Idiologies

To create a successful investment process you’re bound to have competing ideologies at times depending on where we are in the investment cycle.

Buy and hold strategy only works if you’re able to both buy and hold when markets crash. And while it can be difficult to follow your plan during a market crash you have to have a completely different mindset during a bull market.

To practice buy and hold you have to be a practicing contrarian when stocks are going down and a practicing trend-follower when stocks are going up. You have to be willing to use two competing schools of thought at different times. That’s not always so easy to pull off.

In many ways this is similar to the two most well-known quantitative investing strategies value and momentum. Each of these strategies seeks to take advantage of over- and under-reactions made in the market, but in very different ways. With a value strategy, stocks that have performed poorly for one reason or another become cheap as investors over-react by selling first and asking questions later. With a momentum strategy, stocks that have done well recently tend to continue doing well for short periods of time because investors initially under-react. Value and momentum each rely on mean reversion, but in different ways and over different time frames.

Both Value and Momentum have historically been shown to work well as stand-alone strategies. But these two contrasting ideas actually work very well when you pair them together because they can make up for each other’s deficiencies during certain market environments. Therefore, diversifying these two return streams helps increase risk-adjusted returns.

But the implementation of a value/momentum combination will never work if the investor isn’t willing to accept that there are two schools of thought that can complement one another.  Really this idea of dealing with competing ideologies will be true of any successful long-term investment strategy.

At certain times you will have to be willing to take an uncomfortable stance. Sometimes that means going against the crowd. Other times it’s going to mean going along with the crowd.

I think an actual contrarian strategy can be one in which an investor is willing to combine different approaches and consistently follow them throughout various points in the market cycle to manage risk and improve long-term performance.   [Ben Carlson]

Sad Gathering

One Pilot...

 







A lawsuit filed relates to a New York-to-Las Vegas JetBlue flight on March 27, 2012, in which the pilot, Clayton Osbon, told his co-pilot that “we need to take a leap of faith” and that “we’re not going to Vegas,” among other bizarre actions, according to federal investigators.

The co-pilot locked Mr. Osbon out of the cockpit and diverted the flight to Texas, where federal authorities charged Mr. Osbon with interfering with the flight crew.
A federal judge in Texas found Mr. Osbon, 52 y.o., not guilty by reason of insanity.

The suit claims breach of contract and negligence by JetBlue for allowing him to fly on the day of the incident despite evidence that he was suffering from mental-health issues. He is seeking more than $14 million from JetBlue.

Mr. Osbon said in the filing that he suffered from a “complex partial brain seizure” and that his actions before the flight—including missing the preflight meeting and struggling to complete the preflight checklist—should have made clear he was mentally unfit to fly.

Mr. Osbon was one of JetBlue’s first pilots, hired shortly after the airline formed in 2000. Shortly after the incident, then-JetBlue CEO Dave Barger said that he knew him “personally for a long period of time and there’s been no indication of this at all in the past.”

Good Luck with that.!!!!!!   Just a thought.

Anna Cross- Ebola

A British army reservist who contracted Ebola while working as a volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone has fully recovered after becoming the first patient in the world to receive an experimental new treatment.

Anna Cross, 25, was discharged from the Royal Free Hospital in London where she was taken earlier after being evacuated from west Africa on a military plane. "

"Anna is the first patient in the world to have received a new special treatment for Ebola, MIL 77,"  "The treatment went very well, it caused no side effects that we could elicit."

The new treatment was produced in China and was similar to ZMapp, a cocktail of three antibodies that cling to the virus and inhibit its reproduction.

Cross, who works as a nurse in the state-run National Health Service, was exposed to the virus while treating patients but said she did not know exactly when this might have happened.

 

Just a thought.

Spies everywhere.

When blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States he was given a fellowship at New York University, use of a Greenwich Village apartment, and a pile of gifts from supporters, including smartphones and an iPad, at least two were bugged.

Chen accused NYU of bowing to pressure from China by ending the fellowship. The allegations are vigorously denied by NYU.

Bob Fu runs the Christian group ChinaAid, which supports underground churches and victims of forced abortions,  and his wife presented the I-Pad gifts. 

"These people supposedly were out to help him and they give him a kind of Trojan horse that would have enabled them to monitor his communications secretly,".

The spyware issue was not publicized at the time and has only surfaced because of the recent scrutiny of NYU's arrangement with Chen. 

So, it's unclear if the software was added by ChinaAid, spies infiltrated NYU's tech department, or the entire incident was made up. The bugged Apple equipment certainly isn't as exciting, but what it lacks in innovation it makes up in intrigue.

I think it is a habit.  Just a thought.

Officials' ...

Senior DEA agents working overseas allegedly participated in “sex parties” with prostitutes funded by drug cartels, according to DOJ Inspector General report.

The conduct occurred over a period of years. In addition to soliciting prostitutes, the foreign officers interviewed for the report allege three DEA supervisory special agents were “provided money, expensive gifts, and weapons from drug cartel members."

Some DEA agents denied knowing about cartel involvement, but the IG report says “information in the case files suggested they should have known the prostitutes in attendance were paid with cartel funds.”

The sex parties occurred in government leased living quarters where “agents’ laptops, BlackBerry and other government- equipment were present,” posing a security risk and “potentially exposing them to extortion, blackmail, or coercion.”

In another instance, two DEA special agents allegedly solicited prostitutes for a farewell party for a senior DEA official.

An official allegedly had “sexual relations with prostitutes” and there were “ operational funds may have used as Payment”.   One prostitute [allegedly] was assaulted following a payment dispute. 

One case of alleged sexual harassment involved an FBI “Supervisory Management and Program Analyst’s repeated unprofessional behavior, including cornering his subordinates in their cubicles and displaying the size of his genitals by tightening his pants,”.  The analyst was eventually suspended, demoted and reassigned to another office.

Prostitution in these countries are legal business and the violations here is relating to the provider of the services and the funds used. Just a thought.

Sow and reap

Adam Smith, 37, was the CFO of a medical device manufacturer in Arizona. Then in 2012 he started protesting against Chick-Fil-A for the fast-food chain’s anti-gay stance.

He went through the drive-thru at his local Chick-Fil-A, where he ordered a free water, the fast food chain offers customers, and videotaped himself telling the drive-thru attendant how much he despised Chick-Fil-A.

“Chick-Fil-A is a hateful corporation,” Smith said, in part, to the drive-thru attendant. “I don’t know how you live with yourself and work here. I don’t understand it. This is a horrible corporation with horrible values. You deserve better.”

Smith then posted the video on his personal YouTube channel, but when he got back to work, he received a major shock. “I got into work and the receptionist said ‘Adam, what did you do?’ ... she said, ‘The voicemail is completely full, and it’s full of bomb threats."

Smith was fired that same day. He  was earning $200,000 annually and had over $1 million in stock options. “It was taken when I lost my employment,” he said.

After losing his job, Smith, his wife and their four children also lost their home. They were forced to sell and give away their possessions and move into an RV.

A few months later, Smith found a new CFO job in Portland, Oregon. It was the fresh start he needed. “I felt like, ‘Yeah, I got it. I am back,".

About two weeks later, Smith was fired from that job after his new boss discovered he was the guy from the Chick-Fil-A video. 

 ........   Just a thought.

Fake Abduction.

Huskins, 29, was reported missing on Monday by a 30-year-old and Boy friend Aaron Quinn who called to report the alleged kidnapping and claimed he witnessed it. Police previously said she was abducted from the home where she was staying in Vallejo, California.

"The Vallejo Police Department would like to ensure the public that there is no indication that this was a random act of violence,".

The San Francisco Chronicle  reported the contents of an email it received from an "anonymous person claiming to be holding Huskins."

Denise Huskins was found in Huntington Beach, California, Wednesday morning, Her father told ABC News that his daughter called him from Huntington Beach to say she was safe. Huskins had promised to speak with investigators but  they were unable to contact her or her family. She retained an attorney.

 "There is no evidence to support the claims that this was a stranger abduction or an abduction at all,"  Vallejo Police Department. "Given the facts that have been presented thus far, this event appears to be an orchestrated event and not a kidnapping

Just a confusing thought.

Blah blah blah... Cruz

Texas Senator Ted Cruz's wife Heidi is taking a leave to help her husband's campaign for the president. The Cruzes are leaving the $20,000 per year coverage she enjoyed at Goldman.

"We will presumably go on the exchange and sign up for health care " Cruz. 

 

Heidi Cruz's coverage became the subject of a small media tempest in 2013, after Cruz and House conservatives insisted on de-funding the ACA through the appropriations process. After the resultant government shutdown ended, Heidi Cruz confirmed that she was covered, and her husband benefited from Goldman's generous plan. 

 

Cruz is deftly using the oddly-enough angle of this news—Obama care-hating senator forced into Obama-care for a populist cause. He's not the first Republican to do so. 

 

One day after announcing himself as presidential candidate, Texas Senator Ted Cruz fired a few shots across the bow of Wall Street, and the firm that employs his wife as managing director. 

 

He promise to repeal Obama care by 2017. After my wife goes back to work.

After five years of the Affordable Care Act, more than 16 million uninsured Americans have gained the security of health insurance.

 

Just a thought. 

Lorena Bobbitt again

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Investigators determined that the appendage of a 32-year-old man had "completely disappeared" following December attacks in the central province of Henan, government-owned media outlet HNR said.

Fan's wife took the radical step of chopping off his .... after she found out he was in a relationship with a 21-year-old woman.

Fan "rushed to a hospital" after the incident, and doctors re-attached his penis.

But his wife crept into a ward as he slept to claim the organ again.
The two subsequently clashed outside the facility, with a naked and bleeding Fan repeatedly beating his wife, until police arrived.

The double attacks appeared to have strengthened the romance between Fan and his mistress, with the two deciding to marry.
She was quoted as saying: "It doesn't matter if he turns out to be infertile, he has five children anyway."

The story may be, as reported, is fake. Just a thought.

What for?

Suicide bombers attacked a pair of mosques Friday in the Yemeni capital, unleashing monstrous blasts that ripped through worshippers and killed 137 people targeting Shiite rebels.

Shiite rebels known as Houthis have taken over the capital, Sanaa, and nine of the country's 21 provinces over the past six months, raising fears of a civil war tinged with sectarianism. The government has fled to the southern port city of Aden.

 

Yemen is already home to the most powerful branch of the al-Qaida network, which has been battling the Houthis for months.  Al-Qaida militants seized control of a southern provincial capital, al-Houta, in the group's most dramatic grab of territory in years. 

 

Both mosques are controlled by the Shiite Houthis, but they are also frequented by Sunni worshippers. Two suicide bombers activated during midday prayers, when large crowds turn out to attend weekly sermons. 

 

It also reported that a fifth suicide bomb attack on another mosque was foiled in the northern city of Saada a Houthi stronghold.

 

Can someone explain what is happening?

Just a thought.

Dance the Alternative?

Noted conservative commentator and talked-about Republican presidential contender Ben Carson cut to the chase about the fate of Obamacare.  There is absolutely no reason politicians can’t unravel, reinvent or outright repeal the health care plan and those who say otherwise are selling a lie.

“Health care is a gigantic issue, and there’s no question that the system was broken and that we needed to do something about it”. “What we did not need to do is create another massive government program, and we need to be looking at different ways of taking care of it.

There are things that can be done. We keep listening to people saying ‘the horse is out of the barn, you can’t get it back in there, end of story,’ [and] that’s a bunch of crap.

Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, also decried how Obamacare shifted the role of power in the nation and took health care out of the hands of the people and put it into the control of government.

All what I'm getting from the Republicans is "we can do it differently". When and who is going to have a healthcare system similar to what we currently have with more people covered?  So what is it? Give us the plan......

Just a thought.

Defending a terrorist...

He married his rehab nurse.

A long-time friend of the Boston Marathon bomber testified in court  that he gave Tsarnaev the gun later used in the shooting death of an MIT police officer.

Silva was the subject of an undercover federal investigation and pleaded guilty to charges including distribution of heroin, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

 

Silva testified he gave Tsarnaev a 9-millimeter handgun to use "for a rip" a robbery.

He "talked religion not in depth, not all the time" and described the suspect as not-violent and well liked. He emphasized that the pair enjoyed "typical teenage things," . In one dramatic moment, Silva was reminded that Tsarnaev once told him, "You don’t want to meet my brother."

 

Defense lawyers  elicit testimony that Tsarnaev was under the influence of his older brother and that he was not himself a committed terrorist.

 

Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to the 30 counts against him, including charges of using a "weapon of mass destruction resulting in death," but his defense attorney has said that he participated in the bombing.

 

What a real uphill battle defending this guy.. He got caught, and got medically treated.

If you didn't liked it here you could have gone back. 

Just a thought.

Minimum Wage fight.

The contentious issue that is the minimum wage fight was never going to be a slam dunk. Now as the nation's biggest minimum wage hike ramps up in Seattle beginning next month, a top franchise lobby has been fighting back with a lawsuit that seeks to grant small businesses more time to comply with the law.

Seattle's City Council voted to raise the minimum wage in increments—to $15 an hour by 2017 for larger businesses with at least 500 staffers. But the International Franchise Association argues Seattle's ordinance discriminates against its members by lumping smaller franchisees with big businesses.

The national franchise group and five franchisees in the city filed the suit against the city last year. Oral arguments took place last week on a preliminary injunction motion potentially buying franchisees more time to implement the increase.

Under the ordinance, franchises are treated as large businesses because they receive the benefits of being associated with the larger franchisor network of many more than 500 employees," spokesman Viet Shelton said in an email to CNBC.

As a result, franchises have distinct advantages over the typical independent small business training, product development, and marketing support to name just a few.

We are big business when the money comes, small to pay. Franchises will pay.

Just a thought.

Hate no one.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting outside the headquarters of the Ferguson police department that injured two officers.  He was charged........

The two officers were injured during heated protests outside the police department after the resignation of the city’s police chief who stepped down in the wake of a Justice Department report that documented widespread racial bias in the city.  Biases that have gained national attention since the shooting of a black teen Michael Brown.

A handgun recovered matched shell casings found from the scene of the shooting.

It appears Williams [suspect] was the only person who fired any shots but there may be other people who were "participants." The investigation is ongoing.

Attorney General Eric Holder released a written statement on the arrest, saying it "sends a clear message that acts of violence against our law enforcement personnel will never be tolerated."

A statement on behalf of the Fraternal Order of Police in St. Louis said, "We are relieved for our brother officers, their families and the people of Ferguson that this dangerous gunman is off the street and behind bars where he belongs.

The man who shot at the police didn't help any one by his criminal act. Not his race, nor other races, not the elderly, nor the very young, not the business nor the town. It is just pure ignoranance and psychotic hate.

 Just a thought.

Driven part 3- Pao-Pao

During the emotional peak of Ellen Pao's cross-examination, Kleiner's attorney Lynne Hermle held an enormous board game on her shoulder, clutched at a Buddha and a book all gifts Pao and one of her partners had exchanged, offered as evidence.

Suddenly the gender discrimination lawsuit filed by Pao against her former employer, seemed almost funny.

Hermle chipped away at each of these, showing small but sometimes crucial moments when Pao could have voiced concerns to fix the issues she was having but didn't, instead only collecting evidence.
 

Three weeks into this trial, and, at times, it's getting absurd. The day was a rough slog through now familiar episodes in Pao's testimony  that the advances of a colleague, Ajit Nazre, had been unwelcome; that she'd received a book of erotic poetry and sketches from Randy Komisar; that she'd been left out of meetings and parties. Hermle chipped away at each these, showing small but sometimes crucial moments when Pao could have voiced concerns to fix the issues she was having but didn't, instead only collecting evidence.

     

In Hermle's recast of the events, Pao had ample opportunities and support from the firm to address workplace drama. Only after she was rejected from a number of job opportunities in 2011, and heard about a fellow colleague's experience being harassed by Nazre, did a plan emerge for asking the firm to pay her a severance. Hermle sought to show that Pao's notion of "having her story be told" and creating opportunities for other women only came in retrospect. The truth will come out no matter what

Just a thought.

Walkaway...!

 

An Indian bride has walked out of her wedding ceremony after her groom-to-be failed to solve a simple math problem. The bride tested the groom on his math skills and when he got the sum wrong, she walked out.  The question she asked: How much is 15 plus six. His reply: 17.

The groom's family tried persuading the bride to return, but she refused. She said the groom had misled them about his education. Local police mediated between the families and both sides returned all the gifts that had been exchanged before the wedding.

Most marriages in India are arranged by the families of the bride and groom. Except for brief meetings, the couple rarely get to know each other before the nuptials.

India is not the only country that has arranged marriages.   Look around you. They are closer than you think.

Just a thought.

Intactivists- Integrity

A judge issued an arrest order for a Florida woman who fled with her son to prevent his circumcision and ignored a demand to appear in court.

Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen signed the order in a seven-minute hearing, three days after finding Heather Hironimus in contempt and warning that she would face imprisonment unless she reported to court with the child.

Her attorney, Thomas Hunker, said his client is staying with her 4-year-old son in a shelter for domestic violence victims because the boy was "scared to death" of undergoing the surgery.

Hironimus and the boy's father, Dennis Nebus, were never married but share custody of their child. In a parenting agreement filed in court, the two agreed to the boy's circumcision, but the mother later changed her mind, leading to a long court battle.

Circuit and appellate judges have sided with the father, but potential surgeons have backed out after refusing to get the mother's consent or becoming the target of anti-circumcision protesters who side with her.

"She did this for one reason and one reason only: because the child is scared to death of this procedure," Hunker told Gillen, launching into a defense that was cut off by the judge.

Circumcision rates have fallen in the U.S.  Meantime, a movement opposing circumcision has developed, and the case has become a rallying cry for so-called "intactivists" who deride the surgery as barbaric. A small group of those anti-circumcision advocates gathered outside the court to demonstrate in support of Hironimus, and expressed outrage over the judge's order.

The mother doesn't want the procedure for her son, but she should have appeared in court. The father doesn't want to get married. That is a wash.

Just a thought.

MichelAngelo of....

 
Women have utilized push-up/padded bras, corsets, and various other means for many years in order to boost looks and self-confidence at a special event.  Now, many women simply want their glutes to appear full and plumped particularly in a bikini.. 

A Philadelphia jury is weighing murder charges in the death of a dancer who got silicone injections at a hotel to enhance her buttocks.

Defendant Padge-Victoria Windslowe says she performed thousands of the procedures despite a lack of formal medical training. The 45-year-old describes herself as a former madam and hip-hop performer.

Authorities say she fled after a botched injection killed the 20-year-old London dancer in 2011. Two other women testified that they became seriously ill after the low-grade silicone spread to their lungs.

Windslowe says women paid thousands of dollars for her work and called her "the Michelangelo of buttocks injections."

The jury got the third-degree murder case  and deliberating. There have been several similar deaths around the country.

Be careful what you ask for? you may get it.  Just a thought.

The Doc. ...

 

A New York hospital anesthesiologist charged with choking an acquaintance and forcing her to swallow a pill that could cause an abortion has pleaded guilty to harassment.

He initially had been charged with strangulation, assault and abortion in the second degree, or committing an "abortional act."

The prosecutors in Ulster County reduced the charges against 44-year-old Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer of Red Hook in return for his guilty plea.

He was arrested after sheriff's deputies said he had choked the woman and forced her  to swallow a pill that could cause an abortion after she told him a home pregnancy test had come out positive.

Dr. Pfeiffer was sentenced to complete a 33-week group counseling program for men who have committed domestic violence.

Can't play a Doctor/Nurse any more, even if you are one. Use protection........

Just a thought.

BigAmy...

 

The estranged wife and children of Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson have turned to government food stamps to support themselves. Lawyers representing Grayson asserting that he provides them about $120,000 of assistance.

Grayson was named the 17th richest member of Congress this month by CQ Roll Call.
His marriage of 29 years dissolved earlier this year when his wife, Lolita Grayson, filed for divorce. A week later, Rep. Grayson asked a court to annul the marriage.

Mr. Grayson is refusing to pay spousal support because he is claiming that she was never divorced from her first husband and therefore their marriage was never legitimate. Grayson says his wife, Lolita, was still married when they got married in 1990 in Virginia.

 

But Lolita Grayson says she was divorced in 1981 in Guam.
 

The trial includes accusations by Lolita Grayson that her estranged husband pushed her and that he has failed to maintain their Orlando house and support their children. There was also a delay caused by Lolita Grayson's leaky breast implant, and she has had a revolving door of attorneys.

Bigamy is illegal in this USA, but alimony and support is not. Annulled but Pay.

Just a thought.

Block it...*!

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Two Australian brothers aged 16 and 17 were stopped at Sydney Airport on suspicion of headed to join the Iraq conflict. 

"These two are kids, not killers, and they shouldn't be allowed to go to a foreign land to fight, then come back more radicalized," Dutton told reporters. The boys' parents were "as shocked as any of us would be" 

Australians who fight for foreign militant groups face prosecution at home. It became a criminal offense punishable by 10 years in prison for an Australian to enter the Islamic State-held territory without a legitimate reason. " My message to anyone who is listening to the death cult is block your ears. Don't even begin to think you can leave" Australia.

The government said at least 90 Australians were fighting with and supporting terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria and have had their passports canceled. More than 20 Australians have been killed, that is 23% and the rest is facing the same difficulties. Its a serious choice.

Just a thought.

Danish Gangster

The gunman in the weekend terror attacks in Copenhagen [shootings at the Krudttoenden Café] grew up amid a violent gang culture that ultimately rejected him for his uncontrollable behavior.

The Danish-born 22-year-old, reportedly of Arab origins, was killed in a shootout with police.  He was "well-known for several criminal incidents, including weapons violations, violence, and connection to gangs.

It was an environment with a lot of gang wars where you couldn't move around freely," Soei said. "The gang wars in Copenhagen started back in 2008 when (El-Hussein) was 15 years old and that's the environment he's been a part of. In his neighborhood, every kid knows someone who's been killed by other gangs.

Deprived of his gang identity and serving time in prison for a violent offense,  unprovoked stabbing on a commuter train in 2013, he appears to have radicalized.

Two weeks after leaving prison, he carried out the shootings at the Krudttoenden Cafe, which was hosting a free-speech forum, and the synagogue. His former gang has since disowned his actions.

This is a rejection of the society and its values that hosted himself and his family for years. Intern the society should let him Go back to his original country and avoid the drama.  Just a thought.

Oregon Cult.. Nothing is New.

In India, he worked as a small-town philosophy professor until he found enlightenment paid better. He built a thriving enterprise attracting Westerners to his lectures and group therapies. They sought meaning in their lives, escaping the remains of the Vietnam War and a crashing world economy. He mixed in plenty of sexual freedom, ensuring publicity to build his brand.

Government authorities in India cracked down on his group's unseemly and illegal behavior, including smuggling and tax fraud. The guru ran, ending up half a globe away at the Big Muddy Ranch.

The first contingent of Rajneeshees quietly moved to Oregon in summer 1981, but they couldn't escape notice for long.  Resettling in Oregon was the work of his chief of staff, Ma Anand Sheela [Sheela Patel] then 31 years old.   She wasn't after enlightenment. She was quick-witted and hungry for power, the perfect instrument for the guru's ambition.

Sheela intended to do as she wished on their remote 64,000 acres.
The money was paid, the guru packed and hundreds were expecting to be housed and fed. Sheela and the guru were undeterred. In India, trickery and bribery got results. Why would Oregon be any different?

Thousands dressed in red, worked without pay and idolized a wispy-haired man who sat silent before them. They bought one Rolls-Royce after another for the guru --93 in all. Along the way, they made plenty of enemies, often deliberately. 

Hand-picked teams of Rajneeshees had executed the largest biological terrorism attack in U.S. history, poisoning at least 700 people. They ran the largest illegal wiretapping operation ever uncovered. And their immigration fraud to harbor foreigners remains unrivaled in scope. The revelations brought criminal charges, defections, global manhunts and prison time.

They had marked Oregon's chief federal prosecutor for murder,  also stalked the state attorney general, lining him up for death. They contaminated salad bars at numerous restaurants. They spread dangerous bacteria at a grocery store, a public building and at political rally.

To strike at government authority, Rajneeshee leaders considered flying a bomb-laden plane into the county courthouse in The Dalles 16 years before al-Qaida used planes as weapons. And power struggles within Rajneeshee leadership spawned plans to murder even some of their own. The guru's caretaker was to be killed in her bed, spared only by a simple mistake.

The Rajneeshees turned the yawner of comprehensive plans into a page-turning thriller of brazen crimes.

Three months after the aborted Comini plot, the commune collapsed and the Rajneeshees' darkest secrets tumbled out.

It starts with Immigration fraud/Name change....   It always does.  Just a thought.

Wise Up...!

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After an eight-month probe started when police received an anonymous tip, search warrants were served in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino Counties. Authorities sought evidence of suspected visa and tax fraud. A court affidavit today claimed the website You Win USA Vacation Resort was used to specifically attract pregnant Chinese women.  The women paid $15,000 to $50,000 for housing, food and transportation to medical services as well as visas allowing them to stay in the US legally. The healthcare cost wasn't mentioned, and assumed not paid.

"People who come from China to the United States for the sole purpose of having their children born as American citizens," said Claude Arnold of ICE and Homeland Security in Los Angeles. "These people are told to lie, how to lie, so that their motives for coming to the US wouldn't be questioned."

Authorities also said, according to The Associated Press, that the women were instructed to hide their pregnancies under loose clothing and told to lie about the reasons behind their traveling.

Linda Trust, a resident of one complex involved in the raid, said she'd seen groups of pregnant Chinese women and people bringing food to them.

"I saw a man that had like a big dolly thing piled to [the] ceiling with diapers," Trust told ABC station KABC-TV in Los Angeles.

The alleged ringleaders are accused of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars and could face criminal tax fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges.

Federal agents with the Departments of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement estimated that since 2013, 400 babies born at one hospital had been linked to the alleged scam.

Immigration, Immigration and Immigration. Money, Money, and Money.

Just a thought.

Obama Care again?

The Court case hinges on the section of the law dealing with the tax subsidies that help people pay for health insurance. It says people who are enrolled in a health care “Exchange established by the state” are eligible. 
The case came about when some Virginians who receive subsidies to buy health insurance on healthcare.gov sued the government, saying they shouldn’t be getting the subsidies. 

The subsidies are a critical underpinning of the law [the affordable care act].   It could trigger a death spiral in the exchanges as people who could no longer afford health insurance drop it, especially the young and healthy, leaving a smaller, sicker risk pool and thus skyrocketing rates.

A RAND Corporation study estimated that an adverse ruling would cause 8 million people to lose their coverage and the health insurance premiums of those who hadn’t been getting tax subsidies to rise by 47 percent. In addition, the insurance companies themselves could face insolvency, according to a letter the American Academy of Actuaries sent to Burwell this week. So the stakes are huge. But the case itself is, quite honestly, absurd.

The decision by the Supreme Court may support Obama Care or cause a great celebration to the Virginians. The last will end up terrible for all.                               Just a thought.

Lindt Cafe ..Sydney.

 

The gunman took hostages  at the Lindt Chocolate Café at Martin Place, Sydney. He was well known to authorities and had a history of extremism and mental instability. Man Monis, an Iranian refugee and self-styled sheikh known for sending hate mail to the families of Australian troops killed in Afghanistan. 

According to London-based Persian TV channel, he had fled Iran after taking US$200,000 of his customers' money in his tourism agency. He claimed that his request for asylum followed the detention of his wife and children by Iranian authorities after he espoused liberal views on Islam.

Iran's chief of police, told reporters that Monis had "a dark and long history of violent crime and fraud", before fleeing to Malaysia and then Australia. "
Iran's official News Agency states that  Iran provided information to the Australian government about his criminal record, mental and spiritual status. Despite this, he was granted asylum in Australia.

On 21 April 2013, his wife's body [Pal] was found stabbed 17 times and alight in a Werrington apartment stairwell. His girlfriend  was formally charged with Pal's murder, and Monis was charged with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder.

On 14 March 2014, he was arrested and charged with sexually and indecently assaulting a young woman who went to his consultancy in Wentworthville, New South Wales, for "spiritual healing".  He claimed he was an expert in "astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic" services. Seven months later,  a further 40 charges were added, including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault, allegedly committed against six more women who had visited his business.

^{At what point would the Australian authority kicked him out of the Country?                    Just a thought.}

O'Reilly's reporting.....

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George de Mohrenschildt was a Russian emigrant who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald and testified before the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination.
Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly claimed he "heard" a shotgun blast that killed George in his daughter's home. This claim is implausible and contradicted by his former newsroom colleagues. 

Six people who covered the riots with O’Reilly in California for Inside Edition told the Guardian they did not recall an incident in which, as O’Reilly has claimed, “concrete was raining down on us” and “we were attacked by protesters”.

Accusations that he inflated his recollections of reporting from Argentina at the end of the Falklands war as a correspondent for CBS. The Guardian found he had told differing versions of an apparent encounter at gunpoint with Argentinian forces.

Earlier, Bill O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment lawsuit by his former producer, ending "brutal ordeal". Morelli had earlier predicted that O'Reilly was "going down." He and his client did not dispute the initial demanded of $60 million to settle.

Much of the criticism of O'Reilly has centered on his role as a moralist who has lectured about too much sex in pop culture and has published a children's book in which he warns boys against treating girls abusively.

He is paid a reported $20m a year to host his show.

Just a thought.