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    bump
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    Well guys, I caught a huge break in understanding this thing. There is a guy that I know, a high level executive that works for a hospital (not a government corporation). After pestering him for...
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    I had a very fruitful discussion with a bright dude from another forum. Before I get to the discussion, the result of the discussion was the realization that this CAFR thing is a gigantic hedge by...
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    You know, that's a great question. I actually found someone in real life that is somewhat interested in this scandal. The question he kept asking me: "Who is benefiting from this?" Of course I can...
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    It recently occured to me that these CAFR can be used in ways seemingly unrelated to government. For example, if you work for a company that is crying poor and doing layoffs or outsourcing, this can...
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    I convinced a friend of mine to watch this vid...someone with reasonable intelligence that I thought would really be all over this thing... EPIC FAIL.

    She watched it, but claims that it is way...
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    The pretense of 'freedom of the press'. How exactly does that reconcile with a government that owns every major main stream media corporation?

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    File this under the 'something else to consider' department. It recently occured to me that Fortune 500 corporate profits are nothing short of another stealth tax. If corporations are all majority...
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    Also, this thread:
    http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?44893-The-CAFR-(Comprehensive-Annual-Financial-Report)-Thread&highlight=CAFR

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    Part 2 @ 3:30. Clint compares Bill Gates' stock ownership to that of mutual funds, astounding stuff.

    Why is it that no one seems to care about this information?

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhkWueEjewM&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL6EC9369A235E0D00

    Part 2 of this series, on pension funds.

    'Corporate Governance' is a term this guy uses to...
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    From another post of mine...



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    Silence is deafening around here.

    http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/the-cafr-(comprehensive-annual-financial-report)-thread/

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    Bump. Why aren't more people discussing this?

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    Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports are readily available online. I have looked through some of them, this thing is for real.

    On another note I had a very disappointing conversation with a...
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    I agree with the conclusions in the video, but it gets a bit boring sitting and listening to hi
    reading the names and numbers of the stocks owned by Florida and the Californian teachers pension...
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    This thread rocks, too (same subject matter).

    http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/the-cafr-(comprehensive-annual-financial-report)-thread/

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    I can't overemphasize how important this video is. I think it might be the single most important video I've ever seen, and I'm not even half way through it. This thread needs to be stickied. The...
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    This video is in fact a MUST see. I'm 30 minutes through it...great stuff.

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    "There ain't no countries no more."
    from the movie They Live

    I haven't watched the video, but I have been screaming about the evils of limited liability for a very long time. The process of...
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    dys, just watch the video before you judge its merit. The length and breadth of its indictment of broad scale corruption is huge and cannot be distilled into a single sentence.
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    Ok, I'll...
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    dys

    edit to add: for anyone reading this thread for the first time, the video does NOT quote the GAO as a relevant authority. The video actually exposes the GAO.
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