From: Unwitting Witness [mailto:gravity@unwittingwitness.info]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:33 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Congratulations!
The Diamond Cartel is Finally Broken
By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud
Most people think that the price of diamonds is artificially controlled by
DeBeers.
The old wives' tale is: "DeBeers has an infinite stockpile in
The actual truth is DeBeers' stockpile is gone.
DeBeers is down to "working stock." And there isn't an enormous
stockpile out there anywhere. It's closer to the opposite… and in the next few
years, the diamond industry will face a supply crunch.
The demand is coming from everywhere... in
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DeBeers simply changed its strategy. It no longer tries to control the supply
of diamonds, as it turns out it just wasn't good business in the 1990s.
DeBeers is now concentrating on selling diamonds and investing heavily to find
more diamonds, particularly in
The shares have risen from around $17 back then to new highs around $27 today.
Anglo American shares -
On a tear, and there's more to come
There is more to
come…
You may not have heard of Anglo American before. But it is a monster… The
company earned $10 billion dollars in profit before tax in 2006.
It's so big, DeBeers produces nearly half of the world's diamonds, yet it only
makes up a tiny slice of Anglo American's earnings.
In addition to ruling the diamond market, Anglo American dominates the platinum
market, contributing 40% of the world's platinum production. As with diamonds,
Anglo American's massive platinum operations only make up a small fraction
of its earnings. This is one big company.
The biggest contributor to Anglo American's earnings is its base metals
operation – including copper, nickel, and zinc. The metals Anglo American
produces have obviously soared in price over the last few years.
When I looked into Anglo American back in late 2005, I found just what I
wanted... Nobody on Wall Street really covers it. Independent research firm
Morningstar covered the stock back then… and it had a "sell" rating
on it. (Morningstar praised the company, but in the end said it don't believe
in commodities: "We expect commodity prices will revert toward their
historical long-term averages. Our fair value estimate... is predicated upon this pricing revision.")
I told my readers in the January 2006 issue of True Wealth: “The
stock is really cheap. The business has always been very profitable, even in
the bad times for commodities. And yet nobody knows anything about it. If you
type it up on Yahoo! Finance, nothing shows up. Yet it's a massive $50 billion business.”
“Analysts hate it, the general public has never heard of it, and yet the
uptrend is finally in place. It's just what we want to see... Buy Anglo American
(Nasdaq: AAUK) today, and plan on holding it for the next 10 years.”
Anglo American was a buy back in January 2006. And it remains a buy today. It
is the very best way to own the entire commodities market in one stock, for the long run.
Good investing,
Steve
From: Unwitting Witness [mailto:gravity@unwittingwitness.info]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:13 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Book Deal
Gevisser,
Just out of curiosity, why on earth do you copy people who could care less and
are not interested and have told you that they are not interested, with your
pathetic proposals and promises?
Can you even focus on one coherent, factual chapter without childish word games
and explanations of why you are not a guy off the boat, which is, in fact exactly
what you are, isn’t it. I mean you’re a relatively recent immigrant from
Not that I have anything against carpet baggers, per se, but I
can’t imagine what you prove by denying it.
Good luck with your book, which I strongly doubt you are capable of writing,
and thanks very much for reducing the volume of spam recently. Keep it up.
Maybe, even try taking my address off your list, as I’ve requested on numerous
occasions.
What I get from your emails is a picture of a tight-assed little hypocritical
weasel who thinks of people and pets in his family as if they are things that
he owns or possesses rather than loves. This is symptomatic of narcissism.
Good luck on your “fact finding” trip to
If you were not so insecure, you would hire someone smarter, more articulate,
and mostly more coherent than you to write something based on what you know, if
you actually do know any facts other than what has already been written about.
A. Witness
Could you refer me to a
literary agent in
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From: Unwitting Witness [mailto:miguel@unwittingwitness.info]
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:58 AM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Gevisser
Gevisser,
It may be that you are beginning to get the idea. I certainly hope so because
it would mean I’m making difference with you.
On reflection, your argument is not with a “DAAC” at all, you are having
trouble with human nature. Decisions people make are based on information and
experience. Experience determines how they process information outside of
logical consideration. Studies are conclusive. Check out these brief summaries.
http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/stephens/cdback.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
http://tip.psychology.org/festinge.html
Your correspondent, John Pollard, wrote, “...rampant corruption, even DAAC style, is perfectly acceptable,
even desirable in a democratic system, if the governed are happy with the
results.”
I had previously written to you that, T.S. Elliot had said, “Half of the harm that is done in
the world is due to people who do it because they want to feel important. They
don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.” Basically,
the same thing John said.
In your response to John Pollard, you opined, “The problem and the solution is that the youngsters
today are getting the information much faster than a Commanding Officer knows
how to ask for more money to get the kids to shoot the wrong targets.”
Is John wrong about the governed being happy with the results?
Both the evidence and studies of cognitive dissonance support John’s
hypothesis.
The evidence: The cynicism of today’s youth makes it more susceptible to
corruption. Secondly, they love their toys and are status driven, making them
perfect candidates for selling out early and often. For instance, most of them
don’t vote—not even those who enlist in the military. I’m very close to my
adolescent children and many of their friends, and I meet many others in online
conversations with people of all ages around the world and I get their feedback
on my blog pages. I see no evidence for your assertion.
The righteousness you express is self-promoting arrogance suggesting that you
fear that what you say will not be believed. Arrogance is a trait that defines
human being: the idea that a tiny scrap of protoplasm (albeit ingeniously
contrived) has the audacity to stand up on its hind legs and make judgments
about the imponderable vastness of creation is ironic, but judging other tiny
pieces of protoplasm transports the absurd to the sublime. Your righteousness
has the effect of making you seem less credible, and then, when you rely on
self-promotion to defend your assertions, that is simply childish.
U.
From: "Gary S. Gevisser"
<gevisser@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 23:51:01 -0800
To: "'John K. Pollard Jr.'" <jkpjkp@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "
Subject: RE: Another Epstein behind a pen. This guy makes a lot of
sense.
For the first time in
G-d only knows how long you make perfect sense.
Please explain the term “democratic system”.
You may not know that in addition to keeping track of the commodity trades of
Joseph Seigal who was probably second only to the DAAC in terms of volume
trades I also “performed audits” on the extraordinarily well oiled Chicago
“machine” and the surprising thing to me was that anyone would even bother in
hiring our firm just so that someone like myself would “confirm” there were
dead people collecting paychecks.
At some point all the fancy footwork, all the confusing English, all the DAAC
guys and gals who write such utter nonsense for DAAC controlled
publications will all be long dead and buried.
The problem and the solution is that the youngsters today are getting the
information much faster than a Commanding Officer knows how to ask for more
money to get the kids to shoot the wrong targets.
It would be fine if the DAAC allocated the world’s resources efficiently, but
they don’t because they cant because to allocate efficiently means someone has
to produce efficiently otherwise the world’s limited and precious resources run
out.
Do you really understand the word, “invest <http://www.nextraterrestrial.com/pdf/pwaldmeir-investing.htm>
”?
Why is it that you have so much trouble connecting all the articles you send.
Just go back to that idiot Herb <http://www.nextraterrestrial.com/pdf/jpollard-clear.htm>
Meyer <http://www.nextraterrestrial.com/pdf/jpollard-price%20fixing.htm>
who of course is only an idiot because he thought he had the whole world
fooled, apart from me, or is it just that no one else cares as much about doing
the right thing and the smart thing which is also the right thing and just be
smart or keep quiet.
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]
From: John K. Pollard Jr. [mailto:jkpjkp@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:22 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Another Epstein behind a pen. This guy makes a lot of sense.
The point being that
rampant corruption, even DAAC style, is perfectly acceptable, even desirable in
a democratic system, if the governed are happy with the results.
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March 2, 2007; Page A10
CHICAGO -- When I was a boy, my father,
the late political philosopher, Maurice Aristotle Machiavelli Montesquieu de
Tocqueville Epstein, took me aside to explain that in the Chicago aldermanic
races of the day, candidates were spending as much as a quarter of a million
dollars to acquire jobs that would pay them an annual salary of $15,000.
"Think about this, son, and let me know what you conclude," he said,
walking off with a sly smile. He was of the peripatetic school of philosophy,
my father.
Callow youth though I might be, I was not
entirely a numbskull, and, under my father's tutelage, I came quickly enough to
understand that appearance and reality are not always congruent. And perhaps
nowhere is the distance between the two greater than in
To be denied election Mr. Daley would
have to have been proven to have ties to al Qaeda or to have been caught
copping quarters from the poor box at Holy Name Cathedral. In
Mr. Daley has by
Not a lengthy period is required for
cities, even magnificent cities, to fall apart. In his novel "Life and
Fate," the Russian writer Vasily Grossman notes: "Man never
understands that the cities he has built are not an integral part of Nature. If
he wants to defend his culture from wolves and snowstorms, if he wants to save
it from being strangled by weeds, he must keep his broom, spade, and rifle
always at hand. If he goes to sleep, if he thinks about something else for a
year or two, then everything's lost. The wolves come out of the forest, the
thistles spread and everything is buried under dust and snow."
Chicagoans understand this better than
most. In the interregnum between the two Daleys, père et fils, that is
in the years between 1976 and 1989, when Chicago was without a Daley as mayor,
the wolves were out, snows clogged the pavement, thistles rolled down
crime-ridden sad streets, dust was everywhere, that old decline-and-fall
feeling was in the air. Rich Daley put an end to that: The city he has governed
has become a vibrant place, culturally booming, buildings and civic works
shooting up all over, without obvious racial tension, a place in which the
talented young are eager to live.
In this past election, Mr. Daley had no
real competition, apart from a few disgruntled aldermen and local hacks. For a
time there was talk of Jesse Jackson, Jr., the congressman and son of the
altogether too ubiquitous clergyman, taking a shot at running for mayor. Being
mayor of
More is entailed in Mr. Daley's success
than, a la Mussolini, a matter of making the railroads run on time. Mr. Daley
is not theoretician of government but a problem solver, and a tenacious one.
His tenacity is immensely aided by his lack of personal ambition -- ambition,
that is, to be anything more than mayor of the City of
Mr. Daley will be 65 next month. The job
of mayor appears to be his for as long as he can get to the office in the
morning. My own expectation is that as mayor of
Mr. Epstein is the author, most recently,
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From: Unwitting Witness [mailto:miguel@unwittingwitness.info]
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:57 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Is that your wife?
It’s time to do your thing or get off the pot.
Literally and figuratively.
Do you have the capacity to finish a book?
Or is this book threat delusional?
I’m giving odds.
Better get started.
From: Unwitting Witness [mailto:miguel@unwittingwitness.info]
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:49 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Got milk?
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From: Unwitting Witness [mailto:miguel@unwittingwitness.info]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 9:52 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: IRS
IRS
From: Unwitting Witness [mailto:miguel@unwittingwitness.info]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 8:20 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Lies?
“my wife’s child support checks barely cover the cost of feeding my Greyhound”
“I could interest each and every private as well as public corporation in my “risk
assessment” services”
Prove it or shut up about it. What you could do, and what you are doing are not
the same. You have no other income.