tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74231496190552443722024-03-05T10:44:05.447-05:00KreuzroadsJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-11614278686922035132014-07-23T15:11:00.000-04:002014-07-24T14:19:21.154-04:00A Photo Plagiarized by Roger RessmeyerPhotographer Roger Ressmeyer copyrighted a photo which was originally taken by the French Army. The fraudulently claimed copyright now belongs to Bill Gates' Corbis after their purchase of his collection in 1995. Corbis states that the photo was taken in the 1950s when, in fact, it was taken in 1970. It is titled "Mushroom Cloud During Atomic Weapons Test". Corbis doesn't state where the picture was taken, but it was taken at the <span class="st">Fangataufa atoll of the French Polynesia during France's nuclear test known as operation Licorne. </span>Ressmeyer not only plagiarized a photo of the French state, he made a profit by doing so. In addition, Corbis has sold and continues to sell the photo, which is listed on its images catalog with stock ID RR030560. <a href="http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/RR030560/mushroom-cloud-during-atomic-weapons-test" target="_blank">This is the photo as it appears in the Corbis catalog</a>:<br />
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The Corbis photo is a cropped version of the original. Thanks to Pierre J. of Donnery, France, who mentions that prints of the photo could be purchased in Tahiti in the 1970s, we can have a look at the full size of the original. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7969902@N07/511103951/" target="_blank">He has digitally restored a scan of one of the printed photos of the Licorne test, which he has uploaded to Flickr</a>:<br />
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<br />Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-45584614088342972942014-05-19T13:25:00.000-04:002014-05-20T19:35:46.240-04:00Relationships Between Men and Women in China<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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What follows is a set of interviews about relationships in China. As revealing as they might be, consider that they come from a total of 80 interviewees who work in Beijing. In addition, the video clip was prepared to stir up controversy before the release of '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2471282/" target="_blank">A Big Deal</a>' (巨额交易), which premiered on December 2, 2011. Although the movie has none of the interviews, the motivations of its male protagonists to get rich arguably arise from their needs to be validated by greedy women. The video was first shown at Peking University and has been translated as <a href="http://www.tealeafnation.com/2012/04/video-high-stakes-mating-men-v-women/" target="_blank">High Stakes Mating</a> (巨额交配). Finally, take into account that the national average salary for urban workers in the private sector is about 2,000 RMB per month.<br />
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<b>Question 1: How much money does a man need for you to marry him?</b><br />
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Woman 1: Monthly salary must be at least 5000 to 6000 (RMB)<br />
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Woman 2: He should make over 10,000 RMB a month<br />
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Womant 3: At least over 10,000 per month. I feel in a big city this is the least you need<br />
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Man 1: I feel a lot of women should consider first whether they have the wherewithal to ask for so much. If she's like Sister Furong [a not so attractive young lady celebrity], she shouldn't ask for so much. Even Sister Furong wants Chen Guanxi [famous Hong Kong actor]<br />
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Woman 4: Have a new house...has a car...then that's OK<br />
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Man 2: Don't even get considered if you don't have a car, a house or savings. This really gets me mad, because I'm such a person<br />
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Woman 2: I feel if there's no house there's no feeling of safety, so having a house is a pre-condition<br />
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Man 3: Do you know now how much it costs to buy a house/apartment on the 3rd or 4th ring road [Beijing]. At least 1 to 2 million, a bit more it's 3 to 4 million. Do you know how much money that is? If I had this much money I could go find a prostitute every day. I could do it for 20, 30 years and every day it'd be a different one. So if a woman you're dating asks you do you have a place, a car? And you say I don't, then she says "Then why are we still talking?" Then you should say "Why do you demand that I have a place and a car? Why?!" Do you look like Ling Zhiling or Marilyn Monroe?<br />
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Woman 5: Definitely have to look at economic ability. If my quality of life is at this level and I find someone who's at this [lower] level, then after I get together with him, I have to become like this [live at a lower level]; that's not realistic<br />
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Man 4: I have confidence. I have a place and a car so what am I afraid of?<br />
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Man 5: Getting married but not for love, that's screwed up<br />
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Woman 5: Romancing without intention of marrying is what's screwed up<br />
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Man 3: If you don't have money or a place then I won't marry you. If I meet this kind of woman, I just have one word for them: Scram!<br />
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<b>Question 2: How much money does a man need for you to have his child?</b><br />
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Woman 3: Savings of about 300,000 rmb, then we can consider having a kid<br />
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Woman 2: On the condition that he has a place, he also needs about 400-500 thousand. <br />
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Woman 6: For me to have a child, my condition is at least 100,000 in savings. And a place that only my husband and I live in<br />
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Man 3: Does things like marriage, having a kid really need that much money?<br />
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Woman 4: I feel if you have a kid you need to be able to care for him. If you can't guarantee him a good living environment at least on a level about the same as others his/her age, then I feel the child will have issues<br />
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Woman 2: I feel if living conditions haven't achieved a certain level it's better not to have a child<br />
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Man 5: If you say it takes 1 or 2 million for me to have a child. Problem is, do you need that much money for the kid? That's enough to raise him to adulthood!<br />
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Woman 7: First you have to be able to afford the birth; even the birth will cost 100-200 thousand. Then the child has to go to school, then go abroad. That's at least 1 to 2 million right? Then the child has to get married. That's another 1-2 million! So for me he needs at least 5 million<br />
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Man 4: I feel that she loves the 5 million and not me, so I won't marry her. It's very simple!<br />
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<b>Question 3: If a man doesn't have this much money, is he garbage?</b><br />
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Woman 5: I do feel salary is a yardstick for a man's ability<br />
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Woman 3: If my husband's salary is not as high as mine I would mind<br />
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Woman 8: If he wants a better life and he wants the wife to go work for it. That just won't do<br />
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Woman 7: This society these days, money is the most realistic standard for measuring a person's ability<br />
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Man 4: Then she should marry money. She doesn't want men; she wants money. Her mind's been corrupted; it's become glue! Her life values and morals have collapsed. This type of life is meaningless<br />
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Woman 6: In my heart, I feel it's sufficient if I can afford whatever I want to buy, whatever I want to eat<br />
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Man 4: Typical corrupted morals spewing nonesense. If my other half says she wants to eat and buy whatever she wants, then I feel she won't treat me well. She's just looking for a contract to sell her body to me. <br />
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Woman 1: Instead of asking women, why don't we ask the men if they feel they should have money?<br />
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Man 1: I feel society now is actually very egalitarian. Why should men have so much money. Can't women make their own money? Do they have to depend on the men?<br />
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Man 2: I feel with this kind of thing you need to take a broad view<br />
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Woman 9: Men want to convince you that they'll work hard in the future. But anyone can speak empty words; why don't you show me with your actions?<br />
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Woman 4: If he has no ambition, lives aimlessly and just likes to play, then I feel he's not far from garbage<br />
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Woman 2: If a man is just happy with his current state and has no ideals and doesn't want to improve his life then he's garbage<br />
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Woman 6: No ambition, no skills and doesn't have looks, then this type of man is not far from garbage<br />
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Man 3: As for those women who say men who don't have money are garbage, I feel this type of woman is best suited for working at a night club or being a mistress for rich men. This way she can reduce her chances of running into garbage<br />
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<b>Question 4: If you feel a man with no money is garbage, then does that mean relationships are like high stakes financial transactions?</b><br />
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Woman 7: Marriage is actually just like doing a deal, you need to maintain your calm and your reason. First you have to protect yourself<br />
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Man 5: If women have to make themselves into products for sale, Ok, that's fine, but doesn't mean I'm interested in buying!<br />
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Woman 4: All animal mating in the world requires resources. I feel this so called high stakes mating is really necessary. No matter if it's animals or humans for mating one partner always needs something to attract the other<br />
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Woman 5: You're responsible for earning money for the family and I'm responsible for being beautiful like a flower. If I ask that you have earning potential, but if you can only make 2000 rmb per month, then you shouldn't expect the woman to have 36C breasts and be 1.68, 1.7 meters tall. That's just not realistic<br />
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Man 1: Actually those women who look for money and see their youth from 20-25 as a bargaining chip, actuallly these women are pretty sad. They only have 5 years of youth and during this time they want to trade it like a product. Trade their youth for something of more value...it's really sad. Really sad<br />
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Woman 5: It's not that if I find a man with money then I'll definitely not have true love. If under the condition of there being true love and I find someone with money, that's maybe not idealistic but certainly understandable<br />
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Man 2: I feel these women are so pragmatic, then we men don't need to be so pure hearted either, right?<br />
Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-22818492182088150492014-05-08T19:04:00.003-04:002016-01-04T15:47:20.956-05:00Melonheads Had Long Tongues to Speak Sanskrit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The extinct species known as the melonheads not only had elongated skulls, they also had long tongues in order to speak their language: Sanskrit. Sanskrit has nine <i>short </i>phonetic vowels, as opposed to seven in English and five in Spanish. In order to pronounce two of those nine vowels, it is necessary to flex the tip of the tongue while the rest of the tongue remains still and the mouth is wide open. To pronounce one of these two vowels, start sounding a prolonged 'i', as in ship, and raise the tip of the tongue so that it points to the palate without touching it. Similarly, to pronounce the other of these two vowels, start sounding a prolonged 'i' and raise the tip of the tongue to behind the upper front teeth without touching them. And you have to pronounce them while the mouth is so open that you can fit two fingers between your lips. If you have an above average tongue, you will be able to pronounce the first vowel. But you need a very long tongue to properly pronounce the second vowel.<br />
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Sanskrit was constructed on the basis of mouth biomechanics. Their inventors studied the dynamics of the tongue, throat anatomy and respiratory limits in order to create an efficient language that encompass all biomechanical positions. They explored the full phonetic potential and then proceeded to establish certain rules in order to avoid speech inefficiencies. For example, they were aware that in order to pronounce 'e', as in pet,
after pronouncing 'o', as in dog, you have to go through 'a', as in cat. And their language was constructed with this sort of observations in mind. By having the full array of phonemes that could be pronounced by their mouths, words could be shorter and fluid. And they were made as fluid as possible with the rules. So Sanskrit is a language of efficient phonetics and breadth. If you are interested in getting the gist of this language, you can look for 'A Practical Sanskrit Introductory' by Charles Wikner.<br />
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Melonheads had to have long tongues in order to pronounce Sanskrit properly. And their long tongues might be the reason why they worshipped snakes — they identified with snakes since they could see a reflexion of their own beings in them. Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-58453130596345704182014-02-25T18:50:00.001-05:002014-02-25T18:50:25.490-05:00Imprisoned Chinese Journalist Confesses to Wrongdoing on State TVThis is what happens to whomever dares to reveal the nationwide corruption of Chinese "businessmen:"<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/chinese-newspaper-apologises-journalist-confessed-corruption">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/chinese-newspaper-apologises-journalist-confessed-corruption</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-91444983339494699312013-10-07T13:29:00.001-04:002013-10-07T14:05:15.891-04:00The High Price of Digging Up Dirt in China<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Canadian stock analyst Kun Huang has been locked in a Luoyang, China,
jail for more than a year, charged with defaming a Canadian company
whose shares trade on the New York and Toronto exchanges. In 2011, a
report circulated by Huang's hedge-fund employer alleged that ore
samples from a mine run by <span class="chartToolTip" id="ataglance_stock_DWC_label"> Silvercorp Metals</span>
<span data-ticker-name="svm" data-widget="dj.ticker"></span>
tested low for silver content.<br />
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<a href="http://kreuzroads.blogspot.com/2013/06/chinese-state-increases-protection-to.html" target="_blank">The researcher is one of hundreds that Chinese media say have been rounded up since May 2012 for helping foreign investors check out U.S.-listed Chinese companies</a>, or for conducting the due diligence
required of multinational corporations by their home countries'
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<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/08/27/investigator-tells-media-he-regrets-trafficking-in-personal-information/" target="_blank">Chinese television recently broadcast the handcuffed image of well-known fraud investigator Peter Humphrey</a>, a Brit accused with his American
wife of accessing state records in the course of background checks
performed by their Shanghai-based firm, ChinaWhys, on dozens of Chinese
businesses -- including Silvercorp (ticker: SVM). <br />
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Investigators like Huang and Humphrey helped expose unflattering
evidence on companies listed here via the back-door maneuver known as a
"reverse takeover" -- inspiring a wave of short-selling, delistings, and
fraud charges by U.S. regulators.</blockquote>
Source: <a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111903533504579095270615168980.html">http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111903533504579095270615168980.html</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-83085190338554301972013-07-30T18:45:00.000-04:002013-07-31T12:14:17.656-04:00Astronomical Myths of Mercury & the SunThe following has been taken from a post by Wal Thornhill, one of the proponents of Plasma Cosmology:<br />
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<b>Myth No. 1. Mercury’s motion is convincing evidence for Einstein’s general theory of relativity.</b><br />
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<b>Myth No. 2. We can use Newton’s law of gravity to determine the mass of a celestial body and from that its density.</b><br />
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Gravity is a weak manifestation of a dipolar electric force between distorted subatomic particles. The distortion is a sum due to the presence of matter in the rest of the universe. Empirically, we observe subatomic particles accelerated in an electric field apparently gaining in mass. That apparent mass increase is not due to the particles’ motion but the absorption of energy in the form of particle distortion instead of acceleration. So the mass of a body is an electrical variable!<br />
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<b>Myth No. 3. The solar system was formed in a single gravitational collapse event of a widely dispersed cloud of gas and dust, 3.7 billion years ago. The solar system has no recent history.</b><br />
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Stars are formed in an electrical Z-pinch at the intersection of cosmic ‘power lines’ or Birkeland current filaments.<br />
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<b>Myth No. 4. Radioactive dating can give reliable estimates of the ages of rocks. The solar system is 3.7 billion years old.</b><br />
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Radioactive dating relies on a planet being essentially a closed system since shortly after its formation. However, powerful plasma discharges are a copious source of neutrons, which can introduce radioactive species to planetary surfaces. Matter is also irradiated and transferred between planets by cosmic discharges. Radioactive ‘clocks’ cannot be relied upon under such circumstances.<br />
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<b>Myth No. 5. The Sun evolves over time as a result of consuming itself in a central thermonuclear furnace.</b><br />
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A star is not just a fancy version of the old ‘campfire in the sky.’ It is not self-immolating. A star’s size and appearance are a plasma discharge phenomenon, the discharge being powered externally via galactic circuits. That is the simple explanation why the Sun’s corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. As commonsense would dictate, stars are chemical element factories, producing in their intense photospheric plasma discharge all of the heavy elements observed in their spectra. Stars may therefore change appearance and apparent age at any time in response to their environment and in some instances have been observed to do so rapidly.<br />
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<b>Myth No. 6. Mercury was formed where we find it today.</b><br />
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Mercury had nothing to do with the Sun in its early history. Mercury was never twice the size. <a href="http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=rbkq9dj2">All planets and moons are born</a> fully formed from their parent body — usually a flaring dwarf star (or gas giant planet). The birth process involves intense plasma discharging between the parent and its departing newborn satellite, which modifies the infant’s atmosphere and ‘spark etches’ the surface electrically, forming circular craters and distinctive Lichtenberg figures of canyons, or rilles.<br />
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<b>Myth No. 7. Planets collide mechanically.</b><br />
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Modern astrophysics has degenerated into computer games based upon mechanical and gravitational concepts that are a century out of date. That is when Kristian Birkeland, in his brilliant but little known Terrella (little Earth) experiments, electrically modeled auroras and many other phenomena seen on the Sun and in space. However, the space age discovery of magnetic fields and charged particles (plasma) permeating space has not changed thinking one iota. Electricity is rarely mentioned except to say that “it does nothing” in space. Yet recently the magnetic field tracing the circuit between the Sun and our auroras was discovered. All bodies in the solar system are electrically charged. Asteroid-like objects do not simply “collide and coalesce.” The smashing scenario suggested is entirely imaginary.<br />
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Collisions are generally avoided. Before mechanical contact can be made, electrical exchanges will occur. This is particularly so for large bodies. It is the missing element in explaining why planetary orbits are so circular. It is the missing element in all fanciful renditions of an asteroid or comet collision with the Earth. The Tunguska explosion in Siberia is an example where the incoming bolide was destroyed in the upper atmosphere by discharges from the ground.<br />
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<b>Myth No. 8. Planetary magnetic fields are generated by a hidden ‘dynamo’ in the core.</b><br />
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A rotating charged body will produce a dipolar magnetic field. Scientists discard this simple explanation because it is calculated for the Earth that the moving charge would have to constitute a current of a billion Amps, which implies a tremendously strong electric field at the Earth’s surface. But this simple electrostatic argument fails in a plasma environment. The electric field at the Earth’s surface reflects merely the difference in voltage between the Earth and its plasma sheath at the magnetospheric boundary with the solar wind. Like a bird sitting on a high-voltage transmission line, we are unaware of the electrification beneath our feet.<br />
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Comment: Since gravity is a property of matter, which in turn is an electrical phenomenon, Einstein’s hyper-dimensional geometry is not going to reveal the true nature of gravity whether general relativity gives the right answers or not.</blockquote>
Read his full post here: <a href="http://www.holoscience.com/wp/astronomical-myths-of-mercury-the-sun/">http://www.holoscience.com/wp/astronomical-myths-of-mercury-the-sun/</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-4984480172534388882013-07-19T16:09:00.000-04:002013-07-21T23:29:11.249-04:00Chinese Reciprocation of Foreign GenerosityIn the 1970's, Americans moved to China to provide helpful support like free courses on several topics. Many Americans funded the compassionate initiatives, including the Federal Government, in order to help the Chinese raise from their dire situation. For many decades, Americans were very generous towards the Chinese. Now, the Chinese are reciprocating such generosity in several ways:<br />
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<li>They are stealing American research through state-sponsored hacking. </li>
<li>They are stealing American properties through state-protected frauds. </li>
<li>They are stealing American technology through misleading laws. </li>
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The Chinese have strong envy tendencies. They envy the American standard of living. They are specially envious of White Americans. Such envy motivates spiteful actions against Americans. They will lie, steal and blackmail Americans. For them, the best deal is one where you give them something in exchange for nothing. Nowadays, they feel highly successful since they have been able to obtain industrial know-how, technologies and money at almost no cost for them. Furthermore, they are very happy to see America in trouble. They are rejoicing about America's economic and social problems, and the federal government incompetence at protecting its own citizens from the detriment promoted by the Chinese state. And the Chinese nation alongside its state will continue to pull the rug out from under the Americans, who are not being protected by their federal government. From their point of view, the Chinese state and its citizens are at war with America (and Europe). And they will continue to obtain a benefit at America's expense for as long as they can get away with it.<br />
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So why are the Chinese causing Americans harm after Americans helped them get back on their feet? Since those early beginnings in the late 1970's, the Chinese perceived such American generosity as weakness. And, like the dog who bites the hand that feeds him, they seized the opportunity to dominate over what they believed to be weak masters, instead of seeing them as generous collaborators.<br />
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The moral of the fable is: If you give a Chinese a hand, he will eat your arm.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-26389593199221280982013-07-12T14:21:00.004-04:002013-10-31T13:07:51.987-04:00Dark EnlightenmentAn ideological relationship map of alternative bloggers: <br />
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Source: <a href="http://habitableworlds.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/visualizing-neoreaction/">http://habitableworlds.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/visualizing-neoreaction/</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-86788928221113720332013-07-02T14:27:00.000-04:002013-07-02T14:32:05.964-04:00The Shaving Cream Racket<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Why don't people know this? It's just part of the lost knowledge of our time. Wean yourself from it for a week, and you will find that your shaves will be closer, unbloody, and quick. Imagine a full shave in less than a minute, with no cuts, gashes, or discomfort. It is within your grasp.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In fact, it is not our protector. Shaving cream is destroying your skin, turning it into a whining, pathetic, dependent, beaten, insipid layer of pasty pulp. Your skin has become the fatted calf that has been killed, the lamb slain on the altar, the virgin sacrificed in some ancient cannibalistic ritual of an uncivilized people.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The core problem is shaving cream itself, and the solution is a radical one: throw it out and never buy it again. It is destroying you and making your skin weak and sickly. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The first stage of freedom uses only a razor (double blade is fine) and a bit of baby oil or mineral oil. While in the shower or soon after you get out, put some oil on the skin area you want to shave. Then shave it. The end. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
After a week, you can even give up the oil and use only warm water. You will find that you will be able to shave ever more swiftly and with ever more abandon. A man can shave his whole face in 20 seconds without a single abrasion.
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Source: <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker65.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker65.html</a>
Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-41322006104114889842013-06-14T12:33:00.001-04:002013-06-14T13:17:54.859-04:00Chinese State Increases Protection To FraudstersThe Chinese are a nation of embezzlers. They have become wealthy not due to hard work, but due to theft of foreigners' assets by embezzlement. Once foreigners leave with their assets from that cunning country, and therefore, there is no more property to steal from foreigners, the Chinese will, once again, defalcate each other and send its nation back to poverty. In the meantime, the Chinese state will continue to protect the ill gotten wealth of its citizens by imprisoning investigators who use public records to reveal the extent of rottenness underneath the phony propaganda:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In retaliatory
crackdowns, one in May 2012 and one in January 2013, more than 1,000 local
investigators and their alleged sources each time were detained, according to
Chinese media. </blockquote>
Since intimidation has not been enough, the Chinese state decided to conceal the lies of Chinese "businessmen" by blocking access to what used to be public records:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In January 2013, forensic and investigation firms -- and local law firms -- found that they or their search agents could no longer freely access records filed with the Administration of Industry and Commerce (AIC) bureaus around the country. The AIC registers, incorporates, inspects and regulates all companies in China, and collects their annual returns. These records, until recently accessible in full, contain useful data and documents relating to the birth, evolution and status of a company, names and personal details of shareholders, annual financial data and annual audit reports.</blockquote>
And in February 2013, the Chinese state fully blocked access to such public records by relabelling them “personal information." Now, it will be even easier for the Chinese to steal cash funds, brands, fixed assets and whole companies from foreigners. And if that is not enough incentive for the Chinese to continue embezzling foreigners, the Chinese state has also guaranteed to continue its policy of dismissing lawsuits by foreign victims and imprisoning their investigators, so that stolen wealth has full protection.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.acfe.com/fraud-examiner.aspx?id=4294978054">http://www.acfe.com/fraud-examiner.aspx?id=4294978054</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-69243919582460555432013-06-13T14:18:00.003-04:002013-06-13T14:18:49.802-04:00After Losing Money In China, Danone Returns To Lose Even MoreIn 2005, Danone found out that Zong Qinghou, Wahaha's chairman, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/business/worldbusiness/13danone.html" target="_blank">running a parallel operation</a> outside their joint venture that was stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the partnership. In 2007, Danone realized that, in collusion with the Chinese state, Zong also stole the Wahaha brand from them. In 2009, Danone <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/business/global/01danone.html" target="_blank">left the partnership</a> after being extorted to sell its 51% stake in the $11 billion business for just half a billion.<br />
<br />
But Danone CEO Franck Riboud has decided that they have not lost enough and they should go back to China because they <a href="http://www.dairyreporter.com/Manufacturers/We-are-quite-nothing-in-Asian-dairy-Danone-CEO-admits" target="_blank">"are quite nothing in Asia."</a> So they are throwing away $417 million to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-19/danone-unit-to-take-8-3-stake-in-mengniu-to-expand-in-china.html" target="_blank">"invest" in Mengniu</a>. In addition, Danone will provide their yogurt know-how to the Chinese. In essence, Danone is paying Mengniu to take Danone's yogurt know-how. They might as well give their know-how away for free. <span class="st">Niu Gensheng can't be happier as the French has fallen, once again, into another Chinese scheme, which will only benefit Mengniu and bring ruin to Danone.</span>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-27580131678239229292013-06-10T21:03:00.001-04:002013-06-12T13:37:50.724-04:00A Nature Journal Gets Conned By The Chinese R&D Center Of GlaxoSmithKlineNature Medicine, which is one of the journals of the reputable Nature Publishing Group, published in 2010 an <a href="http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v16/n2/full/nm.2077.html" target="_blank">article </a>which contains data fabricated by the Chinese R&D Center Of GlaxoSmithKline and the Department of Neurology of Baylor College of Medicine. The pseudoscientists who collaborated in the fabrication of such article are Chinese, including the one who works for Baylor College of Medicine.<br />
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The Chinese have managed to create the illusion that they are more intelligent than Americans or Europeans. And such illusion is driving <a href="http://kreuzroads.blogspot.com/2011/07/baidu-to-steal-microsofts-search-engine.html" target="_blank">Western companies to establish R&D centers in China</a>. Eventually, those companies will realize that their Chinese employees are uncreative plagiarists who thrive on theft and deception. And when that realisation happens, they will close their research centers and leave that cunning country forever.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.pharmalive.com/glaxo-probes-allegedly-fraudulent-data-in-study-written-by-emplmoyees">http://www.pharmalive.com/glaxo-probes-allegedly-fraudulent-data-in-study-written-by-emplmoyees</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-34707484087124727932013-06-09T22:11:00.000-04:002013-06-10T01:48:21.169-04:00Fraud At The Hong Kong Mercantile ExchangeWhen prices fall, frauds arise. This time, after the price of precious metals have fallen significantly, the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/hong-kong-police-probe-mercantile-exchange-at-sfc-request.html" target="_blank">deception at the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange became evident</a>. The fraud consisted in overstating the Exchange's cash balance, which was being used by Chinese insiders to speculate in the price of gold and silver. When such bets didn't go their way, the amount by which the cash balance was being overstated became too wide to keep concealed any longer, as its cash funds were too low to keep the Exchange operating. And thus, the money was "vaporised," à la Corzine.<br />
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The insider fraudsters speculated on a daily basis with the Exchange's cash but closed their positions at the end of the day. That's the reason why the daily volume increased every month whilst the open interest decreased every month. In 2011, the average daily volume was 4,229 for the 1 kilo gold futures and its year-end open interest was 772. In 2012, the average daily volume was 5,042, but its year-end open interest was just 112.<br />
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As most Chinese frauds, this was a multi-year operation. The reason these frauds take so long to be uncovered is not because of fraudsters' ingenuity, but because of victims' gullibility, who keep funding the fraudsters' operation. Among those involved in this fraud is its chairman, Barry CHEUNG Chun-yuen, who will never be charged of any wrongdoing, as he is an associate of LEUNG Chun-ying, Hong Kong's head of government. Thanksfully, the funds of both hedgers and speculators were not stolen, but this was not because they didn't want to steal them, but because they couldn't: the Exchange didn't have a clearing house of its own since LCH.Clearnet was clearing trades for them.<br />
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Unsurprisingly, this is not the first time a Chinese futures exchange goes bankrupt due to fraud. In 1987, the Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE) closed its doors due to a margin fraud perpetrated by Robert NG Chee Siong, the chairman of Sino Group. As it happened, the perpetrator was rewarded with HKD 500 million, which were raised from taxpayers by the government of Hong Kong to rescue the Exchange. Simultaneously, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) was also rescued by the government, but it required a much larger amount: HKD 4 billion.<br />
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By the way, it is a matter of time before the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-05/lme-to-start-clearing-in-2014-after-25-years-with-lch-clearnet.html" target="_blank">London Metal Exchange suffers a premeditated "vaporisation" of its clearing house funds</a> at the hands of its new Chinese bosses: the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which also owns the HKFE and the SEHK. But the likelihood of fraud at futures exchanges managed by Chinese presents an opportunity for American and European futures exchanges to offer competing products such as futures on the MSCI China index and the like. Offer them, and they will come.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-55730698758880827302013-06-09T20:06:00.000-04:002013-06-09T20:08:02.263-04:00All That Glitters In China Is Probably FakeAn American entrepreneur moved to China to start a franchised service business. As it turns out, things didn't go out as he expected. This is his story:<br />
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Six years ago I moved to China and within five months of arriving I was screwed out of $280,000 in a a Mr. GoodWrench franchise scam. Since then I follow all the scams that are the best disguised frauds with the most clever chinese cheaters I have ever come across. These sleaze have everyone on the take - the bankers, the cops, shills, singers, etc. I'm ashamed to say this but I am a retired military MP and although I'm no rocket scientist, I graduated cum laude from BYU. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
But some serious advice, if you're thinking of doing business in China - look elsewhere. In this country, if you're not fast, you're lunch. The stress of always being on the defensive is enough to make Mike Tyson paranoid. Everyone of my foreign friends here got scammed - one way or another. Even if the cops find and arrest the slime, a $2,000 bribe gets them released and a $10,000 bribe gets the judge to dismiss the case! My hobby is scuba diving and I have swam amongst many sharks in the ocean. But it is the mainland Chinese sharks that scare the hell out of me - not those in the sea. </blockquote>
He suggests reading this <a href="http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/articles/blogs-beijing/expat-life/scam-alert-business-mole/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">weekly column</a>, which, by the way, is no longer being published. Nevertheless, you can find their previous articles <a href="http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/articles/?tag=scam%20alert" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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Source: <a href="http://scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=56588">http://scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=56588</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-62139572678871521572013-05-15T13:12:00.001-04:002013-10-31T13:08:08.714-04:00Canadian Expat On ChinaA Canadian expat shares his observations of the Chinese:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
It has been my consistent experience that foreigners are viewed locally
as resources to be exploited, by right of skin color, ethnicity and
location of birth. This incident, one of many, has in no way altered my
opinion.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Perhaps of most interest; we were discussing the myriad ways by which
the Chinese take financial advantage of Westerners (through dishonest
and illegal contracts and outright lying and cheating), when she came up
with the comment that she felt Chinese were more intelligent than
Westerners, by virtue of their ability to ‘outsmart’ them in business
dealings. Needless to say, I merely nodded and smiled. </blockquote>
Source: <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2013/05/14/not-so-the-women/">http://www.the-spearhead.com/2013/05/14/not-so-the-women/</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-89037645067624133422013-05-04T14:29:00.000-04:002013-06-09T20:12:58.853-04:00Chinese State Attempts to Hack Muddy Waters' Google AccountMuddy Waters gets notified by Google about attempts by the Chinese state to hack their account on June of last year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.</td></tr>
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<a href="http://t.co/n2uaBNfo" title="http://twitter.com/muddywatersre/status/210448001196503040/photo/1">twitter.com/muddywatersre/…</a><br />
— MuddyWatersResearch (@muddywatersre) <a href="https://twitter.com/muddywatersre/status/210448001196503040">June 6, 2012</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-68024257280446196532013-05-03T12:39:00.000-04:002013-05-03T12:53:04.610-04:00Block Gives Up on China Shorts, Says State Protects Fraud<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters LLC, said he’s lost interest in betting against Chinese stocks and speculates the government is protecting fraudulent companies. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“China has gotten harder in the sense that the government has really taken the side of the fraud,” Block said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers” program today. “The government is working with a number of these companies to try to conceal records that are public. When you are up against that sort of strength of the ability to revise history, it becomes difficult. That is one of the reasons we’re not that interested in China anymore.” </blockquote>
Source: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/muddy-waters-gives-up-on-china-shorts-as-state-aids-fraud.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/muddy-waters-gives-up-on-china-shorts-as-state-aids-fraud.html</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-72300794578946696962013-05-03T12:20:00.001-04:002013-05-20T01:00:09.936-04:00Indian Entrepreneur on ChinaAn Indian software entrepreneur recognized the crooked nature of the Chinese nation about 10 years ago. <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
When I read the news on how Alibaba and Ja Ma are cheating Yahoo and just robbing its partners (Y! and Softbank), I am LEAST surprised. Its the nature of everything Chinese to CHEAT. I have had a 5 year hands on experience working and living (intermittently) in China. Mobile2win was a Company that we set up in 2001 that was LUCKILY acquired (by Disney) in 2006. Produced are excerpts of my writings on my experiences in China with links to the articles for further reading. If you want to do business in China - do so on your own RISK. It will be like writing your own death certificate.</blockquote>
And this is part of his commentary: <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In 2002 in Seoul, I met the CEO of Actoz Software - the global pioneer of massive online multiplayer games. In 2001, he had (unfortunately) licensed his game to a Chinese online games Company that very quickly cheated Actoz by duplicating their game and also not paying Actoz the committed royalty payments. This Chinese Company grew very fast and became a giant and also listed on the Nasdaq. Its valuation today is U.S $2.5+Billion [Shanda Games]. Believe it or not, it also bought Actoz out at throwaway valuations since they had anyway bankrupted the tiny Company. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class="font-size-3">This philosophy perfectly reflects China.
Having stayed there for months in between 5 years, built and sold a
company, it's all about taking advantage of people, being very short
termist, trying to make a quick buck and then quickly retracting if
needed. As the ex Indian co-founder of my Chinese Company brilliantly
put it once to me ' Alok! In China, the folks can't understand WIN - WIN
- it means that you have something you shouldn't have... for them it's
always WIN-LOSE - and they want to win and make you lose'.</span> </blockquote>
Source: <a href="http://therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/china-the-den-of-thieves">http://therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/china-the-den-of-thieves</a><b><span id="more-811"></span></b>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-1778070558874517882013-01-31T14:11:00.000-05:002014-05-08T14:23:40.281-04:00Global List Of Chinese Stock FraudsThe Chinese stock frauds are not exclusive to the United States. They have been happening in Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Germany. Stock frauds committed by the Chinese are not recent either. They have been ongoing since the 1990's. In this post, you will find non-exhaustive lists of Chinese stock frauds committed worldwide as well as a table comparing such frauds. It will help you visualize the global extent of the <a href="http://kreuzroads.blogspot.com/2011/11/china-stock-frauds_9707.html" target="_blank">Chinese stock frauds</a>. At the end of the post, there is a small list of stock frauds perpetrated against foreigners by Chinese over a decade ago.<br />
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By the way, there is a lingering misconception that all Chinese fraudsters managed to have access to American capital markets thanks to reverse takeovers. This is not the case for all of them. <a href="http://kreuzroads.blogspot.com/2011/07/not-only-chinese-reverse-mergers-are-at.html" target="_blank">Some of them</a> did initial public offerings of shares in offshore companies. If you want to learn more about how the fraudulent Chinese companies were legally structured, you can go <a href="http://kreuzroads.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-legal-structure-of-chinese-stock.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Hopefully, this <a href="http://kreuzroads.blogspot.com/2011/07/chinas-massive-ponzi-scheme.html" target="_blank">massive swindle</a> will soon come to <a href="http://kreuzroads.blogspot.com/2011/07/cuentos-chinos.html" target="_blank">an end</a>. <br />
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<b>Global Comparison of Common Characteristics of China Stock Frauds</b><br />
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<tr> <td><b>Investment Market:</b></td> <td>United States</td> <td>Singapore</td> <td>Hong Kong</td> <td>United Kingdom</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Affected Investable Set:</b></td> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Concepts_Stock" title="China Concepts Stock">China Concepts Stock</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Affected Investable Subset:</b></td> <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_share" title="N share">N share</a></td> <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_chip" title="S chip">S chip</a></td> <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_chip" title="P chip">P chip</a></td> <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_share" title="L share">L share</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Country of Operations:</b></td> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: center;">China</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Place of Incorporation:</b></td> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: center;">Cayman Islands, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Delaware, Nevada, Florida, Jersey</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Citizenship of Managers:</b></td> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: center;">Chinese</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Citizenship of Promoters:</b></td> <td>American</td> <td>Singaporean, Malaysian</td> <td>Hong Kongers</td> <td>British</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Auditors for Chinese subsidiaries:</b></td> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: center;">Local Chinese audit firms</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><b>Auditors for listed company:</b></td> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_%28audit_firms%29" title="Big Four (audit firms)">Big Four</a> and Top 10 (45%), Top 100 and Unrated (55%)</td> </tr>
<tr> <td rowspan="3"><b>Bankers for Chinese subsidiaries:</b></td> <td colspan="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Bank_of_China" title="Agricultural Bank of China">Agricultural Bank of China</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Communications" title="Bank of Communications">Bank of Communications</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen_International_Bank" title="Xiamen International Bank">Xiamen International Bank</a>,</td> </tr>
<tr> <td colspan="4"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong_Development_Bank" title="Guangdong Development Bank">Guangdong Development Bank</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=China_Zheshang_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" title="China Zheshang Bank (page does not exist)">China Zheshang Bank</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daqing_City_Commercial_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Daqing City Commercial Bank (page does not exist)">Daqing City Commercial Bank</a>,</td> </tr>
<tr> <td colspan="4">and other banks owned by local governments.</td> </tr>
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<br />
<br />
<b>List of Chinese Stock Frauds in Singapore</b><br />
<i>This list includes name of company, stock symbol, and place of incorporation.</i><b> </b><br />
Beauty China Holdings Limited (SGX:B15) (Cayman Islands) <br />
Celestial NutriFoods Limited (SGX:C56) (Bermuda) <br />
China Aviation Oil (SGX: C47) (Singapore)<br />
China EnerSave (SGX: 531) (Singapore)<br />
China Fibretech Ltd. (SGX: F6D) (Bermuda)<br />
China Hongxing Sports Limited (SGX: BR9) (Bermuda)<br />
China Milk Products Group Limited (SGX:G86) (Cayman Islands) <br />
China Printing & Dyeing Holding Limited (SGX: M67) (Singapore)<br />
China Sports International Limited (SGX: FQ8) (Bermuda)<br />
China Sun Bio-Chem (SGX: C86) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China XLX (SGX: B9R) (Singapore)<br />
China Zaino International Ltd. (SGX: FP1) (Bermuda)<br />
Falmac Limited (SGX:559) (Singapore)<br />
FerroChina Ltd. (SGX: F33) (Bermuda)<br />
Fibrechem Technologies Limited (SGX: F12) (Bermuda)<br />
Hongwei Technologies Limited (SGX:H80) (Bermuda) <br />
KXD Digital Entertainment Limited (SGX:K07) (Singapore)<br />
New Lakeside Holdings Limited (SGX:5EG) (Singapore)<br />
Oriental Century (SGX: 5II) (Singapore)<br />
Sino Techfibre (SGX: AD8) (Bermuda)<br />
Sino-Environment Technology Group Ltd. (SGX: Y62) (Singapore)<br />
Zhongguo Jilong Limited (SGX: Z03) (Singapore)<br />
Zhonghui Holdings Ltd. (SGX: Z04) (Singapore)<br />
<br />
<b>List of Chinese Stock Frauds in Hong Kong</b><br />
<i>This list includes name of company, stock symbol, and place of incorporation.</i><b> </b><br />
A - S China Plumbing Products Ltd. (SEHK: 8262) (Cayman Islands)<br />
ABC Communications (Holdings) Ltd. (SEHK: 30) (Bermuda)<br />
Asia Aluminum (SEHK: 930) (Bermuda)<br />
Automated Systems Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 771) (Bermuda)<br />
Bep International (SEHK: 2326) (Bermuda)<br />
CIL Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 479) (Bermuda)<br />
China Information Technology Development Ltd. (SEHK: 8178) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China Jin Hui Mining Corporation Ltd. (SEHK: 462) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China Medical and Bio Science Ltd. (SEHK: 8120) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China Nickel Resources Holdings Co. Ltd. (SEHK: 2889) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China Packaging Group Co. Ltd. (SEHK: 572) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China Post E-Commerce (Holdings) Ltd. (SEHK: 8041) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China Star Film Group Ltd. (SEHK: 8172) (Bermuda)<br />
China Trends Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 8171) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Climax International Co. Ltd. (SEHK: 439) (Bermuda)<br />
EganaGoldpfeil (Holdings) Ltd. (SEHK: 48) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Extrawell Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 858) (Bermuda)<br />
First Natural Foods (SEHK: 1076) (Bermuda) <br />
Fu Ji Food and Catering (SEHK: 1175) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Grand Field Group Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 115) (Bermuda)<br />
Hong Kong Resources Holdings Co. Ltd. (SEHK: 2882) (Bermuda)<br />
Info Communication Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 8082) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Jackin International Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 630) (Bermuda)<br />
Kith Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 1201) (Bermuda)<br />
M Dream Inworld Ltd. (SEHK: 8100) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Mitsumaru East Kit (Holdings) Ltd. (SEHK: 2358) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Nam Fong International Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 1176) (Bermuda)<br />
Nam Hing Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 986) (Bermuda)<br />
New City (China) Development Ltd. (SEHK: 456) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Ngai Lik Industrial Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 332) (Bermuda)<br />
Ocean Grand Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 1220) (Bermuda)<br />
Pan Asia Mining Ltd. (SEHK: 8173) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Pan Sino International Holding Ltd. (SEHK: 502) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Peace Mark (SEHK: 304) (Bermuda)<br />
Peaktop International Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 925) (Bermuda)<br />
Prosten Technology Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 8026) (Cayman Islands)<br />
QPL International Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 243) (Bermuda)<br />
Rojam Entertainment Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 8075) (Cayman Islands)<br />
SMI Publishing Group Ltd. (SEHK: 8010) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Smart Union (SEHK: 2700) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Tack Fat (SEHK: 928) (Cayman Islands)<br />
U-right International (SEHK: 627) (Bermuda)<br />
Wai Chun Group Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 1013) (Bermuda)<br />
Warderly International Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 607) (Cayman Islands)<br />
<br />
<b>List of Chinese Stock Frauds in the United States and Canada</b><br />
<i>This list includes name of company, stock symbol, and place of incorporation.</i><br />
A-Power Energy (APWR) (British Virgin Islands)<br />
Advanced Battery Technology (ABAT) (Delaware)<br />
Agfeed Industries (FEED) (Nevada)<br />
American Oriental Bioengineering (AOBI) (Colorado)<br />
AutoChina International (AUTCF) (Cayman Islands)<br />
China Agritech (CAGC) (Delaware)<br />
China Century Dragon Media (CCDM) (Delaware)<br />
China Direct Industries (CDII) (Florida)<br />
China Education Alliance (CEAI) (North Carolina)<br />
China Electric Motors (CELM) (Delaware)<br />
China Energy Savings Technology (CESV) (Nevada)<br />
China Infrastructure Investment (CIIC) (Nevada)<br />
China Integrated Energy (CBEH) (Delaware)<br />
China Intelligent Lighting (CILE) (Delaware)<br />
China MediaExpress (CCME) (Delaware)<br />
China Natural Gas (CHNG) (Delaware)<br />
China North East Petroleum (CNEP) (Nevada)<br />
China Nutrifruit (CNGL) (Nevada)<br />
China Ritar Power (CRTP) (Utah)<br />
China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical (CKUN) (Delaware)<br />
China Sky One Medical (CSKI) (Nevada)<br />
China Valves Technology (CVVT) (Nevada)<br />
China Water & Drinks (HEK) (Nevada)<br />
China-Biotics (CHBT) (Delaware)<br />
ChinaCast Education (CAST) (Delaware)<br />
Deer Consumer Products (DEER) (Nevada)<br />
Duoyuan Global Water (DGWIY) (British Virgin Islands)<br />
Duoyuan Printing (DYNP) (Wyoming)<br />
Fuqi International (FUQI) (Delaware)<br />
HQ Sustainable Maritime (HQSM) (Delaware)<br />
Jiangbo Pharmaceuticals (JGBO) (Florida)<br />
Keyuan Petrochemicals (KEYP) (Nevada)<br />
L&L Energy, Inc. (LLEN) (Delaware)<br />
Longtop Financial (LGFTY) (Cayman Islands)<br />
NIVS IntelliMedia Technology (NIVS) (Delaware)<br />
Orient Paper (ONP) (Nevada)<br />
Orsus Xelent Technologies (ORSX) (Delaware)<br />
Puda Coal (PUDA) (Delaware)<br />
Qiao Xing Mobile Communication (QXMCF) (British Virgin Islands)<br />
Qiao Xing Universal Resources (XINGF) (British Virgin Islands)<br />
RINO International (RINO) (Nevada)<br />
Shiner International (BEST) (Nevada)<br />
Sino Clean Energy (SCEI) (Nevada)<br />
Sino-Forest Corp. (<span class="st">TSX: </span>TRE) (Ontario) <br />
SinoTech Energy (CTESY) (Cayman Islands)<br />
Subaye (SBAY) (California)<br />
Universal Travel Group (UTRA) (Nevada)<br />
Wonder Auto Technology (WATG) (Nevada)<br />
Wuhan General Group (WUHN) (Nevada)<br />
Yuhe International (YUII) (Nevada)<br />
ZST Digital Networks (ZSTN) (Delaware)<br />
<br />
<b>List of Chinese Stock Frauds in the 1990's</b><br />
Akai Holdings & Grande Holdings<br />
Euro-Asia Agricultural Holdings & Yang Bin<br />
Shanghai Land Holdings & Zhou Zhengyi<b></b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b></b><br />
<b>Blogs with Updates on Chinese Stock Frauds:</b><br />
<a href="http://celestialnutrifoods.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Celestial NutriFoods Limited</a><br />
<a href="http://tibetpharma.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tibet Pharmaceutical Inc<br /></a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-62588743230687939082013-01-31T11:16:00.000-05:002013-01-31T11:23:59.449-05:00China Central Television Coverage Of Longwei Petroleum Fraud<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/58388563?autoplay=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPSbWvLEdfgiYvFjqV7lYDdhYi1Bj9_UjbXYVRNjQLRKrlMLaMW5ob0sQmFxrI21pL61m3wfn7e3aNIKbrzNceVn3mndoReyTVN5hphIFX44lXSR_wfog2OoYckePAjvg0MmJPi7sC6NY/s200/cctv-lph-screen-shot1.png" title="China Central Television Coverage of Longwei Petroleum Fraud" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
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On Monday, January 28, 2013, China Central Television Channel One (CCTV-1), the largest national Chinese government-run news network, aired a special investigative report titled “Investigation of the Truth Behind Longwei Petrochemical” verifying Geoinvesting's <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/1092561-longwei-petroleum-the-most-brazen-china-based-u-s-listed-rto-to-date" target="_blank">findings</a> on the Longwei Petroleum (LPH) fraud.<br />
<br />
Source: <a href="http://vimeo.com/58388563?autoplay=1" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/58388563</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-75834068037888238232013-01-31T02:12:00.002-05:002013-01-31T10:12:39.490-05:00Hackers In China Attacked The New York Times For Last 4 Months<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The timing of the attacks coincided with the reporting for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen-jiabao-holds-a-hidden-fortune-in-china.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">a Times investigation</a>, published online on October 25, that found that the
relatives of Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister, had accumulated a
fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Last year, Bloomberg News was targeted by Chinese hackers, and some
employees' computers were infected, according to a person with knowledge
of the company's internal investigation, after Bloomberg published <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-29/xi-jinping-millionaire-relations-reveal-fortunes-of-elite.html" target="_blank">an article</a> on June 29 about the wealth accumulated by relatives of Xi
Jinping, China's vice president at the time. Mr. Xi became general
secretary of the Communist Party in November and is expected to become
president in March.</blockquote>
Source: <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/100421708">http://www.cnbc.com/id/100421708</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-79014368046552570612013-01-31T02:10:00.003-05:002013-01-31T02:26:48.148-05:00Hackers Linked To China’s Army Seen From EU To D.C.<blockquote class="tr_bq">
During almost two months of monitoring last year, the
researchers say they were struck by the sheer scale of the
hackers’ work as data bled from one victim after the next: from
oilfield services leader Halliburton Co. to Washington law firm
Wiley Rein LLP; from a Canadian magistrate involved in a
sensitive China extradition case to Kolkata-based tobacco and
technology conglomerate ITC Ltd.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“What the general public hears about -- stolen credit card
numbers, somebody hacked LinkedIn -- that’s the tip of the
iceberg, the unclassified stuff,” said Shawn Henry, former
executive assistant director of the FBI in charge of the
agency’s cyber division until leaving earlier this year. “I’ve
been circling the iceberg in a submarine. This is the biggest
vacuuming up of U.S. proprietary data that we’ve ever seen. It’s
a machine.”</blockquote>
Source: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-26/china-hackers-hit-eu-point-man-and-d-c-with-byzantine-candor.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-26/china-hackers-hit-eu-point-man-and-d-c-with-byzantine-candor.html</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-15726053414055939092013-01-31T00:24:00.000-05:002013-01-31T02:34:46.853-05:00Americans Lose Billions In Chinese Investment Frauds<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/57243175?autoplay=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglq0Bhf2-MaMv9mibtUrUy6aBeS5aPrbD5qTDs4aaLbU1xGSIPEBEsH7B9xgvsFArhCw04E6AxDuUnfFdHPx6BnCJJqfBbbxfBcAr_MTZf_GHfRCgTQ0oyifhamNr_J-voWMzzwFeBR9E/s200/vimeo.com-57243175.png" title="Americans Lose Billions in Chinese Investment Frauds" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
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Beginning in 2008, the NYSE & NASDAQ began to aggressively recruit Chinese firms to list on their exchanges. According to ABC, the exchanges did a poor job in verifying the financial health of the Chinese firms. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro agreed they were "not as rigorous as they could have been." The SEC is focused on the liability of the "gatekeepers," the American auditing firms and middle men who helped bring these companies to market. Ultimately the biggest losers were pension funds and individual investors. Dan David of GeoInvesting believes the scandal could ultimately cost investors hundreds of billions of dollars. NASDAQ declined to speak to ABC as did General Wesley Clark, former chairman of Rodman and Renshaw, the American investment bank that raised the most money for fraudulent Chinese companies, such as China Integrated Energy. Jon Carnes conducted 4 months of video surveillance of China Integrated Energy and concluded that the company was essentially producing nothing. The factory only came to life during an investor tour hosted by Rodman and Renshaw. Mary Schapiro agrees that the the common theme seen by regulators is the brazenness of the fraud.<br />
<br />
Source: <a href="http://vimeo.com/57243175?autoplay=1" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/57243175</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-77575951659411115092013-01-30T19:30:00.000-05:002013-01-31T02:02:44.088-05:00No Global Warming For Almost Two Decades<a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/" target="_blank">The Science and Public Policy Institute</a> has been asked to comment on the
apparent inconsistency between the news that July 2012 was the warmest
July since 1895 in the contiguous United States and the news that the
Meteorological Office in the UK has cut its global warming forecast for
the coming years. The <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/two_decades_no_warming.pdf" target="_blank">present paper</a> is a response to that interesting
question.<br />
<br />
Source: <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/no_global_warming_for_almost_two_decades.html">http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/no_global_warming_for_almost_two_decades.html</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423149619055244372.post-29722746404378307942013-01-30T19:12:00.001-05:002013-01-31T12:14:17.170-05:00Caterpillar Was Embezzled In China<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph"><span class="articleLocatio</span>n">Caterpillar
Inc uncovered "deliberate, multi-year, coordinated accounting
misconduct" at a subsidiary of a Chinese company it acquired last
summer, leading it to write off most of the value of the deal and wiping
out more than half its expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012.</span></span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span id="articleText">Caterpillar closed the purchase of ERA Mining
Machinery Ltd and its subsidiary Siwei, China's fourth-largest maker of
hydraulic roof supports, last June, paying HK$5.06 billion, or $653.4
million. ERA had been publicly traded in Hong Kong, doing business
through Siwei, which is known for making equipment to support roofs in
mines.</span></blockquote>
Source: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/19/us-caterpillar-siwei-idUSBRE90H1C520130119">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/19/us-caterpillar-siwei-idUSBRE90H1C520130119</a>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10484309798926059713noreply@blogger.com0