From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One thing to keep an eye out as we are doing our research is that increasingly "inside information" on new technology is more valuable financially then money or equity or debt investment. Knowledge is more valuable than money. I am not sure when we start to see database-drug trade instead of -drug trade, but I know it is in the mix, and I would like to help estimate some of the "pricing" dynamics that may help you see it in our research. If you note the reference to the Texas technology group below, it is interesting to muse on what the stock market equity value is of the taxpayer funded technology "given" away by the Bush and Clinton families over the last ten years. I continue to be fascinated as to why these guys hit me on trading on "insider information" That means, among other things, they want me to have no credibility to point out there were doing it. Let me give you a sense of how powerful the value of the knowledge is. I started Hamilton with my 401(k) and proceeds from selling for first home in Washington. I self- financed so that I could maintain voting control. I knew that the political risks of the first prototyping phase were such that I needed to control the voting stock. The equity value was controlled by non-voting stock, which was distributed in stock bonuses to all employees at Hamilton for a year or more according to performance. Before we started to liquidate the company, it diluted by equity ownership down to about 33%. We have a variety of assignments. Over a four year period we signed up $40MM of contracts with HUD. The profit margin varied and was about 0-10%, and provided a very thin margin of error given how risky and hard the business was. The reason we did it was to build our knowledge banks through database and software tool development. What HUD provided was some of the prototyping opportunities that would help us figure out the pricing of reengineering community investment. We reinvested all of our profits in developing these tools and legal expenses associated with the risks of preventing HUD from profiting by seizing back its own loan sales (we were not allowed to earn a % on the $2.1 billion in profits we generated, but the enforcement and covert bureacracies were willing to offer 25% and more for help seizing them back). I estimate that the company-without the swat---could have been sold or recapitalized with private investors by 1999 at an equity value of $100-250MM. The core profit potential was in private advisory work and secondary market trading based on our place based databases. Part of this was the joint venture opportunities we would have had with high tech companies and trading operations, if the federal government had not continually assured the marketplace that I would go to jail and they would own and control all of our intellectual capital. If my business plan worked and we had not sold out, the value would have reached much much more. That is the capital gains potential on a business that was going to be entirely private where we invented the technology with years of sweat equity and private investment prototyping----and we would be proceeding into the market with no government contracts, guarantees or financing. In a situation where the technology transfer is combined with government contracts and financing, someone can generate sustantial capital gains very quickly with very little work....just the support and help of someone like Bush or Clinton to pick up the "knowledge franchise". This type of knowledge transfer was seen in the Inslaw/Promis case, it our case, the mechanics without the high tech are seen in a half a trillion plus privitization of the prisons system, and I suspect that much of the game around non-lethal weapons and mind control contracts involves similar knowledge 'give aways". Not sure how we start to estimate the Dow Jones value of knowledge and technology being transferred like this, but I am going to think about it because people need to see the stock market and profit value of these regulatory, legislative and government contract or knowledge give aways. ============================================================================ =========================== http://www.newsmakingnews.com/ THE RIVERS OF GOLD BECOME RIVERS OF BLOOD AS STAR WARS BECOMES BRILLIANT PEBBLES AND FINALLY TURNS INTO DUMB ROCKS. THE MURDER OF LEE SCOTT HALL, DESIGN ENGINEER, AT THE LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABORATORIES. "Hall had been trying to bring attention to a miscalculation in a multi-million dollar installation of super laser beams that is part of the ignition facility....... Police Detective Charlie Garrison said, "We think Lee Hall is the only one who knew to this day exactly what the problem is and its fix". San Francisco Chronicle Article, 2-15-2000 By Mike Weiss http://www.sfgate.com During a speech about Grenada in March 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his idea for a space-based missile shield to protect the United States from incoming missiles. Following a meeting with physicist Edward Teller who was adamantly against any agreement to freeze the development of nuclear arms, Reagan urged full speed ahead and set in motion a project that startled even his closest Pentagon advisers. In the era of George Lucas' Star Wars movie craze, Reagan dubbed his Strategic Defense Initiative, "Star Wars". From 1983 to 1985 Edward Teller and his colleague, Lowell Wood, lobbied anyone who would listen, telling the world that SDI was the greatest thing since Reagan's jelly beans. A sales pitch was necessary because the first stage deployment would cost the taxpayers about $15 billion. A fully deployed space-based system would cost $150 billion, IF the technology was realistic and IF the project could be brought in on time. By the middle of May 1988, countless scientists were openly questioning the viability of "Star Wars". The cost in 1988 was $12 billion and constantly climbing. Senator Barbara Boxer, D-San Rafael, described the SDI as the president's "astrological dream...a dream of laser weapons powered by nuclear explosions, particle beam weapons, chemical rockets and space-based interceptors parked in 'garages' in orbit". It was an exciting, accurate description and it fired an imaginative mind. The Evil Empire still represented to the US, in the minds of its citizens and in the eyes of the President. a very real threat to our daily existence. An article by Robert Scheer that appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine on July 17, 1988 told of the dissent of scientists who were responsible for engineering the program. Entitled "The Man Who Blew the Whistle on Star Wars," it quoted the featured subject of the article, Roy Woodruff. Woodruff was head of Lawrence Livermore Laboratories "R" Division, the scientists and technicians responsible for developing an actual working laser. Woodruff stated, "We were not in an engineering phase then and we are not today". One of the biggest military research projects of all time, Star Wars was constantly re-invented by its backers. On February 16, 1991, The Baltimore Evening Sun's editorial drew its readers' attention to the subtitle of the 1964 anti-war classic film "Dr. Strangelove", which was: "How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb". The editorial continued: That pretty much tells what has happened in the first two weeks of the Persian Gulf war; the brass hats have succeeded in getting the romance of weaponry back on track by daily touting the dazzling feats of planes and missiles. So it comes as no surprise that proponents of "Star Wars" have seized the moment to urge that their favorite weapons system be restored to the prominence it had in the Reagan administration before it was quietly relegated by President Bush to the deep freezes of the Pentagon's contingency planning sections. The argument goes like this: Since the Patriot missiles have proved to be so successful in shooting down Iraqi "Scud" missiles, then let's build "Star Wars" right away - and hang the cost - so we can shoot down all ballistic missiles. That argument is about as ludicrous as saying that now that we've put astronauts on the moon, let's put a few on the sun. In 1999 the SDI organization's response to such criticism was to change the name of the project from "Star Wars" to "Brilliant Pebbles" and delay deployment two years until fiscal 1995. It was also announced that the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories would remain a key part of the newly named project that critical scientists were already dubbing "Dumb Rocks". The fact that SDI, by 1995, would violate the U.S.-Soviet treaty limiting anti- ballistic missiles was pushed aside and forgotten. By 1992 the Cold War was evaporating. Silicon Valley's Sun Microsystems hired Russian scientist Boris A. Babayan to set up a laboratory in Moscow for their company. Babayon had created the supercomputers used to design nuclear weapons for the Soviet space program and its military. The times they were a-changin'! By 1994 even the scientists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories were moving to protect their income by spinning off companies to use the technology developed from the Lab's Brilliant Pebbles project development in 1992. Admitting that the Star Wars effort was unlikely ever to be deployed, it was speculated that spin offs such as WorldView Imaging Corp. could employ the technology and profit from it. In 1996, Gary Chapman, director of the 21st Century Project at the University of Texas, writing for the Los Angeles Times, said: One panel was charged with looking at the computer requirements for a system that would necessarily be controlled remotely and at speeds beyond human capacities for reaction. A member of this panel was David L. Parnas, world-renowned software engineer and professor of computer science in Canada (although Parnas was a U.S. citizen and a longtime Pentagon consultant). Parnas spent two days listening to Air Force briefings, then in June 1985 he resigned from the advisory panel, concluding that the fundamental computer requirements for strategic defense could never be satisfied. Parnas, an eminent scientist, was shamefully called a "traitor" by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in 1985. Will the Republicans insist in 1996 that we ignore the limitation of computers in order to be considered patriotic Americans? Many crimes were committed against United States scientists by their own government during the Cold War years of the 1980's. The vast majority of those crimes were executed to support political agendas such as Star Wars and Operation Exodus. The orders came from the highest political powers in Washington D.C. and were carried out by the U.S. Department of Justice, state and local district attorney's offices and their supporting law enforcement agencies. In 1988 a brilliant software engineer and programmer was arrested and tried under federal Operation Exodus laws for the theft of Saxpy Computer's technology. The motive behind the decision to prosecute Anderson under federal law, for what amounted to a state crime, was the Federal Government's desire to capture the man they called "The Techno Bandit of the Decade", the infamous Charles McVey. This author wrote the following letter to various newspapers at that time: Editor: There was a reporter on your staff who has been covering the Kevin Eric Anderson case since his arrest on October 22, 1987. Diane Brooks has exhibited the qualities of compassion, understanding, objectivity, and commitment in covering this story that the vast majority of the American public wishes were inherent in every reporter covering every story. Kevin has been in prison, presumed innocent, now for seven months. He has been there held without bail through a series of manipulations masterminded by U. S. Joseph Russoniello and his underlings, Leland Altschuler and Dale Zusi. The vast majority of the media has cooperated by refusing to publish anything in his defense even though they have been deluged with letters and documentation supporting the contention that Kevin Eric Anderson is innocent, and was, in fact, entrapped by the Justice Department after they had been made aware of Kevin's desires to cooperate with them as early as 1985. The true guilty parties in this case are those people who have prostituted our legal system to serve their own egos and career ambitions. The end result in simply greed: justice has nothing to do with it. So long as we, as a people, continue to allow the imprisonment and control of the best and brightest minds in our country by the overly ambitious prosecutors, the lingering fears of the Cold War, and the myth that is "Star Wars", we will continue to lose the high-tech race to our competitors. We must regain the freedom of the creative mind to realize the potential of our dreams. We firmly believe that Kevin Anderson is innocent of the charges brought against him. We further believe that if he had been given his constitutionally guaranteed right to reasonable bail, his constitutionally guaranteed right to the presumption of innocence, the right to see his only child, the day-to-day love and support of his family and his many friends, he would prove his innocence. In reply to a horrendous hit piece written by someone named Joshua Hammer in the Los Angeles Times Magazine dated June 5, 1988, this writer wrote the following poem to comply with the demands of the publisher who limited all letters to the editors written in defense of Kevin Anderson to very few words: For Kevin Eric Anderson: Who loves poems and poets: In a far off land there is a lonely man Held so he won't run wild. True he is fed and given a bed, Taxes pay for his defense and child. But the baby cried for the father denied, He is seven months in jail. Justice aside, the judge replied, "Star Wars" orders - held without bail. Political prisoners are in other lands, you see We live in the land of the brave and of the free. Twelve years later, I would stand by every word I wrote in 1988. Careers, politics, money, secrecy, power and prestige are all at stake when an honest engineer endangers an ill-advised but heavily-financed project. It is a very real possibility that murdered design engineer Lee Scott Hall is the victim of the politically charged atmosphere surrounding the myth that is "Star Wars". How did our scientists lose their freedom and why were they targeted? NEXT: PART THREE: OPERATION EXODUS - THE BEGINNING OF THE END. ATTACKING OUR OWN INGENUITY! --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Shop the web for great deals. 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