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Toyota Meltdown

March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Toyota has been placing full sized ads in newspapers trying to assure everyone that they are doing all they can to correct the problems with their cars.  It’s now believed that 56 people have died due to Toyota safety issues.

And of course the question remains, what did they know and when did they know it.  As it stands now, it’s pretty certain that the company knew it had safety issues in Europe a full year before they disclosed the information to their American division.  That means there was either a cover-up or we’re supposed to believe that Toyota executives are completely incompetent in relaying information throughout their various divisions.

We’ve all been wondering how long it’s going to take before people’s memories fade and they jump on board the Toyota bandwagon again.  I asked my acquaintance in Oakland who had bad dealings with Toyota’s finance department whether he’d be tempted to buy another car from the company and he said “no way”.

I’d like to believe that the bad taste of owning a Toyota will stay a long time.  But the minute the company starts seducing buyers by dropping prices, people will most likely buy the cars no matter what the safety issues are. (KS, San Francisco)

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Toyota Financing, Repossession & Unethical Auction

January 19, 2010 · 1 Comment

An acquaintance had his car repossessed after losing his job and not being able to keep up with payments.  He kept hoping that things pick up and he could start making his payments again but then one day there was a pounding on his front door.  A man had already hooked up his car to a tow truck and was ready to cart it off but just wanted to give him his business card “just in case”.

He told my friend that the car would be at a certain location for at least a month in case he could catch up with his payments.  A last ditch effort phone call to Toyota’s financial department to stop the repossession was in vain. They refused to take the last bit of money on a credit card my friend had and off the car went.

Well not only did the car not remain at the location specified by Toyota’s tow truck driver (some 50 miles away from my friend’s present location), it was transported 200 additional miles away making it totally impossible for him to get it back.

Within a week and a half of the tow, Toyota sent him a letter informing him he would have to pay all the back payments, plus “cleaning” costs, more magical fees and then they sprung it on him that they moved the car to some city he had never heard of.  They didn’t take the car back to the dealer from whom he purchased it – 50 miles away, in a town where he used to live.  They didn’t keep the car at the location specified by the tower – in the county where he was now living.  They took it to never-never land!  So even if he could catch up on his payments, how on earth was he going to make the journey to the new location?  He couldn’t.

The reason I say Toyota Motors financing department sucks is the manner in which they went about auctioning off the car.  They deliberately sold it for less than half it’s fair market value and expected him to pay for their losses.  That’s insane!  The law usually understands the concept of fair market value but apparently not in the case of a repossessed auto and how car companies play the repo game.  At least not in California.  It’s unethical.  And the law should be changed to provide a measure of fairness to the poor chap who gets his car towed away.

I know you could argue that he was his own fault for not making his payments.  Well it wasn’t his fault that he lost his job because of the unethical actions of banks in creating this crapping economy! (KS, San Francisco)

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Website Assassin Wim Dankbaar Targets BrainTrackers

January 5, 2010 · 8 Comments

The obsessed Dutchman, Wim Dankbaar, who spends nearly every waking moment trying to prove that imprisoned scam artist James Files is the man who killed President Kennedy, is now targeting the BrainTrackers company and website in an effort to destroy the man behind it.  Mr. Dankbaar has manufactured an extraordinary number of lies to libel him and those with whom he associates.  Dankbaar claims he’s somehow owed money from a company he long ago destroyed, the Cybersoup network.  The reality is that Wim Dankbaar thinks EVERYONE owes him money.

The Dutchman cheated Bob Vernon, the man who sold him the rights to the James Files Hoax, out of $150,000, yet he claims that Mr. Vernon owes him.  Even Vernon calls Dankbaar a liar and fraud for essentially stealing the rights and continuing to push the Files fraud all these years.

Mr. Dankbaar is suing the daughter of deceased CIA agent Chauncey Holt, claiming SHE cheated him and owes him money too.  He claims he bought the entire rights to the Holt story and that she can’t talk about her own father now.  It has been reported (and it certainly seems to be the case) that Mr. Dankbaar sues or threatens to sue everyone he comes in contact with in his quest for glory over the JFK assassination.  Otherwise, why sell books and DVDs related to a story that’s been debunked all over the internet by some very smart people?

Mr. Bartell has said he is beginning to feel sorry for Mr. Dankbaar.  “He obviously can’t help himself.  He suffers from a form of obsessive compulsive disorder.  Mr. Dankbaar  is seriously obsessed about who killed JFK and feels compelled to defame anyone who disagrees with him or who won’t help deliver his message to the masses.  On top of that he engages in cyber bullying within a conspiracy mind-set.  It really is quite sad”

Mr. Dankbaar’s obsession and compulsion, if you will, has also lead him to join forces with a known internet stalker and ID Thief, April Kelley, a woman from Battle Creek, Michigan, who, along with her husband Edward F. Kelley, scam web programmers.  In true conspiratorial manner, the two parties are feeding off each other’s illusions and taking cues from one another as to how best destroy innocent people’s reputations.

This Dutchman and his clone April Kelley hide behind their computers to continually force people to defend themselves by stepping up their libelous attacks every which way they can.  Then when people do try to defend themselves, he insists THEY have NO right to do so.  This self-importance on top of the OCD framework from which he operates is rather frightening.  People who have dealt with him say he can’t be stopped and that he would rather destroy everything and everyone in his path if he can’t get his way.

Mr. Dankbaar has a history of attacking people.  In 2007 he was jailed for invasion of privacy, conspiracy and email theft against his own business partner, a famous crime reporter in the Netherlands named Peter R. de Vries.  The two men were collaborating on a JFK assassination film project when the crime occurred.  Dutch news reports also state that Mr. Dankbaar not only stole business emails but personal ones of a sexual nature which he then transmitted to other people in the media.

Mr. Dankbaar is listed as a fraudulent author at allforums.com and fameandglory.com. His destruction of Cybersoup is best understood by visiting that site.

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Airport Security: Please Get it Right

January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

So here we go again, making the entire flying public dance to the tune of airplane terrorists who manage to come up with one crazy scheme after another to blow up planes and nearly get away with it.  I’m pretty sure if I were on that flight and saw the terrorist in action I would have pummeled him to death right where he sat, except I would have moved out of danger from the flames, of course.  Luckily for me, most of my traveling is done in the semi-comfort of my car.

What is particularly irksome is the invasive proceedings everyone has to put up with, on top of the delays, missed flights, missed business meetings, missed vacation bookings and on and on.

Not a single TV news report that I’ve seen has discussed the radiation exposure through those totally obscene body scans that reveal people’s genitals.  It goes beyond obscene, because people in government think this is just dandy.

The public is already exposed to myriad germs by being forced to walk around without their shoes on.  The airports were originally supposed to supply little throwaway booties.  They don’t and they don’t care about people’s health because they’ve become bullies in a long line of bully legislation.

I find it unfathomable that no scientist can come up with a noninvasive throughly safe procedure to scan for weapons and toxins.  It’s 2010 for Christ sake, when do we start acting like we know what we’re doing about anything?  Do I have the answers?  Hell no. But surely there are people somewhere who can figure out at some of these things.

I’m all for profiling, especially after seeing one old woman being forced to stand out of her wheelchair and submit to body pats.  And I do say this somewhat facetiously, but maybe we should think about not allowing anyone from terrorist countries from being able to come to our country.  Oh, you’re Nigerian, sorry.  Of, you’re from Saudi Arabia, sorry – unless you’re coming here to give everyone a million dollars of your oil money or free gasoline for life.

TSA, FAA, Homeland Security … all of you, come up with something better.  And use some common sense while you’re at it.  If you’re going to continually irradiate people, at least have the courtesy of giving them free health care.  Oh I forgot, you guys in government can’t seem to get that going either.  And there aren’t even any terrorists involved with that!  I think I’m with the ACLU on this issue.  Please, get it right. (KS, San Francisco)

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California and Dumb Auto Smog Checks

January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Listening to Gov. Schwarzenegger babble on about the state of California’s economy, I wanted to hit him over the head.  Here’s why.

An acquaintance who has been having severe financial problems for quite some time now had to renew his car registration and this year it required the bi-annual smog check.  He could barely scrape together the $50 on top of the $60 he had already paid to the state for the renewal sticker.  The car failed the test on 2 minor points, one wasn’t even related to emissions.  Because he had no money to get the repairs needed, he applied to the state for consumer aid which he got.

He took the car to a authorized repair station and after nearly a full day of hanging out in the waiting room, the car was set to go.  Now here’s the issue.  They replaced a faulty sensor that was making the “check engine light” come on all the time.  That cost about $90.  The “diagnosing” of the problem which they already knew about from the failed smog test report cost about $175 and then of course they needed to do a re-test.  Total cost about $368.

The owner was forced to pay $28 in additional fees and the state was on the hook for $340 to the repair station.  The sensor had nothing to do with emissions and the emission problem noted on idle during the first test never showed up during the second test.  That means the state just cost itself and the owner $368 for no reason.

Well, the real reason is that when it comes to bureaucracies and the idiotic ways our various governments do things, is that no one is held accountable.  There’s no one to talk to who can make a common sense decision based on the facts.  All you get are automated systems, and even if you were lucky enough to speak to a human during the absurd process, that person would not be a position to help.   In other words, this “smog problem” wasn’t even a problem with this particular car.

So babble on Governor, but please don’t think you’re fooling anyone.  Bureaucracies were designed to waste time and money and you’ve got yourself a doozy in California.  And this is just one very tiny example of inadequacy.  Now just multiply that by more cars or more agencies performing at the same stupid level.

Should I go on about the stupidity of jumping on one single car when you have fleets of school buses and trucks that spew tons of garbage into the air each day?  Why doesn’t the state do something about that?  (KS, in San Francisco)

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U.S. Government: All Bull, No Balls

January 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It is with great relief that we reach the first day of the new year with our minds and hearts intact, at least to some extent.  2009 was a shit of a year thanks to the banks, wall street, the big pharmaceutical and medical insurance companies and giant agricultural-businesses like Monsanto.

We foolishly believed that with Obama in the White House, the U.S. government would magically grow some balls to protect the lower and middle classes against the barons of industry who rule the world.  Not so.  Obama got in and caved in, instantly, and with the same zeal as those who came before him.  Congress didn’t help.  It never does.

Monsanto goons control our food supply and are willing to destroy the environment, people’s health and the livelihoods of small farmers everywhere, all for the sake of huge profits and their comfy lifestyles as they shove thousands of pesticides and genetically modified foods our way.

Health care reform was a joke.  Medical insurers and pharmaceutical giants won out over common sense and humanity.  The US deliberately pays the highest prices for drugs, most of which are unnecessary, don’t work or worse, kill.  Why?  Obviously to reward the pharmaceutical companies for getting many of our officials elected AND because the industry spends the most amount of money to bribe our officials into making obscene legislation in their favor.  Same with Monsanto.  With former Monsanto executives now heading up government offices and making all the decisions without oversight, what hope do we have?

And finally we must bow to the banks and Wall Street for tossing everyone they could get their hands on out into the streets and out of their homes via mortgage meltdown/evictions, a problem THEY created, causing more homelessness than we’ve seen since “the Great Depression”.  Our legislators do love using that depression phrase.  It makes it seem as if they weren’t in control of anything and that it’s merely been a huge vortex of strange events that bombarded us throughout the year.   Give those scum another huge bonus.   Earning millions of dollars a year apparently is still not enough!  But will the government initiate oversight of this industry?  Nah!  Besides, it’s too late.

Which leads us to credit card interest rates and the rush by the banks to screw everyone over again before the measly rules Washington did enact take effect in February and August 2010.  One credit card, Premier Bank, was offering a card worth $250 of credit.  You had to pay upfront fees of $256 to acquire it and pay 79.9% interest.    Can you say USURY?  For those not familiar with the term, it means the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.  Many other credit card companies increased their rates to 30% and Obama said boo-hoo.  Then all the legislators wrung their hands in dismay and said “what shall we do?” and then proceeded to do nothing.  The new rules soon to take effect are so watered down and convoluted they’re absolutely worth nothing.  And the banks win again!

And to the automakers who stood hat in hand begging for money, we say bah, humbug, you assholes should have been paying attention to the environment instead of continuing to build your crappy cars.

Will we thrive in 2010?  Will we even survive?  How many more people will be living under freeways or in tent cities while the rich have money to burn?

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Update About April Kelley’s Slander Against Jay Bartell

January 1, 2010 · 14 Comments

This is a warning and update report about the obviously deranged Battle Creek, Michigan slanderers and internet stalkers April Kelley and her husband Edward F, Kelley who have stolen the identity of “JayBartell” and are using the name to post abusive comments and libel attributed to person(s) named JayBartell.

Mrs. Kelley identifies this person as living in Nevada, Nebraska, New York, Florida, Washington D.C., Washington State, North Carolina and California and says he is out to “kill her”.  Six reports have confirmed that this paranoid schizophrenic, April Kelley, has already been reported to child services in Michigan as a danger to her three children.

April Kelley’s ludicrous claims against “JayBartell” say he is guilty of gross wrongdoing and crimes.  Here are just SOME of the assertions she makes:  she says he stole her secret website code and sold it to China for $1-billion; that he was an actor on the TV shows Gunsmoke and The Rifleman and that he’s going to use the guns he had on the shows to shoot her and her family; that he’s a lawyer and a judge who’s going to have her committed and her children tossed in a river; that he stole web sites from hundreds of business people whom he now holds hostage in his basement; that he’s a porn star who owns hundreds, if not thousands of pornography web sites earning multi-millions of dollars each year; that he’s a web programmer whose web servers host the White House web site; that he writes books about poetry and soup and owns a soup kitchen; that he races cars; that he’s a construction worker who builds lousy houses that kill people; that he’s a psychological profiler for the FBI; that he sells phony diet products; that he stole horse trainer Monty Roberts’ horse and ranch from him; that he’s a brain surgeon with secret fake technology he’s been trying to sell to her husband; that he’s using her own phony business web site IP addresses to remotely commit terrorist attacks from Iran.

April Kelley is the woman who along with her husband teamed up with a JFK assassination conspiracist named WIM DANKBAAR from the Netherlands to defame someone whom Mr. Dankbaar had bad dealings with, you guessed it … JayBartell.  Now Mrs. Kelley is in danger of defaming anyone associated with the name and ANY variation of it.

She has been posting her libel on websites and blogs throughout the internet using the Bartell name.  Edward F. Kelley allegedly works for a company named Stryker out of Michigan and Mrs. Kelley says the company’s lawyers are notifying the CIA and FBI of the so-called “death threats” and drafting lawsuits against anyone and everyone named JayBartell.

Since she became entrenched in her relationship with conspiracist Wim Dankbaar, April Kelley has even gone on to accuse her nemesis of assassinating President Kennedy which she said he conspired to do with the help of a consumer advocate.  She further cites so-called “aliases” used by the man as proof of “crimes”, saying he also uses last names Barrel, Barel, Barrell, Bartel, Bertell, Bertel, Bartolini, Barte, Berte, Bertie, Birdy, Bertrum, Bertrame, Baroli, Berts along with these first names: Anthony, Bob, Robert, Dennis, Gary, Garry, Gare, J, Jai, Jack, Jaye, Jim, James, John, Jesse, Jess, Jessie.

Dr. Matthew Billow, a retired psychiatrist, has stated that “the woman is displaying true psychosis and that she is indeed a danger to her children.  The fact that she’s aligned herself with a known conspiracist, this Dankbaar fellow, is most telling”, he says, and “it’s obvious that she has taken on a conspiracy mentality and that without proper care, April Kelley and perhaps her husband, Edward F, Kelley could act on their delusions to the detriment of many innocent people.”

Another April Kelley identity thief/stalking report at citizensjustice.org.  This site also outlines the scam she and her husband have been running against web site programmers.

Wim Dankbaar is listed as a fraudulent author on several sites because he sells what many describe as fraud books and DVDs related to James Files, an imprisoned criminal who claims he was the sole assassin of President Kennedy, although none in the government ever bought into that claim.

In 2007, Mr. Dankbaar was jailed and arrested for invasion of privacy, fraud, conspiracy, email theft against an award winning Dutch crime reporter named Peter R. De Vries.  Mrs. Kelley refers to Dankbaar as “an honest man” and claims that everything he says is the truth.

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Global Climate Change and the Blight Called Man

December 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The Global Climate Change conference in Copenhagen notwithstanding, man is but a blight on the planet.

I have traveled extensively through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and from my experiences, there is not a desert, road, highway, path, mountain that has not been polluted with man’s trash, from paper cups to beer bottles to broken glass, used tires, nails, bottle caps, cellophane, cigarette butts, cupcake wrappers, soda cans … and of course I can go on an on.  Man pretty much destroys everything in his path.  Even the space above our planet is riddled with trashed satellites and other debris.  We’ve polluted the moon!

Climate change?  Of course we are responsible for that too, just as we’ve decimated valuable species, both animal and plant.  We, of course, do this at our own expense.  The Amazon rain forest is host to varieties of plants that could up curing cancer (some say the plants already do) or any other kind of ailment plaguing man.  Yet, what do we do, we chop down the trees!

As I watched the news stories about the climate change conference in Denmark, I felt pity for our planet.  It seems nothing has changed.  The Chinese are still trying to palm themselves off as a developing nation when, in effect, they own the world, cornering all the oil, manufacturing everything under the sun and making alliances with every bad guy regime out there.  India controls telemarketing and telecommunications.  We should feel sorry for them and let them continue to pollute?  I don’t think so.

We are all responsible for saving our planet and until people/nations realize that, we’re doomed. (KS)  Also check out the usaviews overpopulation story.

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Internet Stalker April Kelley and Slander Partner Wim Dankbaar Now Engage in Identity Theft

December 17, 2009 · 12 Comments

Internet stalker, April Kelley of Battle Creek, Michigan, adds identity theft to her arsenal of cyberstalking, a crime in every jurisdiction, local, state, federal and even international law.  This is an update of our prior report on Internet Stalkers.

April Kelley, the deranged abuser began her vendetta against Cybersoup after she decided she was a dissatisfied client to some web work.  She used the same accusations against her prior web programmers so her tactics are not very original.  When she first went to the company for help, she said the prior programmers destroyed her site by installing viruses and links to porn as well as then selling her “copyrighted software” to third parties.  She then accused Cybersoup of the same thing when she didn’t have the money to complete the project.

She teamed up with another internet stalker by the name of Wim Dankbaar, a JFK conspiracist.  Mrs. Kelley claims she hardly knows the guy but she blasts his name in numerous references (as does he) she’s made since the collaboration. Conspiracists always manage to seek each other out.  That way they feed each other to add fuel to their fire.

The Michigan trickster is now signing up in chatrooms, forums and scam sites using a Cybersoup investor’s name and then using the fraudulent account to post fraudulent/scam links and false information in an effort to expand her stalking and slander across the internet.

April Kelley has engaged in extortion and blackmail against several people, all associated with Cybersoup to allegedly right some wrong she feels was done against her.  She thinks breaking the law is a smart way to go, just as her partner Wim Dankbaar has done against the same man.  Mr. Dankbaar had a personal dispute with Cybersoup so he too decided to take to the internet and defame and libel, in an attempt to not only destroy the company’s reputation but to destroy people associated with it and even other companies..  Both he and April Kelley have become adept at just making up despicable lies in a foolhardy attempt to “prove” their cases.

After the new identify theft tactic by April Kelley, though, one has to wonder who’s crazier, Mr. Dankbaar or Mrs. Kelley.  Is it at all possible that even Wim Dankbaar did not know how truly dangerous this April Kelley is?  Or if he did then the greater shame is his.  Mr. Dankbaar is well known for promoting the James Files-JFK Murder Fiction.

April Kelley has already gone on record stating she will use every resource at her fingertips to destroy Cybersoup’s associates and investors including using the attorneys at her husband Edward Kelley’s firm, Stryker Medical.  Both Edward Kelley and Stryker attorneys refused to return calls to discuss the Kelleys blackmail and libel.  Mrs. Kelley claimed to have had a thriving business of promoting online insurance agent services but instead of concentrating on her “business” which apparently was never thriving at all, she works full time on a website solely to libel and defame.  It’s become obvious by now, though, that both Mr. Dankbaar and the Kelleys are deeply entrenched in each other’s business of defamation.

In 2007, Mr. Dankbaar was jailed and arrested for invasion of privacy, fraud, conspiracy, email theft against an award winning Dutch crime reporter named Peter R. De Vries.

We will continue to follow this story to help leave a trail of information for the authorities.  They should note that as of this writing, Mr. Dankbaar has abused the internet system for a total of five years against the owners and investors of CyberSoup.  More information on James Files Fraud.  Read the updated April Kelley slander report.

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Healthcare and Washington DC, The Land of Fantasy and B.S.

December 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’m convinced I’m an alien, dropped on planet earth from some far off land, many years ago.  If not that, then perhaps I am from the future, and I’ve come through a worm hole, purpose unknown.  I can think of no other explanation – oh, there is one – that I’m a lot more intelligent than the so-called “intelligent life” that thrive in our nation’s capital, specifically our legislators.

As I’ve listened to the health care reform debate drone on over the past number of months, I realized without a shadow of a doubt that there is no hope for the masses.  Our politicians live in a fantasy land; they may easily have slipped down the rabbit hole along with Alice.  And they’re never coming back up.

If they’re not as stupid as they pretend to be, then it must just be a matter of greed and complacency.  They obviously know nothing about how many people live, never having walked in their shoes.  I’m not talking about the upper middle class or people lucky enough have to have flexible positive flow incomes.  I’m talking about those who are unemployed or self-employed or retired who have extremely limited and static funds.  There is NOTHING left over for anything.

So, how can any legislator think that a person living on such a fixed income is going to magically be able to afford health insurance at any price?  Where is the money going to come from?  They still expect people to pay for what they’re calling a public option health insurance. These D.C. morons just don’t seem to understand this very simple basic principle.  They keep yacking on about public option or private insurance from employers or personal insurance that someone with money can afford to buy.

Advice to politicians:  Stop the yacking, pull your heads out of your asses, climb out of the rabbit hole and get real.  Once and for all do the right thing.

Also check out our Health Care Reform and Individual Freedoms report.

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