“They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell­mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suf­fered a heart attack.

Addi­tional affi­davits describe the guards grab­bing, drag­ging, beat­ing, chok­ing, slam­ming, pinch­ing, twist­ing and kick­ing the women.

Thus unfolded the Night of Ter­ror on Nov. 15, 1917, when the war­den at the Occo­quan Work­house in Vir­ginia ordered his guards to teach a les­son to the suf­frag­ists impris­oned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson’s White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women’s only water came from an open pail. Their food–all of it col­or­less slop–was infested with worms.”

“Hedge funds are prepar­ing to return between 10 per cent and 50 per cent of their assets under man­age­ment to investors who want their money back at the end of yet another quar­ter of dire invest­ment performance.

One prime bro­ker said: “Many funds will have to close. There were a flood of redemp­tion notices at the begin­ning of the quar­ter but many investors said they wouldn’t actu­ally with­draw the money if per­for­mance improved. It hasn’t.”

One hedge fund said: “We’ve pro­duced 15 per cent returns for 10 years. This year has been bad and our funds under man­age­ment have been reduced from $2billion to just $300m. This is decimation.””

“Clearly, these are not your every­day sharks. Great Whites think alike and because of their size, they all think BIG. The Feds know this and are going to loan them (indef­i­nitely) any amount of money they want — when­ever they want it — at 2% or less so they can turn around and loan this money to you and I and every busi­ness in Amer­ica at newly restric­tive but higher “credit rates”. How did the Feds solve the world’s biggest credit crunch? They gave its per­pe­tra­tors an offer they couldn’t refuse. And this is euphemisti­cally called re-​​liquefying.
Now, the crew who’s angry about all this can ask them­selves the alter­na­tive. What else could have been done? Wall Street could have sold the Amer­i­can finan­cial indus­try to the Arabs for $1 tril­lion, a fee about equal to ARAMCO’s 1H2008 oil prof­its. Or they could have sold it to Sin­ga­pore, or China, or some of the fat cats in India or Japan. Instead, the U.S. Trea­sury bought it, rot­ten fish heads and all.”

“Do you see, Thom­son Reuters? Do you see? If you don’t set­tle this non­sense in a fash­ion that leaves Zotero intact, the open-​​source soft­ware devel­op­ment world will fear to inter­op­er­ate with you. If End­Note isn’t already dead, this will kill it, because our lit­tle project is hardly the only one of its type. We are legion, and you have shut your­self away from us. You have no one to blame for this sui­ci­dal course but your own legal and exec­u­tive team.

And if you take away Zotero, trust me, Thom­son Reuters: it won’t be End­Note that I switch to.”