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Turning into a police state: What's The ANSIR? FBI Warns Corporate Leaders Of Possible Attacks By Antiwar Activists Bill Berkowitz is a long time political observer and columnist. At a time when the peace movement appears to be gaining traction, it is troubling to read the latest...

very true and valid points. The Chicken Hawks' War Vietnam Draft-Dodgers Are The Force Behind An Iraqi Invasion George Johnson served in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1966. He is the Vice Commander of American Legion Post 315 and a member of Veterans for Peace. This past Veterans...

thing is, iraq poses absolutely zero threat to either the us or it's neighbors, the case against iraq is built on nothing but blatant lies from dubya. excerpt: President Bush's case against Saddam Hussein, outlined in a televised address to the nation on Monday night, relied on a slanted and...

President Bush has said from the outset that the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks hated America because "they hate our freedoms." But the available evidence does not support this explanation. Bin Laden's own statements and the personal histories of participants in the Sept. 11...

The Long and Short of It The Washington Post The War on Terrorism Began So Well. Then the Focus Changed. What Is the Bush Administration Aiming to Do Now? By Robert G. Kaiser Amid the hoopla surrounding the anniversary of Sept. 11, three questions seem apt: Why did the Bush...

hehe, great posts ;) cheers

what part exactly strikes you as impressive about their performance? i thought this was a traders site? this here is impressive: a guy from london who built up a chain of restaurants and sold them for 30 million dollars, then turned that into over one billion usd trading spot forex out...

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aaron, what i said, through the above posts, was that 95% of the buy side, never mind what form they take, cta/cpo, mutual fund, hedge fund etc, are crooks and/or incompetents destroying investors equity. that leaves 5% of whom maybe 1%, over time, will prove to be honest and real...

a bit more RE hedge funds: ""Most hedge funds are private partnerships; many are offshore and thus unregulated by the SEC. The most authoritative work in the field is Offshore Hedge Funds: Survival & Performance 1989-1995 by William N. Goetzmann, Roger G. Ibbotson, and Stephen J. Brown...

The $500 Billion Hedge Fund Folly continued: This gets worse. If you don't know which hedge funds to buy, various middlemen will find some for you--and charge another fee for doing so. Morgan Stanley, for instance, sponsors a fund of funds, Liquid Markets Fund I, that puts investors'...

just don't fall for the crap, there are more fraudulent crooks, criminals and incompetents out there than is funny by any measure, there really is a new sucker born every minute falling for faked audits, or, in the case of unregulated hedge funds, just plain hot air: The $500 Billion...

rs7, great posts with which i totally agree, apart from saddam, on which i seem to remember that we had an agreement in earlier days when we were younger and better looking.:D cheers.

hi, oh, ok, that explains some of your positions here:D no, just kidding. seriously, the thing that always makes me wonder is that when you get jews and arabs in a room you'll (almost)never have any problems. it's just when you get power hungry thugs in charge that the problems start...

very true, just as a true and honest application of scientific methods has many advantages, in the sense of observing a phenomenon, formulating an hypothesis to explain the phenomenon, and using the hypothesis to predict the results of new observations. applying that chances are slim you'll...