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Happy Canada Day!
Hi everyone. I’d like to take a brief moment to wish all my fellow Canadians a very Happy Canada Day! May God keep our land glorious and free!
Cheers,
Alan
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Happy Easter!
Hello everybody. Just a brief post to wish you all a HAPPY EASTER!! 
Cheers,
Alan
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Please Help The Families Of Five Slain Police Officers
Take a good look at these faces folks as they are genuine heroes who dedicated their lives to serve and protect us all. Sergeant Mark Renninger and Officers Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold, and Greg Richards were all loyal and dedicated servants of the public good at the Lakewood Police Department but sadly their lives were needlessly and brutally snuffed out by a cold-blooded and savage coward. I pray that justice is done upon him swiftly and with fitting measure to the crime he committed. For what it’s worth I offer my sincere condolences to the families of these fine officers.
A good friend of mine and member of the law enforcement community who also happens to be a member of a forum I run has started a awareness campaign asking good citizens such as yourself to kindly support the families of the slain police officers. So I ask you dear reader to read his message below and consider making a donation to support these families.
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As some of you may know I am in law enforcement and it really pains and saddens me to have to write about this. Our community has just suffered one of the biggest tragedies my state has ever endured. Four Lakewood, WA police officers where shot and killed at a coffee shop right before their shift began earlier this week. And just three weeks before that a Seattle police officer was shot and killed. This is five families lives that have been shattered and each police officer had children. These families need our help and support. If any of you can donate even the smallest amount it will go a long way to help these families. The funeral ceremonies for the four officers will be on the 8th of December.
Below are a few links to check out to read the whole story.
http://lpig.us/?zone=/unionactive/view_page.cfm&page=Lakewood20Officers20Slain20by20a20coward
To make a donation please click on this link and then please click on the donation link. It will then bring you to a PayPal donation page.
http://www.seattle.gov/police/
If you have any questions please PM or email me.
Thank you for all your support.
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You can get in touch with my law enforcement friend by visiting the following forum thread:
http://www.forexnirvana.com/f4/slain-police-officers-1279/
Once again please consider donating.
Thank you for your attention!
Sincerely,
Alan
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Countries Billionaires Could Buy
These American moguls could buy some of the world’s economies.
Castles in France. Islands in the Caribbean. Private jets. With a collective $1.27 trillion at their disposal, the members of The Forbes 400 could buy almost anything.
How about a country? A quick glance at the CIA Fact Book suggests the individual fortunes of many Forbes 400 members are as big as some of the world’s economies.
Bill Gates, America’s richest man with a net worth of $50 billion, has a personal balance sheet larger than the gross domestic product (GDP) of 140 countries, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Bolivia and Uruguay. The Microsoft visionary’s nest egg is just short of the GDP of Tanzania and Burma.
In Pictures: Countries Billionaires Could Buy
Warren Buffett, who lost $10 billion in the past 12 months and is this year’s Forbes 400 biggest dollar loser, still has a fortune the size of North Korea’s economy at $40 billion. (The Oracle of Omaha probably would steer clear of that investment, though.)
One Forbes 400 member does actually run a small chunk of a state in an official capacity: Mayor Michael Bloomberg. While he is busy serving as the chief executive of New York City and grappling with its sluggish economy, his own personal balance sheet–amassed through financial information services and media company Bloomberg LP–equals the value of all the goods and services produced in South Africa’s Republic of Zambia’s ($17.5 billion).
Some say that land developer Donald Bren, whose assets throughout the vicinity of Orange County, Calif., include 475 office buildings, 115 apartment communities, 41 retail centers, resort properties and new housing, runs Orange County–he certainly owns most of it. And with a net worth of $12 billion, he could, in theory, buy Haiti’s economy, too.
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s $9 billion net worth is akin to the Bahamas’ GDP ($9 billion). Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, the world’s biggest auction marketplace, could theoretically control Somalia’s market with his $5.5 billion fortune.
George Lucas, the famed Hollywood director behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and ILM, the world’s most bankable special effects shop, has a $3 billion fortune, making him worth as much as the GDP of Guyana.
Hedge fund founder David Shaw’s $2.5 billion net worth parallels Belize’s marketplace.
Investor John Paulson amassed much of his fortune by exploiting the real estate bubble and shorting the subprime market in 2007. Today he has a net worth of $6.8 billion–the equivalent of Montenegro’s gross domestic product.
Although Eli Broad’s fortune suffered because of AIG’s collapse last fall–he’s lost $1.3 billion in the last 12 months–he still has a bank account that rivals Barbados’ economy ($5.4 billion).
Forbes 400 members with net worths just under $1 billion still possess fortunes that could operate the economies of significant fractions of the globe. Gary Magness, who owns water rights in Colorado through his ranch holdings, has a net worth of $990 million, which barely exceeds Vanuatu’s GDP ($988.5 million).
If this year’s three poorest Forbes 400 members were to combine their wealth (a combined $2.9 billion), their amassed fortune would be worth more than the workings of Belize’s entire economy.
Source: Forbes
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