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The Real Big Picture Around Options Backdating mpetition between the US and the Soviet Union (White Russian Empire) and the GDR (German Democratic Republic). This desperate desire to top the medal table was the catalyst for the proliferation of the use of performance enhancing drugs by both the US (using a ‘free market’ capitalist methodology) and the Eastern bloc nations (using a state controlled methodology).If you take some time to think about the big picture story around options backdating, here are some patterns that emerge. Each is valid, and has some merit, but it gives you some reason why the general public is still not interested in the story and outraged by it, but the media and some institutional investors are.1. CEO and Executive pay: Realistically speaking this is a weak argument at best. CEO pay has always been big and its getting bigger because lot of these executives have big risk jobs and are responsible for millions or billions of $ and thousands of employees. Add to this the legal ramifications of doing a bad job, their job is not easy. Fortune's Rick Kirkland wrote a piece on CEO pay and its an interesting read, but still does not offer any solutions.2. Full Disclosure of pay for executives: SEC chairman Christopher Cox has stated full disclosure guidelines will be issued soon, and the "perks" that executives get do add up, but still this argument is also not very strong. There will always be the CEO parachute deals, and tax perks etc. Again we fail to see this being the big change force.3. Better internal controls: Most companies before SOX did not have the best internal checks and balances processes for ensuring these "issues" were tracked, reported and managed. Accounting, Finance and Legal were mostly "side roles" to Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing and Engineering. Lack of internal controls is an issue for most companies that they need to fix. Its in our opinon this is a good but not the big "a-ha" compelling argument.4. Poorly stated guidelines around gray areas: That's why they are called gray areas in the first place. Most auditors and legal firms use "judgement" around these areas such as grant and enforcement dates for options. The SEC's has stated they will have better guidelines around summer '06. This is also not a compelling argument for backdating not getting a bigger attention and outrage from the public.5. World cup Soccer: (grin) - We made this up. Newsweek had a piece about why this time the world cup soccer has more attention of Americans. This is by far the most compelling argument why the general public does not care much about the options backdating story.http://blog.vangal.com Nations have even gone to war over the outcome of sporting contests. I believe it was the result of a World Cup qualifier in the 1970’s that led to a military conflict between Honduras and Ecuador. When you add in the element of ‘race’ the psychological concoction becomes potent. 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The 2006 Football World Cup offers a timely opportunity to consider the wider social and political implications of sport in general and football in particular, with particular reference to the racial dimension to sporting competition. Now of course, Dr Frances Cress-Welsing in her much acclaimed book, ‘The Isis Papers’ (1991), provided an in-depth psychological analysis of the racial/sexual symbolism of a variety of sports. Similarly, Abdullah Nazir Uhuru in his excellent book ‘Killing “Me” $oftly’ (2005), provides an insightful analysis of football, drawing upon Cress-Welsing’s work. The aim of this essay is to build upon these works and also to assist Afrikans to understand that, life is politics and everything in life is political, therefore sport has a politicised and racialised dimension to it, just like all other forms of people activity. We are at War “any sustained aggressive action by one identifiable group, be it national, racial, ethnic, religious, socio-economic etc. against another similarly identifiable group where the aim is to cause significant harm - be it physical, psychological, emotional or spiritual – to the other group over a sustained period of time.” (Grant 2006) According to this definition; Caucasians have been waging a racial war against Afrikans for over three thousand years (and we should not forget their cousins the Arabs). This war manifests itself in different ways, for example the physical war is not just confined to overt physical violence but also includes acts designed to directly attack the physical health of Afrikans e.g. the use of medicines banned from use in ‘the West’ in Afrika, the whole HIV/AIDS scenario and the deliberate and concerted attempts to reduce Afrikan fertility worldwide, of which it forms a part, being examples of European aggression. One of the most important tactics in war is what is described as ‘Psych Ops’ or Psychological Operations. It has been well established that propaganda is crucial in warfare, even during overt military conflict, and the creation and dissemination of propaganda is a crucial component of psychological operations. The purpose of psychological operations is to weaken or destroy the enemy’s will to fight and resist, or crucially – particularly with respect to Afrikans - convince the enemy that in fact there is no war taking place and that his/her goals and aspirations coincide with and are in harmony with that of the propagandist. Sport as War During the so-called ‘Cold War’ the Olympic medal table was a source of fierce competition between the US and the Soviet Union (White Russian Empire) and the GDR (German Democratic Republic). This desperate desire to top the medal table was the catalyst for the proliferation of the use of performance enhancing drugs by both the US (using a ‘free market’ capitalist methodology) and the Eastern bloc nations (using a state controlled methodology). Nations have even gone to war over the outcome of sporting contests. I believe it was the result of a World Cup qualifier in the 1970’s that led to a military conflict between Honduras and Ecuador. When you add in the element of ‘race’ the psychological concoction becomes potent. We need to understand that in the conflict between global Europe and global Afrika Caucasians are defending and promoting a psychological position which says: Tax Time Tune Up on to it, just like all other forms of people activity.Excerpted from the new book, “How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain” TMEvery year American companies lose millions of dollars in productivity to employees who end up taking their own personal time off to do their taxes. 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This war manifests itself in different ways, for example the physical war is not just confined to overt physical violence but also includes acts designed to directly attack the physical health of Afrikans e.g. the use of medicines banned from use in ‘the West’ in Afrika, the whole HIV/AIDS scenario and the deliberate and concerted attempts to reduce Afrikan fertility worldwide, of which it forms a part, being examples of European aggression. One of the most important tactics in war is what is described as ‘Psych Ops’ or Psychological Operations. It has been well established that propaganda is crucial in warfare, even during overt military conflict, and the creation and dissemination of propaganda is a crucial component of psychological operations. The purpose of psychological operations is to weaken or destroy the enemy’s will to fight and resist, or crucially – particularly with respect to Afrikans - convince the enemy that in fact there is no war taking place and that his/her goals and aspirations coincide with and are in harmony with that of the propagandist. Sport as War During the so-called ‘Cold War’ the Olympic medal table was a source of fierce competition between the US and the Soviet Union (White Russian Empire) and the GDR (German Democratic Republic). This desperate desire to top the medal table was the catalyst for the proliferation of the use of performance enhancing drugs by both the US (using a ‘free market’ capitalist methodology) and the Eastern bloc nations (using a state controlled methodology). Nations have even gone to war over the outcome of sporting contests. I believe it was the result of a World Cup qualifier in the 1970’s that led to a military conflict between Honduras and Ecuador. 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I believe it was the result of a World Cup qualifier in the 1970’s that led to a military conflict between Honduras and Ecuador. When you add in the element of ‘race’ the psychological concoction becomes potent. We need to understand that in the conflict between global Europe and global Afrika Caucasians are defending and promoting a psychological position which says: ‘We are the most evolved and human of all peoples/races. It is our destiny to rule the Earth and everything above and beneath it. We will do anything that is required to maintain our dominant hegemonic position, including acts of genocide. Afrikans are in the position they occupy (economically, educationally, militarily, healthwise etc.) because of their inferiority (genetic and cultural) and the benefits of European intervention in Afrika (despite any past wrongdoings) have outweighed any detriment caused.’ Now, the Afrikan position is generally confused and whilst it should be built around the position that: ‘Europeans have proven themselves utterly ruthless, untrustworthy, imperialistic, racist and intent upon world domination. Since they will not and cannot accept the equitable sharing of the Earth’s resources in line with the population sizes and needs of different groups of people on Earth they must be confronted and defeated by us. History has taught us that we cannot rely upon any other group of people to come to our aid.’ It is in fact more often based around the belief that: ‘We are all people and through our suffering we hope to show all people the meaning of true humanity. We should forgive Europeans for their past errors and should not affront them by seeking redress/reparations for past wrongs. We hope that over time Europeans will accept us as their equals and whenever and wherever we live as a minority amongst them our priority should be to integrate and gain acceptance from Whites.’ This latter Afrikan position is a recipe for degradation, defeat and elimination and is based upon Afrikan xenophilia (at one and the same time our greatest strength and weakness) and the inferiority complex that most Afrikans now possess. These very different psychological positions determine the collective or dominant, comparative; European and Afrikan responses to all aspects of people activity, including sport. Whereas Europeans have developed a whole lexicon of words and phrases which bring together the psychology of war/killing/violence and sport e.g. ‘killer instinct’, ‘finish them off’, ‘hammer blow’, ‘sucker punch’, ‘kill off the opposition/game’ to describe events, even in non-violent sports, Afrikans do nothing more than mimic this aggressive approach to sport having no indigenous cultural reservoir of such extreme sporting hostility to tap into. One of the most famous quotes in British sport came from Bill Shankley, a former manager of Liverpool football club. When asked about the significance of football, Shankley said, “It is not a matter of life and death. It is more important than that.” For Europeans, it is and always has been more than just a game. It is war on a pitch, track, court, or on whatever playing area the sport is contested. The significance of football
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