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From: ee
Sent: 9/26/2016 8:59:46 PM
To: Ej [email protected];
Subject: humor and trump and evolutionary logic
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was pleased that Robert Lynch's work and my own were cited in a Nation
article on the lack of humor of our Republican standard bearer
https: //ww. thenation.com/article/have-you-ever-seen-donald-trump-]laugh/
congratulations Robert
John and Jeffrey, i will write you shortly
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a,
ry. Finally, due to the
high volume of prostitution-related crimes, the Federal government lacks the necessary resources
and capacity to prosecute these offenses.
Therefore, to the extent that thi
DOJ also opposes subsection (g), which would expand the sex tourism offenses to
include those who travel for purposes of illicit sexual activity with adults. The Department’s
current efforts with regard to extraterritorial offenses focus on child sex tourism, which are very
demanding and resource-intensive cases, requiring gathering evidence abroad, bringing victims
to the United States to testify, and coordination with foreign law enforcement agencies and
foreign governments generally, among other matters. Any expansion of authority would be a
distraction from those priority cases and would exacerbate existing burdens on investigation and
prosecution.
The Department believes that the addition of 18 U.S.C. § 2423 is unnecessary and that
18 U.S.C. § 2423 does not need to be amended.
Should Congress create 18 U.S.C. § 2423A, DOJ believes that language should be
retained in 18 U.S.C. § 2423(e) that allows the Government to charge attempt or conspiracy for
18 U.S.C. § 2423{a) crimes. Finally, DOJ notes that the definition of illicit sexual conduct
needs to be updated to include production of child pornography.
18. Section 222
AS a general matter, the Department opposes the expansion of jurisdiction over offenses
involving non-American offenders or victims that are committed outside the United States. The
expansion of jurisdiction in this section would place an enormous strain on available resources.
In addition, this new section’s jurisdiction description overlaps with 18 U.S.C. § 3271. Should
the choice be made to keep the jurisdictional provisions provided for in this section, perhaps it
would be more effective to expand section 3271.
19, Section 223
These provisions are not directly related to trafficking. As this section is related to aliens
brought into the country for the purposes of prostitution, without a showing of force, fraud, or
coercion, and the International Marriage Brokers Act (IMBRA), this bill is not the vehicle for
this language. Furthermore, subsection (a)(1) removes the requirement from section 278 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act that such conduct be done in furtherance of the importation of
the alien. By removing this requirement, the bill extends the statute to cover all instances of
“pimping” an alien.
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It's possible, of course, that we won’t need a third-party candidate. Trump could decide not to run for
whatever reason. The Democrats could nominate a winning 2020 candidate. I am not willing to take
those bets.
The ideal candidate for a new third party is someone who is widely perceived to be that rare combination
of both good and great. We are looking for a proven leader of men and women, someone with clear,
democratic — and moral — values that reflect the best of America, not our worst. We know people like this
on the national stage now.
As a thought experiment, consider the possibilities of a ticket outside the partisan lanes and imagine the
chemistry of radical combinations: Biden/Romney? Bill Gates/Hogan? Bloomberg/Haley? Howard
Schultz/Bob Corker? Sandberg/Kasich?
As we have discussed narrow path to electing the first president outside the two major party primary
system in 168 years is more navigable than most think. Heading into 2020, converging trends in
American’s demands for a third party (a historic high of 61%), disapproval of Donald Trump holding
steady above 50%, and the increasingly leftward drift of the Democratic Party suggest that electorate may
be susceptible to merits of a new centrist party. Cynics will say that the structural impediments of ballot
and presidential debate access, the overwhelming advantages of legacy parties’ fundraising and voter
turn-out operations preordain failure, but they’re wrong; the legal and logistical hurdles are amenable to a
combination of lawyering and resources. The bigger, more consequential factors come in terms of
candidate quality and policy. I believe a candidate with five specific characteristics including a unique —
and purposefully non-specific - policy agenda could limbo a win.
e This is what I think a successful third-party candidate looks like; a dream third party ticket would
start off with enough name ID to be an instant contender. Building the name ID to run nationally is
just too long and expensive of a process to accomplish in the 28 months until the next presidential
election. We can’t beat a celebrity without some celebrity of our own, whether from politics,
sports, business, or entertainment. Instantaneous name ID is so crucial because the candidate must
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CNN
RLK: Those Chinese
economists are pleased to
see this pressure going on,
but China cannot admit
that publicly, because that
undermines the
rejuvenation of China, the
strength of the
government, the national
pride.
RLK: We have to
understand both sides are
speaking to their domestic
audiences, but hopefully,
when they get together
privately, they'll talk
business.
U.S. AND CHINA AGREE TO PAUSE TRADE WAR
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SEE YOUR FLIPBOARD ON THE WEB
OR DOWNLOAD THE MOBILE APP
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Chart 3: Decomposition of performance of 1) S&P 500 stocks exposed to fiscal stimulus* and 2) top
50 S&P 500 stocks with the highest L12M effective tax rates, vs. rest of S&P 500 (1/31/16-1/23/17)
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Stimulus Beneficiaries S&P 500 ex-Stimulus High Effective Tax Rate S&P 500 ex-High Eff Tax
Beneficiaries List Rate List
mChginPE esChginEPS Performance
*Stocks identified by BofAML analysts as stimulus beneficiaries in 150 stocks with exposure to the Fiscal Stimulus theme 21 Aug. 2016
Source: FactSet, BofA Merrill Lynch US Equity & US Quant Strategy
Potential beneficiaries: See Table 19 at the end of this report for a screen of
domestically-oriented companies with high effective tax rates which could
potentially benefit from a lower corporate tax rate.
Repatriation
Repatriation likely under both Blueprint and Trump plans
Mandatory tax on overseas profits of 8.75% under Blueprint, 10% under Trump
The US currently operates under a tax system in which the domestic earnings of US
corporates are taxed at the federal US corporate rate (35%) and any overseas earnings
that are repatriated are taxed at this rate less a credit for foreign taxes paid on those
same earnings. Many multinationals’ foreign earnings thus remain parked offshore,
allowing corporations to avoid the tax hit associated with bringing them back to the US.
Both Trump and the House (under Ryan) have proposed a mandatory tax of overseas
earnings of US firms’ foreign subsidiaries at reduced rates, such that this cash can be
brought back and put to work in the US. This differs from the 2004 repatriation tax
holiday, which was optional.
Under the Blueprint, accumulated overseas earnings will be subject to a transition tax of
8.75%! (for those held in cash/cash equivalents) or 3.5% (for all other holdings), with
companies able to pay the tax liability over an eight-year period. This would be part of
broader tax reform, where a proposed territorial tax system would exempt companies’
foreign income from US taxes and prevent future buildup of overseas profits as
companies would be free to bring them home. Trump’s plan calls for a one-time deemed
repatriation of overseas corporate profits at a 10% tax rate.
Table 6: Blueprint vs. Trump tax plans for taxing offshore earnings of US firms’ foreign subsidiaries
Plan Tax rate on accumulated overseas earnings
Blueprint 8.75% for cash/cash equivalents, 3.5% of all other holdings
Trump tax plan 10%
Source: donaldjtrump.com, abetterway.speaker.gov
The Tax Policy Center estimates that a repatriation tax holiday would generate
approximately $150bn in tax receipts under Trump’s plan (over 10 years) and $140bn
' Note: The effective tax rates of 8.75% and 3.5% under the Blueprint are based on an allowable deduction of 75% (for
deferred earnings held in cash/liquid assets) or 90% (for the non-cash portion), with the remainder taxed at the US
corporate tax rate, Le. 35%(1-75%) = 8.75% and 35%(1-90%) = 3.5%. This methodology was proposed by Dave Camp’s
(former chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means) Tax Reform Act of 2014.
: : Bankof America
6 Equity Strategy Focus Point | 29 January 2017 Merrill Lynch
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4.2.12
WC: 191694
The question I’m most often asked about my classroom teaching is how the students have
changed and how the teaching of law has changed during the 50 years I have been at Harvard.
The change in the student body has been dramatic. The vast majority of our students are no
longer the white American males that dominated the classroom in the early 1960s. Nearly half the
class is comprised of women, about a quarter of the class of racial and ethnic minorities, and
approximately 10% from foreign countries. This increased diversity brings with it a wide range of
viewpoints and experiences that enrich the class discussion.
Today’s students are also older, with more work experience. They come to the classroom with
firm, if not always clear, views of who they are and what they want to be. They are not the naive,
sycophantic, uncritical consumers that characterized my generation of students right out of
college. This is all good, because it makes teaching them more challenging.
Equally important has been the globalization of law over the past quarter decade. When I began
teaching, all law, like all politics, was local. Today, virtually all law is global. A typical case that
comes across my desk and that I now teach about is as follows:
A man born in Israel becomes a British citizen and moves to Houston where he works for
a multinational firm which allegedly paid a bribe to an African prince from one country to
build a gas facility in another African country using French funds transmitted from a Swiss
bank. The person is now in Canada and the United States and Great Britain are both
seeking his extradition. The laws of each of the countries differ considerably as to what
constitutes a bribe, as distinguished from a proper or merely unethical payment. The laws
of each country also differ as to the propriety of preparing witnesses and gathering
evidence.
A lawyer confronting this kind of case must know how to deal with these transnational problems.
Law schools have traditionally offered courses in international law, teaching the students about
international tribunals and treaties. The source of problems confronted today are not decided by
international law or international courts. They are transnational, rather than international, in
nature and require an ability to navigate the very different terrains of many nations’ legal systems.
Among the areas of law in which political and legal boundaries are frequently crossed, are:
internet law, environmental law, antitrust law, corporate law, criminal law and many newly
emerging fields of law. We are just beginning to teach our students how to practice in this global
environment. We must do more if we are to stay ahead of major changes and prepare our
students to be great lawyers through the middle of the 21* Century.
I have been privileged to teach nearly 10,000 students over my half century career as a law
professor. Among the students I have taught, mentored, advised and encountered have been
Presidents, Supreme Court justices, judges, senators, congressmen, corporate CEO, deans,
professors, university presidents, journalists and other movers and shakers. With the privileges of
teaching tomorrow’s world leaders comes enormous responsibilities. Among these
responsibilities is not to use the classroom to propagandize one’s captive audience. My goal is
not to turn conservatives into liberals, but to make conservatives more thoughtful conservatives,
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Edwards adv. Epstein
Telephone interview with Virginia Roberts
Page 23 of 23
V: Don’t know.
JS: Prince Andrew.
V: Yes, he would know a lot of the truth. Again, I don’t know how much he would be able
to help you with, but seeing he’s in a lot of trouble himself these days, I think he might,
so I think he may be valuable. I’m not too sure of him.
JS: Ok. Virginia, I think that’s all I have for you. Let me tell you what I would like to do.
As I told you in the beginning of this conversation, we’ve been recording it, and
hopefully, we’ve got a clear enough recording so that we’ve taken down everything
accurately and when it’s transcribed, it will be clear and accurate, but what I would like
to do is transcribe it, send it to you, have you take a look at it, and if there’s anything that
we got wrong in the statement, you can write back and you can make changes in the
transcript so that the transcript is accurate. Is that fair?
V: No worries. That is fair. No problem.
JS: Alright, great. I really do appreciate that and tell me what the best way is to send the
transcript to you.
V: Email. If you just want to send it by email or if you want to send it by mail, either or.
JS: | Ok. Give me your email address if you would please.
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JS: Let me read that back to you:
V: Yep that’s it.
BE: Thank you Jenna, appreciate it.
V: No problem, Brad.
JS: | Thank you very very much. Bye Bye now.
V: Take care Jack. Nice meeting you.
JS: You too.
*Redaction has been made at the request of the witness.
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I got a pretty big award (nominated by the folks at Hopkins) and have to make
Working like crazy on my speech and bill is gonna help me tomorrow night
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Case
Document 5
6/14/2016
Organiser: Ghislaine Maxwell looks on as Andrew put his arm around Virginia. Robert Maxwell's daughter
k as E i
invited her to ersonal masseuse soon after her 15th birthday
We kissed on the cheek and Ghislaine placed me on his other knee.’ Johanna spoke to The Mail on
Sunday three years ago about this incident, which took place when she was 21.
She said: ‘Ghislaine put the puppet’s hand on Virginia's breast, then Andrew put his hand on my
breast. It was a great joke. Everybody laughed.’ After this, Virginia was paid, by Epstein, around
$400 (£250).’
She met Andrew for the third and final time on Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little Saint James.
Virginia was never under the British legal age of consent when she met Andrew. She was 17 during
the first two encounters and 18 at the third.
By now, however, Epstein, had started to hint that she was getting ‘too old’ for him.
But during one trip to the island, Epstein and Ghislaine made their most astonishing proposition, and
one which repulsed her. ‘They said Jeffrey wanted me to have his child,’ she says.
‘They said | was part of their family and | was beautiful,young, loyal and nurturing and would be a
great mother.
They said | would have to sign a contract relinquishing rights to the child and consenting to Jeffrey
having as many relationships as he liked. In return | would have my own mansion in Palm Beach
and a large monthly payment, a percentage of his income.’
This, finally, was a wake-up call to Virginia and she began to see the way in which she had been
groomed.
‘It was a smack in the face,’ she says. ‘I finally realised this wasn’t ever going to be a real
relationship but | knew if | refused, I'd be thrown back on the streets. So | said, “I'm too yaung. |
want to get my massage credentials, then maybe we'll do it”.’
The tycoon took her at her word and, for her 19th birthday in August 2002, flew her to Thailand
where he enrolled her in a massage course.
Shortly after arriving there, she met an Australian martial arts expert called Robert. They fell in love
and, just ten days later, married in a Buddhist ceremony.
‘| cailed Jeffrey and told him I'd fallen madly in love,’ Virginia says. ‘| was hoping he’d be delighted.
But he said, “Have a nice life,” and hung up on me.’ The couple now have two sons, aged five and
four, and a daughter who recently turned one.
‘The first few months ajter | married Robert were the worst,’ she says. ‘I couldn’t bring myself to tell
him much. No man wants to know his wife has been traded out.
‘I felt very alone. | was having panic attacks and seeing a psychiatrist and was on anti-depressants.
‘ Virginia was beginning to put her Epstein days behind her when, three years ago, she was phoned
by the FBI.
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of condom brand Lelo
Hex
Wave goodbye to the
rain! The deluge
FINALLY stops as the
Queen arrives at Ascot
with Philip and Harry
after thousands of
racegoers got drenched
Two nations standing
together: Wills and Kate
sign book of condolence
to pay their respacts to
the victims of Orlando
nightclub killer
Paying respects
Time for an upgrade?
David Arquette lists his
historic Los Angeles
mansion for $8.5m
Selling Hancock Park
seven-bedroom home
which he boughtin 2014
She's her own best
advert! Jessica Alba's
tresses glint in the sun
as she promotes her
Honest Company’s new
hair care range in New
York
Katharine McPhee
flashes a hint of
sideboob in a plunging
unbuttoned black dress
as she poses at the
Monte Carlo Television
Festival
Lat the trading bagin!
Independence Day's
Liam Hemsworth
and Vivica A. Fox ring
the NASDAQ bell and
help celebrate the
Army's birthday in NYC
Ava Sambora puts on
an eye-popping display
for sizzling phote shoot
as she parades her
enviable bikini bod in
Malibu
Daughter of rocker Richie
Sambora
How does Adele make
YOU feel? Sad songs
provide ‘enjoyment,
comfort or pain to
different people’
Great comfort from
ssomingly sad songs
Daisy Lowe and
rumored boyfriend
Darius Campbell appear
in high spirits as they
leave star-studded
charity event
She is 27
Sir Paul McCartney
leads tributes as Wings
guitarist Henry
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From: Larry Visoski x
Sent: 3/5/2017 3:52:39 PM
To: Je vacation [[email protected]]
Subject: TSA
Importance: — High
Jeffrey
TSA called me,. They inform closing TSA inspection at 3pm,,
Asked if we could depart 2:30pm, ?
Is 2:30pm ok for departure, ,
Otherwise it would be after Trump's departure between 4 and 5pm
Is 2:30pm inspection / departure ok?
Thx
Larry
Sent from my iPhone
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From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Sent: 5/19/2017 10:45:11 AM
To: Nicholas Ribis _________________________________________
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
soo crazy.
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Nicholas Ribis < > wrote:
Here we go
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Jeffrey E.
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 6:12 PM
To: Nicholas Ribis
Subject: Re:
Fun
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:08 PM Nicholas Ribis
Robert Mueller appointed Special Counsel on Russian Probe bad for DJT
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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promise, and thus, the relationship. But if keeping the secret results in innocent lives lost or ruined, then
this is a bad thing. Not telling — an omission — indirectly can cause harm. This is the situation that has
confronted the Catholic Church over the past twenty years.
During the tenures of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, some 4,000 priests sexually abused
some 10,000 innocent children. This is unquestionably an underestimate. This is excessive harm. Popes
John Paul Il and Benedict XVI, together with their cardinals and bishops, assumed the role of bystanders.
They were aware of the rampant cases of child rape among the clergy. They could have acted. Their
omissions are archetypal examples of the sin of sloth. By omission, they are responsible for excessive
harm and should be held legally accountable. This process has begun as evidenced by the decision in
October of 2011 to indict Bishop Robert Finn for failing to report a priest who took pornographic
photographs of young girls. Though Finn was only charged with a misdemeanor, this case opens opens a
legal floodgate. It is an opening that should allow prosecutors, around the globe, to indict bishops,
cardinals, and the Pope for evil omissions. It should empower the parents and children who have suffered
to rise up and demand justice for allowing excessive harm to occur. It should cause everyone to express
outrage over the fact that allowing priests to rape innocent children perpetuates a cycle of pedophiles as
those who have been abused are likely to abuse others. The leaders of the church have not only commited
a crime of omission, but have helped perpetuate a culture of harm.
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Date: Sunday, August 12 2018 05:42 PM
Subject: Re: Steve Bannon had morning with disgraced Jeffrey Epstein
From: Peter Thomas Roth
To: jeffrey E. <[email protected]>;
E E E
On Aug 12, 2018, at 1:30 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected] > wrote:
fun
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Peter Thomas Roth <
Great picture of you!!!
> wrote:
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side/?utm source= maropost&utm medium=email &utm campaign=pagesixdaily &utm
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Steve Bannon trying to get on disgraced
Jeffrey Epstein's good side
By Emily Smith
Steve Bannon shared a secret meeting with reviled billionaire pedophile Jeffrey -Epstein
at the financier's notorious Upper East Side mansion.
Former White House chief strategist Bannon was spotted stepping out of his SUV and
entering the registered sex offender's sprawling 21,000-square-foot mansion at 9 E. 71st
St. shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Epstein's -palatial pad is one of his homes where young_girls were allegedly brought in to
perform massages and used as "sex slaves."
We assume Bannon wasn't there for a massage.
Sources speculate that the disgraced -Epstein wants to use his millions to work his way
close to political power again.
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One told us, "Bannon needs money to bankroll his political agenda. Epstein has plenty of
money, and craves power and access."
Bannon made an early-morning beeline to Epstein, even though Bannon may have
burned bridges when he savaged Ivanka Trump over her criticism of Roy Moore, whom
Bannon backed despite claims the candidate had sexually harassed teens. Citing an
allegation in -legal papers from a woman (who later dropped her lawsuit) that Donald
Trump and Epstein had raped her when she was 13, Bannon said in response to Ivanka,
"What about the allegations about her dad and that 13-year-old?"
Epstein has previously used his millions to cultivate the world's most powerful — but has
mostly given money to Democrats.
From 2001 to 2003, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's private plane, dubbed "The Lolita
Express," 26 times. Epstein is close to Prince Andrew and was a regular at Trump's Mar-
a-Lago.
Trump told New York magazine of Epstein in 2002, "Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be
with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are
on the younger side."
Epstein, 65, pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a teen and served 13
months in jail.
Last year, he reportedly paid millions to settle three lawsuits filed against him by teens.
Bannon's rep didn't comment. A lawyer for Epstein said, "Let me ask him," but didn't
respond by deadline.
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while calmly and quickly surveying the routes of several potential receivers. The
pattern found in his handwriting features, however, resembled those Johnnie
Unitas, the Hall of Fame quarterback of the Baltimore (then) Colts who, in spite of
his small size, famously played with great courage and physical toughness. In
chronic and severe back pain, he played regularly until retirement in his early 40’s.
Fouts drafted in the third round with a small five-figure bonus, proved to be a great
bargain for the Charger franchise.
Given the theoretically infinite number of ways that a personality can be, it is
remarkable that the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American
Psychiatric Association, DMS-IV, describes only eight types, which form three
subsets of exaggerated expressions of stable personality styles called personality
disorders. All eight personality disorders can be grouped into: (1) Cluster A - Odd
and eccentric types, whose anxiety is related to the felt threat of disintegration and
annihilation of the self and whose style is dominated by mistrustful paranoia, a
schizoid, detached and emotionally flat pattern or the isolated strange eccentricism
of schizotypal characters, (2) Cluster B - Unstable and impulsive types whose
anxiety is related to loss of the stable self and whose style is dominated by
irresponsible antisocial behavior, chronic instability with high amplitude fluctuations
in behavior called borderline, or patterns of excessive emotionality and dramatic
display associated with histrionic characters; and (3) Cluster C - Fearful types
whose anxiety is related to hypersensitivity to criticism, guilt and feelings of
inadequacy or loss of control, and whose style is dominated by interpersonal
avoidance, clinging dependency, or rigid lock up into obsessive-compulsive efforts
to do the right thing and avoid disapproval. This remarkably small array of
stylistically consistent global behaviors selected from a practically infinite number of
imaginable possibilities establishes a small set of invariants of some, perhaps
abstract, property. These characteristic patterns inspire our search for the implied
brain and behavioral conservation laws that may underlie them.
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Acknowledgements 381
Newton's Rings
Wave Interference
Solvay Conference
Interferometer
Schrédinger’s Cat
Polarized Glasses, Glare and No Glare
Bell Test
Left and Right Socks
Morse Signaling
Dawkins and Atheist Bus
Fork in the Road
Left Hand Rule
Orthogonal Sticks
M.C. Escher’s “Waterfall”
Kochen-Specker Cube
Russian Dolls
Chapter 16
The HMS Beagle
Nobel Prize Medal
Golden Hall, Sweden
Pulitzer Prize Medal
First XPRIZE Award Ceremony
Fields Medal
Chapter 17
Omar Khayyam
Appendices
Leonardo da Vinci, Self Portrait
British Library
Experiment, ATLAS, CERN
Panda
Conway and Kochen
Looney Tunes “That's all Folks”
Wikimedia
Single image in Book. Slide show in
iBook, Various; Wikimedia www.
shutterstock.com, www.bigstock.com
Benjamin S. Couprie, Wikimedia, PD
Illustrated by James Tagg
Dhatfield, Wikimedia, CC3
HUB, Wikimedia, CC3
Illustrated by James Tagg
Hofmeester, Bigstock.com
Illustrated by James Tagg
Wikimedia, CC2
fivepointsix, www.bigstock.com
Photograph by James Tagg
Illustrated by James Tagg
© 2014 The M.C. Escher Company-
The Netherlands. All rights reserved.
www.meescher.com
James Tagg modeled in Sketchup
Robyn Mackenzie, www.bigstock.com
Bettmann/Corbis
Wikimedia, PD
vichie81, www.shutterstock.com
Original Daniel Chester French, photo
upload Katpatuka, Wikimedia, PD
Kbh3rd, Wikimedia, CC3
Stefan Zachow, Wikimedia, PD
Wikimedia, PD
Wikimedia, PD
Diliff, Wikimedia, CC2.5
xdrew, www.shutterstock.com
leungchopan, www.shutterstock.com
Photograph courtesy of
Princeton University’s Office of
Communications; Denise Applewhite,
photographer
Wikimedia, PD
The Wikimedia Creative Commons Licenses 1, 2, 2.5 and 3 may be found at www.
wikimedia.com. PD indicates a public domain.
In the case of items marked ‘video’ clicking on the image in the iBook or eBook
will link to YouTube. The links are also available at www.jamestagg.com/Vvideolinks
for book readers.
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exchanged some emails. He said that he prefers to do a "per meet" of $300 -- he called it
a "per meet" -- I told him that was too low and quoted him $1,000, and he said he'd meet
me in the middle. Another guy told me that he would just slip $400 into my purse when
he saw me, and that's exactly what he did.
I have one client I've never explicitly discussed money with at all. I had lunch with him,
and we didn't negotiate anything, though we talked a little bit about our reasons for being
on the site. The next time I saw him -- we were deciding where to meet, and he asked if
he should get us a room. I said that I would like that, so I met him and we had sex. He
knew it was my birthday soon, so as we were getting dressed, he said, "I know we haven't
talked about money, so I got you some birthday spending money," and he handed me an
envelope with $400. The next time I saw him, he asked about my plans for the evening. I
said I was having dinner with a friend, and he handed me $400 in an envelope and said,
"Maybe this will help pay for it." I'm lucky that I'm willing to accept $400 -- it's my
lower bound, but I'm willing to accept it. Imagine if I hadn't been willing to take $400 --
that would be super awkward. Probably I should have negotiated that situation more
clearly, but it worked out okay.
I've heard about situations where unclear negotiations did not work out okay. There was a
New York Times Magazine article about the site published in 2009. In that article, there
were some examples of unclear negotiations that didn't work out well. But it sounded like
that woman didn't really know what she wanted, and didn't really enjoy the work. But I
do. And I know other women who do, too.
I have a new client who paid me $3,000 up front to see me 3 times a month. But I haven't
heard from him since our first meeting. If I were his girlfriend, I'd call him, but he asked
me not to call him. So I don't really know what the deal with that one is. Maybe he's
gonna flake out on me, but he already gave me $3,000, so that would be weird.
Clarisse Thorn: So, your husband. You mentioned him briefly. How does your
husband feel about this?
Olivia: He does not seem particularly threatened. We already have an open relationship. I
think he sometimes feels very visceral jealousy, but that's just like any other time one of
us has sex with somebody else. We just have to talk about it.
Part of the deal here is that I'm doing this because I'm broke. My husband really wants to
be able to support me financially, but he can't right now, so I'm supporting both us doing
this. I think that's a real blow to his ego. To the extent that he gets bothered, I think it's
because I'm allowing other men to support me and give me money; he doesn't care about
the sex. Even though I see this as work, he sees this as "here's this rich successful guy
who just gave my wife a bunch of money, and she slept with him -- so probably she's
attracted to him."
I am kind of attracted to my clients, and I kind of get off on making them happy, and I
happen to think that the age difference is kind of hot. I like having sex with them; it's not
unpleasant. I like hearing about these guys’ life stories. I think it's interesting. But these
guys would never be a threat to my husband. I would never be sleeping with any of them
except for the money. And I love my husband. I'm always very up front about the fact
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clients that are saying that exact same thing right now, your
Honor.
MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, could we do the 13th, the
Thursday of that week?
THE COURT: Yes. I don't see any reason not to.
Okay.
MS. McCAWLEY: That's all I had, your Honor. Thank
you. And thank you for your patience, everyone, today.
THE COURT: Have we completed the briefing and
everything everybody wants to submit
on the black book issue?
MS. McCAWLEY: Well, yes, your Honor. So now, as of
last night, it was fully briefed. So there are three briefs on
it, essentially. We had a motion in limine to allow it in,
they had a motion in limine to exclude it,
and it came up
previously -- I forget, we argued it a couple weeks ago in the
context of another motion -- oh, I'm sorry, because, your
Honor, you requested that with respect to Diane Flores. So we
didn't reargue it today, it is fully briefed for you.
THE COURT: Okay. In other words, I've got everything
on that.
MS. McCAWLEY: You do, your Honor, yes.
THE COURT: Okay. Anything else?
MS. McCAWLEY: Not that I'm aware of.
MR. PAGLIUCA: I think we're concluded today, your
Honor. Thank you.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.
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regime had opted to fight, insisting that all its members were united:
“We will sit here. We call it a fight until the end.” He also issued a
transparent threat: “They should know when we suffer, we will not
suffer alone.”
Some have suggested that the two messages reveal a split in the
Syrian regime. That’s not convincing. The messages were not that
different, and to put Shaaban on the same level as Makhlouf is
absurd. Shaaban is viewed as a spokesman for the president, but she
plays no central role in the Assad-Makhlouf constellation. She
doubtless needed a green light to go ahead with the interview, one
that required some measure of approval by Makhlouf and Assad’s
younger brother Maher, both of whom have taken an eradication
approach to the protests. Makhlouf, in turn, needed no authorization
whatsoever.
What Shaaban said was likely intended to be interpreted in the United
States as a marginally soft statement by Bashar Assad. In contrast,
Makhlouf offered the harsher alternative if the president’s approach
was rejected by the international community. It was a classic good
cop, bad cop routine, and those familiar with Syrian manners will be
little surprised by the ploy. That’s why it seems far-fetched to assume
that we are witnessing a fundamental rift in Syria’s ruling family.
The reason for this is that there is no serious alternative to what the
Assads and the Makhloufs are doing today. They can either stand
together behind repression, or fall apart. That’s hardly to justify the
regime’s butchery of hundreds of unarmed civilians. Rather, it’s to
affirm that the Syrian leadership is incapable of undertaking anything
different. There simply is no reform option, and there never was.
Genuine reform means dislodging the bricks holding up Assad-
Makhlouf authority. Bashar Assad’s open-ended presidency, the
crony capitalism practiced by his cousin and other members of
Syria’s elite, the abuse practiced by the all-powerful security services,
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Philanthropy — Full text articles
Philanthropy: the givers club
Cordelia Jenkins — Livemint and the Wall Street Journal
On Friday, around 60 prospective philanthropists attended the “First Givers Club” summit in Delhi run by the online
philanthropic donation forum Givelndia. While the club has existed in Mumbai since 2010, said Dnaval Udani, Givelndia’s
CEO, this was their first foray into the capital city. Mint was the media partner of the event.
“With this club, we wanted to create a platform for like-minded individuals to build a community of donors who share
knowledge and vision; it will also help to facilitate giving effectively,” Udani told his audience. “Our aim is to help you get
more exposure and awareness of the different aspects of philanthropy; over the last three years this club has helped
channel more than Rs.18 crore to the lives of more than 10,000 underprivileged in India.”
Rakesh Bharti Mittal, vice-chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises, along with speakers Anu Aga of Thermax
and Amit Chandra of Bain Capital gave their perspectives on how and where to give effectively and on the future of Indian
philanthropy. Edited excerpts:
Rakesh Mittal set up the Satya Bharti school programmes in 2006. The aim was to set up 500 primary and 50 secondary
schools of its own with a corpus of Rs.200 crore. After that, state governments began reaching out and Bharti began
adopting government schools, creating a public-private partnership in delivering quality education to rural children.
“Given the new companies Bill, which has been passed by Parliament, | assume within the next two three months the rules
will be finalized; there is going to be a mad rush for seeking funding. Already, | get a letter every other day for supporting a
cause...If | see corporates have been very powerful instruments and drivers of philanthropy, this comes from the wider
wealth creation and management role which they do in their businesses. Today they are looking at doing more beyond
business, not because the government is forcing them, but because we cannot have islands of wealth. You cannot take this
country forward if we are just worried about what | have and what | need for me and my family, and the ecosystem and the
society around is crumbling. This country will not move forward.”
“If | go back a few centuries giving had been a very rich tradition; it used to be that 10% of your income would be kept aside
for a cause. During those times more money went into either building temples or temples of learning, which are the schools
and colleges. Pre-1990, Indian corporates were not giving that much, including the individuals, and there was a reason
because we did not have sustainable wealth creation opportunities, either for ourselves, our families, or our large
stakeholders as we were running the companies.
“This all changed in the post-1991 year of liberalization. In the last two decades, more and more, new age economies moved
this country to prosperous economic growth and suddenly you saw people wanting to give back to society because now you
have a model which was creating sustainable wealth for yourself.”
“There are individuals who may give money and their time, but there are also entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs who
produce products which are low in cost but make a huge impact for the people who use it. This is the brief India is looking at
in the landscape today and this will be a stepping stone for the future.”
“Giving at Bharti has always been part of our DNA, it was always our endeavour to make a difference. At the beginning, in
the mid-70s, we were more interested in creating businesses which could impact society at large. If | look at telecom, retail,
agri and food processing we wanted to make a difference and not a buck. In 2000 we set up Bharti Foundation with the sole
objective of supporting the youth of India and enabling the underprivileged to come and compete with anyone.
“We started writing cheques and one day | felt that was not the purpose, the fact is there are 320 million children in the age of
6-16, we talk of demographic dividend—absolutely yes, if we nurture this potential, but if we don’t do justice to these children
there is a disaster which is waiting to happen.
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From: Larry Visoski
Sent: 2/5/2017 12:32:54 AM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
CC: Darren Indyke
Subject: Re: new schedule
Importance: High
Monday 4pm confirmed
Pres Trump departs Monday at 11 am,. TFR in place until 11:30am Monday, which requires 24 hour notice for
Departure screening if departing during TFR hours.,
TFR (Temporally Flight Restriction),
Our departure time of 4:30 PM will not be impacted since TFR expires 11:30am Monday,.
FYI,
Friday, Josh left voicemail indicating chevron should present purchase agreement by midday Monday. for your
review.,
Thx
Larry
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 4, 2017, at 2:58 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
monday 4 pm to lsj, thurs morning pre clear to palm beach. sunday 12 new york. tues paris to 21 new
york. 24 santa fe. -march 1
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From: kathy Ruemm|<r
Sent: 8/27/2015 2:25:04 PM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Subject: Re:
Importance: — High
Great.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 27, 2015, at 6:00 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
ok , anytime you like, you can drive right to me and i will feed you.::)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Kathy Ruemmler EE Wrote:
Will leave @ 9, so will be in ny @ 1 pm.
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 26, 2015, at 10:21 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
what time , I will come up
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Kathy konmtes — { wrote:
Going up to NY Friday morning. Think Iam going to drive. I will then stop to pee and get gas at a rest stop
on the New Jersey turnpike, will observe all of the people there who are at least 100 pounds overweight, will
have a mild panic attack as a result of the observation, and will then decide that I am not eating another bite of
food for the rest of my life out of fear that I will end up like one of these people.
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 26, 2015, at 10:09 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
ill give you details when 1 see you, when are you in ny?
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Kathy Ruemmler | ote:
Trump is living proof of the adage that it is better to be lucky than smart.
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OGIS sends “bouquets” of thanks to people inside and outside of Government.
(NARA Identifier 6728212)
We thank John Albanes, who was a student at the American University
Washington College of Law, who spent a semester volunteering his time at
OGIS.
Finally, we would like to thank the legions of FOIA professionals at
agencies who work with us on a daily basis and the hundreds of FOIA
requesters who seek our assistance.
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5 Things To Know About Should The NFL Offer The Origins Of Popular
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FOR CONGRESS
UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS
FIRST TERM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2015-2016
Named to the Committees on Agriculture and Oversight and
Government Reform
Named as the Freshman representative on the Democratic Lead-
ership Steering and Policy Committee
Named by Southern Region as Regional Whip for Democrats
Named to Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Future Forum Group. Made up
of a select group of 10 Members of Democratic Conference to
engage millennials in political process
Selected to President Obama’s White House Renewable
Energy roundtable group
Led the Virgin Islands’ delegation to the First Caribbean Energy
Security Summit in DC
Successful Legislative Activity
Successfully removed the Virgin Islands and small territories from
PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight Management
Economic Security Act), which threatened VI municipal credit and
borrowing ability along with self-governance
Secured VA decision to expand Choice Program eligibility for
Virgin Islands resident veterans
Original Co-Sponsor of legislation to expand the VA choice pro-
gram eligibility (H.R.572)
Secured House passage of the Virgin Islands of the United States
Centennial Commission Act (H.R.2615)
Successfully worked to repeal the DC Budget proposal listing
USVI and other Caribbean islands as tax havens which would
have negatively affected our ability to secure banking and Trea-
sury support
Led the defeat of an amendment to the transportation
authorization bill (Territorial Highway Program: H.R.2353) that
would have reduced federal dollars for the Virgin Islands
Defeated attempt by American Samoa and Northern Mariana
to reallocate percentage of funding going to the USVI for other
small territories
Secured Commitment from Army Corp of Engineers for
increased personnel and resources for Virgin Islands backlog
of permits
One of a small group of Members of Congress to be involved in
the planning of the unprecedented “sit-in” of House Democrats for
action to address American gun violence
Secured Agriculture drought relief assistance for farmers and
livestock owners and commitment to keep data on territories for
future assistance and to designate St. Croix a primary disaster
area due to severe drought
Honored by global food and poverty groups for being a leading
voice on issues affecting food and nutrition security
www.PlaskettforCongress.com
Major Sponsored Legislation
Virgin Islands Visa Waiver Act of 2015 (H.R. 2116) — Gives
expedited visa process for members of the Caribbean Community
(CARICOM) to enter the USVI for sports, entertainment, medical,
and recreational purposes.
Hire-A-Hero Act of 2015 (H.R.2457) — Gives tax credits to small
businesses that hire someone in the Reserves or National Guard.
United States Virgin Islands College Access Act of 2015 (H.R.
4191) — Allows student who are residents of the VI to receive
in-state tuition when applying to participating state universities.
Lobbied Obama Administration to include UVI as a community
college for the President's proposal to make 2 years free at com-
munity colleges.
Territorial Economic Growth and Recovery Act of 2016
(H.R.5163) — Introduced to amend the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 to provide for economic recovery in the Virgin Islands and
Guam, and for other purposes.
Territorial Tax Equity and Economic Growth Act (H.R.5038) —
Introduced to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to
provide for economic recovery in the territories.
Co-Sponsored legislation to extend SSI benefits to the U.S. Virgin
Islands (H.R.582)
Visited Dominica immediately after Hurricane Erika and hosted
Dominican Ambassador in Congress. Introduced H.Res.453 with
numerous co-sponsors for additional Dominican assistance
Field Activities
Sponsored workshops on STT and STX for small businesses on
federal contracting
Partnered with USDA for workshops (STX and STT) on
technical support for Farmers
Had several town halls on St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John.
Commitment to visit ALL schools in the Virgin Islands, and
currently have visited over 15 schools. Will continue to meet with
heads of school, teachers AND students.
Organized and hosted first ever official roundtable discussion
between VI Delegate to Congress and Virgin Islands
Legislature
Organized annual “V! Advocacy Day” in Congress, focused on
elevating VI issues via local business owners and advocates
Held meetings with various Regional Directors of agencies to
discuss issues/concerns affecting the VI including:
HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Agency)
Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Postal Service
USPS letter carriers
HUD (Housing and Urban Development)
VA Regional Hospital in Puerto Rico
You
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reasoning without having to hire a programmer for each problem. Wiener recognized the
role of feedback in machine learning, but he missed the key role of representation. It’s
not possible to store all possible images in a self-driving car, or all possible sounds in a
conversational computer; they have to be able to generalize from experience. The “deep”
part of deep learning refers not to the (hoped-for) depth of insight but to the depth of the
mathematical network layers used to make predictions. It turned out that a linear increase
in network complexity led to an exponential increase in the expressive power of the
network.
If you lose your keys in a room, you can search for them. If you’re not sure
which room they’re in, you have to search all the rooms in a building. If you’re not sure
which building they’re in, you have to search all the rooms in all the buildings in a city.
If you’re not sure which city they’re in, you have to search all the rooms in all the
buildings in all the cities. In AI, finding the keys corresponds to things like a car safely
following the road, or a computer correctly interpreting a spoken command, and the
rooms and buildings and cities correspond to all of the options that have to be considered.
This is called the curse of dimensionality.
The solution to the curse of dimensionality came in using information about the
problem to constrain the search. The search algorithms themselves are not new. But
when applied to a deep-learning network, they adaptively build up representations of
where to search. The price of this is that it’s no longer possible to exactly solve for the
best answer to a problem, but typically all that’s needed is an answer that’s good enough.
Taken together, it shouldn’t be surprising that these scaling laws have allowed
machines to become effectively as capable as the corresponding stages of biological
complexity. Neural networks started out with a goal of modeling how the brain works.
That goal was abandoned as they evolved into mathematical abstractions unrelated to
how neurons actually function. But now there’s a kind of convergence that can be
thought of as forward- rather than reverse-engineering biology, as the results of deep
learning echo brain layers and regions.
One of the most difficult research projects P ve managed paired what we’d now
call data scientists with AI pioneers. It was a miserable experience in moving goalposts.
As the former progressed in solving long-standing problems posed by the latter, this was
deemed to not count because it wasn’t accompanied by corresponding leaps in
understanding the solutions. What’s the value of a chess-playing computer if you can’t
explain how it plays chess?
The answer of course is that it can play chess. There is interesting emerging
research that is applying AI to AI—that is, training networks to explain how they operate.
But both brains and computer chips are hard to understand by watching their inner
workings; they’re easily interpreted only by observing their external interfaces. We come
to trust (or not) brains and computer chips alike based on experience that tests them
rather than on explanations for how they work.
Many branches of engineering are making a transition from what’s called
imperative to declarative or generative design. This means that instead of explicitly
designing a system with tools like CAD files, circuit schematics, and computer code, you
describe what you want the system to do and then an automated search is done for
designs that satisfy your goals and restrictions. This approach becomes necessary as
design complexity exceeds what can be understood by a human designer. While that
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The Trump administration’s friendly and intensive contacts with the Orban government represent a radical
departure: It watches idly as Orban dismantles his nation’s democratic institutions. For instance, the pro-
government weekly Figyelo recently issued an enemies list of about 200 prominent opposition individuals. Most
were local civil society advocates, but the list also included U.S. citizens, many of them scholars of economics,
Judaism and nationalism at the Soros-funded Central European University (such as Leon Botstein and Allen
Feldman). The government has erected contrived legal barriers in an effort to close the institution, a graduate
school devoted to liberal values and based in Budapest. Meanwhile, Hungary harassed the U.S.-based Open Society
Foundations until they decided to move their operations from Budapest to Berlin. Two Hungarian newspapers,
Magyar Nemzet and Budapest Beacon , shut down this spring as advertisers vanished because of their opposition
to the Hungarian government, leaving only one print opposition daily.
The State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Budapest have remained almost entirely silent about all of this.
The compliant new U.S. approach was initially discussed at a Dec. 18, 2017, meeting of the National Security
Council’s policy coordinating committee led by Fiona Hill, the council’s senior director for European and Russian
affairs, and Assistant Secretary Mitchell, according to two sources familiar with the proceedings. They concluded
that previous efforts under the Bush administration, and especially the Obama administration, had not paid off, so
it was time to try something else.
Accordingly, the first high-level meeting between the two sides took place at the White House on May 15, when John
Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser, received Jeno Megyesy, Orban’s chief adviser on the United States.
(Megyesy was also the official point of contact for then-Trump aide Carter Page’s meetings in Budapest during the
campaign.) This coming week, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo; although Szijjarto has visited Washington an eye-popping seven times in the past 18 months, this will be
the first such high-level bilateral meeting since 2012. The only step left would be for Trump to receive Orban — the
first European head of government to endorse Trump over Hillary Clinton and congratulate him on his victory — at
the White House.
What, if anything, is the United States getting from Hungary for this appeasement? The $12 billion Russian-financed
and secretly signed Russian Paks II nuclear plant in southern Hungary is one reflection of Orban’s Russian
orientation. (Orban previously welcomed energy investments from the now-failed Russian South Stream pipeline.)
Hungary spends only 1 percent of its gross domestic product on defense, among the lowest levels for NATO
members, despite Trump’s insistence that nations step up their payments. (Budapest said last year that it would
increase spending, but it has said this many times before.)
Many intelligent Hungarians — watching the complicity, or at least inaction, of the U.S. government — do not
understand what is happening, they tell us. They know that Trump wants to be different from Barack Obama,
including in his approach to Hungary. But they search in vain for logic in Trump’s posture. For those who still believe
in the merits of a Western-style democracy there, which is a large majority in Budapest and a large minority in the
countryside, the policy of appeasement signifies abandonment. They would like Washington to keep hope alive.
People who suffer from, or are ashamed by, the government’s anti-Semitic discourse and attacks on liberal norms
long for a different America.
And there may be one. David Cornstein, the new U.S. ambassador to Hungary, who will arrive in Budapest in a few
weeks, might make a difference. In his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in early May, he
spoke eloquently about promoting American values. He promised to fight against anti-Semitism, not just in Hungary
but elsewhere in Europe, too. His nice, old-fashioned remarks were even cleared by the State Department and the
U.S. Embassy in Budapest. He received strong expressions of support from Republican and Democratic senators,
including Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), who is something of an expert on Hungarian politics. There is still hope,
then, that decent, humane values will be heard by Hungarians who, in search of answers, continue to look to the
United States.
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stringent conditions—which Mr. Weinstein could only have learned from FAUSA
Sloman, AUSA Villafana or United States Attorney Acosta himself.
46. AUSA Weinstein then asked why Mr. Epstein should ... be treated differently than
anyone else. Mr. Thomas apparently stated that he understood that there was evidence
that the women had lied about their ages. AUSA Weinstein replied that this was not a
defense and that Mr. Thomas should not believe “the spin” of Mr. Epstein’s “high-priced
attorneys.” Indeed, Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Thomas that the USAO was very concerned
about a Palm Beach editorial that questioned whether Mr. Epstein would receive a rich
man’s justice. AUSA Weinstein then stated that, in fact, Mr. Epstein “doesn’t have a
defense.”
47. Mr. Epstein’s attorneys learned of the call and complained to the USAO. Counsel for
Mr. Epstein then had an in-person meeting with FAUSA Sloman and United States
Attorney Acosta describing these leaks to the New York Times. During Mr. Thomas’ next
call to the USAO, made two weeks later, AUSA Weinstein “admonished” him (in the
words of Mr. Thomas) for disclosing the contents of their prior conversation to the
defense, and strongly “reminded” Mr. Thomas that AUSA Weinstein’s prior comments
about Mr. Epstein had only been “hypothetical” in nature. That claim is sheer nonsense:
AUSA Weinstein had disclosed specific details of Mr. Epstein’s case, including plea
terms proposed by the defense, as revealed based on Mr. Thomas’s own
contemporaneous hand-written notes.
48. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Sloman wrote to the defense that Mr. Thomas was given, pursuant
to his request, non-case specific information concerning specific federal statutes.” See
Tab 37, February 27, 2008 Email from J. Sloman. Again, that claim was utterly false;
Mr. Thomas’s contemporaneous hand-written notes, reviewed by Jay Lefkowitz, confirm
that the USAO had violated settled Department policy and ethical rules by providing
case-specific information about the Department’s legal theories and plea negotiations.
Conclusion
We bring these difficult and delicate matters of misconduct to your attention not to
require any disciplinary action or review by the Office of Professional Responsibility. Although
we have been told that some of this misconduct has been self-reported (only after we raised these
complaints in writing), we feel confident that not all the facts were adequately presented. Rather,
we believe that they are highly relevant to your decision whether to authorize a federal
prosecution in this case. This pattern of overzealous prosecutorial activity strongly suggests
improper motives in targeting Jeffrey Epstein, not because of his actions (which are more
appropriately the subject of state prosecution), but, rather, because of who he is and who he
knows. We also bring this pervasive pattern of misconduct to your attention because we believe
it taints any ongoing federal prosecution. The misconduct pervades the evidence in this case.
The offers of financial inducement to witnesses, improperly encouraged by the government,
make their potential testimony suspect. The reliance on tainted evidence gathered by the state
will require a careful sorting out of poisonous fruits.
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The Brain 101
Pit Viper
fluorescent substance which converts ultraviolet light down into the
visible spectrum. Photoactive dyes have recently become controversial
as suggestions have been made that they are unsafe and irritate the skin.
Going to discos might not be quite as fun in the future!
Thermal Imaging
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4.2.12
WC: 191694
The State...may not proceed by racial classification to force strict population
equivalencies for every group in every occupation, overriding individual preferences. The
Equal Protection Clause commands the elimination of racial barriers, not their creation in
order to satisfy our theory as to how society ought to be organized. The purpose of the
University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers
for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good
lawyers for Americans...
Justice Douglas’ dissenting views quickly became the standard approach of old fashioned liberals
committed to Martin Luther King’s dream of a color blind America where every student was
judged “not by the color of their skin” but rather by their individual achievements in light of the
barriers they have had to overcome.
I became an active advocate for an aggressive affirmative action program at Harvard based on
non-racial criteria. I participated in numerous campus and faculty meeting debates, and believed
that I was on the side of the angels, favoring a system that would produce real diversity without
violating the racial equality mandate of the constitution. And I had Justice Douglas on my side!
But not every liberal accepted Justice Douglas’ race-neutral approach. Many Black leaders saw
the issue not as one of individual rights, but rather as one of group aspirations. Blacks had a
collective right, under thus view, to “reasonable representation” in the student bodies of
universities and other institutions, both public and private. Some went so far as to argue for
“proportional representation.” This raised the spectre of “quotas,” which might limit the number
of those accepted or hired to their proportion of the population.
The fear of quotas or proportional representation increased as schools throughout the country
adopted affirmative action programs with many different elements. Some contained “targets” for
the number of admitted Blacks. Other had “floors.” Non black students who were denied
admissions to schools with such programs began to file lawsuits.
As these cases made their ways through the courts, a conflict arose between some leaders of the
African American and Jewish communities. Most African American leaders were deeply
committed to race-specific affirmative action programs that gave advantages to all Black
applicants, regardless of their individual backgrounds. Most colleges preferred this group
approach as well, since I was simpler and they preferred to admit wealthy, well educated, and
privileged Black candidates over poorer, less well educated and more “difficult” inner-city Blacks.
Derek Bok, first the Dean of Harvard Law School and then the president of Harvard University,
candidly acknowledged that it was far easier to integrate African American graduates of Groten,
Fieldston, and St. Paul’s into Harvard than it would be to integrate inner city public school
graduates. (GET BOK QUOTE)
Many Jewish leaders were worried that the hard-earned access of Jews to elite schools would be
endangered by what they regarded as “racial quotas”. They recalled, with bitterness, the “quotas”
that had limited Jewish applicants to single digit “Jewish places” in college and university
admissions. There is, of course, a difference between “floor quotas” and “ceiling quotas”. Blacks
were seeking a floor on the number of affirmative action admittees: no less than 10 or 15 percent.
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Software 259
Let us start by substituting the notes of the musical scale for the
letters of the alphabet to create a piece of ‘music. Since it is a direct
analogue of the word problem, we have created a non-computable piece
of music. It is definitely non-computable, but is it music? If it just looked
like a random jumble of notes it would be unconvincing, but luckily there
are many forms of music that look exactly like a word substitution puzzle.
Bach's Art of Fugue, the canons of Tudor composers such as William Byrd
and Thomas Tallis, and the works of Grieg all use sequences of chords
that move from one to the next using substitution rules. If you were to
listen to the steps in our word substitution music, they would definitely
sound musical. I think they should pass the main artistic criticism — that
they should not sound formulaic.
But is any actual human composition non-computable?
Unfortunately, we cannot prove whether a particular piece of Bach, Tallis
or Grieg is non-computable because we don't know the specific rules
used to compose it. All we know are the general musical principles of
harmony and counterpoint that applied at the time. We don’t have these
composers personal rule sets because they were held in their brain and
they are, of course, long since dead. It is statistically likely that most pieces
are non-computable because there are an uncountably infinite number
of them, whereas computable pieces are merely countably infinite. But
that’s just probability; it is no proof.
I puzzled for some time whether there is a way to prove it but had to
conclude it is impossible. However, and this is how creativity works, once
I had given up on the problem, my brain continued to work on it. I was
not conscious of this, I was only aware that failing to solve the problem
annoyed me. I then had a Eureka moment. Although I couldn't prove
a piece of music was non-computational, I could make one! - a piece
that could not have been created
using computation alone. This
requires me to inoculate your
brain.
Take either Andrew
Wiles proof of Fermat's Last
Theorem or Alan Turing’s proof
of the Halting Problem; both
proofs are non-computable.
Each document is made up of
symbols, the Roman alphabet
and some special Greek symbols
such as a, B, ¢, and so on. Let us Creative Inoculation
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» U.S. Department of State Country Profiles
(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
=» World Travel Watch (www.worldtravelwatch.com)
Larry Habegger and James O’Reilly’s weekly online report of global events and odd happenings relevant
to travel safety, sorted by topic and geographic region. Concise and a must-see prior to finalizing plans.
» U.S. Department of State Worldwide Travel Warnings (http://travel.state.gov)
Mini-Retirement Planning and Preparation— Fundamentals
= Round-the- World FAQ (includes travel insurance) ( www.perpetualtravel.com/rtw_)
This FAQ is a lifesaver. Originally written by Marc Brosius, it has been added to by newsgroup
participants for years and now covers nuts and bolts from financial planning to return culture shock and
all in between. How long can you afford to be away? Do you need travel insurance? Leave of absence or
resignation? This is an around-the-world almanac.
= Removing Clutter: 1-800-GOT-JUNK ( www.1800gotjunk.com_), Freecycle ( www.freecycle.org
), and Craigslist ( www.craigslist.org )
I used Craigslist’s “Free” category to get rid of four years of accumulated possessions in less than three
hours on a Saturday evening. There were some for-sale items that I also cleared out at 30-40% of
original retail. I then hauled off the last remaining items using the tiberfast 1-800-GOT-JUNK paid
service. Freecycle is comparable to Craigslist for giving away, and getting, things for free when you’re
short on time. Get unattached and you'll make it a habit. I purge every 6—9 months, often including
donations to Goodwill (www.goodwill.org), which can do pickups for free with advanced notice.
» One-Bag: The Art and Science of Packing Light ( www.onebag.com )
One of PC magazine’s “Top 100 [Can’t Live Without] Sites.” Pack light and experience lightness of
being.
» U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov/travel)
Recommended vaccinations and health planning for every nation in the world. Certain countries require
proof of inoculations to pass through customs. Get the shots well ahead of time, as some take weeks to
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"ve described in our
description of what that is, but yes, as w
pleadings.
THE COURT: And whether or not the plaintiff was
subject to sexual abuse as a minor is not part of it. I mean,
yes, of course, whatever she was when whatever, but that issue
we don't have to deal with.
MS. McCAWLEY: I'm sorry, your Honor. I think I lost
you, there. I apologize.
So the allegations in the complaint are that when our
client came forward and said she was abused by the defendant
and Epstein, the defendant came out and said she was lying
about that abuse, and some of that abuse did occur when she was
a minor.
THE COURT: Yes. Well, okay. But there are other
things that she sets forth in the Churcher articles, in the
motion to intervene, there are a whole series of other things
that are -- I mean, there are things that have been said, and
my reading of the defendant's statement is, I read it to say
all those things are false. But those are not at issue, as far
as you're concerned.
MS. McCAWLEY: Yes, your Honor. In fact, the omnibus
motion we filed today -- and I think, if I'm following you
correctly, this may help we were trying to streamline the
case because there's other individuals, obviously, that my
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Indeed, Wiener gave scientific teeth to the idea that in the workings of history,
politics, and society, ideas matter. Beliefs, ideologies, norms, laws, and customs, by
regulating the behavior of the humans who share them, can shape a society and power the
course of historical events as surely as the phenomena of physics affect the structure and
evolution of the solar system. To say that ideas—and not just weather, resources,
geography, or weaponry—can shape history is not woolly mysticism. It is a statement of
the causal powers of information instantiated in human brains and exchanged in networks
of communication and feedback. Deterministic theories of history, whether they identify
the causal engine as technological, climatological, or geographic, are belied by the causal
power of ideas. The effects of these ideas can include unpredictable lurches and
oscillations that arise from positive feedback or from miscalibrated negative feedback.
An analysis of society in terms of its propagation of ideas also gave Wiener a
guideline for social criticism. A healthy society—one that gives its members the means
to pursue life in defiance of entropy—allows information sensed and contributed by its
members to feed back and affect how the society is governed. A dysfunctional society
invokes dogma and authority to impose control from the top down. Wiener thus
described himself as “a participant in a liberal outlook,” and devoted most of the moral
and rhetorical energy in the book (both the 1950 and 1954 editions) to denouncing
communism, fascism, McCarthyism, militarism, and authoritarian religion (particularly
Catholicism and Islam) and to warning that political and scientific institutions were
becoming too hierarchical and insular.
Wiener’s book is also, here and there, an early exemplar of an increasingly
popular genre, tech prophecy. Prophecy not in the sense of mere prognostications but in
the Old Testament sense of dark warnings of catastrophic payback for the decadence of
one’s contemporaries. Wiener warned against the accelerating nuclear arms race, against
technological change that was imposed without regard to human welfare (“[W]e must
know as scientists what man’s nature is and what his built-in purposes are”), and against
what today is called the value-alignment problem: that “the machine like the djinnee,
which can learn and can make decisions on the basis of its learning, will in no way be
obliged to make such decisions as we should have made, or will be acceptable to us.” In
the darker, 1950 edition, he warned of a “threatening new Fascism dependent on the
machine a gouverner.”
Wiener’s tech prophecy harks back to the Romantic movement’s rebellion against
the “dark Satanic mills” of the Industrial Revolution, and perhaps even earlier, to the
archetypes of Prometheus, Pandora, and Faust. And today it has gone into high gear.
Jeremiahs, many of them (like Wiener) from the worlds of science and technology, have
sounded alarms about nanotechnology, genetic engineering, Big Data, and particularly
artificial intelligence. Several contributors to this volume characterize Wiener’s book as
a prescient example of tech prophecy and amplify his dire worries.
Yet the two moral themes of The Human Use of Human Beings—the liberal
defense of an open society and the dystopian dread of runaway technology—are in
tension. A society with channels of feedback that maximize human flourishing will have
mechanisms in place, and can adapt them to changing circumstances, in a way that can
domesticate technology to human purposes. There’s nothing idealistic or mystical about
this; as Wiener emphasized, ideas, norms, and institutions are themselves a form of
technology, consisting of patterns of information distributed across brains. The
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Nor did Snowden’s breach begin with him handing over classified documents to the Guardian
reporters in Hong Kong in June 2013 or, for that matter, in the eleven days prior to his meeting
with journalists in 2013. He had, as the NSA quickly determined begun illicitly copying
documents in the late summer of 2012. Such an enterprise does not emerge from thin air. Even if
he had managed to elude American intelligence from late May to early June 2013, he could not
hide all the history that led to his decision to come to Hong Kong. There had to be an envelope
of reality surrounding it, including Snowden’s motivation, associates, movements, finances, and
his activities prior to his fleeing to Hong Kong. What was missing was not just Snowden’s first
11 days in Hong Kong but the entire context of the alleged crime. I now needed to fill in that
envelope of reality in America. I left Hong Kong for New York on June 2, 2014 two days after
my meeting with the former official of the consulate.
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US Election Report
From 1st of Nov till now, we have captured around 3 million tweets.
Here is the performance of candidates:
1. Donald Trump Positive – 19.29% Neutral – 35.03% Negative – 45.68%
2. Hillary Clinton Positive – 20.44% Neutral – 20.79% Negative – 58.77%
Winning chances
Clinton: 45% – Trump: 55%
Winning chances in US States
New York Trump 39% - Clinton 61%
California Trump 37% - Clinton 63%
Texas Trump 80% - Clinton 20%
North Carolina Trump 54% - Clinton 46%
Florida Trump 52% - Clinton 48%
Washington Trump 31% - Clinton 69%
Ohio Trump 62% - Clinton 38%
New Jersey Trump 19% - Clinton 81%
Michigan Trump 37% - Clinton 63%
Pennsylvania Trump 51% - Clinton 49%
Iowa Trump 67% - Clinton 33%
Wisconsin Trump 18% - Clinton 82%
Nevada Trump 39% - Clinton 61%
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That’s it To laptop or not to laptop? Unless you are a writer, I vote no. It’s far too cumbersome and
distracting. Using GoToMyPC to access your home computer from Internet cafés encourages the habit
we want to develop: making the best use of time instead of killing it.
The Bora-Bora Dealmaker
BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT
J osh Steinitz44 stood at the edge of the world and stared in amazement. He dug his boots into the six
feet of sea ice and the unicorns danced.
Ten narwhals—rare cousins of the beluga—came to the surface and pointed their six-foot-plus spiral
tusks toward the heavens. The pod of 3,000-pound whales then fell into the depths once again. The
narwhals are deep divers—more than 3,000 feet in some cases—so Josh had at least 20 minutes until
their reappearance.
It seemed appropriate that he was with the narwhals. Their name came from Old Norse and referred to
their mottled white and blue skin.
Ndhvalr —corpse man.
He smiled as he had done often in the last few years. Josh himself was a dead man walking.
One year after graduating from college, Josh found out that he had oral squamous carcinoma—cancer.
He had plans to be a management consultant. He had plans to be lots of things. Suddenly none of it
mattered. Less than half of those who suffered from this particular type of cancer survived. The reaper
didn’t discriminate and came without warning.
It became clear that the biggest risk in life wasn’t making mistakes but regret: missing out on things.
He could never go back and recapture years spent doing something he disliked.
Two years later and cancer-free, Josh set off on an indefinite global walkabout, covering expenses as a
freelance writer. He later became the cofounder of a website that provides customized itineraries to
would-be vagabonds. His executive status didn’t lessen his mobile addiction. He was as comfortable
cutting deals from the over-water bungalows of Bora-Bora as he was in the log cabins of the Swiss Alps.
He once took a call from a client while at Camp Muir on Mt. Rainier. The client needed to confirm
some sales numbers and asked Josh about all the wind in the background. Josh’s answer: “I’m standing
at 10,000 feet on a glacier and this afternoon the wind is whipping us down the mountain.” The client
said he’d let Josh get back to what he was doing.
Another client called Josh while he was leaving a Balinese temple and heard the gongs in the
background. The client asked Josh if he was in church. Josh wasn’t quite sure what to say. All that came
out was, “Yes?”
Back among the narwhals, Josh had a few minutes before heading to base camp to avoid polar bears.
Twenty-four-hour daylight meant that he had much to share with his friends back in the land of cubicles.
He sat down on the ice and produced his satellite phone and laptop from a waterproof bag. He began his
e-mail in the usual way:
“I know youre all sick of seeing me have so much fun, but guess where I am?”
=» Q&A: QUESTIONS AND ACTIONS
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small-government, home-schooling, antiliberal, gold-standard, pro-death-penalty, anti-
Muslim, pro-Christian, monetarist, anti-civil-rights political movement in the United
States.
Bob Mercer is an ultimate quant, an engineer who designs investment algorithms and
became a co-CEO of one of the most successful hedge funds, Renaissance Technologies.
With his daughter, Rebekah, Mercer set up what is in effect a private Tea Party movement,
self-funding whatever Tea Party or alt-right project took their fancy. Bob Mercer is almost
nonverbal, looking at you with a dead stare and either not talking or offering only minimal
response. He had a Steinway baby grand on his yacht; after inviting friends and colleagues
on the boat, he would spend the time playing the piano, wholly disengaged from his
guests. And yet his political beliefs, to the extent they could be discerned, were generally
Bush-like, and his political discussions, to the extent that you could get him to be
responsive, were about issues involving ground game and data gathering. It was Rebekah
Mercer—who had bonded with Bannon, and whose politics were grim, unyielding, and
doctrinaire—who defined the family. “She’s ... like whoa, ideologically there is no
conversation with her,” said one senior Trump White House staffer.
With the death of Andrew Breitbart in 2012, Bannon, in essence holding the proxy of
the Mercers’ investment in the site, took over the Breitbart business. He leveraged his
gaming experience into using Gamergate—a precursor alt-right movement that coalesced
around an antipathy toward, and harassment of, women working in the online gaming
industry—to build vast amounts of traffic through the virality of political memes. (After
hours one night in the White House, Bannon would argue that he knew exactly how to
build a Breitbart for the left. And he would have the key advantage because “people on the
left want to win Pulitzers, whereas I want to be Pulitzer!”)
Working out of—and living in—the town house Breitbart rented on Capitol Hill,
Bannon became one of the growing number of notable Tea Party figures in Washington,
the Mercers’ consigliere. But a seeming measure of his marginality was that his big project
was the career of Jeff Sessions—“Beauregard,” Sessions’s middle name, in Bannon’s
affectionate moniker and evocation of the Confederate general—among the least
mainstream and most peculiar people in the Senate, whom Bannon tried to promote to run
for president in 2012.
Donald Trump was a step up—and early in the 2016 race, Trump became the Breitbart
totem. (Many of Trump’s positions in the campaign were taken from the Breitbart articles
he had printed out for him.) Indeed, Bannon began to suggest to people that he, like Ailes
had been at Fox, was the true force behind his chosen candidate.
Bannon didn’t much question Donald Trump’s bona fides, or behavior, or electability,
because, in part, Trump was just his latest rich man. The rich man is a fixed fact, which
you have to accept and deal with in an entrepreneurial world—at least a lower-level
entrepreneurial world. And, of course, if Trump had had firmer bona fides, better behavior,
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COURT: It has to do with credibility.
MS. McCAWLEY: Well, your Honor, I would say,
you're inclined to think that that has --
THE look. I don
COURT: Well, I'm no genius.
any -- but you know, that is precisely what the defense
going to say.
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isn't it relevant?
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is about whether or not she was sexually abused and
trafficked --
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room at the Mira hotel from June 3 to June 9", 2013, as the event was actually unfolding.
Snowden, speaking for the camera, describes himself as a civilian contractor for the National
Security Agency. He took full responsibility for the theft of classified documents, saying that he
had acted alone. He said that he had been forced to take these documents to expose a crime that
threatened the freedom of Americans: the US government’s illegal surveillance of US citizens.
He said that he had a duty to bring this secret activity to the attention of the American people.
“Sitting on his unmade bed—white sheets and covers, white headboard, white bathrobe, white
skin—Snowden seems like a figure in some obscure ritual, being readied for sacrifice,” George
Packer wrote about the film in a widely-read article in The New Yorker. He said repeatedly he
was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, by allowing himself to go to prison, so that Americans
could live in freedom. A large part of the public, who viewed this powerful film, including many
of my colleagues in journalism whose writing I greatly respect, came to accept Snowden’s whistle-
blowing narrative.
This powerful narrative, as lucidly articulated by Poitras, Greenwald and other Snowden
supporters, described the NSA activities exposed by Snowden as part of a vast criminal
conspiracy involving, among others, President Obama, James Clapper, the Director of National
Intelligence and both Democrat and Republican members of the Congressional oversight
committees. It further derided claims that there was evidence that Snowden’s theft of NSA
secrets went beyond exposing government misdeeds as part of an orchestrated effort to demonize
Snowden. The purpose of this demonization was to divert away from the government’s crimes.
For example, this narrative asserted as if it was established fact, that US government officials had
deliberately “trapped” Snowden in Russia. According to Snowden, the purpose of this
government ploy was to “demonize” him.
To be sure, it is not unprecedented for the government to release defamatory information
about individuals who have embarrassed US intelligence by defecting. When two NSA analysts,
William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, defected to Russia in the 1960s and accused the NSA of
violating international law after arriving in Moscow, U.S. government officials responded by
putting out the story that they were homosexual lovers, which was both untrue and irrelevant to
the intelligence secrets that they compromised. So it is certainly possible that the government put
out information to intentionally defame Snowden. Secretary of State John Kerry, after all,
characterized him as a coward who should “man up” by returning to the United States.
While one can discount such characterizations against him by government officials as
demonization, as I do, one cannot as easily dismiss the independent evidence that undermines
Snowden assertion that his sole motive was blowing the whistle on illicit surveillance in the
United States. For example, by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with The Brookings
Institution in 2014 did an independent analysis of all the published documents that Snowden
provided to the media. It concluded that, with some notable exceptions, such as the two
documents initially published by the Guardian and Washington Post, the now famous FISA
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THE BRAIN
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Source: The Daily Telegraph {Main}
Edition:
Country: UK
Date: Friday 15, September 2017
Page: 28
Area: 996 sq. cm
Circulation: ABC 477927 Daily
Ad data: page rate £46,000.00, scc rate £214.00
Phone: 020 7931 2000
Keyword: National Theatre (National)
the Oslo negotiations. “Between
our peoples lies a vast ocean?’ says
Ahmed Qurei, the finance minister for
the PLO, in the play, just before the
negotiations start. Twenty-five years
on, that ocean seems as vast as ever.
Oslois at the National Theatre until Sept
23, then transfers to the Harold Pinter
Theatre from Sept 30 to Dec 30.
Tickets for both: nationaltheatre.org.uk
‘Perhaps the
greatest
casualty
Srom that
era has been
the peace
process itself
which
today is
almost
nonexistent’
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“May it [the Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to
some parts sooner, to other later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the
chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind
themselves, and to assume the blessing and security of self-government. That form which
we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbound exercise of reason and freedom
of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of
the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of
mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and
spurred, ready to ride them legitimacy, by the grace of God.
Jefferson, who himself believed in the God of Deism—that is a non-Biblical, not Judeo Christian
diety—saw the Declaration as freeing Americans (and hopefully the rest of the world) from the
stifling influence of the church (“monkish ignorance and superstition”) and encouraging “the free
right to the unbound exercise of reason and freedom of opinion.”
Even earlier, Jefferson, while President, had written to the Danbury Baptist Association,
describing that the “act of the whole American people which declared their legislature should
‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, [as]
thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”
Even earlier, while Adams was president and Jefferson Secretary of State, they jointly signed a
treaty, ratified by the Senate, with the Barbary regime in Tripoli, that stated unequivocally that
“the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
(emphasis added).
It is difficult, therefore, for any reasonable person, especially anyone who gives weight to the
original understanding, to dispute Jefferson’s conclusion that the First Amendment built a wall of
separation between church and state and that our state is not based on the Christian religion.
Despite this wall of separation guaranteed by our Constitution and despite the unambiguous
statement in the early American treaty, approved by two of our most influential founding fathers,
there are those who continue to insist that the United States is a Christian nation, as a matter of
law. I became personally involved in this divisive controversy in 1988, when the Republican Party
of Arizona proposed the enactment of a resolution declaring the United States to be “a Christian
nation...based on the absolutes of the Bible.”
The leader of the group (characterized by the late Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater as a “bunch
of kooks”) wrote to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the United States Supreme Court asking
her to support their efforts.
“Republicans are making some interesting advances in this heavily controlled Democratic
area. Some of us are proposing a resolution which acknowledges that the Supreme Court
ruled in 1892 that this is a Christian nation. It would be beneficial and interesting to have
a letter from you.”
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Message: Alternatively , if you take a trip to pa
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I didn't know bill burke was circumsised.
JEWS only
since leaving the Navy
Though im sure we can organize to
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Though im sure he feels as if he is
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Ayency Promtaw
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Ho, Ho, Ho! Send Me $100 Billion By
Christmas Or I Will Detonate A Dirty
Bomb In 5 Major Cities!
Season’s greetings from your old friend Santa! My, my, it seems the Christmas season
comes a bit earlier each year, doesn’t it? Yes, it certainly does. And with the hours ticking
away until we make the Yuletide gay, jolly old Saint Nick has a very important message for
all his boys and girls.
Read more...
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FittHy RicuH
Hoffenberg began paying twenty-five thousand dollars per
month for Epstein’s expertise as a consultant.
The SEC had already looked into Hoffenberg’s affairs, set-
tling with him out of court in a matter relating to unregistered
securities. But Hoffenberg was dangling a very big prize.
In the 1980s, several major financial players were involved in
7 the greenmailing of publicly traded companies. What green-
CHAPT ER 27 1 mailing means, in practice, is that a brokerage house or group of
P| investors will start buying shares in companies that seem to be
vulnerable to takeover attempts. To ward off the attempts, exec-
utives at those companies will buy the shares back at a premium.
It’s risky, but very often the investors stand to make a handsome
profit.
Yet another thing Hoffenberg wanted was to take over Pan
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American World Airways. The iconic airline had already entered
f, th Steven Hoffenberg its downward trajectory, but it was still a giant.
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But Hoffenberg still spent fifteen j
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g was a Wall Street outsider. AS
For Hoffenberg, the greenmailing profits could have been
huge.
According to Hoffenberg, Epstein handled the attempted take-
over of Pan Am—a deal that went sideways almost immediately.
Steven Hoffenberg still has a lot to say on the subject. But in
4 listening to him, one must bear in mind that in 1995, he pleaded
_ guilty to criminal conspiracy and fraud charges involving a $460
a million swindle, a familiar scheme to anyone who followed the
| Bernie Madoff case.
| Like so many others, Hoffenberg had tried to fly very high
‘Without the necessary updraft. And despite all the hours he
Spent at the office, he’d also developed a taste for the high life. He
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Sadly, Keynes’s predictions did not come true. Although productivity did indeed
increase, the system—possibly inherent in a market economy—did not result in humans
working much shorter hours. Rather, what happened is what the anthropologist and
anarchist David Graeber describes as the growth of “bullshit jobs.”°4 While jobs that
produce essentials like food, shelter, and goods have been largely automated away, we
have seen an enormous expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health
administration (as opposed to actual teaching, research, and the practice of medicine),
“human resources,” and public relations, not to mention new industries like financial
services and telemarketing and ancillary industries in the so-called gig economy which
serve those who are too busy doing all that additional work.
How will societies cope with technology’s increasingly rapid destruction of entire
professions and throwing large numbers of people out of work? Some argue that this
concern is based on a false premise, because new jobs spring up that didn’t exist before,
but as Graeber points out, these new jobs won’t necessarily be rewarding or fulfilling.
During the first industrial revolution, it took almost a century before most people were
better off. That revolution was possible only because the government of the time
ruthlessly favored property rights over labor, and most people (and all women) did not
have the vote. In today’s democratic societies, it is not clear that the population will
tolerate such a dramatic upheaval of society based on the promise that “eventually”
things will get better.
Even that rosy vision will depend on a radical shake-up of education and lifelong
learning. The Industrial Revolution did trigger enormous social change of this kind,
including a shift to universal education. But it will not happen unless we make it happen:
This is essentially about power, agency, and control. What’s next for, say, the forty-year-
old taxi driver or truck driver in an era of autonomous vehicles?
One idea that has been touted is that of a universal basic income, which will allow
citizens to pursue their interests, retrain for new occupations, and generally be free to live
a decent life. However, market economies, which are predicated on growing consumer
demand over all else, may not tolerate this innovation. There is also a feeling among
many that meaningful work is essential to human dignity and fulfillment. So another
possibility is that the enormous wealth generated by increased productivity due to
automation could be redistributed to jobs requiring human labor and creativity in fields
such as the arts, music, social work, and other worthwhile pursuits. Ultimately, which
jobs are rewarding or productive and which are “bullshit” is a matter of judgment and
may vary from society to society, as well as over time.
So far, ’ve focused on AI’s practical consequences. As a scientist, what bothers me is
our potential loss of understanding. We are now accumulating data at an incredible rate.
In my own lab, an experiment generates over a terabyte of data a day. These data are
massaged, analyzed, and reduced until there is an interpretable result. But in all of this
data analysis, we believe we know what’s happening. We know what the programs are
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From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Sent: 1/10/2015 4:42:43 PM
To: Michael Wolff i |
Subject: Re:
Importance: — High
now good?
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Michael Wolff <_> wrote:
Can you talk at noon? Probably need about 30 minutes. What is best number?
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:44 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
anytime tomorw ok
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Michael Wolff <q wrote:
Is Clinton willing to say he was not there? Btw, I've just filed a column for USA Today for Monday
explaining how Dershowitz and Andrew allegations were picked up from unverified civil court docs,
transferred to UK tabs, which go wild because of no libel rules on U.S. court papers, and then translated back
here as "reported fact." Problem with ia story is that tabs are too invested in present story line, and
unlikely that the Times or WSJ will want to touch it--tho, depending on who is willing to on record, they
might. There is another politico reporter I know who might do it, again, if the on-the-record sources are
public people. Or, I will use it for New York Magazine, but that won't be until Feb. Can you still talk
tomorrow? When works? Woody and Soon-Yi coming for dinner tonight. m
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:20 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
the story teller , crafted much of it out of whole cloth. . part of her story , is that she was
at multiple orgies with clinton and speciifically, the minute details of a dinner had on the island with
him, "he sat on my left. came by black. heli. flown by ghislaine. clinton was NEVER EVER
there, never. it punches a hole in the dershowitz , andrew allegation. making it all apparent that it was
fantasy. and delusional. thoughts. who should break the story.
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the substance of any real peace — could not simply be put off forever.
Untangling them was getting harder, not easier. And we realised that only in an
environment like Camp David — a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to
Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright — would we ever
discover whether a peace deal could in fact be done.
Now, we knew.
Israel’s equivalent of Air Force One, perhaps in a nod to our country’s
pioneering early years, was an almost prehistoric Boeing 707. It was waiting on
the runway at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington to ferry me and the
rest of our negotiating team back home.
It contained a low-rent equivalent of the American version’s presidential
cabin, and a few 1960s-vintage first-class seats, but consisted mostly of two
long lines of coach seats, three abreast, separated by an almost tightrope-narrow
aisle. I dare say I was alone in finding an odd sense of comfort in boarding the
plane. This museum piece of an aircraft was part of my past. It was the same
model of 707 for which I, with a couple of other young soldiers and engineers,
had come up with what we dubbed the “submarine door” system outside the
cockpit — to protect El Al pilots from future attacks after one of its planes had
been hijacked to Algiers in the summer of 1968. It was also the same kind of
plane — a Sabena flight, hijacked to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport — which I
stormed, before sunrise, four years later with a force of nearly two dozen
Matkal commandos. The shooting was over within 90 seconds. One of my men
—a junior officer named Bibi Netanyahu — was wounded. By one of our own
bullets. But we managed to kill two of the heavily armed hijackers, capture the
others, and free all 90 passengers unharmed.
Still, even I had to accept, it was no fun to fly on.
As we banked eastward after takeoff and headed out over the Atlantic, the
mood on board was sober. Huddling with the inner core of my negotiating team
— my policy co-ordinator Gilad Sher, security aide Danny Yatom and Foreign
Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami — I could see that the way the summit ended had hit
them hard. It was probably true, as all three often reminded me, that the greatest
pressure fell on me. I was the one who ultimately decided what we could, or
3
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Energy — Full text articles
Nuclear Operator Raises Alarm on Crisis
Hiroko Tabuchi — New York Times
The operator of Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear power plant sounded the alarm on the gravity of the deepening crisis of
containment at the coastal site on Friday, saying that there are more than 200,000 tons of radioactive water in makeshift
tanks vulnerable to leaks, with no reliable way to check on them or anywhere to transfer the water.
The latest disclosures add to along list of recent accidents, leaks and breakdowns that have underscored grave
vulnerabilities at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site more than two years after a powerful earthquake and
tsunami set off meltdowns at three reactors.
They come two weeks after the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, promised that his government would take a more active role in
the site’s cleanup, raising questions over how seriously he has taken that pledge. Mr. Abe’s government has continued to
push for a restart of the country’s nuclear power program, and he heads to the Middle East on Saturday to promote
Japanese exports to the region, including nuclear technology.
Mr. Abe also plans to lead Tokyo’s delegation to Argentina for the International Olympic Committee’s final vote, set for Sept.
7, on the host city for the 2020 Olympics. Tokyo, 150 miles south of the stricken nuclear power plant, is one of three finalists
competing to host the games. The others are Istanbul and Madrid.
Opposition lawmakers here have demanded that Mr. Abe stay home and declare a state of emergency.
“The nuclear crisis is real and ongoing, yet the government continues to look the other way,” said Yoshiko Kira of the
opposition Japan Communist Party, which made significant gains in parliamentary elections last month.
“The government should declare a state of emergency right now, and intervene to stop the outflow of contaminated water,”
Ms. Kira said at an anti-nuclear rally outside Mr. Abe’s office in Tokyo.
Mr. Abe remains popular, and it is uncertain how large a liability the crisis at the Fukushima plant will become for him.
But it has become increasingly clear that the latest problems may be too large for the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric
Power Company, or Tepco, to handle.
Tepco has built nearly 1,000 tanks at the sprawling complex to store as many as 335,000 tons of contaminated water, the
product of coolant pumped into the reactors to keep their cores from overheating, and groundwater pouring into their
breached basements at a rate of 400 tons a day. This week, Tepco said one tank had sprung a huge leak.
On Friday, Tepco presented an even starker view of the situation, acknowledging that as much as 220,000 tons of that water
is stored in makeshift steel tanks similar to the one that is leaking. The operator said the 36-foot-tall cylindrical tanks, meant
as atemporary repository for the growing amount of radiated water at the complex, used vulnerable rubber sealing and that
their ability to withstand radiation was not tested.
The tanks are susceptible to leaks at the seams and through their concrete base, said Noriyuki Imaizumi, the acting general
manager of Tepco’s nuclear power division. Anearby drain can carry any leaked water to the sea, Mr. Imaizumi said, and
high radiation readings along a section suggest that water has already traveled through the drain to the ocean.
The makeshift tanks also lack water level gauges, making it difficult to detect leaks. Only two workers are assigned to
checking nearly 1,000 tanks on two-hour patrols twice a day, Mr. Imaizumi said.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority, which the Japanese government ordered to more actively advise and monitor Tepco’s
activities at the plant, had told the company to begin transferring the water from the makeshift tanks to better-built vessels.
But after visiting the plant on Friday, an authority commissioner, Toyoshi Fuketa, said the vast quantities made doing so
quickly “unrealistic.”
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Matthew Mosk
Producer, ABC News
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doing the raping? Oh, okay, sorry about that. | didn’ t know, | had to ask. |
have to tell you, though, as far as campaign slogans go: Donald Trump
2016--Who’ s Doing the Raping?” Hey, it sounds familiar already.
kok *
Although Daniel Tosh is a consistently unapologetic performer for
the sardonic material he exudes on his Comedy Central series--which
features a running theme of rape jokes, even including one about his sister--
for this occasion he decided to go the Twitter route: “All the out of
context misquotes aside, |’ d like to sincerely apologize.” He also
tweeted, “The point | was making before | was heckled is there are awful
things in the world but you can still make jokes about them.”
According to Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory, Tosh asked
the audience, “What you guys wanna talk about?” Someone called out
“Rape,” and a woman in the audience started screaming, “No, rape is
painful, don’ t talk about it.”. Then, says Masada, “Daniel came in, and
he said, ‘Well, it sounds like she’ s been raped by five
guys’ —something like that. | didn’ t hear properly. It was a comment—it
wasn’ t a joke at the expense of this girl.” Masada claims that she sat
through the rest of Tosh’ s performance, which received a standing
ovation, before she complained to the manager.
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“Orgy Island” is the private 72-acre luxury estate of billionaire American financier Jeffrey Epstein, a pedophile who was
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But a state grand jury found the witnesses in the case were not credible and threw out all
but the single charge of soliciting a hooker in his luxurious Palm Beach home. Epstein's
lawyers and friends now say he's the hapless victim of a vendetta by Palm Beach Police
Chief Michael Reiter, whom they describe as a "born-again nut case."
According to the police investigation, a copy of which was obtained by the Palm Beach
Post, detectives took statements from 17 witnesses and five alleged victims. Haley
Robson, 20, a Palm Beach Community College student who described herself as "like a
Heidi Fleiss," says she got naked to give Epstein a massage, then brought him six girls
ages 14-16 for massages and sex at his home. She said they were paid $200 per session.
Cops also allege that Epstein's personal assistant, Sarah Kellen, who hasn't been charged,
set up the liaisons and put fresh sheets on the massage table and supplied massage oils.
Police searched through Epstein's garbage and retrieved sex toys and feminine hygiene
products.
Epstein's Palm Beach lawyer, Jack Goldberger, told Page Six that the Florida state
attorney concluded the cops had looked at evidence from a "one-sided perspective." He
added that Epstein had passed an extensive lie-detector test in which he was grilled about
underage girls.
Epstein's New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, said, "The prosecutor didn't want to bring
any charges in this case, but because of the craziness of this police chief, we have the
charge of solicitation."
Last night, WPTV in Palm Beach reported that one reason Robson's testimony may have
been dismissed is the kinky Web page she has on MySpace featuring photos of her
female friends playing with sex toys. One friend even uses the name "Pimpin' Made EZ."
Robson, who isn't charged, also writes, "Do what you do to make that money, life is
a gamble. Stay hustling.”
A spokeswoman for Reiter said, "We think our investigation speaks for itself."
Cops also allege that [Jeffrey Epstein]'s personal assistant, Sarah Kellen, who hasn't been
charged, set up the liaisons and put fresh sheets on the massage table and supplied
massage oils. Police searched through Epstein's garbage and retrieved sex toys and
feminine hygiene products.
Epstein's Palm Beach lawyer, Jack Goldberger, told Page Six that the Florida state
attorney concluded the cops had looked at evidence from a "one-sided perspective." He
added that Epstein had passed an extensive lie-detector test in which he was grilled about
underage girls.
NewYork Post — 09/20/2007
JAIL LOOMS FOR SEX-CASE MOGUL
September 20, 2007 -- THE sordid sex case involving Jeffrey Epstein may
be coming to an unhappy ending -with a plea deal that would put the
publicity-shy billionaire behind bars for 15 months for allegedly soliciting
underage teen girls for sex at his Palm Beach mansion.
Sources tell Page Six that Epstein’s high-powered lawyers - including Alan
Dershowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black and Kenneth Starr - have been
negotiating a deal with federal prosecutors who are probing, among other
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have been, in my view, Mr. Dershowitz.
Q. At his deposition, he took the Fifth as to
everyone he was asked about; isn't that true?
A. I haven't looked at the depositions lately.
There were also variations in tactics that he used. I
recall for example, that sometimes when he was asked
about a person, even if he knew that person, he would
pretend not to know that person and try to communicate
that, you know, maybe he didn't know that person.
But he did he did have broad invocations of
the Fifth Amendment in his deposition. I certainly
wouldn't quarrel with you on that.
Q. And you understand or I believe this was in
your testimony that if a person takes the Fifth in
response to a question in a civil litigation, that
answer can be used against the person generally; is that
right?
A. Sure. Right.
Q. Are you aware of any authority whatsoever
that Person A taking the Fifth can be used as evidence
against Person B?
A. Yeah, we are sitting here in the -- let's
see, we are in Florida, in the 11th Circuit, and that
is -- there's 11th circuit case law that allows that to
happen. I could give you the citation, you know, in
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From: CC
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 3:25 PM
To: jeffrey E.
Subject: Help!
Importance: High
Still have Zorro W pjs... Perfect for my lonely Valentine's Day.
So, what do you think about my suggestion to help?
How are you holding up?
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
what do you suggest?
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:19 PM, iin Wrote:
Happy birthday, I remember the few I had spent with you, good memories!
The problem is that you may appreciate my support but that doesn't help me. Yes, I told you I can't have
people coming here to ask about you and ex pals.... My landlord may shoot them. He is pissed. I need your
help. Out of all the people you should be helping is someone who actually genuinely cared about you.i realize
you're living the good life and I'm not your concern, but if you really appreciated my support then you'd help
me otherwise I don't know what I'll do.
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
i appreciate your support is what i meant. has anyting happened recently? it is my birthday today
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:46 PM, i wrote:
Appreciate what? I'm not sure you do. Be back for what? Where? I don't need to be photographed. I am
trying to avoid that, hence the reason why I moved out here. I don't need people coming here looking for me
to give them information about you or the "people" I was documented with... It's not my property. I don't
think you get it.
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
i appreciate it. I should be back feb 14,
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:39 PM, i cote:
Because you were not available to meet me in person last year and at this point I don’t need to be seen. I can not have press,
media, private investigators, film companies, etc. contacting me or my parents and sisters at home or on cell/texts and or by
mail. I realize you don’t have much control over this, but you can at least help me to move. I can’t just get up and go like you.
I left the city to escape, make a better life and I am devastated these people found me and brought to light an association of that
I would rather them never to know. People think I was involved with something really bad and I lost a boyfriend of great
potential over this shit. I am still in debt over all these years, been working my ass off trying to get ahead, which you could
never understand I was even surviving off the pay I was getting. Well, its not any better. I dropped out of college because of
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a KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
\ To the extent there is a similar, but more egregious, local Florida case on the books, it is
. that of Barry Kutun, a former North Miami city attorney accused of having sex with underage
prostitutes and videotaping the sessions. Mr. Kutun pleaded guilty on May 18, 2007 in a Miami-
Dade County courtroom as part of an agreement with State prosecutors and he received five
years probation and a withholding of adjudication with no requirement to register as a sex
offender—all without a shred of involvement by federal prosecutors, who declined to prosecute
him. Indeed, given the wide use of the telephone in today’s society, it gives a rogue prosecutor
carte blanche to turn any local crime into a federal offense. Given the federal government’s
decision to abstain from prosecuting that case, it is hard to understand how the federal
prosecutors responsible for this case think that the State’s treatment of Mr. Epstein somehow
leaves federal interests substantially unvindicated. There is simply no basis for the federal
prosecutors’ disparate treatment of Mr. Epstein.
Summary of the Evidence
Finally, we wish to share new evidence—obtained through discovery in connection with
the civil lawsuits filed in this matter—which confirms that further federal involvement in this
matter would be inappropriate. This testimony taken to date categorically confirms that (i) Mr.
Epstein did not target minors; (ii) women under 18 often lied to Mr. Epstein about their ages; (iii)
Mr. Epstein did not travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illegal sexual
activity; (iv) Mr. Epstein did not use the Internet, telephone or any other means of interstate
communication to coerce or entice alleged victims; (v) Mr. Epstein did not apply force or
coercion to obtain sexual favors; and (vi) all sexual activity that occurred was unplanned and
purely consensual. The women’s own statements—made under oath—demonstrate the absence
of a legitimate federal concern in this matter, and highlight the serious practical difficulties an
attempted federal prosecution would face.
—~
fs
e Mr. Epstein did not recruit or obtain these women in interstate commerce (necessary
for a conviction under § 1591).
° RE confirmed that she did not know Mr. Epstein and had
absolutely no contact with him—be it through Internet, chat rooms, email,
or phone—prior to their arrival at his home. See Tab 13 I Tr.
(deposition), p. 30.
© [ERE has stated that (like many other women) she first met Mr.
' Epstein when her friend, introduced her to him. See Tab
14, Tr. A, p. 4-5.
* Mr. Epstein was told the girls were over 18.
fe) ae admitted to lying to Mr. Epstein about her age.
See Tab 13, . (deposition), p. 37 (“Q. So you told Jeff that you
were 18 years old, correct? A. Yes.”).
© [ERRRMM stated that she not only always made sure she had a fake ID
with her and lied to Mr. Epstein by telling him she was 18, but that she
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Article 4.
NYT
President Obama on Libya
Editorial
March 28, 2011 -- President Obama made the right, albeit belated,
decision to join with allies and try to stop Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi
from slaughtering thousands of Libyans. But he has been far too slow
to explain that decision, or his long-term strategy, to Congress and
the American people. On Monday night, the president spoke to the
nation and made a strong case for why America needed to intervene
in this fight — and why that did not always mean it should intervene
in others. Mr. Obama said that the United States had a moral
responsibility to stop “violence on a horrific scale,” as well as a
unique international mandate and a broad coalition to act with. He
said that failure to intervene could also have threatened the peaceful
transitions in Egypt and Tunisia, as thousands of Libyan refugees
poured across their borders, while other dictators would conclude that
“violence is the best strategy to cling to power.” Mr. Obama could
report encouraging early progress on the military and diplomatic
fronts. Washington and its allies have crippled or destroyed Colonel
Qaddafi’s anti-aircraft defenses, peeled his troops back from the city
of Benghazi — saving potentially thousands of lives — and allowed
rebel forces to retake the offensive. Just as encouragingly, this
military effort that was galvanized internationally — the United
Nations Security Council authorized “all necessary measures” to
protect civilians in Libya — will soon be run internationally. Last
weekend, the United States handed over responsibility for enforcing
the no-flight zone to NATO. And the alliance is now preparing to
take command of the entire mission, with the support of (still too
few) Arab nations. To his credit, Mr. Obama did not sugarcoat the
difficulties ahead. While he suggested that his goal, ultimately, is to
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mean this is coming from a Nobel laureate who discovered a particle, you know. So I
ended up where I began, which is non-dualism, that there is only consciousness.
Matt: Isn’t that idealism?
Deepak: Idealism comes out of non-dualism.
Matt: So there are two types of monism [non-dualism]. There’s materialism and then there
is idealism. [Each holds that] there’s only matter or there’s only consciousness.
Deepak: Okay then we can say idealism is closest to non-duality. They don’t use that word
in the East. Let’s go for lunch. [We head downstairs. ]
Deepak: With idealism one usually relates to Plato in the West or to Bishop Berkeley and
all those guys, you know. But basically, what idealism espouses, it’s mental. But non-
dualism says even mental is a construct. When you say mental you have words. As soon as
you have a word for an experience it’s no longer fundamental.
Matt: Non-dualism is a construct too.
Deepak: If I have to use words, yes.
Matt: There’s no getting away from constructs.
Deepak: No, there is a way of getting away from constructs. It’s called transcendence. Shut
up and just be.
Matt: We never stop filtering experience—
Deepak: Every experience is filtered through given constructs. There is no getting away
from it. But then we start looking at consciousness—let’s find our table. [We find our table. ]
Deepak Chopra MD
Chopra Foundation
Jiyo
Chopra Center for Wellbeing
www.discoveringyourcosmicself.com
ae,
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Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 168/Tuesday, August 30, 2011/Rules and Regulations
54019
The proposed Appendix to Subpart A
included Board contact information and
basic enforcement procedures to enable
employees to learn more about their
NLRA rights and how to enforce them.
Thus, the required notice confirmed that
unlawful conduct will not be permitted,
provided information about the Board
and about filing a charge with the
Board, and stated that the Board will
prosecute violators of the NLRA. The
notice also indicated that there is a 6-
month statute of limitations for filing
charges with the Board alleging
violations and provided Board contact
information. The Board invited
suggested additions or deletions to these
provisions that would improve the
content of the notice of employee rights.
Id.
The content of the proposed notice
received more comments than any other
single topic in the proposed rule. But of
the thousands of comments that address
the content of the notice, the majority
are either very general, or identical or
nearly identical form letters or
“postcard” comments sent in response
to comment initiatives by various
interest groups, including those
representing employers, unions, and
employee rights organizations. Many
comments from both individuals and
organizations offer general support for
the content of the proposed notice,
stating that employee awareness of basic
legal rights will promote a fair and just
workplace, improve employee morale,
and foster workforce stability, among
other benefits.97 More specifically, one
comment asserts that the proposed
notice ‘‘contains an accurate,
understandable and balanced
presentation of rights.” 98 The United
Transportation Union contends that the
“notice presents an understandable,
concise and extremely informative
recitation of workers’ rights, without
getting bogged down in extraneous
language, incomprehensible legalese or
innumerable caveats and exceptions.”
Other comments were less supportive
of the content of the proposed notice
and the notice-posting requirement in
general. A significant number of
comments, including those from many
individuals, employers, and employer
industry and interest groups, argue that
the content of the notice is not balanced,
and appears to promote unionization
instead of employee freedom of
association. In particular, many
comments state that Section 7 of the
°7 See comments of the National Immigration Law
Center, Service Employees International Union, and
Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld.
°8 Comment of David Fusco, a labor and
employment attorney.
NLRA includes the right to refrain from
union activity, but claim that this right
is given little attention in comparison to
other rights in the proposed notice.
Several comments also argue that the
proposed notice excludes rights
associated with an anti-union position,
including the right to seek
decertification of a bargaining
representative, the right to abstain from
union membership in “‘right-to-work”’
states, and rights associated with the
Supreme Court’s decision in
Communications Workers v. Beck.°°
Comments also suggest that the notice
should include a warning to employees
that unionizing will result in a loss of
the right to negotiate directly with their
employer.1°° Many of these comments
argue that a neutral government position
on unionization would be more
inclusive of anti-union rights.1°
A number of comments address the
issue of complexity, and argue that the
Board’s attempt to summarize the law is
flawed because the Board’s decisional
law is too complex to condense into a
single workplace notice.1°2 Some of the
comments addressing this issue note
that NLRA law has been developed over
75 years, and involves interpretations by
both the NLRB and the Federal courts,
sometimes with conflicting results. The
Chamber of Commerce cites the
““NLRB’s Basic Guide to the National
Labor Relations Act: General Principles
of Law Under the Statute and
Procedures of the National Labor
Relations Board” (Basic Guide to the
NLRA) (1997), available at http://
www.nirb.gov/publications/brochures,
to make their point about legal
complexity. In the Foreword to the
Basic Guide to the NLRA, the Board’s
General Counsel states that ‘‘[alny effort
to state basic principles of law ina
simple way is a challenging and
unenviable task. This is especially true
about labor law, a relatively complex
field of law.”’ The thrust of these
comments about legal complexity was
that the NLRA is complex, dynamic,
and nuanced, and any attempt to
summarize it in a workplace notice will
result in an oversimplification of the
law and lead to confusion,
misunderstanding, inconsistencies, and
some say, heightened labor-management
antagonism. Moreover, some comments
express concern that Board member
turnover could result in changes to the
99 See comments of Pilchak, Cohen & Tice,
American Trucking Association, and Electrical and
Mechanical Systems Inc.
100 See, e.g. comment of the Heritage Foundation.
101 See, e.g., comment of the National Right to
Work Committee.
102 See, e.g., comment of COLLE, Retail Industry
Leaders Association.
law, which may require frequent
updates to the notice.1%
Many comments suggest that the
required notice should include only the
specific rights contained in Section 7 of
the NLRA or, at most, the rights and
obligations stated in employee
aclvisories on the NLRB’s Web site. The
comments favoring a more general
notice suggest that the detailed list of
rights far exceeds the “‘short and plain”
description of rights that the Board has
found sufficient to “clearly and
effectively inform employees of their
rights under the Act’’ in unfair labor
practice cases.1°4 See Ishikawa Gasket
America, Inc., 337 NLRB 175 (2001),
enfd. 354 F.3d 534 (6th Cir. 2004). A
comment from Fisher & Phillips LLP
argues that, under the Board’s current
remedial practices, only an employer
that egregiously violates the Act on
numerous occasions is required to post
such an inclusive list of rights.
Finally, a number of comments
suggest that the notice should include a
list of employer rights, namely the right
to distribute anti-union literature and
the right to discuss the company’s
position regarding unions.
In addition to the general comments
about the proposed notice, many
comments offer suggestions for specific
revisions to individual provisions
within the five sections of the proposed
notice: the introduction, the statement
of affirmative rights, the examples of
unlawful conduct, the collective-
bargaining provision, and the coverage
information. The following discussion
presents the comments related to
individual provisions of the notice,
followed by the Board’s decisions
regarding the content of the final notice
made in response to those comments.
a. Comments Regarding the Introduction
The introduction to the notice of
rights in the proposed rule stated:
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
guarantees the right of employees to organize
and bargain collectively with their
employers, and to engage in other protected
concerted activity. Employees covered by the
NLRB are protected from certain types of
employer and union misconduct. This Notice
gives you general information about your
rights, and about the obligations of employers
under the NLRA. Contact the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB), the Federal agency
that investigates and resolves complaints
under the NLRA, using the contact
information supplied below, if you have any
questions about specific rights that may
apply in your particular workplace.
103 See comment of Capital Associated Industries,
Inc. and National Association of Manufacturers.
104 See e.g. comments of COLLE and Coalition for
a Democratic Workplace.
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From: Lesley Groff
Sent: 7/17/2014 11:55:40 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: Reminder Ed Boyden.
Importance: High
Reminder: Would you like me to set up a call for you with Ed Boyden?
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ed Boyden <
Date: July 14, 2014, 4:50:47 AM EDT
To: Lesley Groff <________________________
Cc: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: deception
Reply-To:________________________
Sorry again for that last minute cancellation in the Spring -- alas,
the perils of running a new center, that I no longer control my
schedule like in the good old days. But the Obama BRAIN Initiative is
running strong, and MIT has a good bid for a seat at the table, so
that is good. Want to revisit a time for a chat? My schedule is now
much more free, thanks to these BRAIN initiative activities
launching...
Best,
Ed
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Lesley Groff < > wrote:
Good morning Neil.. .1 am afraid Jeffrey must cancel his trip up today...he is sick in bed and not well. I am so
very sorry to do this last minute. Hopefully we can circle back to this soon.
Thank you,
Lesley
Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein
On Dec 6, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Neil Gershenfeld < wrote:
Confirming lunch noon Friday at my office, E15-401. Sunglasses and beach balls optional, hopefully this will
be a warm-up for meeting in more entertaining venues.
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Ed Boyden, Ph. D.
Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute,
Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering
New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator
MIT, Room E15-421, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139
email -
office -
cell
fax -
skype -
web - http://syntheticneurobiology.org
twitter - http://twitter.com/eboyden3
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Moreover, if the government had any reason to believe that Prof. Dershowitz was involved in
any criminal activity they would have immediately demanded his recusal rather than continuing
to work with him as one of Epstein’s attorneys in negotiating a plea bargain.
Fourth, Jane Doe #3 then makes the facially absurd and libelous claim that somehow
Prof. Dershowitz must have drafted and benefited from the “co-conspirators” clause of the NPA.
But the link between the need to include these allegations and their ability to rescind the “co-
conspirators” clause goes completely unexplained. The allegations are completely gratuitous, as
there is no such link. No such claim existed until fabricated by Jane Doe #3 many years after the
NPA was signed and fully performed. Additionally, as stated in Prof. Dershowitz’s Supplement
to his Motion for Limited Intervention, this “co-conspirator” provision “was intended to apply to
four alleged co-conspirators, who were named in the original NPA and later redacted at their
request.... Alan Dershowitz was never alleged to be a potential co-conspirator.” (DE 285 at 4°.)
Incredibly, Jane Doe #3’s counsel, Bradley Edwards, agreed with this reading of the NPA
in his Statement of Undisputed Fact during his own personal lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein
(Jeffrey Epstein v. Scott Rothstein and Bradley J. Edwards, lawsuit (Case no. 502009-CA-
040800)) in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. There, Edwards explained that these co-
conspirators were certain individuals who “procured minor females to be molested by Epstein.”
(DE 291-15 at § 27.) Only now, when convenient as a way to try to justify allegations against
Prof. Dershowitz does Edwards argue (on behalf of Jane Doe #3) that the “co-conspirator”
provision was actually intended to protect Prof. Dershowitz.
> Moreover, it is unlikely that anyone who had sexual contact with Jane Doe #3, or any other
minor involved in the Epstein case, would be considered to be a “co-conspirator.” Instead those
individuals would be substantive perpetrators, not covered by the agreement.
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Zipf, G.K. (1949) Human Behavior and the Principal of Least Effort. Addison-
Wesley, N.Y.
Zwiener, U., Hoyer, D., Bauer, R., Luthke, B., Walter, B., Schmidt, K., Hallmeyer,
S.,Kratzsch, B., Eiselt, M.(1996) Deterministic--chaotic and periodic properties of
heart rate and arterial pressure fluctuations and their mediation in piglets.
Cardiovasc Res 31:455-465
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From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Sent: 7/10/2017 7:40:41 AM
To: Thorbjon Jagland
Subject: Re:
Ok but it's easy
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:29 AM Thorbjon Jagland <____________________> wrote:
In Norway. Next time, tell me well in advance, would be interesting to learn more more about Trump. I am
totally confused.
lor. 8. jul. 2017 kl. 15.22 skrev jeffrey E. <[email protected]>:
I am in paris you?
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take Trump’s offer too seriously. But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the
Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he
absolutely was certain of Trump’s sincerity when he said they’d be friends for life—only
never to basically hear from him again or have his calls returned. Still, power provides its
own excuses for social lapses. Other aspects of the Trump character were more
problematic.
Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face
with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing. There was simply no subject, other than
perhaps building construction, that he had substantially mastered. Everything with him
was off the cuff. Whatever he knew he seemed to have learned an hour before—and that
was mostly half-baked. But each member of the new Trump team was convincing him- or
herself otherwise—because what did they know, the man had been elected president. He
offered something, obviously. Indeed, while everybody in his rich-guy social circle knew
about his wide-ranging ignorance—Trump, the businessman, could not even read a
balance sheet, and Trump, who had campaigned on his deal-making skills, was, with his
inattention to details, a terrible negotiator—they yet found him somehow instinctive. That
was the word. He was a force of personality. He could make you believe.
“Is Trump a good person, an intelligent person, a capable person?” asked Sam
Nunberg, Trump’s longtime political aide. “I don’t even know. But I know he’s a star.”
Trying to explain Trump’s virtues and his attraction, Piers Morgan—the British
newspaper man and ill-fated CNN anchor who had appeared on Celebrity Apprentice and
stayed a loyal Trump friend—said it was all in Trump’s book The Art of the Deal.
Everything that made him Trump and that defined his savvy, energy, and charisma was
there. If you wanted to know Trump, just read the book. But Trump had not written 7he
Art of the Deal. His co-writer, Tony Schwartz, insisted that he had hardly contributed to it
and might not even have read all of it. And that was perhaps the point. Trump was not a
writer, he was a character—a protagonist and hero.
A pro wrestling fan who became a World Wrestling Entertainment supporter and
personality (inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame), Trump lived, like Hulk Hogan, as a
real-life fictional character. To the amusement of his friends, and unease of many of the
people now preparing to work for him at the highest levels of the federal government,
Trump often spoke of himself in the third person. Trump did this. The Trumpster did that.
So powerful was this persona, or role, that he seemed reluctant, or unable, to give it up in
favor of being president—or presidential.
However difficult he was, many of those now around him tried to justify his behavior
—tried to find an explanation for his success in it, to understand it as an advantage, not a
limitation. For Steve Bannon, Trump’s unique political virtue was as an alpha male,
maybe the last of the alpha males. A 1950s man, a Rat Pack type, a character out of Mad
Men.
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PROLOGUE
On The Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014
The National Security Agency, or, as it now commonly called, the NSA, was created on
October 24, 1952, in such a tight cocoon of secrecy that even the Presidential order creating it
was classified “Top Secret.” When journalists asked questions about this new agency,
Washington officials jokingly told them that the initials NSA stood for “No Such Agency.” The
reason for this extraordinary stealth is that the NSA is involved in a very sensitive enterprise. Its
job is to intercept, decode and analyze foreign electronic communications transmitted around the
globe over from copper wires, fiber optic cable, satellite, microwave relays, cell phone towers,
wireless transmissions and the Internet for intelligence purposes. In intelligence jargon, its product
is called COMINT. This form of intelligence-gathering is particularly effective when the NSA’s
targets are unaware of the state-of-the-art tools the NSA uses to break into their computers and
telecommunications and decipher their enciphered messages.
In the first week of June in 2013, the NSA learned that a huge number of its most secret files
had been stolen. The suspect was Edward Snowden, a 29 year old civilian analyst at the NSA’s
regional base in Oahu, Hawaii, who had fled to Hong Kong. The stolen documents revealed,
among other things, the secret tools and capabilities that the NSA employed to do its job.
According to a three-count criminal complaint filed by Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District
of Virginia, Snowden had stolen government documents and violated the Espionage Act by the
unauthorized and willful communication of national defense information to an unauthorized
person.
This was not a who-dunn-it mystery. On June 9", 2013, in an extraordinary 12-minute video
made in a cramped hotel room in Hong Kong, Snowden identified himself as the person who had
taken the NSA documents. Watching the video, the world saw a shy, awkward and sympathetic-
looking, man wearing a rumpled shirt, rimless glasses and a computer geek-style haircut,
passionately speaking out against the NSA’s violations of the law and, in a shaky voice,
expressing his willingness to expose them.
Snowden had an innocent, idealistic, principled look about him, and the world was ready to
congratulate him for revealing the NSA's illegal collection of data inside the United States. But in
fact, he stole a great deal more than documents relating to domestic surveillance. He had also
stolen secret documents from the NSA revealing the sources and methods it employed in its
monitoring of foreign adversaries.
What made this theft even more extraordinary was that he got away with it. By the time it had
been discovered in the first week of June 2013, it was not possible for the FBI, the Grand Jury or
any other US agency to question him because he had fled the country. He went first to Hong
Kong. Although it is economically autonomous, the city of 7.2 million is actually a special
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HY PER-
COMMUNICATION
World Wide Communication
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Okay, thanks for this statement . . . I'll print it in full along with the article, probably today. I very, very
strongly disagree with your position and hope you eventually reconsider, but I do appreciate you taking the
time to respond.
-R
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Lawrence Krauss EE wrote:
jeffrey apparently paid for massages with sex... I believe him when he told me he had no idea the girls were
underage, and I doubt that people normally are asked for or present a driver's license under such
circumstances... Moreover, I also believe that Jeffrey is an easy target for those who want to take advantage
of him... Moreover, I can say with great honesty that Jeffrey's time in prison led him to seriously examine
his life in very positive ways and I don't believe in blanket condemnations of people. He served time for
something that was determined was inappropriate. I honestly don't know who was the victim in this case. I
fully expect that these masseuses knew what they were doing, and were not swayed to do anything with
Jeffrey that they were not already doing. That is not to approve of the whole behavior, but lots of peoplel
know and like have behavior J don't entirely approve of.. I know it is not politically correct to say that,
because in general this is a very sensitive issue and all other things being equal one should take the side of
the young women. But all things are not equal in this case, from my point of view. It is a judgement call,
and I will not turn my back on a good friend so easily.
On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Rebecca Watson wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me. I was asking because I found the quote shocking . . . the evidence against
Epstein is overwhelming and he's even pled guilty to paying for sex with a minor. It's in no way scientific or
rational to assume that because you never saw him with an underage girl he must actually be innocent. It is
possible for a person to be kind and generous with his friends but still a criminal paying for sex with
underage girls in his private life.
I'm going to write about the topic on Skepchick, and I'll include any additional statement you'd like if you
want to provide more context or if you've changed your mind.
-R
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Lawrence Krauss «wrote:
yes it is.. Based on my direct experience with Jeffrey, which is all I can base my assessment on, he is a
thoughtful, kind, considerate man who is generous to his friends, and all of the women I have known who
have been associated with Jeffrey speak glowingly in the same words..
why are you asking?
On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Rebecca Watson wrote:
Dear Professor Krauss,
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From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Sent: 11/10/2016 10:11:04 PM
To: Thomas Jr., Landon
Subject: Re:
Importance: — High
number?
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon > wrote:
who is treasury secretary? Is Mnuchin a done deal? Seems too obvious.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:58 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
long dow , short yen euro and pound. long reits,
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon i. wrote:
You called it! How are you positioned re market?
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:54 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3914012/Troubled-woman-history-drug-use-claimed-assaulted-
Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-party-age-13-FABRICATED-story.html
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Software 271
A common and costly mistake is to put off thinking about a class of
things you are going to need in the next release because of time pressure.
‘Time out, that’s for the next release’ and similar statements spell disaster
for the future of a project as when you come to the next release, you may
have to rewrite much of it from scratch. This is why good architects are
so valuable. They anticipate the future even when they are told to ignore
it and ship now!
Just as there are artistic geniuses, there are programming geniuses.
Hold onto them if you get one. They are rare. We don’t know if they
can be made or they are lucky accidents, but statistics shows that some
people are 1000 times more productive at writing code than the average.
If you can find lots of them and make them work together you will build
the next Google or Facebook. If you have a tight deadline, a super-
programmer may get you out of a hole, producing in a week what might
otherwise take a year. Remember your great programmers will most
prolific if you can get process and distraction out of their way. Just make
sure they have a clear idea of purpose.
Laws
A programmer interrupted eight times a day does no work.
A creative person interrupted eight times a day does no work.
Programming is a creative endeavor.
There are creative geniuses. Hold onto them.
Bugs save us from collapsing space-time when we are lazy and try
to use mechanical means rather than creative thought to write software.
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3) Where do our political and economic institutions come from and what causes them to have the peculiar
structure they have?
We have one vote per person, but everyone knows dollars can buy more votes, and voters in small states are
better represented than those in large states. Whose interests are being served and why theirs? Many
economists and political scientists have thought about "optimal institutions." And much comparative and
historical work has been done. But there isn't really a good unified theory of how these evolve, what
characteristics are likely to emerge, and in what ways they are or are not optimal.
4) Is there a fundamental theory of human societies that's analogous to Darwin's theory in biology?
Can that framework be as well supported by evidence and as simple as natural selection in biology, that will
likewise explain the interesting things humans do, like, and believe, and the institutions we construct?
Evolutionary psychologists think this doesn't require a new theory, just an investigation of the mind that
biologically evolved on the Savannah. Others like Dawkins have suggested that we are best understood as
machines infested by viruses of the mind which themselves evolve to take advantage of our evolved
psychology. Anthropologists treat culture as just random inputs. Social psychologists document the funny
quirks of our behavior without explaining where they come from. And economists assume people optimize
given their tastes and beliefs but take those as given. Is one of these the right theory, if not is there a more
compelling theory out there? What will it look like? How will we find it? How will we know we have found it,
when we have?
5) How can we fix the perverse incentives in academia?
Researchers get hired and promoted for publishing in top journals. Journal publication is determined by editors
and referees. The best way to publish is to make sure your allies are the referees, cite their work, and don't step
on their toes, and to convince the editor you are famous enough and your work is flashy enough that it will be
well cited and get covered by the nytimes. None of this requires much attention be paid to truth, insight, or
originally.
Arguably, this is why the social sciences are such a mess. Few bother to incorporate evidence or arguments
from outsiders (e.g., social psychologists don’t consult historians, economists barely consult social
psychologists). Few bother to question the fundamental assumptions driving their field that make no sense and
go unchecked (e.g., anthropologists treat culture as random inputs). And many researchers end up spending
their whole careers developing and propagating theories that are completely uninteresting to outsiders, or
obviously fallacious to anyone not steeped in their literature.
It is ridiculous that we’re still using a system derived from the Society of Letters of the 1500s. Perhaps it's time
for something more like Wikipedia, where information gets aggregated and contributors are incentivizes by
their reputation as competent editors to integrate information from across disciplines? Or something like
Reddit, where quality research is recognized by upvotes that aggregate the opinion of thousands from diverse
fields? Or a certification system of sorts, where papers are certified as having done their statistics right or
having integrated what's known from certain fields, or not citing irrelevant papers for political reasons?
Whatever the solution is, social scientists and engineers who work on this problem will have orders of
magnitude more impact on science than scientists doing primary research in our archaic system.
please note
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e » Free, courtesy of AMEX gold card and Chase Continental Airlines
Mastercard 2
Housing
e » Penthouse apartment on the equivalent of New York’s Fifth
Avenue in Buenos Aires, including house cleaners, personal
security guards, phone, energy, and high-speed Internet: $550
U.S. per month
e+ Enormous apartment in the trendy SoHo-like Prenzlauerberg
district of Berlin, including phone and energy: $300 U/S. per
month
Meals
e » Four- or five-star restaurant meals twice daily in Buenos Aires:
$10 U.S. ($300 U.S. per month)
e > Berlin: $18 U.S. ($540 U.S. per month)
Entertainment
e > VIP table and unlimited champagne for eight people at the hottest
club, Opera Bay, in Buenos Aires: $150 U.S. ($18.75 US. per
person x four visits per month = $75 U.S. per month per person)
e - Cover, drinks, and dancing at the hottest clubs in West Berlin: $20
U.S. per person per night x 4 = $80 U.S. per month
Education
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3
DAY ONE
ared Kushner at thirty-six prided himself on his ability to get along with older men. By
J the time of Donald Trump’s inauguration he had become the designated intermediary
between his father-in-law and the establishment, such as it was—more moderate
Republicans, corporate interests, the New York rich. Having a line to Kushner seemed to
offer an alarmed elite a handle on a volatile situation.
Several of his father-in-law’s circle of confidants also confided in Kushner—often
confiding their worries about their friend, the presidentelect.
“IT give him good advice about what he needs to do and for three hours the next day he
does it, and then goes hopelessly off script,” complained one of them to Trump’s son-in-
law. Kushner, whose pose was to take things in and not give much back, said he
understood the frustration.
These powerful figures tried to convey a sense of real-world politics, which they all
claimed to comprehend at some significantly higher threshold than the soon-to-be
president. They were all concerned that Trump did not understand what he was up against.
That there was simply not enough method to his madness.
Each of these interlocutors provided Kushner with something of a tutorial on the
limitations of presidential power—that Washington was as much designed to frustrate and
undermine presidential power as to accommodate it.
“Don’t let him piss off the press, don’t let him piss off the Republican Party, don’t
threaten congressmen because they will fuck you if you do, and most of all don’t let him
piss off the intel community,” said one national Republican figure to Kushner. “If you fuck
with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you'll have two
or three years of a Russian investigation, and every day something else will leak out.”
A vivid picture was painted for the preternaturally composed Kushner of spies and
their power, of how secrets were passed out of the intelligence community to former
members of the community or to other allies in Congress or even to persons in the
executive branch and then to the press.
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had nothing to do with any alleged course of or in furtherance
of a conspiracy. Any alleged conspiracy would have terminated
years ago by operation of many different rules and law. So
Mr. Cassell's entire
conspiracy theory predicate to this has
nothing to do with the four LiButti factors.
And when we
there is really zero
Honor. First of all
these individuals --
relationship is, not
happen in 2000 or 2001.
course of this litigation,
talk about the Lil
Butti factors, you know,
evidence that's been presented to your
, the relationship now, in 2017, between
because that is what the controlling
some relationship
that happened or didn't
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not some other litigation. And
indeed, there is no relationship between these folks. At best,
for a brief period, of time,
worked in different capacities for Mr.
that brief period of time is more than
a brief period of time, these folks
Epstein, at best, and
ten years ago.
The other part of this that Mr. Cassell overlooks or
doesn't want to talk about is what really is at issue -- and
this relates to this close present relationship -- does this
witness have some reason to protect Ms.
that's really the inquiry here.
Maxwell. I mean,
Is the witness invoking her,
in this case, privilege against self-incrimination because it's
going to have some benefit to Ms.
Maxwell? Well, there is no
benefit to Ms. Maxwell for the invocation of the Fifth
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sexual and physical abuse of her or else, specifically, Plaintiff and her family would be seriously
physically harmed, if not killed. Exhs. A and B.
14. While still under threats of physical harm by coming forward and having no
reason to believe that the threats have ever been lifted or would ever be lifted, Plaintiff, who has
suffered from stress, emotional distress, mental pain and suffering, among other problems, ever
since the assaults, was subjected to daily painful reminders of the horrific acts of one of the
perpetrators, Defendant Trump, via mass media coverage of him starting on or about June 16,
2015 that, over a short period of time, became continuous and unavoidable. Exh. A.
LS: As a direct and proximate result of the sexual assaults and rapes perpetrated by
Defendants upon her, Plaintiff has suffered stress, emotional distress, and mental pain and
suffering, as well as adverse physical consequences.
16. As a direct and proximate result of the sexual assaults and rapes perpetrated by
Defendants upon her, Plaintiff has suffered physical pain and suffering.
17. As a direct and proximate result of the sexual assaults and rapes perpetrated by
Defendants upon her, Plaintiff has been subjected to public scorn, hatred, and ridicule and has
suffered threats against her life and physical safety.
18. As a direct and proximate result of the sexual assaults and rapes perpetrated by
Defendants upon her, Plaintiff has incurred special damages, including medical and legal
expenses.
19, The sexual assaults and rapes perpetrated by Defendants upon Plaintiff were
intentional acts.
20. The conduct of Defendants demonstrates willful, reckless and intentional conduct
that raises a conscious indifference to consequences.
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Article 6.
NYT
Arabs Will Be Free
Roger Cohen
March 28, 2011 -- Three Middle Eastern countries have been
conspicuous for their stability in the storm. They are Turkey,
Lebanon and Israel. An odd mix, you might say, but they have in
common that they are places where people vote.
Democracy is a messy all-or-nothing business. That’s why I love it.
You can no more be a little bit democratic than a little bit pregnant.
Yes, citizens go to the polls in Turkey, Lebanon and Israel and no
dictator gets 99.3 percent of the vote. They are lands of opportunity
where money is being made and where facile generalizations, for all
their popularity, miss the point. Turkey has not turned Islamist,
Lebanon is not in the hands of Hezbollah, and Israel is still an open
society.
All three countries, of course, are also wracked by division and
imperfection; but then two great merits of democracy are that it
finesses division and does not aspire to perfection.
Speaking of Hezbollah, remember all that alarm a couple of months
back when a Hezbollah-backed businessman, Najib Mikati, emerged
as prime minister? After that, Lebanon introduced the Libyan no-fly-
zone resolution at the United Nations — a rare, if little noted,
example of the United States and a Hezbollah-supported government
in sync.
Talk to Hezbollah: That’s obvious. It’s no terrorizing monolith.
Mikati is struggling with the give-and-take of Lebanese politics. Life
goes on in the freewheeling way that has long drawn repressed,
frustrated Arabs to Beirut.
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From: Alan Dershowitz
Sent: 6/30/2016 2:45:27 PM
To: Martin G Weinberg (i Gerald B. Lefcourt iE Jeffrey Epstein
[[email protected]]
Subject: Fwd: media inquiry - FoxNews.com
Attachments: Screenshot 2016-06-29 13.50.26.png
Importance: — High
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Zimmerman, Malia McLaughlin"
To: "Alan Dershowitz"
Subject: media inquiry - FoxNews.com
Hi Alan
| was reading through the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, including the original criminal case where
you defended Mr. Epstein, and saw a letter both you and Gerald Lefcourt co-authored on his behalf dated July
6, 2007.
The letter said "Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is
described as a project 'bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative
solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.’ Focuses of this initiative include poverty, climate
change, global health, and religious and ethnic conflicts.”
| just wanted to clarify if Mr. Epstein was on the board of directors or listed as a founder anywhere or on any
paperwork associated with the foundation and if so, in what capacity. Also wanted to clarify what you
specifically mean by being part of the original group.
| attached a screen shot of the exact passage | am referring to.
Thanks,
Malia
Malia Zimmerman
Investigative Reporter,
FoxNews.com
2044 Armacost Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90025
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Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 168/Tuesday, August 30, 2011/Rules and Regulations
54013
But even if the new rule is understood
to compel employer speech, Section 8(c)
‘““merely implements the First
Amendment.” Brown, 554 U.S. at 67
(quoting NLEB v. Gissel Packing Co.,
395 U.S. 575, 617 (1969)). Thus, if a
First Amendment challenge to the rule
must fail, so too must a challenge based
on Section 8(c). Such was the holding
of the D.C. Circuit in UAW v. Chao.
There, the court was presented with a
preemption argument, grounded in
Section 8(c), challenging a Federal
procurement regulation that required
contractors to post a notice informing
their employees of certain NLRA rights.
The D.C. Circuit interpreted Section 8(c)
as coextensive with the scope of free
speech rights protected by the First
Amendment and upheld the
procurement regulation in light of well-
established free speech jurisprudence in
the labor context. See 325 F.3d at 365.
3. Lack of Contemporaneity With the
Enactment of the NLRA
Several comments attack the notice-
posting regulation for its lack of
contemporaneity with the enactment of
the NLRA. For example, many
comments criticize the regulation by
noting that ‘‘this is a new rule
interpreted into the Act 75 years after its
passage.”’ The Board rejects these
contentions for two reasons.
First, the Supreme Court has
repeatedly “‘instructed that ‘neither
antiquity nor contemporaneity with [a]
statute is a condition of [a regulation’s]
validity.”’ Mayo, 131 S. Ct. at 712
(alterations in original) (quoting Smiley
v. Citibank (S.D.), N.A., 517 U.S. 735,
740 (1996)); see also Smiley, 517 U.S. at
740 (deferring to a regulation “issued
more than 100 years after the
enactment” of the statutory provision
that the regulation construed). Second,
the argument fails to consider that much
has changed since 1935, the year the
NLRA was enacted. Unionization rates
are one example. As pointed out in the
NPRM and as confirmed by comments
submitted by the Association of
Corporate Counsel’s Employment and
Labor Law Committee, unionization
rates increased during the early years of
the Act, peaking at around 35 percent of
the workforce in the mid-1950s. But
since then, the share of the workforce
represented by labor unions has
Pilchak attorneys to revise the rule to specify that
employers ‘‘may post a notice of equal dignity
which advises employees of * * * additional rights
and realities.” Alternatively, the Pilchak attorneys
propose that the Board amend the rule to permit
employers to “alter the Poster and include
additional rights.” Adopting this suggestion would
compromise the integrity of the notice as a
communication from the government. It, too, is
therefore rejected.
plummeted to approximately 8 percent.
As a result, fewer employees today have
direct, everyday access to an important
source of information regarding NLRA
rights and the Board’s ability to enforce
those rights.
As noted above, “[tlhe responsibility
to adapt the Act to changing patterns of
industrial life is entrusted to the Board.”’
J. Weingarten, Inc., 420 U.S. at 266. It
would therefore be an abdication of that
responsibility for the Board to decline to
adopt this rule simply because of its
recent vintage. Accordingly, the Board
finds such arguments unpersuasive.
4, Comparison With Other Statutes That
Contain Notice-Posting Requirements
Many comments note, as the Board
did in the NPRM, that several other
labor and employment statutes enacted
by Congress contain express notice-
posting provisions. See 75 FR 80411
(listing such statutes). Though a few
such comments, such as those of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
applaud the Board for “‘fill[ing] this
glaring and indefensible gap,” the bulk
of these comments instead argue that
the lack of a parallel statutory provision
in the NLRA negates the existence of
Board authority to issue this rule.
The Board notes that inferences
gleaned from side-by-side comparisons
to other statutes have diminished force
when an agency uses its gap-filling
authority under Chevron. There are
many possible reasons why Congress
did not include an express notice-
posting provision in the NLRA.
“Perhaps that body consciously desired
the [agency] to strike the balance at this
level * * *; perhaps it simply did not
consider the question at this level; and
perhaps Congress was unable to forge a
coalition on either side of the question
* * * ” Chevron, 467 U.S. at 865. But,
“(flor judicial purposes, it matters not
which of these things occurred.” Id.
Indeed, the central premise behind
Chevron and its progeny is that agencies
should be allowed reasonable latitude to
fill gaps arising from congressional
silence or ambiguity. Accordingly, “the
contrast between Congress’s mandate in
one context with its silence in another
suggests not a prohibition but simply a
decision not to mandate any solution in
the second context, i.e., to leave the
question to agency discretion.’’ Cheney
R.R. Co. v. ICC, 902 F.2d 66, 69 (D.C.
Cir. 1990) (labeling the expressio unius
est exclusio alterius canon “an
especially feeble helper’ in Chevron
cases).
Arguments contrasting the NLRA with
other federal enactments that contain
notice-posting requirements might have
some persuasive force if there were
evidence that Congress had considered
and rejected inserting such a
requirement into the Act. However,
nothing in the legislative history of the
Act so indicates. Indeed, there is not the
slightest hint that the omission of a
notice-posting requirement was the
product of legislative compromise and
therefore implies congressional rejection
of the idea. Cf. Ind. Prot. & Advocacy
Servs. v. Ind. Family & Soc. Servs.
Admin., 603 F.3d 365, 384-85 (7th Cir.
2010) (en banc) (Posner, J., concurring)
(inferring a private right of action from
statutory silence in a case where such
silence was not the product of
“legislative compromise’’). For these
reasons, the Board rejects the Motor and
Equipment Manufacturers Association’s
unsupported suggestion that there has
been an affirmative “legislative
determination not to include a posting
requirement by employers that have not
violated the Act.”
A number of comments point out that
Congress included a general notice-
posting provision in the Railway Labor
Act (RLA), which predates the NLRA.
Given the relative proximity of these
two enactments, some comments regard
the absence of a notice-posting
provision in the NLRA as strong
evidence that Congress did not intend
for there to be one. For reasons just
explained, the Board does not find a
side-by-side comparison with the RLA
availing. In addition, the Board notes
that although the NLRA and the RLA
share several common features, the
NLRA was not perfectly modeled after
the RLA. See Bhd. of R.R. Trainmen v.
Chi. River & Ind. R.R. Co., 353 U.S. 30,
31 n.2 (1957) (“The relationship of labor
and management in the railroad
industry has developed on a pattern
different from other industries. The
fundamental premises and principles of
the Railway Labor Act are not the same
as those which form the basis of the
National Labor Relations Act * * *.”’).
Finally, the Board notes that other
federal departments and agencies have
not understood Congress’s failure to
include an express provision containing
a notice-posting requirement in a federal
labor or employment statute as a bar to
such a regulatory requirement. Like the
NLRA, the Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA), which was passed in 1938, does
not contain a provision requiring
employers to post a notice of pertinent
employee rights. Yet the Department of
Labor adopted a notice requirement now
codified at 29 CFR 516.4. Furthermore,
the Board is unaware of any challenge
to the Labor Department’s authority to
promulgate or enforce the FLSA notice
requirement, which has been in effect
for over 60 years. See 14 FR 7516 (Dec.
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11/5/2015
News
http:/Avww.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/1 1/04/yitzhak-rabins-m oral-answer-to-the-israeli-dilemma-of-peace-and-survival 3/4
Yitzhak Rabin's Moral Answer to the Israeli Dilemma of Peace and Survival - US News
binational state in which one people ruled another.
He was uniquely qualified for this adventure. Those to his political right had the strength but not the will to
take a calculated risk for peace. Those to his political left had the will but not the strength, He alone, at the
time, had the capacity to persuade the divided and wary Israelis to accept a compromise arrangement with
the Palestine Liberation Organization that held great promise for peace but also great risk. But the risk was
seen as a risk from the Arabs, not the risk of Jew killing Jew, What the right-wing fanatics were blind to is
that their murderous intransigence threatened the state that gave them succor and its necessary
acceptance by the world. Without the flame of peace, they would have nothing but bloodshed threatening
every Israeli's personal security.
[ZUCKERMAN: The Palestinians’ Lies Are Fueling the Violence]
The debate over security in Israel is different from the quarrel with the extremists. Many moderate people
all across Israel are concerned about giving up land, because for years their leaders told them this land
was essential to their national security. In Israel, security decisions are made in the context of the terrible
reality that a single Israeli strategic blunder may mean not only military defeat but a genocidal threat to the
very existence of the state — one that the world could nat forestall, even if it were willing to. Many Israelis
ask: Will the peace process be the beginning of a new future or the beginning of the end?
The Israelis are determined to avoid another genocide, this time in Israel. The decision to exchange lawfully
captured territory for the promise of peace from those who have constantly threatened violence is fraught
with unprecedented risk. Israel will not survive in this neighborhood by superior morality in the absence of
superior real strength. Arab moderation is in direct proportion to Israeli strength. If the Arabs could defeat
Israel, who could doubt that sooner or later they would try?
Can Shimon Peres, a durable politician less trusted by Israelis, lead the people in pursuit of Rabin's twin
goals of peace and security? He is a consummate international diplomat and served with great distinction
as prime minister a decade ago. His ardent desire for peace may be part of his problem, for many people
believe he is too eager to cut a deal, too dovish and not skeptical enough about security issues, too
wrapped up in his own ambitions. So his challenge is to relieve the worries of Israelis as well as meet the
needs of the Palestinians.
In this effort, American support is crucial. Rabin said he was elected to take risks for peace. President
Clinton said, “If that is your goal, | will do my best to minimize the risks you must take." That is the fire of
friendship and support that will enable Israel to fulfill what Rabin so bravely began.
‘Rabin, The Last Day’: Venice Review inform
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From: Joi Ito
Sent: 4/27/2014 10:54:13 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: NYTimes: Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune
Importance: High
President 0bamarfs response to the Ukraine crisis, while derided by critics as slow and weak, has
reinvigorated a 15-year global hunt for the Russian leaderofs hidden wealth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/sanctions-revive-search-for-secret-putin-
fortune.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow
sent from my iPhone
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weaponry and intelligence — Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN on Monday, “I should tell you honestly
that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can
remember in the past.”
While Romney had time for a $50,000-a-plate breakfast with American Jewish donors in Jerusalem, with
Adelson at his elbow, he did not have two hours to go to Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, to meet
with its president, Mahmoud Abbas, or to share publicly any ideas on how he would advance the peace process.
He did have time, though, to point out to his Jewish hosts that Israelis are clearly more culturally entrepreneurial
than Palestinians. Israel today is an amazing beehive of innovation — thanks, in part, to an influx of Russian
brainpower, massive U.S. aid and smart policies. It’s something Jews should be proud of. But had Romney gone
to Ramallah he would have seen a Palestinian beehive of entrepreneurship, too, albeit small, but not bad for a
people living under occupation. Palestinian business talent also built the Persian Gulf states. In short, Romney
didn’t know what he was talking about.
On peace, the Palestinians’ diplomacy has been a fractured mess, and I still don’t know if they can be a partner
for a secure two-state deal with even the most liberal Israeli government. But I do know this: It is in Israel’s
overwhelming interest to test, test and have the U.S. keep testing creative ideas for a two-state solution. That is
what a real U.S. friend would promise to do. Otherwise, Israel could be doomed to become a kind of apartheid
South Africa.
And here is what I also know: The three U.S. statesmen who have done the most to make Israel more secure and
accepted in the region all told blunt truths to every Israeli or Arab leader: Jimmy Carter, who helped forge a
lasting peace between Israel and Egypt; Henry Kissinger, who built the post-1973 war disengagement
agreements with Syria, Israel and Egypt; and James Baker, who engineered the Madrid peace conference. All of
them knew that to make progress in this region you have to get in the face of both sides. They both need the
excuse at times that “the Americans made me do it,” because their own politics are too knotted to move on their
own.
So how about all you U.S. politicians — Republicans and Democrats — stop feeding off this conflict for
political gain. Stop using this conflict as a backdrop for campaign photo-ops and fund-raisers. Stop making
things even worse by telling the most hard-line Israelis everything that they want to hear, just to grovel for
Jewish votes and money, while blatantly ignoring the other side. There are real lives at stake out there. If you’re
not going to do something constructive, stay away. They can make enough trouble for themselves on their own.
Sent from my iPad
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OGIS FY 2013 cases by exemption
Exemption 1
Exemption 2
Exemption 3
Exemption 4
Exemption 5
Exemption 6
Exemption 7(A)
Exemption 7(B)
Exemption 7(C)
Exemption 7(D) |
Exemption 7(E)
Exemption 7(F)
Exemption 8
Exemption 9
0 10 20
2010
March 9
OGIS opens its 100th case
March 15-19
OGIS celebrates Sunshine Week
March 18
Director Nisbet testifies before the House
Oversight and Government Reform’s Information
Policy, Census, and National Archives
Subcommittee hearing on “Administration of the
Freedom of Information Act: Current Trends”
40 50 60 70 80
March 23
OGIS holds its first training session for FOIA Public
Liaisons in collaboration with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Department
of Justice’s Office of Information Policy (OIP)
April 18-23
Director Nisbet represents OGIS at the Chilean
Council for Transparency
April 29
OGIS opens its 200th case
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10. FANGMAN Recent Performance and Contribution to S&P 500 Earnings
and Market Cap
YTD Return % Decline From | % of S&P 500 [% of S&P 500
(Through 10/12) 2018 Peak Earnings Market Cap
0
1 Netflix 76.9% -19.0% 0.0% 6%
2 Amazon 52.9% -12.3% 0.2% 3.6%
3 Apple 32.8% -4.3% 44% 44%
4 Microsoft 29.7% -5.2% 24% 3.5%
5 Nvidia 27.6% -14.8% 0.2% 0.6%
6 Google 6.4% -12.8% 1.9% 3.2%
7 Facebook -12.9% -29.3% 1.3% 1.8%
FANGMAN 23.9% -7.1% 10.4% 17.7%
This is not a recommendation to buy or sell individual securities but rather an assertion that these
stocks represent a small portion of S&P 500 earnings. Anyone looking to buy or sell single name
equities should consult Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg.
Nevertheless, we believe that some of the headwinds that have plagued this sector will continue.
These include:
e Data privacy issues impacting a broad range of companies, including Facebook, Google,
Twitter, Alipay and Tencent.
e High likelihood of greater regulatory scrutiny in the US? and Europe as policy makers
increasingly believe that these companies will not address “the privacy and security issues of
social media users” on their own.
e Increased focus by ESG investors (Environment, Social, and Governance) that many of the
technology and social media companies are falling short on social and governance issues.
While this basket of stocks may or may not lead the market in the future, it is important to note that
they represent only 10% of S&P 500 earnings.
Investment Implications
The recent market downdraft has understandably rekindled fears that the longest bull market in
history is coming to an end. While there are no certainties in investing, we do not think the odds
support that conclusion based on our read of the steady and unsteady factors discussed above. Keep
in mind that about 75% of historical US bear markets—defined here as equity market declines of 20%
or more—have occurred during economic recessions. In fact, US equity returns have remained
favorable until about five to six months prior to the onset of recession, highlighting the penalty for
prematurely exiting the market (see Exhibit 11). With only 10% odds of recession over the next year,
we think the economic backdrop remains favorable for stocks.
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airplane with a 24-year-old woman, is there a basis to
draw an adverse inference from that about anything?
A. If that's all that you have, obviously not.
MR. SIMPSON: Okay.
MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
MR. SIMPSON: We will break then and we will
talk off the record about logistics for tomorrow.
MR. SCAROLA: Okay.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are going off the video
record, 4:31 p.m.
ROUGH DRAFT ONLY
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