In India, women are forced into unwanted and unnecessary hysterectomies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21297606

Meanwhile, Scottish banks face billion dollar law suits for fraudulent description of investment "products":

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/banks-face-huge-claims-in-loan-mis-selling-scandal.20064413

I have often wondered why the Papp noble gas engine promoters never got a penny stock scam going.

Posted By: legendre

Posted By: maryyugoNuclear scam:
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005134660#.URaywWeGB4I

Awesome..

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aehi/interactive-chart?timeframe=5d&charttype=line#.URbeWlK9qmw
AEHI $0.0001 0.0149 negative 99.33%

Yes, the stock is trading at 0.01 cent. Down from 0.149 cent yesterday,I think. The peak was almost $0.09 in 2010.

The SEC filing in 2010: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2010/comp-pr2010-249.pdf

The company is still putting on a brave face: http://www.alternateenergyholdings.com/

Gillespie was still CEO in 2012: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs083/1103137275573/archive/1110294669632.html He's been replaced, but is still listed as a "nuclear consultant."

There is a possible nuclear technology that could have a huge impact, but I don't think they are on it.

Thorium.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9784044/China-blazes-trail-for-clean-nuclear-power-from-thorium.html

http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/11/norway-begins-four-year-test-of-thorium-nuclear-reactor/

and, of course, Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

I looked more carefullly into this because the original article cited was written as a "you had to be an idiot to think this could be real" and "if this was real there would be big energy companies rushing to build it" editorial. Mebbe. Mebbe not. Thorium is real, apparently. Read the history of thorium, it's not being used because ... well, because of the history!

I wouldn't want a uranium reactor anywhere near where I live. But thorium, mebbe.

Posted By: maryyugoYet another fragrant scam. A variant on the Power Band one.

Very similar to Power Band, down to the magic hologram. Not very similar to Rossi. Rossi isn't woo, there is non-woo fraud, you know. Just like that nuclear energy company wasn't exactly woo. Looks like it may have been a stock scam, though.

Power Band with Magic Hologram, a winner for sure! ;)

Demand for info from Paypal. Seems they can't afford to employ staff who can write good English anymore. Poor bankers.

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Posted By: AbdRossi isn't woo, there is non-woo fraud, you know.

Rossi is ALL PURE 100% WOO *and* fraud. Not even very good woo. Lewan, Kullander and Essen should have detected it or at least, they should have pressed Rossi to make a blank and calibration run, using his huge built in electrical heater as a heat source. He had to refuse such requests from others because to do it would reveal that his measurement system grossly overestimated the heat production. I think he used different tricks at different times as any clever sleight of hand trickster does. He relied on bad assumptions about dry steam in his early e-cats and then went to misplacement of the T-out thermocouple on his heat exchanger in the larger "Ottoman" e-cats. Levi's error was probably thermocouple placement also. Absent calibration runs or the OBVIOUSLY needed and always refused repeat of the experiment, we'll never know exactly how that dummy fucked things up.

Beware of fake WOO!

Amazing how common hundreds of millions to billion dollar scams are. Here's yet another. They catch quite a few but I wonder how many get away with it.

http://www.loansafe.org/former-executives-of-stanford-financial-group-to-serve-20-years-for-massive-fraud-scheme

Posted By: legendre
Those are some serious prison terms for financial crimes.. the big guy netted 110yrs!

But dammit, with good behaviour they will be out in 60. Damn systems gone soft.