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Saturday, February 18, 2012

George Soros

 He is one of the America's leading philanthropist, specializing in speculating world currencie markets. "The man who broke the Bank of England" is his nickname after he placed a high-stakes bet against the British Pound and got roughly around US$ 1 billion through Quantum Fund.
Soros, a Jewish-Hungarian born, and naturalized US citizen, had also made countries in the Southeast Asia like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia plunged into a financial crisis in 1998 which made the Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad got angry and called him as 'moron', but Soros didn't made any comment nor reaction. He belief in the 'open society' and criticized the free market capitalism

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Rose Kennedy



Matriach of America's foremost political family, died in 104 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The oldest daughter of Boston Mayor John F Fitgerald, at 24 married Joseph P. Kennedy, with whom she had 9 children in 18 years. She raiised her children with a combination of discipline, instruction, and Irish charm.
They brought her an astounding mix of maternal pride and grief as well. The oldest daughter was retarded and institutionalized in 1941. Joe Jr was killed in WW II. In 1948 Kathleen  died in a plane crash in France. In 1963 President J F  Kennedy was assassinated. Again in 1968 Bob Kennedy slain, then her husband died in the following year. 'God does not send us a cross heavier then we can bear' she once said.


Sunday, March 6, 2011

Club 27

 
They never reach 30, they're too young to die, mostly rich and famous who died at a very young age, included here Club 27. Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse.
 In 1994 when Kurt Cobain,  27, shot himself , his body pumped full of heroin and Valium. Twenty-five years earlier, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones had all died aged 27, the first three apparently from drug overdoses and Jones from an “accidental drowning” that to this day is shrouded in mystery and rumours of murder.

 Not to mention they're who died mysteriously, but mostly because of overdose drugs
John Keats (25); Wilfred Owen (25); Otis Redding (26); Paul Kossoff (26); Gram Parsons (26); Nick Drake (26); Tim Buckley (28) Heath Ledger (28); Hank Williams (29); Anne Brontë (29); Christopher Marlowe (29); Percy Bysshe Shelley (29)
The message is clear, stay away from drugs, have a healthy and clean life !

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Amelia Earhart " The Final Flight "


In June 1937, Amelia embarked upon the first around-the-world flight at the equator. On July 2, after completing nearly two-thirds of her historic flight -- over 22,000 miles -- Amelia vanished along with her navigator Frederick Noonan. They took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for tiny Howland Island in the vast Pacific Ocean. The distance from Lae to Howland was about equal to a transcontinental flight across the U.S. A great naval, air and land search failed to locate Amelia, Noonan, or the aircraft, and it was assumed they were lost at sea. To this day, their fate is the subject of unending speculation.
Some theorized the pair ran out of fuel looking for Howland Island, and had to ditch in the Pacific. Others thought they may have crash landed on another small island. Some speculated they were captured by the Japanese, accused of espionage, then held as bargaining chips in the event war erupted between the U.S. and Japan.
In 1939, George authored Amelia's biography, entitled Soaring Wings , as a tribute to his beloved wife.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Kilt



No wonder, for decades, people, mostly ladies have been debating, arguing, chatting, talking and guessing about"What actually is the Scottish guys wear under their kilt"?                                                                       People could discuss and argue and finally make an  educated guesses, but the truth was just already unveiled when a spring breeze on April 1997, during the daily ceremony of the lowering of the flag  at Hong Kong War Memorial.
The Scottish Black Watch Regiment which arrived in Hong Kong in February 1997 is  the last British unit to serve there until the July 1 transfer to the sovereignty of China. Seem, that there is no firm rules regarding under kilt apparel, nor wear nothing. So, it just a matter of practical and preference as well. It's human, isn't it ?

Thursday, November 26, 2009

The Black Gold




Oil and Rockefeller is just like fish and water, where there is an oil, Rockefeller will always there. John D Rockefeller started his oil business in 1800 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He began to build his Oil Kingdom by renting his transportation fleet 'The Union Tanker Car' to ship crude oil from oil wells which just discovered in Ohio to the refinery factory in New York.
During 1900 - 1910, The Standard Oil controlled almost all oil fields in California. In the beginning of the twentieth century, his company was the only oil company which controlled oil supply in the world.
In 1911, his giant company was splitted into 35 smaller companies, because the US Government declared The Anti Trust Act. To protect his wealth, he invested his money in banking, he also established 12 banks which finally all of them sold to  the US Government, and then became The Federal Reserve (The Feds).
Although he did not take control fully in oil companies anywhere, he still strong enough to control the American politics during the twentieth centuries.
According to Marshall Douglass Smith in 'Black Gold, Hot Gold' (2001), both the WW1 and WW2 were actually happened because of the conspiracy of The Standard Oil, Shell, and British Petroleum, to share the world oil wells in their control. Who knows? Even the Iraqi war recently was just the result of a conspiracy upon the need of oil.
Think about it !

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Madoff's "Ponzi Scheme"


It just unthinkable and unbelievable as well, a list of the rich and famous people in Hollywood, like Steven Spielberg and other well known actors and actress, Larry King of CNN, and several financial institutions like UBS of Switzerland could be deceived in a Ponzi Scheme like in Madoff's mouse trap, which actually had been happening from time to time since long time ago.

The fact is that Madoff never put all the investors' money in either NASDAQ of NYSE, instead he just deposit them in The Chase Manhattan Bank. The high rate of interest paid by Madoff's firm "Bernard Investment Securities LLC" is just a trick to attract more investors, where actually it just impossible illusion to have an average profit 0.4% over the LIBOR. In 2009 Madoff, a Jewish descendant, born in Queens, NY, in 1938, sent to jail for life. The message is clear, do not be greedy buddy!!! and watch out your step !!!


A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned. The Ponzi scheme usually offers returns that other investments cannot guarantee in order to entice new investors, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors in order to keep the scheme going.

The system is destined to collapse because the earnings, if any, are less than the payments. Usually, the scheme is interrupted by legal authorities before it collapses because a Ponzi scheme is suspected or because the promoter is selling unregistered securities. As more investors become involved, the likelihood of the scheme coming to the attention of authorities increases. While the system eventually will collapse under its own weight, the recent example of Bernie Madoff powerfully illustrates the ability of a Ponzi scheme to delude both individual and institutional investors as well as securities authorities for log periods: Madoff's variant of the Ponzi Scheme stands as the largest financial investor fraud in history committed by a single person. Prosecutors estimate losses at Madoff's hand totalling $64.8 billion.

The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi,[1] who became notorious for using the technique in early 1920. He had emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1903. Ponzi did not invent the scheme (Charles Dickens' 1857 novel Little Dorrit described such a scheme decades before Ponzi was born, for example), but his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States. His original scheme was in theory based on arbitraging international reply coupons for postage stamps, but soon diverted investors' money to support payments to earlier investors and Ponzi's personal wealth.( Wikipedia)