Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Play this word search game based around the book Are You There God? Bush looking vacant, Bill Clinton cursing himself for crying, Ross Perot telling a racy story. He projected the image of a soft spoken and knowing curator type with many interesting stories and facts to tell. There went the rest of my evening! His main source was an as-yet unknown Ralph Nader, whose book “Unsafe at Any Speed” was published a year later. Once the item was in his possession, Thompson walked off laughing. I know someone who recent spent an eight figure charitable grant. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy. In 1962, he moved to Washington, which became his permanent base, and joined The New Republic. Initially, she practiced Elemental magic, but later, she also became a Necromancer, storing her power in a ring. Books. Call it what you will – it’s a state sinecure that pays non-competing, unfirable, undemotable drudges by the number of hours they process oxygen into CO2. You can also download a huge PDF of Connecticut State Police files on the investigation to read yourself: Tarn: A Terrible British WW2 Experimental Pistol, Charger-Loading Lee Enfields: The CLLE MkI* and MkII, Just wanted to pass along a cool photo and note I got from Rick Smith (the guy making reproduction FG-42 rifles) this morning: Hi All, Can’t say how this came about past it was almost […], Possibly the coolest small arm used by the United States in the Vietnam War was the China Lake 40mm pump action grenade launcher. Writing for many publications, he drew attention to neo-Nazis, corporate polluters, preening politicians and the practice of solitary confinement. Naive to say the least. Thus the exposure of this crime. It’s a constant problem for every school, foundation and quango. Even if you’d’ve questioned that statement in 2019, 2020 proved it beyond all doubt when millions of productive employees were prevented from earning – and millions of state employees extorted every last penny and benefit from their taxpaying “customers” while phoning it in. “The site gets about 2,000 visitors a day, but one story drew 600,000 views. Especially public museums. Love or hate their products, both seem to have been solvent (and turning out new products) since inception. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. ’62 version sold for $48 million. Wouldn’t mind seeing more like this if you come across any other topical tales. Valkyrie Cain (aka Stephanie Edgley or Darquesse) is a young woman who was thought to be descended from the last of the Ancients, however according to Dusk, her heritage is actually as a descendant of the Faceless Ones. He knew amazing stories about guns, their owners, and any little bit of minutiae about the field. Wilson apparently ran a grand Ponzi scheme to support himself and his family in the style to which he had become accustomed. Mr. Ridgeway’s longest crusade was against solitary confinement, which was the subject of a 2016 book he edited with Jean Casella and Sarah Shourd. Thompson approached a man on the sidewalk, struck up a conversation, and asked him if he would trust him with his watch until tomorrow. On that, it may be no coincidence that FW, to my recollection, has never covered any modern commemoratives or tribute pieces. A couple of times a year I work for a friend who auctions and deals in high-end antique fishing tackle. Well, I don’t doubt that what you are saying is true, just personally sad for me. “Ridgeway notes that 50 years ago, the universities were run by social reformers and scholars,” H.L. By Neela Debnath PUBLISHED: 12:26, Wed, Jan 13, 2021 I want a stick.” “I’ll buy you a stick for Christmas.” ― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil It singled-out the Chevrolet Corvair as particularly unsafe. re: … any collection worth money will attract scammers. Maybe that was the kickoff. I have a vision of a professional investor circa 1982 dismissing Batman as a has-been and instead investing in Atari Force (a bland, short-lived DC Comics superhero team devised at the behest of Warner Communications to sell Atari 2600 games). With new books from Liz Pichon, Julia Donaldson and Jacqueline Wilson on the horizon, 2021 is shaping up to be an exceptional year for children's literature. There are lots of other incentives,though- publication and fame within the milieu being the most obvious, along with patronage and under the table bribes. Some people went to prison. The character was a joke; people associated him with the Adam West TV show. I think the general advice for investing in antiques, art etc on a personal level is to just buy what appeals to you, and enjoy it, and if it appreciates that’s a bonus. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. As in any business where ignorant people buy things for “investment”, it’s based entirely on trusting your expert. Mr. Ridgeway’s 1991 book about far-right hate groups led to a documentary film, which he wrote, produced and directed. The dealer disappeared for a couple of years (possibly spending some time at one of Her Majestys fine prison establishments) but has reappeared recently like a cockroach trying to sell genuine Italian motorbikes which he “found in a barn”. lol Fascinating stuff. But the comics continued and the character survived because there’s something inherently cool about a black-clad superhero fighting crime in the mean streets of Gotham. James Fowler Ridgeway was born in Auburn, N.Y., on Nov. 1, 1936, the older of two sons of George and Florence (Fowler) Ridgeway. That decision would have made rational sense, but there was nothing cool about Atari Force. Fakes of weaponry are nothing news, there are known example of swords fake made around 1000 year ago. So wait a minute: one shouldn’t rely solely on the advice of the other party in a deal (the one person who stands to profit by an incorrect choice)? C&Rsenal’s conversation is about 2.5 hours and well worth the time of anyone interested in this tale. One major issue, like Sig’s drop-fire issue, and they’ll lose countless LEO and consumer sales. two-hour podcast Othais and Cody Museum Associate Curator Danny Michael did on the topic. There is nothing inherently wrong giving a friend first crack at unwanted books, my friends objection was that he wasn’t charging fair market value. He was a modern-day muckraker, writing for various magazines, including The New Republic, The Village Voice and Mother Jones. The story being PRIVATE CITIZEN ripping off taxpayers for private gain. You’re spending someone else’s money on strangers. When I finally asked said friend about it, turned out he had disrupted a sweet deal said book dealer had with a selector of the university library he taught at. Excellent and informative commentary. The commenters who mentioned spoons or fishing gear are spot on; any collection worth money will attract scammers. The most comparable adventure is "FRWL" and "Casino Royale" shares a similar scenario with the plot also concerning Cold War skulduggery. In 2012, after the death of Alex Cockburn, with whom he had shared a column in The Voice, Mr. Ridgeway wrote in Mother Jones: “We did our reporting in a way that most people in the press would die for. The book contended that colleges and universities, hiding behind tax exemptions and interlocked with private corporations and government agencies, were riddled with conflicts of interest in a corrupt system of profiteering. He was the Washington correspondent of The Village Voice for 30 years; wrote, co-wrote or edited 20 books on national or foreign affairs; and wrote, produced and directed several documentaries. Fraud and duplicity are universal. Of those, […], Sporting shotguns are not normally something to catch my eye, but the Remington Model 11 is a bit different. In 1966, Mr. Ridgeway married Patricia Carol Dodge, a New Republic editor. I was living in Fairfield County when some of this happened, long before the investigation. I’m not a fanboi (too particular about triggers), but I have owned two Glocks for reasons that have NOTHING to do with copying LEOs. This makes a quick read and an excellent adjunct to this video. Mr. Ridgeway focused on the nation’s 2,200 public and private institutions of higher learning in “The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis” (1968). The case of Craig Gottlieb (familiar to viewers of Pawn Stars) and ‘Hitler’s Desk Set’ is a nice example: In the tradition of Lincoln Steffens, who revealed municipal corruption in a muckraking book, “The Shame of the Cities” (1904), Mr. Ridgeway attacked malfeasance and skulduggery in American life with a passion, as one critic put it, “so earnest and straightforward that he can make a lengthy explanation of sewage interesting.”. James Ridgeway in 1991. Greed is the Kingdom, the Power and the glory and there’s nothing that gets done without Greed.” (lyrics, the late Bill Steel) I’ve worked a variety of jobs in my life including managerial. In 2012, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Kurniawan’s house in Arcadia, Los Angeles and discovered his wine fraud, whereby he collected empty bottles and refilled them with cheaper wine and then forged the labels.”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Grapes_(2016_film). “Many of the book’s stories are culled from the website, which publishes original news reporting as well as firsthand accounts of solitary confinement,” The New Yorker wrote in 2016. This was the time everybody was buying Ferrari’s as ‘investments.’ The market in Third Reich memorabilia is particularly sleazy, it seems to be totally dominated by fakes, frauds and self-serving, self-appointed ‘experts’, who use the threat of legal action to silence any critics. Not what we usually see on Forgotten Weapons, but I must say I liked it quite a bit! There’s usually no outsider who cares, and everything is secret. So I think the investments panned out for some. I’m now on page 230, and should be done in a couple more evenings. “Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices From Solitary Confinement”. Publishers Weekly said the book found a sex trade “laden with worn-out male fantasies of a prefeminist world” where “contact with another human body is increasingly replaced by electronically enhanced onanism.”. Greed is the messenger that comes to buy your soul. In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries. There is the Code of … But you have one of the most renowned experts advising. Why would he big up the price of revolvers? “These are the stories of 16 people, mostly in their own words, who describe the miserable realities and humiliations of their lives in tiny boxes, buried in holes 23 hours a day, sometimes for years at a time,” Mr. Ridgeway said in an interview in 2019 for this obituary. Years ago a book dealer passed on some scandalous comments another book dealer had about an acquaintance. Glock is perfectly solvent, but they rely entirely on the government for that. This reminded me about Thompson – first recorded con man in history His death was confirmed by his longtime collaborator Jean Casella, who did not specify the cause. Look at HK. He was 84. $19.99. Nieburg wrote in a review for The Times, “while today they are operated by teams of middle-management executives more involved with pyramiding financial holdings and keeping faculty in line than in undergraduates.”. Look at Glock. Amazing to me that a museum can exchange that many for so few without making much money on the deal. In 1970, Mr. Ridgeway’s book “The Politics of Ecology” accused America’s principal polluters — the industries that burn coal, gas and oil — of undermining the environmental and consumer groups that sought to protect the ecology, in a scheme to control the nation’s natural resources and dominate world energy markets. One time a friend asked me to go with him to see a genuine unrestored Norton Dominator factory racer he was going to buy. “(…)projected the image of a soft spoken and knowing curator type with many interesting stories and facts to tell.” Famously the diaries had FH on the front instead of AH, because the forger was unfamiliar with Gothic script; his explanation was that the initials stood for “Fuhrer Hitler”, which was ludicrous. Both his wife and his son survive him. But I agree with the tie in to the earlier museum discussion video. John Leonard, in a Times review, called it “a fine, tough and indispensable book,” adding with sarcasm: “There is also money to be made in pollution-control systems, a potential $25 billion market, but only so long as the polluters continue to pollute, passing along the cost of control systems to the taxpayer.”. The only thing that surprises me is the number of commenters who are surprised by said bureaucrats’ apathy toward property they sacrificed nothing of their own to produce or acquire. China Lake 40mm Pump Action Grenade Launcher, https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/06/20/the-19th-century-confidence-man/, https://wcstumpmilitaria.blogspot.com/2012/02/, https://www.vikingrune.com/2009/01/viking-swords-ulfberht-fakes/. We argued pretty loudly on the journey home but luckily when I got some books out I was able to show him that the bike was a fake no bike with that configuration left the factory in that year. £3.29 #15. In my search, just taken, about seventh item down (after a few football listings), I found a 2006 article from the Hartford Courant reporting on the deal that sent Wilson to prison, as well as this museum fraud and a plethora of other misdeeds. It was written by a New York prisoner named William Blake, who had then been held in solitary for nearly 26 years.”. Skip to main content ... Dead or Alive: Book 14 (Skulduggery Pleasant) Derek Landy. The Connecticut State Library is not a “government beuraucracy”. Unfortunately I made the mistake of clicking on the link to the CSP investigation, just to take a quick look. a variety of martial arts by some of the best fighters in the world,” Skulduggery pointed out. Skulduggery Pleasant. Even at my very lowly level of old gun interest, the level of shenanigans and theft at the top end were no secret, including Wilson’s parade of “discoveries”. Again. Your email address will not be published. The board’s minutes said a $50,000 donation by Mr. Phillips had nothing to do with the deal, but Mr. White ”admitted” it was ”an obvious enticement to accept the trade,” Colonel Forst said.”, https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/nyregion/loss-in-rare-gun-collection-stirs-furor-in-connecticut.html. They had a son, David. I virtually had to drag my friend out of the premises he had the money in an envelope ready to buy he so desperately wanted to buy that bike. Commentdocument.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a87bc35bc92419ba7435bdc1807b9ba4" );document.getElementById("aad6560086").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. £11.99 #14. The classic example was Hitler’s diaries, which were bought up by Stern magazine in the early 1980s, although in that case the driving factor seems to have been a mixture of incompetence and wishful thinking rather than outright fraud on the part of Stern (the forgers were however crooks). Neither the Ridgeway article nor the Nader book made a big splash at first. Real ‘sweet old lady’ stuff. Since 2010, when he and Ms. Casella established the website Solitary Watch, Mr. Ridgeway, who was based in Washington, had received thousands of messages from inmates in solitary confinement. And then there’s Rule 0 of collecting: never collect anything originally sold as a collectible. Thanks again for more interesting weapon history. In a career that spanned six decades, Mr. Ridgeway wrote for The New Republic as a staff member and as a contributor to The New York Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Ramparts, Hard Times and Mother Jones. From the creator of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and The Guardians of Childhood comes a grand adventure of valor, friendship, and a look into the mysterious world of favorite toys. And there are ALWAYS some crooks at the top- art, horses, stocks, real estate, whatever. I know a bit about British Motorbikes. Fraud greed and corruption are the grease that lubricates the wheels of private business. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads, including interest-based ads. For eight years, he wrote about industries and economics. I knew you could…. And any collection whose “value” is based on arbitrary, coincidental, or otherwise-subjective factors, all the more so. Today we will talk about that story…. Some people might argue that the entire modern art market is driven by collusion between galleries, universities, investment funds, and banks, and that the art itself is superfluous, but I couldn’t possibly comment. James Ridgeway, an investigative reporter who exposed corporate dirty tricks, the secrets of environmental polluters and the horrors of solitary confinement in the nation’s prison systems, died on Saturday in Washington. After publishing “Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture” (1991), Mr. Ridgeway wrote, produced and directed a documentary, “Blood in the Face,” using archival footage and interviews to expose far-right hate groups. Recently exposed events within the N.R.A. Hardcover. Although thousands of prisoners are still subjected to solitary confinement, many states have in recent years restricted the practice, and the United Nations has denounced its use beyond 15 days as cruelty. Hutchinson put more pressure on Wilson than the government library did. Today’s video leaves out Wilson’s extravagant lifestyle — his home was an estate of several buildings, he owned a Ferrari, a stagecoach, and a scale reproduction of the Colt factory dome configured as a gazebo on his grounds. R.L. This week’s roundup also features Hank Aaron, York’s fond Bootham Crescent farewell and football in snow and mud Last modified on Thu 28 Jan 2021 03.02 EST 1) Baseball is … He was an amazing person and ranconteur. If you Google Wilson’s name, you will first see several laudatory obituaries of him published in gun magazines. He edited Ramparts, a New Left magazine, from 1970 to 1975. He wrote to many of them, and with Ms. Casella and Sarah Shourd as editors, compiled their stories in “Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices From Solitary Confinement” (2016). If theres money involved the cockroaches will scuttle out from the sewer. Also, that’s twice in one week I’ve had reason to recommend The Feather Thief: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&sxsrf=ALeKk00XP0U6ilVJlstDiGckqJz4WJayyA%3A1609866019401&ei=I5v0X_6GGMLV5gK__rH4CQ&q=the+feather+thief&oq=the+feather+thief&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECCMQJzIICC4QsQMQyQMyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADoECAAQR1CbIVibIWCUJGgAcAF4AIABrAGIAawBkgEDMC4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesgBCMABAQ&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwi-pOOhooXuAhXCqlkKHT9_DJ8Q4dUDCAw&uact=5. Select Your Cookie Preferences. Other companies, such as Ruger, S&W, Springfield, and even Hi-Point and Keltec, would do just fine without LEO sales. “Many of the book’s stories are culled from the website, which publishes original news reporting as well as firsthand accounts of solitary confinement,” The New Yorker wrote in 2016. As soon as I walked into the garage and saw the bike I said to my friend its a wrong un I couldnt immediately put my finger on it but I knew it was a £9 note. “Solitary confinement in America is a national scandal of human rights violations.”. Wilson was a pillar of the firearms collecting community, and especially the Colt collecting community, in the 1970s and 80s. In 2016, President Barack Obama banned its use for juvenile offenders in federal prisons and limited it for adult first-offenders to 60 days annually from 365 days. It was not a government bureaucrat who discovered the crime. Bleach Characters. In 1992, he co-produced and co-directed “Feed,” filming presidential candidates looking foolish as they practiced smiles and upbeat gazes before the TV cameras went live: President George H.W. It's Me, Margaret. She once told me about the lengths that some of those sweet old ladies will go to to fake some of the rarest spoons to sell for lots of money. But after the book appeared, another New Republic article by Mr. Ridgeway disclosed that General Motors had hired detectives to dig up dirt to discredit Mr. Nader as well as prostitutes who had failed to lure him into compromising situations. It strikes me that some things are inherently cool, and if they move you they probably move other people as well (and conversely if your taste is completely bizarre, then other people will assume that you know something they don’t). A forensic accountant would probably lose his mind, were you to try to get one to look into it all. People are too late for the truly worthwhile stuff, so they latch on to what they hope will be the next big thing, but it doesn’t work because the things that made Action Comics #1 or indeed the Ferrari 250GTO so valuable don’t apply to modern-day imitations that no-one really wants. Stern managed to get Hugh Trevor-Roper to endorse the diaries – he is now remembered mostly for this rather than his historical work. Museums are generally accountable and their collections are subject to study and investigation. Colt has been taken over by the bean counters since forever, and has been monetized, financialized, and about everything else you can imagine has been done to it in terms of looting the corporate legacy and its resources. Add to Wish List. The biggest UF list on GR includes all books in a series, so it's gotten swamped by the many books in the most popular series. It also has a very broad/unedited definition of what UF is, so I'm happier to start one myself and have some control. First rule is an employee, not even the boss, write his own sales slip. If you want to hear more about Wilson’s work, I would encourage you to subscribe to support C&Rsenal on Patreon, and check out the two-hour podcast Othais and Cody Museum Associate Curator Danny Michael did on the topic. James and his brother, George David, attended public schools in Washington and Garrison, N.Y., where the family settled after the war. That world is similarly vulnerable to manipulation by unscrupulous dealers, auctioneers and ‘experts’. The only reason this story came to light is because the information came from PUBLIC access. Skulduggery Pleasant is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Derek Landy.The books revolve around the adventures of the skeleton dete, Skulduggery Pleasant… And there are ALWAYS some crooks at the top- art, horses, stocks, real estate, whatever. https://wcstumpmilitaria.blogspot.com/2012/02/. The other part of the story that fascinated me is the tie-in to the other day’s museum article. https://www.vikingrune.com/2009/01/viking-swords-ulfberht-fakes/. In fact, Glock’s business model for a long time was to sell to police departments at bargain basement prices and overpay for police trade ins of other brands. Here's a Bleach character puzzle on the manga and anime series, enjoy . Sigh… the old trope that victims deserve their fate. His father was a historian on the faculty of Wells College, a private liberal arts school in Aurora, N.Y. During World War II, the family lived in Washington, where Professor Ridgeway was a State Department specialist on British affairs. The internet (and death) has largely broken the cabal of top end dealers, and very public auction prices has at least made the $500,000 cats and million dollar dogs visible. We might call it Rule 1 of collecting: if a market has arisen for the item category, so has fraud. Amazon.co.uk Hot New Releases: The bestselling new and future releases in Children's Books. This wine case is well-known: “In 2008, the firm held a sale at a Manhattan restaurant, promising the wines would be authenticated by ‘some of Burgundy’s most discerning connoisseurs.’ Included were alleged bottles of Domaine Ponsot Clos Saint-Denis from the years 1945, 1949 and 1966, but an estate proprietor revealed that that particular wine had not been produced until 1982. I guess this is part of what made his dishonest activities work so well. I knew Larry Wilson through one of his book writing projects. Thanks. It’s all on the honour system. It’s the first mass-produced semiauto shotgun in the world, it’s a John Browning design, and it’s […]. Mr. Ridgeway first rose to national prominence after writing “Car Design and Public Safety” for The New Republic in 1964, documenting a rising tide of deaths and injuries from crashes in flawed American cars. ” In October 1984, the museum traded three guns to Philip R. Phillips of Bartlesville, Okla., for two revolvers. Especially if you know all those arms in your collection came from the Colt company itself. An outraged Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, Democrat of Connecticut, called a Senate hearing, and G.M.’s president, James Roche, admitted to the misdeeds and apologized to Mr. Nader, who went on to become an overnight hero of the consumer movement. The internet (and death) has largely broken the cabal of top end dealers, and very public auction prices has at least made the $500,000 cats and million dollar dogs visible. Sure, they have plenty of consumer sales, but only because people want to carry what LEOs carry. Their sacrifice is to be nameless beuraucrats who do that job. That news made national headlines. You don’t have to be an expert to understand that’s odd. Where there’s smoke there’s almost always a hint of fire, to mangle a phrase. We will soldier on…. When my friend filed a lengthy report, as required by the grant, the boss of the granting entity called and said “That is the first report we have ever had that we didn’t have to damned nearly beat out of the recipient.” Further conversation revealed that about a quarter of the grants this organisation makes never result in a spending report at all.
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