Senator Bennett :Is Patrick Byrne 's NCANS a Fraud ? : Utah IMC

Both ' Bob O'Brien' and Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com claim to receive most donations from 'small investors' but it appears to represent insiders to penny stock scams..........................

And as for political clout,Utah's Senator Bennett,(where Patrick Byrne's Overstock.com is headquartered),can be seen in the video as well claiming 'naked shorting' is a serious problem and demanding the SEC do something ! This is a fraud but with Beltway connections in my opinion, including James Dale Davidson founder of the far right National Taxpayers Union. ..........................
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The quote below is from ' Bob O'Brien' of ncans.net who,I believe is James Dale Davidson,founder of National Taxpyers Union,and a major penny stock fraud and stock manipulator in general.

'Wow. That sure is compelling. NCANS sounds like NAANSS, somewhat, if you lack the ability to comprehend subtleties like consonants, and feel that all things are fungible. FWIW, there is a closer fit - NCANS - which is a nursing student organization. Maybe you can Google it and locate 15 articles on nursing students...?'

- Bob O'Brien

James Dale Davidson is,like the NTU he founded, associated with the far right.Richard Mellon-Scaife, the Lord Rees-Mogg,and Steve Forbes are some of his colleagues.He must know Norquist who is NTU connected since the 1980's at least.The People for the American Way include it in their far right organizations list but neither they nor the present http://www.ntu.org website mention Mr.Davidson.

While I have voiced my opinion since February,(when an ad-letter by NCANS was placed in the Washington Post claiming the greatest danger to investing SS funds in the stock market was 'naked shorting'),that ncans.net was a fraud by penny stock promoters and manipulators,so far,the SEC has done nothing to stop this organization with ties to British Virgen Islands and offshore where U.S. penny stocks are often dumped on defrauded Americans from.I believe it is related to James Dale Davidson of the National Taxpayers Association or to those with ties to him.

Since the ad appeared http://www.ncans.net has opened an account with Wells Fargo in San Diego,California to solicit donations with their attorneys,SADR & BARRERA, being in that city as well.Both Bob O'Brien and Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com claim to receive most donations from 'small investors' but it appears to represent insiders to penny stock scams.

They also run an nfi-info.net website to promote the stock NFI a 'reit' that uses many aliases to also promote on the Yahoo NFI website to lure others into their scams.Mary Helburn,titular head,is residing in Los Altos ,California I believe and as her letter re the SEC shows these people are all too self confident in their scam,almost as if they feel they have friends or protectors in Washington,D.C., AND THEY APPEAR TO.

Below is a link to sandiego.indymedia that mentions that the only known address for the ncans.net or the related nfi-info.net group is a Cheetah striptease club in Las Vegas.This Cheetah striptease club is or was owned by the Galardis father and son and was convicted of bribing the San Diego city council !!

The link will, besides my writing and a Carol Remond of WSJ interview with 'Bob O'Brien',about ncans.net's use of the Cheetah Club address,have another link to a video infomercial made by this group using a supposedly reputable Georgetown professor,James Angel, backing and promoting their scam ! He claims never to have heard of James Dale Davidson but I doubt that seriously.I think he aided and abetted the scam.

That link is also here:

http://www.tinyurl.com/5vq8y

And as for political clout,Utah's Senator Bennett,(where Patrick Byrne and Overstock.com is headquartered),can be seen in the video as well claiming 'naked shorting' is a serious problem and demanding the SEC do something ! This is a fraud but with Beltway connections in my opinion, including James Dale Davidson founder of the far right National Taxpayers Union.

Mary Campbell in that video who claims to have lost all her and her brain damaged nephew's investments is really Mary Campbell Hellburn,titular head of NCANS,BECAUSE 'BOB O'BRIEN' REFUSES TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF AND OWN UP TO OR TAKE
RESPONSIBLITY FOR THIS SCAM.

Mr.Davidson,the far right founder of newsmax.com,was also behind the creation of NAANSS or National Association Against Naked Short Selling that was located in the same Blaine,Washington office of Genemax,GMXX, another penny stock he and convicted Canadian securities scamsters touted or promoted as a victim of 'naked short selling'.

This was for the purpose of diverting the attention of investors they were defrauding from the manipulation and dumping of millions of shares into the market for personal gain.Possibly even money laundering for themselves and their far right causes was involved, but it was an illegal pump and dump the SEC did nothing about.

James Dale Davidson was CEO of GMXX during this time and they were promoting a supposed 'cancer vaccine' from the University of British Columbia in order to lure naive invetors into the scam.It does not matter if a vaccine could immunize against cancer or not,the intent was securities fraud and to dump millions of worthless shares on scammed investors and probably laundering the stolen money offshore through LOM of Bermuda etc.

Senator Bennett,penny stock scam,Cheetah Club

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/110190.shtml

Also .

To SEC : James Angel,Georgetown University,Aids Penny Stock Fraud

http://cvilleindymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=1800

NCANS.NET is also greatly funded by Patrick Byrne who, along with his father who made his $ billion through Geico insurance,paid for a $1 million campaign against John Edwards all by themselves !! It had a website called americanmedicine.com,I believe,and painted Edwards as an enemy of doctors. Byrne is now using attorney John O'Quinn of Texas,who was accused in North Carolina of 'ambulance chasing',to claim his Overstock.com is being shorted illegally by a hedge fund,Rocker Partners.

He is also,as I said,funding ncans.net who fraudulently claim the company is a victim of 'naked shorting' as a means of promoting,unsuccessfully so far,his highly overvalued and probably illegally self manipulated stock.This link below from Charlottesville inddymedia should fill in some of those details as well as mention the paradox of attorney John O'Quinn's defense.

BUT OF COURSE ATTORNEY O'QUINN HAS BEEN DEFENDING PENNY STOCKS WHO HAVE USED THE FRAUDULENT 'NAKED SHORT' CLAIM TO DEFRAUD THEIR OWN INVESTORS SINCE 2002.He may have a James Dale Davidson connection himself :

Has Texas Attorney John O'Quinn covered up stock fraud and money laundering ?

http://cvilleindymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=1788

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Below are my comments from Mark Cuban's blogmaverick.com of February and 'Bob O'Brien's reply.It is clear from his reply that 'Bob O'Brien',who refuses to reveal his real name,is either James Dale Davidson or plagiarizing his 'NAANSS' 'anti-naked shorting' scam to a 't'.And it is also clear that he is aware of NCANS of North Carolina and although knowing his website is controversial,with a striptease club for an address,and I believe knowing full well his site was for running a scam and fraud on American investors,even retirees,he premeditatedly chose to use the acronym ,'NCANS',of a most reputable and ethical nursing association in North Carolina for a scam!

And he has made threats to the safety and lives of others over the internet on Yahoo ! Note 'Bob O'Brien's statement below mine from Mark Cuban's, blogmaverick.com of February, who began a discussion on his blog soon after the Washington Post letter-ad appeared.

I just wanted to bring this misuse of the North Carolina Association of Nursing Students acronym TO THE ATTENTION of NCANS of North Carolina so they would know if someday they mention NCANS and are met with a distrustful look it is because of Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com and the alias Bob O'Brien who he has paid to promote the stock fraud known also by the acronym NCANS.

Posted Feb 27, 2005, 6:07 PM ET by Tony Ryals
Naked Short Scam A Fraud or Who Sent Letter To Bush

If you go to 'SS Funds Invested in manipulated markets',(http://www.spitzer2006.com), discussion you will find posts from the alias 'Bob O'Brien' responsible for the recent ad in the Washington Post warning President Bush of the dangers of 'naked shorting'to Social Security investing.

Had the SEC taken my SHO commentary re 'naked shorting' to heart back in December 2003,(which can be found under a google search for the acronym 'naanss'or a google search for 'naanss davidson schwab' that will lead directly to my comments with those terms highlighted in the cache),I believe much money defrauded by that particular penny stock scam could have been prevented.

That they did not on the other hand has allowed this fraud or the use of the claim of naked shorting,to tout a stock or divert investor attention from more important fundamentals such as indider or death spiral sales of shares into the market, to spread to other larger cap and equally speculaive if not downright suspicious, larger cap stocks.

Overstock.com and Dr.Patrick Byrne is at the forefront of making or insinuating this claim through placement of an open letter to President Bush equating 'naked shorting' with the stability of SS and consequently as the biggest threat to market stability.

This claim alone,besides using fear of SS's security,IS HIGHLY UNLIKEY AS THE LARGEST THREAT TO MARKET STABILITY !!

'NAANSS' stands for 'National Association Against Naked Short Selling' and it was housed in the Blaine,Washington office where Genemax penny stock was touted to $20 per share and dumped by insiders,(possibly through LOM of Bermuda's U.S. ACCOUNTS) to below a dollar about as fast.

The 'national' in NAANSS title is suspiciously similar to 'NCANS' or 'National Coalition Against Naked Short Selling' who placed the ad or open letter to President Bush et.al. in the Washington Post this month. And Davidson has a history of political fraud. cyberfraud, and securities fraud,although for some reason he remains untouchable.

He is friend of Richard Mellon-Scaife,Lord Rees-Mogg etc..Founder of National Taxpayers Union,(that Steve Forbes among others has been involved with),Agora Publications, newsmax.com,etc.

And his 'StrategicInvestments' mailing had ex CIA Chief Colby's name on letterhead when he sent mass mailing claiming Clinton killed Vince Foster.

I could go on and am willing to provide more info and documentation of the use of the 'naked short claim' to actually cover up massive pump and dumps. Overtock.com's Dr.Byrne has got himself in sleezy company with this naked short fraudstser O'Brien or dirtydirtydeeds' as he calls himself on yahoo's ostk and nfi message boards.

His website originated in B.V.I. home of many penny stock scams and although he would not identify himself he appears to write in a style very similar to that of James Dale Davidson as well.

20. Posted Feb 27, 2005, 7:13 PM ET by Bob O'Brien
Wow. That sure is compelling. NCANS sounds like NAANSS, somewhat, if you lack the ability to comprehend subtleties like consonants, and feel that all things are fungible. FWIW, there is a closer fit - NCANS - which is a nursing student organization. Maybe you can Google it and locate 15 articles on nursing students...?

Thanks for sharing that, as well as for clogging Mark's thread with a bunch of cut and paste irrelevancies.

Cat sounds like Rat. Rats must be cats. I get it. We allllll get it.

Perhaps for your next trick you can paste every article written by anyone advancing any conspiracy story or anti-O'Brien theory.

Nice work, Tony. Bravo. It certainly is a refreshing break from an actual on-topic, reasoned discussion of the issue. BTW, is Elvis coming over for dinner, or is it Jim Morrison tonight?

You know how Jim hates the legumes...

http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000230033533/

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BELOW IS THE $100,000 + LETTER FROM NCANS THAT APPEARED AS AN AD IN THE WASHINGTON POST ON FEBRUARY 8,2005 AND WAS PAID FOR BY SELF-PROMOTING CEO PATRICK BYNE OF OVERSTOCK.COM AND 'BOB O'BRIEN' OF NCANS.NET.:

An Open Letter on The Abuse of Naked Shorting

February 8, 2005

George W. Bush, President of the United States

William H. Donaldson, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Chuck Hagel, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Securities and Investment

Richard Baker, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.

Dear Mr. President and Honorable Chairmen,

As Congress considers incorporating private investment accounts into Social Security, it is essential that equity markets be fair, transparent, and not subject to flagrant abuse.

Unfortunately, illegal naked short selling is rampant in the markets today. It has been permitted to flourish unchecked, doing serious damage to the market value of many sound businesses, and is literally stealing money from the widows, retirees, and other small investors who purchased stock in these companies.

Naked short selling has been illegal since 1933, when the SEC was established. It was banned because naked shorting resulted in significant abuses that contributed to the crash of ’29.

That the problem still exists today is undeniable. The SEC recently enacted Regulation SHO (for SHORT selling). The Regulation creates a list of companies whose stock has been sold but not delivered in significant amounts. "Naked" short shares have, in effect, been counterfeited. They are as different from normal short shares as fake money is from real money. The ability to print counterfeit shares at will allows a hedge fund to destroy a company’s value over time by creating an artificial (and fraudulent) supply of stock. If this were cash, computers, or jewelry, the perpetrators would be behind bars. Yet apparently the rules are different for Wall Street—the SEC, the NYSE, and the NASDAQ exact no meaningful penalties, thereby allowing the practice to continue.

Though the recently instituted Regulation SHO Threshold list informs investors on a day to day basis which stocks are experiencing "failures to deliver" (i.e., naked shorting), it does not disclose the size of the failures—the public has no way of knowing whether they are in the thousands or millions of shares. The DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation), the NYSE, and the NASDAQ, who compile the data and publish the list, won’t tell anyone how big the problem is. Yet there is no rule or regulation that prevents them from making that disclosure.

Shareholders deserve to know how many fraudulent shares exist for every security on the Regulation SHO list. By withholding the one piece of information that could level the playing field between the public and naked short sellers, the regulators are hurting the public by protecting the violators.

To make matters worse, the regulators charged with protecting the public are not only failing to enforce the rules on the books, they have decided to "grandfather" the "fail to deliver" violations that existed before January 7, 2005. This is like letting bank robbers keep the proceeds from their past robberies, while warning them that there will be toothless penalties if they rob the same bank again. To repeat—naked shorting has been illegal for 70 years.

The chief violators are unprincipled hedge fund operators who take advantage of the absence of meaningful penalties to target smaller companies. The brokerage community and the DTCC are complicit, as brokers receive a commission for every naked share traded and the DTCC receives a fee for every phantom share borrowed. The losers in the equation are the shareholders and the companies, who are defenseless against this systemic gritt.

Why is this lawless predation on the investing public not only condoned, but also rewarded by excusing all pre-January 2005 violations? Who benefits other than the violators? Who is being shielded? Where is the consideration for the millions of unsuspecting investors seeking to supplement their retirement income—people who innocently rely on a "level playing field?" Where is a Congressional Oversight Committee? Where is the media?

Most importantly: how can private accounts be made part of the Social Security system when such flagrant abuse and manipulation of the equity markets goes on?

What must be done:

We have no quarrel with legitimate short selling, which can serve a valid and useful function in the markets. But as a group of shareholders who own some of the stocks on the Regulation SHO Threshold list, we call on the SEC and our elected officials to put a full stop to the illegal, abusive practice of naked short selling. The following four actions are essential at a minimum:

1) Enforce the existing rules. No exceptions. No looking the other way. The rules were written to protect the public by preventing naked shorting. Enforce the rules with meaningful penalties and prosecutions.

2) The DTCC and the Exchanges must disclose the number of shares that have not been delivered each and every day, for each company on the Threshold list.

3) Eliminate the grandfathering of existing undelivered stock sales. Enforce the buy-in provisions on ALL naked short positions, not just the latest violations.

4) Demand accountability for how this breach of the public trust occurred, and fix the problem rather than covering it up.

There is no excuse for allowing a group of predators to fleece the public and victimize sound companies for their own profit. This is one of the rare problems that can be solved quickly, easily, and at no cost—except to those who have abused the rules. The SEC has to stand up to the community it is supposed to be regulating, enforce the law, and eliminate the grandfathering of violations that occurred prior to an arbitrary date in January.

Until the illegal abuses in the markets are corrected, private investments in Social Security cannot be considered secure.

Sincerely,

NCANS — The National Coalition Against Naked Shorting © 2005

http://www.NCANS.net

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A WORD FROM PATRICK BYRNE from his own Overstock.com website:
Update
Posted Feb 16, 2005, 12:13 PM

Obrien posted my long strand from last night all in one (logically sequenced) order over on http://www.ncans.net .

I recommend you read there, along with the following:

1) The ad we took out in the Washington Post:
http://www.ncans.net/files/NCANS%20WPost%20Ad.pdf

2) My letter concerning Carol's article:

http://www.ncans.net/byrneinterview.htm

And Obrien's deconstruction of Herb Greenberg:

http://www.nfi-info.net/herbfeb10.htm

Patrick
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Letter from the bizar titular head of NCANS,Mary Helburn, who appears to be either suggesting SEC employees commit mass suicide or someone do it for them !!!:

Bare truth about naked shorting

A letter from Mary Helburn, USA

Dear JUST Response and Joel Hirschhorn,

Re: Economic corruption US style

Wall Street depends on volatility, and volatility is a function of news. Reuters owns Instinet. We should be able to invest in a company without worrying that its capitalization is going to be withdrawn by short-sellers. We should be able to invest in a company without worrying about the DTCC watering down our investment with counterfeit shares. Bob O'Brien is a real person. I admire him so much for what he is doing and because of him I was willing to put my real name on this.

The rules have changed to suit the foxes. This one is the most subtle and lies at the heart of the fraud. A broker hires someone to locate a share to borrow. This gives him "reasonable expectation of delivery". When the shares are not located and becomes an FTD, the system kicks in and the DTCC prints up a new counterfeit shares borrowed from the pool they control. Wham, bam, thank you, Mam! He games the system by transferring the legitimate responsiblity to someone who is in place simply to help execute the fraud. The DTCC has committed fraud by lending shares rather than having the broker buy-in the open market as the law requires. We have a sell-side bias then that allows the price to be manipulated down.

I think George Bush earnestly believes in this privatization and I also believe that Charles Schwab is behind it. Schwab was behind the tax cuts and consults with the President.

The whole system is pretty complex. People's eyes glaze over when you start talking about naked shorting. Two per cent doesn't sound like much to start, but it is a huge amount to be administered by the banks and brokers. It is 2% more than the banks and brokers currently have. They are fighting for market share with decreased commissions and that is why the market is becoming so nasty. There are going to be take-overs. The NYSE will probably go public and be owned by the seats. It will eliminate the specialists and compete in the pre/after hours.

I would like to ax everyone at the SEC since they have failed. I would like a prosecutor-type to come in with a scythe and cut off heads. In Japan, this kind of failure would call for suicide. Is there anyone that has the integrity to pull this off?

Your article was so good and so deep! Thank you.

Thanks again for taking a lead role in exposing a huge and important issue.

Mary Helburn
Executive Director
National Coalition Against Shorting
Cleveland, Ohio - USA

Note: This letter was published by JUST Response on February 27 2005.

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And this from Mary Helburn again who is supposedly sueing Rocker Partners hedge fund with Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne for losses she claims to OSTK stock investment due entirely to Rocker Partners with no questions at all about the questionable management of Overstock.com by Patrick Byrne himself and how much he has done to manipulate his own overvalued stock.In case you viewed the NCANS video infomercial the woman who calls herself Mary Campbell,is also really Mary Helburn and never discloses this critical fact as she decries her unproven losses from 'naked short selling' of her penny stocks:

Making money the new-fashioned way

Sunday, December 05, 2004

To the Editor:

I came across your publication and article while checking out another, what I consider to be, friviolous lawsuit against a company of which I hold shares.

Everyone has to make a living. I'm making mine by buying stocks of companies that get sued in class action lawsuits. It is all part of the scheme by short-sellers to drive the price down and make money. I go long.

I am able to retire because of a lawsuit. One of my stocks was sued by the usual suspects, but the complaint was so outrageous, I quadrupled my holdings and now have an income for life.

I've been investing for three years and this was just too good not to "let happen!" I got my first big dividend check yesterday on 20,000 shares. I bought them on margin and pay 4% interest and they are paying me 14% dividends.

The longs just love to share the news. We shareholders have our own website and you are welcome to join our discussion on the NFI Yahoo message board. It is a hoot.

You can see the website "as featured in the Wall Street Journal and Kansas City Business Journal." Boy, we would love to have a line including your Madison County Record!

Be sure to visit this site and get insight into what shareholders are doing to fight back without hiring lawyers.

http://nfi-info.net/

Mary Helburn
Los Altos, Calif.

http://madisonrecord.com/arguments/argumentsview.asp?c=133674

Do a google search 'james dale davidson' and you will find his self promoting books done with former 'Financial Times' of London editor Lord William Rees-Mogg.Do a google search of,'james dale davidson national taxpayers union' and you will find him.He was the founder of National Taxpayers Union in 1969 and,like Clinton,a Rhodes scholar and Oxford graduate.He claims to have been a supporter of Clinton but later is the man responsible for organizing the 'Clinton killed Vince Foster' psy-ops campaign and used ex-CIA Chief William Colby's name on the letterhead of his Strategic Investment newsletter to do so.

This was because Colby was paid to have his name on the letterhead to tout Davidson's stock scams and we have no reason to believe Colby supported Davidson in his anti-Clinton campaign or believed Clinton killed Vince Foster but he died in a mysterious drowning about a year later in 1996 so we'll probably never know what Colby really believed.

A google search of 'james dale davidson national taxpayers union 2003 Retirement Club Tighe' will turn up a strange incident of Davidson soliciting donations from retired folk supposedly for NTU using a P.O.Box rather than the NTU's own address in Alexandria, Virginia.

This I find this strange because he is no longer officially listed by the NTU website although he was its founder in 1969.Also he used the NTU office in Alexandria, Virginia in the past to keep share certificates of a penny stock,'MIVT',or MIV Therapeutics for himself and his minor children and no doubt other penny stock shares he held and manipulated from Bermuda to who knows where.

If you do a google search of NTU and the P.O.Box James Dale Davidson apparently used to solicit donations you will find no NTU connection ! Here's a portion of the letter soliciting donations from James Dale Davidson to NTU received apparently from Davidson to a Mr.Tighe in Florida and Tighe's reply :

Apparently the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) got hold of my address, figured I was a conservative, and decided I was alive, vulnerable, and supportive of NTU's conservative position on the income tax. As a result, James Dale Davidson, its founder, sent me an "Official Registered Survey," which he wanted me to fill out and submit--with my generous donation, of course. Having for the past several years received requests to complete such "surveys," I sent Mr. Davidson the following response--sans "my most generous contribution of ___$1,000 or ___$500 or ___$100 or ___$50 or ___$25 or ___Other." Can't afford the big bucks? How about ___$9.00 to pay for processing the survey? Here's my response:
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Mr. James Dale Davidson, Founder
National Taxpayers Union
Post Office Box 1471
Alexandria, VA 22313-9875
Dear Mr. Davidson:

Thank you for sending me the "Official Registered Survey" list of questions NTU wants me to answer. Since the instructions at the top of the page make clear that you want to "determine public support for these programs," I assumed you wanted unbiased replies, not rubber-stamped support for your agenda.

Unfortunately, your "survey" calls for the rubber stamp. For instance, at the end of the list of questions, you put this directive, apparently for my signature: "I, Don Tighe, want to do my share to help the National Taxpayers Union close down the IRS and win the Fair Tax." Now, Mr. Davidson, how did you know I wanted to help the Union close down the IRS and win the Fair Tax?

Don Tighe

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I have already explained my reasons for believing NCANS is NAANSS elsewhere and that James Dale Davidson is behind it.I have had personal correspondence with James Dale Davidson over the 100% loss of my investment with Endovasc of Montgomery,Texas and will add it later as further commentary.

Google searches of 'james dale davidson o'brien' or 'naanss' or 'naanss ncans' etc. should lead you to some of that.On June 2 'ncansd3',(one of 'Bob O'Brien's' admitted tout aliases on Yahoo),said 'a boat' named 'James Davidson' and implied NCANS donations had been deposited and cell phones paid using that name.

See also: More on Charles Schwab's illegal pump and dump accounts

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/09/1771345.php

Are You James Dale Davidson ?

“If I were operating some sort of mafia in the United States, I would be only too delighted to have the leading voices of the news media insist to the public that many of my crimes could never have happened. It might even be worth hiring some goofballs to spread preposterous theories about nonexistent conspiracies in order to discredit persons who might stumble upon evidence of the real thing.” — James Dale Davidson, Strategic Investment Newsletter, 7/25/95, commenting on the Susan Schmidt article in the Washington Post of 7/4/95

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JAMES DALE DAVIDSON'S NEWSMAX PREDICTS HIS EMPLOYEE'S(EX-CIA CHIEF COLBY'S) DEATH A MONTH IN ADVANCE. :

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/3/24/185342

William Colby's Death Mystery

It was March of 1996. My cell phone rang. My literary agent was on the line.

"Cross Colby off the list. He's dead."

"Colby is dead," I said with some shock.

"Yes, I just heard on the radio he died in a car crash," my agent said.

I did not know former CIA Director Bill Colby, nor did my agent. But we both knew James Dale Davidson, editor of the investment newsletter Strategic Investment. Davidson was not only an associate of Colby's, but Colby had worked for Davidson as a contributing editor for his newsletter.

At the time of my agent's call, he was attempting to find a publisher for my book on the Vince Foster case. We still had no publisher, and my agent had floated the idea of William Colby writing the proposed book's foreword. This would serve several purposes. Colby, as a former CIA chief, would give the book some credibility with a publisher.

Colby had been a key figure in the Watergate scandal after he refused to allow the CIA to block the FBI probe on the Watergate burglary. Colby could not be accused of being part of a right-wing conspiracy. After leaving the CIA, he argued for unilateral disarmament and became a fixture at the left-wing Institute for Policy Studies.

My agent thought Colby might be open to the idea. After all, he worked for Davidson and Davidson openly claimed Foster was murdered, pointing the finger at the Clinton White House.

But now the idea of a Colby foreword seemed lost.

I called Davidson and asked him if he had heard the news about Colby. His voice became strained. He sounded stunned when I told him.

But, of course, Colby had not died that March. He died a month later. My agent was wrong. To this day, he swears he heard something, and to this day, we laugh about the Jungian wrinkle in time. Davidson was peeved at me for the false report, as he well should have been.

On April 29, 1996, the wires flashed with hot news: Former CIA Director William Colby had disappeared from his country home on the Wicomico River in Maryland. Authorities suspected he died in a canoeing accident, as his waterlogged canoe was found on the shore near his home.
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Below is from ncans.net website email exchange between William Alpert and 'Bob O'Brien'. Mr.Alpert contacted me earlier this year after 'Bob O'Brien' using the alias 'dirtydirtydeeds'on Yahoo's NFI message board gave the address of hedge fund manager Marc Cohodes on the Yahoo board to his followers,who have bragged about their guns on Yahoo by the way,as well as his son's and possibly his wife's separate addresses as well.Alpert asked why I thought BobO'Brien was James Dale Davidson and around the same time he did a story on the threats to Cohodes on Yahoo in Barrons he contacted 'Bob O'Brien' of http://www.ncans.net to ask if he was Davidson.

Bob O'Brien's 'dirtydirtydeeds' alias was deleted from Yahoo at that time and he then began posting on Yahoo as 'ncansd3' and more recently as easterbunnyd3.Yes,funny an alias 'Bob O'Brien',in addition,has numerous stock message board aliases or that he claims he can't reveal his identity for for for his life yet threatens others from behind false identification :

Are You James Dale Davidson ?

Bob O'Brien's Email Exchange with William Alpert of Barron's

http://www.ncans.net/alpert%20interview.htm

Alpert, William to NCANSmail
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Are you James Dale Davidson ?

________________________

To: Alpert

Ha ha ha ha ha. You're kidding me, right?

No. The only one that advances that lunacy is a presumably paid message board basher who posts 50 or so times per day, and appears to have been stalking me on various blogs - his agenda appears to be character assassination. he is either a pro, or unbalanced. My gut says pro.

So not JDD. I'd never even heard of him until that guy brought it up. It is funny how insidious the rumor mill is, though.

I'm just a private citizen, nobody famous or notorious, and will no doubt disappoint one and all at my ordinary-ness once I step forward and take off the mask. FWIW, I've been asked if I'm Penn Gillette (of
Penn and Teller), Ben Stein, and a host of other folks.

I'm not any of them, either, although nobody has ever seen Penn and I in the same place...

Help me understand something - why is a senior editor of Barrons interested in a trivial conflageration on an obscure message board for a small midwestern MREIT? What's the news value? Why does anyone care, much less you?

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Jesse Eisinger and of course Carol Remond of Wall Sreet Journal deserve kudos for having brought Mr.James Dale Davidson 'out of the closet' so to speak, as either being 'Bob O'Brien' himself or the major financial backer,(with the possible exception of Patrick Byrne),of ncans.net.

Although Motely Fool may have been the first,(and hopefully not the last),to mention James Dale Davidson in context of and with NFI-INFO.NET and NCANS.NET,WSJ's two top notch reporters have humbly done more to expose what may still have many more surprises in store. Motley Fool must take criticism as well for articles that, intentionally or not,have aided and abetted the naked shorting myth,and in so doing,have protected the criminals who have used the claim to mask their own penny stock pump and dump fraud and securities manipulations and possible money laundering activities.

I only hope the SEC,DOJ,FBI,etc. would begin an investigation if journalistic will or interest is lost. Unfortunately I am left to wonder at the political will of Washington,D.C. to investigate itself in light of such heavy weight politicians as Utah's Senator Bennett, at best looking foolish for promoting a worthless penny stock named Global Links as a victim of 'naked shorting', and at worst,perhaps concealing or protecting Beltway insider James Dale Davidson or his Utah constituent Patrick Byrne,son of billionaire Jack Byrne,and feeling a need or desire to cover up for them and perhaps OTHER Beltway or politically connected individuals.Patrick Byrne and his billionaire father of Gieco insurance fame funded an anti-John Edwards campaign on their own to the tune of $1 million as I explained above I believe.

It was Jesse Eisinger's investigating that scared ncansd3 or 'Bob O'Brien' on yahoo's NFI message board into uttering 'james davidson' on June 2 as a major financial contributor and sponser,including of cell phones,and 'a boat' named 'James Davidson. Before that he denied ever hearing of a 'James Davidson' including on ncans.net when William Alpert of Barrons put the question to him directly.

Of course later when he posted his complete email exchange with Eisinger on ncans.net,he xxxx's out all mention of the boat's 'james davidson' name.Eisinger also appears to have gotten some news of a Wells Fargo account in San Diego for ncans.net and their lawyers,Sadr and Barrera.

The WSJ/Eisiger Email Echange,take this link and scroll down:

http://bobosrevenge.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_bobosrevenge_archive.html

James Angel formerly of Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and now Georgetown starred in the infomercial with Mary Campbell Helburn and Utah Senator Bennett.I informed him that the only address for the organization appeared to be a striptease joint whose owners were accused of bribing San Diego city council members.I also asked him to provide one example of a company seriously injured by 'naked shorting'.So far,no answer.The Cheetah Club also has the distinction of being the only lap dance club I know of investigated by the FBI under the Patriot Act,by the way,very strange indeed.

Note the latest 'biotech' penny stock scam Mr. Davidson is involved,Amenni,has Saudi and Dubai investment ties an has connections.And no doubt if this new pump and dump meets an office in Dubai. Mr.Davidson will have stolen from more naive Americans(such as myself) to benefit himself and the Saudis.This is a Beltway 'patriot' ?

James Dale Davidson,Dubai,and penny stock connections:

http://www.offshorebusiness.com/message_board.asp?search=amenni&submit=Search+text+from+messages/replies

Or go to http://www.offshorebusiness.com message board and do search 'bellador' or 'amenni'.

FROM YAHOO NFI BOARD JUNE 2 IN WHICH 'ncansd3' or 'BOB O'BRIEN' HINTS OF JAMES DALE DAVIDSON CONNECTION FOR FIRST TIME:

Re: Send, or not? Comment, or copy? RVA
by: ncansd3
Long-Term Sentiment: Strong Buy 06/02/05 12:02 am
Msg: 310727 of 333497

I would add that copies of emails in which Mr. Eisinger cites very granular banking info regarding NCANS deposits are available if they wish to email me.

What is actually funniest to me is that through all of this, the reporter hasn't considered that he might have found a guy who contributes to NCANS and has used his cash to help the cause - but is someone different than me. Someone who actually has been very helpful with things like procuring anonymous cell phones and the like, but is no more Bob O'Brien than the Granny he went to terrorize. Oh well, I'm sure it will all make great theater, and the attorneys are likely to have a ball with it. Like I said in the beginning - they require a Bob O'Brien at all costs, and it really doesn't matter much whether he is the genuine article or not at the end of the day.

And I'm not telling - not going to do it. Kind of pisses everyone off, I can tell. Sorry guys. But I'm quite sure you have the right guy - keep on keeping on - he sounds like a bad 'un to me. Very mysterious. I was told a sandwich shop was involved. One shudders to think what goes on there. And a boat. I think it's named the James Davidson. It is all unclear at present. Or maybe the sandwiches are subs - those are marine sounding.

Actually, I do kind of wish it was me. Not that it isn't. Or is. Or may be. Or not.

But what I do know is that violating federal laws is a no no last time I checked - and if what they discovered was a big donor to the cause - I hope it was worth someone going to jail over. That's what happens when you violate federal law, I think - I haven't done any federal lawbreaking, so couldn't tell you.

So what do we have at the end of all of this? People who can easily be shown to do anything it takes to get their way, regardless of the law, and who aren't bright enough to get that they are holding nothing. Capital N. Nada. Which they will ultimately find out, as do most who have nothing, over time. In the meanwhile, I think maybe this will be a good mechanism to launch the fiction book - it's about a corrupt, criminally linked hedge fund who sets out to crush a company as part of its serial killing mechanism, who uses the press to do its dirty work and considers itself above the law due to its political contacts, and decides to go after a guy that creates a website that exposes their scheme and creates considerable difficulty for them. I even have a corrupt reporter or two in it. Sort of wrote itself. I think it's a good read. Fast, and believe it or not, has a few similarities to real life.

Have to figure out how to get it out there. I suspect now is the time.

Oh well, good night all. Thanks for all the FBI and WSJ complaints - they will follow up, and they don't just poo poo this sort of thing when it involves attorney trust accounts and feloniously obtained bank records.

We shall see what the day brings.

Posted as a reply to: Msg 310685 by rvac106

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James Dale Davidson in his own words about his 'naked short' securities frauds and penny stock pump and dump activity.Although to promote a stock for purpose of dumping shares is illegal,the SEC looks the other way.I am the 'crazy dog' of his obsessions and was posting on ragingbull.com as did others to warn about his anti-naked short fraud 'NAANSS' used to divert attention of naive investors from the act that it was him dumping shares and not brokers 'naked shorting'.Mr.Davidson was founder of Agora Publications that has touted numerous questionable penny stocks over years years and has numerous websites and mail fraud scams.Agora even promoted CIA invested penny stock Ionatron that CIA insiders dumped :

http://www.vantagepoint-ia.com/Secure/IssueArchive/html%20ve…

Lies, Lies, Lies: Stalkers Meet the Stock Market

It is hard to imagine a retiree or a housewife with time on her hands suddenly deciding to make a hobby of posting anonymous slanders on the GeneMax thread. But one can read dozens of embittered messages there complaining of everything but the real problem. For example, some bozo whose screen name translates to "crazy dog" recently posted an outrageous slander of me: "Does Davidson, as founder of National Taxpayers Union, ever pay taxes on fraud pump-dumps he"s orchestrated using "naked shorting" as a subterfuge to mask his fraud?" In one sentence he manages to falsely imply that I have engaged in a whole range of felonies. I don"t know whether to feel flattered that the naked short sellers find me so formidable an opponent that they would stoop to anonymous smears, or to hire a bodyguard.

In any event, I would hope that Mr. "crazy dog" is well paid for his pains. With the possible exception of a few demented people I"ve crossed paths with, I can"t imagine anyone other than stalkers and major parishioners of naked short selling being so obsessed with me. And what humanitarian motive could explain the smears they pour down on GeneMax - a company that if it can raise sufficient funding may possibly help cure cancer? Go figure.

The Electronic Counterfeiter"s Worst Nightmare:
Circle Group Holdings Rallies 30,000%

The worst nightmare of naked short sellers is that the companies they attack should survive and actually succeed. When that happens, as recently occurred in the case of Circle Group Holdings Inc. (CXN: AMEX), the counterfeiters are obliged to enter the market and buy the duly authorized shares of the capital stock of the company they have sold. CXN rose by nearly 30,000%, from 3 cents to almost $9, as naked short sellers were obliged to buy and deliver shares they counterfeited prior to CXN"s move to the AMEX.

When you think of what happened in the case of Circle Group Holdings, you can see why the malicious charges leveled against me by anonymous smear-mongers on Web sites are ridiculous. If their assertions that I was orchestrating naked short selling were correct, I would hardly have become one of the leading critics of the practice. Nor would I continue to champion the causes of the companies I had "sent under" by allegedly selling wave after wave of electronically counterfeited stock.

And as the example of CXN demonstrates, the damage done to the share prices of companies targeted for destruction by electronic counterfeiters is also a measure of their upside potential - for everyone but the counterfeiters.

Of course, even the most virulent rantings of Mr. "crazy dog" are unlikely to carry much weight with thinking people. To orchestrate more effective smears, the electronic counterfeiters needed a more apparently credible platform. An Internet site called our-street. com emerged to fill the market arising from naked short sellers for seemingly trustworthy smears of small-cap companies that threaten to succeed.

Thus for one reason or another, our-street. com and its marquee character, who writes under the pseudonym Nick Tracy, stepped up to service this
market. Our-street immediately began hurling accusations about securities violations left and right. I first became aware of Nick Tracy and his tendentious exposés when someone sent me a copy of an hysterical attack he did on ChampionLyte Products (CPLY: OTCBB) , a company in which I and a group of investors took a portfolio interest as it attempted to restructure its balance sheet and realize the potential of its low-carb sports drink.

James Davidson,Vantage Point

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In 2004 I decided to finally contact Mr.James Dale Davidson personallY,as the Endovasc fraud continued and the SEC did nothing.Below is that correspondence which,in my opinion,might be used by a plagiarisn expert along with James Dale Davidson's fraudulent penny stock promotions found in Agora's 'Vantage Point' or elsewhere to discover if there is a link between Davidson and 'Bob O'Brien' or 'NAANSS' and 'NCANS'.

My correspondence with Mr.James Dale Davidson himself:

Note James Dale Davidson founded 'NAANSS'to mask his own share dumping after illegally using his many internet websites and use of the mail to send out his fraudulent promotions of his many penny stock scams.Note he continues to blather on and on about electronic trading creating counterfit shares.And it's all a lie to mask his share-money laundering operation.

James Dale Davidson replies:
By tony ryals on 3/20/2004 8:10:43 PM
E-mail: tryals@angelfire.com
'James Dale Davidson' answers,or avoids answering,as the case may be, Ryals email:

Dear Mr. Ryals,

Who are you? I infer from your rantings below that you are delusional. But perhaps more than that? Perhaps you are malicious, and in the employ of electronic counterfeiters who have feasted on the corpses of small public companies ever since the advent of electronic clearing? I can think of no other motivation that would explain your letter. By and large, normal people do not sit around inventing malicious fantasies about someone they don't even know.

Obviously, you have your own agenda, so you are unlikely to be swayed by anything I might say. I recognize that. But for what it's worth, I have never been involved in any "pump and dump" exercise. For the record, you have been warned. I would advise you not to repeat your malicious slanders in a public forum, or I shall be obliged to take legal action for redress.

Sincerely,
James Davidson

P.S. By the way, your search for a company I have been involved with which was a success for its investors could not have been very diligent. As it happens, there was a long op ed piece in the Washington Post this week by a small investor who made so much money following my advice that filing his taxes had become a burden for him.

Tony Ryals wrote:

Dear Mr.James Dale Davidson,
I have meant to contact you for some time regarding my Endovasc 'investment'.I have no idea when you left the 'company' but by the time you did it had dumped millions of shares while fraudulently claiming the 'shareholder value' was the result of Schwab's,Ameritrade's, Refco's,et.al.'s, 'naked shorting.Was 'famed trial attorney O'Quinn'perhaps misled to believe that all those shares were the result of 'naked shorting' rather than the apparent pump dump operation it turned to be ?

I also noted you were greatly responsible for founding the 'naanss' group that blamed most shareholder penny stock losses on 'naked shorting'.Is this just a smoke screen for defrauding Americans and laundering their money through massive share dumping that cannot easily be tracked ? Was the account Mr.Cantrell set up at Schwab with an insider for millions of seemingly free shares a part of your November 2002 pump dump ?

I have looked continuously for a company you have been involved with that was a success for its shareholder-investors. And you know I can't seem to find one although for some reason you always appear to have pumped and dumped the stock through your own myriad publications. Sometimes I believe 'The Soveriegn Individual'explains your own modus operendi of using the internet for anonymously influencing naive investors to buy while you dump the shares you have gotten for free from penny stock 'management' and then use your offshore shells including 'LOM' anmd 'New Paradigm' among many others to hide launder that money you stole from Americans so as not to pay taxes on the theft.That is doubly humorous and fraudulent coming from one who pretends to be an American patriot,even involving yourself in political intrigue,and who prides in having founded the 'National Taxpayers Union'.

Also you have claimed publically the the 'SEC lies'. This I will not comment on but to say they rarely say anything at all.And only through 'freedom of information act' can you get a thing out of them. However you also tell me in your 'Vantage Point'that you received a few shares of Endovasc by way of a 'nicotine patent'that you applied for with 'Dr.Summers.Could you please inform me what the patent number is or was it approved ? Then at another time you claim to have a 'substantial' holding of Endovasc shares through an unidentified source.Was this as a 'consultant'or what,I really don't understand.You see the only reason I 'invested' in 2001 was because of the Stanford nicotine patent for angiogenesis.Now if you left another as you claim in exchange for shares I would like to know about it.

Finally, as an off topic from my Endovasc losses due to a fraudulent pump dump, I would like to ask if you still think Bill Clinton murdered your former employee, CIA Chief Willam Colby ? Try as I might I cannot find any statement from Mr.Colby re the death of Vince Foster nor any reason to believe he agreed with you that Bill Clinton killed his own friend.
Sincerely,
Tony Ryals

James'Fraud'Davidson and MOD Ventures:

27 N. Summerlin Ave.
Orlando,Florida 32801
James Dale Davidson jamesd@attglobal.net
Private Investor, Entrepreneur, Analyst and Author. Mr. Davidson
has extensive experience in entrepreneurial executive management/venture
finance. Author, with Lord William Rees-Mogg, Blood in the Streets:
Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad, The Great Reckoning, and
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information
Age. Founder of Agora Publishing, The Hulbert Financial Digest,
and Strategic Investment. Director of Pickering & Chatto Publishers,
London. Principal of The Fleet Street Press. Founder (natural resource
companies) Oroperu, Sedna Geotech, Ouro Brasil, Oro Argentina, Consolidated
African Holdings, Anatolia Minerals Development Corporation. President,
New Paradigm Capital, a private merchant bank based in Bermuda,
a former director of Banco Comafi S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
and Cardlink Worldwide, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Current North American
technology and Internet related affiliations: BestTransport, Mariah
Vision3, Interactive Retail Management, Internet Transactions Transnational,
NewsMax Media, Advanced Power Devices, Packetup Corporation, Stardata,
and CyGene. Founder, MIVI Therapeutics and GeneMax Pharmaceuticals.
Chairman, Wharekauhau Holdings Ltd., Featherston, New Zealand, Director,
Martinborough Vineyards, Martinborough, New Zealand, and Palliser
Properties, Ltd, Auckland, Deputy Chairman, BEVsystems, Founder
and Director, New World Premium Brands, Auckland, New Zealand (winery roll-up and distribution).

Re: James Dale Davidson replies:
By tony ryals on 3/21/2004 3:41:57 PM
E-mail: tryals@angelfire.com

My Ryals,

You don't identify yourself. Really, that is rather uncivil, though hardly more uncivil than your initial missive which accuses me of a number of felonies of which I know I am innocent. Under the circumstances, I have no interest in keeping up an extended correspondence with you, given that you have made it quite clear that you are prejudiced against me and prepared to leap to conclusions which are remote from the facts.

That said, I doubt that you have a claim against me over the patent I applied for in conjunction with Dr. Summers, as Endovasc signed a substantial contract with a major nutraceutical firm to market the product. This has all been announced. As to being proud of it, yes, I am. It was a valid insight that has been confirmed in human and animal testing.

Sincerely,

James Davidson

Tony Ryals wrote:

Dear Mr. James Dale Davidson,
I appreciate your attempt at a reply but other than your name calling there was a total disregard for the questions I posed.Others,than you or I, who are both biased as to whether your 'Vantage Point' Endovasc articles are pump dumps,can deal with that.

I, as an 'investor' in Endovasc long before you appeared,would just like to focus on the nicotine patent you wrote with Dr.Summers.Remember that you proudy announced that you had co-patented it with Dr.Summers in 'Vantage Point' in 2002 when the stock was being featured in 'Vantage Point' ? Where can I find the number of this patent ? And just how many shares did it cost us, the humble naive investors who bought our shares the old fahioned way ,through those dirty naked shorting mms such as Charles Schwab ? You are more sophistiated re securities than I so you might help me locate this tranacton in SEC filings or fill me in as to why such minor details are not requred in SEC filings.

Your assistance in locating this patent that all EVSC INVESTORS ARE MOST PROUD OF IS MOST APPRECIATED.

Sincerely,

Tony Ryals

James Dale Davidson proud of securities frauds:
By tony ryals on 3/25/2004 5:23:40 PM
E-mail: tryals@angelfire.com

Dear Mr. Ryals,

Needless to say, I regret that you lost money in Endovasc or, indeed, in any investment. That said, your fixation on exploring this issue with me is entirely misplaced. By your own admission, you did not invest in Endovasc on my say-so. In the somewhat patchy account of your complaint that emerges between the lines of your demanding and unpleasant communication, I find no logical nexus between your losses and any action of mine. In pure logic, I cannot see how applying for a patent could have destroyed your investment, or exposed it to any material harm whatever. In the absence of any disclosure on your part, I owe you none. And none you will get. If you think you have a claim against me, contact my lawyer, whose e-mail address is listed above.

Otherwise, I will treat your further communications as spam in the same category as a certificate for a $10 savings on any Teddy Bear purchased in April, notice of a free poetry contest, something about "Ronald Reagan's greatest laughs," and the inevitable promise to enlarge my penis by "up to five inches guaranteed." Att is sending through a lot of malarkey, including too much from you. You have not behaved as a gentleman in any respect in our correspondence. I won't miss hearing from you.

Sincerely,

James Davidson

Tony Ryals wrote:

Dear James Dale Davidson,
Is this your way of saying no patent exists ? All I asked was for the patent number, or if it is still pending,the date it was applied for.I would presume this patent is part of the pink sheet 'evsc' branch as that is the entity I presume is related to the $1.5 million something or other.Sure I would like to know how many shares were given to you for the patent as well.
Also I am glad for you that Stanford did not challenge it as it appears it may be covered in their own patents.Stanford angiogenesis patent by the way can be located on internet.As I lost 99% of my 'share value' due to supposed 'naked shorts'I would at least like to have full disclosure re this patent.
You and the doctor must have a copy describing the patent. May I see it ?

Sincerely,

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Below are messages or threats taken from Yahoo NFI
and OSTK boards and reposted on offshorebusiness.com for the record just as I do again here.This also includes my email to Yahoo who removed my messages and deleted my email account all because I was warning others a scam was going down by an orgainzed criminal gang on Yahoo paid for in part by Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com.

Unfortunately threats to me or not taken as seriously by Wall Street Journal or Barrons or Reuters as are threats to well known hedge fund managers and the SEC at best doesn't care.

The threats of 'Bob O'Brien' and his ncans.net mafia.
By Byrne of Overstock.com should be ashamed. on 9/10/2005 8:04:23 PM
E-mail: wolfblitzzer0@lycos.com

I'm posting my communication with Yahoo who deleted my account,(all email and posts), again to appease the 'ncans mafia' who dominate the Yahoo NFI and OSTK boards there.

I'm posting the two threatening messages from the ncans.net gang,(ncansd3 is or was 'Bob O'Brien),in part because I fear Yahoo will,at most, delete those messages to protect the guilty.As I aleady mentioned here previously,on the thread relating to removal of the diligizer board and all its voluminous research contributed by posters,even Eliot Spitzer's spitzer2006 has removed all of my posts that was titled 'ss funds in manipulated markets' and other discussions started by individuals there.

This included very interesting chatter from the Yahoo NFI message board including the 'Tony
reveals' post immediately below.

http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=8729314&tid=nfi&sid=8729314&mid=319891

Re: Tony Reveals...
by: ncansd3
Long-Term Sentiment: Strong Buy 07/04/05 11:35 pm
Msg: 319891 of 342767

Guatemala? Tikal is OK. The rest of the place is a mosquito infested
hellhole where you can have someone taken out for $500 bucks to the
right cabby. Come to think of it, Tikal has a ton of mosquitos, too.
And it's rainy season.

Guatemala is the punchline for jolks in Honduras and El Salvador. No
offense to Guatemalans, who are generally very simpatico and genuine.

And you don't even want to see the winner of a machete fight.

Enjoy the Dengue and Malaria and Typhoid and Yellow Fever, Tony. Good
move. Nice choices. Bravo.

Posted as a reply to: Msg 319884 by short_bag_holder

Type your feedback here:
Dear Yahoo,
This is hopefully more than a rebuttal
to whoever had my account deleted on
Yahoo for 'TOS'.This is hopefully a
wake up call to what could become news
regarding Yahoo itself in allowing
organized tout gangs,organised crime
in my opinion, to take over certain
message boards and threaten the safety
of whoever might have a critical or
discouraging word of the stocks they
mindlessly tout on Yahoo.

In case you haven't noticed you have
not ONE or TWO or THREE individuals
who tout OSTK and NFI but an organized
gang! Sometimes when they don't like
journalists or people who may be
investigating their ncans.net account
in San Diego for instance,as was the
case of one journalist in June,you
heard talk of 'guns' on Yahoo.Well,
maybe you haven't.You seem to avoid
wanting to know.

The leader alias as you may know is
the alias 'Bob O'Brien' of ncans.net
and nfi-info-net who was
dirtydirtydeeds and who became
notorious in national news for subtle
life threats to and the releasing of
the addresses of Marc Cohodes and family
of Rocker hedge fund in Marin on
Yahoo NFI message board.This was
covered by both Reuters and Barrons !!!
And yet with no problem or notice by
Yahoo he returned immediately to lead
his organized band on Yahoo
as 'ncansd3'.

Now he is 'easter_bunny_d3 !!The gang
of penny touters organise around him
and hhill,who I believe is Howard Hill
a former professional in Deutsche Bank
and finance community and one mhelburn
or Mary Campbell Helburn.

She has suggested that SEC employees
should be 'axed' someone should come
in with a 'scythe' and cut off heads
and that in Japan these SEC employees
would be forced to commit mass
suicide. She also appeared in a video
which you can find on ncans.net
and pretended to have lost over half
her handicapped nephew's money in
penny stocks due to 'NAKED SHORTING'!

At other times the gang DOES name SEC
names,particularly Annette Nazareth
for some reason.One of the gang,some
months ago,claimed to know Jesse
Eisinger's(of WSJ) parents but are
VERY critical of him and mentioned in
passing about some human body floating
in a river near his parents home !!

This group is not a bunch of 'mom and
pop' investors as they originally
claimed and Yahoo would have to live
in a vacuum not to know they were
funded to the tune of $10,000's of
thousands of dollars by OSTK's Byrne
alone whose stock they are touting on
Yahoo at this very moment while
probably threatening anyone who isn't
saying 'to da moon' and pretending it
is only $40+ a share due to naked
shorting !!

So excuse me if I'm wrong but
basically what we have here is a gang
of professional stock touters on Yahoo
who have been documented to threaten
others even in national and
international news reports.One of the
two main stocks they tout on Yahoo as
a victim of naked shorting is Patrick Byrne's
OSTK who we all know has given substantial
donations,if that's the right word,to
fund them !!! Even a $100,000+ ad was
taken out by this gang who occupy your
NFI and OSTK message boards in the
Washington Post on February 8 !! It is
my belief that the ncans gang who tout
with impunity on Yahoo is related to a
now defunct website called 'naanss'and
possibly a James Dale Davidson.You can
do a google search of that.

True or not it is the same scam of
claiming naked shorting is occuring in
certain stocks, mainly penny
stocks,and that investors should
buy 'certs'.This is who you are
protecting and coddling on Yahoo
whether you realise it or not.

So what is clear is I NEVER threaten
anyone on Yahoo or anywhere else.Sure
I poke fun a what appears an obvious
scam to me,the same scam a penny
company associated with 'naanss' used
in 2002 to rip me off 100%.And yes I
do try to warn other investors who may
fall victim to them believing OSTK or
NFI is victim of naked shorting and
the price will be over $200 A SHARE AS
THEY HAVE CLAIMED FOR NFI AND TO
BUY 'CERTS' WHICH ALLOWS INSIDERS TO
THE SCAM TO TIE UP THOSE SHARES AS
THEY DUMP OR MANIPULATE IMHO.

But it is the ncans gang you protect
who got me a 'tos' and all my email
deleted who threaten others and lie
about stocks to lure suckers,not me.
Below are a couple of examples of
these threats to me,Tony Ryals,as well
as links to self published articles
about this fraud,in my opinion,that
Yahoo,so far,aids and abets for
whatever reason.My original account
WAS Tony Ryals until the Yahoo tout
syndicate who threaten my life as you
can see below and know where I live
had you remove my original account AND
ALL MY IMPORTANT EMAIL FOR THEIR
PLEASURE !!!

They have more aliases than I can keep
up with and make more everyday on
Yahoo,they are organised securities
fraud and you are their main website
to con and lure to ncans.net,nfi-
info.net,buyin.net,etc., etc.,

Sure I would like my account back and
to have a chance to warn others about
them if you continue to alow their
organized crime on Yahoo.Otherwise I
do believe Yahoo should be held
responsible for anyone who loses money
at least on NFI or OSTK by 'advise'
they receive from this pro tout gang
on Yahoo.I've tried to warn but you
allow them to delete my account and my
warnings.You allow them to threaten
journalists and individuals who are
critical of their tactics.And in doing
so Yahoo has allied itself with what I
feel will be exposed as a massive
stock fraud in the end,organized
criminal activity on Yahoo.

So my name is Tony Ryals the threats
you see below to my life on Yahoo are
to me.They know who I am because I do
not play games or hide my identity or
hesitate to denounce their securities
fraud on Yahoo or anywhere else.These
scum you host,for stock fraud
promotion in my opinion,even use my
name,ctonyryals,as one of their Yahoo
aliases !!! And they've used so many
variations of my original Yahoo
alias,biodog0,I can't even keep up !!!

So look at the threats below about
coming to Guatemala to teach me a
lesson or about getting me killed for
$500 in Guatemala.Do you all think
that's cute ? I have reason to believe
they may be able to manipulate Yahoo
message board or have uploaded
something of interest from
a 'heroic.org' English or Russian
server but I'm not sure.I can send you
what I have though so you can see if
what they or someone uploaded to Yahoo
from that site was legit.

Although this is long,the issues are
serious,and I await your reply to know
if I should simply put this
communication and the life threats you
seem to encourage into the public
domain of the http://www internet for the
world to see.

Sincerely
Tony Ryals

RE Jesse Eisinger,WSJ,and ncans.net
phones,donation, and boat named "James
Davidson" :

http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.
mm=FN&board=8729314&tid=nfi&sid=8729314
&action=m&mid=310727

Tony Reveals,ncansd3 subtle threats :

http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.
mm=FN&action=m&board=8729314&tid=nfi&si
d=8729314&mid=319891

Tony Ryals is playing with fire
"by: ftd_is_a_criminal_offense "
"Long-Term Sentiment: Buy 08/29/05 "
12:12 am
"Msg: 339114 of 340847 "

Tony said

"I do know you are a stock fraud"

Tony,
You seem to be going over the line.
That type degradation of a man's honor
is not looked upon favorably by the US
court system.

Your claim of no assets does not give
you the right to use a public message
board to make claims that you know are
false.

Your current walk on the wild side
should have educated you to the fact
that some folks are not as relaxed and
honorable as Mr. Hill.

Please be more careful in your
unfounded accusations - and good luck
in any forthcoming prison time.

Naked shorting is the name.
RICO is the game.

"Posted as a reply to: Msg 339045 by "
ncansisscam

"Subj: Re: Tony Ryals is playing with "
fire
"By: easter_bunny_d3 "
"Date : 08/29/05 12:17 am "

Tony is posting from Guatemala, which
he thinks insulates him from most
everything.

It kind of does, the only problem is
that you have to live in Guatemala.

http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=8729314&tid=nfi&sid=8729314&mid=339114

"Subj: Re: Tony Ryals is playing with "
fire
"By: ftd_is_a_criminal_offense "
"Date: 08/29/05 12:39 am "

Easter Bunny,

You are so right.

Tony thinks that moving to an overseas
address will insulate him from
honorable folks.

I wonder what Tony would do if a
retired stockholder of any of the
companies that he is currently
slamming paid him a personal visit?

You know all longs don't necessarily
live in the US. Most retirees have
plenty of time on their hands and
might enjoy educating Tony to the
benefits of owning OSTK, NFI, and SCH.

Tony is also very free in calling
people "frauds".

http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?
action=m&board=7081280&tid=sch&mid=7061
0&sid=70812 80

A quick check of Yahoo's message
boards shows 957 posts by the infamous
Tony. I have still not found a message
of substance.

Oh well, he has plenty of time on his
hands now. We can only hope that his
free time on the outside is replaced
by free time with Bubba soon.

Naked shorting is the name
RICO is the game
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Does Texas Attorney O'Quinn aid penny
stock fraud ?

http://cvilleindymedia.org/newswire.php
?story_id=1788

To SEC:JAMES ANGEL,GEORGETOWN AIDS
PENNY STOCK FRAUD :

http://richmond.indymedia.org/newswire/
display/10927/index.php

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I add to our story on NCANS.NET, for the record,
this list of questions with answers from Utah's and Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne.Dr.Byrne has used the naked short claim to infer at least that his OSTK or Overstock.com stock is being 'naked shorted' by unknown people or a 'market maker' ,I guess.Market makers are the only people who can legally naked short or sell shares that are not immediatley available on the open market for resale to a purchaser.Ideally these market makers can then purchase the shares they sold to a retail customer on the open market.

However after having been convinced I was a victim of naked short selling in the past by the fraudulent Endovasc 'biotech' company out of Texas and attorney John O'Quinn,(now representing Patrick Byrne),and by James Dale Davidson who orchestrated the fraudulent promotion and dumping of millions of Endovasc shares,I have come to the conclusion, of more rational minds, that 'naked shorting' is not a grave problem to market stability.The earnings of the company are.

And the naked shorting claim has been used for a massive fraud in penny stocks and because the SEC did nothing it has moved up to higher market value
stocks,although still poor profit generating stocks such as Patrick Byrne's OSTK.

While Byrne at other times strongly denies OSTK is being 'naked shorted' but instead that shares are being coventionally and legally shorted by hedge funds and or private individuals,he funds NCANS and the unidentified Bob O'Brien who makes threats on Yahoo against a Rocker Partners hedge fund related individual,Marc Cohodes,as well as to myself ,whose only interest is in exposing those behind NCANS for the massive penny stock fraud I believe they are part of.

And Bob O'Brien's NCANS only function is to make
generally false claims of naked shorting for the stocks they promote,including Overstock.com.Dr. Patrick Byrne just sits back and lets this happen AND he pays them to do it !!

Aside from the fraud I suspect and lies and misinformation about 'naked shorting' being propogated by 'Bob O'Brien' and NCANS on
Yahoo and ragingbull.com etc.and using those sites to direct traffic to the ncans.net website,it goes even further off the deep end because Dr.Byrne also would have us believe in a 'Sith Lord' who is behind
this conspiracy against him and Overstock.com to bring it down !

Since fomenting this myth, ncans.net followers or
insiders to the scam began making fly by night websites devoted to Michael Milken and others as the 'Sith Lord' of Dr.Byrne's fanasy or nightmare. Others have been proposed but the accusation against Milken became so heated that Milken was driven to make a public denial.No he is not Patrick Byrne's 'Sith Lord'.

Because this is Utah, the home of Overstockcom and Byrne and Senator Bennett who appears to back him in his assertions of a 'naked shorting' conspiracy,and these are Dr.Byrne's public statements, I add them to my investigation here.It was Seth Jason of Motely Fool as you can see below who proposed them after he did the only article so far to officially mention the Beltway's James Dale Davidson as the 'brains' behind
NCANS,whose only address so far appears to be Cheetah Club,a striptease joint in Las Vegas whose
San Diego branch was found guilty of bribing city council members.It is the only striptease joint,, to my knowledge,to have been investigated by the FBI using the Patriot Act for whatever reasons.

This interrogatory by Seth Jason was most important to me for a few reasons.Dr.Byrne for the first time mentions James Dale Davidson but only to deny he is the unidentified Bob O'Brien of NCANS.He also for the first time acknowledges he knows who Bob O'Brien really is.

Although he had donated 10's of thousands of dollars to the ad warning about naked shorting in the Washington Post on February 8,he had ,until then, denied knowing who he was working with !! Second because Dr.Byrne admits he funds Bob O'Brien and is thus,in many ways,funding 'O'Brien's' internet threats and fraudulent lies regarding 'naked shorting' and
O'Brien's and NCANS promotion of many penny stocks claiming to be victims of 'naked shorting' that in truth appear to be illegal pump and dump scams.

You will find the statements immediately below from Dr.Byrne near the bottom of the interview but as they are the most significant to me I place them here at the top.:

Seth Jason: There's been a lot of controversy regarding your relationship with "Bob O'Brien," a man who hides behind a pseudonym ...

Patrick Byrne: Not to me. I know who he is (and he is not James Davidson). But the test of any theory (or theorist) is its ability to make accurate predictions. Bob made far-out but, in the end, accurate predictions about journalists, David Rocker, and our trading. Why get hung up on personalities?

... and issues vicious, unsupported attacks against anyone who disagrees with him.

A. False. O'Brien's vicious attacks are generally heavily supported.

Yes, his writing is acerbic (and he is more sarcastic in person!), but I think it is the whole vox clementis in deserto thing. To the extent that I have any input with Bob, I have asked him to be kinder and gentler. But I'll take "right" over "kinder and gentler."

Seth Jason: Do you think your shareholders would be better served if you distanced yourself from him and his organization, which you have helped to fund?

Patrick Byrne:I helped fund Bob and also tried to rein him when he went overboard. On balance he has done our shareholders a favor. Incidentally, does the vindictiveness of Herb, Jesse [Eisinger, of The Wall Street Journal], and Jeff Matthews concern you equally, or is your outrage selective?

.................................................................................................

A Dozen Answers From Dr. Byrne By Patrick Byrne August 24, 2005

On Aug. 18, Seth Jayson wrote an article that asked 12 questions of Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne. Dr. Byrne graciously responded. The Motley Fool has edited Dr. Byrne's comments, mostly for brevity and clarity, but granted Dr. Byrne the ability to accept or reject the final article. That you see this online is evidence that Dr. Byrne has acceded to its publishing in this form. The thoughts expressed below are Patrick Byrne's and do not represent the views or positions of The Motley Fool or its authors or employees.

Dear Mr. Jayson,

Though your interrogatories came with your own preamble, you instructed me to answer without reference to larger issues. I respectfully reject your instruction. As Wittgenstein wrote, "If a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand him." He knew that frames of reference may be so dissimilar that communication is difficult. In such cases, playing junior prosecutor over details ("But isn't it true that ... ?") is fruitless.

The best way I know to proceed -- and I suggest readers do the same -- is within the construct of a three-point paradigm. First, the number of shares traded each day that constitute failures-to-deliver (FTD) is staggeringly and unacceptably high. Second, those making money off of these failures to deliver have a pecuniary interest in obfuscating issues. Third, though it is colored as such in the press, our lawsuit is not about short selling stocks.

Q. How can investors be sure that this entire drama isn't just the result of a colossal clash of egos?

A. What part of "illegal" don't you understand?

Overstock has been on the Regulation SHO fail-to-deliver list for nearly seven months with the exception of a few weeks straddling March-April, though the SEC predicted no company would be on the list for more than 13 days. The people who nightly determine that Overstock belongs on the Regulation SHO list refuse to tell me how many FTDs there are. Why? Assume there are 10 million Overstock fails scattered in the system. That means $400+ million of stock. Brokers are charging 20-30% interest to loan our stock: Thus, there is $80 to $120 million of illicit annual income generated wherever in the system those FTDs reside. And Overstock is one stock of 150 on the list: A Freedom of Information Act request forced the SEC to disclose that 6% of all shares traded daily on the major exchanges constitute failures to deliver.

Q. You alleged [on] Friday [Aug. 12] on CNBC that Herb Greenberg --- among other journalists -- is actively participating in this conspiracy in order to help Rocker and others front-run or otherwise trade illegally in your stock. What, exactly, do you claim is the motivation for the alleged conspiring journalists?

A. Captured regulators get there in various ways: laziness, flattery, bribes. In the case of financial journalists, there is a continuum:

Some work hard, are smart, and could be analysts themselves; Some work hard but rely heavily on leads from hedgies; Some sit by the phone and wait for it to ring with calls from hedgies; Some just drink beer and play poker with hedgies; Just maybe, a couple take tips in offshore bank accounts from hedgies (there are bent priests, bent cops, bent judges: Is the thought of a bent journalist incomprehensible?). I do not know where on the continuum Herb sits, but I think it is not at the top.

Q. You said on CNBC [on] Friday [Aug. 12] that the only evidence you have in this case is affidavits given by people who claim to have previously been involved in the scheme ... you read from an affidavit which said "it appeared" that the players in the conspiracy were orchestrating attacks on you. Is that the strongest evidence you've got?

A. No, there was much more, even in that affidavit (only a few lines of which I read aloud). I also have internal company documents and emails, and material regarding other parties (I never said that all three affiants were from Camelback, did I?). I am not sure which is "the strongest."

Also, respectfully, I never said "only" or that I had "nothing" else: Readers should view this link to confirm for themselves (see minute 4:00 to 4:30).

Q. Why should anyone, in the public or the courtroom, trust the statements of people who were (or are) involved in perpetrating the very same stock scam that you're protesting?

A. Conversely, how can you impugn someone for being involved in a scheme and simultaneously deny it exists? It's like saying, "I don't believe anyone sells heroin. What, these guys said they were part of a gang that sells heroin? Well, you cannot trust anyone who was once a heroin dealer. Therefore, there is no evidence that anyone sells heroin."

These guys thought they were working in legitimate shops, learned how the game was played, and skedaddled.

Q. How much is this litigation going to cost Overstock shareholders, including the money needed to defend against the defamation suits that have already begun to come your way?

A. It has been costly to date. Now it is in the hands of O'Quinn, Christian, Voyles, and others. They took this (along with all countersuits) on contingency.

Remember, on my Aug. 11 conference call I detailed a lawsuit, but it is not about shorting. We discovered evidence of a "research" firm that was providing information to some clients before others, permitting those preferred clients to edit that research and trade ahead of its publication, and were themselves secretly running a hedge fund front-running that same research. All of this is, I believe, improper, so I filed a lawsuit alleging unfair business practices among these blackguards.

In the course of that investigation I kept coming across the same several hedge funds and journalists and with a little research discovered a set of relationships among them. In my conference call I explored relationships within that circle, folks about whom I stipulated I had no knowledge of anything improper. What's David Einhorn going to do, sue me for mentioning he is married to Cheryl Einhorn? Or that he knows Jules Kroll? Is Kroll going to sue me for saying they investigate companies for hedge funds? Let them. I just talked about relationships: Why, did they look like a conspiracy to you?

It is true that I disclosed that I had detected signs of a background player whose role remains murky, but who may not give instructions so much as set priorities. Because his involvement remains unclear, I chose to identify him only as "the Sith Lord." But our lawsuit has nothing to do with these other players, shorting, naked shorting, or Sith Lords. The financial journalists' mantra-like repetition of the claim that it does cannot change that fact.

I have explained the slop in the settlement system and the financial rewards it generates at the expense of small companies, the incentives that exist to use blue smoke and mirrors to confuse the facts, my decision to make a difference by grabbing one thread of the tapestry and pulling hard, and the profoundly degenerate intellectual and moral level of those engaged in the obfuscation. What's in it for me? Criticism and derision, but that's OK: When you stand for things, you get used to it.

Q. Let's be honest. You know more than one billionaire, and you say that you, family, and friends already own an enormous piece of Overstock. Why not just avoid the hassles of the public market, give shareholders the $77-ish per share that your lawsuit suggests the stock is worth, and take it private?

A. We did. About 100% of the shares are owned by family, friends, and a handful of institutions (I don't know for sure). The problem is, there exists an additional 3%-70% of the company in electronically counterfeited shares scattered throughout the system. Why pay to buy up counterfeit shares?

Q. You claim there is a "Sith Lord" controlling your stock price. It would seem to me that rather than trying to short Overstock straight into the ground, a clever Sith Lord would do better to let the stock rise at some point, and play both sides of the action. Have you any evidence that your stock's big rise in late 2004, or any subsequent pop, could have been orchestrated by the Sith Lord, prior to taking his short position?

A. False. First, stock prices are not "controlled" deterministically. Second, I said the Sith Lord's role is murky to me: If it exists, it seems less about control than about priorities (like Osama bin Laden to al-Qaida). Respectfully, the rest of your statement/question is unsound and, as it concerns Sith Lords and stock prices, is blue smoke and mirrors.

Q. Your lawsuit claims that the Sith Lord's conspiracy is directly responsible for the fall in your stock's price. Yet other heavily shorted stocks that appear on the Reg SHO list, such as Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), NetEase (Nasdaq: NTES), True Religion (Nasdaq: TRLG), and Shanda (Nasdaq: SNDA) are doing just fine, as you can see from this chart. How do these companies resist the power of the Sith, and why can't Overstock do the same?

A. Again, I do not know that the Sith Lord is "directly" responsible for anything. Remember, the only "conspiracy" I alleged is between Rocker, Cohodes, and Camelback. Other than that I just talked about relationships: Again, did they look like a conspiracy to you?

Q. For better or worse, you have become a controversial figure because of the naked short issue. Would Overstock shareholders be better served if you stepped down as CEO but remained as chairman of the board?

A. My father will be chairman shortly. I would love to step down as CEO. But I am hearing from so many dozens if not hundreds of investors, essentially all of whom support this fight; I cannot let them down.

Truth is, I want to go walkabout. But Stormy [Simon] does not want to be CEO (and given what she did to Meade, as is described below, I think Rocker is better off with me here).

Q. What do your many family members, friends, and mentors like Warren Buffett -- who have achieved business success in their own right -- think of this effort?

A. Mr. Buffett is off limits. Of the others: One knows the players well, says they are truly bad people and to make sure I don't wind up face down in a ditch.

Don't worry, Seth: I am bulletproof and invisible.

Q. There's been a lot of controversy regarding your relationship with "Bob O'Brien," a man who hides behind a pseudonym ...

A. Not to me. I know who he is (and he is not James Davidson). But the test of any theory (or theorist) is its ability to make accurate predictions. Bob made far-out but, in the end, accurate predictions about journalists, David Rocker, and our trading. Why get hung up on personalities?

... and issues vicious, unsupported attacks against anyone who disagrees with him.

A. False. O'Brien's vicious attacks are generally heavily supported.

Yes, his writing is acerbic (and he is more sarcastic in person!), but I think it is the whole vox clementis in deserto thing. To the extent that I have any input with Bob, I have asked him to be kinder and gentler. But I'll take "right" over "kinder and gentler."

Q. Do you think your shareholders would be better served if you distanced yourself from him and his organization, which you have helped to fund?

A. I helped fund Bob and also tried to rein him when he went overboard. On balance he has done our shareholders a favor. Incidentally, does the vindictiveness of Herb, Jesse [Eisinger, of The Wall Street Journal], and Jeff Matthews concern you equally, or is your outrage selective?

I'll give you an example that speaks to the obfuscation I spoke of above. Several years ago my friend and colleague, Stormy Simon, put a killer (David Meade) behind bars. For four years the police had searched for a witness of whom they knew only a name, "Stormy" (which they mistakenly assumed to be a stripper's nom du stage: They thus confined their searches to Intermountain strip joints). They never found her. At the end of Meade's trial it seemed certain he would walk out of court a free man, but in a John Grisham-like twist, Stormy surprised everyone by showing up in the courtroom (though Meade had told her that if she did she would end up face down in a field with a bullet in her head). Her testimony put Meade away for life. She is a hero to the Salt Lake City homicide detectives and prosecutors, one of whom just wrote a book, "Death in a Fish Pond," the climax of which is Stormy's out-of-the-blue heroism (the other witness, incidentally, did end up face down in a field).

A second example concerns a story I told on my conference call concerning how, when I came to suspect there were leaks in my environment, I created two pieces of disinformation to which I gave controlled release. I watched for blowback and, when it came, used it to trace the problem.

How does this play in the hands of Jeff Matthews, whose "blog" (he disallows dissenting opinions so it is not a real blog) lets him be the most vocal of the hedge fund-journalists? Jeff omits the context of my story and the crux of the Stormy story (that she was never a dancer, which is why the police never tracked her down), so he could write lengthy pieces about how Byrne is a whacko, he talks about cocaine and gays and has senior vice president strippers, etc.

Q. Fast-forward a year. You've won damages of $500 million in this case. Do you track down all past shareholders from the period of the alleged damages and pay them for their losses? Do you pay it to current shareholders as a special dividend?

A. Maybe I donate it to the people whose lives and companies were ruined by financial thuggery. Maybe I pay for real regulators who won't hide under their desks. But it will take more than a year.

In closing, I must mention that we recently fired someone we believe was a mole passing information to hedge funds. Just before getting canned, the mole's primary focus was asking around the office, "What is the special relationship between The Fool and Patrick?" (For the record, I hope Bill Mann and the Gardners would agree that we have a cordial but distant relationship: The principles The Fool espouses are simply the same ones I learned as a kid and from which I now operate. Excluding interviews, we probably talk once per year, if that. But to outsiders it may look like we coordinate like, well, a bunch of reporters and hedge funds who play poker and talk three times per week.) [Editor's note: We agree.]

Thus, I now think that the miscreants understand the threat that an uncaptured financial news source like The Fool represents to them. They will seek to capture it. So you guys should be on the lookout for any journalist who suddenly shows up at The Fool trying to further the hedgies' agenda (by, say, bashing their shorts, spinning our lawsuit as being about Sith Lords and naked shorting, etc.)

Warm regards,

Patrick

P.S.: Jeff Matthews' smears against Stormy notwithstanding, I do have a couple good friends who were wigglers (and another who was a call girl). All three are finer human beings than the average Wall Street hedgie, journalist, etc. To have a hedge fund quisling like Matthews denigrate the way they make their living is hilarious.

Below is from Jeff Matthews blog who has been following the Patrick Byrne - Overstock.com saga for some time.The link to that blog is :

http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/

Maybe Dr.Byrne is suffering from a bout of paranoia, how can anyone be blamed for that in these times ?
Who cares if he is or isn't gay ? But why bring it up only for purpose of denial ? Same with the cocaine issue but yet he does,as direct quotes from him on Jeff Matthews reveals.

I am not surprised by Dr.Byrne's distrust of Carol Remond as she is an award winning business journalist who has been investigating around the 'naked short selling' scam of sleezy penny stock con artists since at least the time James Dale Davidson,et.al., founded NAANSS that I discussed earlier.

I don't believe it is a coincidence that Dr.Byrne doesn't like her as she wrote a very revealing article about both him and Senator Bennett.Also when Bob O'Brien appeared on the scene in February after he
and Byrne placed the ad-letter to W Bush in the Washington Post to warn Bush of the evils of naked shorting, ''Bob O'Brien'' also took an immediate dislike of Remond just as James Dale Davidson had before them.You can find Carol Remond's 'Get Shorty, The trail from Utah to Washington' here :

http://utah.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/11165.phphttp://www.offshorebusiness.com/message_board_detail.asp?id=16142&page=1

But what is really odd to me is Byrne's mention, in passing below, of Kevin Ingram,an African American who made good before he apparently went bad.And he is also a nemesis of Bob O'Brien,at least in Bob's mind.A google search ' bob o'brien kevin ingram' may find that on 'bobosrevenge' blogspot or 'ncans.net'.

Yes he was convicted for illicit arms deal apparently yet he was associated with a Howard Hill who posts on Yahoo's NFI and other boards as 'hhill' and is a friend to 'Bob O'Brien' and coincidentally used to post on a University of Colorado message board where James Davidson posted to in 1999.You can find that story on Kevin Ingram,Howard Hill and 'Bob O'Brien' on this link :

http://www.offshorebusiness.com/message_board_detail.asp?id=16142&page=1

And mention of Al Qaeda ? Just read below.Dr.Byrne says,as you can read,'And they turned that into a white paper that said Byrne is tied up Al-Qaeda and terrorism and money laundering and you ought to look at this guy... ' Well I do believe Byrne travelled to the Middle East but that means little.

However it has come to my attention that James Dale Davidson,who Byrne emphasizes IS NOT 'Bob O'Brien' has been conducting some business there in Dubai with a company ,perhaps only a shell he wishes to promote in order to dump shares on defrauded Americans,called Amenni.That's his usual modus operendi.

And a group doing just that called Bellador Group or http://www.belladorgroup.com, with an Arizona attorney named Ron Logan,has set up an office there and may have a James Dale Davidson connection.Both have a connection to Endovasc of Montgomery,Texas who defrauded me in an illegal 'pump and dump' they blamed on 'naked shorting'.There is also a rumor on siliconinvestor.com that http://www.ncans.net, set up by Bob O'Brien with the aidof Utah's Patrick Byrne,is getting 'hits',not only from the SEC,but has also had people from Saudi Arabia,the Arab Emirates,and Kuwait visiting that website for some reason.

http://www.offshorebusiness.com/message_board.asp?search=amenni&submit=Search+text+from+messages%2Freplies

Below are exact words of Patrick Byrne from Jeff Matthews blog :

Monday, August 15, 2005

“I’m Not a Cokehead” and Other Truths from Patrick Byrne, CEO

http://snipurl.com/i4y1

WARNING: THIS MAN RUNS A PUBLIC COMPANY.

I agree that CEO’s who spend time worrying about shorts or obsessing about shorts are fools. And that most of the CEOs who tangle with shorts are crooks...

I believe there’s been a plan since we were in our teens to destroy our stock, drive it down to $6 to $10...

These are the folks I’m going to talk about….Leon Black I’ve put in there just because he’s a well-known financier hedge fund guy. Got nothing to say about him. Sort of putting him in as an example of a -- just somebody in a hedge fund...

Jim Caruthers is an interesting fellow. He’s up at Eastborne Capital, north of San Francisco. Eastborne has an “E” at the end. It’s funny because there’s a fellow holding himself out in a nearby location by the name of Jim Karruthers, with a slightly different spelling, holding himself out as a private investigator from Eastborn Investigations, no “E” at the end. I know that couldn’t be this Jim Caruthers, because that would be a felony for a person to hold himself out as a PI when he’s not. And that PI has a very interesting relationship with a certain lawyer in Detroit who has some very odd practices that maybe we’ll have time to get back to...

Kevin Ingram was a prominent fellow in the late 1990’s in Wall Street. He left Wall Street, started a dot com. I think it was crashing. He got caught attempting to sell Stinger missiles or obtain Stinger missiles for some Pakistani ISI agent, who turned out to be undercover feds. In fact, he agreed to work on obtaining a nuclear trigger for them. So he went to the pen for a few years. He’s out now and he’s basically a gopher for some of these folks...

I finally wrote Herb and I said, “Herb, is this some subtle way of approaching me? It’s okay if it is, but I’m just not into that.” He just seemed obsessed with me. Well, oddly enough, he stopped in February, more or less stopped writing about me. And the same week practically he stopped a blog was created by Jeff Matthews who runs Ram Partners. And in my view, I think the assignment got passed from Herb to Jeff...

And somebody, a politically connected investor with the hedge funds calls up the SEC or the DOJ and says hey, you know, “Listen I was just having breakfast with George and Laura and they sends their regards. And by the way, I know a guy on Wall Street who’s come across something you really need to take a look at.” And so then one of the hedge funds goes in, sends somebody in with this white paper and they try to get an investigation started. That’s how the basic system works...

And they turned that into a white paper that said Byrne is tied up Al-Qaeda and terrorism and money laundering and you ought to look at this guy...

I’ll only talk to a Wall Street Journal reporter with a phone on because they’re such crooks…

Well, something else funny happened. My phone went dead, my phone went dead and a message came up in Spanish that said this has been diverted to some telephone company in Mexico and the line was out...

As this went on I started realizing that there was actually some more orchestration here being provided, by what I’m calling here is the Sith Lord…He’s one of the master criminals from the 1980s, and he’s back in business. But I’m not going to. I’ll just call him the master mind today...

So, in the words of Wayne and Garth, “Squeeze me?”

By the way, Carol Remond has something stuck in her craw about the fact, most people I think understood that when I said “those I took baths with” to mean like my cousins and brothers, whatever, girlfriends. She’s calling around and saying that there’s a, Byrne has a gay bathhouse cabal and that’s where this has been organized. Something about the whole bath reference has steamed Carol. My theory is it’s because she’s French…

I put information down there that I was gay. And…I put information down that I was a coke head. Now my apologies to my gay friends, both within and without, outside the company, I don’t mean to equate the two. I don’t care. I’m a libertarian and I don’t care at all. In fact I don’t give a hoot if anyone thinks I’m gay, but I thought that by keeping, by putting that information down on one channel and putting the coke head information down the other channel, I would then know if it leaked…

On the coke head thing, and by the way, I’ve never, with one exception, I’ve never even seen cocaine in my life so in case you’re wondering, no, I’m not a coke head...

I made something up. I said, “I’m going to Venezuela, I’m going to need some bodyguards.” Well, there’s no way he could really say no. And he’s a fine guy. I mean, I don’t envy him. So I went in to see him and he met me, brought a witness and my guess is he was taping it...

So that’s where we are. You may think I’m nuts…. If you think I’m nuts about all this, just ignore. Just ignore me. Just don’t do anything about it...

I like these guys, they’re sort of guys out of a John Grisham novel, real smart, O’Quinn is a great big strapping Texas cowboy. He sued Texas, he sued big tobacco on behalf of Texas and won $17 billion, pocketed a couple of it himself. And now he just funds lawsuits that he thinks has a social purpose. And we met. It was like two lost brothers meeting because we’ve come from very different directions to the same conclusion...

Why not take it to the authorities? Well, to that I say, “The SEC, come on, look at those, the graph of the Miscreants Ball and tell me the SEC is up to taking something like on. They’re up to going after Martha Stewart on a good day. They’re not up to taking on a web like that. They probably are afraid it might cause volatility.”

Did I stutter? Did I stutter or did I say I was going to take this fight to you? Well now you know what I meant. And lastly, the man I’ve identified here as the Sith Lord of this stuff I just say, you know who you are and I hope that this is worth it, because if the feds catch you again, this time they’re going to bury you under the prison. And I’m going to enjoy helping.

Those are the words of Doctor Patrick M. Byrne, Chairman and CEO of Overstock.com, reprinted straight out of the conference call transcript announcing a lawsuit against short-sellers.

"Squeeze me?" and "Sith Lord" and "Stinger missiles" and all.

For first-time readers, Overstock.com is a money-losing, internet-based enterprise whose stock is currently recommended as a “BUY” by Legg Mason analyst Scott Devitt and W.R. Hambrecht & Co. analyst Craig Bibb.

Nobody can make that up.

Jeff Matthews
I Am Not Making This Up

The content contained in this blog represents the opinions of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Matthews also acts as an advisor and clients advised by Mr. Matthews may hold either long or short positions in securities of various companies discussed in the blog based upon Mr. Matthews' recommendations.

posted by Jeff Matthews @ 7:36 AM

BYRNE FLAMES OUT

By RODDY BOYD

August 14, 2005 -- Patrick Byrne blew a gasket last week.
Byrne, the chief executive officer and founder of Web retailer Overstock.com, took to the airwaves and Internet on Friday and very memorably discussed the lawsuit his company filed against a local hedge fund and an independent research firm.

It was arguably the strangest performance by a corporate executive in recent memory. During the Webcast, he discussed a wide-ranging, interlocking series of relationships that, he asserted, actively conspired to depress the price of Overstock's equity.

Not content with arguing that the stock dropped to $46.87 from a high of $77.18 in January due to misplaced beliefs or fears, Byrne blasted a "Sith Lord" that, he claimed, coordinated the actions of several hedge funds and much of the American financial press.

He declined to identify the "Sith Lord," but described him as "a master criminal from the 1980s."

In the middle of the discussion, Byrne said that the SEC is informally investigating the company but declined to elaborate.

As if that wasn't strange enough, Byrne entitled his analysis of the so-called conspiracy, "The Miscreants Ball," a word play on the famous Drexel Burnham investor conference known as "The Predators Ball." He outlined a scenario whereby Rocker Partners, a hedge fund that generally shorts stocks it deems overpriced, fed misleading research from Gradient Analytics — an independent research firm based in Scottsdale, Ariz. — to a gullible and conflicted media.

In turn, the media, including organizations like The Street.com, CBS MarketWatch, Forbes Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, did the bidding of Rocker and wrote "hatchet jobs," he claimed.

David Rocker, general partner of Rocker Partners, was traveling and unavailable to comment.

Central to Byrne's analysis of media culpability was the alleged cooperation among traditionally bitter rivals. For example, he argued that in February, MarketWatch's columnist Herb Greenberg stopped writing about Overstock because "the assignment got passed" to Street.com Real Money columnist Jeff Matthews. Matthews, who runs a hedge fund, RAM Partners, would not comment other than to note that the linkage to Greenberg was "incredibly strange."

He added that he did not know any "Sith Lord."

Later, Byrne argued that "as a libertarian, I don't care if anyone thinks I'm gay." Appropos of nothing, he also said he wasn't "a coke head." .............

A spokesman for Overstock said that Byrne was committed to standing up for the company and "righting wrongs where he sees them." ..........

Byrne's lawyer, Wes Christian, said that he understood how many reporters and investors could be confused or dismayed by the presentation.....

http://www.nypost.com/business/51168.htm

As early as April of this year the alias edwardfoolari
asserted on Yahoo's NFI board,( where the ncans mafia,as I call them,are most vocal in promoting their 'naked short' scam to mask their own stock manipulation and to lead others to their scammy websites),that a P Saunders had an ncans.net connection.This I posted on spitzer2006.com on the 'SS funds in manipulated markets' at that time, which was set up by someone in January who I feel had an ncans.net connection although the ncans website may not have appeared until February to coincide with the February 8 letter to W Bush in the Washington Post paid for by Patrick Byrne and his anonymous friend,'Bob O'Brien'. I also posted or reposted it on Mark Cuban's blogmaverick,which is where I retrieved it from today to place here.

The 'dirtydirtydeeds' alias dialogueing with the edwardfoolari alias is Patrick Byrne's buddy 'Bob O'Brien'.All that has already been discussed as well as removal of that alias from Yahoo and his return as
'ncansd3' and rhen 'easterbunnyd3' earlier so we'll leave it at that.

Then on August 23 Roddy Boyd of The New York Post came out with the article immediately below that to reaffirm the edwardfoolari claim and to specify that 'Bob O'Brien' is one Phil Saunders.Patrick Byrne who originally claimed he didn't even know who O'Brien was and that he met him over the phone on an Overstock.com conference call as an investor raving about 'naked short selling' ,now admits he knows him and that HE IS NOT James Dale Davidson.

There is every reason to believe Byrne lies like there is no tomorrow.Now if I had called unannounced to his conference call and raved about something like that and this son of a billionaire had never met me I doubt he'd give me the time of day much less $10's of thousands to put an ad to Bush in the Washington Post with his backng,all the while I, 'Bob O'Brien' , remained anonymous !!!

Well I can accept the possibilty that a P Saunders did
have something to do with the NCANS or NFI-INFO websites and left his name or initials.I know this is more than a one man scam,as Mary Helburn's role as titular head and David Patch as a writer for NCANS as well as Alan Newman's ignorant rantings or articles on NCANS.NET further attest.Not to mention all the aliases who post on NFI and OSTK Yahoo message boards that appear to be NCANS connected.I doubt tose are all 'Bob O'Brien' although he uses various aliases.

Actually I would have to search my info more closely but I believe the penny stock fraud Senator Bob Bennett touted before the SEC as a victim of 'naked shorting' ALSO HAD A SAUNDERS CONNECTION ON ITS WEBSITE !!! Shame Senator Bennett.

I add Roddy Boyd's aricle for the record and whether he is related to the edwardfoolari al