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Wall Street Meltdown, Wikipedia Conspiracy 2

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PatrickByrne writes "This is TheRegister.com's world-class investigative piece concerning one aspect of the meltdown on Wall Street ("naked short selling") and how the criminals engaged a journalist to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. They explicitly and formally accuse a well-known US financial journalist, Gary Weiss, of lying about his efforts to distort a Wikipedia page under assumed names, and expose the complicity of The Powers That Be in Wikipedia (right up to and including Jimbo Wales). This is not another story about a 15 year old farm kid in Iowa pretending to be a professor. This is like the worst Chomskian view of Elites manipulating mass opinion. But it is all documented. As one commenter wrote, "There's shit. And then there's heavy shit." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/"
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  • Patrick got the ball rolling and now it is up to each and every one of us to assist. The problem spoken of here encompasses both the incorrect use of media as well as the blatant attempt from one side of the market to manipulate price. In a properly regulated environment this would not happen but in this case the primary participants are less than regulated, they essentially are one in the same. Follow-up your interest by going to www.deepcapture.com for the story. People like myself have started speaking o
  • Well worth the read. How often do we see things that need fixing and say, 'If I only had to time to do this, I would.' It is awesome that Patrick invested his time and money to expose this conspiracy. I agree with the commenter who wrote that it is now up to each of us to keep the spotlight on and to participate in the public discourse.

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