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Welcome back to the Corbett Report Podcast.

I'm your host James Corbett of Corbettreport.com, coming to you as always from the sunny

climbs of Western Japan here on the 11th day of June 2012.

Now right off the top I would like to welcome back all of the audience to this podcast and thank you for tuning in once again. For those of you

keeping track at home this is the 230th episode of the Corporate Report

podcast and the first one for over a month now since I went away on vacation.

So thank you for tuning in once again and if this is your first time listening to the

Corbettreport podcast, you can find all the previous editions of this podcast at Corbett.com along with all the radio shows interviews videos articles and other media that I've created over the past five years and for those of you listening to the radio show over the

past week you will no doubt already know that yes now the corporate report is five years

old and counting a minor milestone to be sure, but still a milestone nonetheless.

So we were celebrating last week by giving away copies of my brand new DVD, The Data DVD

Volume 2, which represents every single podcast episode, every interview, every video, and every article created by myself for Corporate Report.com in the year 2009, almost six gigabytes of data.

And the first shipment of that is shipping out today,

so thank you to all of those people who got their order in on the weekend.

Once again, without your support in this endeavor I

couldn't do it without you. I would like to once again stress that none of the

information that is on this DVD could is behind a paywall of any kind you can download it freely from the website

if you want it all in one handy location on a disk and to support this

independent alternative media while you're at it then your support is appreciated and you can find

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