Sunday, 6 February 2011

Making Money Scam

 


Job Hunter Scams


These types of scams targeting job hunters and attempts to gain access to personal information such as bank account or social security numbers and sometimes even ask for a fee in order to be registered for the job. This is one of the most common type of scams today with more and more people loosing jobs and it is getting difficult to get new jobs.


 


Debt Relief and Settlement Services


These services often charge fees and leave the consumer in even more debt. It is estimated by the Better Business Bureaus that these type of services increased by approximately 30 percent in 2010.


 


 


Work from Home Schemes



Sumitted by Mike Krieger of Kam LP

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

- Henry Ford


U.S. investors should welcome, not fear, climbing commodity prices.  The increases are "largely a reflection of the fact that the pace of economic growth, particularly in the U.S., has picked up," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at consultants IHS in Lexington, Massachusetts, and a former Federal Reserve official who has been covering the global economy for more than 35 years. "It's not something to be worried about." 

- Bloomberg article from yesterday


Why Fiat Money is Immoral

Today’s email is going to be a little different.  A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine from NYC who is not in the business but is on my weekly email distribution list asked me to explain fiat money and why I think it is the wrong way to go.  Below I am going to paste my response to her.  There is so much disinformation out there about money it is scary.  Sadly, the strategist at my former employer added to this several weeks ago.  He wrote:  “Gold, which is effectively just another fiat currency.”

Clearly he failed to look up the definition of fiat currency.

Fiat money is money that has value only because of government regulation or law.

Definition of Fiat:  An authoritative or often arbitrary official order or decree.  THIS DOES NOT EXIST TO GOLD AS MONEY TODAY AT ALL. 

Gold is not money under “fiat” in any country at the moment.  Rather the market is making gold as money today which is the OPPOSITE of fiat money.  

With that off my chest, here is the response to my friend…

Ok, so let’s do a brief thought exercise on why I believe commodity money is preferable to fiat money.  When you have fiat money, a government, or in the case of the United States today, a banking cartel (the Federal Reserve), is granted exclusive authority to create the nation’s money.  Laws are used to enforce the use of this money otherwise people probably wouldn’t use it.  Under a commodity money system, where let’s say the U.S. issues dollars but those dollars are backed or convertible to a commodity (in many cases gold but it can be other things) there is a limit to the amount the government or banking cartel can print or issue and this is in relation to the amount of the commodity that exists or is available to the government or central bank.  The current propaganda that is rife throughout economics textbooks and the like tell is the notion that commodity money is bad since it stifles human innovation in relation to the amount of gold or whatever commodity used.  They say this is bad and that there should be no “limit” on money creation based on something as arbitrary as a commodity and that this is bad for growth.  This is complete nonsense and is used to keep people in the current fiat system where money power is exercised most egregiously by the few against the many.  The reason they defend the current system is simple.  With the power to create unlimited currency at will (via the Federal Reserve) you possess total and absolute power over almost EVERYTHING in the economy and society at large.  The Fed not only creates the money but they distribute it where they want.  In QE1 and QE2  they decided to buy specific assets.  In the case of QE1 where they bought toxic assets, this was just another bailout of the banks and others that made poor investment decisions.  Did the money go to build new schools?  No.  Did the money go to build high speed trains as is done in China?  No.  Did it go to building out massive alternative energy infrastructure?  No.  It went to save the banks because at the end of the day the Fed exists as a backstop to the banks and it is to the banks that the Fed answers to at the end of the day.  It is a brilliant scam that 95% of Americans do not comprehend.  So in this case all of the money is going to the banks (which destroyed the global economy in the first place) and other players in the financial world.  Remember, the banks ARE the Fed and the Fed creates the money.  Gate keepers at the Federal Reserve and academia make understanding economics, the Fed and money seem so “complex” but the scam is really VERY simple.  

I am not saying that I necessarily back the classic gold standard but it is much more of a moral and genuine capitalistic system than what we have today.  One of the arguments against the gold standard is that the rich have all the gold anyway and they will still have the power.  Ok, well let’s suppose this is true.  Under a gold standard they would need to mobilize this gold to exercise their power and influence and pay people off to do their bidding.  This has a real cost to them.  Gold will be spent.  At some point they will choose not to spend it on this or that and ultimately they will lose their power/money by spending too much gold.  They can’t just create more out of thin air to exercise unlimited money power on the populace. 

This is in complete contrast to how things work today.  With the dollar they can create more and more everyday and buy people off without ANY cost in the short term (until the dollar itself collapses).  This is why the most dangerous thing that can happen would be a global fiat currency to replace the U.S. dollar.   They could start over in their never ending system of money power with a new currency that can be printed at will and used to buy up the world and all its resources at no cost to them.  The end result would be slavery for the masses of humanity.  The global monetary system as it stands is one of the most immoral social structures ever created by man.  Most of us in America do not understand this since we have been the beneficiaries of it up until now.  We are like the feudal lords in pre-revolutionary that couldn’t see the world beyond their favored social status until they lost their heads.  The system as it stands has led extreme exploitation and corruption, not true capitalism.  If we continue on this path the next stop is a feudalistic fascism. 
 
In a Fiat System Banks Must be Like Utilities

At the Sanford Bernstein conference several years ago Joseph Stiglitz spoke and said a good and healthy financial system is a small financial system.  I couldn’t agree more.  This is especially the case in a purely fiat money system.  Money is too important to allow greedy children in expensive suits on Wall Street and dangerous academics at the Fed to play around with.  I do not claim to know what the ideal money system is but I want to be very clear on this point.  If we have a fiat system like today the banks should be the most regulated industry on the planet and operate like utilities.  They are supposed to help the productive economy innovate and create wealth.  They are not supposed to be parasites that suck the lifeblood out of the real economy and compose 16% of the weight in the S&P500 (only technology is bigger at 17%).  Something is VERY, VERY wrong here. 

I placed the quote at the top of the email to demonstrate just how entirely disconnected the corrupt elite class is in the United States is today from the average citizen.  Many historians assert that Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake,” but surely she made comments similar to those at the top of this email from the Bloomberg article.  What is happening now is nothing new.  It has happened over and over again for millennium.  The elites of every era always think they will stay in control no matter what.  They will be wrong once again.

Watching the circus from Colorado,
Mike




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Howard Lindzon » Blog Archive » Join Stocktwits Tomorrow at The <b>...</b>

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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.


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Job Hunter Scams


These types of scams targeting job hunters and attempts to gain access to personal information such as bank account or social security numbers and sometimes even ask for a fee in order to be registered for the job. This is one of the most common type of scams today with more and more people loosing jobs and it is getting difficult to get new jobs.


 


Debt Relief and Settlement Services


These services often charge fees and leave the consumer in even more debt. It is estimated by the Better Business Bureaus that these type of services increased by approximately 30 percent in 2010.


 


 


Work from Home Schemes



Sumitted by Mike Krieger of Kam LP

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

- Henry Ford


U.S. investors should welcome, not fear, climbing commodity prices.  The increases are "largely a reflection of the fact that the pace of economic growth, particularly in the U.S., has picked up," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at consultants IHS in Lexington, Massachusetts, and a former Federal Reserve official who has been covering the global economy for more than 35 years. "It's not something to be worried about." 

- Bloomberg article from yesterday


Why Fiat Money is Immoral

Today’s email is going to be a little different.  A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine from NYC who is not in the business but is on my weekly email distribution list asked me to explain fiat money and why I think it is the wrong way to go.  Below I am going to paste my response to her.  There is so much disinformation out there about money it is scary.  Sadly, the strategist at my former employer added to this several weeks ago.  He wrote:  “Gold, which is effectively just another fiat currency.”

Clearly he failed to look up the definition of fiat currency.

Fiat money is money that has value only because of government regulation or law.

Definition of Fiat:  An authoritative or often arbitrary official order or decree.  THIS DOES NOT EXIST TO GOLD AS MONEY TODAY AT ALL. 

Gold is not money under “fiat” in any country at the moment.  Rather the market is making gold as money today which is the OPPOSITE of fiat money.  

With that off my chest, here is the response to my friend…

Ok, so let’s do a brief thought exercise on why I believe commodity money is preferable to fiat money.  When you have fiat money, a government, or in the case of the United States today, a banking cartel (the Federal Reserve), is granted exclusive authority to create the nation’s money.  Laws are used to enforce the use of this money otherwise people probably wouldn’t use it.  Under a commodity money system, where let’s say the U.S. issues dollars but those dollars are backed or convertible to a commodity (in many cases gold but it can be other things) there is a limit to the amount the government or banking cartel can print or issue and this is in relation to the amount of the commodity that exists or is available to the government or central bank.  The current propaganda that is rife throughout economics textbooks and the like tell is the notion that commodity money is bad since it stifles human innovation in relation to the amount of gold or whatever commodity used.  They say this is bad and that there should be no “limit” on money creation based on something as arbitrary as a commodity and that this is bad for growth.  This is complete nonsense and is used to keep people in the current fiat system where money power is exercised most egregiously by the few against the many.  The reason they defend the current system is simple.  With the power to create unlimited currency at will (via the Federal Reserve) you possess total and absolute power over almost EVERYTHING in the economy and society at large.  The Fed not only creates the money but they distribute it where they want.  In QE1 and QE2  they decided to buy specific assets.  In the case of QE1 where they bought toxic assets, this was just another bailout of the banks and others that made poor investment decisions.  Did the money go to build new schools?  No.  Did the money go to build high speed trains as is done in China?  No.  Did it go to building out massive alternative energy infrastructure?  No.  It went to save the banks because at the end of the day the Fed exists as a backstop to the banks and it is to the banks that the Fed answers to at the end of the day.  It is a brilliant scam that 95% of Americans do not comprehend.  So in this case all of the money is going to the banks (which destroyed the global economy in the first place) and other players in the financial world.  Remember, the banks ARE the Fed and the Fed creates the money.  Gate keepers at the Federal Reserve and academia make understanding economics, the Fed and money seem so “complex” but the scam is really VERY simple.  

I am not saying that I necessarily back the classic gold standard but it is much more of a moral and genuine capitalistic system than what we have today.  One of the arguments against the gold standard is that the rich have all the gold anyway and they will still have the power.  Ok, well let’s suppose this is true.  Under a gold standard they would need to mobilize this gold to exercise their power and influence and pay people off to do their bidding.  This has a real cost to them.  Gold will be spent.  At some point they will choose not to spend it on this or that and ultimately they will lose their power/money by spending too much gold.  They can’t just create more out of thin air to exercise unlimited money power on the populace. 

This is in complete contrast to how things work today.  With the dollar they can create more and more everyday and buy people off without ANY cost in the short term (until the dollar itself collapses).  This is why the most dangerous thing that can happen would be a global fiat currency to replace the U.S. dollar.   They could start over in their never ending system of money power with a new currency that can be printed at will and used to buy up the world and all its resources at no cost to them.  The end result would be slavery for the masses of humanity.  The global monetary system as it stands is one of the most immoral social structures ever created by man.  Most of us in America do not understand this since we have been the beneficiaries of it up until now.  We are like the feudal lords in pre-revolutionary that couldn’t see the world beyond their favored social status until they lost their heads.  The system as it stands has led extreme exploitation and corruption, not true capitalism.  If we continue on this path the next stop is a feudalistic fascism. 
 
In a Fiat System Banks Must be Like Utilities

At the Sanford Bernstein conference several years ago Joseph Stiglitz spoke and said a good and healthy financial system is a small financial system.  I couldn’t agree more.  This is especially the case in a purely fiat money system.  Money is too important to allow greedy children in expensive suits on Wall Street and dangerous academics at the Fed to play around with.  I do not claim to know what the ideal money system is but I want to be very clear on this point.  If we have a fiat system like today the banks should be the most regulated industry on the planet and operate like utilities.  They are supposed to help the productive economy innovate and create wealth.  They are not supposed to be parasites that suck the lifeblood out of the real economy and compose 16% of the weight in the S&P500 (only technology is bigger at 17%).  Something is VERY, VERY wrong here. 

I placed the quote at the top of the email to demonstrate just how entirely disconnected the corrupt elite class is in the United States is today from the average citizen.  Many historians assert that Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake,” but surely she made comments similar to those at the top of this email from the Bloomberg article.  What is happening now is nothing new.  It has happened over and over again for millennium.  The elites of every era always think they will stay in control no matter what.  They will be wrong once again.

Watching the circus from Colorado,
Mike




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Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week's news.


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Job Hunter Scams


These types of scams targeting job hunters and attempts to gain access to personal information such as bank account or social security numbers and sometimes even ask for a fee in order to be registered for the job. This is one of the most common type of scams today with more and more people loosing jobs and it is getting difficult to get new jobs.


 


Debt Relief and Settlement Services


These services often charge fees and leave the consumer in even more debt. It is estimated by the Better Business Bureaus that these type of services increased by approximately 30 percent in 2010.


 


 


Work from Home Schemes



Sumitted by Mike Krieger of Kam LP

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

- Henry Ford


U.S. investors should welcome, not fear, climbing commodity prices.  The increases are "largely a reflection of the fact that the pace of economic growth, particularly in the U.S., has picked up," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at consultants IHS in Lexington, Massachusetts, and a former Federal Reserve official who has been covering the global economy for more than 35 years. "It's not something to be worried about." 

- Bloomberg article from yesterday


Why Fiat Money is Immoral

Today’s email is going to be a little different.  A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine from NYC who is not in the business but is on my weekly email distribution list asked me to explain fiat money and why I think it is the wrong way to go.  Below I am going to paste my response to her.  There is so much disinformation out there about money it is scary.  Sadly, the strategist at my former employer added to this several weeks ago.  He wrote:  “Gold, which is effectively just another fiat currency.”

Clearly he failed to look up the definition of fiat currency.

Fiat money is money that has value only because of government regulation or law.

Definition of Fiat:  An authoritative or often arbitrary official order or decree.  THIS DOES NOT EXIST TO GOLD AS MONEY TODAY AT ALL. 

Gold is not money under “fiat” in any country at the moment.  Rather the market is making gold as money today which is the OPPOSITE of fiat money.  

With that off my chest, here is the response to my friend…

Ok, so let’s do a brief thought exercise on why I believe commodity money is preferable to fiat money.  When you have fiat money, a government, or in the case of the United States today, a banking cartel (the Federal Reserve), is granted exclusive authority to create the nation’s money.  Laws are used to enforce the use of this money otherwise people probably wouldn’t use it.  Under a commodity money system, where let’s say the U.S. issues dollars but those dollars are backed or convertible to a commodity (in many cases gold but it can be other things) there is a limit to the amount the government or banking cartel can print or issue and this is in relation to the amount of the commodity that exists or is available to the government or central bank.  The current propaganda that is rife throughout economics textbooks and the like tell is the notion that commodity money is bad since it stifles human innovation in relation to the amount of gold or whatever commodity used.  They say this is bad and that there should be no “limit” on money creation based on something as arbitrary as a commodity and that this is bad for growth.  This is complete nonsense and is used to keep people in the current fiat system where money power is exercised most egregiously by the few against the many.  The reason they defend the current system is simple.  With the power to create unlimited currency at will (via the Federal Reserve) you possess total and absolute power over almost EVERYTHING in the economy and society at large.  The Fed not only creates the money but they distribute it where they want.  In QE1 and QE2  they decided to buy specific assets.  In the case of QE1 where they bought toxic assets, this was just another bailout of the banks and others that made poor investment decisions.  Did the money go to build new schools?  No.  Did the money go to build high speed trains as is done in China?  No.  Did it go to building out massive alternative energy infrastructure?  No.  It went to save the banks because at the end of the day the Fed exists as a backstop to the banks and it is to the banks that the Fed answers to at the end of the day.  It is a brilliant scam that 95% of Americans do not comprehend.  So in this case all of the money is going to the banks (which destroyed the global economy in the first place) and other players in the financial world.  Remember, the banks ARE the Fed and the Fed creates the money.  Gate keepers at the Federal Reserve and academia make understanding economics, the Fed and money seem so “complex” but the scam is really VERY simple.  

I am not saying that I necessarily back the classic gold standard but it is much more of a moral and genuine capitalistic system than what we have today.  One of the arguments against the gold standard is that the rich have all the gold anyway and they will still have the power.  Ok, well let’s suppose this is true.  Under a gold standard they would need to mobilize this gold to exercise their power and influence and pay people off to do their bidding.  This has a real cost to them.  Gold will be spent.  At some point they will choose not to spend it on this or that and ultimately they will lose their power/money by spending too much gold.  They can’t just create more out of thin air to exercise unlimited money power on the populace. 

This is in complete contrast to how things work today.  With the dollar they can create more and more everyday and buy people off without ANY cost in the short term (until the dollar itself collapses).  This is why the most dangerous thing that can happen would be a global fiat currency to replace the U.S. dollar.   They could start over in their never ending system of money power with a new currency that can be printed at will and used to buy up the world and all its resources at no cost to them.  The end result would be slavery for the masses of humanity.  The global monetary system as it stands is one of the most immoral social structures ever created by man.  Most of us in America do not understand this since we have been the beneficiaries of it up until now.  We are like the feudal lords in pre-revolutionary that couldn’t see the world beyond their favored social status until they lost their heads.  The system as it stands has led extreme exploitation and corruption, not true capitalism.  If we continue on this path the next stop is a feudalistic fascism. 
 
In a Fiat System Banks Must be Like Utilities

At the Sanford Bernstein conference several years ago Joseph Stiglitz spoke and said a good and healthy financial system is a small financial system.  I couldn’t agree more.  This is especially the case in a purely fiat money system.  Money is too important to allow greedy children in expensive suits on Wall Street and dangerous academics at the Fed to play around with.  I do not claim to know what the ideal money system is but I want to be very clear on this point.  If we have a fiat system like today the banks should be the most regulated industry on the planet and operate like utilities.  They are supposed to help the productive economy innovate and create wealth.  They are not supposed to be parasites that suck the lifeblood out of the real economy and compose 16% of the weight in the S&P500 (only technology is bigger at 17%).  Something is VERY, VERY wrong here. 

I placed the quote at the top of the email to demonstrate just how entirely disconnected the corrupt elite class is in the United States is today from the average citizen.  Many historians assert that Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake,” but surely she made comments similar to those at the top of this email from the Bloomberg article.  What is happening now is nothing new.  It has happened over and over again for millennium.  The elites of every era always think they will stay in control no matter what.  They will be wrong once again.

Watching the circus from Colorado,
Mike




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Monday, 24 January 2011

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The Mogambo Stupidity Prize (MSP) is a not-so-rare honor bestowed to highlight the laughable kind of stupidity about inflation that is so prevalent these days that I find myself screaming at the radio, the newspaper and the TV, wildly ranting, arms akimbo like some kind of demented old man, about how inflation is the Worst Thing That Can Happen (WTTCH), working myself into a fit of uncontrolled anger that goes beyond “outrage” and into some dark, dangerous place in my heart where enemies, both real and imagined, are rounded up and thrown into a hellish prison, and I reign victorious in abolishing the Federal Reserve, reinstalling the gold standard for the US dollar, thus abolishing inflation forever and becoming a national hero whose courageous victory will live forever in the hearts of the people and in the history of the United States and the world, which quickly realized the beauty and simplicity of the gold standard in delivering stable prices and higher standards of living for everyone, instead of the grinding misery and suffering of inflation under a standard of expanding a fiat currency.
Thus, I will be loved and revered by everyone, except possibly my kids, who will probably still be insisting that they will hate me forever unless I let them go to Disney World with a guy they know as Dave, and his girlfriend, Krystal, who is a professional-pole dancer.
Naturally, I replied, “Disney World? Pole dancer? Sure! But only if I can come, too!”
They rudely said, “No” and made disgusting gagging noises. So I, indignantly, said, “No!”, too, but with an exclamation point to show them I was serious and my feelings were hurt. Ergo, the aforementioned “hate unto death” pour moi.
But that is not important, if a cataclysm of inflationary horror that will destroy the USA is not important, because we were originally talking about the Mogambo Stupidity Prize (MSP), but somehow veered off into another of my rambling harangues about the Federal Reserve destroying the purchasing power of the dollar with their relentless, ruinous, catastrophic over-creation of money, which seems important to me in that “You are soon going to be killed. Do you want to know why?” way, which seems to satisfy a basic human hunger, as evidenced by a lot of movies showing a guy dying of a gunshot wound, and he says to his killer, “Before I die, I want to know your name!”, which is pointless because he will be brain-dead in a few minutes and he will forget whatever name he hears. Moron.
Abruptly, I now veer BACK to the subject, which is to announce that The Financial Times is this week’s winner of the MSP in recognition of their winning entry in a January 8 editorial where they wrote, “Higher prices are not something to be scared of. Indeed, they are a necessary precondition to make supply catch up with demand.” Hahaha!
Higher prices are not something to be scared of? Hahaha!
You know that this is stupid AND funny because of the way I laughed “hahaha!” each time I wrote it, which was, at last count, two!
Well, as you knew I would, I have some Hot Mogambo News (HMN) for these Financial Times weenies: Higher prices ARE something to be “scared of” because it is exactly tantamount to saying, “Getting a bad, debilitating disease is not something to be scared of. Instead, it is a precondition to making advances in medicine catch up with demand.” Hahaha!
I wonder how these Financial Times morons would like to suffer from disease until production of curative medicine increases in response to the demand for cures, in the meantime suffering more and more, and then more and more suffering every month, suffering and suffering until, hopefully one day, the supply of medicine catches up with demand, and their disease is cured, although they will suffer a permanent decrease in health from the damage done.
They surely must like it as much as they like inflation, paying higher and higher prices for food until production of food increases in response to the shortage causing the higher prices, paying higher prices, and then more higher prices, and then more and more, every month, higher and higher, and then the prices of everything else go up in price, too, higher and higher, month after month, businesses being pressured to raise the “wage” part of that important land, capital and labor triumvirate, as are sellers of land and credit, even though your income will surely not increase along with prices, meaning that you will have spent so much money on subsistence rather than investment that you will have suffered a permanent decrease in financial health from the damage done.
As for me, I choose not to suffer inflation at all, and merely buy gold, silver and oil, which is so easy that I cannot help but exclaim in a giggly kind of rapturous glee, “Whee! This investing stuff is easy!”
The Mogambo Guru
for The Daily Reckoning

Inflation and the Damage Done originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, offers a uniquely refreshing, perspective on the global economy, investing, gold, stocks and today's markets. Its been called "the most entertaining read of the day."





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I haven’t seen MM cover this yet and it needs to be known!!! Please forgive me if she has already covered this and I just missed it!! The “Together We Thrive” T-shirts that starred at Wednesday’s Arizona `Memorial’ originated from Organizing for America a sad fact unearthed by The Drumbeat of Liberty and the Preservation of Freedom editor and Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Robert Rohlfing.


In the controversy of the pep rally/rock concert style Memorial for those who lost their lives in Saturday’s Arizona tragedy, the mainstream media reported that the “Together We Thrive: Tucson & America” T-shirt given to mourners as they entered McKate Center was the idea of University of Arizona brass, not the Obama administration.


Yet the “Together We Thrive” slogan dates back to a post to Obama’s own Organizing for America in a Feb. 11, 2008 post by self-described “globalist” John Berry IV.


More than passing strange that the Obama campaign message of civility was the same on Feb. 11, 2008 as it was in his Wednesday Memorial speech, and the same one, too carried by the mainstream media in coverage of the Memorial.



“For too long Americans have been set one against the other. It is a side affect of a free market society,” Berry IV posted. “How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work down for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or today’s migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.


“What I see in Obama is a chance for revolution. (Italics CFP’s). A chance for every group to be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many…


“In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation. I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”


University of Arizona brass did not originate the “Together We Thrive” T-shirt. They merely recycled it for Obama—and recycled it in time for what should have been a dignified Memorial for the dead.


If you were a mourner who took home a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt have a look at the bottom of your shirt. “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote” is a common theme of the DNC, and it’s right there on your Memorial T-shirt memento.Welcome to the era of Obama, where cheering and standing ovations, for the first time in history, became part of the Requiem for the Dead.


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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

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In an interview, a former credit card thief talks about some of the scams he used to run on unwary consumers. It's got some good takeaways for protecting yourself, like the one where you make up fake answers to security questions. With all the info that can be found online now some of these security questions aren't that hard to figure out. So instead of putting down the real answer to "What's your mother's maiden name?" put down "unicorn princess."



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We’ve all done it. We’ve all believed, if only for a second, that we could become rich without work.  That we could build a business that runs on auto-pilot. That we could live on a beach in Maui while the checks come rolling in. You know what I’m talking about: “Living the dream.” The ultimate goal of success without work.


Unfortunately, we all know that’s not reality. As small business owners, we work day and night to reach that dream for ourselves. And we know, through experience, that there’s no “easy button” we can push to achieve it.


But isn’t it frustrating to watch as others continue to succeed by selling the dream that we know isn’t possible?



You know who I’m talking about. Those guru-type slimy marketing promotions that tell you things like, “Make $14,023 a month at home in your underwear with no effort!” or “Making money by pushing buttons has never been easier with this revolutionary system!”


We all know those systems don’t really deliver on their promises. The only people getting rich are the gurus selling those scams. But the truth is that the reason they continue to offer these scams the way they do is because it works. Humans like to buy the dream.


Take a deep breath. I know, it’s frustrating. Because that’s not you and me. We don’t make promises of overnight success. We run real businesses where we try to solve real problems for our customers.


But there’s an opportunity to learn something here and use it to our advantage. If you look at why people buy, it’s usually for a different reason than you think it is. For example, people don’t buy a fancy diamond engagement ring because of how it looks. They buy it because of how it’s going to make their lives better and how it’s going to make the other person feel. They’re buying “forever!”, not diamonds.


In another example, people don’t buy Nike products because they’re any higher quality than Converse or New Balance or 100 other brands. They buy Nike because Nike sells “winning.” They’re buying the dream. They want to be labeled winners.


So next time you see a guru trying to sell something you know is full of false promises, don’t get angry. Instead, use it as a lesson to think about what you sell, and more importantly, what and why people buy from you. Then use that lesson to improve your marketing message for more sales, leads and publicity.


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Thursday, 13 January 2011

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Alistair Croll is the co-chair of O’Reilly’s Strata conference, which tackles the convergence of Big Data, ubiquitous computing, and new interfaces. The next Strata event happens in Santa Clara, CA from February 1 to 3.

Karl Marx said that the industrial revolution polarized the world into two groups: those who own the means of production and those who work on them. 

Today’s means of production aren’t greasy cogs and steam-spewing engines, but that doesn’t mean they don’t divide us. Industrial data is all around us, and search engines, governments, financial markets, social networks and law enforcement agencies rely on it.

We willingly embrace this “Big Data” world. We share, friend, check in and retweet our every move. We swipe loyalty cards and enter frequent flyer numbers. We leave a growing, and apparently innocent trail of digital breadcrumbs in our wake.

But as we use the Internet for “free,” we have to remember that if we’re not paying for something, we’re not the customer. We are in fact the product being sold — or, more specifically, our data is.

So here’s a tricky question: Who owns all that data?

Why Data Ownership Is Hard

The fundamental problem with data ownership is that bits don’t behave like atoms. For most of human history, our laws have focused on physical assets that couldn’t be duplicated. The old truism “possession is nine-tenths of the law” doesn’t apply in a world where making a million copies, each as good as the original, is nearly effortless.

It’s not just the ability to copy that makes data different, however. How data is used affects its value. If I share a movie with someone, the copyright holder loses a potential sale. On the other hand, they may make money: freely sharing Monty Python videos online increased DVD sales by 23,000%. Some kinds of information were meant to be shared. If I give my phone number to someone, surely it’s gained value. But if it’s written on a bathroom wall, presumably it’s lost some.

It is hard to get data control right, too. In 2009, Burning Man required that Burners give organizers control of any of their images that were shared by a third party. The well-meaning effort to protect unwanted distribution sparked a vigorous debate about what electronic freedom really means. More recently, WikiLeaks has forced us to ask: Do thousands of leaked cables belong to the government, U.S. citizens, WikiLeaks or the newspapers that published them?

Old Laws, New Problems

These questions of data ownership are all nuanced issues, quick to anger and hard to resolve. We’re struggling to cope with them, both legislatively and culturally.

In a number of recent cases, outdated laws are being repurposed and abused, alternately defending and restricting freedom. We’re using ancient wiretapping laws to imprison people who record law enforcement officials. At the same time that reading a spouse’s e-mail is a criminal offense, Google search history is now an admissible form of evidence. And the U.S. attorney general has just subpoenaed the private Twitter messages of a foreign citizen.

Big Data Makes Its Own Gravy

But if data law is confusing, Big Data makes it downright Byzantine. That’s because the act of collecting and analyzing massive amounts of public and private data actually generates more data, which is often as useful as the original information — and belongs to whomever performed the analysis. Put another way: Big Data makes its own gravy.

In August 2006, America Online published a dataset of search results, hoping to provide raw material to researchers. The data had been anonymized, so that each searcher’s identity was just a number. Five days later, The New York Times had tracked down one of those searchers by linking her search history to other public data, such as the phone book.

At big data companies, this kind of thing happens constantly; the companies just aren’t ignorant enough to do it in public. Since 2006, our willingness to share data has risen dramatically. So has companies’ ability to mine it for new insights, and not always in ways we’d approve of. Consider the Netflix Prize, awarded for figuring out how to use our film preferences to suggest other movies. That kind of power could also be used for an “Insurance Challenge” that turns our online behavior into actuarial tables that dictate premiums and deny some of us coverage.

The Rise of the Data Marketplace

For decades, lawyers and traders have relied on companies like Thomson Reuters for the latest stock and legal news. Now startups like Gnip, Infochimps, Windows Azure DataMarket, Factual, and Datamarketplace (acquired by Infochimps) are making data easier to acquire and massage. These data marketplaces seldom create new data; rather, they clean it up, ensuring it’s current, and connecting buyers and suppliers. Their value comes not from the data, but from making it usable and accessible.

These data marketplaces can teach us an important lesson about data ownership. Ultimately, the question of who owns information is a red herring. 

It’s Not Really About Who Owns the Data/>

Thirty years ago, Stewart Brand observed that, “On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.”

Data will leak out, as it always does, despite the best efforts of hardware companies. It’ll be around forever, even if we try to impose a statute of limitations on it. And we’ll find new ways analyze it, making still more data. Yesterday’s online chaff may be the cornerstone of tomorrow’s new startup.

The important question isn’t who owns the data. Ultimately, we all do. A better question is, who owns the means of analysis? Because that’s how, as Brand suggests, you get the right information in the right place. The digital divide isn’t about who owns data — it’s about who can put that data to work.

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I’ve often wondered if the early Web pioneers had it all to do over again if Web companies would have put less of an emphasis on free.


People have been conditioned against paying for services or content on the Web, and the Web elite only have each other to blame. For all the talk of Web companies getting users first and “figuring out” how to make money later, the only two jaw-droppingly, multi-billion-dollar, innovative new ways to advertise online have been Google’s paid search ads and Groupon’s solution to unlocking local ad dollars on a mass scale. Those who win big–like Google– just perpetuate the cult of free content and services as a way of spoiling would be competitors. Witness a big disconnect between popularity and money. Exhibit A: Yahoo.


As a result, Netflix and Match.com are two of the only companies to have figured out ways to build large, lucrative subscription businesses online. Meanwhile, LinkedIn is one of the only Web 2.0 companies that has created a huge business with a freemium business model.


But on the mobile Web it’s a do-over, and it’s a totally different playbook from FREE! People are conditioned to pay for stuff over phones in a way they aren’t online, and they’re not flinching. According to Citibank’s US Internet Stock 2011 Playbook released today, Apple will generated as much as $2 billion in gross app revenue in 2011. For perspective, that’s about the same size as Citibank’s estimate for the entire online video advertising market next year, nevermind way more people watch YouTube than have an iPhone and it’s been in the cultural zeitgeist longer.


The report also cites Gartner’s estimates that the total app market was around $4 billion in 2010 and should grow to a whopping $27 billion by 2013. The biggest driver is smart phone penetration, the impact of which Citibank compares to the spread of broadband on the computer-based Internet in the early 2000s. Globally, smart phone unit sales grew 53% in 2010, and Citibank expects it to grow 29% in 2011 and stay in the mid-20% growth range through 2013.


Several years ago, it was controversial to say that a fledgling product called Android — not the hyped up purchase of YouTube– would be Google’s best bet at another hit on the scale of paid search. Android is already making $1 billion in revenues with an indirect monetization strategy, and Citibank expects that could double next year– not only eclipsing YouTube but the entire online video category. Now calling Android Google’s future is almost a cliche. Good thing Google hedged its bets.



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