Open Thread: Best and Worst of 2013
What do you flag as the standout events of 2013 and why?
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Pentatonix’s Little Drummer Boy
This lovely rendition of a Christmas classic has already gone viral, but even if you’ve seen it, I suspect you’ll enjoy a second viewing.
Read more...Tourette’s Adventure of the Mind
By a regular reader of Naked Capitalism who has asked to remain anonymous
A few days after surgery I got Tourette’s syndrome.
Read more...Paul Seakens of Gemmax Solutions Limited Takes an Idiotic Pop at “Naked Capitalism” and “redd-monitor”
Paul Seakens of Gemmax Solutions Limited Takes an Idiotic Pop at “Naked Capitalism” and “redd-monitor”
Read more...Surely the Lotus F1 Team Isn’t Just Slinking Quietly Away From Its Embarrassing Team Partner, AGT?
Lotus F1 quietly drop AGT from their Official Team Partner list just after Naked Capitalism tells the world that AGT’s a scam.
Read more...The UK Insolvency Service’s Oddly-Timed Carbon Scams Press Release Highlights Its Own Slow Response
A sceptical look at anti-carbon-scam enforcement activities in the UK.
Read more...Newcastle United FC, Bloodhound SSC, Glitz, Glam and Police Raids: a Last Look at the Remarkable Double Life of Carbon Neutral Investments Limited (CNI)
A last look at the lovely contact list of scammers’ friends, Carbon Neutral Investments Limited
Read more...The Lotus Formula 1 Team, Its Embarrassing Partner, Advanced Global Trading of Dubai, and Carbon Neutral Investments
On the Lotus Formula 1 team’s unfortunate entanglement with Advanced Global Trading of Dubai.
Read more...McLaren F1 & Jenson Button One Minute, Boiler Room Scams the Next: the Remarkable Double Life of Carbon Neutral Investments, Limited, (CNI)
Naked Capitalism notes that Carbon Neutral Investments, subject of a consumer warning by the UK’s FCA, has deals with Formula 1 teams McLaren and Sauber, Lord Heseltine’s publishing firm Haymarket, Newcastle United Football Club, and a host of PR and events companies, and wonders what the hell is going on.
Read more...Carbon Neutral Investments’ Trail of Disaster: How Carbon Credit Con Artists use Google Adwords to Work the Recovery Scam
Carbon Neutral Investments and the ‘recovery room’ scam
Read more...FBI Raids, Lord Heseltine’s Haymarket Media Group, Financial Regulator “Crackdowns”, “What Car” Magazine…and Carbon Neutral Investments Limited
How two wide boys with shady pasts snared a leading British publisher that has major political connections.
Read more...The Glam and The Scam: Sauber Formula 1 Team and its Partner, Carbon Neutral Investments, Limited
The Sauber F1 team and their dodgy partners, Carbon Neutral Investments
Read more...How Novice Eco-Warrior Michael Bloomberg Ended up Looking as if he Endorses Carbon Credit Scams
Mayor Bloomberg stitched up by Italian Vogue and a dodgy financial firm: his image and words are being exploited to market carbon credit scams
Read more...New Zealand: Pseudo-Financial Companies, and GT Group, Both Still Going Strong.
By Richard Smith, who would be a member of the International Consortium of Interfering Bloggers, if there was such a thing.
Read more...Using Social Media Efficiently
This Onion talk shows how much the state of what is cool (as in what investors will pay the most for) in technology has changed since the dot-com era.
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