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So Mr A. What have you and/or your circle of influential friends done for me/us lately?

I fully agree. It is not a surprise really. He has only one objective which is to extract money from his audience with whatever means are available to him. And as you say, he is not alone, and in fact this is not off topic at all. It is parasitic behavior, not helpful. He does not even generate original content - it is all re-published from sources gleaned from zerohedge etc..
I could ask myself - what am I doing here blogging - do I actually make a difference myself?
I think I do because I am definitely saving people money by providing content that lets people evaluate Armstrong's scam. I know people have lost MILLIONS trading based on the Socrates crap.
I am not introducing additional conspiracy theories - I do not have an agenda of my own. So my service is FACTS - nothing else. Otherwise, I am working from home and I am generating income from productive activities. My web content does not have ads or any other way to generate cash.
Socrates Long Term Past Performance Review
Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.
Read this blog
starting at page 273 to find out more about computerized fraud.
See
armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com for a more compact view of major findings posted in this blog.
Every single defrauded person should report their case at
econsumer.gov