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quote:
Originally posted by Wallace#1:
That repost of legal's re e-Smart Technologies was an attempt to mislead readers here. The charges were completely different as follows:

The Order is based on allegations by the Division of Enforcement that:


e-Smart has failed to comply with Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and Exchange Act Rule 10b-5 by filing materially false and misleading reports with the Commission, by making materially false and misleading claims in press releases, postings on the e-Smart website, and in statements made directly to investors and potential investors concerning, among other things, e-Smart's results of operations, contractual relationships, ownership of technology assets, and projected revenues and profits; and

e-Smart failed to comply with Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act and Exchange Act Rules 12b-20, 13a-1 and 13a-13 while its common stock was registered with the Commission in that it filed materially false and misleading reports with the Commission, and has failed to file required annual and quarterly reports.

legal, do not try to distort the facts as to the charges being different. This one is based upon filing false and misleading reports, not failure to file at all among other things. Hell, I'll bet the faithful would have been most happy with any report (false or otherwise). They certainly would not have known the difference and would have pumped the sh:t out of it!

PS: Going to go play some Texas Hold'em now for a while. Try to keep it clean, legal.

That would be the judge that is "distorting the facts" Wallace. She cited the case in today's decision, not me.
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I thought this was an interesting chart for those who like to hold these dead pennies on the way down. Shows what type of gains you need for what a lose.


Recovering a Loss

Loss - Gain Needed to Recover Loss

10% -- 11.1%

20% -- 25.0%

30% -- 42.9%

40% -- 66.7%

50% - 100.0%

60% - 150.0%

75% - 300.0%

90% - 1000.0%

Timing your entry and exit from the market is critical to making money and controlling losses.

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I repeat:

For those of you who wish to complain to the SEC concerning Urban Casavant, CMKX, statements made by CMKX officials, statements made by their current law firm and the complete disregard and violation of shareholder interests by Casavant and/or CMKX the address is as follows:

http://www.sec.gov/complaint/selectconduct.shtml

CONTACT THE SEC WITH YOUR INFORMATION AND CONCERNS!!!!!

See, I learned redundancy from legal. And as far as the judge's citing a case is concerned, that as I recall was to allow in the 'shareholers' group". It had nothing to do with the charges. Come on, legal, no more diversion and distortion please.

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http://www.sec.gov/complaint/cf942sec9570.htm

"If on the Internet, All Relevant Internet Addresses"


Nice

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Very well done drgnfly. That is precisely the form I filled out when I sent my email to the SEC.

PS: Tomorrow I plan to make a few phone calls to certain responsible individuals. I doubt if I will have a problem getting through. One of the best things they could do is subpeona all the Allstocks threads relating to CMKX et al.

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Great, subpeonas served to Will, Wallace, Bill and Upside. I'll drive.
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I wouldn't get in any vehicle with you bunch of bums!!! I take my limo....all alone.

PS: Except for the attractive female driver, of course.

Another PS: Just thinking about that. Can you imagine those four clowns before an SEC investigation committee? Probably be a fight to see who could bash the loudest!

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I bet she'd really love that experience. You better come with us, pal.

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I wouldn't get in any vehicle with you bunch of bums!!! I take my limo....all alone.

PS: Except for the attractive female driver, of course.



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No, Will, I'd just die happy!!! LOL Besides, Will, don't know if I could handle your eloquent choice of words during the trip.
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Just don't try and pay the Limo company with CMKX shares. They may give you a ugly male driver and take you to the wrong place.

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A cold glass of water and a good piece of ass would kill you. I'm just looking out for you, man.

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Ric, what do you mean "Limo company"? It's my limo. Nice big white sucker. Like me, pure as the driven snow.
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Well the I know you would then. If you tried and to pay yourself with cmkx shares

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"A cold glass of water and a good piece of ass would kill you."

I think I could handle the water. As far as the other is concerned, I'd die happy!!

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OK, guys, stop picking on the old fart. I must save all my energy for legal and my limo driver, rather than respond to you.
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originally posted by Wallace #1:
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Besides, Will, don't know if I could handle your eloquent choice of words during the trip.
Ohh, never though of that. Better pack ear plugs, lots of them. And I'm not sharing a room with him either. Still not entirely sure of that boy.
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Basher supervisors must make the big bucks to own limos. I want a raise.

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Go get 'im, Upsideeee. Just watch your downsideeee.

No raises for peons.

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We could bring dwman along to keep us all in check.
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Wallace said: "See, I learned redundancy from legal. And as far as the judge's citing a case is concerned, that as I recall was to allow in the 'shareholers' group". It had nothing to do with the charges. Come on, legal, no more diversion and distortion please."


While you are learning from me Wallace, learn this. If you want to effectively lead your band of merry men, you must learn to actually read a document before commenting on it. It will lead to much more respect from your followers, lead to a greater understanding of the subject matter, and make your comments far more applicable.

So if you would, please go back and note carefully that the Shareholders were only a portion of that ruling. She was specifically relating to the Disciplinary Hearing when she referrenced that cite.

And by the way, if you should decide to read the ruling you may also notice that there is a pretrial TX conference between the parties tomorrow. Better hurry along your complaint process, because it's possible, maybe probable, that this case will be all over with tomorrow in that conference.

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quote:
Originally posted by Upside:
We could bring dwman along to keep us all in check.

Would be nice, but some of that genuine religion might rub off on me. Cannot have me becoming a nice guy!
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Yeah, it just might be over. I suppose the judge could declare a summary judgement in favor of the SEC.

PS: LMAO "While you are learning from me Wallace, learn this. If you want to effectively lead your band of merry men, you must learn to actually read a document before commenting on it. It will lead to much more respect from your followers, lead to a greater understanding of the subject matter, and make your comments far more applicable."

Again, you missed the point. I was speaking of your redundancy!!

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quote:
Originally posted by legaleagle:
Wallace said: "See, I learned redundancy from legal. And as far as the judge's citing a case is concerned, that as I recall was to allow in the 'shareholers' group". It had nothing to do with the charges. Come on, legal, no more diversion and distortion please."


While you are learning from me Wallace, learn this. If you want to effectively lead your band of merry men, you must learn to actually read a document before commenting on it. It will lead to much more respect from your followers, lead to a greater understanding of the subject matter, and make your comments far more applicable.

So if you would, please go back and note carefully that the Shareholders were only a portion of that ruling. She was specifically relating to the Disciplinary Hearing when she referrenced that cite.

And by the way, if you should decide to read the ruling you may also notice that there is a pretrial TX conference between the parties tomorrow. Better hurry along your complaint process, because it's possible, maybe probable, that this case will be all over with tomorrow in that conference.

Speaking of reading their posts

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Legal from another one of your posts...

"577 members

85,994,159,301 shares"

Did you even do the math before you posted this? Simple math, even me, after all my Kool Aid can figure it out.

85,994,159,301 / 577 = 149,036,671 shares/person

and that is going on average. Which means there are some people with more than that and some people with less than that. So even if everyone averaged down until they hit $.0001/share we are talking about $14,900 invested by each one of those 577 people for a grant total of $8,597,300 invested into a pink sheet stock with no real info. Dont you think that is stretching the truth just a little...why would you post something like that?"


classic [Smile]

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GOTCHA!!!
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legal, did you know dragonflys are good for getting rid of mosquitos?

I'm tired now. Good night all.

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Mosquitos? You want rid of misquitos?
get one of those hose bottles and cut some lemon juice with water and spray your yard. You might want to use some lemon scented amonia and fertilize a bit at the same time. Just make sure to cut it. Plant some lemon grass, (herb), and break it open and rub the juice of the plant on your skin. Mosquitos hate lemon.


quote:
Originally posted by Wallace#1:
legal, did you know dragonflys are good for getting rid of mosquitos?



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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by legaleagle:
Wallace said: "See, I learned redundancy from legal. And as far as the judge's citing a case is concerned, that as I recall was to allow in the 'shareholers' group". It had nothing to do with the charges. Come on, legal, no more diversion and distortion please."


While you are learning from me Wallace, learn this. If you want to effectively lead your band of merry men, you must learn to actually read a document before commenting on it. It will lead to much more respect from your followers, lead to a greater understanding of the subject matter, and make your comments far more applicable.

So if you would, please go back and note carefully that the Shareholders were only a portion of that ruling. She was specifically relating to the Disciplinary Hearing when she referrenced that cite.

And by the way, if you should decide to read the ruling you may also notice that there is a pretrial TX conference between the parties tomorrow. Better hurry along your complaint process, because it's possible, maybe probable, that this case will be all over with tomorrow in that conference.

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Legal from another one of your posts...

"577 members

85,994,159,301 shares"

Did you even do the math before you posted this? Simple math, even me, after all my Kool Aid can figure it out.

85,994,159,301 / 577 = 149,036,671 shares/person

and that is going on average. Which means there are some people with more than that and some people with less than that. So even if everyone averaged down until they hit $.0001/share we are talking about $14,900 invested by each one of those 577 people for a grant total of $8,597,300 invested into a pink sheet stock with no real info. Dont you think that is stretching the truth just a little...why would you post something like that?"


classic [Smile]

drgnfly, there is a difference between not reading and not caring.
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Wallace: Again, you missed the point. I was speaking of your redundancy!!


And now you are being redundant. And I knew exactly what you were talking about. And as long as you were learning from my redundancy I wanted you to learn something else.

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quote:
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GOTCHA!!!

Better luck next time.
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quote:
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legal, did you know dragonflys are good for getting rid of mosquitos?

I'm tired now. Good night all.

So is this:


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Heres the best one of the day in Willy Wonkas room. Willy says that all shareholders are to report to the Las Vegas Drug Strip. UC will be announcing to all shareholders that show great news. Wonder why that wasn't on a PR?

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Legal, watch out. Don't spray that in here. It will wipe out everything.

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Did Andrew Hill come along to CMKX on or about Nov 09 2004??? Just curious !!!!!! [Big Grin]

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DTCC Stuns With Admission It Interfered With News


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StockGate: DTCC Stuns With Admission It Interfered With News Media
April 13, 2005 (FinancialWire) In yet another stunning development in the StockGate saga that has roiled the financial industry, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, through its outside counsel, Proskauer Rose LLP, has admitted it sent communications that resulted in a newswire’s censorship at Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) Finance via Investors Business Daily and Markethingych, now owned by Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) but then partly owned by Viacom’s (NYSE: VIAb) CBS.

This comes hard on the heels of a seeming cancellation of a Dateline NBC purported expose of the DTCC’s alleged role in a “Stock Borrow Program” that lawsuits say it aids and abets through its controversial “Stock Borrow” program, in the same week that DTCC publicly posted a “preemptory” challenge to the legitimacy of “broadcasts.” NBC is a unit of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), and its producers denied to FinancialWire that the program was cancelled, saying instead that it has been “postponed.”

NBC did not respond to follow-up questions as to when a new air date is intended, or to whether the piece is being reedited due to pressure from the corporation or from outside. Ironically, after FinancialWire’s distribution was curtailed via the Investors Business Daily feed, its publishers joked in an email to the producers that Dateline NBC might be “next.”

On February 7, Investors Business Daily asked Markethingych, then co-owned by Viacom (NYSE: VIAb) but now owned by Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) to shut off its FinancialWire feed that it also re-propogated to Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO).

An investigation by FinancialWire revealed that the newsfeed was shut down at the request of an official of the DTCC, who had complained to Investors Business Daily that FinancialWire publishes “opinions and not news.” FinancialWire learned that this is contained in emails sent by Investors Business Daily to the Dow Jones publication.

Despite the purported efforts by the DTCC, however, FinancialWire has since been provided to another 300 outlets.

In a letter to FinancialWire’s attorney, Marshal Shichtman, Esq., Charles S. Sims, a member of Proskauer Rose LLP contended that his client’s communication “is not actionable, and DTCC was fully privileged to send it under the protections for free speech afforded by New York and federal law.”

Sims appeared to be more concerned with Shichtman’s characterization of such interference as “cheap thuggery” and “strong-arm tactics more suitable to organized crime than an SRO,” and that he was “appalled” by “any conduct of DTCC.”

Sims said that “unlike the opinions stated in DTCC’s correspondence, for example that FinancialWire is not a bona fide news provider, these charges assert, and would be understood as asserting, criminal misconduct.”

He added that “DTCC takes the matter with utmost seriousness, and will hold you and your client responsible for any resulting harm. DTCC has a sterling reputation, as you seem to be aware, hard-won through years of responsible business meeting the highest standards of conduct, and it ought not be trifled with by careless, reckless charges such as yours.

“We demand that you cease any further dissemination of those charges, and further demand that you identify any and all distributions and copy us on the retraction of these charges that should be forthcoming from you as well.”

Shichtman, contacted at press deadline, said that he may have further comments after legal review, but as to the DTCC’s admittance of media interference and possible First Amendment violations, “I am stupefied.”

A major protagonist has sprung up via the National Coalition Against Naked Short Selling, with recent posts at http://bobosrevenge.blogspot.com and http://www.ncans.net/sanity1.htm . It includes an open letter to the DTCC regarding what it perceives to be significant holes in the organization’s recently posted interview.

The sudden cancellation of the “Dateline NBC” expose, scheduled Sunday, April 10, has reminded many of the corporate conflicts in NBC’s previous ownership by Westinghouse that resulted in the infamous cancellation of the “60 Minutes” expose on Big Tobacco after Westinghouse was leaned on by Brown and Williamson, an RJ Reynolds (NYSE: RJR) unit. That resulted in an award-winning movie, “The Insider,” starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, and produced by Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) Touchstone Pictures and distributed by its Buena Vista unit.

The DTCC has been accused by many of acting with impunity, and is hardly a role model for unconflicted governance. Its 21 directors include Bradley Abelow, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS); Jonathan E. Beyman, Chief Information Officer, Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH); and Frank J. Bisignano, Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Executive Vice President, Citigroup / Solomon Smith Barney's Corporate Investment Bank (NYSE: C).

The largely unregulated DTC has become something of a defacto Czar presiding over the entire U.S. markets system, wielding more day-to-day influence and control than the SEC, the NASD and NASDAQ combined. Transparency is not of the DTCC’s strong suits. In the past it has stonewalled all requests for full and complete trading records.

The DTCC’s two preferred shareholders are the New York Stock Exchange and the NASD, a regulatory agency that also owns the Nasdaq and until recently, the American Stock Exchange.
Other DTCC board members include Michael C. Bodson, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MWD); Gary Bullock, Global Head of Logistics, Infrastructure, UBS Investment Bank (NYSE: UBS); Stephen P. Casper, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Fischer Francis Trees & Watts, Inc.; Jill M. Considine,Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC);

Also, Paul F. Costello, President, Business Services Group, Wachovia Securities (NYSE: WB); John W. Cummings, Senior Vice President & Head of Global Technology & Services, Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER); Donald F. Donahue, Chief Operating Officer, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Norman Eaker, General Partner, Edward Jones; George Hrabovsky, President, Alliance Global Investors Service; Catherine R. Kinney, President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, New York Stock Exchange; Thomas J. McCrossan, Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT); Eileen K. Murray, Managing Director, Credit Suisse First Boston (NYSE: CSR); James P. Palermo, Vice Chairman, Mellon Financial Corporation (NYSE: MEL); Thomas J. Perna, Senior Executive Vice President, Financial Companies Services Sector of The Bank of New York (NYSE: BNY); Ronald Purpora, Chief Executive Officer, Garban LLC; Douglas Shulman, President, Regulatory Services and Operations, NASD; and Thompson M. Swayne, Executive Vice President, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM).


In their comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding Regulation SHO in January, the 50 state regulators, through their association, the North American Association of Securities Administrators (NASAA) issued what many consider to be a strong warning that if the DTCC is not dealt with in the final regulations, state regulators such as New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer may step to the plate.

In what many considered to have been explosive comments, Ralph Lambiase, then-NASAA president and Director of the Connecticut Division of Securities, warned "NASAA urges the Commission to reconsider its stance regarding the role of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (the DTC). As a threshold matter, NASAA believes that the Commission should explicitly prohibit the DTC from lending more shares of a security than it actually holds. The ability of the overall proposed rule would be severely impared unless the Commission undertakes to implement such a prohibition.”

Many of the lawsuits believed to have been part of the program allege that the DTCC operates a “stock lending” program that aids and abets illegal naked short selling, and in doing so, admittedly takes in $1.67 million annually.

In a further rare display of transparency, however, while framing it in terms of a small percentage of daily transactions, Thompson has admitted in an interview posted at http://www.dtcc.com that some $4.9 billion, involving an estimated 20,000 daily transactions remain unresolved “fails to deliver and receive.”
“The markets check to see if the amount of fails to deliver is more than 1/2 of 1% of the total outstanding shares in that security,” said Thompson.

“If it is, then it goes on a ‘Threshold List.’ If it is then on the Threshold List for 13 consecutive settlement days, restrictions on short selling then apply. The “close-out” requirement forces a participant of a registered clearing agency to close out any “fail to deliver” position in a threshold security that has remained for 13 consecutive settlement days by purchasing securities of like kind and quantity. If the participant does not take action to close out the open fail to deliver position, the participant is prohibited from making further short sales in that security without first borrowing or arranging to borrow the security. Even market makers are not exempt from this requirement.”

In his questioning of SEC Chair Donaldson, Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah) suggested, however, that a loophole in the regulation allows market makers to “pass along” these “fails to deliver” from one to the other, leaving them “unclosed out” indefinitely. A video of that exchange is posted at http://www.investrendinformation.com

While in the overall scheme of the U.S. markets system, the fails to deliver of that magnitude may “seem” insignificant, it actually represents the entire market caps of upwards of 500 smaller public companies every trading day, which if victimized in this admitted fashion, can find their survivals and the safety of the entire investments of their shareholders questionable indeed.

This comes hard on the heels of an ad in the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) from The Washington Legal Foundation, located at http://www.wlf.org, which has considerable clout in the Bush administration, with ten of its board members now serving in various capacities, including three, headed by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, in the Bush cabinet. Its “In All Fairness” advertorial, “What’s Up With The SEC?” may be seen at http://www.wlf.org/upload/032805IAFSEC.pdf

The advertorial alleges that class action lawyers are colluding with short sellers “right under the noses of SEC investigators,” whose abuses cause “investors, employees, pensioners and companies” to “lose millions of dollars in stock value each year.”

The WLF said that the SEC has been “sitting on several complaints of misconduct” that it and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed that detail “examples of questionable stock manipulation by short sellers and class action attorneys.”

The group says that the SEC is “looking the other way while class action attorneys enjoy a free-for-all, reaping millions in windfall fees to the detriment of shareholders,” and asks “why isn’t the SEC taking legal and regulatory action to prevent stock manipulation and to protect investors from the looting by plaintiffs’ lawyers? Shouldn’t there be rules and oversight to deter these trial lawyer abuses?”

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Originally posted by Ric:
Heres the best one of the day in Willy Wonkas room. Willy says that all shareholders are to report to the Las Vegas Drug Strip. UC will be announcing to all shareholders that show great news. Wonder why that wasn't on a PR?

Ric, just as a point of reference, the legitimate longs do not follow Willy Wizard. He used to post some pretty good reads, but since he started this chat room, he has become the "Enquirer" of CMKX.
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