Rand, Russia and past USSR have beened ipm'ed for a long time. Put into place any government where the people in power can dictate policy thru force, rather than power thru court of law, where the court of law has the power of force, and the law is created from reason and not from a desire to control thru force. In a way Russia is like IPM's Black Rock dirt. The Russian people are good and well educated, but the people that they let control them took advantage them, and scam'ed them. IPM and Russia both contain good stuff, but some people in a position of control have in both cases put both into Chapte 11. The IPM shareholders have just recently decided to not be passive and be moved around like the lowley pawns in a chess game. Even if the soon to be announced IPM chapter 11 court ruling does declare that all the "wealth" of IPM is to go to persons or organization, and none to the shareholders, then the civil suit running in parallel will quickly uncover that a dirty secret or plan or plot, that which is illegal has happened. From this criminal activity the property of IPM will be contested. The shareholders can be dissapointed, but should not complain since two months ago before this shareholders activity started there was a feeling of waiting for IPM to cease to exist. So even if the court rules us out, it will not be a clean decision, as in dirty, as in there is something rotten and it smells and it will be uncovered. Doug |