First, the case of Shirley Sherrod, the black U.S. Department of Agriculture official accused of racism. The evidence of her racism was a short, edited video clip offered up by a partisan web gadfly, Andrew Breitbart, who has a small empire of web sites.  This guy knew such a controversial and inflammatory out-take would drive millions to his web sites. This huge burst of site traffic is money in Brietbart’s pocket.

What surprised me was that the NAACP and the Obama administration swallowed this hook, line, and sinker.  They didn’t review the full video, interview people present at the event, or evaluate Breitbart’s motives for publishing the edited video.

Second, the leaked military documents that now appear on the WikiLeaks site need closer examination.

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is what a judge would describe as an unreliable witness.  He pleaded guilty to 25 charges of hacking in Australia; and according to the National Post, “Before he set up the website in 2006, Julian Assange spent years hacking into government and company computers, including those of the U.S. Department of Defense, as part of a group calling themselves the International Subversives.”

With Assange’s talk about “war crimes” and his background, it isn’t hard to understand that this guy has an agenda.  How his agenda distorts the picture of events depends upon what documents he publishes from this large volume of previously classified material.  We will never know what he didn’t publish and this creates a very similar situation to the selectively edited video clip published by Breitbart.

So desperate was one man to conceal his identity that he began biting his fingers and drawing blood while being booked.

Some have used eyedroppers filled with acid or pressed their fingers onto burning metal to blot their fingerprints. Others have spent thousands of dollars to hire shady doctors to surgically alter their fingertips, hoping to scar them beyond recognition.

1. Create a Google account while being discrete with the information you put in the profile.
2. Log on to your Google account and in the top left of the screen go to more then down to even more and select Alerts, which appears as the first link on the More Google Products page. Set up a number of these alerts for “news” and “blogs” based on your search terms. Set each of these to “as-it-happens” to e-mail you with a link to the article.
3. Set up your smart phone to receive these alerts, and code the incoming messages with a special sound. You’ll then get a specific sound on your smart phone with each Google Alert.
4. Establish a  Google Reader account. Subscribe to all the blogs you can find on your topics of interest. Google Reader includes a search bar to help search through the dross to find the good stuff. You now have an online central location from which you can manage your information intake.
5. Over time, add more and more RSS feeds.  Intelligence agencies have them, and so should you.  You will be surprised Google Reader and the Google Alerts you will consistently outperform major news organizations in bring actionable intelligence to your attention. The may give you a competitive edge.
6. Check your favorite blogs and and those that they are linking to consistently. Add these RSS feeds to your reader. Check the blog rolls of the blogs to which you subscribe  and add all of their RSS feeds to your reader. To vet these new sources, use the reader’s search facility.

International Business Company (IBC)

First, check the IBC struck-off list at:

http://www.ibcbelize.com/

The International Business Companies Registry is located in the Marina Towers building in Belize City. A competent  & experienced staff is available to help you.

Marina Towers, Suite 201
Newtown Barracks
Belize City, Belize
Central America

Telephone numbers: 501-223-5108 / 223-5120 / 224-4701
Fax number: 501-223-5124
E-mail address: ibc@btl.net
Contact Person: Ms. Katherine Haylock, Deputy Registrar

Other Company Types

Normally you must travel to Belmopan, the capital, to visit the Companies’ Registry and request a computerized name search of all existing Belizean company names, which takes a few minutes to complete. however, a request can also be done by telephone or fax at a fee of BZE 50

The contact information is as follows:

Belize Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry
Ground Floor Garden City Hotel
Mountain View Boulevard
Belmopan City, Cayo District
Belize Central America

TEL: 822- 0421/ 822-0531
FAX: 822- 0422
http://www.belizecompaniesregistry.gov.bz/

Belizean laws allow for the following categories of business ownership:

* Private Companies
* Limited Liability Partnership
* Limited Life Companies
* Joint Ventures and Cooperatives
* Partnership
* Sole Proprietor
* Public Investment Companies
* International Business Companies
* Trust Funds

The Most Common Off-Shore Business Structure in Belize

Almost all offshore or foreign businesses use the International Business Company or Trust forms, sometimes in combination.

Many jurisdictions have laws that say you can’t change your name to avoid debts or prosecution, and if your are a convicted felon or on parole or probation. I have found all of these types changing their names. Nobody really checks the background of people who change their names in many jurisdictions. You can use this to your favour in some circumstances as the local authorities don’t want the public to know how lax they are in this regard. A complaint to the right bureaucrat often leads to interesting and highly useful assistance.

R for reliability. The basic truthfulness or accuracy of the information you are evaluating.

I  for the importance of the data based upon its releveance

C  for the cost of your possible reactions or actions relating to the information

E  for the effectiveness of your  actions based upon this information. Would actions based upon this information solve the problems you face?

This format is useful for summarizing collected data and for analyzing how you might apply the data in a broad range of situations.

PS:

Just remember, as the old pessimist philosopher Arnold Schopenhauer stated, “The truth will set you free . . . but first it will make you miserable.”

1. Decide on a single meaning for every word in the question.
2. Decide if an answer to this question can be acted upon to improve things.

Essentially, if you can’t define it or act upon it, then ignore it.

A former senior animal cruelty officer at the Toronto Humane Society (THS) is facing a slew of additional charges in connection with the alleged operation of an unlicensed security guard services business.

Smith, 39, of Thornhill, and Protective Security Consultants has been charged with operating a business entity without a license under the Private Security and Investigative Services Act. He has also been charged under this legislation with acting as an unlicensed security guard.

Smith and his company are further charged with engaging in the business of providing security guards, no agency license and holding out as an agency with no agency license under the Private Investigators and Security Guards Act.

The new charges are reportedly not linked to a probe involving allegations of animal cruelty at the THS, which had its River Street shelter raided on Nov. 26, 2009.

He was charged then with two counts of impersonating a peace officer and one count of perjury in connection with accusations he continued investigating animal cruelty cases at the shelter despite being suspended last June.

Earlier, during June 2007, the OSPCA suspended Smith after he rescued a Rottweiler from a overheated vehicle and left the dog’s owner unattended and handcuffed to a car door while he left the scene with the dog. The handcuffed and defenseless dog owner was then assaulted by onlookers.