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To: Taki who wrote (139148)	10/25/2004 10:35:03 PM
From: Jim Bishop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 150070

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To: Taki who wrote (139148)	10/25/2004 11:51:41 PM
From: Rocket Red	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 150070

PHANTOM FINANCIALS By CHRISTOPHER BYRON -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email Archives Print Reprint October 25, 2004 -- The notion that the investing public is well served by Reg D is preposterous.A new multi-billion- dollar penny stock ploy is spreading through Wall Street, and the Securities and Exchange Commission seems for the most part to be sleeping right through it. While the regulators doze, lawyers and stock promoters are stampeding through a loophole in federal securities law known as Regulation D to mount a massive end-run around the jurisdiction of the SEC itself. The prize: billions of dollars of publicly-tradable stock in essentially worthless shell companies, which are being created in record numbers and at virtually no cost to the incorporators in business-friendly states like Delaware and Nevada. The Reg. D loophole, created to allow mom-and-pop sized businesses access to the capital markets of Wall Street, permits the federally unregistered shares of these private companies to be sold to the public anyway, with their prices displayed on Nasdaq quotation terminals as if they were shares of Microsoft or IBM. The assembly-line exploitation of this loophole has ballooned almost overnight into the penny stock market's newest get-rich ploy. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day of 2004, while the stock market drifted lower, more than 100 such companies appeared out of nowhere and began trading in the market, versus barely half a dozen such companies during the same period in 2003. "This has become a real epidemic," warns R. Cromwell Coulson, who heads Pinksheets.com, which provides Wall Street's most comprehensive quotation service for non-SEC-reporting companies. One of the most active groups in this booming new business revolves around Reg. D companies formed by a Phoenix, Ariz. securities lawyer named David B. Stocker. An official at the Holladay Stock Transfer Inc. agency, which is based in nearby Scottsdale, last week told The Post that Stocker alone has created "15 to 16" such companies since the summer. When reached for a response, Stocker offered only a terse "no comment," then muttered "why are you trying to drag me into it," and hung up the phone. HOLLADAY Stock Transfer has handled the back office re cord-keeping for at least two of the Stocker companies. And a Bonita Springs, Fla., stock promotion firm called ATN Enterprises has also figured in the action. Paid stock touts such as ATN are required by law to identify themselves and to specify the types and amounts of their compensation on any stock-hyping press releases they distribute to the public. The amounts of money ATN has thus been paid make plain enough just how big the stakes in this game really are: a startling $311,000, in cash, for writing up a mere handful of press releases for Auction Mills and two other Texas-based Reg. D. companies. Exactly who paid ATN for this work is not clear from the releases. The most generous payments of all — $150,000 and 2.5 million "free trading" shares - went to ATN for its press release artistry on behalf of just one company in the group: a New Mexico industrial equipment company called CDC Systems, Inc. — the subject of much recent coverage in this space. Both CDC Systems and Auction Mills have also employed the services of a one-time Texas bartender-turned-stockbroker named Patrick Arnett, who now works in Houston as a stock promoter. FOLLOWING several critical stories about CDC Systems that ap peared in The Post beginning Oct. 13, the company issued a press release late last week, listing Arnett as the contact man, in which it acknowledged certain claims it had made in an earlier release were "inaccurate" and that the SEC has begun an investigation into its activities. Nor are Arnett and ATN the only paid touts in the group. In Grand Island, Neb., a fax spamming operation that goes by several business names including "Market Advisors, Inc." was paid $5,000 to draft a glowing report on CDC Systems, Inc. In Weston, Fla. a separate group of touts that likewise employ a variety of business monikers, including Capital Research Group Inc., Wall Street Capital Funding, and Wall Street News Alert, has been paid $100,000 for press releases on behalf Auction Mills as well as CDC Systems. And in Lake Harmony, Penn., yet another paid stock tout named Charles P. Barry, who operates behind a variety of corporate names, routinely gets paid several hundred dollars each time he redistributes reports such as those prepared for CDC Systems by Market Advisors, Inc. and the group in Florida. NETWORKS such as these exist solely to exploit the profits lurking in the fine print in Sec. 504 of Reg. D, which allows small businesses to raise up to $1 million of capital through the private sale of unregistered stock. Yet it is not a mere $1 million in capital that the Reg D palyers are after, it's the ability to obtain limitless amounts of shares that can be sold on the open market. And Sec. 504 of the rules provides it, by allowing the issuing company to register its shares with any of the 50 states, thereby rendering the stock freely tradable nationwide. The only stipulation: the state where the shares are registered must make "substantive financial information" from the registration statement available to any investor who asks for it, whether the person lives in the state or not. The net effect of all this has been to push the regulatory oversight of Reg. D offerings off the backs of the SEC and onto those of the individual states. And once the packagers and promoters of Reg. D offerings saw the opportunity that this presented, they began streaming through the Reg. D loophole in search of the most compliant and least demanding states in which to set up their deals and register their Reg. D shares. THE notion that the in vesting public is well served by any of this is preposterous, for instead of making audited financial statements more easily accessible to would-be investors, the reform has paved the way for Reg. D promoters to build a booming new business out of hiding their companies' financial statements like itty-bitty needles in 50 different haystacks. The North American Securities Administrators Association in Washington maintains no comprehensive database of state registrations of Reg. D offerings, and neither do any of the states. And most states don't even make their own data available to the public online. Patrick Arnett of CDC Systems said last week that he wasn't certain but that he believed CDC's lawyers might have filed a Reg. D registration in New Mexico, where the company maintains its corporate headquarters in a postal mail drop. After three full days of telephoning, a New Mexico state official was reached who searched through eighty boxes of archived documents in order to confirm that CDC Systems had filed no Reg. D. stock registration with the state. No other state regulator queried for this story had any better luck. At deadline last week, CDC lawyers had failed to produce a copy of even a single Reg. D registration for this story, in spite of repeated promises from Arnett that they would do so. The only document located anywhere that contained any financial information at all about the company came from the SEC's public reference room in Washington, though it was available only in hardcopy, and a representative from the Post's Washington bureau had to present himself personally to a clerk to get a copy. The document was a so-called Form D filing, showing only that CDC's total assets consisted of just $82,000 in cash, and that the company planned to sell shares only to a single Texas investor, who under the law could not resell them unless they were first registered somewhere. The Form was dated Sept. 20th, and four days later the penny stock market was awash in CDC stock, with nearly 7.3 million shares changing hands on its first day of trading. Where did the shares come from? Who was selling them? Was any of it legal? "Good question," says Texas Securities Commissioner Denise Voigt Crawford. "I have no idea — and you can quote me on that." *Please send e-mail to: Cbyron@nypost.com Back to: B

To: Taki who wrote (139148)	10/26/2004 2:10:50 PM
From: StocksDATsoar	Respond to of 150070

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To: Taki who wrote (139148)	10/27/2004 11:40:49 AM
From: Taki	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 150070

Check this out,that poped up on news on MYTRACK RDXM .013,dirt cheap IMO, should have been there too.Damn.Huge days maybe coming for security stocks. homelanddefensestocks.com (COMTEX) B: HomelandDefenseStocks.com's Online Investor Conference Update: Small Companies Have Big Impact in Homeland Security B: HomelandDefenseStocks.com's Online Investor Conference Update: Small Companie Have Big Impact in Homeland Security ( MARKET WIRE ) POINT ROBERTS, WA, Oct. 27, 2004 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- www.HomelandDefenseStocks.com (HDS), an investor news portal for the homeland defense and security sector, presents an exclusive article summarizing information from the HomelandDefenseStocks conference on how DHS spending has greatly benefited small companies in the space. Conference Link: homelanddefensestocks.com Excerpt from "On-line HDS conference update - follow the money!" By Allen R. Gibson In order to respond to the urgent needs of the DHS in the wake of 9-11, the agency spread its procurement wings wide, and entrepreneurs have been rushing to fill its needs every since. "This has led to some spectacular successes among small companies in fields where the government mandated not only budgets but timelines for implementation," says Brian Ruttenbur: Equity Research Analyst at Morgan Keegan & Co. The Vice President of Raytheon's Homeland Security division agrees. Dr. Hugo Poza says the HDS has done a remarkable job of including smaller companies in its procurement process. What will happen in terms of timeline mandates is going to be greatly affected by the results of the upcoming Presidential election. The two candidates have different priorities and approaches to the war on terror, and to how the DHS will play its role. That said, however, it remains clear that significant new spending on homeland security issues will be coming in the next few years, both from the federal and state governments, and perhaps even more so from private enterprises, as the government moves to shift some responsibility for security onto the private sector. So the market for security technologies is expected to remain strong and, depending on what form the next terrorist attack takes, to grow in new, unpredictable ways. Jack Mallon of Mallon's Security Report says, "Everything bodes well for the security industry in the immediate future." Full article, click here: homelanddefensestocks.com e.asp The HDS website does not make recommendations, but offers a unique free information portal to investors to research news, articles, interviews and a growing list of participating public companies in the sector. Public Companies who presented: Aegis Assessments Inc. (OTC BB: AGSI) www.aegiscorporate.com -- Through the SafetyNet(TM) line of products, Aegis provides wireless security solutions to public safety agencies and commercial security companies for homeland security and life safety applications. Integrating emergency and life safety systems available to the public and private sectors is the new challenge in homeland security that the company's products and technologies address. Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC BB: AEMD) Biodefense -- www.AethlonMedical.com -- Pioneering the development of viral filtration devices to treat HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis-C (HCV), and pathogens that are mass-casualty biological warfare candidates. Bulldog Technologies, Inc. www.bulldog-tech.com -- Is a leading provider of wireless cargo security solutions that researches, develops and manufactures real-time, comprehensive monitoring and intrusion detection devices for use in the cargo transportation and container storage industry. Extreme CCTV Inc. www.extremecctv.com -- Is an award-winning, technology-based supplier of security products and is the industry's leading provider of Night Vision products for technical surveillance. Specializing in active-infrared technology, Extreme holds international patents for its innovative surveillance products. Extreme is a GSA- contracted company and has had its products specified for use in government and defense applications across the globe. Global Matrechs, Inc www.globalmatrechs.com -- Is a licensed technologies business with emerging technologies for nuclear energy storage and containment, Homeland Security, environmental and chemical industries. EKOR(TM), the primary technology, is a silicon-based geocomposite radiation resistant coating/foam used to contain radioactive materials. Law Enforcement Associates www.leacorp.com -- Manufactures and markets a diverse line of undercover surveillance products including a complete line of audio surveillance equipment. LEA currently markets to the Military, law enforcement, security and corrections personnel throughout the world, as well as governmental agencies, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations Markland Technologies, Inc. www.marklandtech.com -- Integrated Homeland Security Technologies: Has three distinct business segments, which address the needs of the Homeland Security marketplace: Chemical Detectors, Border Security and Advanced Technologies. MDM Group, Inc. www.mdmgroupinc.com -- ShockRounds(TM) -- Non-Lethal Weapons for Law Enforcement, Military and Anti-Terrorism applications. ShockRounds(TM) enabled ammunition will have the potential to provide more versatile, effective and safe "hostile situation" solutions for law enforcement, military, border control, anti-terrorism and Homeland Security initiatives. Navicom Wireless GPS, (Wholly owned subsidiary of Automotive Capital Group, Inc.) www.NowGPS.com -- Navicom offers wireless GPS products and service that work in 98% of the US, Canada and Mexico. Navicom is accessed through the Internet to view a vehicle's location, speed, direction, reports, perimeter notification, and panic button and disable/enable the car starter. Navicom provides the Inspector General's Office in Washington, DC product and service and is a member of the Homeland Security Industry Association. OnScreen Technology, Inc. (OTC BB: ONSC) www.onscreentech.com and www.redialert.com -- Developing next-generation portable LED video displays utilizing a revolutionary patent-pending architecture that enables rapid signage and visual communication during catastrophic events. Roaming Messenger, Inc. www.roamingmessenger.com -- Wireless solution for delivering real-time actionable information, with applications in homeland security. Snocone Systems Inc. www.snoconesystems.com -- Mobile Surveillance and Monitoring with Real Time Video Surveillance Via Cellular Phones: Handheld surveillance devices in Homeland and Personal Security. These applications will be made available to government agencies, police departments and the general public. TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR) www.taser.com -- Its latest product, the TASER X26 is 60% smaller and lighter than the ADVANCED TASER M26 and reduces injury rates to suspects and officers, thereby lowering liability risk and improving officer safety. TASER(R) technology is currently in testing or deployment at over 5,500 law enforcement and correctional agencies in the U.S. and Canada. Participating Private Company Wave Dispersion Technologies, Inc. (WDT) has been developing the WhisprWave(R) floating articulated breakwater technology to afford erosion control protection to shoreline beaches, coastal marinas, anchorages, and other areas subject to destructive or annoying erosionary wave / wake forces. The potential uses for the WhisprWave(R) technology have, over the last few years, expanded far beyond its environmental-focused beach erosion protection to include marine port security and global antiterrorism applications. whisprwave.com HomelandDefenseStocks.com includes a growing list of public companies in the sector. Click here for a partial list of companies involved in homeland defense and security technology and solutions in Airport Security, Biodefense, Biometrics, Defense, Internet Security, Integrated Security, Military, Border and Port Security. homelanddefensestocks.com Disclaimer: ECON Corporate Services is the owner of the domain www.HomelandDefenseStocks.com. Nothing on the site should be construed as an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any specific products or securities. All investments involve risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investigate before you invest. Although we attempt to research thoroughly, there are no guarantees in accuracy. We encourage all investors to use our research as a resource only, but to further their own research on all featured companies, industry research and articles featured. The site is currently compensated for by its "featured companies." Markland Technologies, Inc. currently pays ECON Ten Thousand Dollars per month. Markland has issued shares to ECON in the past and these payments are for the purpose of including Markland in articles and other promotions. Aegis Assessments, Inc.: Four thousand dollars per month. Aethlon Medical, Inc.: Three Thousand Dollars per month plus restricted shares equivalent to Five Thousand Dollars per month. Law Enforcement Associates: Four thousand dollars per month. MDM Group, Inc.: Three Thousand Dollars per month, plus Twenty Thousand shares per month. OnScreen Technology Inc: Three Thousand Dollars, Roaming Messenger, Inc.: Two Thousand Dollars per month and One Thousand Dollars per month equivalent in shares. Snocone Systems, Inc.: Four thousand dollars per month. Bulldog Technologies, Inc.: One Thousand Dollars per month featured Company on HDS current list of stocks. Gabriel Technologies Corp: One Thousand Dollars per month featured Company on HDS current list of stocks. Disclaimer: www.InvestorIdeas.com/About/Disclaimer.asp HomelandDefenseStocks.com is a Registered WA Trade Name Contact: Dawn Van Zant Toll free: 800-665-0411 Email: dvanzant@HomelandDefenseStocks.com Trevor Ruehs Toll free: 800-665-0411 truehs@HomelandDefenseStocks.com For Technical Support Contact: Joe Loeppky jloeppky@investorideas.com 1-866-741-6471 SOURCE: HomelandDefenseStocks.com Copyright 2004 Market Wire, All rights reserved. -0- SUBJECT CODE: Government:Security (law enforcement, homeland etc) * end of story *