ANATOMY OF A SILICON VALLEY CARTEL “BURN NOTICE”: TECH BILLIONAIRES COPY SPY HIT-JOB TACTICS TO WIPE OUT ADVERSARIES
– ## Contracts hit job and lobby services like In-Q-Tel, Sidney Blumenfeld Consulting, New America Foundation, Gawker Media, Richard Berman Consulting, NVCA and private investigators.
– ## Destroys all your sources of income
– ## Steals your technology
– ## Sends “honey-trap” fake dates to harass you
– ## Spoofing your websites by instantly redirecting links to fake clones
– ## Sends tens of millions of fake users to your sites
– ## Intercepts any Paypal, or other online payments, so you never get any on-line revenue
– ## Threatens law firms that try to defend you
– ## Has their corrupt Senator manipulate laws against you
– ## Puts moles in your company
– ## Calls your employer with fake stories about you to get you fired
– ## Posts character assassination stories using their “Troll Farms” and Gawker Media
– ## They have Google lock all of the attacks against you at top of Google search results
– ## Copies the CIA and GCHQ tactics book
THE SILICON VALLEY CARTEL USED THE “JTRIG OPS MANUAL” TO CONDUCT ATTACKS ON ORDINARY AMERICANS WHO THEY WANTED “TAKEN OUT”
Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda, Psychology Research
By Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman FOR THE INTERCEPT
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The spy unit responsible for some of the United Kingdom’s most controversial tactics of surveillance, online propaganda and deceit focuses extensively on traditional law enforcement and domestic activities — even though officials typically justify its activities by emphasizing foreign intelligence and counter-terrorism operations.
Documents published today by The Intercept demonstrate how the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a unit of the signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is involved in efforts against political groups it considers “extremist,” Islamist activity in schools, the drug trade, online fraud, and financial scams.
Though its existence was secret until last year, JTRIG quickly developed a distinctive profile in the public understanding, after documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the unit had engaged in “dirty tricks” like deploying sexual “honey traps” designed to discredit targets, launching denial-of-service attacks to shut down internet chat rooms, pushing veiled propaganda onto social networks, and generally warping discourse online.
Early official claims attempted to create the impression that JTRIG’s activities focused on international targets in places like Iran, Afghanistan, and Argentina. The closest the group seemed to get to home was in its targeting of trans-national “hacktivist” group Anonymous.
While some of the unit’s activities are focused on the claimed areas, JTRIG also appears to be intimately involved in traditional law enforcement areas and UK-specific activity, as previously unpublished documents demonstrate. An August, 2009 JTRIG memo entitled “Operational Highlights” boasts of “GCHQ’s first serious crime effects operation” to shut down internet forums and to remove websites identifying police informants and members of a witness protection program. Another was “used to facilitate and execute online fraud.” The document also describes GCHQ advice provided “to assist the UK negotiating team on climate change.”
Particularly revealing is a fascinating 42-page document from 2011 detailing JTRIG’s activities. It provides the most comprehensive and sweeping insight to date into the scope of this unit’s extreme methods. Entitled “Behavioral Science Support for JTRIG’s Effects and Online Humint [Human Intelligence] Operations,” it describes the types of targets on which the unit focuses, the psychological and behavioral research it commissions and exploits, and its future organizational aspirations. It is authored by a psychologist, Mandeep K. Dhami.
Among other things, the document lays out the tactics the agency uses to manipulate public opinion, its scientific and psychological research into how human thinking and behavior can be influenced, and the broad range of targets that are traditionally the province of law enforcement rather than intelligence agencies.
JTRIG’s domestic and law enforcement operations are made clear. The report states that the controversial unit “currently collaborates with other agencies” including the Metropolitan police, Security Service (MI5), Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Border Agency, Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and National Public Order and Intelligence Unit (NPOIU). The document highlights that key JTRIG objectives include “providing intelligence for judicial outcomes;” monitoring “domestic extremist groups such as the English Defence League by conducting online HUMINT;” “denying, deterring or dissuading” criminals and “hacktivists;” and “deterring, disrupting or degrading online consumerism of stolen data or child porn.”
It touts the fact that the unit “may cover all areas of the globe.” Specifically, “operations are currently targeted at” numerous countries and regions including Argentina, Eastern Europe and the UK.
JTRIG’s domestic operations fit into a larger pattern of UK-focused and traditional law enforcement activities within GCHQ.
Many GCHQ documents describing the “missions” of its “customers” for which it works make clear that the agency has a wide mandate far beyond national security, including providing help on intelligence to the Bank of England, to the Department for Children, Schools and Families on reporting of “radicalization,” to various departments on agriculture and whaling activities, to government financial divisions to enable good investment decisions, to police agencies to track suspected “boiler room fraud,” and to law enforcement agencies to improve “civil and family justice.”
Previous reporting on the spy agency established its focus on what it regards as political radicalism. Beyond JTRIG’s targeting of Anonymous, other parts of GCHQ targeted political activists deemed to be “radical,” even monitoring the visits of people to the WikiLeaks website. GCHQ also stated in one internal memo that it studied and hacked popular software programs to “enable police operations” and gave two examples of cracking decryption software on behalf of the National Technical Assistance Centre, one “a high profile police case” and the other a child abuse investigation.
The JTRIG unit of GCHQ is so notable because of its extensive use of propaganda methods and other online tactics of deceit and manipulation. A 2011 report on the organization’s operations, published today, summarizes just some of those tactics:
Throughout this report, JTRIG’s heavy reliance on its use of behavioral science research (such as psychology) is emphasized as critical to its operations. That includes detailed discussions of how to foster “obedience” and “conformity”:
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In response to inquiries, GCHQ refused to provide on-the-record responses beyond its boilerplate claim that all its activities are lawful.
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Documents published with this article:
- Behavioural Science Support for JTRIG’S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations
- UK Ministry Stakeholder Relationships Spreadsheets (13 documents merged)
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Photo: Getty Images
Email the authors: glenn.greenwald@theintercept.com, fishman@theintercept.com
The following are details from a series of Silicon Valley Hit-Jobs, now reported to police and under investigation by various agencies, per witness and victim reports:
Here is what happens to you when you cross paths with a Silicon Valley Mobster
Did you do something to offend Eric Schmidt, Elon Musk or John Doerr? Here is what will happen to you…
∞ If you happen to make a technology that is better than the last one that a Silicon Valley mobster just stole or,
∞ If you happen to make a technology that a Silicon Valley mobster just wants, and they steal if from you, and you complain to the feds;
This happens to you and it has happened to over 40 individuals in America, that cross the Silicon Valley Cartel:
– The people from State and Federal agencies, that most people think would help them in such a case, will do almost nothing at all. The Silicon Valley mobsters will threaten to cut off the campaign funding, for anybody, from the State or Federal government that tries to help you. Don’t count on any support from the State or Federal government. Expect to get no help at all except from the few and the bold. You must plan to go it on your own and use every off-the-cuff tactic you, and your friends, can muster.
– They own many digital tabloid newspapers like Gawker, Reddit, Google, Motley Fool, Hearst Publications, ALICE Coalition, Huffington Post, EV World, Mercury News and thousands of on-line special interest publications. They will post some made-up character assassination articles on them and then have Google stick those links to the top, of the top page, of Google so everybody sees it. Many people, and countries, have now proven that Google rigs its search engines to harm its adversaries. If Google did that to you, the technical proof now exists and you can win in court and get compensated for the damages they caused you. Google will refuse to remove those links if you are on the Silicon Valley mobster’s hate-list or “no poach black list” . In order to control politics they own many of these stealth tabloid publications where they can order attack stories written about you. Some of these kinds of people own famous online media tabloids (ie: Gawker Media Group) and stock tip publications which are really just shill operations for their agendas and attacks. Identify these publications and partner with every person, or company, who they have coordinated attacks on in the past. Read about their attacks on inventor Mike Cheiky, Gary D. Conley, Aaron Swartz, Stan Meyer, Preston Tucker and hundreds of other innovators that they wanted “out of the way”. You will see no negative reports about the “bad guys”, allowed on those sites, and every bad report about you will be manually up-ranked and locked into the top slot on their page in order to damage you. The down-side for the bad guys, though, is that the internet remembers everything. You can now prove, in court, showing technical and historical metric data, that they intentionally locked and damaged you and you can get compensated for the damages.
– Everything that you read about here: http://www.whengoogleattacks.com gets done to you, and almost nobody in federal agencies will put a stop to it because their bosses might lose campaign funding.
– They will put “moles” in your organization. Crazy rich people have private eye’s and ex-employees that they pay to get a job at your company. They pretend that they are helping you, then they sabotage your effort, report your activities to the VC and circumvent your every move. Consider past jobs that future employees had with your attackers.
– To understand the process, watch some of the movies about how the bad guys sabotage: Francis Coppola’s: Tucker, A Man and His Dream; Greg Kinear’s: Flash of Genius.
– As punishment against you, rich political campaign backers will try to have their federal lackey’s change the law to hurt you. If you are a tech group, for example, the “bad guys”, are currently lobbying and organizing to suddenly try to change the patent laws so that your business is destroyed. When billionaires put bribes in the right pockets, they accomplish sweeping policy change. Don’t let that happen. Expose the “who” and the “why” in such tactics. See the current fabricated “Patent Troll Crisis” that they faked up, as just such a ploy, at: http://www.savetheinventor.com/
– They will spy on you. Elon Musk famously emailed all of his employees. He sent them each an email about a company tip with a different sentence, in each email so he could see who was ratting out his crimes to th
– They will hack every device you own and record all of your communications media.
– Watch out for “honey traps” in your activities and in on-line sites. Read the Snowden/Greenwald reports on what “Honey Traps” are. That hottie who just contacted you on Tinder, Match.com or OK Cupid works for them, and intends to sue you in a rape case, paternity case, abuse case or other media embarrassment to destroy your reputation (Like they did to Micheal Arrington for exposing AngelGate), after stealing your secrets.
– They will hire these troll farms (off-shore warehouses full of tens of thousands of on-line attack bloggers working under tactical orders to terminate you on-line) to attack you en masse with tens of thousands of fake character assassination blog postings designed to destroy your reputation and income sources:
– Troll farm in Russia was behind Columbia Chemical hoax
– AS Americans remembered the attacks on the World Trade Center last year, … who first revealed details of the trollfarm to a local reporter in February, …news.com.au/technology/online/columbia-chemical-hoax-…
– Secret Kremlin ‘Troll Farm’ Spreads Fake Secret Kremlin ‘TrollFarm’ Spreads Fake News About U.S. Townhall … I’m sure there are leftist trolls that do nothing but attack Conservatives in …freerepublic.com/focus/news/3297994/posts?page=17
– OKCupid Trolls This is a blog for all of you who have encountered the millions of idiots and assholes who creep on online dating sites. I’m a smart woman who instead of falling for …
okcupidtrolls.tumblr.comtopix.com/forum/city/centerville-la/T1KR95H4TN34NFAHT
– Russian Troll Farms – Mighty Girl | Mighty Girl
– Russian TrollFarms. Have you read this piece in the New York Times about the Russian Troll Factory where hundreds of highly paid employees are paid to spread …
mightygirl.com/2015/06/02/russian-troll-farms/
Every single troll blog comment from these machine-guns-of-slander , every pseudo attack article about you, everything is already tracked back to the actual author. The NSA have done it, that is well known. NO amount of TOR, or VPN on top of VPN or stealthing software can hide a troll attacker any more. What is only now becoming known is that the official, and also the independent hacker, Chinese and Russian spies have got almost all of that information too. Hackers have broken into Sony, The White House, All of Target, All of the Federal Employee Records, everything. In a court case you can now, legally, subpoena NSA records to sue the attackers. Others, hearing of your filed case, may just show up and give you the information. Attackers cannot hide behind anonymity any more. Those who were blogging that you “sleep with goats” and “eat unborn children” can now be found out and delt with.
– – Do you have on-line stores and paypal or credit card accounts that take payments at those stores? Trying to make a little cash on the side? Confused about why you never get any orders? The attackers have DNS-re-routed your stores and payment certificates, spoofed your sites and turned off all of your income potential from those on-line options in order to damage your economic potential. Illegal? Yes. Happening to people every day? Yes. Get professional IT services to document the spoofs, and re-routes, and sue the operators of those tactics that are attacking your revenue stream.
– It now only costs $50,000.00 to bribe a Senator. Some of these tech billionaires earn that much in 3 minutes. Beware of your Senator. Senators take stock options in tech companies as bribes, watch for linkages. See the 60 Minutes Episode called: Congress Trading On Insider Information.
– Want a job? Forget about it! The bad guys went into Axciom, Oracle, SAP, and all of the Human Resources and Recruiter databases, and put “red flag notices” on your profile. You will get some great first interviews, but when they run your back-ground check, you will never hear back from that interviewer again. You got “HR Black-listed”, in retribution, for accidentally bothering a campaign billionaire. Hire an HR service to look and print out your false “red flag” HR data-base inserts and use those as evidence in your lawsuit. In the news stories below, and tens of thousands of more on-line, you will see details of the Silicon Valley Cartel’s “No Poaching” Blacklist lawsuits; which kept thousands of people from getting jobs, or changing jobs, based on the whims of a handful of campaign billionaires and a secret Omerta “Do not hire” list. If you have offended the Cartel, your name will go on the list and all of the HR firms will avoid giving you a job, in fear of losing their contracts with these big technology VC’s. That is a felony, though, and in the U.S. you can sue them for it, as many have now done. It was not “just” a No Poaching list, it was a punishment Black-List, as well.
– They will anonymously put all of your email addresses on blacklists, and watch-lists, so that you can’t use services like craigslist, cafe press, zazzle or other on-line services to make money. If you try to open any accounts on those services, you either won’t be able to create an account or, you will get an account, but all of your orders will get “spoofed” into oblivion so you can’t make any money. The attackers believe that by causing you as much economic hard-ship as possible, they can get retribution for what-ever they have perceived that you have done to offend them. Again, use an IT forensic services group to get the data to show this is happening, trace it, and sue the perpetrators.
All of these things are happening, today, to over 500 people and nobody is doing anything about it. California Senators and Attorney Generals are implicated in this so they won’t help. Federal cops are told not to talk to anybody until “the investigation is complete”, but the investigation is going to be stone-walled for over a decade. Their actions provide the proof. When you look out on the internet and add up the pronouncements of “scam”, “sleeping with goats”, against those poor souls who are under attack, you can see that a very large organization, with large resources, is behind it; a group with as many resources as….hmmm.. say a Silicon Valley Crime Cartel!
The volume of attack items proves that no mere mortal, or company, could have acquired that much media unless it was placed there by very wealthy parties. Everyone now knows that the web is controlled. The volume of attacks can often prove that those attacks are fabricated. Additionally, IP Trace Routing and digital tracking now can prove the attackers manipulation of your data, email and website traffic. One of your best sets of evidence will come from the attackers, themselves. The bad guys always leave a digital trail of bread-crumbs leading right back to themselves. You can hire an IT company to build a “tracking array” comprised of hundreds of websites which are bait to catch them in the act. Regarding: Paranoia vs. documented evidence. If you, and others have experienced the tactics, and the police have recorded the tactics being used against you, it isn’t paranoia to be cautious.
Before John Doerr, Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt existed, there were earlier versions of them. Here is article about the predecessors:
The sure sign of a great idea is when some big gorilla steals it from you.
Read and know some of the history, below, so you can see the first signs of trouble:
Inventors+ Who Changed the World and Got Screwed in Return
By Karl Smallwood
As we’ve discussed before, just because your hard work and perseverance led you to create something that changes the world, it doesn’t mean that you’ll get fame, fortune, or the slightest bit of recognition out of it. In fact, some inventors get so little credit that we completely forgot about them in our previous article, and since we really don’t like angering the ghosts of people who could probably invent a way to punch us from beyond the grave, here they are.
#6. Siegel and Shuster, Superman’s Creators
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman, the most famous superhero ever, perhaps with the exception of Spider-Man or that kid who changes the channel with his eyes in X2.
Debuting in 1938, Superman was an instant success. DC Comics soon followed up the “man in underpants punches criminals” concept with Batman, and that was it, there was no turning back: Siegel and Shuster’s creation had started a multibillion-dollar industry that is still going strong today, spawning toys, T-shirts, and, oh yeah, some of the highest-grossing movies of all time.
Nice one, Siegel and Shuster!
Alan Light “Take it from us, kids: Work hard, change the world, and you too can see absolutely no reward from it!”
But Then They Got Screwed
“Nice one, Siegel and Shuster” is exactly what DC must have said, in a sarcastic tone, when the duo famously sold them all rights to Superman for a measly $130, a check that’s now ironically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
At the time, no one suspected that the guy in blue pajamas that they’d been drawing would turn into a cultural icon — so when he did, and Siegel and Shuster continued getting squat, the pair embarked on perhaps the longest clusterfuck in copyright history.
The duo spent the better part of their lives unsuccessfully trying to reclaim some part of their creation, only to be rebuffed time and time again. While DC raked in billions from Superman alone, Siegel and Shuster lived the lives of paupers. They were given a yearly pension in the late 1970s by Warner Bros. (which had purchased DC), but only because the studio couldn’t afford the bad publicity with a Superman movie on the way.
In 1999, three years after Siegel died, his family successfully won the rights to his half of his creation. A happy ending, right? Nope! This meant dick to Warner Bros., who still refused to pay them a penny, leaving them to fight in court for another 10 fucking years. And the superdickery continues: More recently, documents disappeared from Siegel’s daughter’s attorney’s office and somehow wound up in the hands of Warner Bros. executives.
#5. Philo T. Farnsworth, the Farm Boy Who Invented Television
Philo Farnsworth, besides having the supreme honor of inspiring a Futurama character, was a serial inventor with a list of credited patents longer than his forehead.
Among those patents was the one that made television possible: an “image dissector” that could capture images as a series of lines to be displayed electronically. If that isn’t impressive enough for you, consider the fact that Farnsworth came up with the idea at age 14, while growing up on a farm in Idaho, and first demonstrated it at 21, in 1927. If that didn’t make you feel bad about yourself, it should have.
But Then He Got Screwed
When the young inventor applied for a patent at age 20, David Sarnoff of the Radio Corporation of America took notice. Radio had a pretty cozy spot at the center of the American living room at this point, and Sarnoff wasn’t interested in letting that change. And if it did, then he would at least make sure that RCA would be the one getting rich from it.
Sarnoff kept Farnsworth tied in a series of legal battles over the next decade using a number of bullshit tactics, like hiring a Russian inventor to spy on him or using said inventor’s earlier patents (which they could never get to work) to argue that he had invented TV. At one point Sarnoff just said “Fuck it” and started making TVs without paying Farnsworth. RCA was eventually forced to pay him a one-time $1 million licensing fee, but it wasn’t worth the emotional stress that had left the man crippled.
Then the whole television business was put on hold when the ’40s rolled around and the government told everyone to focus on building things that could kill Germans. The final blow came when Farnsworth’s patents expired just as World War II ended … and, what do you know, television sales skyrocketed. RCA, or anyone else for that matter, no longer had to even pretend to give a shit about paying Farnsworth for his invention.
It wasn’t until 20 years after his death that the government decided that Farnsworth probably deserved some recognition. No shit.
Following Farnsworth’s final wishes, his statue is about to insert something into Sarnoff’s anus.
#4. Edwin H. Armstrong, the Father of FM Radio
When is the last time you listened to AM radio? Intentionally? The sound quality is so bad that most of the programming is reduced to things that already sound like shit, like conservative talk radio or a single, never-ending religious sermon in Spanish.
The much superior FM was invented by Edwin Armstrong, who created a system to reduce interference across radio bands in the 1910s. He continued his lifelong vendetta against crappy sound in the ’20s, when he came up with frequency modulation (FM) as a way to reduce static. We will now reiterate that he developed all this technology nearly 100 years ago, and it’s still present in all modern radios.
But Then He Got Screwed
Things seemed to be going swimmingly for Armstrong for a while, but it was at this point that a remarkably smug asshole came into the picture.
Yes, David fucking Sarnoff from RC-fucking-A proceeded to mess with the life of yet another world-changing inventor. Sarnoff had built his empire with AM radio, so he decided that if FM was the way of the future, then he’d do anything possible to pull a John Connor on that future. Since Armstrong wouldn’t relinquish his patent, Sarnoff made sure that RCA not only stopped supporting the development of the new technology, but actively tried to stop it.
In 1937, Armstrong used money from his own pocket to build the very first FM radio station. Another followed, then another, until by the mid ’40s a string of stations known as the Yankee Network were busy convincing everyone of the superiority of FM, just by existing. And then it all stopped.
In a dick move of epic proportions, Sarnoff successfully lobbied the FCC to move the FM band to a different place on the dial, from 42 to 50 MHz to 88 to 108 MHz. While there were somewhat valid technical reasons for this, a happy side effect for RCA was that it made all of Armstrong’s stations instantly obsolete.
It took decades for FM radio to recover. In the late ’70s, it finally surpassed AM, but Armstrong was long gone by then, having committed suicide in 1954 by jumping from the 13th floor of his office building, presumably screaming “FUCK SARNOOOOOOFFFF” all the way down.
#3. John Walker, Inventor of the Match
About 500 billion matches are used every year in the United States — that’s the kind of volume you can do when your product sets itself on fire with every use. Before the invention of self-igniting friction matches, people simply used sticks that caught on fire when you, y’know, put them near fire.
This changed when John Walker, an English chemist born in 1871, began coating sticks in a number of dangerous-sounding chemicals until he happened upon one that, when struck against a surface, erupted in flames. Other self-igniting matches had been tried before, but they were extremely impractical, by which we mean that a lot of people probably lost their eyebrows or worse using them.
And clearly, eyebrows were very important to this man.
Walker’s invention caught on fire, both literally and figuratively, and we still keep matches around today, despite the fact that we’ve all heard of lighters.
But Then He Got Screwed
Walker, unaware of the potential of his invention, worked on these new “friction lights” for about a year, then promptly forgot about the whole thing and stopped selling them. People close to him implored Walker to patent his friction light, since he’d just revolutionized the creation of fire and all. Walker declined, believing that his invention could better benefit mankind without a patent.
Others, however, believed that Walker’s invention could better benefit mankind by making them rich.
Getty- “How does fire help humanity if it doesn’t allow me to buy prostitutes?”
In 1829, another inventor named Isaac Holden independently came up with an improved version of Walker’s friction matches. Like Walker, Holden neglected to patent his idea … and that’s where one Samuel Jones came in. Jones, realizing that Walker and Holden had effectively created one of the most useful inventions in the history of civilization and weren’t making money from it, decided to do it on their behalf, because he was nice like that.
Almost immediately, Jones patented the exact same thing and began selling it under the name “Lucifers,” because fuck it — if you’re gonna be evil, you might as well go to the source. Soon other brands began offering improved versions of the same thing, all for a price, of course. It wasn’t until they were all dead that Walker was credited for his invention, and Jones for being a douchebag.
#2. Stephen Foster, the Father of American Music
There are some tunes that you’re just born knowing. If we somehow forced you to hum a melody right now, chances are that a great number of you would go with something like “Oh! Susanna”:
Or “Camptown Races” (you know, the one that goes “doo-da, doo-da”):
Or maybe something more nostalgic, like “Old Folks at Home”:
Man, can you imagine if all these songs had been written by the same guy, and that he’d been actively trying to get money from them? That dude would have been richer than Madonna and Bono combined.
Actually, all those songs and more were written by the same person, and he did try to cash in on them — the keyword being “try.”
Then “she” came around the mountain and snatched up all his royalties.
But Then He Got Screwed
In the 1800s, Stephen Foster wrote classics like “My Old Kentucky Home” and “Beautiful Dreamer” and over 200 other songs. Foster was a professional songwriter before those existed. Seriously: The profession literally did not existbefore Foster trailblazed it like a motherfucker.
Of course, the problem with being the first in his profession was that there were no such things as “enforcing copyright” or “not screwing over songwriters” back then. Today, Foster would have earned obscene amounts of money from “Oh! Susanna” alone, but in 1848, he got exactly $100 for the rights to publish the sheet music, while the publisher made $10,000 selling his work.
Even when Foster became a minor celebrity, he continued getting nothing but pennies for every copy of his work that was sold. For his dozens of hit songs, he saw around $15,000 in royalties in his whole life. In the 1860s, he was dumped by his wife, who had probably had enough of sticking around with this dude who wrote like a rock star, anddrank like a rock star, but was not rich like one. He died at the age of 37 after hitting his head on a washbasin, with around 40 cents in his pocket.
Some of which were melted down to make this statue.
His contributions can’t be overstated. Not only did he create most of the conventions of popular songwriting as we know them today, but he also demonstrated the need for intellectual property laws by getting repeatedly screwed.
#1. Gary Kildall, the Father of the Operating System
Gary Kildall is one of the guys we have to thank for the fact that you don’t need to be a genius to use the ultra advanced computer you are looking at right now to search for porn. Thank you, Gary.
In 1973, Kildall made life a lot easier for nerds everywhere when he created CP/M, a groundbreaking operating system for microcomputers (which is what they called any computer smaller than a semi truck back then). The program became the industry standard for the next decade. This guy was basically Bill Gates before Bill Gates was Bill Gates.
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty
“It’s cool, I’ll just donate a bunch of money to charity someday when I’m all old and prune-faced.”
But Then He Got Screwed
Of course, at the same time, Bill Gates was busy trying to become Bill Gates, and he eventually achieved that at Kildall’s expense.
In 1980, IBM was getting ready to launch its first personal computer and needed an operating system to operate the shit out of it. They first knocked on Microsoft’s door, but Microsoft wasn’t really into the OS-making business at that point, so they directed the IBM suits to Gary Kildall’s company. However, as nerd lore has it, Gary picked that day to go flying (he was an amateur pilot), blowing off IBM and his chance at history.
Accounts differ on whether Kildall met the IBM suits that day or not, but either way, the company went back to Microsoft, totally forgetting the whole “We don’t make OS’s here” part. Not one to miss out on an opportunity, Bill Gates turned to local programmer Tim Paterson, who had built a CP/M clone he called QDOS (for “Quick and Dirty Operating System”), bought it for a paltry 50 grand, then turned around and sold it to IBM under the name PC-DOS.
The term “user-friendly” meant something very different back then.
PC-DOS, later renamed MS-DOS, was included in every computer IBM made, and, long story short, that’s why roughly 90 percent of you are using Microsoft Windows right now.
Today, Kildall’s name is barely known, while Bill Gates will be a household name in the fucking 25th century. Most of Kildall’s innovations ended up being credited to other people — and he can’t even defend himself, having died in 1994 after falling down in a tavern, which pretty much just seems like his luck.
Today’s lesson is, if you’re an inventor, wear a freaking helmet.
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Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American inventor who invented the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964.
Kearns won one of the best known patent infringement cases against Ford Motor Company (1978–1990) and a case against Chrysler Corporation (1982–1992). Having invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper mechanism, which was useful in light rain or mist, he tried to interest the “Big Three” auto makers in licensing the technology.
But then he got screwed.
They all rejected his proposal, yet copied his idea and began to install intermittent wipers in their cars, beginning in 1969. march Abraham made the film: ” Flash of Genius” about him.
Preston Tucker was a car-crazy kid who hung around auto speedways and grew up to create an automobile–the Tucker–that was years ahead of its time. He was a man of pioneering spirit, ingenuity and daring, who revolutionized Detroit in the 1940s with his stunning “Car of Tomorrow.” It was streamlined, futuristic and fast–the car every American dreamed of owning, at a price most people could afford.
A man of endless enthusiasm, Tucker publicized his model all over the country to wild acclaim. He sold stock, set up a factory . . .
But then he got screwed.
…and then the auto industry launched a devastating anti-Tucker campaign in order to character assassinate, industrially spy on and sabotage his car. Francis Ford Coppola made a movie: “The Man and His Dream” about him.
Nikola Tesla helped established robotics, radar, remote control, and he helped expand ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics.
But then he got screwed.
Practically no one’s heard of him. Why? Because of a man named Thomas Edison, who is widely credited with the invention of the light bulb. Edison was an all-around pretentious ass, who totally tried to steal Tesla’s credit… which kinda worked, considering everyone remembers him and not Tesla.
Anyway, the two men had initially worked together — well, Tesla worked for Edison –and this is where Tesla was first screwed over by the man. Edison had offered $50,000 — over a million bucks, adjusted for inflation — to someone who could fix his crappy and inefficient motors. When Tesla did (probably by staring them down until they worked harder), Edison wrote his deal off as a joke, and continued to pay Tesla $18 per week. Keep in mind, Tesla was one of the most brilliant humans to have ever lived; it didn’t take long for him to flip Edison the bird and get his ass outta there to start his own company.
Soon enough, Edison’s electricity, direct current (DC) was competing with Tesla’s far superior electricity, alternating current (AC). Edison actually tried to discredit Tesla’s AC by having the first electric chair run on it; this was supposed to discourage people from putting it in their home. There are a few movies based on Nikola, one is: “The Prestige”.
THUS…
What do we learn from this lesson?:
– Non-disclosure agreements with investors mean nothing. Only discuss the “How It Can Make Money” part with investors and never discuss the “How it Works” part with anybody!
– Build it and try selling it yourself, first.
– File a patent on it before you tell a single sole about it. If you have told anyone except your patent lawyer, then the cat is out of the tube!
What kind of people get to run a tax payer funded organized crime operation that can take out 65,000 local workers, tell the White House what to do, buy Senators and Attorney Generals, commit possible murders, rig the stock market, and do it all with absolute impunity?
This kind:
Silicon Valley cartel: Apple, Google, and others
A group of 60,000 Silicon Valley workers got clearance today to move ahead with a lawsuit based on an explosive allegation that Apple, Google, Adobe, and …
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The Cartels of Silicon Valley – CounterPunch
Last week Mark Ames published an article that should forever destroy any connection between theSilicon Valley tech billionaires and libertarian worldviews.
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The Silicon Valley cartel | MetaFilter
Mark Ames on Silicon Valley’s conspiracy to drive down workers’ wages: In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple’s Steve Jobs …
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Former NYC Regulator: Uber a ‘SiliconValley Cartel’ in ..
Silicon Valley’s latest class of transportation disruptors, which is led by Uber and Lyft, can be described in a myriad of ways, but the word “cartel …
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Mexican Cartel Links to Silicon Valley | NBC Bay Area
Often, families living in Silicon Valley work for the cartel processing the drugs, sometimes out of their homes. “It is a business,” he said.
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Silicon Valley fends off cartel concerns | GlobalPost
Mexico’s Silicon Valley fends off cartel concerns. Tech geeks scramble to build the next Facebook in the drug war’s shadow. Tweet. Enlarge.
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Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Cartel Went Beyond a Few Tech
The gentleman’s agreement that several Silicon Valley firms are now widely known to have taken part in to minimize employee poaching within their own circles went …
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REVEALED: Court docs show role of Pixar and Dreamworks
Just when the tech giants behind the Silicon Valley “Techtopus” wage fixing cartel thought the worst was behind them, US District Judge Lucy Koh has thrown a …
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Silicon Valley Drug Bust Shows Strong Ties To Mexican Cartels
… Patrick Vanier, Santa Clara County, Silicon Valley, … Silicon Valley Drug Bust Show Strong Ties To Mexican Cartel; KCBS’ Matt Bigler Reports
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Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in SiliconValley – NYTimes.com
A class-action suit by Silicon Valley engineers against companies including Google, Apple and Intel has revealed details of an agreement among them not to …
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Elon Musk: Government’s $5 Billion Man – Investors.com
C apitalism 2015: In corporate finance today, the theme is “Go where the money is.” For Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX, the place to hunt for cash isn …
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Elon Musk | AgainstCronyCapitalism.org
Elon Musk, as likable a guy as he is and as cool as his cars are, is a big time crony capitalist. In fact, as the LA Times reports, crony capitalism is absolutely …
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Tesla Loving Care | The American
But that doesn’t mean we won’t continue to be forced to “help” Elon Musk build these mobile … Tesla Loving Care. The charmed life of a crony corporatist …
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Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in crony cash. Let’s crowd-fund Elon Musk’s trip to Mars and send him there as fast as possible ..
Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies … Musk/Tesla and company are very good about repaying Govt loans.
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Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in ..
Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets …
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The Tesla Fraud – LewRockwell.com
But that doesn’t mean we won’t continue to be forced to “help” Elon Musk … monuments to crony … The argument is that each Tesla built with these kickback …
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Nevada, Taxes, Elon Musk, CronyCapitalism and Jobs – WSJ
Nevada, Taxes, Elon Musk, Crony Capitalism and Jobs I would advise Mr. Musk that politicians love you until you’ve given them what they want.
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Elon Musk: Objectivists’ Dream or Just Another Crony – Galt’s .
Elon Musk: Objectivists’ Dream or Just Another Crony – Galt’s Gulch
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Crony Capitalism Pays Big For Democratic Donor Elon Musk
The same could be said in our opinion for the rest of the subsidies in Elon Musk’s crony government-fed portfolio. Login or register to post comments;
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Elon Musk And His Apparent Regrets Over The 13th Amendment
Elon Musk And His Apparent Regrets Over The 13th Amendment Crony Capitalism Goes Above The Law And Beneath Contempt In Oregon
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Top Obama crony capitalist deserts Zuckerberg immigration scam
Now Elon Musk, one of Obama’s big crony capitalist cronies, has decided to drop out. Elon Muskcashed in on Tesla, an electric car company, which got $465 million …
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Elon Musk——$4.9 Billion Crony Capitalist Mooch | David
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Elon Musk——$4.9 Billion Crony Capitalist Mooch — Elon Musk’s
Elon Musk——$4.9 Billion Crony Capitalist Mooch — Elon Musk’s Growing Empire Is Fueled By $4.9 Billion In Government Subsidies
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Is Elon Musk taking taxpayers for a ride with 3 different ..
Is Elon Musk taking taxpayers for a ride with … crony capitalism cronyism DoE Elon Musk green money Musk Pay Pal … Carpetbagger Crony Capitalist Terry McAuliffe …
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Elon Musk Plays California for Tax Breaks, Then Moves SpaceX .
Elon Musk Plays California for Tax Breaks, Then Moves SpaceX Operations … Having played the Golden State for SpaceX crony capital “goodies,” Elon Musk seems to …
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Elon Musk | Stop Crony Capitalism
Stop crony capitalism! tw FB. Elon Musk. June 5, 2015. Stop Betting on the Come – Subsidies Not the Answer.
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Jason Mattera Exposes Crony Crapitalist, Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a big, huge crony Crapitalist. And “if there’s a single, major criticism of ElonMusk,” writes Business Insider’s Matthew Debord, “it …
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Inside The Washington Termination ofElon Musk | TECHNOCRACY
Inside The Washington Termination of Elon Musk Today NASA … The White House promised ElonMusk and his crony … The Google Politics Kickback Process.
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Elon Musk Has Raided 150 People From Apple For Tesla
This is an interesting little story: Elon Musk has been deliberately and specifically hiring people away from Apple to go work with him at Tesla.
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Elon Musk Why do so many people from In-Q-Tel work for Elon Musk? |
Billionaire tech mogul and pop technologist Elon Musk says none of the taxpayer incentives his businesses receive are necessary, “but they are all helpful.”
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Elon Musk——$4.9 Billion Crony Capitalist Mooch
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Your guide to Venture Capital Mobsters…
Angelgate is a controversy surrounding allegations of price fixing and collusion among a group of ten angel investors in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Collusion Charges Still Linger Over `AngelGate’ – CBS News
The latest Silicon Valley online guessing game: Was price-fixing on the menu when a group of high-profile tech investors met recently at a downtown San Francisco …
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Collusion – Quora
AngelGate: Is collusion between angel investors to gain an advantage in investing in startups illegal? Antone Johnson, Studied antitrust law at Columbia wit …
AngelGate : Is collusion between investors to gain an
This answer addresses the question of whether investor collusion is illegal, but not the specific behavior discussed on TechCrunch. Under the Williams Act which …
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AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington
AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington. … Arrington said he later learned, “collusion” and “price fixing” were on the menu. …
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Investors deny ‘Angelgate’ collusion – San Francisco Business …
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington shocked readers Tuesday afternoon by accusing an unnamed group of “ten or so” prominent early stage technology investors — so …
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So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… | TechCrunch
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar … Collusion and price fixing, … Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over; Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels …
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Crooked Angels: Blogger Accuses Top Tech Investors of ..
“If there are any collusion efforts among angel investors, then it would be a huge public service to expose the collusion and get it to stop.”
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Super Angel collusion | Pearltrees
Here’s Who Was At That Secret Valley Super-Angel Collusion Meeting. Hooray For Mike Arrington. …AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington.
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Liminal states :: “Angelgate“: Collusion is so hot right now
There is an angel conspiracy. It dark, it is devious, and it is far-reaching. The conspirators number amongst them many of the top people in the Valley, including …
Angelgate – Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
Angelgate. By Felix Salmon. September 22, 2010. … It is a market where the investors wish they could inject some collusion. But they can’t and they won …
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#AngelGate, Dave McClure and Re: Why I Stopped Reading Hacker …
#AngelGate (Read this for a … Dave McClure and Re: Why I Stopped Reading Hacker News. 25 September 2010 … I thought collusion mattered only if the people involved …
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AngelGate dispute among Valley investors cracks wide open .
Arrington alleged that he heard the meeting was about illegal collusion. … AngelGate dispute among Valley investors cracks wide open.
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#AngelGate Collusion In Europe? We’d Need Much More …
Here in Europe we’ve been fascinated by what has become known as AngelGate. But after talking all day to many contacts today across the tech scene in…
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Venture Capital Racketeering & “AngelGate” – THE NEWS
Venture Capital Racketeering & “AngelGate” … More results Liminal states :: “Angelgate“: Collusion is so hot right nowUpdate, September 7: Or maybe not!
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ANGEL COLLUSION SCANDAL ROCKS SILICON VALLEY! [The Video ..
ANGEL COLLUSION SCANDAL ROCKS SILICON VALLEY! [The Video] Henry Blodget; Sep. 22, 2010, 3:34 PM; 7,257; 18; facebook; linkedin; twitter; email; print; Follow Business …
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Collusion | OoTheNigerian
#AngelGate, Dave McClure and Re: Why I Stopped Reading Hacker News. 25 September 2010 by Oo #AngelGate (Read this for a little background) Summary: A group of …
AngelGate meeting scandal gives Bin 38 lots of free publicity
AngelGate meeting scandal gives Bin 38 lots of free publicity, punchlines, and a Hitler parody. Bin 38 was the scene of an Angels meeting. Photo: Mark …
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing – CloudAve
I returned to my house, flipped on my Mac and see AngelGate, … As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the …
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Showdown! Angels, Arrington to Go Mano a Mano | WIRED
That would be an illegal form of collusion in what should be a … It’s so perfectly timed one might even think that HeavensGate InvestiGate AngelGate* might be …
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Liminal states :: Fretting, asking, and begging isn’t a plan …
Fretting, asking, and begging isn’t a plan: the Arrington kerfuffle and women in tech. … Angelgate:Collusion’s such an ugly word has more, …
How Michael Arrington’s School of Friendship Journalism Led .
How Michael Arrington’s School of Friendship Journalism Led to ‘AngelGate … including AngelGate, the scandal over price collusion that roiled the tech world …
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AngelGate: Ron Conway Rips ‘Despicable and Embarrassing
Major tech investor Ron Conway has thrown a barrel of gasoline on the rapidly escalating scandal known as AngelGate, in which a group of investors are said …
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Fred Wilson on AngelGate and Where the Web Is Going ..
The Union Square partner shares his thoughts on “superangels,” the globalization of Web services, and such companies as Quora and StackOverflow
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‘AngelGate’ disrupts TechCrunch conference but no ‘Jerry Springer’..
In a colorful blog post, PayPal veteran and angel investor Dave McClure dismissed talk of collusionand “Angelgate” saturated social media — Twitter, Quora, Facebook (and spawned jokes and a Hitler…
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The Daily Start-Up: “AngelGate” Escalates – Venture Capital Dispatch…
And the “AngelGate” flap won’t die. Arrington blogged about it, alleging angel collusion. Now angel Ron Conway, who wasn’t at the meeting but whose SV Angel partner David Lee apparently was…
blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/09/24/the-daily-start…
Scripting News: Angelgate in a Nutshell
I was talking about Angelgate earlier today with an entepeneur (the new spelling) a bunch of angels and you’re wondering if the guys you’ve been meeting with were in the collusion meeting that Mike…
scripting.com/stories/2010/09/24/angelgateInANutshell.html
How AngelGate Affects You…Yes, You, Racketeering In Silicon Valley still getting worse. Where is the FBI? –
How AngelGate Affects You…Yes, You. In an overcrowded world of mortal human beings, struggling Michael Arrington’s report of collusion among Silicon Valley Super Angels really is as epic a story as it…
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing – CloudAve
_ We all know about AngelGate by now. As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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The Real Lesson of AngelGate | Force of Good
The Real Lesson of AngelGate. Posted on September 23, 2010 · 11 Comments. He starts screamingcollusion in a quite successful attempt to draw page views.
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Founders Come First | True Ventures
First the “smackdown” news and chatter this week and now Angelgate. super angels and VCs, while Fred Wilson at Union Square says collusion has certainly happened where several VCs have been…
trueventures.com/founders-come-first/
AngelGate: Symptom or Problem? | payne.org/blog
It seems clear this week’s meme is going to be “AngelGate“, after Michael Arrington crashed a private meeting of West coast “super” angels, accusing them of collusion and price fixing.
payne.org/blog/angelgate-symptom-or-problem/
“AngelGate” – Who Really Has the Power? – 3Q Digital
So today AngelGate may be a big deal, but in the long run it won’t amount to much – the power is shifting to the entrepreneur, and no amount of collusion from angels or VCs can stop that.
3qdigital.com/analytics/angelgate-who-really-has-the-po…
The Daily Start-Up: “AngelGate” Escalates – RPI Engage | Forum
The Daily Start-Up: “AngelGate” Escalates. Posted by Remy Arteaga on September 24, 2010 at 10:55am in News. Arrington blogged about it, alleging angel collusion.
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PDF Angel Investing : How do angel investors gain traction?
AngelGate: Is collusion between angel investors to gain an advantage in investing in startups illegal? Angel Investing: Is it fair for someone who calls themselves a “seed” investor to require traction?
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What Entrepreneurs Should do about Price Fixing
_ We all know about AngelGate by now. As a funny coincidence I happend to have written about the topic of collusion 3 weeks prior to the fateful dinner.
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…angel meetup at Bin 38 with everyone but @Arrington 
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Attend the secret super angel meetup at Bin 38 with everyone but @Arrington #angelgate. ” i missed this meeting, can it turn into a monthly entrepreneur collusion meeting? “
BoomTown Decodes Conway’s Super Angel Email to Fellow Investors..
Dave “Sue Sylvester” McClure uses his bullhorn blog to call foul about a not-naming-names-but-still-really-mad-as-hell story of collusion by that creepy kid from the school newspaper who wants to…
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Michael Arlington of TechCrunch broke a very colorful story yesterday, now known as Angelgate, about a secret super-angel meeting that he crashed. In his blog, Arlington accused the angels ofcollusion…
Fire in The Valley, Fire in My Belly… and Yes, Mike, I Have Stopped…
Heh, whether AngelGate is true or not, we live in a Goldman Sachs/BP world. I don’t think you’d ever wade into collusion. But, how’d you feel about a group of VCs gathering before the next round?
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If the Tesla D’s Such a Great Car… | The American Spectator
Why Crony Capitalism Gives the Free Market a Black Eye. Gary Shapiro. Nation’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant Operator Seeks State Subsidies …
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Elon Musk, Grabby Crony Capitalist – LCT Magazine
Elon Musk, Grabby Crony Capitalist. Posted on March 26, 2015 by Martin Romjue – Also by this author. Post a comment | Comments 0 | Welcome to …
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Elon Musk, the ultimate entrepreneur in aCrony Capitalist
Elon Musk is truly a brilliant entrepreneur; initial c0-founder of Paypal, visionary founder of SpaceX and now Tesla motor cars. I met Mr. Musk back in my Air Force …
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Elon Musk Gets Government Loans, Buys $17 Million House
We live in the gilded age of crony capitalism. If you have any doubt about that fact look no further than Elon Musk’s purchase of a $17 million mansion in Bel Air …
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Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in .
Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running … SpaceX has won more than $5.5 billion in government contracts from …
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Elon Musk: Government’s $5 Billion Crony Kick-back Man – Nevada News and Views
Musk is one of the hottest CEOs in the country, and Tesla stock has been a strong performer. But one key to Musk’s success is that his companies have, according to …
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Elon Musk: Government’s $5 Billion Man
Capitalism 2015: In corporate finance today, the theme is Go where the money is. For Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX, the place to hunt for cash isn’t …
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Elon Musk: Government’s $5 Billion Man –
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The Techtopus: The Silicon Valley Wage Suppression Cartel (w
Matt & Michael hosted Pando Daily Senior Editor Mark Ames who explains the origins of the SiliconValley wage suppression cartel, how George Lucas helped …
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The Silicon Valley wage suppression conspiracy
The cartel firms can also afford to pay you a more, … Silicon Valley employers need to do whatever is necessary to stay the engine of innovation for the …
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The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs
In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple’s Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to …
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The Friday Roast – Silicon Valley’sdespicable wage cartel
Some of Silicon Valley’s best known names, Apple and Google among them operated a wage cartel. Now they’re being punished.
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Taxi industry piles on ‘Silicon Valley cartel’| Capital New York
In recent weeks, the San Francisco-based taxi app called Lyft has been trying to launch in the New York City market, so far without success. State and city officials …
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Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group
Jan 14 Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc, Google Inc and other companies of conspiring to drive …
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Secret anti-labor cartel alleged in SiliconValley | www.ajc.com
Secret anti-labor cartel alleged in Silicon Valley. Posted: 2 … in lost income for some 100,000 SiliconValley engineers whose salary was …
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Is the National Venture Capital Association (Nvca) Actually a …
IS THE NATIONAL VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION (NVCA) ACTUALLY A …
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National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) collusion. … AFI researchers have lived with this cartelconduct for years now, …
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Rosebud222 Archives – THE SHOCKING NEWS
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Abel Danger: The Mafia-Like Cartel Running Silicon Valley
How The National Venture Capital Association & the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists became a Mafia-like Cartel:
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PDF The Silicon Valley salary cartel – Marque Lawyers
The Silicon Valley salary cartel Google, Apple and others face multi-billion dollar US antitrust class action Want to unsubscribe? Email us at unsubscribe@ …
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The Hiring Monopsony Cartel in SiliconValley: Live from La
David Streitfeldfeb: Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley: “A class-action lawsuit that accuses industry executives of agreeing between 2005 and 2009 …
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Big tech firms holding wages down? Marx was right all along
Opinion We should have more Marxist analysis of the tech business. So here is some, looking at the manner in which the major firms of Silicon Valley are being accused …
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High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation – Wikipedia, the free…
High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged “no cold call” agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.
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Are Dreamworks, Disney, Lucas Arts part of the Silicon Valley Cartel?.
The biggest story in the Technology Sector, other than the lack of Jobs given to minorities in the tech sector, has been the Price Fixing Cartel of Silicon Valley.
toonbarn.com/other-cartoons/dreamworks-disney-lucas-ar…
Silicon Valley Wage Cartel Essay
Name: Date: 5/14/14. (Limit this entire analysis to no more than 300 words. Include the statements below in boldface). Title of Article: How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers. Briefly state the main idea of the article: (2 points).
antiessays.com/free-essays/Silicon-Valley-Wage-Cartel-66…
Silicon Valley’s Caste System Has Been Exposed — NYMag
…only makes sense when you know that Silicon Valley’s top-level executives often behave as acartel – displaying more loyalty to each other, across company lines, than to their own employees…
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/silicon-valle…
svb.com/pdf/economic-report-q2-2013
Silicon Valley Bank.
svb.com/pdf/economic-report-q2-2013/
Silicon Valley hasn’t got away with its no-poaching cartel just yet
…anti-poaching ring within Silicon Valley dates back to the 1980s, when Star Wars creator George Lucas Jobs eventually enforced the cartel on a new generation of tech companies in the 2000s, the lawsuit…
qz.com/247251/silicon-valley-hasnt-got-away-with…
Over 50,000!!!! additional major news articles and broadcast news stories detail these horrendous crimes against the public. Who is supposed to be doing something about it?
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