirty-deeds-for-hire cabal.
This small office quickly grew to an out of control, rogue spy operation with no oversight, no controls,
layers upon layers of false corporate fronts, and an agenda written by a special interest group of
billionaires and investment banks. They went from protecting taxpayers to abusing the taxpayers on
behalf of tycoons. They use U.S. taxpayer dollars and Silicon Valley tycoon cash to sell their spy
services to The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other lobby groups. Conflict-of-interest? You might
say so!
When the FBI and DEA confiscated IQT’s airplanes and found six tons of Cocaine, when IQT was
shown to own the “Rendition” airplanes, when the largest privacy abuse in American history all tracks
back to IQT’s bank accounts, when the trillion dollar loss in Afghanistan is tracked back to a trillion
dollar stock scam connected to IQT’s tycoons….. you have to just stop and go…hmmmm?
Some Congressional and journalism investigators feel that IQT has fallen as close to the definition of
“organized crime” as you can get. Investigations say that IQT engages in “activities that stretch the
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bounds of morality and the law”; and run the most sinister of political hit-jobs, muckraking, lobbying
and spying on American’s that are so in the news these days. Edward Snowden exposed a database
called xKEYSCORE as well as many other systems which find “bad guys”. When you run the In-Q-Tel
characters through these bad-guy finders, you discover that a group of White House staff, pretend
spies, lobbyists, tabloid owners, Russian mobsters and Silicon Valley tycoons all share the same deep
financial, stock and political connections.
The attack plan is a classic set of take-down playbook moves. A client orders the termination of every
possible source of revenue of the target (usually an individual or small company who got in the way), in
order to terminate the target’s ability to respond or litigate and as retribution for the attackers
perceived slight.
The attackers employ character assassination, they plant moles in the target’s business and “Honey
Traps” in personal venues, they hack, They use DNS redirection to send the target to fake Linkedin and
Facebook sites, They shut down the targets business with DDOS attacks, they use unfair business
competition tactics by stealing technology and flooding the market with clone technology, and they
manipulate public policy against the target via lobbying and bribery in Washington DC, among their
dirty tricks.
In-Q-Tel has spent over a decade, and billions of your tax dollars, trying to automate spying on people
and mood manipulation, by taking over Silicon Valley; yet none of their technology saw Benghazi, ISIS,
or thousands of other missed intelligence indicators. The plain fact is, computers always fail with
social projection, they always get it wrong, when trying to calculate what the human mind will do. The
IQT approach put the nation at greater risk by hyping and selling a failed solution. Human minds will
never work like computers unless IQT’s Google builds it’s human robots to replace us all.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy domestically. The NSA does not do that much domestic spying, they
mostly analyze spy data provided by “contractors” like Axciom and the IQT “pool”. IQT sells their
services to anybody willing to pay. It appears that no deed is too dirty for IQT. IQT financed, runs and
coordinates the largest array of domestic spying gear, data harvesting and mood manipulation
companies in America. If you pull up a list of all of the companies that IQT financed and owns stock in,
you will hold a list of every domestic spying operation in the USA. If you pull up an FBI (The FBI and
CIA pretty much hate each other) cross reference of IQT, New America Foundation, Silicon Valley VC’s
and campaign backers; you find that it is a list of all of the same names and financial connections.
Who watches the watchers at IQT? NOBODY! “… (Available for background interviews)
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, AND CAREER HIT-JOBS,
BY HIGHLY PLACED POLITICAL ENTITIES USING
TAXPAYER MONEY
Anatomy of a Political Kill Order
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, AND CAREER HIT-JOBS, BY HIGHLY PLACED
POLITICAL ENTITIES USING TAXPAYER MONEY
By Thomas Winstead, Bob Unruh, Edward Snowden, Winston Emery & Piper Lee
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Government sponsored character assassination delivered by Google, Gawker Media, IN-Q-Tel and
New America Foundation; all of whom are financially, politically and operationally connected. Eric
Schmidt ran and funded New America Foundation; Ran Google; Partnered and funded In-Q-Tel; hired,
along with his associate: Elon Musk, In-Q-Tel executives; Worked with Gawker Marketers along with
In-Q-Tel; was, himself and Google, funded by In-Q-Tel; funded the top 4 political campaigns, that all
of those parties aggressively supported; and managed a business plan, that ran between all of those
efforts, to ruin competitors and those who did not think like him, in any way possible.
Using the largest character assassination engine ever created. The Large Hadron Collider of
defamation, Schmidt and his little Cartel went to work on enemies of his ideology. These were hit-jobs,
using taxpayer dollars, against American born taxpayers, inside America, on U.S. soil because some
politician or, campaign backer billionaire, wanted to hide their crimes.
ARTICLES CONFIRMING THE BACKGROUND:
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Character assassination is a deliberate and sustained process that aims to destroy the credibility and
reputation of a person, institution, social group, or nation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_assassination
Google Search Results Rigged? – Outside The Beltway
Is Google manipulating its search results to keep competitors down? … When Google was a pure
search engine, it was easy to appear agnostic about search results, … Are Google’s results rigged?
Heck yeah.
outsidethebeltway.com/google-search-results-rigged/
Full Definition of CHARACTER ASSASSINATION : the slandering of a person usually with the
intention of destroying public confidence in that person See character assassination defined for
English-language learners Examples of CHARACTER ASSASSINATION None of those rumors are
true. She’s been the …
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/character assassination
Character Assassination is the act of attempting to influence the portrayal or reputation of a particular
person, causing others to develop an extremely negative perception of him/her.
ndictionary.com/define.php?term=Character Assassination CW
Google Defends Against Claims of Rigged Search Results. Google is aggressively defending itself
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against accusations it manipulates its search … or specialized image, shopping, flight, or movie results.
And that’s not just Google; Bing, Yahoo and other search engines do the …
pcworld.com/article/257269/google_defends_against_cla…
Character Assassination refers to the slandering or vicious personal verbal attack on a person with the
intention of destroyinPg or damaging that person’s reputation or confidence.
definitions.uslegal.com/c/character-assassination/
The bclund Blog The Intersection of Markets, Trading, and Life! Main menu. Skip to content. Home;
About Brian Lund; THE BEST OF bclund; Brian Lund In Media; Google Has Rigged It’s Search
Results…Is Anyone Surprised? … To bolster its own listings, Google sometimes copied, …
bclund.com/2015/03/20/google-has-rigged-its-search-r…
character assassination n. The malicious denunciation or slandering of another person, especially as
part of an effort to ruin the reputation of a public figure. character assassin n. character assassination
n 1. the act of deliberately attempting to destroy a person’s reputation by defamatory …
thefreedictionary.com/character+assassination
Europe investigates Google: Rigged search rankings? More like this. Update: Google targeted by EU
antitrust probe. Google Instant results: … it makes no sense. … Google is a search engine. … It s their
job. If they are not allowed to do this, they cannot serve their users. …
computerworld.com/article/2469754/e-commerce/europe-investi…
Character Assassination – Changing Minds
Character Assassination . Techniques > Propaganda > Character Assassination. Method | Example |
Discussion | See also . Method. Attack the person, showing them to be bad and unworthy.
changingminds.org/techniques/propaganda/character_assassina…
raps : PW Talks with Jason Matthews
I don’t know if there still is an operating Sparrow School, but I imagine honey traps are still used. …
which continues the narrative with the same characters (and some new ones). There are recruitments,
double crosses, despicable traitors, assassination attempts, and a desperate …
publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56…
U competition commissioner ‘concerned’ G
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… with competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager formally accusing the search giant of rigging
its search engine and its Android smartphone . Jobs. Jobs; Cars. CarsIreland.ie; Used Car Search; Car
Dealers; Deals. … EU competition commissioner ‘concerned’ Google is rigging its search engine …
independent.ie/business/technology/news/eu-competition-c…
… Honey Trap Trickster? Or CIA Assassin? … Here’s a little sample of Negri’s more recent
character assassination regarding myself and my friends and colleagues Rayelan … But it’s getting
late and this ‘Former CIA Assassin’ and ‘Honey Trap Trickster’ has grown tired of typing …
barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2006/11/honey-trap-trickster-or-cia-assas…
Julian Assange in the Honey Trap. How they snared him. by Justin … character assassination is an
art, to be practiced with a fine attention to detail … One of the participants in the ensuing conversation
describes her as “certainly an odd character,” who seemed out of …
original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/12/07/julian-assange-in-the-h…
nowden Drip: Government Funded C
Snowden Drip: Government Funded Character Assassination Squads Rampant Online From The
Intercept: … the use of “honey traps” (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and
destructive viruses. But, here, …
blog.agupieware.com/2014/02/snowden-drip-government-funded.html
By Bob Unruh
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, through whom document-leaker Edward Snowden previously rattled the
entire National Security Agency, is now confirming Western intelligence networks strategize to place
“trolls” on the Internet to undermine, discredit and destroy critics.
In an article posted on website Greenwald help create called the Intercept, Greenwald reports secret documents from the GCHQ – the United Kingdom’s version of the NSA – reveal “how western
intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of
deception and reputation-destruction.”
He cites documents from the “previously secret” Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group in the
U.K., which describe injecting “all sorts of false material onto the Internet in order to destroy the
reputation of its targets” and to use “social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online
discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.”
“To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those
ends: ‘false flag operations’ (posting material to the Internet and falsely attributing it to someone else),
fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to
destroy), and posting ‘negative information’ on various forums.”
The document lists a “Disruption Operational Playbook” and subheadings titled “Infiltration Operation,
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Ruse Operation, Set Piece Operation, False Flag Operation, False Rescue Operation, Disruption
Operation, Sting Operation.”
Get “Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom,
Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism” at WND’s Superstore
Regarding how to “discredit a target,” the instructions include, “Set up a honey-trap, change their
photos on social networking sites, write a blog purporting to be one of their victims, email/text their
colleagues, neighbors, friends etc.”
Sam Rolley at the Personal Liberty blog wrote that his organization for years has been “warning readers that the well-connected and ruling elite, displeased by this newfound proletariat freedom, have
been prolific in attempts to undermine and marginalize information provided by any media outlet
unwilling to obey the same unspoken rules that govern the content choices of major media outlets.”
“Now, thanks to the efforts of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and journalist
Glenn Greenwald, readers no longer have to take the word of ‘paranoid’ bloggers who relate tales of
paid government trolls lurking in comment sections and other concentrated top-down efforts to muddy
the information provided by alternative media,” Rolley said.
He warned that the “most disturbing confirmation provided in the newly publicized intelligence
documents is that spy agencies in Western nations with free speech guarantees have been given carte
blanche authority from political leadership to target private individuals and organizations deemed
uncooperative with the will of the state with ruthless online reputation-destruction efforts.”
Greenwald said the discussion of many of the techniques “occurs in the context of using them in lieu of
‘traditional law enforcement’ against people suspected (but not charged or convicted) of ordinary
crimes or, more broadly still, ‘hacktivism,’ meaning those who use online protest activity for political
ends.”
Rolley said it takes “no stretch of the imagination – even for those who have resisted considering the
possibility of malevolent intent on government’s part – to assume that the mission of organizations like
the NSA and GCHQ is ultimately more about quelling citizen dissent than stopping citizen bloodshed
at the hands of terrorists.”
“The mere existence of documents like those published this week,” Rolley said, “provides that the
nefarious and long-suspected Internet activities of Western propagandists are not just plausible – they
have very likely occurred in the comment sections and social media posts of articles like the one you
are reading now.”
WND columnist Eric Rush highlighted the outrageous idea of government agents trying to destroy the
reputations of critics.
“It is worth noting that in 2008, Cass Sunstein, an Obama adviser and the White House’s former head
of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs … wrote a paper proposing that the U.S.
government engage teams of covert agents and independent, ideologically kindred surrogates to
employ precisely the aforementioned methods to achieve their objectives,” Rush said.
Greenwald said the “point is that, far beyond hacktivists, these surveillance agencies have vested
themselves with the power to deliberately ruin people’s reputations and disrupt their online political
activity even though they’ve been charged with no crimes, and even though their actions have no
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conceivable connection to terrorism or even national security threats.”
Greenwald said the British organization, GCHQ, in response to his questions, said only that it does not
comment on intelligence matters.
“Furthermore,” the agency said, “all of GCHQ’s work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal
and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorized, necessary and proportionate,
and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the Secretary of State, the Interception and
Intelligence Services Commissioners, and the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee.”
“Whatever else is true,” Greenwald wrote, “no government should be able to engage in these tactics:
what justification is there for having government agencies target people – who have been charged with
no crime – for reputation-destruction, infiltrate online political communities, and develop techniques
for manipulating online discourse?”
WND previously has reported on leftist trolls operating online, including those with thousands of
postings that would be unlikely to come from someone submitting comments during free time.
The report at the time said the trolls were performing a “disinformation” function typical of counter-
intelligence efforts by intelligence agencies to confuse political enemies and refute or deflect opposing
political views that are less susceptible to refutation by more traditional methods of debate and
argumentation.
Typically, trolls operating on WND forums were defending Obama by posting specious and
diversionary arguments with the goal of changing the subject and obscuring topics that could damage
Obama, such as his birth records, life narrative, political history and policy preferences, including his
current positions as president.
One was found to have posted nearly 4,800 comments over a two-year period. Another operated under
different user names used various email addresses and nine different IP addresses to post 15,200
comments over 787 days on WND.com and FoxNews.com, as well as several smaller news websites,
some of which had a local focus or interest.
The report confirmed many of the trolls banned from participating in WND forums appeared to have
been operating on a professional level.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/govt-handbook-for-internet-trolls-uncovered/
How The White House Has You “Killed”:
When you are The White House Press Secretary, and you want
someone killed (in the media) you turn to Gawker Media and In-
Q-Tel
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Who Is Gawker Media and Nick Denton? Let’s take a look at
how the international news media answers that question:
Gawker Media: Hypocrites vs. Douchecanoes
by Matt Forney For TAKI MAG.com
In 2002, a failed British journalist named Nick Denton started Gawker, a bitchy gossip blog run out of
his Manhattan apartment. Over 10 years later, Gawker and its sister sites have become the biggest
names in clickbait “journalism,” pulling down millions of visitors a month and making its owner a
millionaire several times over. The secret to Denton’s success? He took the aggressive, lynch mob
mentality of British tabloids, which specialize in ruining people’s lives, and injected it into America’s
comparatively placid, Oprahfied media market.
In particular, Gawker, Jezebel, Valleywag, and their sister sites specialize in witch hunts: digital
vigilantism against those who fail to keep up with leftist orthodoxy. Geoffrey Miller, Pax Dickinson,
Justine Tunney, Violentacrez: the list of people whom Gawker has garroted for “racism” or “misogyny”
could fill a phone book. With an army of Twitter twits behind it, Gawker Media truly is the moral
majority of the left, instigating mob action against those who sin against the religion
of tolerance. Gawker’s provocations are even encouraging real-world violence now,
as Valleywag’s overfed man-baby of an editor Sam Biddle eggs on attacks against San Francisco tech
workers from the safety of the East Coast.
http://www.corruptionnewsdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SPIES-WHO-WENT-ROGUE_-THE-
“Which makes the revelation that Denton has been allowing trolls to terrorize his female
employees all the more delicious.”
For the past few months, 4chan has been engaged in a trolling operation against Jezebel, posting
pictures of rape and gore porn in the comments section. Despite the fact that these shocking and disgusting images are stressing out staffers to the point where they’re developing PTSD, Denton has
steadfastly refused to do anything about the problem. Jezebel’s staff recently snapped and posted an
open letter on the site demanding that Gawker Media do something, calling 4chan’s trolling “a very real and immediate threat to the mental health of Jezebel’s staff and readers.”
Fat chance of this happening, however. As others have pointed out, Gawker Media’s business model depends on getting clicks; indeed, their writers are paid according to how many page views their
articles get. Since comments help drive traffic to websites, fighting 4chan’s rape porn trolling will reduce Gawker’s profitability. Not only that, Google itself ranks web pages according to how many
comments they have, as comments are extremely difficult to fake. Fewer comments means a lower page rank, which translates into less search traffic and less money for Denton to blow on exotic
vacations with his boy-toy hubby. If Gawker Media was willing to testify in federal court as to why
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they should be allowed to rip off their interns, you can bet your bottom peso that they aren’t going to do jack about this.
Gawker Media Attack Specialist Adrian Covert of San Francisco. Now under 24/7 electronic
surveillance for “suspicious activities”
And there’s the punch line. Gawker Media, the company that gets people fired from their jobs for
making “sexist” jokes, has been creating a hostile work environment for its women staffers
for months. They’re the leftist equivalent of a priest who rails against homosexuality only to be caught
molesting altar boys in the confessional booths. In staying silent on this for so long, Dodai
Stewart, Lindy West, and Jezebel’s other star employees have shown themselves to be frauds. They don’t care about feminism, “fat shaming,” or whatever cause they’re screeching about today; all they
care about is money and power. And now we have the proof.
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enton Sweats Over Decline in Web A
Gawker Media’s Nick Denton has made a horrible prediction regarding internet adspend for the next
year: … Gawker’s Denton Sweats Over Decline in Web Ad Revenues. Shares Tweets Stumble … But
the web ad economy as a whole will be the beneficiary of falling budgets.
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Nick Denton charged with ordering phone-hacking, helping Anonymous hackers, stealing Mitt
Romney’s tax records, hiding money in Russia and Caymans and MORE…
IS GAWKER MEDIA THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY’S “PLAUSIBLE DENI-
ABILITY” HIT SQUAD? STILL MORE…
I feel like I’m probably going straight to hell for all of this. But, given all the other shitty … Emily
Ratajkowski entertainment expats facebook Gawker Gawker Media gender hipsters Hollywood Hugh
Hefner inter-racial dating internet Jezebel Julia Allison korea liberalism …
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dvertisers Ditch Gawker Media In Droves. “Brand Tainted”
Terror– John Cook of Gawker; now of Greenwald – NOT CIA’S FRIEND!
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Gawker Tries to Reveal Identity of CIA Agent Behind Bin Laden
Kill
By Jana Winter
The Gawker website is under fire for trying to expose the CIA agent who may have helped lead the
effort to kill Usama Bin Laden — despite efforts by the U.S. government and media to keep his identity secret for security reasons.
Using red arrows pointing to a full-length picture and close-up photos of the possible agent, Gawker
reporter John Cook on July 6 wrote a piece under the headline “Is This the Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?” The story has since sparked an angry response from former intelligence agents — as well as
Gawker’s own readers — who say Cook’s post was irresponsible and could have deadly consequences.
“This whole business of exposing people is a real serious matter. It’s not entertainment, some people
may think it is, but it’s not … There are real people out there that are going to be killed because of
this,” said Charles Faddis, a former CIA operations officer who spent 20 years working international
hot spots and who headed the CIA’s Terrorist Weapons of Mass Destruction Unit before retiring in
2008.
“I don’t have a lot of patience for this,” added Faddis, speaking about attempts to out the identity of a
CIA operative. “This is serious, this is really serious. It’s completely irresponsible.”
Some Gawker readers also weren’t amused. A commenter named “Myrna Minkoff” wrote in response
to Cook’s story:
“If this is the guy who tracked down Bin Laden, I can think of no better way to thank him for his
outstanding civil service than by outing him on a highly trafficked web site and putting his career, his
life, the lives of his loved ones in danger. Hooray!”
Another commenter “joelydanger” wrote:
“Consider that the next time you decide to write another article that tries to glorify DEVGRU, the CIA,
or anyone and anything else used on the mission. You’re causing harm and danger to the very people
you’re claiming to be heroes.”
But Cook insisted he didn’t compromise anyone’s security by posting the photos.
“I do not believe my post put anybody in physical danger,” Cook said in an email response to several
questions posed by FoxNews.com. “I do not believe that people whose photographs are distributed by
the White House as part of its public relations efforts have a reasonable claim to ask that no one
speculate as to who they are.”
Cook was referring to a series of official White House pictures taken from the Situation Room during
the raid on Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. The most famous of those photos, seen on televisions,
newspapers and websites around the world, showed President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other officials watching a live feed of the raid.
Barely visible in that photo is the right jacket arm and the bottom of a necktie that appear to belong to a
tall man standing behind Gates. Other pictures taken in the Situation Room during the raid, posted on
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the White House Flickr feed, show full-on shots of a tall man whose jacket and tie appear to match
those of the man standing behind Gates in the earlier photo.
On July 5, the Associated Press published an extensive article on a CIA agent who led the hunt and
eventual takedown of Bin Laden. The article referred to the agent only as “John,” explaining: “The
Associated Press has agreed to the CIA’s request not to publish his full name and withhold certain
biographical details so that he would not become a target for retribution.”
Later that same day, the website Cryptome, a Wikileaks competitor that publishes leaked, sometimes classified documents and information, used clues from the AP article to home in on photos from the
White House Flickr feed and other AP photos that might show “John.” The article noted that “John”
appeared just out of frame in the famous photo.
The following day, Cook picked up the Cryptome info and published the photos from the White House
Flickr feed, beneath the “Is This the Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?” headline. Cook’s post also included
an AP file photo of CIA Director Leon Panetta leaving a briefing on Capitol Hill, where the man who
may be “John” is seen in the background.
“Of course, it could be a random staffer who happened to be in both locations with John,” Cook wrote.
“Or it could be the guy who iced bin Laden.”
The New York Observer posted a story late Tuesday that claimed to have confirmed the identity of the
CIA agent, starting with the AP article and the Situation Room photo, and it posted photos online of the
man it said was the agent.
Cook said he and his Gawker editors discussed potential safety concerns before publishing the
information and photos.
“We came to the conclusion that it is highly unlikely that the White House would distribute for
publication a photograph of a man whose life would be endangered if his photograph were ever
published. Likewise, we decided that it is highly unlikely that such a man would publicly accompany
the director of Central Intelligence, in the presence of AP photographers, to Capitol Hill to testify.”
But those White House photos do not identify the man in question, only noting that the group of people
are “members of the national security team,” numerous Gawker commenters pointed out.
“You seem to have not noticed that they took great pains to make sure his face wasn’t in the shot and he
was never identified by name,” Myrna Minkoff wrote, when another commenter challenged her
criticism of the Gawker post.
Other commenters chimed in.
“Sure it’ll put him, his friends, and his family in danger regardless of whether or not he’s actually the
guy, but it’ll generate some pageviews and advertiser revenue, and that’s the IMPORTANT thing,
right?” wrote someone using the name “dgoat.”
“You should still be ashamed of yourselves.”
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The headquarters of Gawker Media, … (Ironically, it was one of the few things he’s ever done mainly
for the hell of it.) … Blog at WordPress.com. Follow. Follow “Gawker Media LLC and Nick Denton-
The Killing of Babies …
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awker is the most vile and evil example of the written word in history”, says employee. What
Doing About Our Rape Gif Problem
On Monday, we posted an open letter to the management of Gawker Media, our parent company,
regarding an ongoing problem that we here at Jezebel could no longer tolerate: horribly violent rape
gifs that were consistently appearing in our comments. For months, we asked Gawker Media HQ for
help with
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Jezebel calls out Gawker Media for failing to address incessant misogynist comments … we’d report
the hell out of it here and cite it as another example of employers failing to take the safety of its female
employees seriously.
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nd the Rage of the Creative Underclass — New York …
Everybody Sucks Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass. By Vanessa Grigoriadis; Published
Oct 14, 2007 ; … Gawker made its debut under the leadership of Nick Denton, the complicated owner
of the blog network Gawker Media, …
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Perhaps you, like everyone else who uses the web, likes to visit gossip sites like Gawker. I have had it
with those sites. Their trade is in lies, deception, … Gawker Sucks Even More | Gawker Media.
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Free Beacon” — Breaking News, Politics …
Gawker Sucks. Share. Tweet. Email. … It is unclear to me how Gawker Media’s actions are
materially different from, say, Napster circa 2000 when it was sued out of existence for facilitating the
illicit downloads of copyright material. Who knows.
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again! Butt handed to Gawker; … http://juicedsportsblog.com/2008/05/gawker–media–sucks.html
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Right on. I won’t say that most of the stuff on Digg is bad. It’s just not that great. Meh. But I really
agree with you that there are way too many “me too” blog posts out there.
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Links from Gawker are banned from /r/politics, after journalist threatens to reveal the identity of the
man running Reddit’s “creepshots”, “beatingwomen” and “jailbait” forums.
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Gawker Sucks Sunday, August 24, 2014. … Earlier today, Joel Johnson announced Gawker was
disabling all image uploads in their comments. … And you can be sure the top guys at Gawker Media,
like Joel Johnson, are now looking into it!
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Gawker Sucks. Sunday, December 9, 2012. Finding Mobutu. Most people reading this are probably
familiar with Gawker Media properties.
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Gawker Media. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Everybody Sucks:
Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass, New York magazine, October 22, 2007.
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gawker Media is a Cayman Islands1 corporation online media company and blog network, founded
and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered2 to be one of the most visible and
successful blog-oriented media companies.citation As of March 2012…
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Gawker Writers Have to Work Weekends Now Too | New York Observer
Nick Denton, for his part, said that the weekend plan is “nothing new,” and that in the first half of the
year, … and said he thinks it “sucks.” Share this: Facebook; Twitter; Google; LinkedIn; Print; Email;
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Nick Denton, born 24 August 1966, is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and
proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based
Gawker.com.
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hots In The Dark: Why Gawker S
I was just googling “Gawker sucks” and this came up making a very clear point of why I was googling
this phrase in the first place. They’re not even funny.
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Oh my! Gawker’s Nick Denton’s ex boyfriend is not happy with his new boy toy.
By Christopher Koulouris For http://scallywagandvagabond.com
Frankly there’s nothing more delicious than watching someone famous for ripping people’s alive (yes
journalism sucks these days) apart become his own parody on manners and gossip. That said there was
a twinkle of relish when I came across page 6‘s interesting expose on Nick Denton, the media zealot of Gawker media (which owns a smattering of salacious dribble including gawker,
jezebel,deadspin,lifehacker and jalopnik)who has suddenly found himself the scorn of a former
jealous and one imagines scorned lover.
page 6: Gadfly Gawker Media head Nick Denton recently changed his Facebook status from single to
“in a relationship,” but not everyone seems to be happy about it.
Sources say an angry ex of his new boyfriend tossed a brick through the window of Denton’s SoHo loft
building recently, and has been causing enough further trouble that the police have been contacted.
Not to drift too much from Nick but I too was quite aghast when I decided to publicly note that I was
no longer single but in a relationship on Facebook (for some reason I was quite surprised by the
number of people who responded to what I perceived to be something really quite arbitrary and of little
consequence in the world scheme of things, but yes people do pay attention it seems) which perhaps
might explain the sudden attention that Mr Denton received when he publicly decided to note that he
was in fact now no longer a pedophile or single.
Of course who also noted one assumes is a scorned former lover of the media titan who felt compelled
enough to go smashing bricks into his former lover’s abode. And perhaps with good reason as it
appears Mr Denton’s attentions have now turned to presumably a nimble agile and quite pretty young
man ( 28 year old Derrence Washington) who it appears is an English actor here in NYC on tour
(permanent tour one supposes).
What perhaps make the intrusion even more charming (not to suggest they are ever charming) is Mr
Denton’s own acknowledgment that he is now being served the same dish he is well known famous for
serving up on a regular basis.
When we asked Denton about the incidents, he told us via e-mail: “After that Hulk Hogan sex tape on
Gawker, I can hardly complain about intrusion into my private life!
“Yep, love is messy,” he added.
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Indeed love and gossip are quite messy but that said I’m betting Mr Denton is loving every minute of it.
If I could suggest one thing Mr Denton, perhaps if you were to send a bouquet to the former lover it
may temper their ire. I know it worked for me once. Oh dear…
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NICK DENTON SAYS, ON CAMERA, TO NBC, THAT HE MAKES A LIVING DESTROYING
PEOPLE:
http://jimromenesko.com/2012/03/06/gawkers-nick-denton-talks-to-nbcs-rock-center/
Testimony to Human Rights Watch, The United Nations and Special Task Force: The Hague:
“In-Q-Tel has exploited the most defenseless, at risk, abused people in the world: the war refugees,
democracy advocates and disaster refugees. They did this by copying benign software and offering it to
those groups with the sole purpose of spying on them for economic and political manipulation for the
advantage of campaign billionaires with specific political interests. Backdoors and tracking
mechanisms, via IN-Q-Tel owned Silicon Valley data harvesting companies, were used to take
advantage of these populations of American and international regions.”
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Payback Politics: How taxpayer resources were used to attack
and destroy competitors and reporters who tried to tell police
about the crimes
Department of Energy Funding applicants who competed with
the applicants controlled by the Silicon Valley campaign
financiers were brutally attacked using government resources
Anatomy of A White House “Hit Job”
ANATOMY OF A SILICON VALLEY CARTEL “BURN NOTICE”: TECH BILLIONAIRES
COPY SPY HIT-JOB TACTICS TO WIPE OUT ADVERSARIES
- Contracts hit job and lobby services like In-Q-Tel, Sidney Blumenfeld Consulting, New
America Foundation, Gawker Media, Richard Berman Consulting, NVCA and private
investigators.
- Destroys all your sources of income
- Steals your technology
- Sends “honey-trap” fake dates to harass you
- They will put a “do not hire” notice on every job & HR database in the world
- Spoofing your websites by instantly redirecting links to fake clones
- Sends tens of millions of fake users to your sites
- Intercepts any Paypal, or other online payments, so you never get any on-line revenue
- Threatens law firms that try to defend you
- Has their corrupt Senator manipulate laws against you
- Puts moles in your company
- Calls your employer with fake stories about you to get you fired
- Posts character assassination stories using their “Troll Farms” and Gawker Media
- They have Google lock all of the attacks against you at top of Google search results
- Copies the CIA and GCHQ tactics book
- The Silicon Valley Cartel is able to accomplish the web portion of the attacks, because the
Silicon Valley Cartel founded, funded and Board-level manages the very companies that have
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the internet technology to undertake such attacks. Instead of only using them for law
enforcement, they use them to dabble in organized crime, on the side.
THE SILICON VALLEY CARTEL USED THE “JTRIG OPS MANUAL” TO CONDUCT ATTACKS
ON ORDINARY AMERICANS WHO THEY WANTED “TAKEN OUT”
Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda, Psychology
Research
By Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman FOR THE INTERCEPT
Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda,
Getty Images/Ikon Images
The spy unit responsible for some of the United Kingdom’s most controversial tactics of surveillance,
online propaganda and deceit focuses extensively on traditional law enforcement and domestic
activities — even though officials typically justify its activities by emphasizing foreign intelligence and
counter-terrorism operations.
Documents published today by The Intercept demonstrate how the Joint Threat Research Intelligence
Group (JTRIG), a unit of the signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters
(GCHQ), is involved in efforts against political groups it considers “extremist,” Islamist activity in
schools, the drug trade, online fraud, and financial scams.
Though its existence was secret until last year, JTRIG quickly developed a distinctive profile in the
public understanding, after documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the unit had engaged in “dirty tricks” like deploying sexual “honey traps” designed to discredit targets,
launching denial-of-service attacks to shut down internet chat rooms, pushing veiled propaganda onto
social networks, and generally warping discourse online.
Early official claims attempted to create the impression that JTRIG’s activities focused on international
targets in places like Iran, Afghanistan, and Argentina. The closest the group seemed to get to home 320
was in its targeting of trans-national “hacktivist” group Anonymous.
While some of the unit’s activities are focused on the claimed areas, JTRIG also appears to be
intimately involved in traditional law enforcement areas and UK-specific activity, as previously
unpublished documents demonstrate. An August, 2009 JTRIG memo entitled “Operational Highlights”
boasts of “GCHQ’s first serious crime effects operation” to shut down internet forums and to remove
websites identifying police informants and members of a witness protection program. Another was
“used to facilitate and execute online fraud.” The document also describes GCHQ advice provided “to
assist the UK negotiating team on climate change.”
Particularly revealing is a fascinating 42-page document from 2011 detailing JTRIG’s activities. It provides the most comprehensive and sweeping insight to date into the scope of this unit’s extreme
methods. Entitled “Behavioral Science Support for JTRIG’s Effects and Online Humint [Human
Intelligence] Operations,” it describes the types of targets on which the unit focuses, the psychological
and behavioral research it commissions and exploits, and its future organizational aspirations. It is
authored by a psychologist, Mandeep K. Dhami.
Among other things, the document lays out the tactics the agency uses to manipulate public opinion, its
scientific and psychological research into how human thinking and behavior can be influenced, and the
broad range of targets that are traditionally the province of law enforcement rather than intelligence
agencies.
JTRIG’s domestic and law enforcement operations are made clear. The report states that the
controversial unit “currently collaborates with other agencies” including the Metropolitan police,
Security Service (MI5), Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Border Agency, Revenue and
Customs (HMRC), and National Public Order and Intelligence Unit (NPOIU). The document highlights
that key JTRIG objectives include “providing intelligence for judicial outcomes;” monitoring
“domestic extremist groups such as the English Defence League by conducting online HUMINT;”
“denying, deterring or dissuading” criminals and “hacktivists;” and “deterring, disrupting or degrading
online consumerism of stolen data or child porn.”
It touts the fact that the unit “may cover all areas of the globe.” Specifically, “operations are currently
targeted at” numerous countries and regions including Argentina, Eastern Europe and the UK.
JTRIG’s domestic operations fit into a larger pattern of UK-focused and traditional law enforcement
activities within GCHQ.
Many GCHQ documents describing the “missions” of its “customers” for which it works make clear that the agency has a wide mandate far beyond national security, including providing help on
intelligence to the Bank of England, to the Department for Children, Schools and Families on reporting
of “radicalization,” to various departments on agriculture and whaling activities, to government
financial divisions to enable good investment decisions, to police agencies to track suspected “boiler
room fraud,” and to law enforcement agencies to improve “civil and family justice.”
Previous reporting on the spy agency established its focus on what it regards as political radicalism.
Beyond JTRIG’s targeting of Anonymous, other parts of GCHQ targeted political activists deemed to be “radical,” even monitoring the visits of people to the WikiLeaks website. GCHQ also stated in one internal memo that it studied and hacked popular software programs to “enable police operations” and
gave two examples of cracking decryption software on behalf of the National Technical Assistance
Centre, one “a high profile police case” and the other a child abuse investigation.
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The JTRIG unit of GCHQ is so notable because of its extensive use of propaganda methods and other
online tactics of deceit and manipulation. A 2011 report on the organization’s operations, published
today, summarizes just some of those tactics:
Throughout this report, JTRIG’s heavy reliance on its use of behavioral science research (such as
psychology) is emphasized as critical to its operations. That includes detailed discussions of how to
foster “obedience” and “conformity”:
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In response to inquiries, GCHQ refused to provide on-the-record responses beyond its boilerplate claim
that all its activities are lawful.
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Documents published with this article:
Behavioural Science Support for JTRIG’S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations
U
K Ministry Stakeholder Relationships Spreadsheets (13 documents merged)
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California Tax Officials Charged with Putting Lois Lerner-type hit jobs
on citizens who offend Obama and his campaign backers.
By Tom Aniston
A number of California companies, who competed with campaign billionaires, had “hit jobs” put on them by State officials,
who got “their trolley greased” by those same campaign billionaires. It was LOIS LERNER 2.0
You see, billionaires are stupid, about anything technical. They just pick any technology, that they can hype and control, and
kill off anything that tries to compete. They are great at rigging the stock market, but that is about as far as their knowledge
goes. They don't care how good a technology is, they care how fast they can skim their percentage off the top.
As Mike Judge's amazing TV series: “Silicon Valley”, documents in intimate detail; these billionaires are “assholes”
addicted to power. In San Francisco's notorious “AngelGate” and “No Poaching Conspiracy” scandals, the very words of
these “assholes” are publicly outed for the whole world to gasp at. Their collusion programs, and rigging-of-the-game is
Machiavellian.
They don't really ever pick good technologies, they pick technologies that they think they can build a cartel, and a
technology monopoly, around.
They act like bitchy little girls when anybody builds a better mousetrap. “How dare they use actual innovation!”, they cry in
horror. They even tried to outlaw the U.S. Patent office in order to halt domestic innovation.
Some California companies came up with some technologies that pissed off the Silicon Valley Cartel, because those
technologies obsoleted the monopolies they had staged. You know California; they are always so creative out West.
The Silicon Valley Cartel motto is: “If you don't play in our sandbox, you don't get to play at all”. The Cartel used their
considerable cash, and their political puppet strings in Sacramento, to sabotage the offenders. They had their elected, and
appointed, politicians, do much of their dirty work.
It is a proven, and documented, fact that Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt, directly and indirectly,
funded Obama's, Reid's and Feinstein's campaigns. You can do the research and confirm this. They also funded some lesser
known California state officials including the Attorney General and others. This is no longer an issue in debate. It is a post-
Snowden election year and EVERYTHING is now visible to the world.
It is a proven ,and documented fact, that Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt, directly and indirectly,
received hundreds of millions of dollars in kick-backs from Obama, Reid and Feinstein campaigns.
It is a proven and documented fact that Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt, directly and indirectly,
received exclusive tax waivers and gifts from California's tax dude: Bill Lockyer, in the California State Capitol, that totaled
billions of dollars in upside. When the competitors tried to get those same resources they were lied to, stone-walled,
blockaded, and fined. Nobody but those campaign financiers got those billions of dollars of special, personal, exclusive tax-
payola fixes.
It is a proven, and documented, fact that Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt, directly and indirectly,
had a relationship with Solyndra, which was raided by the FBI, shut down and cost taxpayers half a trillion dollars in losses.
It is a proven and documented fact that Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt, directly and indirectly,
had a financial relationship with Dianne Feinstein, who lobbied to fund Solyndra and Tesla, and had her family control the
construction, staffing, real estate, contracting, and stock pumps for those companies which sit on the same plot of land.
It is a proven, and documented fact, based on existing records, case numbers and public testimony that the FBI, the GAO,
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The San Francisco Police Department, The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee, The OSC, The Inspector General, and numerous
other agencies, have criminal complaints on file against all of the above parties.
It is a proven, and documented fact, that Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt, are the only living
humans on Earth to have all of these “coincidences” all line up with just, and only, them and to also be the only people on
Earth to receive, what has now amounted to, hundreds of billions of dollars of cash from the pockets of the public via the
politicians they funded.
In the most ironic of “coincidences”, the very companies that had the technologies which obsoleted the Cartel activities of
campaign financiers Elon Musk, John Doeer and the rest, were the only ones to get targeted, and sabotaged, by the very
same state officials who had given Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt all of their gifts; and gotten
backing from Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson and Eric Schmidt.
What are the odds of that!? Isn't that just a funny set of “coincidences”?
Actually, we checked with University mathematicians, the odds are the same odds as the likelihood that you will sprout
wings and fly to the Moon. There is no possible way all of those things could have happened without an epic corruption
scheme being operated by those people.
So you have 1.) Motive, 2.) Means, 3.) Intent, 4.) Documented action, 5.) Proven links between steering and unjust rewards
6.) Discovery of unjust rewards exclusively in the hands of the perpetrators, 7.) Leaked documents which confirm, 8.)
Multiple published reports which verify
...and that's not all.
You only need 5 of those things to convict for a felony.
The “I don't know 'nuthin” attitude of the California Secretary of State, the California Attorney General and the Chief
Officers at the Franchise Tax Board might have something to do with their financial, stock market, personal and campaign
relationships with Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson, Eric Schmidt and their little boys club.
Solyndra, and the rest of the Steven Chu disaster companies, were just all one big kick-back scheme and FlashBoy stock
pump scam. Everybody in the scam got plenty of cash to buy their new Tesla's, hookers and condo's with. The public got
screwed, though.
The complainants have sent those State Officials volumes of letters and inquiries for over a year. Not a single one of those
State officials, or their staff, have provided a responsive answer. They think they can stone-wall by pulling the same “don't
respond or say anything” tricks that the IRS tried with the Senate. That, though, is also a felony and results in Conspiracy
charges in civil litigation.
The facts show that California State officials engaged in corrupt felony-class kick-back schemes. The State of California
needs to “man up” and take responsibility, or face the voter consequences in the Court of Public Embarrassment.
State Justice Department insider Ken Alex is in a quandary. Attorney General Kamala Harris is in a stew.
Let's take poor Kamala. Obama publicly said he had the hots for her. She wants Silicon Valley cartel cash so she can run for
the next rung on the political ladder. But!, in order to do her job without looking like a patsy, she has to arrest and indict the
very Obama Silicon Valley campaign financiers that she needs to mooch for campaign cash. Ooopps: AWKWARD!
In another awkward reality, California inventor Gary D. Conley was the arch enemy of, and whistle-blower on Elon Musk,
John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson, Eric Schmidt. Gary D. Conley suddenly showed up behind a Northern California Air Force
base with a bullet in his head. The chief suspects include people who Kamala needs campaign cash from. MORE
AWKWARD!
So who, exactly, can the public count on to enforce justice and the law, in California?
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Here is the worse-case scenario: The Chinese have hacked everything in California and are just waiting for the opportunity
to sell good evidence to investigators. The leaks from disgusted agency staff are increasing. The top cops have arrested more
Senators than you ever saw before. More arrests are known to be coming. It is an election year and political corruption is
the hottest topic around. The victims have started suing for justice. The public polls just listed “political corruption” as the
most hated form of public abuse. In short: Hell on Wheels is coming to Sacramento.
The worse case scenario is only bad for the corrupt politicians involved. It is GREAT for the voters.
The California Franchise Tax Board, for example, has been sending tax notices to the victims via the wrong addresses for
those people and companies. When the victims complain to the Franchise tax board, the franchise tax board refuses to
change the wrong addresses. Then the The California Franchise Tax Board says that the victims did not respond in time
(Because the Tax people were sending notices to the wrong addresses, apparently on purpose) and put levy' demands on
their companies in order to take them over and shut them down.
These companies were put out of business by these very same officials because of their fraud in pretending to ask the
companies to play, their sabotage and blockades and their covert support of the their competitors.
In essence, the State of California said, “we know, originally, you only had to pay a tiny fee, but we screwed up the mailing
so now you have to pay a penalty fee of twenty four times as much but we know you can't afford the penalty fees because we
put you out of business so we are going to take your company away from you because we said so and you competed with our
campaign financiers.”
Talk about bypassing “Eminent Domain”...
The California Franchise Tax Board refuses to respond to inquiries, and it refuses to correct the problem. The California
Franchise Tax Board just keeps doubling the money they demand, refuses to accept the proper forms and, essentially, tries to
drive the competitors to Elon Musk, John Doeer, Steve Jurvetson, Eric Schmidt; their campaign backers, out of business.
While almost every American now says they hate Washington DC, because of the cesspool of corruption it has become, they
must realize that corruption starts at home.
Washington DC is, mostly, made up of people sent by states. If your state capital is full of crime, your national capitol will
also become full of crime.
If the State Capitol of California is being run by criminals, then the FBI must step in and take action. The voters must step in
and take action in the next election. The media must no longer be silent on the issue.
California, you have one of the biggest effects on the national election. Stop sending crooks to Congress!
The following are details from a series of Silicon
Valley Hit-Jobs, now reported to police and
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agencies, per witness and victim reports:
Here is what happens to you when you cross paths with a Silicon Valley Mobster
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Did you do something to offend Eric Schmidt, Elon Musk or John Doerr? Here is what will happen to
you…
∞ If you happen to make a technology that is better than the last one that a Silicon Valley mobster just
stole or,
∞ If you happen to make a technology that a Silicon Valley mobster just wants, and they steal if from
you, and you complain to the feds;
This happens to you and it has happened to over 40 individuals in America, that cross the Silicon
Valley Cartel:
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The people from State and Federal agencies, that most people think would help them in such a
case, will do almost nothing at all. The Silicon Valley mobsters will threaten to cut off the
campaign funding, for anybody, from the State or Federal government that tries to help you.
Don’t count on any support from the State or Federal government. Expect to get no help at all
except from the few and the bold. You must plan to go it on your own and use every off-the-cuff
tactic you, and your friends, can muster.
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They own many digital tabloid newspapers like Gawker, Reddit, Google, Motley Fool, Hearst
Publications, ALICE Coalition, Huffington Post, EV World, Mercury News and thousands of
on-line special interest publications. They will post some made-up character assassination
articles on them and then have Google stick those links to the top, of the top page, of Google so
everybody sees it. Many people, and countries, have now proven that Google rigs its search
engines to harm its adversaries. If Google did that to you, the technical proof now exists and
you can win in court and get compensated for the damages they caused you. Google will refuse
to remove those links if you are on the Silicon Valley mobster’s hate-list or “no poach black
list” . In order to control politics they own many of these stealth tabloid publications where they
can order attack stories written about you. Some of these kinds of people own famous online
media tabloids (ie: Gawker Media Group) and stock tip publications which are really just shill
operations for their agendas and attacks. Identify these publications and partner with every
person, or company, who they have coordinated attacks on in the past. Read about their attacks
on inventor Mike Cheiky, Gary D. Conley, Aaron Swartz, Stan Meyer, Preston Tucker and
hundreds of other innovators that they wanted “out of the way”. You will see no negative
reports about the “bad guys”, allowed on those sites, and every bad report about you will be
manually up-ranked and locked into the top slot on their page in order to damage you. The
down-side for the bad guys, though, is that the internet remembers everything. You can now
prove, in court, showing technical and historical metric data, that they intentionally locked and
damaged you and you can get compensated for the damages.
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Everything that you read about here: http://www.whengoogleattacks.com gets done to you,
and almost nobody in federal agencies will put a stop to it because their bosses might lose
campaign funding.
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They will put “moles” in your organization. Crazy rich people have private eye’s and ex-
employees that they pay to get a job at your company. They pretend that they are helping you,
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then they sabotage your effort, report your activities to the VC and circumvent your every
move. Consider past jobs that future employees had with your attackers.
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To understand the process, watch some of the movies about how the bad guys sabotage: Francis
Coppola’s: Tucker, A Man and His Dream; Greg Kinear’s: Flash of Genius.
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As punishment against you, rich political campaign backers will try to have their federal
lackey’s change the law to hurt you. If you are a tech group, for example, the “bad guys”, are
currently lobbying and organizing to suddenly try to change the patent laws so that your
business is destroyed. When billionaires put bribes in the right pockets, they accomplish
sweeping policy change. Don’t let that happen. Expose the “who” and the “why” in such tactics.
See the current fabricated “Patent Troll Crisis” that they faked up, as just such a ploy, at:
http://www.savetheinventor.com/
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They will spy on you. Elon Musk famously emailed all of his employees. He sent them each an
email about a company tip with a different sentence, in each email so he could see who was
ratting out his crimes to th
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They will hack every device you own and record all of your communications media.
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Watch out for “honey traps” in your activities and in on-line sites. Read the
Snowden/Greenwald reports on what “Honey Traps” are. That hottie who just contacted you on
Tinder, Match.com or OK Cupid works for them, and intends to sue you in a rape case,
paternity case, abuse case or other media embarrassment to destroy your reputation (Like they
did to Micheal Arrington for exposing AngelGate), after stealing your secrets.
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They will hire these troll farms (off-shore warehouses full of tens of thousands of on-line attack
bloggers working under tactical orders to terminate you on-line) to attack you en masse with
tens of thousands of fake character assassination blog postings designed to destroy your
reputation and income sources:
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Every single troll blog comment from these machine-guns-of-slander , every pseudo attack article
about you, everything is already tracked back to the actual author. The NSA have done it, that is well
known. NO amount of TOR, or VPN on top of VPN or stealthing software can hide a troll attacker any
more. What is only now becoming known is that the official, and also the independent hacker, Chinese
and Russian spies have got almost all of that information too. Hackers have broken into Sony, The
White House, All of Target, All of the Federal Employee Records, everything. In a court case you can
now, legally, subpoena NSA records to sue the attackers. Others, hearing of your filed case, may just
show up and give you the information. Attackers cannot hide behind anonymity any more. Those who
were blogging that you “sleep with goats” and “eat unborn children” can now be found out and delt
with.
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- Do you have on-line stores and paypal or credit card accounts that take payments at those
stores? Trying to make a little cash on the side? Confused about why you never get any orders?
The attackers have DNS-re-routed your stores and payment certificates, spoofed your sites and
turned off all of your income potential from those on-line options in order to damage your
economic potential. Illegal? Yes. Happening to people every day? Yes. Get professional IT
services to document the spoofs, and re-routes, and sue the operators of those tactics that are
attacking your revenue stream.
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It now only costs $50,000.00 to bribe a Senator. Some of these tech billionaires earn that much
in 3 minutes. Beware of your Senator. Senators take stock options in tech companies as bribes,
watch for linkages. See the 60 Minutes Episode called: Congress Trading On Insider
Information.
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Want a job? Forget about it! The bad guys went into Axciom, Oracle, SAP, and all of the
Human Resources and Recruiter databases, and put “red flag notices” on your profile. You will
get some great first interviews, but when they run your back-ground check, you will never hear
back from that interviewer again. You got “HR Black-listed”, in retribution, for accidentally
bothering a campaign billionaire. Hire an HR service to look and print out your false “red flag”
HR data-base inserts and use those as evidence in your lawsuit. In the news stories below, and
tens of thousands of more on-line, you will see details of the Silicon Valley Cartel’s “No
Poaching” Blacklist lawsuits; which kept thousands of people from getting jobs, or changing
jobs, based on the whims of a handful of campaign billionaires and a secret Omerta “Do not
hire” list. If you have offended the Cartel, your name will go on the list and all of the HR firms
will avoid giving you a job, in fear of losing their contracts with these big technology VC’s.
That is a felony, though, and in the U.S. you can sue them for it, as many have now done. It was
not “just” a No Poaching list, it was a punishment Black-List, as well.
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They will anonymously put all of your email addresses on blacklists, and watch-lists, so that
you can’t use services like craigslist, cafe press, zazzle or other on-line services to make money.
If you try to open any accounts on those services, you either won’t be able to create an account
or, you will get an account, but all of your orders will get “spoofed” into oblivion so you can’t
make any money. The attackers believe that by causing you as much economic hard-ship as
possible, they can get retribution for what-ever they have perceived that you have done to
offend them. Again, use an IT forensic services group to get the data to show this is happening,
trace it, and sue the perpetrators.
All of these things are happening, today, to over 500 people and nobody is doing anything about it.
California Senators and Attorney Generals are implicated in this so they won’t help. Federal cops are
told not to talk to anybody until “the investigation is complete”, but the investigation is going to be
stone-walled for over a decade. Their actions provide the proof. When you look out on the internet and
add up the pronouncements of “scam”, “sleeping with goats”, against those poor souls who are under
attack, you can see that a very large organization, with large resources, is behind it; a group with as
many resources as….hmmm.. say a Silicon Valley Crime Cartel!
The volume of attack items proves that no mere mortal, or company, could have acquired that much
media unless it was placed there by very wealthy parties. Everyone now knows that the web is
controlled. The volume of attacks can often prove that those attacks are fabricated. Additionally, IP
Trace Routing and digital tracking now can prove the attackers manipulation of your data, email and
website traffic. One of your best sets of evidence will come from the attackers, themselves. The bad
guys always leave a digital trail of bread-crumbs leading right back to themselves. You can hire an IT
company to build a “tracking array” comprised of hundreds of websites which are bait to catch them in
the act. Regarding: Paranoia vs. documented evidence. If you, and others have experienced the tactics,
and the police have recorded the tactics being used against you, it isn’t paranoia to be cautious.
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ATTACKED: WHITE HOUSE HIT-JOB’S ON U.S. TAXPAYERS, FOR REVENGE!
Here is what happens when you accidentally piss off The White House. They decide to ignore that
bothersome piece of paper, called the U.S. Constitution, and, instead use the Italian policy book called
The Vendetta. Lois Lerner, and IRS hit-jobs, were just a small sample of what the hit-team, crafted by
the notorious Sidney Blumenthal, had to offer. In one case, as described by a victims investigators:
“They had In-Q-Tel, which is, directly, financially, politically, staffing, beneficiary and operationally
connected to John Doerr, Elon Musk, The White House, Eric Schmidt and campaign financing for the
same campaigns; run an attack on our client.
In-Q-Tel used its sister organization: The New America Foundation, which is, directly, financially,
politically, staffing, beneficiary and operationally connected to John Doerr, Elon Musk, The White
House, Eric Schmidt and campaign financing for the same campaigns. NAF is a giant lobby group
designed to manipulate policy directions in order to benefit Silicon Valley VC’s.
They timed this with media hit-jobs produced by Gawker Media, which is, directly, financially,
politically, staffing, beneficiary and operationally connected to John Doerr, Elon Musk, The White
House, Eric Schmidt and campaign financing for the same campaigns.
In-Q-Tel gets part of its money from taxpayers, and part of its money from the U.S. Government, via
the CIA and the State Department (via Hillary Clinton). This makes it a triple felony for In-Q-Tel to use
federal funds, as well as CIA resources, to undertake business and political hit-jobs, and character
assassinations, against U.S. citizens within the domestic borders of the United States. It also violates
the United States Constitution.
The White House got pissed off that a few companies had created products which competed with the
products of John Doerr, Elon Musk, Steve Jurvetson and, Eric Schmidt; the financial backers of Reid,
Feinstein and Obama, ie: The White House’s cash cow.
So Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Rahm Emanual, and other senior White House staff,
got together with Musk’s and Doerr’s people and sent out some hit-jobs on our client, in total violation
of the law, ethics, and decency.”
The Corbett Report, Alex Jones, and many other independent media outlets have waxed on about the
evils of In-Q-Tel, and political hit jobs. It is now well documented, in the media and sunshine filings,
that In-Q-Tel funded much of Silicon Valley’s web related start-ups.
In-Q-Tel is not a spy group as much as it is an “I wish I was a spy” group for Harvard and Yale
graduates who love to create financial trouble. The frat house attitude of these people, seems to be just
like any frat house: “Greed is good. Revenge is required. To hell with the rules”.
The rabid approaches to social control, manifested by the In-Q-Tel investments, white papers and
hidden camera web videos, shows a culture of elitism that makes Martha’s Vineyard white-bread
matrons pale in comparison.
Are In-Q-Tel people insane? Probably not. Are they sociopathic control freaks? Maybe.
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The five tons of cocaine found on In-Q-Tel’s “Cocaine 1” airplane were quit astonishing for a 501 C 3
non-profit charity, like In-Q-Tel, to be hauling around.
Their commercial contract, with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to run dirty tricks against U.S.
opponents was a bit surprising.
Their founders families strange deaths,, and departures, and rape issues at their start-ups LucidWorks,
Palantir and others, were also surprising and no less bizarre.
In-Q-Tel does zero-oversight dirty tricks tech, and spy work, for politicians and the campaign
billionaires, of those politicians. Want a private, congress-invisible, email server?; a plane full of
cocaine?; 100,000 fake troll bloggers to counter-act an opponent’s campaign…? You know who to call.
What kind of people get to run a tax payer funded organized crime operation that can take out 65,000
local workers, tell the White House what to do, buy Senators and Attorney Generals, commit possible
murders, rig the stock market, and do it all with absolute impunity?
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AngelGate: Is collusion between angel investors to gain an advantage in investing in startups illegal? Antone
Johnson, Studied antitrust law at Columbia wit …
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AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington. … Arrington said he later learned, “collusion”
and “price fixing” were on the menu. …
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I nvestors deny ‘ Angelgate’ c ol usion – San Francisco Business …
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington shocked readers Tuesday afternoon by accusing an unnamed group of “ten
or so” prominent early stage technology investors — so …
zjournals.com / sanfrancisco/blog/2010/09/angelgate.html
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… | TechCrunch
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar … Collusion and price fixing, … Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over; Ron
Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels …
t echcrunch.com / 2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-bar/
Crooked Angels: Blogger Accuses Top Tech Investors of ..
“If there are any collusion efforts among angel investors, then it would be a huge public service to expose
the collusion and get it to stop.”
ilyfinance.com / 2010/09/22/angelgate-arrington-top-tech-i…
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Here’s Who Was At That Secret Valley Super-Angel Collusion Meeting. Hooray For Mike Arrington. …
AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington.
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There is an angel conspiracy. It dark, it is devious, and it is far-reaching. The conspirators number amongst them
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#AngelGate (Read this for a … Dave McClure and Re: Why I Stopped Reading Hacker News. 25 September
2010 … I thought collusion mattered only if the people involved …
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Arrington alleged that he heard the meeting was about illegal collusion. … AngelGate dispute among Valley
investors cracks wide open.
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Here in Europe we’ve been fascinated by what has become known as AngelGate. But after talking all day to
many contacts today across the tech scene in…
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nowUpdate, September 7: Or maybe not!
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing – CloudAve
I returned to my house, flipped on my Mac and see AngelGate, … As a funny coincidence I happend to have
written about the topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the …
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Showdown! Angels, Arrington to Go Mano a Mano | WIRED
That would be an illegal form of collusion in what should be a … It’s so perfectly timed one might even think
that HeavensGate InvestiGate AngelGate* might be …
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Liminal states :: Fretting, asking, and begging isn’t a plan …
Fretting, asking, and begging isn’t a plan: the Arrington kerfuffle and women in tech.
… Angelgate:Collusion’s such an ugly word has more, …
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How Michael Arrington’s School of Friendship Journalism Led .
How Michael Arrington’s School of Friendship Journalism Led to ‘AngelGate … including AngelGate, the
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Major tech investor Ron Conway has thrown a barrel of gasoline on the rapidly escalating scandal known
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The Union Square partner shares his thoughts on “superangels,” the globalization of Web services, and such
companies as Quora and StackOverflow
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‘ AngelGate’ d
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In a colorful blog post, PayPal veteran and angel investor Dave McClure dismissed talk of collusionand
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Conway, who wasn’t at the meeting but whose SV Angel partner David Lee apparently was…
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Arrington’s report of collusion among Silicon Valley Super Angels really is as epic a story as it…
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing – CloudAve
_ We all know about AngelGate by now. As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the topic
of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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Founders Come First | True Ventures
First the “smackdown” news and chatter this week and now Angelgate. super angels and VCs, while Fred
Wilson at Union Square says collusion has certainly happened where several VCs have been…
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It seems clear this week’s meme is going to be “AngelGate“, after Michael Arrington crashed a private meeting
of West coast “super” angels, accusing them of collusion and price fixing.
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So today AngelGate may be a big deal, but in the long run it won’t amount to much – the power is shifting to
the entrepreneur, and no amount of collusion from angels or VCs can stop that.
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The Daily Start-Up: “AngelGate” Escalates. Posted by Remy Arteaga on September 24, 2010 at 10:55am in
News. Arrington blogged about it, alleging angel collusion.
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AngelGate: Is collusion between angel investors to gain an advantage in investing in startups illegal? Angel
Investing: Is it fair for someone who calls themselves a “seed” investor to require traction?
ntureengine.lk / pdf/How do angel investors gain traction…
What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing
_ We all know about AngelGate by now. As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the topic
of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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angel meetup at Bin 38 with everyone but @Arrington # a ngelgate .
Attend the secret super angel meetup at Bin 38 with everyone but @Arrington #angelgate. ” i missed this
meeting, can it turn into a monthly entrepreneur collusion meeting? “
BoomTown Decodes Conway’s Super Angel Email to Fellow Investors..
Dave “Sue Sylvester” McClure uses his bullhorn blog to call foul about a not-naming-names-but-still-really-
mad-as-hell story of collusion by that creepy kid from the school newspaper who wants to…
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Tagxedo, word cloud with styles
Michael Arlington of TechCrunch broke a very colorful story yesterday, now known as Angelgate, about a secret
super-angel meeting that he crashed. In his blog, Arlington accused the angels ofcollusion…
Fire in The Valley, Fire in My Belly… and Yes, Mike, I Have Stopped…
Heh, whether AngelGate is true or not, we live in a Goldman Sachs/BP world. I don’t think you’d ever wade
into collusion. But, how’d you feel about a group of VCs gathering before the next round?
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If the Tesla D’s Such a Great Car… | The American Spectator
Why Crony Capitalism Gives the Free Market a Black Eye. Gary Shapiro. Nation’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
Operator Seeks State Subsidies …
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We live in the gilded age of crony capitalism. If you have any doubt about that fact look no further
than Elon Musk’s purchase of a $17 million mansion in Bel Air …
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Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running … SpaceX has won more
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Musk is one of the hottest CEOs in the country, and Tesla stock has been a strong performer. But one key
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Secret anti-labor cartel alleged in Silicon Valley. Posted: 2 … in lost income for some
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engineers. Briefly state the main idea of the article: (2 points).
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The Venture Capital Mafia Operates Just Like the Old Mafia
VENTURE CAPITAL COLLUSION, MARKET RIGGING,
VALUATION FIXING….And Murder?:
Venture Capitalists make most of their money by collusion and monopoly creation. Here is how they
operate:
How does one big bunch of venture capitalist investors always accept the same inner-circle set of
fraternity buddies to invest in and make sure that their competitors never get any money?
How is it that this same, huge, group of investors always give entrepreneurs the same valuation offer,
even though they have all agreed that they “will never discuss anything outside of this room” with the
entrepreneur?
Is collusion, market-rigging, technology blockading, good-ole-white-boy privilege clubbing, frat-house
bro-biz secret alliance meeting, woman and black discriminating going on in Silicon Valley and Wall
Street? You bet it is!
If you web-search the “Angel-Gate Collusion Scandal”, you will read about how a reporter saw, and
documented, a Silicon Valley secret meeting where investors were colluding on who would get
funding, who wouldn’t and at what rates. The, now famous “Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Scandal” has
overtly proven that these people area classic “Cartel”,
It turns out, if you didn’t go to Stanford and get very hooked in to the VC club, or you are not part of
the Indian-Elite sub-mafia, you are not getting funded.
With it’s deep CIA connections, Goldman Sach’s alliances and enough cash to bribe Congress twenty
times over, groups like the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) raise concerns, across the
board, about their potentially destructive play in the fall of innovation and the domestic economy in
America.
This notoriously elitist, yuppie, privileged frat house crowd does not like anything that they can’t
control. They have, in many cases, agreed among themselves, which energy technology will be
“allowed” to hit the market; which electric cars will, or won’t, get funded; which video delivery
systems get to become dominant on the web; which social networks get all of the media (a large part of
said media being owned and controlled by these men); and which other technologies live or die. These
are the people involved in the vast number of sex scandals, murders-by-hooker, “sex yacht and sex
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penthouse” lurid news, rape lawsuits and other twisted perversions on the 6PM news. They are not nice
people. One of them: Raj Gupta sits in Prison. Another: White Car Czar Steven Rattner was indicted
for Securities Law Rigging. Ray Lane was indicted for massive tax evasion. They are all under
investigation for shipping billions of tax dollars to Ireland and other tax hide-away’s. Eric Schmidt
practically lives at the White House and is under investigation by hundreds of entities.
The largest private investigation firm of the Elite’s was exposed in WIKI-Leaks calling Peter Thiel:
“Fu*cking Nuts”. Tim Draper wanted Silicon Valley to be so elite that he tried to make it into it’s own
state. Joe Lonsdale is under lawsuit for rape. Mr. Hayes and Mr. Kumar were killed by Hookers. John
Doerr and Vinohd Khosla are called out in national news stories for sex abuse, California Beach take-
overs from the public and hundreds of billions of dollars in “Green Energy” kick-backs from their
friend Steven Chu. The list of cringe-worthy news stories about these folks goes on and on.
If you are an outsider, or competitor, they can, and do, sabotage your company in no time flat with
moles, hack attacks, DDOS attacks, media character assassination attacks, “Merchants of Doubt” (See
the movie) aspersions, civic awards blockades, contract terms exclusions, hire-aways, anti-poaching
cartel secret deals and a host of weapons that they use daily.
Do the Justice Department, The Securities and Exchange Commission, or other federal forces do
anything about this? Not much. These men pay the bribes that keep Washington floating. They have
paid hundreds of billions of dollars, in “tribute”, to the current Administration. It isn’t wise to bite the
hand that feeds you.
The popular Web Blogs: The Corbett Report and The Alex Jones Show, along with many others, have
released a number of documentaries detailing connections between the NVCA and unethical, and
somewhat illegal activites.
How does this affect you?
Got an invention? If you are not part of the Frat House club, Fahgettabout it!
Want to start a start-up? If you are not part of the Frat House club, Fahgettabout it!
Are you a woman? If you are not part of the Frat House club, Fahgettabout it!
Did you actually sneak your way past the golden gates and get funded but now find that some of your
shareholders are forming a mutiny to toss you out. Did you really think some of those investors weren’t
actually part of the VC Cartel just waiting to merge their shares and toss you out after you had gotten
the technology to work? Can you push back? If you are not part of the Frat House club, Fahgettabout
it!
Are they not a “real” mafia-class Cartel, like the Al Capone and Columbian Cartel’s. because they don’t
actually kill people? Do you think those 185+ sudden, mysterious, suspicious deaths that took place in
the last 28 months involving bankers, reporters and technologists, who had rubbed these people side-
ways, are unconnected? Fahgettabout it!
This kinds of things do affect the average person by creating more discrimination that they have to
endure, a worse economy, a less favorable impression of their country, deeper misogyny, less equality,
more privilege. If it bothers you, and you have ever paid taxes, call the FBI, SEC, GAO and
Congressional phone numbers that you see online and ask them what they are doing about it.
Here we take a look at a number of revelations that have emerged about the, quite criminal, operations
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of the Silicon Valley and Wall Street Cartel’s that nobody that is supposed to be doing something about
it, is doing anything about. Here’s more:
Does the NVCA control the SEC as charged? Is the SEC serving the NVCA instead of the public?
– Collusion, Cartels and Crime charged in unregulated elites club with no over-sight!
– Bigger than “ANGELGATE” (click for details)
– Did they order a “murder for hire” on a whistle-blower?
– Are they killing competitors via collusion AND actually killing individuals with media and mobster
“hit-jobs”?
– Is Breyer the “Don”?
– FBI and Congress asked to investigate
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Are these people colluding at the 2010 NVCA meeting? That’s right. The National Venture Capital
Association. Where will the collusion stop?!?
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DC-based fund, Sands Capital, withheld filings that concealed Chinese influence over the White
House, Patent Office, Judiciary & Facebook
Contributing Writers | OPINION | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION | Updated Mar. 09, 2014 04:45
p.m. ET | Updated PDF (post Scribd censorship)
Beijing Bedfellows
Parker Zhang, became “Chief of Patents” at Baidu in 2012. He worked for Fenwick & West LLP, 2006-
2010. Photo: Google+
More News! Jan. 30, 2014—Baidu says attorney Parker Zhang is “Chief of Patents.” It is very unusual for a junior attorney to reach such a position of power. Zhang graduated from Michigan Law in 2005.
He was an Associate at Fenwick & West LLP from 2006-2010. After less than a year as “IP Consultant”
at Hewlett-Packard, he became “Chief of Patents” at Baidu, in about May 2012. CLICK HERE for a
bio.
Marauding Obama Donors: Zhang’s move to Baidu, Inc. coincides with the unreported Sands Capital
securities transactions analyzed below. Also during his move, Facebook went public, T. Rowe Price
invested $190.5 million in Facebook and $147 million in Baidu. Fenwick & West LLP was Facebook’s
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securities and patent counsel. The Leader v. Facebook case was on appeal at the Federal Circuit where
the judges were heavily invested in Facebook, and the S.E.C. Chair in Baidu (e.g., T. Rowe Price
Why Some People (like the NVCA) Want MORE domestic spying!
There are over 40 different agencies and data harvesters watching and recording everything you do on
your phone, computer, car and anything else electronic. That does not include the hackers, foreign
governments and stalkers. They analyze you, with that information they try to trick you into purchasing
or voting certain ways via subliminal messaging and mood manipulation. When you say, or write,
something that makes any of them concerned, they increase their monitoring of you. Everybody now
has an analysis file associated with their name. You are ranked by how much trouble you are likely to
cause.
Is that George Orwell’s “1984”?
The bigger question is: “Why did so many of the people we hired to run our countries go so overboard
with digital manipulation?”
It may have to do with the power of community and the abuse of the public, by a few, finally coming to
light.
The power of community brought the Catholic sex abuse catastrophe to light.
The power of community changed the structure of the Middle East forever.
The power of community made the internet the internet.
Those who have chosen careers as dictators, mobsters and corrupt politicians HATE the internet and the
power of community.
The biggest push-back has come from the corrupt politicians because they are so well financed, and,
they are financed by the tax money from the very community that now has the power. The power of
community just became equal to the power of a billionaire’s bank account.
This is the greatest fear of the corrupt.The corrupt can only exist in the shadows. They can only steal
tax money when nobody is looking. With the power of community, their schemes are crumbling. Their
Solyndra’s are crashing and burning. Their Madoff’s are uncovered. Their Countrywide’s are laid bare.
Some of the corrupt Senators and their campaign backer billionaires are calling for “more
surveillance”, more control of access and more limits of free speech. This is because they are scared.
Here is one example of a grand corruption that has recently been “outed” by the power of community:
America was always viewed as the “Great Innovator of the World”. That is no longer the case, thanks
to a group called the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
They conspire, collude, and coordinate who gets funded and who gets shut-down. If you compete with
their boys,they blacklist you. If your new product might threaten their holdings, they use their Gust
database and VC-Link and other data mining services to make sure you never get any money for your
idea, no matter how great it is.
In a well known scandal called: “AngelGate”,a group of VC’s were documented having one of the
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weekly collusion meetings they all attend, to decide which insiders get to play the game and who gets
rolled over. The founders of the NVCA are the same people involved in the sinister In-Q-Tel
organization and the various “public information foundations” that are now under intense scrutiny for
public policy manipulation.
Even though they helped fund the internet, the VC’s are not the smartest tools in the shed. They are not
the “idea guys”. They move like sheep in a herd. They are the ones that steal the ideas from the actual
“idea guys”. They did not have the vision to see that the internet was about to become their biggest
enemy.
When a VC see’s an idea guy/gal’s idea pitch they are thinking three things: 1.) “Can I get some free
market research from this guy? 2.) Will this product compete with my portfolio and should I kill it? 3.)
Is it really a good idea that I can steal and pass over to another NVCA VC so they can copy it and the
idea guy will never be able to trace the theft back to me?”
There is a reason they call them “vulture capitalists”. The biggest myth about Silicon Valley venture
capital money is that any outsider, who isn’t in the Stanford frat club, will ever see any of that money.
For the very insider, good-ole-boy, money to stay in the tight little insider circle, a facade of “the
American Dream for ideas” had to be perpetrated. Now that all of the entrepreneurs can compare notes,
valuations, IP thefts, patent protection sabotage and VC lies on the open internet and see that the
entrepreneurs are just getting harvested and plucked like chickens.
The VC’s and campaign billionaires want everybody spied on, in their country, so they can get a heads-
up on when the game is up, and try to forestall that day with disinformation. Always slow to the table
though, the NVCA manipulations have yet to realize that the day has already passed them by.
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Investigators say that, Democratic party operatives David Plouffe, Rahm Emanual, Steven Rattner, Bill
Daly, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs arranged with Silicon Valley investors to take over the lithium
battery industry in order to monopolize the trillions of dollars of lithium, and related mining deals, in
Afghanistan.
They say that they traded federal funding for campaign support assisted by Harry Reid and Dianne
Feinstein, who received numerous stock and cash kickbacks in the scheme.
They say they used the money to fund political campaigns. They used the Silicon Valley investors
internet companies to manipulate voter perceptions and web searches in favor of their agenda. The
Silicon Valley investors received: favorable federal laws, tax gifts, free federal loans, stock bumps and
other perks.
The Silicon Valley investors mining resources exploitation companies: Abound, Solyndra, Fisker,
Ener1, Tesla, and many, many more, that received the Department of Energy kickback funds, managed
by Steven Chu, have all either failed, been raided, been charged with fraud or otherwise turned out to
be disasters because they were based on a financial fraud skimming scheme instead of a good business
plan.
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All of these facts are known, in great detail, by many investigators. Nearly a million pages of evidence
exist. A Special Prosecutor is required to perform proper prosecutions.
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Zhang had only five years of experience before jumping to the top intellectual property job at Baidu.
Baidu is one of the largest technology companies with $23B in revenue and 21,000 employees. This
would place the company around 130th on the Fortune 500 list; along with U.S. Bank, Time Warner, and Goodyear. It appears that the Facebook IPO feeding frenzy was orchestrated in both the U.S. and
China. This supports the hypothesis that the NASDAQ “glitch” was a smokescreen.
Breaking News! Jan. 29, 2014—S.E.C. Chair Mary L. Schapiro held stock in both Facebook & Baidu
(China) before the Facebook IPO via her investment in T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund (PRGFX), which was up to $600,000, according to Schapiro’s financial disclosure.
Mary L. Schapiro, Chair, S.E.C.; held stock in Facebook and Baidu before the Facebook IPO, along
with Leader v. Facebook judges and Patent Office; ignored whistleblower warnings. Photo: NYTimes.
In addition to warnings about fabricated mobile revenues, her S.E.C. agency also ignored numerous
whistleblower warnings of improper “dark pools” activity, including failure to disclose to investors that
Facebook had been judged guilty on 11 of 11 federal counts of infringing Columbus innovator Leader
Technologies’ U.S. Patent No. 7,139,761 for social networking—the core technology engine running
Facebook. Evidently, Schapiro knew about Facebook Chairman James W. Breyer’s intention to exploit
Leader’s technology in China also, where his father, John P. Breyer, operates IDG-Accel-China.
Fig. 1—Sands Capital Management, LLC injected Chinese influence into Obamacare. Sands Capital,
the 7th largest fund investor in the May 2012 Facebook IPO, secretly acquired over $200 million in
Athenahealth holdings just as President Obama moved Todd Y. Park, Athenahealth’s founder, from
HHS to the White House, on Mar. 9, 2012..
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Gordon K. Davidson, Fenwick & West LLP; current Facebook securities and patent counsel; Leader
Technologies former corp. counsel (c.a., 2001-2004). Photo: Fenwick & West.
At the same time, Sands Capital secretly slipped in its holding in Baidu, Inc., sometimes called the
Chinese Facebook. Baidu is notoriously controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Baidu’s CEO,
Robin Yangong Li, started his job in Jan. 2004—the same month Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook
after stealing Leader Technologies’ source code via attorney firm Fenwick & West LLP, we believe.
Facebook also went public during this same time (with Fenwick & West LLP as their lead securities
and intellectual property counsel). Again, Sand Capital did not provide proper notice of its Facebook
stock acquisition.
The juxtaposition of these three notice failures, combined with HealthCare.gov’s claim that its software
platform running on Facebook and other “open source” software, signals obvious collusion to deprive
Leader Technologies of its private property rights—government confiscation of property.
It also proves Chinese meddling in America’s data infrastructure and the Obama White House cabinet.
This picture shows the logo of Baidu on its headquarters. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/Forbes/via
@daylife).
(Jan. 28, 2014)―Washington DC-based Sands Capital Management, LLC, the seventh largest fund investor in Facebook, failed to file three critical Facebook, Athenahealth, and Baidu-China (“the
Chinese Facebook”) disclosures with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) during
the period of May-August 2012.
These disclosures would have signaled serious conflicts of interests within the Obama administration,
especially the complicity of Wall Street and the White House’s Silicon Valley donors with likely undue
Chinese influence over Obamacare.
Pres. Obama and Todd Y. Park blatantly violated conflict of interest laws
Todd Y. Park, U.S. CTO; HealthCare.gov architect; Athenahealth, founder; Castlight Health, founder.
Photo: White House.
These Sands Capital filing failures occurred just as President Obama moved Todd Y. Park as chief
technology officer (CTO) of Health and Human Services to the White House on Mar. 9, 2012. By this
time, Park had already embedded his Athenahealth and Castlight Health technology deeply into
HealthCare.gov.
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Ann H. Lamont, Director of Todd Y. Park’s Castlight Health; former director of Todd Y. Park’s
Athenahealth; former director of NVCA with James W. Breyer, Accel Partners, among other Facebook
cartel principals; Mng. Prtnr. Oak Investment Partners; husband Edward is grandson of JPMorgan
Chase & Co. founder Thomas W. Lamont. Lamont is a heavy investor in Goldman Sachs, Morgan
Stanely and JPMorgan—Facebook’s underwriters. Photo: Stanford.
However, Todd Y. Park was the founder of both Athenahealth and Castlight Health. His brother, Edward Y. Park, is the chief operating officer of Athenahealth. JPMorgan insider and Obama campaign
financier, Ann H. Lamont, was an Athenahealth director with Park and his brother.
NVCA: Cesspool of White Collar Corruption
James W. Breyer, Facebook; Managing Partner. Accel Partners LLP; NVCA Fmr. Chairman (2004).
Photo: Der Spiegel.
Ann H. Lamont is also an investing partner with Facebook’s James W. Breyer. She is also a fellow
former director with Breyer at the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
Reporting new stock acquisitions to the S.E.C. is routine. “Form SC 13G” reports are an essential tool
used by investors to know when funds add new stocks to their portfolios. Without those notices, new
acquisitions can easily be missed. Independent stock analysts like Morningstar monitor them and create daily alerts of new acquisitions to the market as well as to watchdogs.
Frank M. Sands, Sr., Sands Capital Management, LLC. Failed to file timely notices. Virgina.edu
Frank M. Sands, Jr., Sands Capital Management, LLC. Failed to file timely notices. Virgina.edu
Had Sands Capital filed timely, accountability questions could have been triggered. As it happened,
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they slipped the holding quietly onto their quarterly reports, thus avoiding transparency.
The activities of these companies impact American healthcare and data security priorities. America was
not given the opportunity to scrutinize this activity until now, after the damage has been done.
#1: ATHENAHEALTH, INC.
Fig. 2—Sands Capital Management, LLC ATHENAHEALTH, INC. holdings—Holdings Reports, SEC
EDGAR. Yellow highlighted rows show reporting periods in which no notices of acquisitions were
filed by compliance officer, Robert C. Hancock. These notices are important filings for fraud
watchdogs.
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Fig. 3—Sands Capital Management, LLC ATHENAHEALTH, INC. holdings—Value Reports, SEC
EDGAR. The yellow highlighted box shows the periods where no acquisition notices and no-fraud
certifications were filed. In short, Sands Capital acquired over $200 million in Athenahealth stock
without regulatory oversight. S.E.C. Chairman Mary L. Schapiro had financial holdings in funds invested in Athenahealth, e.g., Vanguard Extended Market (VEXMX).
On May 14, 2010, 506,000 shares of Athenahealth appeared out of thin air on the Sands Capital
Management, LLC quarterly report. More and more stock just started appearing each quarter, all without acquisition notices.
Then on May 14, 2012, hundreds of millions more shares appeared out of thin air—214 million more.
Just a few weeks earlier, President Obama had appointed Todd Y. Park as U.S. chief technology officer.
Park had already deeply embedded Athenahealth’s software code into the bowels of HealthCare.gov. In
fact, no notices of acquisition were filed for Athenahealth until Feb. 2013.
Why is this S.E.C. irregularity significant?
The public has an interest in insuring that government vendors and officials are trustworthy.
HealthCare.gov is making false “open source” intellectual property claims, but since HealthCare.gov is not a transparent development, no public scrutiny is possible.
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The federal confiscation of private properties continues unabated. The agenda is very evidently being
railroaded.
In addition, the involvement of the Chinese government in U.S. infrastructure raises critical national
security questions.
Todd Y. Park’s ethics disclosures are missing
Tellingly, Parks’ ethics disclosure is missing from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics website. By contrast, even Hillary R. Clinton’s is there. Parks’ close relationships with associates of Athenahealth,
Castlight Health, Baidu-China and Sands Capital Management, LLC show that any decision he has
made involving these players benefits him personally.
Robert Kocher, MD, Director, Castlight Health, founded by U.S. CTO, Todd Y. Park; former member,
National Economic Council; special adviser to Barack Obama on Health Policy (chief architect of
Obamacare). Photo: Washington.edu.
Hindsight being 20-20, it should be noted that Robert Kocher, MD, President Obama’s chief healthcare policy adviser on Obamacare, had matriculated by 2011 to: (1) Castlight Health as director along with
Ann H. Lamont, Todd Y. Parks’ other company, (2) Park’s venture capitalist, Venrock, and (3)
McKinsey & Co. and the Brookings Institution, who are both Facebook’s COO, Sheryl K. Sandberg’s
former clients.
Lawrence ”Larry” Summers. Director, Square; Adviser, Andreessen-Horowitz; mentor to Facebook’s
Sheryl K. Sandberg, Russian oligarchs Yuri Milner and Alisher Usmanov; former director, Barack
Obama’s National Economic Council (2008 bailout); believed to be one of the prime movers behind the
Facebook cartel. Photo: Life.
Kocher’s other boss at the White House, National Economic Council chairman Lawrence “Larry”
Summers, also works for the Brookings Institution. In short, Kocher’s post-administration job hunt appears to have been political revolving door payback.
Events are being coordinated
In addition, the list of funds pouring cash into Athenahealth and Castlight Health is a clone of
Facebook’s and Baidu’s lists. Blackrock, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Vanguard, Goldman
Sachs, JPMorgan, etc. The evidence is clear. These funds are coordinating these events while the U.S.
Congress and American people are sidelined.
It appears time for Congress to take control, pass legislation to return confiscated properties, impeach
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and replace many corrupted judges, change the legal discipline procedures by putting lay people in
charge, put wrongdoers in jail, establish a Special Prosecutor, and call a Constitutional Convention to
change the elements of our system that let this happen.
Our system of government appears to have been badly damaged by unscrupulous people, mostly
lawyers, who no longer respect our laws, and clearly do not intend to follow them.
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AFI researchers have already proven NVCA connections with James W. Breyer, Accel Partners, LLP,
Facebook’s first chairman and largest shareholder, among six of the ten top mutual fund investors in the
Facebook IPO, namely (1) Goldman Sachs, (3) Fidelity, (4) T.Rowe Price, (5) Morgan Stanley, (6)
Blackrock and (9) Vanguard.
Sands Capital’s association with Todd Y. Park ties Sands Capital to the NVCA as well through
Castlight and Athenahealth director, Ann H. Lamont. This now proves that at least seven out of the ten
top institutional investors in Facebook were colluding with James W. Breyer to steal Leader
Technologies’ social networking invention. The Baidu association shows that the collusion also
incorporates Breyer’s designs for China.
#2: BAIDU, INC.
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Fig. 4—Sands Capital Management, LLC BAIDU, INC. holdings, SEC EDGAR. Yellow highlighted
rows show reporting periods in which no notices of acquisition were filed by compliance officer,
Robert C. Hancock. These notices are important filings for fraud watchdogs.
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Fig. 5—Sands Capital Management, LLC BAIDU, INC. holdings, SEC EDGAR. The yellow
highlighted box shows that no acquisition notices and no-fraud certifications were filed. In short, Sands
Capital acquired over $2 billion in Baidu stock without regulatory oversight. These holdings
commenced concurrent to the appointment of Todd Y. Park to U.S. CTO on Mar. 9, 2012, after Park
had led the development of HealthCare.gov at Health and Human Services, including the embedding of
his Athenahealth and Castlight Health software in the HHS infrastructure.
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The next Sands Capital holding to appear out of nowhere is Baidu, Inc. Closely aligned with
China’s Communist government, Baidu is sometimes called “the Chinese Facebook.” Facebook is rumored to have partnered with Baidu. Baidu notoriously violates human and intellectual property
rights. This alliance was concurrent with James W. Breyer’s movement of tens of billions of venture capital funds out of the United States and into the control of his reclusive father, John P. Breyer,
chairman, IDG-Accel-China.
Not only did Sands Capital fail to file a notice of acquisition, but their quarterly report on Aug. 14,
2013 reveals a whopping 12,539% jump in holdings. That is an unregulated $867 million change in
value. To our knowledge, neither the market nor regulators even noticed. This destroys the basic
principle of transparency.
These risks certainly deserve serious investigation before permitting these people to get access to
America’s healthcare and data infrastructure. As Eric Snowden proved, it doesn’t take much to copy
millions of files into the hands of one’s adversaries.
Most notable about the sudden appearance of the Baidu Inc. holding is that it occurs just as
Athenahealth’s founder, Todd Y. Park, is moving from his position as the chief architect of
HealthCare.gov at HHS to Chief Technology Officer for the United States by President Obama, on
Mar. 9, 2012. And, it occurred at the same time as Sands Capital’s 214 million unregulated share acquisition.
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On Mar. 29,
2012, just 20 days after Pres. Obama’s appointment of Park, Baidu filed a Form 20-F, which is a financial disclosure equivalent to an S-1 public stock prospectus. The timing is six weeks before the
Facebook IPO.
On p. 98, Baidu discloses that its three principal shareholders are:
and T. Rowe Price were #2 and #3 behind Goldman Sachs in the Facebook IPO just six weeks later.
Fig. 6—Robin “Handsome Reward” Yangong Li was installed as CEO of Baidu in Jan. 2004, the very
same month that Mark Zuckerberg claims to have built Facebook “in one to two weeks” Leader
Technologies said it took them $10M and 145,000 man-hours to invent social networking. They
finished debugging a critical module on Oct. 28, 2003, the same night Zuckerberg hacked the House
sites at Harvard. Photo: L’Express.
Evidently, Baidu’s Robin Yanhong Li was self-conscious about his newfound wealth, hence the Freudian name he gave for his stock holding—Handsome Reward. Who was doing the rewarding? The
evidence is overwhelming. It is James W. Breyer and the Facebook cartel who made Robin Li their
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front boy in China, just like they made Mark Zuckerberg their front boy in the U.S.
Big Lies
The world cannot hope to advance when its core infrastructures are founded on these Big Lies. Any
engineer worth his salt knows that a good building cannot be built upon a corrupt foundation. This is
both a law of physics, and a Law of God.
Baidu and Facebook CEOs started the same month—Jan. 2004
Robin Y. Li, CEO, Baidu, Inc.; appointed Jan. 2004, the same month James W. Breyer, Accel Partners
LLP, picked Mark Zuckerberg to start Facebook with stolen code from Columbus innovator Leader
Technologies. Photo: RudeButGood.
Robin Y. Li became CEO of Baidu in Jan. 2004. Coincidentally, that is the very same month Mark
Zuckerberg claims he started Facebook (“in one to two weeks”) and launched it on Feb. 4, 2004. The name of his British Virgin Islands hide away for his Baidu holdings probably says it all—Handsome
Reward.
The common denominator between the Chinese and American Facebooks is James W. Breyer. At that
time was chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, managing partner of Accel Partners
LLP, soon to be if not already largest Facebook shareholder, and fellow client of Fenwick & West LLP
with Columbus innovator Leader Technologies, Inc.—the proven inventor of social networking. Robin
Li’s handsome reward is his willingness to be Breyer’s Chinese front face.
Worried about signaling Chinese involvement
Sands Capital appears to have been worried about the appearance of impropriety? Had they disclosed
Baidu in a timely way, eyebrows would have been raised about possible Chinese involvement in the
Obama cabinet, as well as in American healthcare and data infrastructure. Something is clearly amiss,
otherwise, why would the Baidu nondisclosure be such an outlier in Sands Capital Management, LLC’s
SEC reporting?
American securities watchdogs were busy chewing on bones Breyer threw their way
Fig. 7—Administration and Judicial Watchdogs were busy chewing on their Facebook cartel bones.
The United States top law enforcement officers and regulators, namely Eric H. Holder, Mary L.
Schapiro, Rebecca M. Blank and David J. Kappos were silent during Sands Capital’s misconduct. They
were busying chewing on the bones that the Facebook cartel had already thrown them.The current
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Commerce Secretary, Penny S. Pritzker, continues the deafening silence. Graphic: Clker.com.
But lest we wonder where our U.S. securities regulators were during this shell game, the Facebook
cartel had that covered too. They had already ensured for S.E.C. Chair Mary L. Schapiro, Commerce Secretary #1 Rebecca M. Blank, Commerce Secretary #2 Penny S. Pritzker, Patent Office Director
David J. Kappos, Attorney General Eric H. Holder and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. were well cared for.
Among the five Obama administration senior officials alone, they hold at least 177 Facebook “dark
pools” funds. In fact, no one in the Obama administration or judiciary had more Facebook cartel dark
pool funds than Chairman Schapiro and Secretary Blank. See two previous posts. These dogs won’t
hunt. The’re too well fed.
#3: Facebook, INC.
The next Sands Capital holding to appear out of thin air is Facebook, Inc. Again, they did not file a
Form SC 13G acquisition notice in their May 14, 2012 reporting, which is just four days before the May 18, 2012 Facebook IPO. We’re taking bets that Sands Capital will blame it on the NASDAQ
“glitch.” The purpose of the glitch appears to us to be a smoke screen for these sorts of shady activities.
Then, without filing the stock acquisition notice Form SC 13G subsequently, like they did on all their
other stock purchases (except Athenahealth and Baidu), on Aug. 13, 2012 they simply include their Facebook holding of 11.6 million shares valued at $362 million on their quarterly report.
Why such blatant disregard for SEC disclosure rules? Rules that Sands Capital appears to follow
otherwise?
AFI researchers have lived with this cartel conduct for years now, and they believe Sands Capital was
determined to get in on the HealthCare.gov “Datapalooza” that Todd Y. Park would bring them via
Athenahealth. Datapalooza is the actual name Mr. Park gave to his dubious “open government”
giveaways of healthcare data while CTO at HHS.
AFI researchers believe it is likely that Sands Capital kept the Baidu transactions below the radar
screen in order to avoid awkward questions about Park’s role in Baidu, Athenahealth and Facebook
financings and business activity, especially surrounding Obamacare and HealthCare.gov.
Notices of stock acquisitions are part of America’s securities fraud watchdog infrastructure
Readers should know that independent stock monitoring analysts like Morningstar use automated tools
that send alerts/notices when companies file notice of new acquisitions. No such alerts occurred for
Athenahealth, Facebook or Baidu because the notices were never filed.
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Fig. 8—S.E.C. Certifications are legal evidence. When a fund compliance officer signs an S.E.C. filing,
he or she is signing an affidavit that is enforcable as evidence in court. If that person lies or in some
other way willfully misrepresents the facts, it is the same as lying under oath in a courtroom.The
problem for Sands Capital’s Robert C. Hancock is that intentional withholding of certifications, with
the intent to deceive the public, is illegal since the omission misleads the public who must then rely on
inaccurate information.
Sands Capital’s compliance officer Robert C. Hancock avoided liability by not signing
Sands Capital’s chief compliance officer, Robert C. Hancock, may have been trying to avoid personal
liability by not signing what would otherwise be fraudulent representations of truthfulness. Corporate
officers like Hancock can be personally liable if they sign knowingly false certifications under oath. It’s
the same thing as knowingly making a false statement in court.
Here’s the SC 13G acquisition certification Hancock avoided signing for initial Athenahealth, Baidu
and Facebook stock disclosures:
“Item 10. Certification: By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the
securities referred to above were acquired and are held in the ordinary course of business and were not
acquired and are not held for the purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of
the issuer of the securities and were not acquired and are not held in connection with or as a participant
in any transaction having that purpose or effect.
SIGNATURE: After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the
information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.”
Here’s an example of a later Athenahealth SC 13g acquisition certification that Hancock did sign on
Feb.. 13, 2013, so he knows what to do, he just didn’t do it when Athenahealth stock was first acquired.
Hancock was probably choking on the clause in red above: “… were not acquired and are not held for
the purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of the issuer of the securities
and were not acquired and are not held in connection with or as a participant in any transaction having
that purpose or effect.”
Hancock may have refused to sign the Athenahealth, Baidu and Facebook certifications because he
knew that:
1. Athenahealth was an inside job among selected funds, companies and individuals to control
certain markets and global events;
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2. Baidu, like Facebook, was a fabrication of James W. Breyer, Accel Partners LLP, and
Facebook’s largest shareholder; therefore, everything about these stock maneuvers was
designed to manipulate the cartel’s global agenda, which included the creation of a Chinese
repository, potentially for exported U.S. healthcare and other data; and
3. Facebook & Baidu were both running on software property stolen from Columbus innovator,
Leader Technologies; therefore, these offerings were used to generate funds for the express
purpose of misappropriation of patents, copyrights and trade secrets that would cause and effect
the manipulation of the U.S. healthcare sector, among others.
Presumably, Hancock would want to stay out of jail by refusing to put his signature on a form where he
clearly knew there was an intent to influence business and political events. Tellingly, he signed all of
his other certifications during this period.
What U.S. judge or regulator is complaining?
Who would complain about Sands Capital’s failure to file the S.E.C. Form SC 13G notices of
acquisition of Facebook, Baidu and Athenahealth stock?
Click Official’s Name to view his or her financial disclosure.
Not S.E.C Chairman Mary L. Schapiro—she held a boatload of “dark pool” Fidelity, Vanguard, AllianceBern, TIAA-CREF and T. Rowe Price funds.
Not Commerce Secretary #1 Rebecca M. Blank—she held TIAA-CREF, Vanguard and Fidelity funds.
Not Commerce Secretary #2 Penny S. Pritzker—she holds up to $23.4 million Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Facebook dark pools.
Not Attorney General Eric H. Holder—he held T. Rowe Price and Fidelity funds. In fact, Holder held Fidelity Contrafund, the largest single Facebook mutual fund stock holder, valued at $413 million.
Photos: Holder–Huffington Post; Pritzker–White House;Blank–U.S. London Embassy; Schapiro–NY
Times.
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Who in the judiciary would complain?
Click Judge’s Name to view his or her financial disclosure.
Not Leader v. Facebook Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.—he held Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Janus, Vanguard and Blackrock funds, including Fidelity Contrafund.
Not Leader v. Facebook Federal Circuit Judges Alan D. Lourie, Kimberly A. Moore and Evan J.
Wallach—they held Fidelity, Vanguard and T. Rowe Price funds, including Fidelity Contrafund.
Not Leader v. Facebook District Court Judge Leonard P. Stark—he held Vanguard and Fidelity funds.
Not Leader v. Facebook Patent Office Director David J. Kappos—he held over a million dollars of Vanguard funds.
Photos: Kappos–Politico; Stark–udel.edu; Wallach–Fed. Cir.; Lourie–Fed. Cir.; Moore–mit.edu;
Roberts–sltrib.com.
The victims are complaining
On Nov. 19, 2008, Leader Technologies filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook. Leader proved that Facebook stole the engine that runs Facebook, yet were ruled against anyway by the biased
judges mentioned above, based on fabricated evidence.
In May 2012, Facebook IPO investors began filing class action lawsuits, claiming they had been
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defrauded and damaged by the NASDAQ “glitch.”
Complaints have been filed to inspectors general seeking justice.
Others have filed complaints too, like Paul Ceglia and Rembrandt Social Media.
America’s regulatory mechanisms are supposed to help prevent waste, fraud and abuse, not aid and
abet it. The latter is called state-sponsored terrorism and totalitarianism.
In the case of the HealthCare.gov debacle, and the theft of Leader Technologies’ social networking
invention, the failure of the S.E.C. to police Sands Capital Management LLC enabled them to press
their hidden agenda using fraudulent funds.
That agenda has led to a disastrous HealthCare.gov architecture, corrupted by Athenahealth conflicts of
interest, using Leader Technologies’ software which has become a mess of hacked pieces and parts.
The agenda also threatens America’s healthcare data security since Sands Capital took its Facebook
IPO winnings and bought $2.2 billion in the Baidu Inc. sometime between Feb-Aug 2013.
Fig. 9—Robert C. Hancock, Chief Compliance Officer, Sands Capital Management, LLC. Misled the
American public by failing to file stock acquisition reports in a timely manner for Facebook, Baidu and
Athenahealth. These failings concealed substantial Chinese influences regarding Obamacare and
American data infrastructure. Photo: Sands Capital.
Fig. 10—Jonathan Goodman, Chief Counsel, Sands Capital Management, LLC; former partner, Gibson
Dunn LLP (Facebook’s Leader v. Facebook law firm, and also counsel to the Federal Circuit and
Federal Circuit Bar Association). Photo: Sands Capital.
A solid democratic house cannot be built upon a foundation of regulatory corruption
Questions for Sands Capital’s compliance officer Robert C. Hancock would be why he did not submit
the notices of new stock acquisition forms with his signed certifications for Athenahealth, Baidu and
Facebook. If he had done this, perhaps over six million Americans would not be struggling to replace
their cancelled healthcare plans because the program would never have begun.
Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson Dunn LLP. Failed to disclose conflicts of interest in Leader v. Facebook;
counsel to the Federal Circuit and Microsoft (one of Facebook’s largest stockholders); Chief Justice
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John G. Roberts, Jr. is a personal mentor.Gibson Dunn LLP also represents the U.S. in U.S. v. Paul
Ceglia ( Ceglia v. Zuckerberg) where U.S. attorney Preet Bharara was formerly employed by Gibson
Dunn—an obvious conflict. Photo: Gibson Dunn LLP.
Hancock’s ethics counsel is none other than another former Gibson Dunn LLP attorney, Jonathan
Goodman. Goodman was at Gibson Dunn LLP with Thomas G. Hungar during the Leader v. Facebook case. Goodman’s other former firm, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, just received David J. Kappos, former director of the U.S. Patent Office, as a new partner. Kappos only arrived after he had ordered an
unprecedented 3rd reexamination of Leader Technologies’ patent. Kappos had purchased more than a
million dollars of Vanguard “dark pool” funds, all on Oct. 27, 2009, within weeks of his appointment by President Obama.
Robert C. Hancock’s ethical lapses have damaged millions of Americans
Apparently, Hancock was advised by Goodman/Gibson Dunn LLP that it was ethically acceptable not
to file the Athenahealth, Baidu and Facebook stock acquisition notices.
Mr. Goodman’s former firm, Gibson Dunn LLP, swirls at the center of everything that has gone
horribly wrong with this Obama administration, including the Leader v. Facebook judicial corruption
scandal.
Had Hancock filed in a timely manner, questions about Todd Y. Park’s Athenahealth duplicity could
have been raised. Athenahealth’s close associations with Chinese interests could have been scrutinized.
Sands Capital’s role in the Facebook pump and dump IPO scheme would have become visible.
Hancock’s failure to file and certify did not allow regulatory mechanisms to work.
Fig. 10—Pres. Barack H. Obama. Photo: jeannotramambazafy.overblog.com
Questions for President Obama
Given the suspicious timing of your appointment of Todd Y. Park to oversee America’s healthcare and
digital infrastructure:
1. How much do you know about SANDS CAPITAL’S collusion with the Chinese?
2. What are you going to do about it?
3. What assurances can you give us that the tech people you have hand picked are worthy of
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America’s trust?
4. Will the new systems really protect Americans’ privacy, property and security?
5. Did you know that your Securities Chair held stock in Facebook and Baidu before the Facebook
IPO?
6.
Photo: Politico.
Photo: Wikipedia.
Why didn’t your personal White House counsels from Perkins Coie LLP, namely Robert F. Bauer and
Anita B. Dunn, husband and wife respectively, submit ethics pledges and financial disclosures? Did
you know that Facebook was one of their clients?
7. Where are Todd Y. Park’s financial disclosures and written ethics pledges?
8. Did you know that a Florida judge was ordered to recuse himself from a case where he was Facebook Friends with one of the litigating attorneys? What do your 50 million “likes” say about your appointment of two of the four judges in the Leader v. Facebook case, not even
counting all their financial holdings in Facebook, or the Patent Office’s “likes”?
Summary of ethical standards to which the persons above swore solemn public oaths to uphold
Judges— Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges, Canon 2:
“A judge should avoid improprietary and the appearance of impropriety in all activities.”
Judges—U.S. Courts.gov, Guide to Judiciary Policy, Ethics and Judicial Conduct, p. 20-2:
“Canon 3C(3)(c) provides that a financial interest ‘means ownership of a legal or equitable interest,
however small,’ with certain exceptions not applicable to this situation. Ownership of even one share of
stock by the judge’s spouse would require disqualification.” Many types of mutual fund holdings are
not exempt from this policy (p. 106-1 thru 4).
“a judge who chooses to invest in such mutual funds should evaluate whether his or her ‘interest’ in the
fund might be affected substantially by the outcome of a particular case, which would require recusal
under Canon 3C(1)(c)” (p. 106-3). [If the largest tech IPO in American history—Facebook—does not
apply, then this policy is meaningless sophistry.]
Executive Branch Employees—Standards of ethical conduct for employees of the executive branch 5
“avoid an appearance of loss of impartiality in the performance of his official duties”
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Attorneys—Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Preamble [6]:
“a lawyer should further the public’s understanding of and confidence in the rule of law and the justice
system because legal institutions in a constitutional democracy depend on popular participation and
support to maintain their authority.”
Directors—Business Judgment Rule, Parnes v. Bally Entertainment Corp. , at 1246:
“The business judgment rule ‘is a presumption that in making a business decision the directors of a
corporation acted on an informed basis, in good faith and in the honest belief that the action taken was
in the best interests of the company [and was not based on self-dealing].'”
Background: Funwallz.com
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Posted by K. Craine at1:21 PM1.
ai ne J anuary 29, 2014 at 7:42 AM
You may want to read this LAW360 article about Federal Circuit Judge Michel.
I just checked. Fed. Cir. Judge Paul R. Michel is NOT invested in the Facebook cartel, at least
according to his financial disclosure.
He did not, however, police the Federal Circuit’s conflicts of interest in LEADER V. FACEBOOK
since Facebook’s attorney, Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson Dunn LLP, had represented the interests of the
whole court and the Federal Circuit Bar Association in a 2010 ethics case, ironically.
LAW360 HEADLINE: “Strong Software Patents Crucial, Michel Tells Justices”
“As the U.S. Supreme Court considers how to evaluate when software can be patented, former Federal
Circuit Chief Judge Paul Michel warned the justices Monday that adopting a standard that weakens
patent protection for software would “cripple, if not destroy, computer-related industries.”
http://www.law360.com/ip/articles/504692?nl_pk=3d7de43c-2a83-457b-8e08-
511bc28d2aec&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ip
Here’s Judge Michel’s 2008 financial disclosure:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Paul-R-Michel-Financial-Disclosure-
Report-for-2008.pdf?V=1
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ain Onyourpar ade J anuary 31, 2014 at 12:24 PM
Check out this FLORIDA RULING. It says a judge must disqualify himself for Facebook-friending one
of the attorneys in a case before him. This is kid’s play compared to the abuse Leader Technologies has
received…
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>>>Patent Office’s Facebook site to 10,000+ employees,put up before the trial and reexamination.<<<
>>>Barack Obama’s tens of millions of likes, probably all of the Facebook attorneys.<<<
>>>Barack Obama’s appointment of two of the four judges in LEADER V. FACEBOOK.<<<
>>>HealthCare.gov claiming Leader’s invention is open source.<<<
http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/30/the-law-of-friending/
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The 2008 finance crisis was not an accident it was caused by an out of control industry and at the wheel
was chief economic advisor Larry Summers, Summers who played a MAJOR role in the Deregulation
of Derivatives, And became PRESIDENT of HARVARD in 2001 And New that FACEBOOK was
stolen, and new of the THEFT OF Leader Technologies’
when the Winklevoss made a complaint to lawrence larry summers PRESIDENT of HARVARD they
where tolled to piss of summers wonted THE FACEBOOK CLUB for him self but summers needed
that suck up little shit mark zuckerberg to do it, But the IDEA FACEBOOK was not the Winklevoss nor
was it Mark Zuckerberg IDEA,
WAYNE CHANG KNOWS HOW FACEBOOK WAS STOLEN
Wayne Chang filed a lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers knowing that facebook was stolen, Chang
said that the Winklevoss brothers merged their company, called ConnectU, with Chang’s web
development company to make a new company: The Winklevoss Chang Group (WCG). Chang
complained that the Winklevosses “expressly agreed that the litigation between ConnectU and
Facebook was an asset of ConnectU and an asset of WCG,” according to BusinessInsider. Chang never
got any money when the Winklevosses received $65 million as part of the settlement but the $65
million was just a fuck of from mark zuckerberg Larry Summers and James W. Breyer. Even the “like”
button was stolen from the family of the late Dutch inventor, Johannes Van Der Meer
More of Larry Summers friends
chief economic advisor Larry Summers Henry Paulson of Goldman Sachs and Geithner to pay
Goldman Sachs 100 cents on the dollar Paulson and Bernanke ask congress for $700 billion to bail out
the banks. BUT NO BAILOUT FOR LEHMAN BROTHERS GONE AND THE ORDERS CAME
FROM GOLDMAN SACHS TO LARRY SUMMERS NOT TO BAIL THEM OUT?? just so Goldman
Sachs can be number ONE? IN 1999, at the urging of Summers and Rubin congress passed the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and cleared the way for future mergers, in 1998 someone tried to regulate
them it was Brooksley Born but Larry Summers kill this, Summers had 13 bankers in his office and
directing her to stop Greenspan Rubin and SEC chairman Arthur Levitt issued a joint statement
condemning Born
the securities and exchange commission agency conducted no major investigation in to the bank during
the bubble and 146 people were gutted from the secuities enforcement division?
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When David contacted securities and exchange commission about LEHMAN BROTHERS
GOLDMAN SACHS AND LARRY SUMMERS AND FACEBOOK there were only four people
WORKING THERE and then down to just ONE?? and his job was to turn the lights out
OBAMA picked Mary Schapiro the former CEO of FINRA to run the securities and exchange
commission who held stock in both Facebook and Baidu (China) before the Facebook IPO via her
investment in T. Rowe Price the securities and exchange commission agency also ignored numerous
whistleblower warnings of improper “dark pools” activity, (PAY OF)
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4.
Larry Summers + President Barack Obama picked Mary Schapiro the former CEO of FINRA to run the
securities and exchange commission who held stock in both Facebook and Baidu (China) before the
Facebook IPO via her investment in T. Rowe Price the securities and exchange commission agency
also ignored numerous whistleblower warnings of improper “dark pools” activity, (PAY OF)
Larry Summers + President Barack Obama (appointed Leonard P. Stark to the judge’s seat in Delaware
Federal District Court eight days after Stark’s court allowed Facebook to get away with jury and court
manipulation of an on-sale bar verdict which was attained without a single piece of hard evidence;
Barack and Michelle Obama were evidently protecting their 47 million “likes” on Facebook)
Larry Summers + President Barack Obama new found friends, Facebook cartel had it all covered, They
had it all already S.E.C. Chair Mary L. Schapiro, Commerce Secretary #1 Rebecca M. Blank,
Commerce Secretary #2 Penny S. Pritzker, Patent Office Director David J. Kappos, Attorney General
Eric H. Holder and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. were well cared for.
Larry Summers + President Barack Obama + Baidu(China) All had back door keys to the NSA then
add your healthcare (Obamacare), financial (Wall Street), telephone and online data (NSA) to your
Dark Profile, and you have the ultimate Big Brother file on every person on the planet and CHINA
HAD THE BACK DOOR KEYS TO THE NSA???? with facebook and their repeated breaches of
security and their now ubiquitous intrusions on people’s privacy?
Larry Summers + Facebook The 2008 finance crisis was not an accident it was caused by an out of
control industry and at the wheel was chief economic advisor Larry Summers, Summers who played a
MAJOR role in the Deregulation of Derivatives, And became PRESIDENT of HARVARD in 2001 And
New that FACEBOOK was stolen, and new of the THEFT OF Leader Technologies’ when the
Winklevoss made a complaint to lawrence larry summers PRESIDENT of HARVARD they where
tolled to piss of summers wonted THE FACEBOOK CLUB for him self but summers needed that suck
up little shit mark zuckerberg to do it, The 2008 finance crisis was not an accident it was caused by
LARRY SUMMERS?
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Larry Summers + election manipulation on FB Since that data was not equally available to the
opposition, use of this data about you amounts to election manipulation. The fact that so many
foreigners are associated with Facebook amounts to foreign influence on U.S. elections, which is
illegal. This undue influence hurts every American. Ditto for the sovereign elections in Germany,
France or any other country, like fucking Germany ASS-HOLE The Facebook Club run by Larry
Summers used the promise of wild Facebook IPO returns as the currency for their plans to install
Barack Obama as President and press their global data gathering agenda
Larry Summers + FB + Robin Y. Li Robin Y. Li became CEO of Baidu in Jan. 2004. Coincidentally,
that is the very same month Mark Zuckerberg claims he started Facebook (“in one to two weeks”) and
launched it on Feb. 4, 2004. The name of his British Virgin Islands hide away for his Baidu holdings
probably says it all—Handsome Reward. Sands Capital appears to have been worried about the
appearance of impropriety? Had they disclosed Baidu in a timely way, eyebrows would have been
raised about possible Chinese involvement in the Obama cabinet, as well as in American healthcare and
data infrastructure. Something is clearly amiss, Robin Y. Li NEW THAT FB WAS STOLEN and that it
was Larry Summers who was running FACEBOOK ow shit?
Larry Summers + friends chief economic advisor Larry Summers Henry Paulson of Goldman Sachs
and Geithner to pay Goldman Sachs 100 cents on the dollar Paulson and Bernanke ask congress for
$700 billion to bail out the banks. BUT NO BAILOUT FOR LEHMAN BROTHERS GONE AND
THE ORDERS CAME FROM GOLDMAN SACHS TO LARRY SUMMERS NOT TO BAIL THEM
OUT?? just so Goldman Sachs can be number ONE? Paulson was a dick who did not know how to
work out shit if someone stuck a spade up his ass
THIS IS IT VERY ONE GET ON TWITTER
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President Obama claimed last night that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” in the IRS
scandal. Really now Mr. President? How can any self-respecting person make such a claim about a
sprawling government agency with 106,000 employees? Such a claim telegraphs the massive
corruption that we have proved exists within this administration. An administration where Yes is No
and wrong is right. Given that, a No from Obama means a Yes.
Here’s an excerpt from the New York Times article:
——-
Mr. O’Reilly responded that there were “unanswered questions” and asked again if there was
corruption in the I.R.S.
“There were some boneheaded decisions,” the president said.
“But no mass corruption?” Mr. O’Reilly asked.
“Not even mass corruption — not even a smidgen of corruption,” Mr. Obama said.
——-
SOURCE: ”Obama Is Tackled by O’Reilly in Pre-Game Interview” by Peter Baker, Feb. 22, 2014, The
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New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/us/politics/obama-is-tackled-by-oreilly-before-
game.html?_r=0
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6.
A couple of additional items to inform your congressperson about along with the overwhelming
conflicts of interest already presented here
David Kappos encouraged his employee’s, of whom include the judges that work for the USPTO, to
use Facebook. He states on the USPTO website. “I’m confident our Facebook presence will
complement the USPTO Web site as a means of communicating and connecting with the public and our
stakeholders in the intellectual property community.
On the other hand, Chief Justice Roberts at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Annual Conference in
2011 said that he recommends to the law clerks not to use social media, Facebook and Twitter, because
a person could gain insight by stray comments and that would not be good. Justice Breyer, who has a
Twitter and Facebook account, stated at a House Appropriations Subcommittee, “Judges wear black
robes so that they will resist the temptation to publicize themselves,” Breyer said. “Because we speak
for the law, and that is to be anonymous. So I wouldn’t want to have followers on the tweeter or the
Facebook page but for my children, and I can get in touch with them anyway.”
So the question is, If Chief Justice Roberts discourages law clerks from using Facebook and Justice
Breyer is against using it publicly, then why in the world would Kappos open a Facebook account for
the USPTO, and encourage the patent office employees, which includes 50-100 patent judges, to use it
and then open a Directors reexam at the same time against Leader?
His conduct appears suspect and corrupt!
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7.
Check out this Russian (OK, Ukrainian) risk to HealthCare.org.
Belarus link to HealthCare.gov raises concerns over possible cyber attack,
http://fxn.ws/1gJ1auQ
The Ukrainian software official, Valery Tsepkalo told a local radio station in Minsk that U.S. Health &
Human Services is “one of our clients” and that “we are helping Obama complete his insurance
reform.”
HHS was run by Todd Park, the guy with the Chinese connections also. What’s wrong with American
programmers for American healthcare. This breach of U.S. sovereignty by this President is just
criminal.
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8.
There is no information missing here. Form 13g is only used when a fund acquires more than 5% of a
publicly traded company. That’s why you don’t see these disclosures here. No conspiracy afoot; this is
just basic SEC procedure.
And I am pretty shocked that you have explicitly accused Fenwick and West of providing source code
to Mr. Zuckerberg? Fenwick is a very well regarded firm and I cannot even begin to imagine something
like that ever happened. But in any event I think you are setting yourself up for a very nasty libel
lawsuit.
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9.
Mark. The 5% rule is SC 13G/A, 13d-1(a). However, your conclusion is misleading, hopefully not
knowingly so. The rule for investment companies is much more strict. The rule (a) you cite mainly
applies to corporations and their holders, which can include an investment company’s holdings. But, an
investment company has stricter reporting rules for its portfolio investments. It must report everything,
not just more than 5% holdings. Rule 13 has four main sections, you cited only (a). It also has Rule
13d-1(b), Rule 13d-1(c) and Rule 13d-1(c). http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.13d-1
Easier to follow regarding investment companies is 15 U.S. CODE § 80A–8 – REGISTRATION OF
INVESTMENT COMPANIES
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/80a-8
We’ll use Sands Capital’s other filings to disprove your statement. Sands Capital has filed many reports
for investments of less than 5%.
Here are some examples:
CREE, INC. on Feb. 14, 2012 – 249,600 shares representing ***0.22% ownership***.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895419/000102006612000004/cree0212.txt
FMC TECHNOLOGIES, INC. on Feb. 14, 2012 – 11,144,206 shares representing ***4.68%
ownership***. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1020066/000102006612000007/fti0212.txt
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. on Feb. 13 – 56,650 shares representing ***0.05%
ownership***
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/203527/000102006612000002/var0212.txt
We could go on. Bottom line. Investment companies must report “in the public interest or for the
protection of investors.” 15 U.S. CODE § 80A–8(b).
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This is an OPINION blog, Mark. It is a citizen’s right to express his or her opinion. Inform yourself of
the facts and express your opinion.
We have covered Fenwick’s misconduct thoroughly in past posts. Take note of such things as
“Christopher P. King” and his shadow self, “Christopher-Charles King” for starters. The opinion is well
founded. Those who have encountered Fenwick’s treachery have another view than your “well
regarded” caricature.
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Almost forgot to mention. Feb. 4 (yesterday) was the 10th anniversary of Mark Zuckerberg’s, James W.
Breyer’s, Accel Partners LLP’s, Fenwick & West LLP’s theft of Leader Technologies’ U.S. Patent No.
7,139,761 invention.
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ANTI-CORRUPTION GROUP AGAINST GREEN-WASHING BY CAR SCAM CORPORATION
ASKS YOU TO PRINT AND PUT THESE FLIERS UNDER THE WINDSHIELD WIPER OF ANY
TESLA’S YOU SEE, AND SEND THEM TO YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND ASK THEM
WHAT THEY ARE DOING ABOUT THIS SCANDAL:
GLOBAL ANTI-CORRUPTION ADVOCACY GROUP SAYS:
“Lithium ion batteries, when they burn, cause brain cancer, liver cancer and other, potentially lethal,
toxic poisoning. Certain regulators are told to “ignore these issues” because certain lithium ion
investors donated cash to certain campaigns. The chemicals for lithium ion batteries come from
countries which needed to be invaded in order to monopolize the mining of those chemicals. Certain
politicians are told to “ignore these issues” because certain lithium ion investors engaged in war
profiteering in order to control those minerals.
The FAA has issued numerous warnings and videos showing that lithium ion batteries do
spontaneously self-ignite and crash airplanes. Numerous people have been killed in lithium ion plane
crashes. Certain regulators are told to “ignore these issues” because certain lithium ion investors
donated cash to certain campaigns. Flight MH370 was carrying tons of lithium ion batteries in it’s
cargo hold.
Lithium ion batteries have self-ignited and set numerous children and senior citizens on fire. They have
set homes on fire. They have set offices on fire. They have set Apple Stores on fire. You constantly hear
about passenger airlines being forced to land because passengers “smell smoke in the cabin”. This is
almost always a lithium ion battery going off in the cabin and exposing all of the passengers to it’s
carcinogenic ignition vapors. There have been multiple recalls of Tesla for fires including the battery
charger cord setting homes on fire and the need for an entire titanium add-on plate to cover the whole
underside of the Tesla. Tesla’s have now been involved in many deaths.
Silicon Valley investors took over the lithium ion battery market, along with Goldman Sachs (recently
called before Congress for this very same “commodity manipulation”), because they knew they were
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getting large government hand-outs from the Department of Energy in exchange for campaign
contributions.
Lithium ion batteries lose their power and memory over a relatively short time. Lithium ion batteries
blow up when they get wet or bumped. Fisker Motors went out of business when millions of dollars of
Fisker cars, using lithium ion batteries, got wet and all blew up. Tesla battery packs have blown up, on
multiple occasions, from simply hitting bumps in the road. Manufacturing these kinds of batteries is so
toxic that even China, a country known for the most minimal regulations, has closed a huge number of
battery factories because of the massive numbers of deaths they caused to workers and nearby
residents.
Journalists have published a glut of articles exposing cover-ups about the dangers and corruption
involved with lithium ion batteries. The U.S. Government and numerous groups have filed charges
against Panasonic, and similar battery companies for bribery, corruption, dumping, price fixing and
other unethical tactics.
Every key investor in lithium ion was also a campaign donor who also received huge federal cash from
the Department of Energy in the same funding cycle in which they paid campaign contributions. By
driving a Tesla, in addition to the common public perception that it is a “douche-bag car”, there is
something far worse about driving it. You are making a public statement to the world that you support
organized crime by driving this car. Here is why: Investigators say that, political operatives David
Plouffe, Rahm Emanual, Steven Rattner, Bill Daly, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs arranged with
Silicon Valley investors to take over the lithium battery industry in order to monopolize the trillions of
dollars of lithium, and related mining deals, in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has now cost American’s
over 6 trillion dollars, with almost nothing to show for it.
They say that they traded federal funding for campaign support assisted by Harry Reid and Dianne
Feinstein, who received numerous stock and cash kickbacks in the scheme. They say they used the
money to fund political campaigns. They used the Silicon Valley investors internet companies, (mostly
Google), to manipulate voter perceptions and web searches in favor of their agenda. The Silicon Valley
investors received favorable federal laws, tax gifts, free federal loans, stock bumps and other perks. The
Silicon Valley investors companies that used the Afghan minerals: Abound, Solyndra, Fisker, Ener1,
Tesla, and many, many more, that received the Department of Energy kickback funds, managed by
Steven Chu, have all either failed, been raided, been charged with fraud or otherwise turned out to be
disasters because they were based on a financial fraud skimming scheme instead of a good business
plan. Anyone who spoke out about details of the scam, particularly journalists, had a character
assassination hit-job ordered on them by Axelrod, Gibbs and Carney; using tabloid fronts that they
controlled.
All of these facts are known, in great detail, by many investigators. Nearly a million pages of evidence
exist. A Special Prosecutor is required to perform proper prosecutions. No matter what political party
you belong to: This is organized crime against the public and you are supporting it if you drive a Tesla.
All of this information can now be validated, and confirmed, on any law enforcement or investigative
news database.”
12.
By my tally, these Facebook loving criminals, sorry attorneys, only know how to misquote the law. The
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jig is up boys and girls. How do you know an attorney is lying?
His/her lips are moving.
Our beloved Harvard-bred President brags about teaching Constitutional law for a decade. Hmmmm
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The dark side of venture capital: Five things startups need to
know
By Conner Forrest connerforrest FOR TECH REPUBLIC
Venture capital funding is a great tool for entrepreneurs, but its implications are often not fully
understood. Here's what VC-seekers need to know.
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Nearly $27 billion dollars was invested by venture capitalists in 2012. That $27 billion was invested
across 3,723 deals, making the average deal hover at a little over $7 million.
While that number may seem staggering to many people, it's about average for VC investments made
since the dot com bubble burst between 2000 and 2001, according to the National Venture Capital
Association (NVCA). Yes, the economic impact of the dot com bubble was horrendous, but it did
spawn a renewed sense of innovation in startup development.
Companies are running leaner than ever, and because of that VCs are more willing to invest in
companies who don't pride themselves on their burn rate. Still, raising venture capital funding can be a
risky business if you aren't realistic about what to expect.
Here are some things to think about if you are considering raising your first round.
1. Statistically, you will fail
The venture capital investment process is a complicated one and potential companies are vetted
thoroughly before they are committed to. With that being said, just because your company is backed by
a major VC you aren't guaranteed success.
Think about those 3,723 deals that happened in 2012. In that same year there were only 49 IPOs and
449 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals. Granted, those exits came from companies that were
invested in probably a decade ago, it is still an interesting ratio to consider.
Micah Rosenbloom, a venture partner at Founders Collective, said that historically, only one out of every 10 companies that a firm invests in with a given fund will be successful. That's not to say that all
of the remaining companies will fail, though. According to Tomasz Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint
Ventures, "Typical portfolio company failure rates across the industry defined as either shutdowns or returning capital are roughly 40%-50%."
This isn't to discourage hopeful founders that are seeking capital, but to ground your expectations in
reality. Besides, entrepreneurship is about having the courage to fail, right? The fact that you are more
likely to fail is a fact of life for venture-backed companies, it is not an expectation for the VCs making
the investment.
"You never invest in a company thinking that it will fail," Tunguz said.
A VC investment in your company does not guarantee success, but it does mean you have someone in
your corner who believes you have what it takes to make this thing work. Once you have a VC in your
corner, you have to make sure you are in sync on what it will take to make this a worthy investment.
More importantly, you have to know how long it will take for this investment to pay off.
2. There is a timeframe for ROI
"Typical venture funds are structured as 10 year commitments for the limited partners who invest in the
fund," Tunguz said.
Venture capital firms are ten-year vehicles for investors, but that doesn't mean that all companies will
be ten years old when they return on the investment. Rosenbloom mentioned that initial investments are
made in the first three years. After the portfolio has been establish, a firm will typically make follow-on
investments over the remainder of the fund's lifecycle.
Ten years may sounds like a long time, but you have to consider how long companies like Coca-Cola
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have been around (since 1892) and some companies that were started in the 2000s have a comparable
valuation to Coke. Founders Collective is usually the first institutional round in a company, and
Rosenbloom said that they aren't looking for the next cool invention.
"As a venture capital firm, we are not in the business of funding inventors or inventions, we are in the
business of funding fast-growing companies," Rosenbloom said.
Considering the first three years as initial investments, a company could only have seven years to
"make it." Some VCs, like Rosenbloom, consider seven years the average age for ROI, and the data
from NVCA supports that claim.
The NVCA reported in their 2013 Yearbook that, of the 49 IPOs that happened in 2012, the median age for IPO was 7 years old and the mean age for a company to IPO was 8 years old. While some have
argued that it is taking longer for startups to mature, Tunguz argues, "The gestation period will likely
fall some because of the tremendous exit activity in M&A and IPOs in the last 24 months."
To help you make it through the whirlwind of growth that can happen after an investment, you have to
know how much capital you need and when you need it.
3. You can take too much funding
"All too often, entrepreneurs will think of raising a Series A round from a reputable VC as the end goal
and don't think they can be successful unless they do so. So they reprioritize raising capital over
building a valuable product or service and usually end up asking for too much money too soon which
ends up in a failed fundraising attempt or a raise on bad terms for the entrepreneur," said Hrach
Simonian, a principal at Canaan Partners.
As I mentioned in a previous article, knowing how much money you need can make all the difference in your venture capital experience. It starts by understanding how much money you need and only
raising that much money. Raising too much money can force entrepreneurs to make decisions they
aren't ready to make.
"If you raise too much money, you have to swing for the fences," Rosenbloom said.
You want the amount of money you raise to coincide with the benchmark you are trying to hit. If you
don't have a specific benchmark in mind (which you really should), a good rule of thumb is to consider
the amount of capital it takes to sustain your operations for 18 months, then add 25-50 percent for
added flexibility and seek to raise that amount of money.
Tunguz said that raising too much capital is far from the gravest sin to be committed by an
entrepreneur, "But having a huge sum of money in the bank can entice founders to dramatically
increasing burn rate or diffuse the company's energy among many projects. It can be challenging to
maintain the same execution discipline created by the scarcity of capital when the bank account is
overflowing."
Another risk of raising too much capital is setting the bar too high for your exit. By doing so you will
run the risk of not being able to grow into the expectation that was set by raising a large amount of
money.
Remember to raise enough to get yourself to the next stage where you can assess whether or not you
need to raise more money. Keep in mind that once you choose a firm and raise those funds, that VC
will probably get a permanent seat on your board of advisors. Choose carefully, because you are
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usually stuck with that investor for good.
4. You can't fire your VC
Too many founders abdicate their due diligence when it comes to the firms they end up pitching. Each
venture capital firm has its own general focus on specific sectors or verticals. Taking that to a more
granular scale, each partner within each specific firm maintains investments in a focused area of
expertise.
Founders typically don't appreciate the incentive structure on the side of the fund, which is based on the
size and the dynamics of that fund. Understand how the fund makes money to determine if it is a good
fit for you. The size of the fund will be a good determinant for whether or not your company will
present a quality investment opportunity for the partners.
You have to think of your VC firm as another partner in your business. This leads to one of the single
most important aspects of your startup/VC relationship: Make sure your goals for your company line
up with your VC's goals for his or her investment. By aligning your goals with those of your VC, you
can help potentially avoid a disaster scenario.
"The disaster scenario is that the founding team wants to do something different than the board,"
Tunguz said.
The risk/reward curves are different for entrepreneurs than they are for VCs, and board members
(including your VC) have a legal responsibility to take into account the goals of the investors. So, if
your company is losing steam and an acquisition opportunity comes along that is in the best interest of
your investors, they might push you to take it, even if it means you don't get paid.
But, of course, you can avoid all that potential heartache by not taking funding to begin with.
5. Failure isn't death
Micah Rosenbloom describes venture capital as jet fuel. If you want to drive somewhere 100 miles
away, you'll probably drive there. If you want to get from New York to Los Angeles, you're going to
have to fly, and you will need fuel to power that jet.
Venture capital gives you potential—the potential for major success and the potential to fail
spectacularly. The good news here—the gospel of venture capital if you will—is that failure is not the
end of the story if you play your cards right. Despite stereotypes, most VCs are actually looking to
build relationships with entrepreneurs, not just make money off of them.
"The Valley is small, and life is long," Tunguz said.
According to Tunguz, when it comes to his work at Redpoint Venture, great relationships are the
motivation, because even if you fail it's not the end of the world. What is much more important is how
you fail and how transparent you are throughout the process. If you keep people informed when you hit
a snag and ask for help with a problem, you can build trust with your investors.
Venture capital investors want to know that you will be a good steward of the funds they placed under
your control. If you can prove yourself a highly competent entrepreneur and someone who will push as
hard as they can to make an idea work, failure will not mean the end of your career as an entrepreneur.
At that point, even if you fail, past investors and people involved with your company will be far more
likely to fund your next project if they trust the way you work.
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As an entrepreneur, burning bridges is unwise. Treat people with respect to build social capital, but
don't see them as just a resource either. Other than that, always remember that if you're going to fail,
fail big and go down swinging.
About Conner Forrest
Conner Forrest is a Staff Writer for TechRepublic. He covers Google and startups and is passionate
about the convergence of technology and culture.
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing – CloudAve
_ We all know about AngelGate by now. As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the
topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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It seems clear this week’s meme is going to be “AngelGate“, after Michael Arrington crashed a private
meeting of West coast “super” angels, accusing them of collusion and price fixing.
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Who Really Has the Power? – 3Q Digital
So today AngelGate may be a big deal, but in the long run it won’t amount to much – the power is
shifting to the entrepreneur, and no amount of collusion from angels or VCs can stop that.
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The Daily Start-Up: “AngelGate” Escalates. Posted by Remy Arteaga on September 24, 2010 at
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing
_ We all know about AngelGate by now. As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the
topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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BoomTown Decodes Conway’s Super Angel Email to Fellow Investors..
Dave “Sue Sylvester” McClure uses his bullhorn blog to call foul about a not-naming-names-but-still-
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Michael Arlington of TechCrunch broke a very colorful story yesterday, now known as Angelgate,
about a secret super-angel meeting that he crashed. In his blog, Arlington accused the angels
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Fire in The Valley, Fire in My Belly… and Yes, Mike, I Have Stopped…
Heh, whether AngelGate is true or not, we live in a Goldman Sachs/BP world. I don’t think you’d ever
wade into collusion. But, how’d you feel about a group of VCs gathering before the next round?
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A Flash Of Evil Genius
The VC's and the Flashboy Algorithm Stock Pumping and
Spoofing Trick
The VC's used their control of Google, their partnerships with Goldman
Sachs and their massive server farm assets to burrow into the stock
market servers and trick the stock market system into handing them
public cash, again, that they had never earned. Here is how it worked:
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- Using federal funding to hype, pump, skim and dump public stocks and manipulate the stock market.
Senators and some regulators implicated in running the cover-up? Big players grabbed billions of
dollars up front, for their personal pockets, while workers at the Cleantech “bait companies” lost their
jobs and their futures.
- Solyndra, Tesla, Fisker and Abound investors bragged about “pulling a scrape”.
- Vc’s used taxpayer loans to fake stock values and reap massive windfalls off of felony market
manipulation violations under Section 9(a)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.”
MONEY
How Investors May Be Getting Fooled by
Buybacks
This is how Tesla fakes stock market jumps
NEW YORK (AP)
By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer
If you’re puzzled why the U.S. stock market has risen so fast in a slow-growing economy, consider one of its star
performers: DirecTV.
The satellite TV provider has done a great job slashing expenses and expanding abroad, and that has helped lift its
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earnings per share dramatically in five years. But don’t be fooled. The main reason for the EPS gain has nothing to do
with how well it runs its business. It’s because it has engaged in a massive stock buyback program, halving the
number of its shares in circulation by purchasing them from investors.
Spreading earnings over fewer shares translates into higher EPS — a lot higher in DirecTV’s case. Instead of an 88
percent rise to $2.58, EPS nearly quadrupled to $5.22.
Companies have been spending big on buybacks since the 1990s. What’s new is the way buybacks have exaggerated
the health of many companies, suggesting through EPS that they are much better at generating profits than they
actually are. The distortion is ironic. Critics say the obsessive focus on buybacks has led companies to put off
replacing plant and equipment, funding research and development, and generally doing the kind of spending needed to
produce rising EPS for the long run.
“It’s boosted the stock market and flattered earnings, but it’s very short term,” says David Rosenberg, former chief
economist at Merrill Lynch, now at money manager Gluskin Sheff. He calls buybacks a “sugar high.”
Over the past five years, 216 companies in the S&P 500 are just like DirecTV: They are getting more of a boost in
EPS from slashing share count than from running their underlying business, according to a study by consultancy
Fortuna Advisors at the request of The Associated Press. The list of companies cuts across industries, and includes
retailer Gap, supermarket chain Kohl’s, railroad operator Norfolk Southern and drug distributor AmerisourceBergen.
The stocks of those four have more than tripled, on average, in the past five years.
Companies insist that their buybacks must be judged case by case.
“The vast majority of our shareholders are sophisticated investors who not only use EPS growth but other important
measures to determine the success of our company,” says Darris Gringeri, a spokesman for DirecTV.
But Fortuna CEO Gregory Milano says buybacks are a waste of money for most companies.
“It’s game playing — a legitimate, legal form of manufacturing earnings growth,” says Milano, author of several
studies on the impact of buybacks. “A lot of people (focus on) earnings per share growth, but they don’t adequately
distinguish the quality of the earnings.”
So powerful is the impact, it has turned what would have been basically flat or falling EPS into a gain at some
companies over five years. That list includes Lockheed Martin, the military contractor, Cintas, the country’s largest
supplier of work uniforms, WellPoint, an insurer, and Dun and Bradstreet, a credit-rating firm.
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It’s not clear investors are worried, or even aware, how much buybacks are exaggerating the underlying strength of
companies. On Friday, they pushed the Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index to a record close, up 178 percent from a
12-year low in 2009.
“How much credit should a company get earning from share buybacks rather than organic growth?” asks Brian
Rauscher, chief portfolio strategist at Robert W. Baird & Co, an investment company. “I think the quality of earnings
has been much lower than what the headlines suggest.”
And it could get worse.
Companies in the S&P 500 have earmarked $1 trillion for buybacks over the next several years. That’s on top of $1.7
trillion they spent on them in the previous five years. The figure is staggering. It is enough money to cut a check worth
$5,345 for every man, women and child in the country.
There is nothing necessarily nefarious or wrong about buybacks per se. It doesn’t seem that managements are trying to
cover up a poor job of running their businesses. Even without factoring in a drop in share counts, earnings in the S&P
500 would have risen 80 percent since 2009.
The problem is that many investors are pouring money willy-nilly into companies doing buybacks as if they are
always a good thing, and at every company.
A fund that tracks companies cutting shares the most, the PowerShares Buyback Achievers Portfolio, attracted $2.2
billion in new investments in the last 12 months. That is nine times what had been invested at the start of that period,
according Lipper, which provides data on funds.
For their part, the companies note there are all sorts of reasons to like them besides EPS.
WellPoint points out that it has increased its cash dividend three times since 2011, a big draw for people looking for
income. Cintas says that it’s timed its buybacks well, buying at a deep discount to stock price today. And DirecTV
says investors judge it also by revenue and cash flow, both of which are up strongly.
What’s more, companies seem to genuinely believe their shares are a bargain and they’d be remiss for not buying,
though their record of choosing the right time is poor.
The last time buybacks were running so high was 2007, right before stocks fell by more than half.
There are signs the next $1 trillion in buybacks for S&P 500 companies could also prove ill-timed. Stocks aren’t
looking so cheap anymore. After a surge of nearly 30 percent last year, the S&P 500 is trading at 25 times its 10-year
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average earnings, as calculated by Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller of Yale. That is much more
expensive than the long-term average of 16.5.
Many investors assume shrinking shares automatically make remaining shares more valuable. The math is seductive.
A company that has $100 in earnings and 100 shares will report $1 in earnings per share. But eliminate half the shares
and the same $100 is spread over 50 shares, and EPS doubles to $2.
But that doesn’t make the shares more valuable.
Shares aren’t just a claim on short-term earnings. They are an ownership stake in an entire company, including R&D
programs and its capital stock — the plants, equipment and other assets needed to boost productivity long into the
future. Critics say the lavish spending on buybacks has “crowded out” spending on such things, which is at its weakest
in decades.
“It’s just like your car depreciating or your home depreciating — you have to invest,” says Gluskin Sheff’s
Rosenberg, “The corporate sector has barely preventing the capital stock from becoming obsolete.”
One result: U.S. productivity, or output per hour, increased just 0.5 percent last year, a pitiful performance. It has
grown by an average 2 percent a year since 1947.
If not reversed, history suggests stocks will suffer. In a 2010 study, Fortuna’s Milano found that stocks of companies
that spent the most on buybacks vastly underperformed stocks of those that spent the least on them — at least over
five years.
It’s unclear whether the kind of investor who dominates stock trading now cares about the long-term, though.
Buybacks are one of the few sure-fire ways to push a stock higher in the short term, and investors these days are very
short term.
They “don’t care what happens in three or five years,” laments Rauscher, the Baird strategist. “The market has
become less of an investor culture, more of a trading one.”
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Follow Bernard Condon on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BernardFCondon.
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Credits fueled Tesla stock sale?
By The Bakersfield Californian
Concerning your May 31 editorial (“Some clean energy bets pay off nicely”) on Tesla Motors paying off the
government loan:
In 2010, Tesla was awarded a milestone-based loan, requiring matching private capital obtained via public offering, by
the Department of Energy as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program. This program
was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2008, and then awarded under the Obama administration in the
years that followed.
The loan payment was made using a portion of the approximately $1 billion in funds raised in the previous weeks
concurrent offerings of common stock and convertible senior notes.
According to a May 8 USA Today report by James R. Healey and Fred Meier, Tesla made a first-quarter profit of $11
million on revenues of $562 million. But Tesla gets government zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) credits for each car it
builds, credits that can then be auctioned to other automakers to offset their non-zero-emission vehicles. The company
income from sales of ZEVs came to about $68 million in the quarter, or 12 percent of revenue.
So, if you take away the ZEVs, Tesla lost $57 million. It sounds to me like the first-quarter profit allowed Tesla to
make a stock offering to which the government loan was paid from. The profit was from government money in the
way of ZEVs. Would the stock sale have been as good if Tesla had shown a $57 million loss?
It’s interesting how you tied Bush to the failed Solyndra loan and President Obama to the Tesla loan, when in fact the
Obama administration made both loans.
Tom Wimberly
Bakersfield
GOLDMAN SACHS WAS THE “COORDINATING” LINK IN
ALMOST EVERY DEAL UNDER INVESTIGATION:
An extensive number of recordings, by multiple whistle-blowers, and agencies, now exist:
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News media have speculated that the actual reason for “the CleanTech Crash” may have to do with a massive
embezzlement scheme such as the concept shown in this published diagram:
FEDERAL AND INDUSTRY INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER “PUMP AND DUMP” AND “PUMP AND FLUFF”
STOCK SCAMS IN THE CLEANTECH FUNDING PROGRAM:”The use of the media and the internet by a
company, or it’s investors, to pump that company’s stocks is a felony. The use, by a company of armies of fake
bloggers, paid for by that company to post false praise in order to raise that company’s stocks is a felony.In the United
States, this falls under market manipulation and is prohibited under Section 9(a)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.”
The CleanTech stocks that crash and then suddenly recover are getting instantly “pumped” with fake investor buys
computer “flashed” to make them look like Day-traders.”Pump and dumps are illegal because you are willfully
attempting to manipulate the value of a security. And if you are doing this with other people as well, it’s even worse
because that implies it is more of a concentrated effort to do that. An example is if you and a few buddies are looking
at a stock that only trades a few thousand shares a day. Between the group of you, you trade the stock so the volume is
much, much higher than what it usually is. Others will notice this and think that the stock is going up by its own
merits, clueless to the fact that you and your buddies are artificially driving up the price and volume. Others start
buying and drive the price further based on the artificial demand you’ve created, and then you sell it off and the price
probably tanks to where you started or less. In a sense and your buddies would be guilty of collusion and artificially
manipulating the value of the security. That’s why it’s not fair, and understandably, that’s why it’s illegal. Furthermore,
pump and dumps are also carried out by people that hack into others trading accounts, sell off their assets, and use the
money to buy stocks involved in the pump and dump, which has the same effect of artificially driving up the price.
Source: Licensed Stock Broker
http://www.sec.gov/answers/pumpdump.htm
Watch the movie Boiler Room
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181984/ “ Nothing wrong with buying low and selling high. But willful manipulation of worthless stocks of synthetically created Cleantech facade companies, like Abound, Solyndra, Fisker, Tesla, etc…
crosses the legal boundary. When lying hype drives the price of a stock rather than financial performance of the
company, the activity becomes criminal. It’s considered fraud because the pumper (AKA: The Tech CEO that just got
free federal cash from a kick-back program) is artificially inflating the price of a stock through false and misleading
statements.“
ENRON AGAIN: TESLA AND SOLYNDRA ENERGY
INDUSTRY SCAMS –
“Pump and dump” (P&D) is a form of microcap stock fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned
stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price.
Once the operators of the scheme “dump” their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors lose their money.
Stocks that are the subject of pump and dump schemes are sometimes called “chop stocks”. [1]While fraudsters in the past relied on cold calls, the Internet now offers a cheaper and easier way of reaching large numbers of potential investors. [1]Contents [hide]
Pump schemes may take place on the Internet using an e-mail spam campaign, through media channels via a fake press release, or through telemarketing from “boiler room” brokerage houses (for example, see Boiler Room). [2]
Often the stock promoter will claim to have “inside” information about impending news. Newsletters may purport to offer unbiased recommendations, then tout a company as a “hot” stock, for their own benefit. Promoters may also post messages in chat rooms or stock message boards urging readers to buy the stock quickly. [1]
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If a promoter’s campaign to “pump” a stock is successful, it will entice unwitting investors to purchase shares of the
target company. The increased demand, price, and trading volume of the stock may convince more people to believe
the hype, and to buy shares as well. When the promoters behind the scheme sell (dump) their shares and stop
promoting the stock, the price plummets, and other investors are left holding stock that is worth significantly less than
what they paid for it.
Fraudsters frequently use this ploy with small, thinly traded companies—known as “penny stocks, ” generally traded
over-the-counter (in the United States, this would mean markets such as the OTC Bulletin Board or the Pink Sheets), rather than markets such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or NASDAQ—because it is easier to manipulate a stock when there is little or no independent information available about the company.[3] The same principle applies in the United Kingdom, where target companies are typically small companies on the AIM or OFEX.
A more modern spin on this attack is known as hack, pump and dump. [4] In this form, a person purchases penny stocks in advance and then uses compromised brokerage accounts to purchase large quantities of that stock. The net
result is a price increase, which is often pushed further by day traders seeing a quick advance in a stock. The holder of
the stock then sells his stock at a premium. [5]
Specific examples[edit]Jonathan Lebed[edit]During the dot-com era, when stock-market fever was at its height and many people spent significant amounts of time on stock Internet message boards, a 15-year-old named Jonathan
Lebed showed how easy it was to use the Internet to run a successful pump and dump. Lebed bought penny stocks and then promoted them on message boards, pointing at the price increase. When other investors bought the stock, Lebed
sold his for a profit, leaving the other investors holding the bag. He came to the attention of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC), which filed a civil suit against him alleging security manipulation. Lebed settled the charges by paying a fraction of his total gains. He neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing, but promised not to
manipulate securities in the future.[6]
Enron[edit]As late as April 2001, before the company’s collapse, Enron executives participated in an elaborate scheme of pump and dump,[7] in addition to other illegal practices that fooled even the most experienced analysts on Wall Street. Studies of the anonymous messages posted on the Yahoo board dedicated to Enron revealed predictive messages that the company was basically a house of cards, and that investors should bail out while the stock was
good. [8] After Enron falsely reported profits which inflated the stock price, they covered the real numbers by using questionable accounting practices. 29 Enron executives sold overvalued stock for more than a billion dollars before
the company went bankrupt.[9]
Park Financial Group[edit]In April 2007, the U.S. SEC brought charges against Park Financial Group as a result of an investigation into a pump and dump scheme during 2002-2003 of the Pink Sheet listed stock of Spear & Jackson Inc.
John Babikian[edit]John Babikian got rich, authorities allege, by what is known in the business as pumping-and-dumping stocks. He was operating ‘AwesomePennyStocks’ website and the 700,000 email push hyping America West.
Langbar International[edit]Started as Crown Corporation, Langbar was the biggest pump and dump fraud on the 409
Alternative Investment Market, part of the London Stock Exchange. The company was at one point valued greater than $1 Billion, based on supposed bank deposits in Brazil which did not exist. None of the chief conspirators were
convicted, although their whereabouts is known. A Patsy who made a negligent false statement about the assets was convicted and banned from being a director. The investors who lost as much as £100 million sued one of the
fraudsters and recovered £30 million.
Pump and dump spam[edit]Pump and dump stock scams are prevalent in spam, accounting for about 15% of spam email messages. A survey of 75,000 unsolicited emails sent between January 2004 and July 2005 concluded that
spammers could make an average return of 4.29% by using this method, while recipients who act on the spam
message typically lose close to 5.5% of their investment within two days.[12] A study by Böhme and Holz[13] shows a similar effect. Stocks targeted by spam are almost always penny stocks, selling for less than $5 per share, not traded
on major exchanges, are thinly traded, and are difficult or impossible to sell short. Spammers acquire stock before sending the messages, and sell the day the message is sent. [14]
Pump and dump differs from many other forms of spam (such as advance fee fraud emails and lottery scam messages) in that it does not require the recipient to contact the spammer to collect supposed “winnings,” or to transfer money
from supposed bank accounts. This makes tracking the source of pump and dump spam difficult, and has also given
rise to “minimalist” spam consisting of a small untraceable image file containing a picture of a stock symbol.[ citation
Short and distort[edit]Main article: Short and distortA variant of the pump and dump scam, the “short and distort”
works in the opposite manner. Instead of first buying the stock, and then artificially raising its price before selling, in a
“short and distort” the scammer first short-sells the stock, and then artificially lowers the price, using the same techniques as the pump and dump but using criticism or negative predictions regarding the stock. The scammer then
covers his short position when he buys back the stock at a lower price. [15]
Regulation[edit]One method of regulating and restricting pump and dump manipulators is to target the category of stocks most often associated with this scheme. To that end, penny stocks have been the target of heightened
enforcement efforts. In the United States, regulators have defined a penny stock as a security that must meet a number of specific standards. The criteria include price, market capitalization, and minimum shareholder equity. Securities traded on a national stock exchange, regardless of price, are exempt from regulatory designation as a penny stock, [16]
since it is thought that exchange traded securities are less vulnerable to manipulation.[17] Therefore, CitiGroup
(NYSE:C) and other NYSE listed securities which traded below $1.00 during the market downturn of 2008-2009,
while properly regarded as “low priced” securities, were not technically “penny stocks”. Although penny stock trading
in the United States is now primarily controlled through rules and regulations enforced by the Securities and
Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the genesis of this control is found in State securities law. The State of Georgia was the first state to codify a comprehensive penny stock securities law.
[18] Secretary of State Max Cleland, whose office enforced State securities laws[19] was a principal proponent of the legislation. Representative Chesley V. Morton, the only stockbroker in the Georgia General Assembly at the time, was principal sponsor of the bill in the House of Representatives. Georgia’s penny stock law was subsequently challenged
in court. However, the law was eventually upheld in U.S. District Court,[20] and the statute became the template for laws enacted in other states. Shortly thereafter, both FINRA and the SEC enacted comprehensive revisions of their
penny stock regulations. These regulations proved effective in either closing or greatly restricting broker/dealers, such
as Blinder, Robinson & Company, which specialized in the penny stocks sector. Meyer Blinder was jailed for
securities fraud in 1992, after the collapse of his firm.[21] However, sanctions under these specific regulations lack an effective means to address pump and dump schemes perpetrated by unregistered groups and individuals.
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References[edit]
1. J ump up to: a b c “Pump and Dump Schemes” . U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 12, 2001.
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Further reading[edit]
Krinklebine, Karlos (2009). Hacking Wall Street: Attacks and Countermeasures. US: Darkwave Press. p. 402.
Robert H. Tillman and Michael L. Indergaard, Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy
(2005, ISBN 0-8135-3680-4).
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Sergey Perminov, Trendocracy and Stock Market Manipulations (2008, ISBN 978-1-4357-5244-3).
External links[edit]
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“One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.” — Arthur Koestler
Solyndra and Tesla: Pump and Dump
all Street Journal article quotes an investor in the bankrupt “green energy” boondoggle describing what the half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee meant: “There was a perceived halo around the loan . . . If we get the loan, then
we can definitely go public and cash out.” Ed Lasky at American Thinker explains: The huge loan would be a selling point in an initial public offering. The company promoters could point out that the
loan gave them credibility — that the government had vouched for their viability and prospects. The private investors
would cash out and when the loan came due and the company was unable to pay, taxpayers would be the ones left
holding the IOUs. Take the money and run.
It was a straight-out scam, in other words, with a major Democratic donor as one of the primary beneficiaries. An
environmentally-friendly three-card monte game — burning taxpayers instead of burning CO2.
Solyndra Investor admits: we
wanted the loan so we could ‘go
public and cash out’
By Ed Lasky
A clearer picture of the underlying insider scheme at Solyndra is beginning to emerge. Yuliya Chernova of the Wall 413
Street Journal writes a superb column today regarding all the business problems that beset the scandal plagued
Solyndra. There were a litany of engineering and business problems that were very apparent to everyone except,
apparently, the White House politicos that pressured career officials in the government to extend a 500 million dollar
loan guarantee. The crony investors were given an unusually low interest rate for such a venture. Solyndra was first in
line to get loan guarantees under the Obama program to promote solar energy ventures. Solyndra private investors
were given priority in case of bankruptcy that placed their claims above those of taxpayers — a highly unusual
occurrence, according to the Wall Street Journal.So who were the type of people granted such favorable treatment?
Yes, Obama donors and bundlers. That has been widely publicized. But beyond that, what type of character did they
possess?
One investor behind Solyndra blurted out the truth. The loan was needed and needed urgently to fatten up the
company and show a going concern (with a factory, etc).Why?From the column:
There was another motivator — Solyndra’s management and investors had an eye on an initial public offering.
“There was a perceived halo around the loan,” said an investor with knowledge of the company. “If we get the loan,
then we can definitely go public and cash out.”
The huge loan would be a selling point in an initial public offering. The company promoters could point out that the
loan gave them credibility — that the government had vouched for their viability and prospects.
The private investors would cash out and when the loan came due and the company was unable to pay, taxpayers
would be the ones left holding the IOUs.
Take the money and run.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011
“Almost every one of the CleanTech “Winners” under the Steven Chu Department Of Energy, engaged in this kind of
felony grade stock manipulation and insider exploitation knowing that all of the federal law enforcement players were
controlled by the insiders with a “hands-off ” protection directive. Using newly optimized web techniques called
“Flash Boy” stock processing and “blog meat puppets” they could totally manipulate the stock market and laugh in
the faces of the few regulators who dared to step up. The bet that they have to make is that the Republicans do not win
the majority in the 2014 Mid-Term elections….”
Micheal Lewis best-selling book “Flash Boys” reveals how much of what you think is happening, on the stock market,
may be contrived false-hoods created by computerized manipulations and fake coordinated shill bloggers. The White
House games the stock market to payback Silicon Valley campaign funding VC’s and the GOP blows up those very
games, right afterwards, in a secret dance of stock fraud tricks. They made a mistake, this time around, and the tricks
became visible to everybody in the stock market world. This, on top of the Goldman Sachs sting operation recordings,
shows that something is deeply wrong in Stock Land!
In the coming mid-term elections we are seeing Barbara Streisand and DNC notables bemoan the reduced budgets
they have to work with this year. Privately, the DNC is ringing their core finance base (The Silicon Valley Vc’s)
telephones off the hook.
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One of the most successful tactics by GOP specialists involves Tesla Motors. Called out by Mitt Romney, and other
Republican notables, as White House fronts. Tesla gets strange and illogical bumps in the stock market in spite of
massive numbers of lawsuits, consumer complaints, the lowest sales volume for the money invested in a car company
in history, and other facts which, in a rational world, would say they should not survive.
In fact, what is happening is that the backers of Tesla, the same Silicon Valley investors who pay for the White House
and DNC campaigns, “Pump” the stock from their own bank accounts each time more bad news comes out about
Tesla. There are now charges that the White House is even “pumping the TSLA stock”, like it may have done on the
supposed October 16, 2014 “Pump” on the overall market, in order to protect Obama’s “brand name”.
This makes the stock chart for TSLA go up but it is not from mom and pop day-traders. It is “Pumping Cash” right out
of the Vc’s investment bank fronts to artificially inflate the stock.
While a final Tesla bankruptcy might seem like the dream for GOP PR; allowing them to point and say “Ha, look,
another Department of Energy Crony-Kickback deal gone south”, Tesla has provided even greater grist for the GOP
strategy meat-hooks.
MUSK GREED AND HUBRIS BLEW
THE SECRET:
By forcing the Silicon Valley VC campaign backers to constantly drain their bank accounts in order to keep Tesla
looking like it is still alive, the GOP strategists are also draining the life out of the funding for mid-term and 2016
Democratic candidates.
The GOP finally figured out that almost all of the cash and web media manipulation was coming from one tiny spot in
California: SandHill Road and the area around Standford University. They decided that to take down the GOP they
just had to expose Silicon Valley.
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Tesla was a test case and it worked well. The investment banks with auto refills on Tesla stock, running the investment
funds for Doerr, Thiel, Westly, Draper and all the rest of the DNC VC’s is running overtime trying to keep the stock
pumped as one set of bad news after another gets exposed about Tesla.
One GOP operative claims that every Kleiner Perkins investment has been: “Targeted, tracked and media
exposed”…”can you hear that giant sucking sound”, he says “…that’s the sound of DNC VC cash sliding into
oblivion…not only are they beating a dead horse but we have infected the very horse they are beating..”
The operative claims that Musk’s carve-outs for Solar, Space and batteries is his gift, by the White House for conduit-
ing cash, through those, “fronts” back to DNC candidates. Sierra Nevada Corp is suing Musk’s Space X, claiming
similar industry rigging. Tesla has been under investigation by many parties.
People don’t like taking it in the ass unexpectedly. In this case the old adage of “You F**ed me in the ass, so now I’m
F***ing you guys in the ass tens times more..” Seems to be the rule of the game.
Thomas Roster- Palo Alto Rev
NY POST PROPOSES STOCK MARKET RIGGED BY WHITE HOUSE TO PROTECT
CAMPAIGN BACKERS
John Crudele
unge protection’ behind market’s sudden recovery
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By John Crudele
A screen displays news on the Dow Jones industrial average just after the opening bell on the floor of the New York
Stock Exchange on Oct. 15. Photo: Reuters
Mysterious forces were trying their best, but they couldn’t keep the stock market from swooning Wednesday.
They failed in the morning, despite massive purchases of stock index futures contracts. Within minutes of the market’s
opening, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 350 points. Later in the day — after a lot of shocking ebb and
flow — the Dow bottomed out with a decline of 460 points.
It was only in the last hour of trading that the market saviors managed to trim the Dow loss to just 173 points. And
they succeeded only after Janet Yellen’s private, upbeat remarks about the economy were leaked.
Welcome to a new kind of stock market — one that the average investor should refuse to be invested in.
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Anyone whose investments tightly track the major indices is now losing money since the beginning of 2014. The Dow
is down 1.1 percent on the year, with the S&P and Nasdaq up 3 percent for 2014.
Just for the record, I’ve been telling you for years that the stock market was in a bubble and that you should enjoy it
while it lasts because bubbles always pop.
Of course, if you could time the end of the bubble, you’d be doing quite well. Miss the end and you are back to where
you started. Or worse off in terms of confidence and finances.
Welcome to a new kind of stock market — one that the average investor
should refuse to be invested in.
I obviously don’t know whether we are now seeing the end of the current stock market bubble, during which the S&P
index has risen 102 percent since October 2008. But there are people like my friend Peter Grandich of Trinity
Financial, who has been excellent at predicting market corrections in the past and who thinks this is the end.
I already brought up the sensitive issue of a market crash in a column on Oct. 9 that began: “Is this the month the
stock market will crash?”
October is historically a spooky month for stocks, and in that column I rattled off the crashes and major price
corrections of 1929, ’78, ’79, ’87, ’89 and 2008 to prove it.
Will 2014 soon be added to that list? That’ll be the cliffhanger in today’s column.
But let me explain about the unknown forces in the market these days. Call it by a nickname — the Plunge Protection
Team. Or call it the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, the official name given to the group when it was
formed by President Ronald Reagan after the market turbulence of 1989.
These forces may be working from a script in the “Doomsday Book,” which the US government recently fought to
keep secret when it was brought up last week during the AIG trial in Washington.
Here’s the bottom line: Someone tried to rescue the market last Wednesday. And it’s becoming a regular occurrence.
The details of last Wednesday morning are these: At the same time the Dow was off 350 points, the S&P index was
down 43.80 points, That was an enormous decline in just 11 minutes of trading and it was an indication that Wall
Street was not having a good day.
Then, someone (or something) started buying S&P futures contracts en masse. Twenty-one minutes later, the S&P
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index had regained 30 of those lost points and was back at 1,861.
Maybe you’ll believe that there was some manipulation going on if you knew that a guy named Robert Heller, who
was a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors until 1989, proposed just such a rigging as soon as he left
the Fed.
Look it up. Oct. 27, 1989, Wall Street Journal. Headline: “Have Fed Support Stock Market, Too.” By Robert Heller,
who had just left the Fed to head up the credit card company Visa.
“It would be inappropriate for the government or the central bank to buy or sell IBM or General Motors shares,”
Heller wrote. “Instead, the Fed could buy the broad market composites in the futures market.”
In case you don’t know the lingo, Heller is proposing that the Fed or government purchase stock futures contracts that
track — and can influence — the major indices.
These contracts are cheap and a government could turn the whole stock market around quickly — but probably not
permanently.
Wow! Doesn’t that seem a lot like what happened Wednesday at 9:41 a.m., when S&P futures contracts were suddenly
and mysteriously scooped up?
Let me allow Heller to finish his thought because it’s important to anyone who believes in free and fair markets.
“The Fed’s stock-market role ought not to be very ambitious. It should seek only to maintain the functioning of the
markets — not to prop the Dow Jones or the New York Stock Exchange averages at a particular level,” he continued.
But times change and so does thinking. In recent weeks, we’ve discovered that the CME Group, the exchange in
Chicago, has an incentive program under which foreign central banks could buy stock market derivatives like the S&P
contracts at a discount.
It’s not that these foreign banks need a break on the price of their trading. But it does show that there is a back-door
way — through foreign emissaries — for the Fed and the US government to prop up stocks like Heller
suggested, and — maybe — not get caught.
BLOOMBERG
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How Markets Need $200 Billion Each Quarter From
Central Bankers
By Simon Kennedy
Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard. Close
The central-bank put lives on.
Policy makers deny its existence, yet investors still reckon that whenever stocks and other risk assets take a tumble,
the authorities will be there with calming words or economic stimulus to ensure the losses are limited.
A put option gives investors the right to sell their asset at a set price so the theory goes that central banks will ultimately provide a floor for falling asset markets to ensure they don’t take economies down with them.
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Last week as markets swooned again, it was St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard and Bank of England Chief Economist Andrew Haldane who did the trick. Bullard said the Fed should consider delaying the end of its bond-purchase program to halt a decline in inflation expectations, while Haldane said he’s less likely to vote for a
U.K. rate increase than three months ago.
“These comments left markets with the impression that the ‘central-bank put’ is still in place,” Morgan Stanley
currency strategists led by London-based Hans Redeker told clients in a report yesterday.
Matt King, global head of credit strategy at Citigroup Inc., and colleagues have put a price on how much liquidity central banks need to provide each quarter to stop markets from sliding.
Magic Marker
By estimating that zero stimulus would be consistent with a 10 percent quarterly drop in equities, they calculate it
takes around $200 billion from central banks each quarter to keep markets from selling off.
With the Fed and counterparts peeling back their net liquidity injections from almost $1 trillion in 2012 toward that
magic marker, King’s team said “a negative reaction in markets was long overdue.”
“We think the markets’ weakness owes more to an almost belated reaction to a temporary lull in central bank stimulus
than it does to any reduction in the effect of that stimulus in propping up asset prices,” they said in an Oct. 17 report to
clients.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch strategists said in a report today that another 10 percent decline in U.S. stocks might spark speculation of a fourth round of quantitative easing from the Fed. That would mimic how the Fed acted
following equity declines of 11 percent in 2010 and 16 percent in 2011.
Bond-Buying
The good news for investors in the eyes of Citigroup is that although the Fed is still reversing and set to end its bond-
buying this month, the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan will more than compensate with more stimulus in coming months.
The reason for the support is the fear that a prolonged sell-off in markets would upend the fragile economic outlook
central banks are charged with safeguarding, they said.
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“With central banks much more concerned about a return to recession than about asset-price bubbles, they have little
choice but to step back in,” said Citigroup.
To contact the reporter on this story: Simon Kennedy in London at skennedy4@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Stirling at cstirling1@bloomberg.net Kevin Costelloe, Eddie Buckle
Goldman Makes It Official That the Stock Market is
Manipulated, Buybacks Drive Valuations
Posted by Yves Smith
It’s remarkable that this Goldman report, and its writeup on Business Insider, is being treated with a straight face. The
short version is current stock price levels are dependent on continued stock buybacks. Key sections of the story: Goldman Sachs’ David Kostin believes a temporary pullback may explain why the S&P 500 has tumbled from its all-time high of
2,019 on Sept. 19.
“Most companies are precluded from engaging in open-market stock repurchases during the five weeks before releasing earnings,”
Kostin notes. “For many firms, the beginning of the blackout period coincided with the S&P 500 peak on September 18. So the
sell-off occurred during a time when the single largest source of equity demand was absent. Buybacks dip during earnings
reporting months, which have seen 1.2 points higher realized volatility than in other months during the past 25 years.”…
“We expect companies will actively repurchase shares in November and December,” he writes. “Since 2007, an average of 25% of
annual buybacks has occurred during the last two months of the year.”
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Notice how the bulk of buybacks are concentrated in the fourth quarter, with the obvious intent of goosing prices at
year end so as to lead to higher executive pay for “increasing shareholder value”? In fact, these companies are being
gradually liquidated. Issuing debt, which public companies have done in copious volumes since the crash, and using it
to buy shares is dissipating corporate assets. They are over time shrinking their businesses. That is also reflected in
aggressive headcount cuts and cost-saving measures. Even though analysts like to tout the cash that companies have
sitting on their balance sheets as a source of potential investment, as we’ve discussed in previous posts, public
companies are so terrified of even a quarterly blip in earnings due to incurring expenses relating to long-term
investments that they’d rather do nothing, or go the inertial path of cutting costs to show higher profits.
But with borrowing the big source of this corporate munificence to the share-owning classes, this is a self-limiting
game. But the end game could be a long time in coming. First, you have economists who believe that the stock market
directly drives consumer spending, echoing the Fed’s confidence in the wealth effect. For instance, see this argument
from Roger Farmer (hat tip Bruegel blog):
There is a close relationship between changes in the value of the stock market and changes in the unemployment rate one quarter
later. My research here, and here shows that a persistent 10% drop in the real value of the stock market is followed by a persistent
3% increase in the unemployment rate. The important word here is persistent. If the market drops 10% on Tuesday and recovers
again a week later, (not an unusual movement in a volatile market), there will be no impact on the real economy. For a market
panic to have real effects on Main Street it must be sustained for at least three months.
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Yves here. The problem is that correlation is not causation. Significant and sustained stock market declines are almost
always the result of Fed tightening. The usual lag between an interest rate cycle turn and a stock market peak
historically was roughly four months, but in our new normal of seemingly permanent heavy-duty central bank
meddling, old rules of thumb are to be used with great caution. Nevertheless, Greenspan was obsessed with what
drove stock prices, and the Fed is unduly solicitous of asset price levels, no doubt because people like Janet Yellen
have to leave their DC bubble in order to meet actual unemployed people.
Mike Whitney reminds those who manage to miss it that the Fed is so concerned about the actual and psychological
impact of stock market prices that it immediately talked investors into getting back into the pool when the market
started misbehaving badly last week. From Counterpunch:
For those readers who still think that the Fed doesn’t meddle in the markets: Think again. Friday’s stock surge had nothing to do
with productivity, price, earnings, growth or any of the other so called fundamentals. It was all about manipulation; telling people
what they want to hear, so they do exactly what you want them to do. The pundits calls this jawboning, and the Fed has turned it
into an art-form. All [St. Louis Fed President James] Bullard did was assure investors that the Fed “has their back”, and , sure
enough, another wild spending spree ensued. One can only imagine the backslapping and high-fives that broke out at the Central
Bank following this latest flimflam….
It’s too bad the Fed can’t put in a good word for the real economy while they’re at it. But, oh, I forgot that the real economy is
stuffed with working stiffs who don’t warrant the same kind of treatment as the esteemed supermen who trade stocks for a living.
Besides, the Fed doesn’t give a rip about the real economy. If it did, it would have loaded up on infrastructure bonds instead of
funky mortgage backed securities (MBS). The difference between the two is pretty stark: Infrastructure bonds put people to work,
circulate money, boost economic activity, and strengthen growth. In contrast, MBS purchases help to fatten the bank accounts of
the fraudsters who created the financial crisis while doing bupkis for the economy. Guess who the Fed chose to help out?
Do you really want to know why the Fed isn’t going to end QE? Here’s how Nomura’s chief economist Bob Janjuah summed it
up:
“I want to remind readers of a message that may be buried in the past: When QE1 ended, the S&P 500 fell just under 20% in a
roughly three-month period before the QE2 recovery.
When the QE2 ended, the S&P 500 fell about 20% in a three-month period before the next Fed-inspired bounce (aided by the
ECB). QE3 is ending this month…”
Is that why the Fed started jawboning QE4, to avoid the inevitable 20 percent correction?
Whitney continues with one of our favorite tropes: that all QE has done is elevate asset prices. That has not led to a
recovery in anything much beyond the balance sheets of the top cohorts and the income of the top 1%. Even worse, it
has provide cover for the Administration falling in with investor-favoring austerity, in the form of reducing deficit
spending when it ought to be increasing it to take up the considerable and costly slack in the economy.
It’s not surprising to see the Fed double down on a failed strategy. The central bank had apparently finally recognized
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in 2013 that QE was not helping the real economy, and they needed to exit the policy to reduce the resulting economic
distortions. But they lost their nerve during last summer’s taper tantrum, and turned cowardly again in response to a
mere stock market hissy fit.
The Fed believes that what is good for the wealthy is good for the US, and that when they are in danger of suffering
financially, the central bank should break glass and administer monetary relief. Even though the Fed may think it is
serious about ending QE and eventually raising rates, as they say in Venezuela, “They have changed their minds, but
they have not changed their hearts.”
In the last few months, I have had a strange and interesting experience. In early April, I found myself the main
character in Michael Lewis’s book “Flash Boys.”
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Flash Boys” and the Speed of Lies . Here is the opening of this informative column by Brad Katsuyama for Bloomberg: In the last few months, I have had a strange and interesting experience.
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San Jose, California: President Barack Obama warned tech leaders on Thursday to dig deep in their wallets to fund
Democratic candidates and feel a sense of urgency about congressional elections in November or risk further gridlock
in Washington and a failure to move on their priorities. Obama was
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Both Democrats and Republicans Are Trying to Politicize Ebola.
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Are So Great For Business, Why Does Silicon
If Republicans Are So Great For Business, Why Does Silicon Valley Support Democrats? By Henry Blodget
February 16, … A partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock, Reid has invested in Facebook, Zynga, and
many other companies.
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rat tops in fundraising, even though he’
Former Obama official already amassing funds, … Longtime Silicon Valley Democrat wrangler Wade Randlett, …
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House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was at one of Khanna’s fundraisers but “supports Pete Stark,” said Jennifer
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… President Barack Obama on Thursday stopped in Silicon Valley for the one thing this high … he sought funds for
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Amazing Money Machine – Joshua Green – The Atlantic
How Silicon Valley made Barack Obama this year’s hottest start-up. … The Amazing Money Machine. … By
November, North and Gorenberg were among the top Democratic fund-raisers nationwide. On election night, …
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The term of choice in political giving these days is straight out of the world of finance: donors have become
“investors.” Now, liberal California venture capitalists have come up with the natural corollary: political “mutual
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12,000 MISSING TESLA ELECTRIC CARS! WANING DEMAND,
TESLA PUMPING STOCK, COOKING THE BOOKS???
- Many have charged that Tesla’s own shareholders are the buyers of Tesla’s in order to make demand look better.
– Bad reputation from Tesla and fraud lawsuits against Elon Musk taking their toll
– GOP Congress in January to investigate Fed and White House “stock Pumping” with “fine tooth comb”
– GOP Senator: “If we find out the White House is helping Tesla “pump stock” in order to protect Tesla’s, and the
White House’s, mutual cross-investment, then that could mean felony jail time for somebody..”
FROM THE CANTECH LETTER:
http://www.cantechletter.com/2014/11/geeks-reading-list-week-november-21st-2014/
The Mystery of 12,000 Missing Teslas: Overseas Boom or Waning U.S. Demand?
I have to be very careful what I say here, however, as a general rule, declining demand in the early adopter market is
not a promising development for a technology company, or, in the case of Tesla, an automobile manufacturer. As with
other remarkable observations regarding Tesla (fires, Trabant level reliability, etc.) no doubt a positive spin will be
placed on this or, alternatively, aspersions will be cast on the data themselves. Nonetheless, as I said, declining
demand in your early adopter market, especially when it is the US, is never a good sign. Never, ever, ever, a good
sign.
“Tesla Motors (TSLA) is slowly ramping up production. Demand for its electric sedans allegedly remains high. Yet
far fewer of the vehicles are making their way onto U.S. roads this year. In the first nine months of 2014, the number
of U.S. registrations of Tesla vehicles fell by one-third to 9,331, according to an analysis of public records by Hedges
& Co., an Ohio-based market-research firm. In the same period, however, Tesla said it delivered 21,821 cars—a 40
percent increase from a year earlier. What happened to the other 12,490 cars?”
About Brian Piccioni
Brian is a Partner at J Capital Partners, a new breed of investment bank focused on non resource growth companies
with special emphasis on technology companies. He has been part of the technology industry for a third of a century.
For 13 years he was an electronics designer and software developer. He designed early generation PCs, mobile phones
(including cell phones) and a number of embedded systems which are still in use today. He then became a sell-side
research analyst for the next 20 years, where he was ranked the #1 tech analyst in Canada for six consecutive years,
named one of the best in the world, and won a number of awards for stock-picking and estimating.
He started writing the Geek’s Reading List about 10 years ago. In addition to the company specific research notes he
was publishing almost every day, the Geek’s Reading List was a weekly list of articles he found interesting – usually
provocative, new, and counter-consensus. The sorts of things he wasn’t seeing being written anywhere else.
They were not intended, at the time, to be taken as investment advice, nor should they today. But, investors need to
understand crucial trends and developments in the industries in which they invest. Therefore, these comments may
actually help investors with a longer time horizon. Not to mention they might come in handy for consumers, CEOs, IT
managers … or just about anybody, come to think of it. Technology isn’t just a niche area of interest to geeks these
days: it impacts almost every part of our economy. In a way, we are all geeks now.
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There’s one story in cleantech today: Tesla Motors’ public sale. The electric car maker just raised the
bar on its IPO, slated for tomorrow, increasing the number of shares for sale from 11.1 million to 13.3
million.
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02/03/10 So what if Tesla Motors, the luxury electric-car maker, lost $31 million in the first nine
months of last year and $236 million since its inception.
vived Competitor a Legitimate Threat? (TSLA)
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Tesla is building out its Supercharger station infrastructure in order to provide convenient power for its
electric vehicles.
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op 1 Complaints and Reviews about T
Tesla Motors. Home > Automotive > Auto Manufacturers. Are you this business? Learn about … On
May 15, 2008, I received an email from Tesla stating that Tesla had established a comprehensive
warranty of 3 years/36,000 miles, …
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… the public forum is flooded with all caps complaints about the car, while there is little such action in
the private forum…Odd, at best. michael1800 … Copyright © 2014 Tesla Motors, Inc. All rights
reserved. Legal & Privacy; First Responders; Choose Region; MY TESLA | Contact | Sign In;
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Posts about is tesla a scam written by Syed … Tesla Motors has never been a company which has been
able to back up their rhetoric with a product as advertised, market or sell anything other than a rebodied
Lotus Elise with a bunch of batteries in it, OR bring anything to the market as they …
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Yes $24,590 has to be a scam. While on the low side the I can believe the $73,300 bid on ebay.
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Musk promised a blog post from Tesla Motors, with further details from the car’s data log, would be
“coming soon.” Data logging, he noted, has to be approved by customers, but it’s always turned on for
journalists.
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Tesla Motors Scam Related Information; Model S Reviews | Tesla Motors. Consumer Reports is
calling the Tesla Model S the best car it has ever tested.
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Tesla doesn’t actually have management training like most other corporations. Control spending habits
of store managers and service managers. … Glassdoor has 165 Tesla Motors reviews submitted
anonymously by Tesla Motors employees.
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Earlier this month, electric car maker Tesla Motors announced it would build a huge battery factory in
Nevada. In return, the state will give it $1.25 billion in tax breaks, electricity discounts, and other perks
over the next 20 years.
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BBB’s Consumer Complaints for Tesla Motors. … Scam Source; Programs & Services. … Tesla
Motors has reached an agreement with *** ***** and we believe this matter is now closed. 01/01/2014:
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An article posted on InsiderMonkey about just how Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) … such
modeling would be much harder to do because there is no way of knowing how many one percenters
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And that’s a fact that I am sure Tesla Motors has already figured out. Image of Tesla Model Scourtesy
of Tesla Motors … Global Oil Scam.” California is a victim of this scam. To avoid the gasoline price,
rip-off, plug your Tesla S, electric car into your household, …
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Is Tesla Motors considering licensing their proprietary technology to other manufacturers such as
Honda or Toyota? … Ramirez’s foes claimed they were trying to protect the public from a “scam artist”
who didn’t have a viable business. And by the time they were done, …
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ally Makes Money… From Taxpayers …
How Tesla Motors Really Makes Money… From Taxpayers. … Tesla didn’t generate a profit by selling
sexy cars, … yes, unicorn beams, which are the same things that are used for the ‘carbon credits’ scam –
everyone who thinks there’s a meal for free is either eating on someone else’s …
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sells Porsche, Jaguar, others in Calif.
Of course, CEO Elon Musk has a long ways to take Tesla before it truly becomes a permanent player in
the automotive world. It not only has to hit this year’s sales target, but keep the momentum going into
next year.
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JB Straubel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
… 1975) is part of the founding team and the Chief Technical Officer of Tesla Motors, an electric car
company based in Palo Alto, California At Tesla, Straubel oversees the technical and engineering design
of the vehicles.
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Billies. With sincere apologies to Sir Elton John, this must be the song that Barack Obama is singing.
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… , said it’s seeking to meet with electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc. about its retail network plans.
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temperature, a simple representation of the battery life for the car, the name of the currently loaded
driver profile, …
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As you know, the initial product of Tesla Motors is a high performance electric sports car called the
Tesla Roadster. I have been trying to follow that subject for a number of years, but they will no longer
talk to me, Was that a Scam?
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Venmar Motor Replacement. There is no doubt Nikola Tesla was a brilliant man but there is no
evidence that he ever discovered This scam is very similar to Earth for Energy in that it is an e-book of
plans that is sold through a network of affiliates who receive generous 75% commissions on sales.
Free Tesla Power Device Scam? tesla perpetual motion car. tesla ametek permanent magnet motor
generator. tesla free energy magnetic motors plans. tesla how to wire a magnetic motor starter.
Standard Gibbs Energy Difference.
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Download Tesla Generator Blueprints Free. Tesla Motors History. Best Plans Teslas Fuelless Generator.
Permanent Magnets Power. 20314 – PERPETUUM MOBILE – Eslas Fuelless Generator Scam.
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A TRICK TO SELL SILICON VALLEY VC’S LITHIUM DEALS IN
Tesla Motors — американская автомобильная компания из Кремниевой долины, ориентированная
на производство электромобилей. Названа в честь всемирно известного электротехника и физика
Николы Теслы.
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On Thursday, Elon Musk tweeted out what looked like a partial unveiling of the Tesla Motors D and a
hint that he may be unveiling something else in next week’s Tesla Motors announcement.
App Authentication Flaw Creates Tesla Motors Hack Concern. Your Tesla can spy on you and drive you
off the road on command. NATIONAL REVIEW AND OTHERS, say: “Khorasan is A Scam“.
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former_doe_official_critics_of_the_clean_energy/
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This book, along with the hundreds of thousands of pages of linked evidence, prove the
following:
- There was a very clear cover-up, and retribution attack program by Eric Holder DOJ and
White House staff.
- Over 150 people have offered to testify, before the U.S. Congress, on a live public TV
debate to prove that the DOE Cash was an organized crime kick-back scheme. They have
offered hard documentation of all the events documented herein.
- Steven Chu's nomination was organized by the law firm of Covington and Burling which
is also the law-firm that Eric Holder worked for. Covington and Burling is retained by most
of the Wall Street investment banks and corporations.
- Steven Chu and his associates had investments in the lithium battery industry and did not
support fuel cells, hydrogen, ultra-capacitors, energy harvesting or other technologies that
competed with their lithium-ion investments. Steven Chu and his associates took specific
action to damage any industry that competed with the lithium battery industry
- Senior White House staff including Rahm Emanual, Steven Rattner, David Plouffe,
Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, Jay Carney, Bill Daley, Erick Strickland and others, suddenly
quite their White House and senior agency head jobs, in a bad economy, with no higher
paying options. These departures all happened immediately upon receiving documents from
investigators questioning the situation.
- Recently acquired “lost” emails show that White House staff ordered “hit-jobs” on
reporters such as Attkisson and Woodward who started to expose issues in the incident and
members of the public in retribution for reporting the crimes.
- The CIA published multiple reports stating that “over a trillion dollars of Lithium for
electric cars” and Indium for Solyndra-type solar tubes “could be harvested in
Afghanistan”. Silicon Valley campaign investors involved in the incident held major
positions in these assets.
- Goldman Sachs is now under investigation, by multiple agencies, and has been charged
with billions of dollars of commodity market manipulation and was connected to every
investor in the case. Afghan minerals are “commodities”. Sachs took money in stock
trading, finders fees, intermediary fees and other “pass-along” routes. DOE staff have
pointed to Goldman Sachs as one of the ke
y architects of the scheme. Goldman Sachs
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has now been called before the U.S. Congress as part of escalating investigations into their
activities.
- Rahm Emanual s
senior aide in charge of finance was indicted for corruption and
racketeering. Amer Ahmad, Rahm Emanual's senior finance aide was arrested for
conspiracy, corruption and racketeering. He pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that
he steered state business to his financial adviser in exchange for more than $500,000 in
kickbacks.
- The Department of Energy hired IBM Consulting to e
valuate a
uto loan applications
when IBM Consulting staff had little or no experience in the auto industry. The IBM staff
operated from a small office of a Chinese Church in Virginia. IBM abandoned that office
when confronted about it. Witnesses have charged that Steven Chu told this IBM group
what results to come up with in order to rig the applicant progress in favor of campaign
donors. In fact, history has now shown that only campaign donors received funding and
every single non-campaign donor was sabotaged and/or cut-out.
- Panasonic battery company has been charged with bribery, dumping, price fixing and
thousands of deaths in other countries. Panasonic makes the batteries for Tesla
- Dianne Feinstein lobbied for Tesla and Solyndra to get the adjacent properties on land
related to her family, in Fremont California. She lobbied against any competing parties
getting that land. Her family owned the construction company to build the buildings, the
leasing company to lease the buildings, the staffing company to hire the employees and
owned insider trading stock in the companies that supplied some of the materials to Tesla
and Solyndra. Her husband had ownership connections to the adjacent railroad properties.
- The computers of Dianne Feinstein, and her family, were hacked by federal investigative
agencies in order to examine her potential involvement with charged illicit activities.
- Senior White House staffer Rahm Emanuel had a personal relationship with Department
of Energy E
valuation Center Argonne National Labs
- In March 2012, Rod Blagojevich began serving a 14-year sentence in federal prison
following conviction for corruption including the soliciting of bribes for political
appointments including the 2008 vacant U.S. Senate seat of then-President-Elect Barack
Obama, while in public office. The case pointed to White House staff Rahm Emanuel and
Valerie Jarrett, who had dealings with Blagojevich. Jarrett s
White House tenure was
delayed by FBI investigations.
- The services of Covington and Burling were paid for by Silicon Valley Vc's
- Almost every decision by Steven Chu, while at the Department of Energy, only benefited
entities connected to Silicon Valley Vc's
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- Under Steven Chu, more companies got more money and went bankrupt faster than ever
before, relative to all of recorded human history
- Steven Chu had prior existing personal relationships with Silicon Valley Vc's
- Steven Chu hired his staff from a list provided by Silicon Valley Vc's
- At taxpayer expense, Steven Chu's staff commuted back to Silicon Valley on private jets,
each weekend.
- The DOE fees for campaign backers were waived, but just for campaign backer's
companies
- Silicon Valley Vc's had their companies manipulate internet search engines to up-rank
DNC candidates and down-rank GOP candidates per communications with Senior White
House staff
- NASA gave The NASA AMES airfield and jet fuel to Silicon Valley Vc's at the direction
of White House Staff and California Senators. This appears to be a campaign t
hank
you gi
ft.
- Silicon Valley Vc's compensated McKinsey Consulting staff for authoring White Papers
for The White House and the U.S. Congress which only discussed the positive aspects of
companies which happen to have been owned by Silicon Valley Vc's . Some Mckinsey staff
have now been indicted and jailed for stock market manipulation.
- Deloitte consulting was both the accountant for DOE applicants and a DOE reviewer for
DOE funding
- Whistle-blower Gary D. Conley, who railed against the inequality of federal actions on
behalf of Silicon Valley Vc's, was found with a bullet in his head under questionable
circumstances
- Wall Street Journal energy industry reporter David Bird, while investigating part of this
story, has disappeared and even the FBI can t
find him.
- Consultants for Tesla Motors submitted multiple documents to the U.S. Government
which stated that the Tesla batteries could cause cancer when they burned or out-gassed
- Consultants for Tesla Motors submitted multiple documents to the U.S. Government
which stated that the Tesla batteries were mounted in a configuration which make them
more likely to blow up than in any other configuration
- Panasonic provided documents to the U.S. Government which stated that Tesla Batteries
"were not authorized for automotive power use".
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- Eric Strickland, The Head of the National Safety Agency, quit his job 48 hours after
receiving news from reporters that they knew he had manipulated Tesla's safety data. He
had been given numerous reports on the safety dangers of both GM and Tesla vehicles, yet
ignored these reports for long periods due to requests to not
upset campaign donors .
- The applications for DOE funding by applicants who were not campaign backers were
manipulated by Steven Chu and his staff. In a public, side-by-side comparison, today, of the
applicants documents, almost none of the w
inners w
ould have qualified.
- Steven Chu's nomination docket was almost entirely set-up by Silicon Valley Vc's
- Dianne Feinstein's husband is on the Silicon Valley VC group list.
- An inordinate number of Steven Chu s
DOE awardees needed the minerals which
existed in Afghanistan
- Solyndra needed Indium from Afghanistan. Silicon Valley Vc s
had a business interest
in mining efforts for Indium in Afghanistan.
- The Silicon Valley Vc's held featured stock in Afghan minerals
- The Silicon Valley Vc's held featured stock in lithium battery profits
- McKinsey Consulting provided both the congressional pitch papers AND the Staff for
Steven Chu, which were then used to pitch the w
inning of D
OE money by the very
people who paid McKinsey.
- A plane crashed with three senior Tesla staff in it. One of them was a whistle-blower. All 3
were killed. One was known to be a whistle-blower.
- Tesla broke federal law by claiming to not be near bankruptcy when it submitted it's
Section 136 documents. Elon Musk is now recorded on TV saying Tesla was about to go
bankrupt when it was applying for the DOE ATVM loan, this is a violation of the law.
- Tesla claimed, in its application to DOE, that, as of Today, it would have sold over $1
million Tesla s
. It has only sold 20,000 and the cost to sell those 20,000 has been hirer
than any car in history, mostly due to mismanagement.
- Steven Chu manipulated federal filing documents to hide Tesla's application falsehoods
- In a public side-by-side comparison, almost none of the companies that received
Department of Energy funding would have won over the other applicants
- All of the hundreds of Department of Energy applicants who were tossed out of the DOE
funding process had not made campaign contributions
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- The few "winners" of the DOE funding just happened to be connected to the largest
campaign funders
- Stock market analysts, including researchers from the book: F
LASH BOYS , fe
atured
on 60 Minutes, have documented, all will provide in public hearings, evidence of Tesla
Motors pumping it s
stock in order to mask bad news that appears in the press about Tesla
- The "winners" of the DOE money used the DOE money to manipulate public stock
market metrics by booking the loans as profits, or credits, in order to c
ook their books
and grab windfall profit s
crapes be
fore the stock fell again. They s
kimmed off the
top a
ccording to stock market analyst-investigators.
- The lawyers from Perkins Coie held private meetings with Steven Chu's staff in
coordination for special interest favors for their clients.
- Over, three different 60 Minutes broadcast episodes apply to this case
- Over 80 of the promises in Tesla's DOE filings never came true. Former DOE staff
attempted to destroy Tesla, and other, application documents but Senate investigators
acquired pre-destruction copies from DOE staff who were not willing to be unethical.
- Senior White House staff communicated regularly with Silicon Valley Vc's from before,
during and after the election
AS OF TODAY, THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE REFUSED TO
ENGAGE IN A SINGLE PUBLIC HEARING, OR HELP ANY OF THE WITNESSES
THAT COOPERATED WITH INVESTIGATORS.
AS OF TODAY, THE LOSSES TO U.S. TAXPAYERS EXCEED SIX TRILLION
DOLLARS; AND ARE CLIMBING.
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BEYOND SOLYNDRA...
At least one trillion tax payer dollars were lost in the Cleantech Crash from 2007 to 2013. You heard
about Solyndra ,but you may not have heard about the rest.
The U.S. Treasury, FBI, OPM, GAO, and other agencies, and news outlets have now confirmed the,
minimum, losses to be one trillion taxpayer dollars. The final number is expected to be much higher.
The case is an embezzlement, kick-back, illegal lobbying and stock market rigging case involving well
known public figures.
The cost , to them, of doing crimes against the public, though, is turning out to be high. Let's take a
look at how well it worked out for the perpetrators; every single one of which is connected to the other
via stock, transactions, beneficiary status, “unjust rewards” tracking, illicit ownerships, political efforts
and surveillance communications.
MORAL: WHEN YOU DO CRIMES AND CORRUPTION, AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS; IT
DOES NOT END WELL FOR YOU
Accused of: Revolving door jobs for Lobbyists and Senator's staff; Real estate kickback scheme re:
Tesla & Solyndra properties; abuse of tax incentives in exchange for campaign contributions, abuse of
cleantech credits in exchange for campaign issues; improper relationships with Senators; Kick-backs;
Fraud lawsuits underway; running a “DO NOT FUND” list to protect Silicon Valley Cartel; Arranging
quid-pro-quo funds-for-campaign contributions and funds-for-SEO-rigging and funds-for search-
engine-mood manipulation; kickbacks; Ran Illuminati-like frat- house boys club with goal of taking
control of government policy process and creating monopolies which only profited their cartel;
Misdeeds recorded by multiple law enforcement and intelligence agencies; Colluded together
to rig markets in order to cut out those who were not in “the club”; Colluded on database to ensure that
no VC funded a “black-listed” non-club member; Ordered Silicon Valley web companies they
controlled to run SEO and perception manipulation programs to control voters perceptions; Pretended
to review entrepreneurs new ideas and then rejected the good ideas and handed them over to another
VC in “the club” so that VC could have their “entrepreneurs in residence” copy the ideas without
paying the creator of the idea; Organized vast whitepaper authoring program with McKinsey
Consulting which was distributed to Congress and White House to sell funding of DOE ATVM & LG
programs which they had pre-rigged to benefit only companies they already owned part of; Fully meets
definition of “Organized Crime”; Arranged with White House staff to make sure only their
companies got funded in exchange for campaign cash and services to DNC candidates; Pre-acquired
investments in minerals found almost exclusively in Afghanistan and then promoted Afghan war in
order to monopolize those mining monopolies; and more…
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About now, you might be thinking that interdicting, and terminating, an epic political Coup, and kick-
back scheme is just too daunting of a task. Actually: IT IS EASY!
You have over 300 million voters and citizens who also think this is a crime and they do not like
political corruption one little bit. They will help you.
When you peel the onion with overt transparency, and take down each of the individual bad guys, and
their assets, the interdiction rapidly snowballs into a highly effective crime-stopper effort.
You will find, in no time at all, that the whole pool of corruption can be diffused, gelded and over-
sighted.
Cleantech Karma: The Take-downs
Let's take a look at some of the Karma the key suspects have already brought upon themselves:
K
ey suspects in the Cleantech Crash Scandal and their "
karma" :
Steven Chu - Secretary of Energy (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign. Sued for corruption.
publicly shamed by news media and Congress. Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)
===
Lachlan Seward - Manager to Steven Chu (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign. Sued forcorruption. publicly shamed by news media and Congress. Under ongoing investigation and
surveillance))
===
Rahm Emanual - White House strong-arm (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign and his Chicagofinance head was indicted for Corruption)(Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)
===
Robert Gibbs - White House press secretary (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign)(Under ongoinginvestigation and surveillance))(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and
more...)
===
David Axelrod - White House strategist (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign)(Under ongoinginvestigation and surveillance))(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and
more...)
===
Barack Obama - White House leader (Under investigation. Universally disdained in the press.shunned by his own party)
===
Larry Summers - White House finance head (Fired)(Under ongoing investigation andsurveillance))(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)
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Bill Daley - White House strong-arm (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign)(Under ongoing
investigation and surveillance))
===
Steve Rattner- White House Car Deals Director working in the West Wing and then with In-Q-Tel(Fired- Indicted in NY State for SEC Fraud/Corruption)(Under ongoing investigation and
surveillance))
===
Jay Carney - White House press lead (Forced to resign) (Under ongoing investigation andsurveillance)
===
David Plouffe - White House money packager. Arranged deals between VC campaign Donors (Forcedto Resign. Under ongoing investigation and surveillance))
===
Eric Holder – Attorney General- DOJ (Forced to resign) (Charged with staff & VC Protections andblockade of FBI and Special Prosecutor deployments in order to run the cover-up)(Under
ongoing investigation and surveillance)
===
Larry Page – Owner- Google (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)(accused of politicalbribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)
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Eric Schmidt – Owner- Google (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)(accused of politicalbribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more, a national coalition is actively exposing his sexual
perversions, sex penthouses, etc...)
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John Doerr – Owner – Kleiner Perkins. “Godfather” - Silicon Valley Cartel (Under ongoinginvestigation and surveillance))(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and
more...)( All of his personal assets, investments and portfolio holdings are under investigation and
targeted for extinction)
===
Steve Westly - Campaign Bundler (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance))(accused ofpolitical bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)( All of his personal assets, investments
and portfolio holdings are under investigation and targeted for extinction)
===
Richard Blum - Senator Feinsteins Husband (He is now under investigation. Has had contractsinterdicted by Congressional action)(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and
more...)
===
Ray Lane – VC (Charged with Federal Tax Fraud)(Under ongoing investigation andsurveillance))(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)
===
Elon Musk - CEO - Tesla (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance) & in multiple lawsuitsfor fraud)(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...) ( All of his
personal assets, investments and portfolio holdings are under investigation and targeted for
extinction)
===
447Andy Bechtolsheim – VC- Insider campaign backer (He is now under investigation)(accused of
political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)
===
Vinod Khosla – VC Campaign backer (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)( in multiplelawsuits)(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...Exposed in 60
Minutes and CNN news coverage)
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Martin LaGod – VC Campaign backer (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)(assets,investments and stock portfolio tracked and targeted)( All of his personal assets, investments and
portfolio holdings are under investigation and targeted for extinction)
===
Ira Ehrenpreis – VC Campaign backer (He is now under investigation)(accused of political bribery
and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...) ( All of his personal assets, investments and portfolio
holdings are under investigation and targeted for extinction)
===
Eric Strickland – Head of Auto Safety agency (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign)(he is nowunder investigation. Charged with cover-up of Tesla and GM auto dangers he had known about)
===
Tom Perkins – VC Campaign backer (He is now under investigation, slammed by public andmedia)(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)
===
In-Q-Tel, Inc. - CIA off-shoot associated with Eric Schmidt, Google, Elon Musk and the Cartelleaders. Ran “hit-jobs” on Silicon Valley VC adversaries and reporters (Sued, under investigation,
exposed in multiple documentaries, under investigation for Cocaine trafficking)
===
Tim Draper – VC Campaign backer (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance))(accused ofpolitical bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)( All of his personal assets, investments
and portfolio holdings are under investigation and targeted for extinction)
===
Lloyd Craig Blankfein - Head of Goldman Sachs and liaison in almost every single CleanTechcompany scam (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance))(accused of political bribery and
kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...) ( All of his personal assets, investments and portfolio
holdings are under investigation and targeted for extinction)
===
Raj Gupta - McKinsey Fixer (Indicted, Jailed)(he is now under investigation)===
Jacque Littlefield (Dead)
===
Brian Goncher - Deloitte VC intermediary (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance))(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...)
===
Goldman Sachs – Financial packager (Suspected of staging most of the TARP/DOE deals forpersonal gain & insider payouts)(Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)
===
Kleiner Perkins - Campaign funding VC who (Received massive windfalls from Russian mining &tech start-up rigging. Sued. Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)(Offices broken into by
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federal investigators) All assets being tracked and terminated.)
===
Draper Fisher – VC firm (Campaign funder who received massive windfalls from Russian mining& tech start-up rigging)(Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)
===
Google, Inc. - Data harvesting company (Ran media attacks, stock market pump and dump PRhype and character assassinations)(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and
more...) (charged by EU, and most nations, with multiple abuses of the public. Has totally lost the
trust of the public. Revenue loss increasing geometrically.)(Under ongoing investigation and
surveillance)
===
Mckinsey Consulting – Government services contractor (Supplied DOE manipulation staff,manipulated white-papers to Congress and lobbying manipulation for the scam)(Under ongoing
investigation and surveillance)
===
Dianne Feinstein - Senator (He is now under investigation) Wife of Silicon Valley Cartel MemberRichard Blum(accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion, and more...) (Under
ongoing investigation and surveillance)
===
Harry Reid - Senator- Solar factory guru, Congress lead (Accused of political bribery andkickbacks; tax evasion, and more...Forced out of Congress in shame) (Under ongoing
investigation and surveillance)
===
Senator Calderone – Senator (Indicted & charged with corruption)
===
Leland Yee - Senator (Indicted & charged with corruption)
===
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Governor (Accused of political bribery and kickbacks; tax evasion,illicit deal organization with Russians and more...)
===
Lois Lerner – IRS head charged with running political hit-jobs (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign)(She is now under investigation. Shamed in news media)(Under ongoing investigation and
surveillance)
===
James Brown Jr – Obama Programming lead in California (Arrested for corruption)
===
Gawker Media & Nick Denton – Character assassination service provider (Sued multiple times,under federal investigation for tax evasion)(Under ongoing investigation and surveillance)
===
Daniel Cohen – DOE Legal counsel (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign)(Under ongoinginvestigation and surveillance)
===
Perkins Coi – Law firm who sold lobby manipulation services (Under federal investigation)
===
Jonathan Silver – DOE VC (Sent packing/fired/forced to resign)((Under ongoing investigationand surveillance)( Shamed in media for epic failures)
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===
Bill Lockyer – Calif State finance head ((Under ongoing investigation and surveillance) andcharged with corruption by media. Assets and ownerships under investigation)
===
Steve Jurvetson – VC who manipulated Senate staff for Tesla cash ((Under ongoing investigationand surveillance) All assets being tracked and terminated.)
===
Matt Rogers – Mckinsey corruption operator reporting to Steven Chu (Under ongoing investigationand surveillance)(All assets being tracked and terminated.)
===
Steve Spinner and Alison Spinner- Mckinsey corruption operator reporting to Steven Chu with secretconnection inside Solyndra (Under ongoing investigation and surveillance) All assets being tracked
and terminated.)
As you can see, from these key examples, dark crimes lead to dark futures. More tough luck is known
to be coming to those listed above. It is a known fact that every single name, above, is under review by
the FBI, The GAO, Senate Ethics and industrial investigators.
The reaction, by most members of the public is, generally: “What a bunch of stinking weasels!”. The
reaction, by law enforcement, will be indictments. The reaction by the history books is the badge-of-
shame.
Any, or all of them, if named in public, federal or personal lawsuits, for their crimes and indiscretions,
would have little, or no recourse, but to lose those cases and face public humiliation. The evidence
from law enforcement, leaks, witnesses and other sources, against them, is now irrefutable.
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As a member of the public, you can do the following:
- Call, FAX and email the FBI, GAO, OSC, SEC and your elected representatives and demand a public
hearing about this scandal under a Special Prosecutor. Use this link to find your representatives:
http://www.opencongress.org/people/zipcodelookup
- Do NOT vote for any politician who does not guarantee, in writing, to pass laws to end political
corruption
- Write President Obama and tell him what you think. Copy your letter to all social media and news
desks.
- Raise hell about this in all social media outlets, make websites, grow local anti-corruption groups
-
In the Age of Transparency, also known as The Great Disruption. Many document leaks have taken
place, and more are expected, with particularly shocking data. The public has now become way moree
savvy about information tools. This nexus of factors has created a new reality.
As billionaires and super-corporations become more prolific, their hubris, tone-deafness, and egotistic
excesses seem to increase.
In this new age of equal access to all information, every member of the public now has access to the
same investigation resources that the FBI and CIA have. Over 2000 online service providers will track
down any crime, at any corporation or in any billionaies portfolio. You can, now, easily, hunt down the
hookers, criminal expense accounts, tax evasion shelters, abuse of funds, insider trading, political
bribes, mistresses, and other corporate mis-deeds of each and every executive at a company.
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The lesson to the wise: If you are a cocky billionaire, or corporation, one week; you can now be an out-
of-business corporation, or billionaire, the next week. Be honest, legal and moral and you won't get the
axe.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE AND COMPANIES THAT SUDDENLY VANISHED IN SCANDAL
BILL COSBY, FOREX, SOLYNDRA, ABOUND SOLAR, A123, ENERDEL, AMY PASCAL,
E.F.HUTTON, RADIO SHACK, ENRON, MCI WORLDCOM, EASTERN AIRLINES, STANDARD
OIL, ARTHUR ANDERSON, DELOREAN, PETS.COM, BEAR STEARNS, BEATRICE FOODS,
HEALTHSOUTH, ALLEN STANFORD, TYCO, LANCE ARMSTRONG, PARMALAT, BANINTER,
HSBC, GLOBAL CROSSING LTD., HIH INSURANCE, IMCLONE, DEUTSCHE BANK SPY
CASE, URBAN BANK, JEROME KERVIEL, BARCLAYS BANK, BRE-X, FISKER, BARINGS
BANK, PATRICIA DUNN, SIEMENS AG, PETROBAS, FERNANDO MARCOS, KELLOG
BROWN AND ROOT, BAE SYSTEMS, KERRY KHAN, ALCATEL-LUCENT SA, PRESIDENT
RICHARD NIXON… Who is next?
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Over 1000 things, that look like criminal proof of a crime, happened; yet famous politicians say
“It was all just a coincidence! Pay no attention to that. Move along, move along”. Do you believe
them?
Did White House Staff Engage In A Silicon Valley Payola Scam?
Thomas L. - The Caller
In a What-The-F*ck-ery so epic, it will make your eyes bleed to hear the details, this modern
corruption scandal stretches the limits of the use of the political cover-up to the breaking point.
Are Elon Musk and John Doerr seriously thinking that they have bribed EVERY FBI agent in America?
Musk and Doerr must be smoking crack to believe that not one single FBI agent will do their job and
take them down. The FBI has a decent mix of Democrat and Republican agents. Even though Obama
runs the FBI, and the NSA, there are a pretty large group of NSA and FBI agents looking to call his
bluff. The FBI Director, Comey, is even a registered Republican. The bribery, kick-backs and
corruption that Musk and Doerr engaged in, with tax payer resources, has now reached historical
heights...or depths.
The facts prove that Obama's Silicon Valley campaign financiers made a deal with White House staff to
get vast amounts of taxpayer cash put in their pockets by Obama's controlled people at the Department
of Energy, under Steven Chu. They sabotaged, and attacked, anyone who tried to compete with, or
report, their criminal scam. The Obama Administration has spent huge amounts of resources to have
Eric Holder and Steven Chu try to cover up these kick-backs and payola operations.
The financial, ownership, stock residuals and emails prove that these activities took place and that they
took place under the willful and covert direction of White House staff.
Let's take a look at some of the things that Obama's people are claiming were just coincidences:
In the Steven Chu Department of Energy Cleantech Crash Scandal, that cost taxpayers over a trillion
dollars in losses, do you believe that all of those thousands of malfeasances, that lost taxpayers all that
money, and that were all connected to the same exact handful of people, were just a big bunch of
coincidences?
Do you believe that the fact that the aforementioned handful of people just happened to all be campaign
financiers to Obama as well as the only recipients of the taxpayer money? Is that just a coincidence?
Is it possible that those few people, who were campaign financiers, who got the only cash hand-outs
from the U.S. Treasury in all of America (out of 300 million Americans), as ordered by Obama's staff,
just coincidentally had all of their competitors sabotaged by the same Obama staff at the same exact
time?
Does your credulity begin to crumble when you realize that Elon Musk was a billionaire who had to get
tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money from an emergency fund which he publicly stated he had
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no need for; after which he bought a new wife and a new mansion. Was it a coincidence that Elon Musk
missed all of his agreed upon government milestones, had almost no customers and had massive
technical failings in his products yet still kept getting more money from Obama?
Obama placed Eric Holder in office. Eric Holder came from Obama's fund-raising law firm. Holder
halted every investigation into the Department of Energy and the Banker backers of the financial
collapse. Is it a coincidence that they were all financially connected?
Obama placed Steven Chu in office. Steven Chu came from Obama's fund-raising VC firms. Chu
halted every funding of competitors into the Department of Energy and their exclusive Banker backed
“CleanTech” programs. Is it a coincidence that they were all financially connected?
Is it just a coincidence that Musk and Doerr controlled Afghan lithium mining, got military support for
the minefield takeovers from, got exclusive rights to sell that lithium from, and funded the campaign
of: Obama?
How can any reasonable person look at the facts, the hundreds of thousands of news stories, the
documentaries and the reports, from the hundreds of witnesses, and not see why the White House has
used “extraordinary tactics” to prevent a Special Prosecutor from examining the case?
It is very clear the Solyndra, The CleanTech Crash and the banking scandals leads straight back to The
West Wing. It is very clear, to every investigator who has read the evidence, that Obama would be
forced to resign, when all of the financial records are made public.
Obama has all of the bank vaults of the Silicon Valley billionaires to prop him up; but Elon Musk and
John Doerr are not as protected. The White House may have ordered the Fed, The DOJ, Google and
their other news media and the SEC to run coverage for Musk & Doerr but it has now become so
blatant that the veneer has worn thin.
The cops may not get Obama, until after he is out of office, but Elon Musk and John Doerr are as dirty
as they come, and need to be perp-walked now. Either the feds need to do it, or public spirited citizens
need to walk up to them and arrest them on the spot.
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Be Aware of the following opposition tactics…
... being used against you and your group:
The opposition will engage in the following to try to terminate your efforts:
1. Increase their "goodwill" ads on tv and radio in the area.
2. Place their agents, acting as hepful neighbors, into your public neighborhood meetings to cause
disruption, slow progress, fraction focus, delay efforts, make statements that cause the others to
question their actions.
3. Have fake bloggers put counter comments or questioning comments on your Twitter, Facebook or
blog sites.
4. Send out massive amounts of manipulated documents, written by their agents, which are designed to
make you think there is confusion in the scientifc consensus or cause you to question the circumstances
by implied lack of clarity on the issue, when, in fact, there is actually total clarity.
5. Reduce your fundraising options.
6. Announce a program to create a fix to the solution which is really just an announcement and a
smoke-screen for total inaction.
HERE ARE THE TIPS THEY GIVE THEIR LOBBYISTS TO
COUNTER WHAT YOU ARE DOING:
"This example is from an Anti-DNC directive”
We are a business and every voter is a consumer. Politics is entirely about business and
controlling our revenue interests. There is no place in this year s
campaign for hum
anism -ba
sed
agenda s
like the Democrats.
In the handling of Democrats in the audience rather than refer to the opponent as the
“Democratic Party” or “Democrat Administration” refer to the Candidate by name only.
Use only our internal newspaper wire service, it will send out a political clipsheet every week,
to thousands of “thought leaders,” and cartoons, editorials, and articles to 200,000 newspapers. Rural
newspapers are so desperate for copy that many will print whatever our Service sends them, including
documents that are basically press releases disguised as editorials endorsing whatever political position
we advance.
Pretend that you are the Voice of the People. Use radio ads, sponsored by a false-front group
with the word “Citizens” or “taxpayers” in the name.
Attack, attack, attack. You can t
wage a defensive campaign and win!
Keep it simple. Rhyming is good. The low intellect voter s
love rhymes. Never explain
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anything. The more you have to explain the more difficult it is to win support.
Say the same thing over and over again. We have to get a voter s
attention seven times per
slogan to control their intentions. Anybody that hears the same thing seven times is programmed to it
for life.
Subtlety is your enemy. Words that lean on the mind are no good. They must dent it. Simplify,
simplify, simplify. A wall goes up when you try to make Mr. and Mrs. Average American Citizen work
or think.
Fan flames. We need more partisanship in this country. Never shy from controversy; instead,
win the controversy. The average American doesn t
want to be educated; he doesn t
want to
improve his mind; he doesn t
even want to work, consciously, at being a good citizen, But there are
two ways you can interest him in a campaign, and only two that we have ever found successful. You
can put on a fight or you can put on a Show. So if you can t
fight, PUT ON A SHOW! And if you put
on a good show, Mr. and Mrs. America will turn out to see it.
Winner takes all. If you launch a campaign for a new car, your client doesn t
expect you to
lead the field necessarily in the first year, or even the tenth year, But in politics, they don t
pay off for
PLACE OR SHOW! You have to win, if you want to stay in business.
This must be a campaign that makes people hear the beat of drums and the thunder of bombs. . .
. This must be A CALL TO ARMS IN DEFENSE AMERICA!
Where the men go, the women will follow. Focus on male trigger slogans first.
Always and only use our prescreened 15 minute talking script. Try not to speak for more than
fifteen minutes pe
ople get bored a
nd never for more than half an hour.
Reject any health care issues that affect our supporters ability to make money. Say often: You
cant beat something with nothing, and: P
olitical medicine is bad medicine.
Lobby your local newspaper editors. Have your staff make in-person drop-by s
to every
newspaper office to persuade editors to change their positions. Many of these newspapers do a vast
amount of advertising business with us and received hundreds of words of free copy, each week, from
our news services. They will not risk losing our advertising dollars when the internet is killing their
business. We can cut out all of the newspapers supporting Obamacare in 70 days if we stay on our goal.
This is a top 6 issue and we now have the budget to spend 10 dollars against every individual dollar the
Obama campaign spends to push it.
Mention “Politically-Controlled Medicine.” often.
In private conversations with Senators, use this talking point:
P
lease vote against all Compulsory Health Insurance Bills pending before the Legislature. We have
enough regimentation in this country now. Certainly we don t
want to be forced to go to A
State
doctor, or t
o pay for such a doctor whether we use him or not. That system was born in Nazi
Germanyand is part and parcel of what our boys are fighting overseas to stop. Let s
not adopt it
here.
This must be a campaign to arouse and alert the American people in every walk of life, until it
generates a great public crusade and a fundamental fight for freedom, any other plan of action, in view
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of the drift toward socialization and despotism all over the world, would invite disaster.
Our counter-measures campaign has now been distributed, by the hundreds of thousands, to
reporters and editors, among others, and to every member of Congress.
A Top 6 immediate objective is the defeat of the compulsory health insurance program. The
long-term objective is to put a permanent stop to the agitation for socialized medicine in this country by
(a) awakening the people to the danger of a politically-controlled, government-regulated health system;
(b) convincing the people, through a Nation wide campaign of education, of the superior advantages of
private medicine, as practiced in America, over the State-dominated medical systems of other
countries; (c) stimulating the growth of voluntary health insurance systems to take the economic shock
out of illness and increase the availability of medical care to the American people. Our backers in the
health business are looking at a trillion dollar loss if this Obamacare reaches fruition. Basically, the
issue is whether we are to remain a free Nation, in which the individual can work out his own destiny,
or whether we are to take one of the final steps toward becoming a Socialist or Communist State. We
have to paint the picture, in vivid verbiage that no one can misunderstand, of Germany, Russia a
nd
finally, England. KEEP POLITICS OUT OF MEDICINE.
Always call Obamacare: s
ocialized
medicine.
We must educate every doctor, nurse, and druggist in the United States about the dangers of
socialized medicine.
Hitler and Stalin and the socialist government of Great Britain all have used the opiate of
socialized medicine to deaden the pain of lost liberty and lull the people into non-resistance. Old World
contagion of compulsory health insurance, if allowed to spread to our New World, will mark the
beginning of the end of free institutions in America. It will only be a question of time until the
railroads, the steel mills, the power industry, the banks and the farming industry are nationalized. We
must stop these Democrats on the front line before they take this to our porches.
The DNC, via unions and tree-huggers, own a national company called Grassroots Campaigns,
Inc. which puts people on the streets of every major city with clipboards to collect money and distribute
propaganda. Encourage your staff to engage them in long-winded conversations to cut down their
through-put
The A.M.A. in its campaign is carrying its case to the people of America in a grass roots crusade
which we hope, with your help, and the help of tens of thousands of others, will reach every corner of
this country. We have over 40 million dollars booked on this grass-roots effort. We WILL turn the
President s
sensible, popular, and urgently needed legislative reform into a bogeyman so scary that,
no American will want it.
The great need is to go on the offensiveand to attack, Best to forget t
he liberal Democrats
who wouldn t
vote for Mitt if he received the joint personal endorsement of Jesus Christ and Karl
Marx via a séance with Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics is just like show business. . . . You begin with a hell of an opening, you coast for a
while, and you end with a hell of a closing. We have a great closing!
Voters are basically lazy, basically uninterested in making an effort to understand what we re
talking about, Reason requires a higher degree of discipline, of concentration; impression is easier,
Reason pushes the viewer back, it assaults him, it demands that he agree or disagree; impression can
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envelop him, invite him in, without making an intellectual demand. . . . When we argue with him we
demand that he make the effort of replying. We seek to engage his intellect, and for most people this is
the most difficult work of all. The emotions are more easily roused, closer to the surface, more
malleable. Voters are, simply, idiots. Treat them as such and keep them amused by the shiny object.
We are leading men s
minds, this is the reason Washington must be in the hands of the most
ethical, principled people pe
ople with real concern for the world around them, for people around
them: The RNC, or else it will erode into the hands of people who have no regard for the world around
them: The Democrats.
"
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Additional Evidence and Source Links
Note from a large number of editors: The nature of political investigation links is that they are,
sometimes, mercurial. Sites are attacked, DNS blocked, maliciously down-ranked, spoofed and search-
registry-deleted by Google management and Google's investors companies. Nothing that you read on a
Google service is arbitrary. Every phrase on Google is calculated to mood manipulate you one way, or
the other. If a link, below, is dead, search the key word phrase you are looking for on multiple non-
Google search engines as well as non-Silicon Valley search engines. Always use at least 4 non-Google
search engines, preferably off-shore, for a broad variety of balanced results on this topic. Jullian
Assange: Google is not what it seems (excerpt from his book "When Google met Wikileaks") ("describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department -- and
what that means for the future of the internet") How the CIA made Google (", a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence
community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through
control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a
plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’")
THE MOST REFERENCED LINKS, REPOSITORIES AND
ARTICLE SETS:
http://thecleantechcrash.wordpress.com
http://greencorruption.blogspot.com
http://www.paybackpolitics.org
http://www.crimebusters77.com/xyz-case-investigation-22-documentation/who-is-gawker-media/
http://www.policystudy.wordpress.com
http://gawker-media-attacks.weebly.com
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http://thegaryconleycase.weebly.com
http://congressionalreview.weebly.com
Evidence Data and Video Sets, Mirrors
https://policystudy.wordpress.com/top-videos/
http://wp.me/P6h5en-60q
https://vimeo.com/126887156
http://www.FBI.gov
http://www.dailycaller.com
http://www.voat.co
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zqiewke7y0ixgv6/AACsXYtbh7XUoNINhTTWRBHwa?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xhv8ii2blr8olma/AACypntka0OmZhvtNQ6b6Z3ja?dl=0
Automated mass internet manipulation attack “Troll Farm”
Tactics used by The Silicon Valley Cartel to hype Tesla, Pump
Stocks and Attack Reporters:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/columbia-chemical-hoax-tracked-to-troll-farm-dubbed-the-
internet-research-agency/story-fnjwnhzf-1227383608441
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3297994/posts?page=17
http://okcupidtrolls.tumblr.com/
http://mightygirl.com/2015/06/02/russian-troll-farms/
VENTURE CAPITAL COLLUSION, MARKET RIGGING,
VALUATION FIXING:
S
ilicon V
al ey c artel : Apple, Google, and others
A group of 60,000 Silicon Valley workers got clearance today to move ahead with a lawsuit based on
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artels o f S
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Last week Mark Ames published an article that should forever destroy any connection between
theSilicon Valley tech billionaires and libertarian worldviews.
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Mark Ames on Silicon Valley’s conspiracy to drive down workers’ wages: In early 2005, as demand
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Often, families living in Silicon Valley work for the cartel processing the drugs, sometimes out of their
homes. “It is a business,” he said.
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REVEALED: Court docs show role of Pixar and Dreamworks 462
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A class-action suit by Silicon Valley engineers against companies including Google, Apple and Intel
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C apitalism 2015: In corporate finance today, the theme is “Go where the money is.” For Elon Musk,
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Elon Musk, as likable a guy as he is and as cool as his cars are, is a big time crony capitalist. In fact,
as the LA Times reports, crony capitalism is absolutely …
a gainstcronycapitalism.org / tag/elon-musk/
Tesla Loving Care | The American
But that doesn’t mean we won’t continue to be forced to “help” Elon Musk build these mobile …
Tesla Loving Care. The charmed life of a crony corporatist …
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Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies … Musk/Tesla and
company are very good about repaying Govt loans.
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Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that
make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets …
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The Tesla Fraud – LewRockwell.com
But that doesn’t mean we won’t continue to be forced to “help” Elon Musk … monuments to crony …
The argument is that each Tesla built with these kickback …
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Nevada, Taxes, Elon Musk, Crony Capitalism and Jobs I would advise Mr. Musk that politicians love
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Elon Musk: Objectivists’ Dream or Just Another Crony – Galt’s Gulch
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The same could be said in our opinion for the rest of the subsidies in Elon Musk’s crony government-
fed portfolio. Login or register to post comments;
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Elon Musk And His Apparent Regrets Over The 13th Amendment Crony Capitalism Goes Above The
Law And Beneath Contempt In Oregon
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Stop crony capitalism! tw FB. Elon Musk. June 5, 2015. Stop Betting on the Come – Subsidies Not
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Billionaire tech mogul and pop technologist Elon Musk says none of the taxpayer incentives his
businesses receive are necessary, “but they are all helpful.”
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Angelgate is a controversy surrounding allegations of price fixing and collusion among a group of ten
angel investors in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington. … Arrington said he later learned,
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I nvestors deny ‘ Angelgate’ c ol usion – San Francisco Business …
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington shocked readers Tuesday afternoon by accusing an unnamed
group of “ten or so” prominent early stage technology investors — so …
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So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar … Collusion and price fixing, … Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over;
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels …
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Crooked Angels: Blogger Accuses Top Tech Investors of ..
“If there are any collusion efforts among angel investors, then it would be a huge public service to
expose the collusion and get it to stop.”
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Here’s Who Was At That Secret Valley Super-Angel Collusion Meeting. Hooray For Mike Arrington.
…AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington.
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amongst them many of the top people in the Valley, including …
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Angelgate. By Felix Salmon. September 22, 2010. … It is a market where the investors wish they
could inject some collusion. But they can’t and they won …
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AngelGate meeting scandal gives Bin 38 lots of free publicity, punchlines, and a Hitler parody. Bin 38
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Showdown! Angels, Arrington to Go Mano a Mano | WIRED
That would be an illegal form of collusion in what should be a … It’s so perfectly timed one might
even think that HeavensGate InvestiGate AngelGate* might be …
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Liminal states :: Fretting, asking, and begging isn’t a plan …
Fretting, asking, and begging isn’t a plan: the Arrington kerfuffle and women in tech.
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How Michael Arrington’s School of Friendship Journalism Led .
How Michael Arrington’s School of Friendship Journalism Led to ‘AngelGate …
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Major tech investor Ron Conway has thrown a barrel of gasoline on the rapidly escalating scandal
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The Union Square partner shares his thoughts on “superangels,” the globalization of Web services, and
such companies as Quora and StackOverflow
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In a colorful blog post, PayPal veteran and angel investor Dave McClure dismissed talk
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and a Hitler…
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing – CloudAve
_ We all know about AngelGate by now. As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the
topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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The Real Lesson of AngelGate. Posted on September 23, 2010 · 11 Comments. He starts
screamingcollusion in a quite successful attempt to draw page views.
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Founders Come First | True Ventures
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So today AngelGate may be a big deal, but in the long run it won’t amount to much – the power is
shifting to the entrepreneur, and no amount of collusion from angels or VCs can stop that.
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The Daily Start-Up: “AngelGate” Escalates. Posted by Remy Arteaga on September 24, 2010 at
10:55am in News. Arrington blogged about it, alleging angel collusion.
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AngelGate: Is collusion between angel investors to gain an advantage in investing in startups illegal?
Angel Investing: Is it fair for someone who calls themselves a “seed” investor to require traction?
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topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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angel meetup at Bin 38 with everyone but @Arrington # a ngelgate .
Attend the secret super angel meetup at Bin 38 with everyone but @Arrington #angelgate. ” i missed
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BoomTown Decodes Conway’s Super Angel Email to Fellow Investors..
Dave “Sue Sylvester” McClure uses his bullhorn blog to call foul about a not-naming-names-but-still-
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Heh, whether AngelGate is true or not, we live in a Goldman Sachs/BP world. I don’t think you’d ever
wade into collusion. But, how’d you feel about a group of VCs gathering before the next round?
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If the Tesla D’s Such a Great Car… | The American Spectator
Why Crony Capitalism Gives the Free Market a Black Eye. Gary Shapiro. Nation’s Largest Nuclear
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High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged “no
cold call” agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.
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The biggest story in the Technology Sector, other than the lack of Jobs given to minorities in the tech
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Name: Date: 5/14/14. (Limit this entire analysis to no more than 300 words. Include the statements
below in boldface). Title of Article: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive
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…only makes sense when you know that Silicon Valley’s top-level executives often behave as
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Document Outline
- Forward
- Coup – Coup d'état: Definition
- Smedley and Franklin: The Business Plot, The First Try - 1934
- Silicon Valley’s Ongoing Coup Attempts
- A Goat Named “Aneer”
- Cowboys and Indium:
- Jockeying for position
- The Audacity of Scope
- “AFGHANISTAN IS THE SAUDI ARABIA OF LITHIUM”:
- Lithium Ion Batteries and Organized Crime
- Russian Organized Crime Bosses & Steven Chu Cash:
- Silicon Valley’s Russian Mobster: Alexey Mordashov
- Silicon Valley’s Favorite Other Russain “mobster”: Boris G. Zingarevich
- Afghanistan- In The Beginning. First for oil, then for batteries
- How To Fix Washington, DC
- The Players: The Dark Side
- The Players: Collateral Damage
- The Players: The Ones Who Exposed It
- Enabling Corruption: The lives and upbringing of the Silicon Valley Rape-Culture boys
- How The White House Has You “Killed”:
- Payback Politics: How taxpayer resources were used to attack and destroy competitors and reporters who tried to tell police about the crimes
- The Venture Capital Mafia Operates Just Like the Old Mafia
- Summary
- What Next?
- Appendix 1
- Additional Evidence and Source Links
- The Applicants. The Screwers and the Screwees