http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/28/the-morning-news-a-shooting-at-a-bar-a-fire-at-a-nightclub-and-violence-in-egypt Comments On: The Morning News: A Shooting at a Bar, a Fire at a Nightclub, and Violence in Egypt by Megan Seling en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I've never seen as many problems with standardization of Chinese names in news outlets.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:42:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:58:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by marxiano]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:58:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by GermanSausage]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:12:26 -0800 The Stranger
There are ways of standardizing it though. News outlets don't have these kinds of problems with Asian names.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:52:19 -0800 The Stranger Impenetrable: The Ownership of AT&T

For many, many years in America, companies had investors, shareholders and owners.

Once upon a time, in days of yore, there actually existed American citizens who had an inkling, an idea, of who owned what.

A few realized, back in the day, that the du Pont family owned General Motors, a few others knew that the Rockefeller family owned the Chase Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) and Citigroup; some others were aware that the Walker-Bush family held the controlling interest in White, Weld and Company (which later became Merrill Lynch, now owned by Bank of America).

Today, some abjectly ignorant Americans will robotically repeat the Wall Street mantra that "we all own the companies" through the pension funds and 401(k)s, etc.!

"We," kemosabe?

Amazing! There have always been investors, but today the owners have mysteriously, almost miraculously, disappeared?

Some years back, a political action group I was then with was interested in the ownership of an offshore biotechnology trust --- it required an enormous expenditure of time and resources, but we finally ascertained the ownership to be one single entity: the Rothschild family of Europe.

Why hide the ownership of everything? Why, indeed!

Officially, on paper that is, AT&T was broken up, or split apart --- on paper, that is.

Today, due to the efforts of a former AT&T executive then at (Baby Bell) SBC Communications, who reconstituted AT&T to its former structure in the early part of the last decade; AT&T is once again, officially, whole.

So, then SBC Communications owns AT&T?

So who owns SBC Communications?

At that time, a hedge fund (with a 3-person office) called AR Asset Management, was the majority owners; easily the majority owner!

So, who owns that hedge fund? That's the beauty (in the eyes of the plutocrats) of hedge funds --- they are opaque and not regulated --- no one really knows!

The Investment Company Act amendments established that each hedge fund can have an unlimited number of investors --- but that sounds highly contradictory?

Ostensibly, only the wealthiest can invest in hedge funds, so are there an unlimited number of the super-rich, or could there be alternative reasons?

Typically, the investors in hedge funds would appear as follows: holding company #1, holding company #2, holding company #3, trust #1, trust #2, foundation #1, holding company #4, . . . , etc., etc., etc.

So, holding companies and trusts, traditionally created to obscure, to obfuscate, to hide ownership, are the major investors in hedge funds, opaque entities in and of themselves, which hides their ownership?

Boxes within boxes within boxes.

Numerous laws have been passed which criminalize any serious effort by the individual to uncover ownership of those entities. Now who do you suppose financed the passage of those laws?

Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation (financed by oil people known as Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Peterson Foundation [Peter G. Peterson/David Rockefeller]), wrote a book on ExxonMobil (once known as Standard Oil, until it was officially broken up, on paper, that is). Coll writes an entire book on the oil behemoth, yet neglects to mention its ownership?

Perhaps nobody owns it?

New America Foundation also houses Peter G. Peterson's austerity project --- that's austerity for you and me, and more wealth for them!

The quickest route to uncover ownership is to either arrest, or kidnap, those individuals who meet at the yearly international financial/banker forum known as the Bilderberg Forum. The last time I checked, the directors of "American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc." were David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Jessica Mathews, et al.

Let the waterboarding begin . . . .

Special Advisory:

Always please beware of pseudo-environmentalists who act as apologists for Wall Street: the Post Carbon Institute, James Howard Kunstler, Jeremy Rifkin, etc.

Kunstler is a super-fanboy of the Federal Reserve, loves to spout revisionistic nonsense about it and claims any critics to be "John Birchers."

The real environmentalists will neither excuse, nor side with, Wall Streeters, nor will they support fraud schemes to send more free money to the banks and oil companies: cap-and-trade, carbon permits, etc. (carbon tax is not in this category --- which is why they push the others).


Posted by sgt_doom]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:41:48 -0800 The Stranger
the San Jose Sharks are also undefeated.
Posted by BornAgainInBellevue]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:19:59 -0800 The Stranger
What is fazing me is Vancouver. I wonder how they're gonna fare?
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