From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:30 AM PT
To: henninger@wsj.com
Cc: rest;
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Sanford University - former Chairman of the SEC; Dr.
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Subject: FW: Way better than nost.
While Dr. John K. Pollard
credits your Wall Street Journal yesterday, Burning
down the house in Franceland as “Way
better than nost” [sic], Dr. JKP may have forgotten in his attempts to find
“sum” [sic] good in someone such as yourself, that in this very greedy world
everything is about “money”, more importantly the “pricing
of money” which I believe you failed to mention?
At least two generations of
non-Americans including the Brits and Canadians were raised with the
expression, “Beware of the Yellow Peril”, no one including English speaking
Americans seems to have figured out who most benefited from such utter
nonsense, no different to the distraction of your bullshit article that no doubt
in time will haunt you the rest of your life, at least this time around.
Right now a significant
number of the most sophisticated financial engineers all around the world
anxiously await my next move in bringing the DeBeers-Anglo American Cartel to its knees and in the process spell out further in simple
English the business of “money”, specifically “money
creation” that the DAAC have
now had going on 100 years an exclusive worldwide right to engineer-manufacture-distribute in
unlimited quantities, their lightweight and untraceable “diamond currency”
never, not once, inventoried.
Blue Nile, the publicly traded
corporation whose shares I have begun to short, no doubt never figured into
their business model that “out of the blue” would come someone
such as myself that knows pretty much everything there is to know not only
about the all important modern day Economic History that led to the DAAC being in “command and control” of
the world’s monetary system but what little choice Nicholas Oppenheimer the
“Anglo” head of the DAAC has at this
time other than to support these neophytes running this DAAC fronting public corporation thinking that because they have
the “gift
of the gab” and can tap dance around with a bunch of nimcompoop
financial analysts who like you are “counted on” to “play
your part” the next generation will have “no choice” but to “grin
and bare” more fodder for the cannons?
There
isn’t a single literate human being on the planet who hasn’t at some point in
their life intuitively felt that nothing “of worth” seems to add up, so few,
if any, of the rich they see around them really look all that happy but then
bringing the shell shocked masses back into reality check is an expression like
“money
cannot buy you happiness” that then has them going back to their
miserable lives, finding ultimately sanctuary in the so corrupt church, content
to be led by the nose, feeling way better than most buried 6 feet underground,
plotting best left alone, believing they are “so fortunate” just to be alive,
never figuring that the truth to “The meek shall inherit the earth”
can be found in the abundance of ant like creatures clearing winning the race
for “survival
of the fittest.”
Yes,
it is true I have today a lot to say but what you as well as the “visible”
management of Blue Nile and much
more importantly, the United States Congress understand perfectly well is that
in addition to speaking the truth I make a whole lot of sense while recognizing
this is all one big game involving a whole bunch of losers.
Proceed
as you “see fit” but understand I don’t intend to take a single
prisoner in “my wake” knowing perfectly well that while I don’t do all that
well at the sight of blood I have absolutely no fear you and your kind will
eventually “come around”.
What
goes around comes around but with a vengeance.
Later,
Gary
S. Gevisser
A Name From
Here, You Can Trust Over There
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-----Original Message-----
From: John K. Pollard Jr.
[mailto:jpollar2@san.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, November 11,
2005 7:26 PM
To: gary s gevisser
Subject: Way better than nost.
Wall Street
Journal
Burning Down
The House
In FranceLand
November 11, 2005; Page A10
I am prepared to entertain the notion that France's
second-generation Muslims are burning down those lovely French towns because
Muslims can't or won't integrate into European societies. I'm also inclined to
believe that if you are 18, male, live in a scuzzy neighborhood and have not
much better to do from 9 to 5 than hang with the boys, nothing good can come of
it. The solution to the first theory of France's
riots is to round up all the young Muslims, put them on trains and ship them
"home." Plan B would be for France
to output a better 9-to-5 culture than it's got. My guess is the Chirac
government would prefer the first solution.
Rewind. Let's try to come at this burn-down France
problem from a different perspective.
Amid the flaming fortnight in France,
two other notable events occurred. A stadium in Argentina
filled with people waving Che Guevara flags who screamed obscenities at
President George W. Bush's free trade proposals. The U.S.
press reported that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's crypto-socialist
theories pose a major challenge in Latin America to Mr.
Bush's ideas.
The second, more important story, to anyone whose income depends
on knowing where the world will be a decade hence, was the email traffic
between Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his top techie, Ray Ozzie. "It's
clear that if we fail to do so," wrote Mr. Ozzie -- that is, fail to
figure out the ultimate meaning of the Internet -- "our business as we
know it is at risk. We must respond quickly and decisively."
As so often the past 125 years, the wolf at the door -- in France,
Argentina and
at Microsoft -- is modernity. The forcing mechanism was once the steam engine,
then the telegraph, then linked electronic financial markets, and now economic
"globalization" and the World Wide Web. Each new transition makes
people crazy. There are several ways to respond.
The Gates-Ozzie Method, whose upside is
survival, is: Get a grip on the change. The Young Muslim Method is: Burn down
the house and rule the embers. Both methods warrant further thought. But as the
political leadership of France
is the big news this week, one's energies are drawn to examining the method the
French elites have shaped as their response to globalized modernity: Do
nothing.
To be sure, they would put it differently. French elites -- like
their counterparts in Germany
and the rest of Western Europe -- would say their
response to such modernizing forces as the Doha
trade round, agro-bioengineering and fast food is "Resist!" But the
endpoint logic of resistance is the status quo, or do nothing.
Anecdotes don't carry much statistical strength, but for some
time I've been carrying around three about Western Europe
because they illuminate the continent's perplexity about the future.
A Frenchman who lives in New York
described how he has been remodeling a large estate home in central France.
He flies back constantly to supervise the never-ending project because he can't
find local French willing to work on it, and because those who work do so
poorly. Why bother? "It's an investment," he says. Come again?
"This house is going to make a lot of money for me," the Frenchman
says, "when France
arrives at its inevitable destination as mainly a vacation land for Chinese
tourists."
In January I spent most of a week walking around Rome.
Talking to a lifelong resident, I remarked that while it was a wonderful place
for strolling, one couldn't help but notice there weren't many young adults. I
asked: Is there much opportunity for a young person in Rome?
Came back the instant answer: "Zero." Most of the young, she said,
certainly those with ambition, move "north." The jobs available in Rome
are with the government "or maybe a bank."
But let's take on the idea that France's
rioters have little to do with economic enervation, that this is really about France's
failed attempts to "assimilate" Muslims who in any event don't want
to assimilate. But what if they did? Or what if, instead of Arabs, they were
Rome-fleeing Italians or even workaholic Slovakians? About three weeks before
these riots, a German-born businessman in New York,
who is now a successful developer of American real estate, tried to explain why
he was here and not there:
"I could not do in Europe what I did
here. A European at the age of 25, with little money but a lot of ambition and
ideas, could not expect to move outside his own country -- move to say the
center of France,
or the center of Italy,
Belgium or any
other country -- and have much prospect of succeeding. He would remain an
outsider."
This is the roots argument. In America,
the Jamestown settlers hit the
ground running in 1607, and their descendants have kept moving for nearly 400
years, high on change. Lucky us. In Europe, every
village and town has roots that run 1,000 or more years deep. Past some point,
maybe World War I, pulling up one's roots became unthinkable. Tough luck for
the young Ray Ozzies in the historic towns of Europe,
yearning to be "quick" and "decisive."
European monetary union was supposed to loosen history's
stranglehold on economic rationality. Europe's monetary
authorities delivered a low inflation rate. But labor across most of Euroland
has remained immobile. For German workers, north and south of their own country
are the far sides of the moon. So Germany's
auto-parts companies moved to Slovakia,
which enacted a flat tax of 19% on both personal and corporate income. Most of
eastern Europe also has adopted low, flat taxes.
Outside of "Peter Pan," I'm not aware of any society,
suburb or neighborhood that functions without jobs. So in a sense there is not
really a France
for its Muslims to assimilate into.
I don't much like economic and cultural determinism -- for
Europeans or Muslims. I do believe lower taxes, as in eastern Europe, would
kick-start the land of Montesquieu,
Voltaire, Balzac, Hugo, Manet, Rodin, Berlioz, Bastiat, Pasteur and Chateau
Margaux. But France's
political class seems incapable of moving. When he imports enough Poles to finish
the job, I look forward to visiting my friend's historic theme house in the
center of FranceLand