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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Google's Responsibility For the Egypt Uprising; The Aiding and Abetting of Wael Ghonim...

Its been several weeks since the beginning of the Egyptian uprising against longtime authoritarian leader Honsi Mubarak. The American media has been covering this chaos as some sort of fight for democracy, but in reality, its a disgusting display of technological mass manipulation. And Google is the major culprit of all this destruction.

At the beginning of the uprising, a Google executive named Wael Ghonim utilized Internet communication to organize the masses of Egypt. As a result, people took to the streets, and instead of demonstrating or rushing government offices to take control of the country's authority, they looted the streets like a post-Katrina wasteland. The people not only have destroyed their metropolitan cities and turned them into garbage dumps, but they're also starving their own country by prohibiting the number one source of revenue from generating income; tourism.

But all that doesn't matter to Wael Ghonim or Google. On the contrary, they've been fueling the fire of this chaos since the beginning. When Egypt attempted to halt Internet traffic to stabilize the chaos, Google created a method of Internet communication that bypassed Egyptian authorities. When Egypt authorities took Wael Ghonim into custody, Google's media influence made Ghonim look like an imprisoned freedom fighter, as opposed to what he really is; a rabble rouser. Because of Google's propaganda of Ghonim, Egyptian authorities released him in hopes of calming the uprising.

Instead, Wael Ghonim has gone back to his digital agitation and is reorganizing the chaos that has been a reality in Egypt since the uprising. Ghonim said in his most recent statement that, "I'm ready to die for revolution 2.0!" Well Mr. Ghonim, why should the country of Egypt listen to a Google sponsored crier that has no revolutionary credibility other than pushing keyboard keys really hard to tweet a primitive population into chaos?

In a recent episode of True Captialist Radio, I received a call from an American investor that had business interests in Egypt. He went on to say that his store in Cairo was seen on CNN in flames. This is not only the story for foreign investment in Egypt, but also for the local Egyptian investors that are now counting their losses because of Google and Ghonim. This is why I feel that Google's role in this uprising is threat to foreign investment and governments of nation states throughout the world.

If Google can use its communication assets to destabilize governments, what's to stop Google from using these same assets to manipulate markets, conduct identity espionage and/or creating truth out of propaganda (just as they've done with Wael Ghonim)? I think investors, governments and individuals should really analyze whats happening in Egypt, because its not setting a good precedent for global civility.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Ghost is Bullish on Gold! Financial Institutions Now Accepting Gold as Collateral...

As many listeners know, I was a Gold critic for some time. But as I continue to see the pumping of bullion on the news media, TV personalities and even from certain politicians, I'm seeing the Gold bubble beginning!

For all who are unaware, America loves a good bubble; the dot coms, real estate, etc. Gold, at this point, seems to be one of those financial instruments that investors (laymen and pro) seemed to be getting into for many different factors.

One factor, inflation! The U.S. government is continuing its orgy of deficit spending, which is debasing the American currency. Typically the price of Gold rises when a currency is devalued and we're seeing (and have seen since the concept of investing) investors use liquid from other positions to purchase Gold to hedge against this inflation. This play provides the investor with cash reserves via metal that gains with inflation by default.

Another factor, accumulation! Since Gold's rise since 2000, many firms, businesses and individuals have started up to capitalize on these unprecedented gains. Everything from Gold bar peddlers to scrap Gold buyers fill the advertising space on the news networks and other media; not to mention that financial institutions are now accepting Gold as collateral. This means that a mainstream industry has been birthed based around bullion and is obviously successful enough to continuing paying millions to advertise and accumulate the metal. So what does that tell me, it tells me that this is the beginning of potential Gold scarcity because of accumulation. Accumulation of this metal can cause a huge spike in the value of gold based on the laws of supply and demand; and this is a key factor for fueling the coming Gold bubble.

The last, but not least, factor; over speculation. At some point (I believe we're entering that phase now), everybody from investors to the regular joe are going to believe the hype and accumulate Gold no matter what the market price is. Over speculators are going to be blinded by gains and they will fail to realize the limitations of this instrument (just as the did with real estate). This will engulf the latter portion of the Gold bubble right before it bursts, which I feel will take place in about 2-3 years from now.

Taking these factors into account, I feel very bullish on Gold for the time period mentioned previous. I believe (in my opinion) that bullion could go as high as $3000-$4000 an ounce before is pops, so take advantage by setting aside a minimum of 10-15% of your portfolio and entertain plays in the metals market; especially Gold!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's Explaination of the $315 Million Huffington Post Deal





Tim Armstrong went on Bloomberg Television after trading hours on Feb. 7, 2011 to discuss his company's recent acquisition of Huffington Post for an astonishing $315 million. Armstrong sounded optimistic to say the least when boasting about the deal and pom-poming its founder, Ariana Huffington (who will now be AOL's editor in chief for news content). If your an investor in AOL, listen closely and see if you believe the vision that Armstrong trying real hard to sell.

After watching this interview, one has to wonder what's Armstrong smoking? Sure, his belief in content production and its revenue generating strategies is one thing. But I don't think that paying the Huffington Post 30 times its annual operating cash flow is a smart business decision in any school of finance.

AOL "expects" Huffington Post's annual operating cash flow in 2012 to be around $30 million; but I feel that's really stretching the imagination. In episode #17 of the True Capitalist Radio Show, I had several AOL investors call into the show with concern about this deal; asking for advice on their next move on this stock. I personally feel that this was not a wise use of a company's capital, and if I owned AOL right now; I would start looking for more profitable short term instruments.

One thing I think that will come about from this questionable move by AOL is a potential corporate buy out frenzy. I think these types of buy out deals (based on speculated future earnings) are going to be a habitual norm in the coming year and into next year, for corporate profits have been high for the past couple of quarters (which has given equities major gains). Companies are sitting on lots of capital and, just as AOL has done, they're going to use it to expand. Not to mention the Obama administration's new view on lowering corporate taxes! Is this going to be the 90's all over again?

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Google bans the True Conservative Blog from Adsense. Yet another Internet company banning Ghost for his political views...


Well it looks like Google doesn't appreciate the content produced by the True Conservative Blog, so they [Google] have now permanently banned us from participating in the Adsense program. It's no coincidence that Google bans me a couple of days after I singled them out as a major financial contributor to America's current Liberal regime on episode #154.

Although I gave kudos to Google for threatening to leave China, their actions against me proves their true authoritarian, left-leaning nature. Google also claims that I'm some how manipulating the pay-per-click numbers by hacking and/or inducing people to click advertisements. First of all I'm not hacking anything; but inducing users to visit advertisers is the whole purpose of advertising in the first place.

Countless times I've been spammed, blind linked and lied to through a variety different Internet methods; and most have been motivated to get me (and other users) to click Ads by Google. But I guess Google doesn't mind spammers and Internet blind linkers, just as long as your not a True Conservative who believes in the Constitution. And its not even like I've actually seen a check from these Leftist fruity asses [Google]; this month was going to be my first check from this filthy company and it was only for $140 (and that's after 3+ years of accumulated clicks).

It's not about the money, its the principle of the scenario in question. Google Adsense prominently displays stories of individuals who make up to $10,000 a month using their big brother advertising system. Here I've made $140 in 3+ years and now they're banning and not going to pay me? It's obviously because of my political views and ideology which is nothing new; I've been banned from MySpace, Facebook and other social networking site because of what I say. But it will not stop me!

Google's stock price is about $600 a share, and that's because of us [the people]! How about we, the people, stop consuming in Google products and services so we can cut this corporate entity down to size (just like we did to Microsoft). I've already told all my investor friends to sell the Goog stock, unless they want to promote authoritarian Leftists. It will be a great day when we see this over evaluated stock go to down to double digits; maybe then these Google Leftist will embrace actual free market capitalism. Piss off Google! You're fruiting the world up anyway!