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Brand: Old Blood Noise Endeavors
Color: Silver
- 9VDC – 2.1mm negative center pin adapter.
- 20 mA draw.
Publisher: Old Blood Noise
Details: The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt is a gated fuzz that is capable of a wide array of fuzz sounds. From the restrained and nuanced light fuzziness to granular and biting saw sounds, many textures and character traits can be summoned with the Volume, Gate, Fuzz, Mix and Tone knob controls. The Haunt also has two toggle switches; Mode and Bass. Mode switches between two combinations of silicon transistors; Bass adds an additional low end boost to the effected signal.


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Version 1.7.3 has been released! New features: WooCommerce payment integration & More Maps (Oman, Cyprus, Hungary, Switzerland, Colombia, Japan, & Panama).
Real Expert is a premium WordPress theme for real estate, property listing or other kind of listing websites. It has nice, clean, minimal design and fully responsive. It comes with lots of features like: dsIDxpress plugin integration, advanced property search, default and grid listing, property slider content, property metaboxes, custom widgets, various page templates, theme options, unlimited colors, unlimited fonts and tons more. And now supporting Frontend Submission and monetize your website with Paid Property Listing (PayPal payment integration).
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Real Expert version 1.0.4 – November 22, 2013
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Real Expert version 1.0.1 – November 18, 2013
- Added "Property Status" search fields
Real Expert version 1.0 – November 16, 2013
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It went under the mainstream radar, but an article by Bloomberg News this past week raised the debate about economic parity within the league. The story centers on the lucrative television rights deal that the Dodgers are nearing as part of a potential regional sports network (RSN) and a "secret agreement" that would allow them to "cap income subject to revenue-sharing." The article's thrust is that somehow the Dodgers one-upped MLB and have figured out a way to get an advantage over all the other clubs as part of the sale that brought them out of bankruptcy.
From one standing on the sidelines, you'd have to think all the signs were there. After all, Frank McCourt had been sucking funds out of the Dodgers to fuel his lifestyle and sunk the club into bankruptcy. Shortly after the $2 billion sale of the club and an associated $150 million land deal, the team took on $262.5 million contract dollars in the trade with the Red Sox that brought Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez, and Nick Punto to LA. This, of course, came on top of their other big acquisitions: Yasiel Puig, Hanley Ramirez, Randy Choate, Shane Victorino, Brandon League, and Joe Blanton.
While the article hits on a larger issue of how club owned RSNs create a revenue-sharing tax dodge, the premise that the Dodgers are somehow not paying revenue-sharing on television rights fees through some kind of secret arrangement is not true. In other words, the problem (if the Dodgers create an RSN) is the same one that has been around with the Red Sox (NESN), Yankees (YES Network), and Orioles and Nationals (MASN), among others: the distributions of equity in these RSNs are not subject to revenue sharing.
In speaking with those that have access to the actual agreement that Bloomberg speaks of, I've retrieved this line from the document: "All up-front cash payments and all annual rights fees shall be subject to revenue-sharing under normal principles."
In other words, every penny of the deal's upfront money and rights fees would be part of net local revenues that each and every one of MLB's 30 clubs has to pay revenue-sharing on. You can also think of it this way: would the league's other 29 owners, in a million years, ever sign-off on such a deal if the Dodgers (already in baseball's number-two market) got a further leg up?
The article cites television rights consultant Ed Desser who, for better or worse, is not someone that the league exactly likes. The article goes on to say that Desser "projects that the Dodgers' annual rights fees from a regional network would average $175 million to $225 million over a 20-year contract." As one insider said to me, "Are you a betting man? Because I'll tell you that there's no way that that much is coming out of this deal. Not even close."
So, what is happening? From the Bloomberg article:
The "special terms" set the Dodgers' annual TV rights fees from the regional network at about $84 million, plus a 4 percent annual escalator, for the life of whatever contract the team signs setting up the network, said the people familiar with the terms. The special terms establishing the $84 million rights fee plus escalator was earlier reported by the Los Angeles Times.
That figure sets the amount of revenue the Dodgers must share. Baseball rules require that big-market teams share 34 percent of regional network rights fees with small-market teams. Unlike National Football League franchises, which get equal parts of league-negotiated TV rights fees, MLB teams have widely disparate broadcast revenues. The 34 percent revenue-sharing requirement is meant to level the financial playing field a bit…
One needs to remember the atmosphere that existed between former Dodger owner Frank McCourt and the league at the time of the bankruptcy sale. The relationship was so toxic and tense that McCourt was so concerned about being undermined in the sale, that the league would somehow undervalue the media rights, that terms were put in place that would set value.
What educated fans of baseball outside the diamond need to look at is the difference between clubs that sell rights fees to the likes of FOX or Time Warner Cable and those that have ownership equity in an RSN. It's here that that "advantage" comes into play.
As mentioned previously, the distributions of equity in these RSNs are not subject to revenue sharing, so a club can decide to make a deal with itself in a fully- or partially-owned RSN at a discounted rate. (This came into play in the sale of the Cubs from Tribune, who owned WGN and had given the club favorable rights fees.) This is a real issue, not only in terms of the Dodgers but others as well. After all, the capacity to really make club-owned RSNs work means a combination of a large market and, more often than not, a storied franchise. Alone, these two things already give a club advantages over smaller market teams. The club-owned "loophole" just adds to it. League officials would never say as much, but if you could get them alone in a room, it's possible that even they see the flaw.
Focus on this out of the Bloomberg piece: the Dodgers are going to pay revenue-sharing on every penny that comes into their coffers through media rights. They wouldn't, however, have to pay revenue-sharing on any equity should they start an RSN with a partner such as FOX or TWC. Consider this "proliferation"—another big-market, storied franchise being able to move money from one hand to the other. After all, the Yankees and Red Sox have been doing it for years.
Finally, there's this: there are only so many clubs that can pull this off. The potential is limited to a handful, which is why the league and its owners likely haven't gone jumping into the fray to try and curb the "big fish" in the league. One wonders if that could change at some point. Whether it's the Rangers, Angels, or Dodgers, new TV money is creating economic disparity, which fuels spending on players. Of course, "spending" doesn't translate perfectly into "winning." Since that August 25 trade between the Red Sox and Dodgers—the priciest trade, ever—the Dodgers have gone 14-17, dropping their winning percentage from .543 to .525. That's not exactly headed in the right direction. If the Dodgers miss the playoffs, one question is bound to arise: does money really "buy" championships? The answer is, of course, no, but as anyone will tell you, having money never hurts.
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Ayurvedic skin care poised for growth in India as green trend continues
Ayurvedic cosmetics are products that must contain ingredients obtained naturally from vegetable sources like plants, fruits and herbs.
With the overall skin care market in India expected to grow at more than 10 percent in the next five years, Kuick states the market for Ayurveda products looks promising and is poised for growth.
This is because existing and newer players are constantly working on new and better products to offer to the Indian consumers; who are fuelling the demand.
Lifestyle and awareness
"Increasing disposable incomes, changing lifestyles, and an increased pressure to look good have been driving the demand for cosmetics, especially the skin care segment," says Kuick.
This has seen Indian consumers become more obsessed with beauty products, and the rise in awareness has seen the focus shift from merely looking good from the outside to overall well-being.
"Consumers are gravitating toward ayurvedic skin care products that assure wellbeing inside as well as outside," continues the market researcher.
"Indian women are now using targeted creams for blemishes, wrinkles, under-eye issues, glow, and skin-brightening. The demand has evolved from generic creams to more specialized skin care products such as sun screens, toners, cleansers, astringents, dark circle removing creams, anti-wrinkle creams, and separate day and night creams."
Fairness creams, face packs, and face cleansers and scrubs are the most popular categories in the segment.
Teen opportunity
The teen market is also a skin care segment that is expected to witness major growth in the coming years.
However, this is a segment dominated by mass market range of products and ayurvedic products that are considered to be high-end tend to lose out on this consumer base.
"Some brands that have targeted this segment include Himalaya and ayurvedic extensions of large retail companies," says Kuick.
"Demand in this segment is for basic skin care products such as face washes, anti-blemish creams, and spot-reduction solutions. Innovative marketing and packaging in smaller sizes are the way forward for ayurvedic skin care companies looking to target this Indian segment that is only expected to grow in the coming decades."


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What's Important in the Financial World (12/28/2012)
Shaky Year-End Markets
Only a few days remain for the U.S. markets to sell off because of fiscal cliff worries. There are actually just two. Volume will be light because so many traders have gone on vacation. Sometimes, thin volume magnifies fluctuations. The markets are in for a wild ride. The S&P 500 has traded down most of the past five days, with a recovery at the end of the period. Rumors of détente between the White House and congressional Republicans encouraged traders, but the chance for cooperation yesterday turned out not to be true. The president will meet with congressional leaders today. If the meeting ends without a hint of a solution, markets will sell down at a torrid pace. Those investors who have taken time off will be left to do their selling on January 3, when the rush to ditch the markets could increase with the volume created by the rested and tanned crowd.
Apple Loses Suit in China
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was hit with a copyright penalty in China. The Xinhua news agency reports:
A Beijing court ruled against Apple Inc. in a copyright dispute on Thursday, saying the company must pay a fine for selling unlicensed electronic versions of books online.
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ordered Apple to pay a total of 1.03 million yuan (165,908 U. S. dollars) to eight Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights.
The plaintiffs said they spotted applications containing unlicensed electronic versions of their books available for download last year, adding that the books were downloaded in great quantity, resulting in large economic losses for their authors, their lawyer said.
France on the Brink
It may not seem like much, but France's INSEE reported that third-quarter gross domestic product was higher by 0.1%, not the 0.2% preliminary number. GDP contracted in the second quarter. France's economy continues to hug a flat line. A recession could be triggered by more weakness in the EU nations or a recession in the U.S. brought on by the fiscal cliff. INSEE reports:
In 2012 Q3, French gross domestic product (GDP) in volume terms rose by 0.1%, after a 0.1% decrease over the previous quarter.
Household consumption expenditure recovered (+0.2% after -0.2%) while gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) decreased (-0.3% after +0.4%). Overall, total domestic demand (excluding inventory changes) contributed positively to GDP: 0.2 percentage point after 0.1 percentage point. Imports fell (-0.5% after +1.6%) and exports slightly accelerated (+0.6% after +0.3%). Hence, the foreign trade balance contributed positively to GDP growth: 0.3 percentage point (after -0.4 percentage point). This contribution is offset by changes in inventories contribution: -0.4 percentage point in Q3, after +0.2 point.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV's and smart screens everywhereMonday, October 31st, 2011
By 14.04 LTS Ubuntu will power tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.
Unity, the desktop interface in today's Ubuntu 11.10, was designed with this specific vision in mind. While the interface for each form factor is shaped appropriately, Unity's core elements are arranged in exactly the way we need to create coherence across all of those devices. This was the origin of the name Unity – a single core interface framework, that scales across all screens, and supports all toolkits.
Canonical and the Ubuntu community have established Ubuntu's place in desktop, server and cloud deployments. We have also invested in the design and engineering of Unity, motivated by the belief that desktop interfaces would merge with mobile, touch interfaces into a seamless personal computing platform in the future. Today we are inviting the whole Ubuntu community – both commercial and personal – to shape that possibility and design that future; a world where Ubuntu runs on mobile phones, tablets, televisions and traditional PC's, creating a world where content is instantly available on all devices, in a form that is delightful to use.
A constantly changing world
The way we access the Internet, connect to our friends, listen to music, watch films and go about our daily lives is rapidly evolving. We now use a diverse set of devices with an array of operating systems, which have a range of connectivity. Few people are exclusively loyal to a single technology provider.
Consider this quote from Paul Maritz of VMWare:
"Three years ago over 95 percent of the devices connected to the Internet were personal computers. Three years from now that number will probably be less than 20 percent. More than 80 percent of the devices connected to the Internet will not be Windows-based personal computers." Paul Maritz, 29 August 2011 VM World Keynote.
Make no mistake – just as the world is changing for manufacturers so is it changing for Linux distributions. Today, 70% of people in Egypt access the Internet solely via the phone. Even in the US that figure is a startling 25%.
Ubuntu is well positioned
Ubuntu will thrive in this new reality.
Our established collaboration with the silicon vendors that are driving this converging market are critical. Intel, ARM and AMD will make the chip-sets that will power this future and Ubuntu works with all of them on all technologies.
Our engagement with the PC market will help bring the results of this work to a huge audience – partnerships with the likes of Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, IBM, Vodafone and more are a gateway to users who want continuous, connected, cross-device computing.
We are determined to bring more free software to more people around the world, and building that future hand in hand with device manufacturers is the best way to do it. There is no winner in place yet. This opportunity remains wide open, but only to products that deliver excellent experiences for users, across a full range of device categories.
The investment we have already made in the interface accommodates the touch scenarios required in some form factors and, with a little love and attention, will work equally well in mouse, keyboard or stylus-driven environments. Ubuntu will not be restricted to small screen or large screen environments but encompasses both and all the form factors in between. We will see our work on the Ubuntu platform land in a variety of formats current and yet to be invented. It is without doubt the most exciting phase in the history of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu One and the software centre
Ubuntu's personal cloud and app centre services are appropriate for all these environments. They deliver the required storage, syncing and sharing capabilities that are not just a convenience but a requirement as we move to a universe where content is increasingly shared but the devices that access them become more diverse. Ubuntu One's support for other OSes show the ability of Ubuntu to play nice with others, recognising that the divergence is strength. It allows users to choose the devices they prefer but still delivering the benefits of Ubuntu-centred strategy.
The next steps
We are describing this at UDS to energize the entire Ubuntu ecosystem around this challenge. Canonical will provide the heavy lifting needed to put us in the ball park, but there are opportunities for participation, contribution and engagement by all elements of the broader Ubuntu community, both corporate and individual.
Our developers, our partners' developers and the broader open source development community share this opportunity. There is a great deal to discuss, and an array of strands we need to pull together at UDS. But the direction is clear and the prize is great – to bring more free software to more people in more delightful ways than ever before.


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Jolly's Java and Bakery (JJB) is a start-up coffee and bakery retail establishment located in southwest Washington. JJB expects to catch the interest of a regular loyal customer base with its broad variety of coffee and pastry products. The company plans to build a strong market position in the town, due to the partners' industry experience and mild competitive climate in the area.
JJB aims to offer its products at a competitive price to meet the demand of the middle-to higher-income local market area residents and tourists.
JJB is incorporated in the state of Washington. It is equally owned and managed by its two partners.
Mr. Austin Patterson has extensive experience in sales, marketing, and management, and was vice president of marketing with both Jansonne Jansonne and Burper Foods. Mr. David Fields brings experience in the area of finance and administration, including a stint as chief financial officer with both Flaxfield Roasters and the national coffee store chain, BuzzCups.
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The retail coffee industry in the U.S.
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JJB expects to raise $110,000 of its own capital, and to borrow $100,000 guaranteed by the SBA as a ten-year loan. This provides the bulk of the current financing required.
JJB anticipates sales of about $491,000 in the first year, $567,000 in the second year, and $655,000 in the third year of the plan. JJB should break even by the fourth month of its operation as it steadily increases its sales. Profits for this time period are expected to be approximately $13,000 in year 1, $36,000 by year 2, and $46,000 by year 3. The company does not anticipate any cash flow problems.
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JJB aims to offer high quality coffee, espresso, and pastry products at a competitive price to meet the demand of the middle- to higher-income local market area residents and tourists.
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Normally, I don't get out front and center like this in the media, preferring instead to support my husband from the sidelines and let the pundits do the talking. But as Election Day draws ever nearer, I'd like to take this time to urge all of you to put "Country First" and cast your vote for my husband, John McCain! Because a vote for John McCain is not just a vote for experience, fortitude, and American values, it's also a vote for me, Cindy McCain, not tearing your ribcage open and spilling your steaming viscera into the street.
And that's something all Americans can agree on.
Let's take back Washington and make America great again! Barack Obama has never fought for this great country like John McCain has. That's a fact. So when you're in that election booth, ask yourself, do you want a president who believes in the strength of the American worker, or do you want me to rip off your limbs and use them to beat your skull to a bloody pile of skin and bone fragments? I think the choice is clear.
If you really think that a junior senator with no executive experience is the best person to lead us out of this economic crisis, then by all means vote for Obama. Just hope to God I never find out about it and, say, drive to your house in the dead of night, crawl through your bedroom window, and, in a calculated moment of seething rage, strangle you with my bare goddamn hands.
If you're really, really lucky, I'll just shoot you in the face.
Do you think Michelle Obama has the grace and assertiveness needed to be a good first lady? Do you think she has the poise and composure it takes? Consider this: Mrs. Obama might be younger and prettier than I am, but will she pull out your spine and howl like a hyena while drenched in the blood of your children? Because that's just the sort of sick shit I'm prepared to do if you don't vote for my husband. You hear that, you Obama- supporting swing-state fucks? I'll kill you. I'll fucking destroy you.
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John McCain is the candidate America can trust, and if you so much as entertain the notion of voting for anyone else, you can trust that my war-hero husband isn't the only one in the family with the psychological resources to murder at will. I promise you, if you stand in the way of the leadership, integrity, and bold new vision John McCain is going to bring to the White House, the last thought that will go through your head before I tear it from your shoulders will be the fervent, desperate wish that you'd never been born.
Go ahead. Pull that lever for Obama. Try me. Do you think I am fucking kidding?!
Look at me. Look into my beady little eyes. See the way my delicate, birdlike head sits daintily on top of my poised, slender neck? Now imagine that head lunging in for the gruesome kill like the beak of a crazed, razor-taloned raptor intent on ripping open your jugular vein.
Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for this? How many millions of dollars of my own money I've put up to help finance my husband's campaigns, only to see his character assassinated by members of his own party for decades? To see a shitbird like Karl Rove spread a rumor that John McCain had an illegitimate black baby and steal the South Carolina primary for Bush in 2000? To have the same party that condemned him as a "maverick" turn to him in desperation and champion the very qualities they once abhorred?
After all that, do you seriously think I'm going to stand idly by when the Democrats trot out a charismatic outsider-type of their own and blatantly steal my husband's outsider act just at the moment of victory?
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Financial ScandalsAmerican capitalism regularly produces headline-making scandals. These are some of the most heinous.
In 1795 the state of Georgia sold 35 million acres of western land in an area known as Yazoo to four companies for half a million dollars, about a penny and a half an acre. It was the most corrupt deal in American history. Every member of the Georgia legislature but one accepted a bribe in return for their vote. At the next election the voters tossed out the thieves. The contract with the four land companies was burned. In 1802 the state sold the land to the federal government for $1,250,000. A few years later the Supreme Court ruled that the original deal, flawed as it was, was legal and had to be honored. In 1814 Congress awarded the claimants over $4,000,000.
During the tenure of Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, a conniving machine politician from Pennsylvania, corruption flourished during the Civil War. As a result of his sloppy practices, the federal government paid top dollar for shoddy blankets, tainted pork and beef, knapsacks that came unglued in the rain, uniforms that fell apart, and guns that blew the thumbs off the soldiers firing them. President Lincoln replaced Cameron after the secretary repeatedly issued supply contracts without competitive bidding, in violation of Lincoln's express orders.
CREDIT MOBILIER (1860s)
Credit Mobilier was a dummy construction company formed by the directors of the Union Pacific Railroad so that they could pay themselves inflated prices for the work that was done. Because Congress paid the bills through generous subsidies worth millions of dollars, the directors made a fortune. The more the line cost, the more money they made. Politicians shared in the profits after Congressman Oakes Ames sold stock in Credit Mobilier at discounted prices to fellow members. Among those on the take was Schuyler Colfax, later vice president of the United States under U.S. Grant.
In 1869 Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. In furtherance of their scheme they persuaded President Grant to keep federal gold reserves out of circulation. Eventually, they wound up controlling enough of the available supply of gold in New York City to bid up the price to record levels. Once President Grant realized he'd been had, the federal government resumed the sale of gold, and the price crashed--and along with it the stock market.
Risky loans made by high-flying bankers to railroad operators and others contributed to the worst economic collapse of the nineteenth century, the Panic of 1873. Ten thousand businesses were forced to close in a depression that lasted until 1878.
In 1875 a group of distillers and public officials conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor taxes. The ring included Grant's chief secretary, who along with hundreds of others was indicted. Many were convicted. Grant's secretary, however, was acquitted after the president wrote a letter on his behalf, which was read to the jury.
TEAPOT DOME (1920s)
Teapot Dome was the name of a U.S.-owned oil field in Wyoming. When he was secretary of the interior under Warren Harding, Albert Fall secretly leased the oil reserves to a businessman who gave Fall hundreds of thousands of dollars in no-interest loans. Fall always insisted he was innocent. He was indicted and convicted, becoming the first cabinet member ever to go to prison.
Once president of the Edison power company, Samuel Insull was by the 1930s the head of a giant utility holding company. It's collection of companies was said to be so vast and so complicated that not even Insull understood fully how much he was worth or how much of the industry he controlled.
In 1932 as the stock market sank and the banks he had borrowed money from demanded control of his companies, his empire collapsed. Investors are said to have lost 700 million dollars, the largest corporate failure in American history until the S & L scandal. Insull was indicted for mail fraud, bankruptcy and embezzlement but fled the country. Eventually, he returned and was put on trial and was acquitted. The courts ruled that a holding company could not be held responsible for the acts of the companies it controlled.
SAVINGS AND LOAN (1980s)
Thrifts had been established originally to help homeowners obtain mortgages. But in the 1970s inflation undermined the stability of the industry, sticking the thrifts with low-interest mortgages arranged years before when inflation was slight. To help the thrifts survive Congress deregulated the industry, lifting restrictions on the kinds of loans they could make. Swindlers immediately took over the industry. As the saying went,"why rob a bank if you can own one." By the end of the 1980s the thrifts were in danger of collapsing after approving billions in insider loans for worthless projects. Congress eventually bailed out the industry at taxpayer expense.
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Thomas Fitzgerald - 2/2/2009
The list skips over what I consider to be the biggest and most damaging Financial scandal is US history, the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. This laid down the foundations that are crumbling today. This has been a way for a select few to profit graetly while the vast majority of us keep losing money to inflation. As this whole current economic crisis continues, watch out for more banks having claim to more collateral, until the banks in effect own everything.
Arnold Shcherban - 1/8/2009
Let Chavez speak for himself:
"If the Venezuelan government, for example, approves a law to protect consumers, they say, 'Take note, Chávez is a tyrant!' Or they say, 'Chávez is regulating prices. He is violating the laws of the market.'
"How many times have they criticized me for nationalizing the telephone company? They say, 'The state shouldn't get involved in that.' But now they don't criticize Bush for having nationalised... the biggest banks in the world!"
In driving home his point he added, "Comrade Bush, how are you?"
He then went on to say:
"Comrade Bush has had to take decisions which are more in the style of Lenin and now people are asking themselves, 'is the US on the road to socialism?' (...) I have the answer: 'Yes Sir!' (Sí señor) The United States one day will go towards socialism, I have no doubt about it."
"Comrade" and US capitalism made themselves clowns (though less than funny ones) in the eyes of international public.
Daniel Alef - 12/26/2008
The term "financial scandal" suggests the existence of one or more perpetrators engaged in improper and egregious conduct which results in substantial economic losses or even national financial decline. Credit Mobilier, like its Western counterpart Contract and Finance Corporation of the Central Pacific Railroad, the attempt of Jay Gould and James Fiske to corner the gold market in complicity with President Grant's brother-in-law, and Teapot Dome are excellent examples. The collapse of Samuel Insull's empire does not really fit the definition of a scandal, despite the government's best efforts to paint Insull and his utilities with that broad brush.
In 1928 Samuel Insull's industrial empire had 50,000 employees and the Insull group had a total market value well over $1 billion. He personally was worth more than $100 million, and was one of the richest and most respected men in the U.S. The Chicago Evening Post reported: "He provides us with light, heat, power, transportation, grand opera and United States senators."
Another powerful titan came into the picture in 1928: Cyrus Eaton, a major shareholder of many large corporations including United Light and Power, Sherwin-Williams, Goodyear and Firestone. Eaton sought control of Insull's utility empire and made no bones about it. To block Eaton, Insull set up Insull Utility Investments Inc., a holding company into which he placed his family holdings, then sold stock to the public to raise more money for his fight with Eaton. Insull also set up Corporation Securities and arranged for Insull Utility and Corporation to buy into each other, a complicated defensive scheme designed to further thwart Eaton's moves.
Unfortunately for Insull, the rush to buy shares of his utilities came at a bad time -- 1929. Stocks in general were already grossly inflated and the Eaton-Insull battle compounded the inflation in all utility shares. When the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday, Eaton ended his buying spree, but Insull saw the crash as a temporary setback and plunged ahead.
When the dust cleared and the market continued its downward spiral, Insull lost everything. His companies were so entangled and the financial mess so convoluted, no one could account for $750 million in stockholder losses. Clearly the money had not gone into Insull's pockets. He was insolvent, with debts exceeding assets by $16 million. To avoid bankruptcy, he turned over all his assets to creditors.
Chicago, Insull's lightly held kingdom, became a battle zone, with threatening letters and attempts on his life. At the same time, Illinois and the federal government began an intensive investigation and in February 1932, indicted him for using the mails to defraud investors.
O.J. Simpson's mad dash across Los Angeles freeways in the white Ford Bronco pales in comparison to what Insull did. He slipped away in June, sailing to Europe from Quebec with the authorities hard on his heels. From Paris, he went to Greece via Italy and Albania. In December 1933, he quietly slipped out of Greece on a leaky chartered vessel bound for Egypt. When the ship stopped in Instanbul for provisions, the Turks seized Insull and extradited him to the U.S. He had been on the lam for nearly two years and was a broken man.
Reporters swirled around him as he disembarked in New York. "I worked with all my energy to save those companies," Insull told them. "I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. They were errors in judgment but not dishonest manipulations."
His trial started in October 1934. It was a complicated case during which prosecutors drew intricate algebraic equations on a blackboard to support their arguments. After two withering months, the exhausted jury returned a not guilty verdict.
Insull left the U.S., never to return. Civil litigation hounded him until his death from a heart attack on the Paris Metro on July 16, 1938. He had 20 cents in his pocket. Only 12 people attended his funeral.
Was the Insull litigation the result of a financial scandal, or was Insull trapped by his own success and the market's ultimate failure? I suggest that Enron was a scandal; Insull a tragedy.
Daniel Alef
Arnold Shcherban - 12/15/2008
Comments are redundant.
Diogenes - 8/3/2002
The accounts of the earlier scandals included at least some of the names of the thieves responsible.
The description of the S&L scandal should have noted that this monumental rip-off of the American taxpayer
was aided and abetted by several crooked politicians who were being paid off by the swindlers; the
most prominent crook being Senator John McCain! He and hisslimly accomplices should have been tarred,
feathered, and run out of Washington on a rail. Instead we still have that mealy-mouthed son of a bitch
lecturing the nation on the importance of election funding reform!!!! I can't look at his lying, hypocritical
face without feeling an intense urge to vomit.
Diogenes - 8/3/2002
The accounts of the earlier scandals included at least some of the names of the thieves responsible.
The description of the S&L scandal should have noted that this monumental rip-off of the American taxpayer
was aided and abetted by several crooked politicians who were being paid off by the swindlers; the
most prominent crook being Senator John McCain! He and hisslimly accomplices should have been tarred,
feathered, and run out of Washington on a rail. Instead we still have that mealy-mouthed son of a bitch
lecturing the nation on the importance of election funding reform!!!! I can't look at his lying, hypocritical
face without feeling an intense urge to vomit.
Walter Sutton - 8/2/2002
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