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My resolution to get two editions of Path2prosperity News out every month has already gone by the board. Perhaps I will not bother with resolutions in future, as I seem to be growing more crabby and crotchety with every advancing year. It will not be too difficult to keep a resolution to be even more crabby than I was in the previous year.

I am going to let you into a little secret. I have a “Crabby Old Git” Internet friend, who is known to many of my readers as John Partington. John has inadvertently shown me many other facets of his character and I do hope that he will permit me to show you a picture of John the mellow, fatherly or grandfatherly figure, who is nothing like the person I had in my mind’s eye when I first met him in the AdlandPro community .

Those of you who are members of AdlandPro community know John’s can give the impression that he is looking down from his perch and presiding over forums like a strict head master or high court judge. It took me at least a year before I plucked up the courage to send him a PM. I have become good friends with John now and I often telephone him to pick his brains. I will let you all into another secret. I have discovered that the sound of his voice has a devastating effect on one female in my household. She goes into raptures and starts to dribble with excitement, when she recognises the voice. Who is this secret admirer? She is a very sweet and gentle tortoiseshell cat that purrs down the telephone and salivates all over my computer keyboard in an attempt to to join us both in conversation.

Could there be some scientific explanation? John says that he seems to have that effect on most cats and dogs and he has offered to package up some of his oldest and dirtiest socks to delight her olfactory senses. That is an offer that I have declined at this stage. Has he been a tom cat in a previous incarnation or is there a bit of the tom cat instinct to spread their genes which is latent in all men? You can ask him, as John has started his own “JPBPFriend’s Forum.” I would like encourage any Grumpy Old (or young) Gits who read this publication to join his circle of friends and get to know some Brit's who wish to profit from Internet marketing endeavours. You can be assured of first class technical advice from an accomplished webmaster who runs his own web hosting business and one who also possess a wicked sense of humour. There are only four members at this stage but John will be making changes and promoting it to his large list of contacts in the near future.

My cat may be entranced by the sound of John’s voice but it is his wife Barbara’s voice which intrigues me. I have rung up and made the dreadful mistake of thinking that I had reached John on two or three occasions. Barbara speaks with deep contralto tones and my first reaction when I realised that I was speaking to a woman and not a man, was that she might be an opera singer. Barbara has the voice, the self confidence and the anno dommini, Does she have the diaphragm muscles and other “Jordan Style” assets to be an opera star and land one of the coveted contralto leads? I have asked her if she would give JPBP friends forum members a rendering of WS Gilbert’s hilarious “Dear Little Buttercup I” Would Barbara cavort around a stage in order to attrart the man of her dreams who happens to be “The Ruler of The Queens Navee” Will she oblige? Why not join the forum and find out for yourself. Barbara tells me she was a very good singer when she was younger.

I seem to have an art for deliberately or inadvertently opening these. My latest comments have accidentally opened not one can of worms but multiple cans and that has caused me serious headaches. I have ended up with a mass of enemies on the British side of Atlantic pond and even more, who would gladly tear me apart and have my guts for garters on the other side. I will start by discussing my British misdemeanours.

The paid to surf programs are extremely controversial. I have inhabited these forums and built my list or online contacts from the days when programs like 12DailyPro were making some gianormous profits for their members. It was obvious that this was only a bubble waiting to burst but I eventually followed the herd and joined just before it was closed by the American regulatory body, known as The Securities Exchange Council. I was lucky as my total losses were only $60 and I am due to get 100% less 12DailyPro receivers legal expenses pretty soon, as I never received anything at all from 12DailyPro.

Path2prosperity News has a small number of readers but those who do subscribe are very open minded. Readers come from both sides of the Atlantic and there are also quite a few readers from Pacific rim countries. I do my best to answer e-mails personally and keep my newsletters flowing, but a list of five hundred can become very cumbersome, when controversy rages as it has since Christmas. My apologies to all, whom I have appeared to ignore. Hopefully things will proceed at a slower rate, so that I can get some time to collect my thoughts and communicate with you all on a more regular basis.

The big issue is whether paid surf programs are legal or not. The returns are spectacular and I really believe that there is no other way for anybody to generate any online income in the short term. Are these programs legal? The short answer is that industry watchdogs in most free world countries believe that the industry is succeeding in regulating itself. The American Securities Exchange Commission and their FEDS do step in and close down some programs and payment processors that have been operating illegally. These authorities often act too quickly or too slowly and a lot of innocent people have lost a lot of money. Americans are no longer allowed to refer to the industry as the autosurf or the paid surf industry. They have to refer to it as the advertising industry and they can not speak of earnings, They use the word rebates instead of earnings. Misunderstandings can creep into forum posts that are nothing but differences in semantics.

The good news is that most con artists like the notorious Bob Krimm, who ran the Tri-Star Moneychangers payment processor illegally, do get caught now. Krimm stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from reputable paid surf program administrators and their members. The ruthless way he did this has made Internet history. Self regulation appears to be working fairly well in the USA but they have a long way to go before the industry is really clean and people can invest with complete confidence. There are large programs that form their own codes of conduct for surf site administrators and this can cause problems. Conflicting ideas, on what is ethical cause rifts and splinter groups. Some groups refuse to allow statistics to be on public record and term themselves private investment programs, retirement clubs or any other name they can devise. They claim the are no longer autosurf programs. There is competition for the position of top dog among those that ally themselves with others to form their self regulatory bodies. The attacks against each other became extremely ugly in the last two or three weeks.

I do not wish to associate myself with any of these private investment programs. They are very good ones which are absolutely legal in the US but they can break British laws and not care a dime because they are unaware that they are breaking it. When I have tried to point these facts out in the paid to surf forums, I have become public enemy to the majority. Many Americans revere these industry leaders and turn them into icons. If you speak out about some of their revered icons, you can make a very bad name for yourself and I have succeeded in doing that.

The point that a lot of Americans do not get, is that the UK has industry watchdogs which look out for breaches in British laws not US law. The biggest legal difference, is in the trading of hedge funds. Almost anybody in the US can set up a hedge fund but that is not so in the UK. Hedge funds have to be administered by properly qualified and experienced personnel. We have kept most of the large hedge fund crooks out of our country very successfully. American hedge funds are still traded from British offshore islands and British tax havens. Will the laws be changed to plug up loopholes on the law? My answer to that is a resounding YES and I advise British citizens to have absolutely nothing to do with very popular paid advertising programs like VLane, MaximumAds, QuantumLeap, and CashLinkFinancial until they have checked out if these programs are legal in the UK Why?

The answer which I have given to British surfers, has made me unpopular with many Brits who have assumed that I must be a left wing fanatic, who is bringing my political bias into the equation. That is not the case. I am a floating voter, who tries to make up my mind on which of the major parties are doing their best for the country but that usually defeats me, so I vote on local issues and in some cases I have made a tactical vote.

A lot of UK industry watchdogs like OFTEL have proved themselves to be somewhat effete so I pointed out the fact that the real watchdogs who do get loopholes in the law plugged up are our trade unions. I have warned British and Americans who earn good returns from the paid surf programs, that they are playing with fire if they mess with British Trade Unions. I believe that managers of programs like the ones that I have mentioned could wake up one morning and find that our Trade Union Friendly Prime Minister has listened to union leaders and got loopholes plugged up. The managers of these American, paid advertising programs could find that their members can not withdraw funds unless the member takes up residence in the tax haven from which the American program is trading.

What would these American surf admins do then? I do not know but I consider it unwise to tempt providence. The only thing I will say, is that, if you are British, joining private investment programs in the USA, is effectively messing with trade unions in this country. There are plenty of very good paid to surf programs that are publicly monitored and they are the only ones which I would advise any of my British readers to join. I am not accusing these private program managers of being dishonest. I am saying that, if a Brit joins a private investment program and the trade unions get legislation on to the statute book that wrecks the program, there is no point complaining. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it and signing up for private programs could land you in trouble. One of the best American traders runs a private investment program which is Pathway2prosperity. This has absolutely no connection to this domain whatsoever. The similarity in the domain names is sheer coincidence. Is Pathway2prosperity legal in the UK? The owners tell us that it will not be long before their program is accredited by Lloyds of London. If that happens there will be no need to ask any more questions as this will become Internationally bona fide. If it does not happen, there is still no need to join the private program and buy a credit to get your money out. A number of publicly monitored surf programs will invest all or part of your investment for you and you can get paid by a gold exchange program or an Internationally acclaimed payment processor. See Path2prosperity’s recommended.
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I would like to introduce Bob Peters, the owner and administrator of a paid to surf program to a British actor, as I believe the pair of them could have sufficient skills to launch a fantastic British videocast that could attract viewers from the other side of the Atlantic. Bob has never followed the herd. He launched an autosurf program that appears to have broken numerous Internet marketing “rules.”

Bob has refused to listen or view any comments made about him in the paid to surf forums or ask member of his programs to vote for him on any of the surf monitor programs. Is this the wrong way to market a surf program? Bob’s inimitable strategy paid off and for a long time, he topped the charts in most of the American and European surf monitors. He is extremely busy now, as he has acquired the largest Danish traffic exchange program and lunched several new ones of his own.

Bob’s autosurf program has been in moth balls for a few months while he is consolidating his assets. I think that he will be bringing the autosurf back on the scene and paying member in a more realistic time frame, very soon as he promised. That is only my opinion, which is based on previous experience with this surf site administrator. Is the maverick Bob a winner or has been? You decide? I think he will emerge as a winner but only time will tell.

I intend to ask Bob, if would write an article for Path2prosperityNews, as I am sure many people would like to know why his programs are being marketed in Denmark rather than the USA, where he already has a large fan club. Will Bob deign to do this? Will he contact this actor who has the capability of becoming a videocast star?

The actor of whom I am speaking, has the specialist video equipment and experience directing semi professional and professional productions for venues like The Edinburgh Festival. He has been on special drama courses for voice projection and he has learned how to make his whole body talk through dance.

What is unique about this person’ s abilities, is that he is a mathematics PhD and he has worked on evolving systems which virtually nobody in the paid surf industry understands. He has worked for an International Bank as a hedge fund designer. If he can not spot con artists and phonies who try to blind people like us with mathematical science I will eat my hat! What a combination of skills! What an asset this person would be for a program in the paid surf industry. With luck somebody in the Internet Marketing world will want to audition him or employ him as a new videocaster. There is a desperate need for news casters in the paid to surf industry. There are not enough to present news from anything but an American perspective at this point in time. These videocasters need to work in tandem with each other rather than fight one another, as some are doing at present.