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Corruption the Real Issue » Recent Topics http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ Another Motivated Community en-US Sun, 20 May 2012 17:36:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/search.php Kendrick on "Facebook IPO - "The mother of all bubbles"" http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=16#post-48 Sat, 19 May 2012 08:31:32 +0000 Kendrick 48@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ Am I the only person on this planet that can see what a fiasco and giant bubble the Facebook IPO was? The hype by the Banks and the freaking irresponsible media will hurt millions of small people who think they have to be in it or they might miss out on a big win.... Dohhh! Some people should wake-up....., the Bankers' fees for the flotation totalled about $100m. Any individual who is a buyer of Facebook shares was / is being conned – sad if this is you or ultimately someone closer to your pension pot? According to the Guardian, the owners of Facebook prior to the IPO were allegedly advised that by involving many Banks it would in effect be similar to buying off dissenting voices which would be a necessary element in creating the impression that the IPO is unanimously popular and incredibly oversubscribed, and therefore "hot". If a share is really 'hot', the Banks would offer it to their big institutional players in exchange for favours. By pre-allocating 'hot shares' at the strike price, it would essentially be like giving someone money – that way, the owners of Facebook and their advising Bank's knew the stock price would shoot up once trading started, thus would be able to sell those pre-allocated shares and make a tidy profit. All the pre-IPO hype was a telling sign that the Banks were engineering Facebook into a classic example of a hot share. They knew that Retail investors (i.e. individuals) would be clamouring for stock. Unfortunately, if you were one of those 'suckers' you would be shafted in favour of the Bank's institutional playmates. Many people who saw right through the hype predicted the stock will probably 'pop' like a damp squibb on the first day of trading, and it did....... So, those SUCKERS who were fooled and sucked in by the US Media and Bank HYPE are now locked into a parcel of shares that were launched at the maximum price it would ever see and many of those institutions have already booked an instant profit by selling them into the market. Buyer BEWARE, Retail investors have been steered into a corral like sheep and will probably be left holding the baby when the price tanks. And..... if you are in any doubt as to whether it will TANK, consider the following.... 1. This was touted as the biggest ever IPO, which was part of the hype machine. 2. The price was fixed at a level that was probably the ceiling price that Facebook would probably have been able to have achieved if it was a successful producer of goods. 3. The advertising model on Facebook is flawed, the Facebook click-through rate experienced from advertisers is one of the lowest in the industry - most have decided to invest their advertising dollars elsewhere. 4. The IPO Underwriters had to come in at the end of he day to prop gthe price up to prevent the end of day price from dropping BELOW the launch price!!!!!! 5. There was already an historical example of this BUBBLE, just look at the MySPACE example ..... The Murdoch Corporation bought MySPACE for $580 million ..... which afterwards was sold by them for a mere $35 million..... Dohhhh... if ever there was writing on the wall that was it. 6. How on earth could anyone believe Facebook is worth a $100 million let alone $100 BILLION, Facebook produces nothing and is just another fad that people will become bored with as soon as the next Social Media tool that is whizzier arrives. 7. There was a huge hint in Zuckerberg's name..... 'Sucker Mountain' or more aptly, they probably knew there was "a mountain of Suckers" waiting in the wings to be fleeced. Frankly, I do not need to go on..... there is enough here to justify financial suicide for anyone who was stupid enough to invest in this SCAM..... and you better pray that the company looking after your pension were not equally as daft! Mavrick on "The Second DIP is here!" http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=3#post-4 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:18:48 +0000 Mavrick 4@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ Financial Crisis: The 2nd DIP is here - Brace Yourself! In August 2011 the economy took another dive south because reality finally began to set in and those dopie investors who believe everything these damned governments sprout, finally woke up. America is going BUST, their system of printing money at the Federal Reserve (FED) is flawed and a diabolical plan to continue deceiving the American people. Those in the Senate and Congress believe us average Americans are too THICK to work it out that they are paying a TAX by way of inflation caused by the perpetual money printing of the FED. Well wakey wakey you no-good-doers, the world is onto you. The Chinese Government has nailed it for President Obama and his Democrat cronies. China have told America to get real and act responsibly about addressing the US debt problem. Finally, someone who is prepared to say it as it is..... well done China! Hello American Public, we need to stop believing everything we see and read in the LameSTREAM press who suck up to President Obama and those on the liberal left. Which of these statements do you NOT understand? =============================================== 1. If you do not have money, then do not spend what you do not have! 2. Cut your cloth according to what you have! 3. You cannot create wealth from fresh-air, so where are the assets that underwite the trillions being printed by the FED? 4. To get out of a recession, you need to CUT-COSTS in Government, incentivise people and businesses to invest in industry and create jobs in the PRIVATE sector. 5. To get people spending money again, the Governments will need to CUT-TAXES, and to do that they need to CUT-COSTS and red-tape for small businesses........ Doh! ==================================== Those items above are all COMMON-SENSE statements, which the rest of the world can see, relate to and comprehend, so why is it that President Obama and those morons in power NOT see this? The answer = POWER! That is right, they want to remain in power, they want to keep the public under their control and introduce COMMUNISM by stealth. Frankly, after 3 years of President Obama, if they suddenly agree those 5 points are indeed correct, they will look like the buffoons the rest of the world already think they are. Americans, you are NOT stupid..... get a grip of reality and stop letting your emotions and political beliefs sway you from asking for the RIGHT thing to be done.... For the average American this is about survival and living day to day..... so you liberal potheads STOP blaming the Tea Party or the Conservatives or your Parents or the system, stand up and start being honest with yourself..... MAKE our Government act responsibly otherwise America will become a third world nation within 25 years.... Mavrick on "The Riots in the UK shows how damaged we really are." http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=8#post-22 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:38:56 +0000 Mavrick 22@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ In August 2011 England had a wake up call, when a section of society decided they were above the law and decided to run amok all over urban areas rioting, looting and killing. There has only been ONE voice in the press who has really called it what it really is.... PETER HITCHENS: Police water cannon and plastic bullets? After 50 years of the most lavish welfare state on earth? What an abject failure !!!!! <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025695/UK-riots-Police-water-cannon-plastic-bullets-After-50-years-lavish-welfare-state-earth-What-abject-failure-says-Peter-Hitchens.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025695/UK-riots-Police-water-cannon-plastic-bullets-After-50-years-lavish-welfare-state-earth-What-abject-failure-says-Peter-Hitchens.html</a> "....naughty children should be smacked at home and caned in school, that the police (and responsible adults) should be free to wallop louts and vandals caught in the act, that the police should return to preventive foot patrols, that prisons should be austere places of hard work, plain food and discipline without TV sets or semi-licit drugs, and that wrongdoers should be sent to them when they first take to crime, not when they are already habitual crooks,...." "....divorce should be made very difficult and that the state should be energetically in favour of stable, married families with fathers (and cease forthwith to subsidise families without fathers)....." Peter Hitchens deserves a medal and knighthood for his candid and frank news paper column, where he has nailed the issues which have screwed up the United Kingdom over the last 50 years. Prime Minister Cameron has stated he is in favour of supporting marraige but has done NOTHING about supporting married couples..... All sorts of people on the liberal left have crawled out of the woodwork to desperately steer this away from hoodlums or gangs being the culprits and it was down to the austere cuts being administered by the present government..... why? Because they do NOT want to admit their LIBERAL policies are the primary ingredient of why this travesty has happened. Those policies have spawned a large percentage of at least two generations of people who are rude, ignorant of what society really needs to be harmonious, disrespectful, have no concept of civility or etiquette and who are selfish greedy criminals at heart. These people have no moral compass and suffer from the lack of an upbringing with the necessary discipline or moral values. The rest of the press are too scared to be as honest as Peter Hitchens has been in facing the reality of how sick this country really is now as a result of poor policies. Mavrick on "Politician's POOR track record for delivery on election promises." http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=2#post-3 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:04:25 +0000 Mavrick 3@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ Are you aware of a single political party that has ever kept their word and delivered on their Election promises? Sadly, they get away with it because people have short memories and most of the freakin Media are acting like a bunch of MORONS who have even less integrity than the Politicians. No wonder the world is going to hell in a hand basket..... We need to make sure that will NO LONGER be the case. With your help, this blog will record all their unfulfilled promises and LIES. This blog MUST be a constant reminder to them of those promises. So Politicians be WARNED, you are under the microscope and you will soon find that your feet will be held to the fire if you EVER deceive the public again. Spread the word, there is a new integrity policeman in town....... the PUBLIC. Benny on "Stop Abusing Planet Earth" http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=4#post-6 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:46:54 +0000 Benny 6@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ Do you love this planet? Are you concerned that the earth is being raped of it's resources, abused and destroyed by greedy corporations, governments and ignorant human beings? Then this blog is just for you to vent your spleen, to say your piece and get your message that we should all care out there. Benny on "Feed in Tariff (FITs) - domestic Solar or Wind Energy." http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=5#post-7 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:56:00 +0000 Benny 7@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ The Feed-in-Tariffs for your Green Energy generated from domestic Solar or Wind Turbine was a scheme dreamt up by the Labour Government as a way for them to meet the European Union green energy targets. When the FIT scheme was launched, people were warned that this would turn out to be a scam if the Government decided to withdraw the money that was earmarked or promised for the FITS initiative. Alas, many people thought they were smart, and just could not wait to get the Solar Panels or domestic Wind Turbine fitted to their property so that they could wag their miserable fingers at their neighbours who were not GREEN and as caring of the planet as them. Their neighbours had the last laugh. These smart aleks paid out approximately £15,000 for the first kiloWatt and approximately half that again for every subsequent kiloWatt rating of their green energy generating device. The maths worked out that if the units they had fitted ran at approximately 40% efficiency they would get a return on their investment after the first 20 years........ Yeah, if you were sucked in by that malarky then you deserve to suffer the loss you would have made accrued on that deal. In addition to that painful truth, the company that sold you the equipment made off with a grand profit at your expense and laughed all the way to the Bank. They had no risk, all they had to do was tap into your biggest weakness, your EGO..... Not feeling so smart now are you? To make things worse, the Coalition Government is looking to demise the FITs scheme as it was, because they realised from the very beginning it was unsustainable. Obviously you must have also considered the commercial facts; 1. How could you have possibly thought that the Government could pay three times over the top for electricity..... surely you realised it could not possibly make economical sense? 2. No matter what your configuration of the roof was, wasn't it rather bizarre that the price always started at circa £15k? Welcome to the real world. Mavrick on "Government IT projects are an embarrassment to UK Plc" http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=6#post-9 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:37:21 +0000 Mavrick 9@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ For years we have been hearing about Government project after project failing, after they have spent millions / billions on these initiatives. Customs & Excise, Inlend Revenue, NHS.... the list goes on and on. Guess what, it is always those big American companies who seem to win these projects, EDS, Oracle for example. How can companies of such grandeur allow these projects to fail so miserably? Easy, they are in it for the money, they are guaranteed fortnightly payments for years to do these projects which they see as money machines. The smaller comanies never seem to get a look in once these giant companies have wrapped their greedy mitts around the contracts. The mandarins who officiate and extend these contracts are all part of unions, they are guaranteed jobs for life as long as they can keep the money flowing. Where is the accountability? Why is it that almost all of the general public can see the corruption going on here, yet when the Government instigates reviews after pressure, they see nothing wrong... Something smells.... Time for WHISTLEBLOWERS to come forward and supply evidence so that the Fraud Office can investigate and put some people in jail as a deterrent.... Lets put the GREAT back into Great Britain and be proud of our wonderful green land. Mavrick on "Honesty, Integrity, Fairness, Security and Accountability - KEY Ingredients" http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/topic.php?id=7#post-21 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:05:45 +0000 Mavrick 21@http://www.blog4specialists.com/general2/ Since the advent of the Internet, TV and belatedly the Social Media (Twitter, Facebook etc), never before has the world been so under threat from corruption and debased moral values; 1. Corrupted Moral Values 2. Corrupted Government 3. Corrupted Officials 4. Corrupted Media 5. Corrupted Political System 6. Corrupted Educated System 7. Corrupted Family Values, which results in breakdown of family unity 8. Corrupted Legal System The list goes on and on...... in 40 years the world has undergone a transformation, the advent of the electronic age has taken it's toll on mankind's moral fabric. The media has spread pictures and films showing crime, corrupted moral values and new ways of being bad. The media ran advertisments for years telling people it as cool to smoke, remember the Marlborough man? The mere creation of an emotional response linked to being cool and an action, was sufficient to grow the number of smokers for decades. Guess what, nowadays the masses are exposed to emotional experiences where crime and distasteful horrific acts such as rape, murder and assault are an every day event on film, where the perpetrators are actors being cool. It obviously has an impact on makind and anyone who denies this is a dumbshit and pig ignorant moron. The riots and senseless criminality that happened this last week (6th - 9th August 2011)in London is a result of these years of programming the masses with these messages that have weakend our very moral baseline mankind has relied on for centuries to keep the beast in all of us at bay. If we had a proper Consititution under which our governments could make our laws, that the Police could act upon, we would have been in a very strong position to stem the outbreak of the violence England witnessed. Take a read. <a href="http://blog4specialists.co.uk/constitution/Positics_Constitution.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://blog4specialists.co.uk/constitution/Positics_Constitution.pdf</a>