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The final choice he was made to board a non-stop flight to Moscow on June 23, 2013.
To remain in Hong Kong once a criminal complaint was leveled against him would have meant
that, at the very minimum, Hong Kong authorities would seize him and the alleged stolen property
of the US government in his possession. Even if he was released on bail, the Hong Kong
authorities would almost certainly retain all the NSA and GCHQ files he had gone to such lengths
to steal. He also would not be allowed to leave Hong Kong and possibly denied any access to the
Internet. As he demonstrated by his subsequent actions, this option was not acceptable to him.
Once the U.S. criminal complaint was unsealed on June 21, 2013, which became all but
inevitable after his video, his only route out of Hong Kong went through two adversaries of the
United States, China and Russia. China, as far as is known, did not offer him sanctuary.
According to one U.S diplomat, it may have already obtained copies of Snowden’s NSA files, and
did not want the problem of having Snowden defect to Beijing. In any case, if it had not already
acquired the files. It could assume it would receive that intelligence data from its Russian ally in
the intelligence war. Whatever its reason, China did not use its considerable power in Hong
Kong to block Snowden’s exit.
Nor did Snowden obtain a visa to any country in Latin America or elsewhere during his month-
long stay in Hong Kong. As in the oft-cited Sherlock Holmes’ clue of the dog that did not bark,
Snowden’s lack of any visas in his passport strongly suggests that he had not made plans to go
anyplace but where he went: Moscow. His actions here, including his contacts with Russian
officials in Hong Kong, speak louder than his words.
Snowden chose, if he had any choice left at all, the Russian option. Just as he believed Chinese
intelligence could protect him in Hong Kong from the United States, he could assume that the
FSB could protect him in Moscow from the United States. He was not entirely na* ve about its
capabilities. During his service in the CIA, he had taken a month-long training course at the CIA’s
“farm” at Fort Peary in which counterintelligence officer taught about the capabilities the Russian
security services
To be sure, he might not have known that Moscow would be his final destination. He may
have naively believed that Russia would allow a defector from the NSA who claimed to have had
access to the NSA’s sources in Russia and China leave Moscow before its security services
obtained that information. But that was not to be.
It is not uncommon for a defector to change sides in order to find a better life for himself in
another country. Some defectors flee to escape a repressive government or to find one in which
they believe they are more closely attuned. But Russia is ordinarily not the country of choice for
someone such as Snowden seeking greater civil liberties and personal freedom. So why did
Snowden choose Russia for his new life?
The four choices that Snowden made in 2013 did not come out of the blue. They all were
planned out well in advance. He applied for the job to Booz Allen in February 2013, more than a
month before leaving his job at Dell. He applied to Booz Allen for his medical leave, although in
fact he had no medical problem, a month before departing for Hong Kong. He brought with him
to Hong Kong enough cash to pay his living expenses, according to him, for the next two years.
He arranged the encrypted channel with Poitras in February 2013, three months before he would
induce her to come to Hong Kong. He made contact with a foreign diplomatic mission at least a
month before flying to Moscow and, at some point, met with Russian officials, who arranged a
visa-less entry for him. He called Assange in London to arrange for Wikileaks help, 13 days
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What matters is return. I don’t have to specify “risk-adjusted” return so long as |
describe the collective scale alone. Collective return is implicitly average-risk return.
I prioritize it on the reasoning that optimizing employment of people and plant is
implicit, and that optimizing means putting them to work most productively rather
than over the most hours.
If policy maximizes rate of return, at the collective scale, it will maximize true output
perforce. Return is output divided by total capital producing it. More return is more
output per unit capital. Putting idle plant and people to work, in a slump, is a step in
the right direction. But it doesn’t get the job done unless they work productively.
Even putting money under the mattress is better than investing at a loss. Zero
return is better than negative return. | accept Keynes’ distinction between new
investment and transfer payments. But I see the latter as part of the mechanics that
ends up in the former. Maximize return, and full employment will happen.
Keynes’ opposition is now mostly the Chicago school and other “freshwater” schools
bordering the Great Lakes and along inland rivers. Somehow the taste for Keynesian
intervention resonated best in “saltwater” seaboard school such as Harvard, MIT,
Stanford, and University of California. It is probably no coincidence that the
saltwater states are the “blue” ones tending to vote Democrat, while the freshwater
ones are the “red” ones favoring Republicans. (I call myself a free market Democrat,
whether or not that’s a contradiction in terms.) Freshwater views tend to oppose
intervention, but accept Keynesian basic definitions and equations such as the
Y =] +C doctrine and the distinction between “attempted saving” and investment.
It is these I question.
I] don’t think much of his view that intended saving (consumption foregone)
becomes actual saving only if invested, and becomes an equal amount of physical
capital growth if it is. Then (actual) net saving, net investment and physical capital
growth would become synonymous. | said why I prefer a language where saving
and investment are synonymous in the first place. What matters is rate of return.
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From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 5/30/2019 9:34:38 PM
To: Michael Wolff
Subject: Re:
maybe as a favor to trump. in exchange for yemen and iran support. . smells doesnt it?
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:33 PM Michael Wolff wrote:
So MBS was paying him off? Why? Ideas?
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:29 PM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
is it a coincidence that the russian that bought the house in palm beach and knows all , is the same guy that
sold a painting last year to mbs for 450 million dollars. that was only worth 1. 5m?
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Area Analysis 10
At the national level, the U.S. Virgin Islands elects a delegate to Congress from its at-large
congressional district. However, the elected delegate, while able to vote in committee, cannot
participate in floor votes.
At the territorial level, 15 senators—seven from the district of Saint Croix, seven from the district of
Saint Thomas and Saint John, and one senator at-large who must be a resident of Saint John—are
elected for two-year terms to the unicameral Virgin Islands Legislature. The U.S. Virgin Islands has
elected a territorial governor every four years since 1970. Previous governors were appointed by the
President of the United States.
Population and Employment
In 2008, the residential population of the Virgin Islands peaked at an estimated 115,852 persons. This
follows five years of slow but steady growth of 1.0%, slightly slower than the U.S. annual average of
1.15%. Since 2008, population levels have fallen each year, to the 2014 estimated population of
103,961 persons.
Among the three islands, St Croix and St Thomas are nearly equally populous with St John having less
than 4 percent of the total population of the Virgin Islands.
USVI Economic Indicators
5 Yr Ann
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Growth
Population 111,470 113,689 114,743 115,852 107,343 106,405 105,784 105,169 104,563 103,961 0.6%
St. Croix 54,635 55,722 56,239 56,783 52,612 50,601 50,247 50,005 49,938 49,656 “1.1%
St. Thomas $2,528 53,574 54,070 54,592 50,583 51,634 51,266 $1,054 50,610 50,316 0.1%
St.John 4,307 4,393 4,434 4,477 4,148 4,170 4,134 4,113 4,015 3,989 0.8%
Civilian labor force 51,159 51,159 52,670 52,630 52,861 51,424 50,729 50,577 47,558 46,784 2.3%
. Civilian employment 47,301 48,640 49,547 49,589 48,863 47,272 46,124 44,659 41,207 40,687 ~3B.3%
t Unemployment rate (percent) 7.1% 6.2% 5.9% 58% 76% 8.1% 8.9% 11.7% 13.4% 13.0% 14.2%
Gross Territorial Product (GTP, Millions} $4,457 $4,635 $4,836 $4,851 $4,583 $4,660 $4,351 $3,778 $3,792 44%
GTP Per Capita $39,984 $40,769 $42,146 $41,872 $42,695 $43,795 $41,131 $35,923 $36,265 2.7%
Personal income {Pl} $2,723 $2,777 $2,964 $2,606 $2,602 $2,704 $2,661 $2,586 $2,233 2.9%
Per capita personal income ($)} $20,620 $21,711 $22,658 $22,847 $23,931 $25,603 $25,084 $23,388 $21,353 -1.3%
Total Exports (Millions of $} $10,476 $11,627 $12,962 $17,249 $9,728 $11,930 $13,314 $2,263 $1,285 $1,671 -16.6%
Refined petroleum $9,376 $10,463 $11,242 $13,592 $8,327 $9,759 $10,486 $932 $32 $7 -20.0%
Value of construction permits (Millions $} $390.20 $442.70 $266.10 $273.30 $261.80 $187.20 $179.10 $141.40 $156.60 $201.40 4.6%
St. Thomas/St. John $274.30 $217.70 $172.90 $183.80 $79.00 $80.60 $87.90 $85.10 $114.80 $142.20 16.0%
St. Croix $115.90 $225.00 $93.20 $89.50 $175.90 $106.50 $91.10 $56.20 $41.80 $59.20 -13.3%
Source: Vi Bureau of Economic Research
The territory’s Labor Force has also declined slightly, and there has been a steady increase in the
unemployment rate; which was further affected by the closure of the Hovensa oil and gas refinery in
2012. Note that there was a slight dip in unemployement in 2014.
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id. at 10). Petitioners do not contend that Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4’s “participation in this
case” can only be achieved by listing them as parties.
As it stands under the original petition, the merits of this case will be decided based on a
determination of whether the Government violated the rights of Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, and all
“other similarly situated victims” under the CVRA. Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4 may offer
relevant, admissible, and non-cumulative evidence that advances that determination, but their
participation as listed parties is not necessary in that regard. See Herring, 894 F.2d at 1024
(District court did not abuse its discretion by denying amendment where “addition of more
plaintiffs .. . would not have affected the issues underlying the grant of summary judgment.”’); cf.
Arthur v. Stern, 2008 WL 2620116, at *7 (S.D. Tex. 2008) (Under Rule 15, “courts have held
that leave to amend to assert a claim already at issue in [another lawsuit] should not be granted if
the same parties are involved, the same substantive claim is raised, and the same relief is
sought.”).° And, as to Jane Doe 4 at least, adding her as a party raises unnecessary questions
about whether she is a proper party to this action.°
Petitioners also admit that amending the petition to conform to the evidence—by
including references to the non-prosecution agreement itself—is “unnecessary” as the “existing
petition is broad enough to cover the developing evidence in this case.” (DE 311). The Court
> The Court expresses no opinion at this time whether any of the attestations made by
Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4 in support of their motion will be relevant, admissible, and non-
cumulative.
° The Government contends that Jane Doe 4 is not a true “victim” in this case because
she was not known at the time the Government negotiated the non-prosecution agreement, and
accordingly she was not entitled to notification rights under the CVRA. (See DE 290 at 10).
Any “duplicative” litigation filed by Jane Doe 4 would necessarily raise the issue of whether she
has standing under the CVRA under these circumstances.
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4.2.12
WC: 191694
defended the right of skinny dippers to an isolated section of the Cape Cod National Seashore.
(In 197_, a federal district court recognized a limited right to nude sunbathing in areas that
present no conflicts with the rights of others. The decision, despite its limited scope was
characterized as a “Magna Carta for nudism.’’)
Pornography, like nudity, offends many Americans, but there are those who would ban not only
public displays of pornography, but private use as well. They argue that three distinct types of
harm are caused by pornography. The first, as with nudity, is that it is offensive to many people
who are involuntarily exposed to it. No empirical evidence is required to prove this kind of harm:
if people say they are offended, that is the end of the matter. The second is that some people are
offended by the mere knowledge that other people, who are not offending by watching it, are
watching it in private. Whether this type of what I call “vicarious offensiveness” warrants an
except to the First Amendment raises profound legal issues. The third, very different, kind of
harm is that pornography is alleged to cause rape and other physical violence against women.
This allegation, which if true would warrant legal protection, is hotly disputed and unproven, if
not improvable.**
group, he might respond by striking back. Hence, such provocatively offensive expressions have been called
“fighting words” and have been denied First Amendment protection by some courts over the years. This concept
has assumed center stage recently, as some Muslim groups, individuals and even nations have threatened violence
in response to the publication of “offensive” books, cartoons and other media critiques of Islam and its prophet.
The stakes have also risen. Instead of merely fighting words, some radical Muslims regard insults to the prophet
as killing and bombing words.
* The issue is somewhat complicated, because it may be true that certain kinds of violent pornography (as well as
violent non-pornography) may be contributing factors in certain people’s decision or propensity to rape, just as
alcohol or other drugs may be contributing factors. What is undeniably clear is that only a miniscule fraction of
men who view pornography go on to rape or commit violence, and that a great many rapists do not view
pornography. See Alan Dershowitz, Why Pornography? in Shouting Fire (Little Brown, 2002) pp. 1630-1675.
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As set forth in Dershowitz’s Motion for Clarification of Confidentiality Order or Relief
from that Order, filed Jan. 29, 2016, it appears that Roberts made false statements in a publicly
filed affidavit about being present at a private island in the US Virgin Islands when former
President Clinton was there. Indeed, former FBI Director Louis Freeh determined based on the
response of the federal government to a FOIA request that the absence of records responsive to
the request “strongly establishes that former President Clinton was not present on Little St.
James Island during the period at issue.” /d. at 2. If Roberts made a false statement under oath
about former President Clinton, it is equally if not more likely that she has made false statements
about others whose whereabouts are more difficult to track.
Roberts cannot reasonably argue her testimony is confidential as
Pn § See Excerpts of Roberts’s Deposition
Transcript, attached hereto (under seal) as Exhibit F.' i TT
eee
Pe See id.; see also March 2, 2011, Sharon
Churcher, Daily Mail, attached hereto as Exhibit G. Dershowitz has also discovered that Roberts
ee Sec Exhibit
F; see also AD-006931-006933, Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Alan M.
Dershowitz and Rebecca, attached hereto as Exhibit H. As a result, Roberts cannot claim that
these allegations are confidential simply because TT TT
" As per the Confidentiality Order, Exhibit F is only filed under seal.
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How the Oslo Accords became gripping drama
As Tony awardwinning
play ‘Oslo’
comes to the NT,
Con Coughlin shares
his memories of
covering the actual
events it depicts
A
three-hour play as its subject, Rogers has fashioned an
about the Middle unexpected thriller out of the brave
East peace process? and inspired Palestinian and Israeli
It’s hardly a subject negotiators who came together in
to get the pulse a remote Norwegian house to put
racing. And yet, aside decades of hostility and make
JT Rogers’s new peace. Their efforts were rewarded
play Oslo, about with a momentous ceremony on the
the astonishing, White House lawn in September
behind-the-scenes negotiations that 1993, with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli
resulted in the historic Oslo Accords prime minister, and Yasser Arafat,
in 1993, won a Tony for Best Play on the PLO chairman, shaking hands
Broadway this year, and has already to seal the deal in front of a beaming
virtually sold out its month-long run president Bill Clinton. And sitting
at the National. Such is the demand anonymously among the thousands
that the production, starring Toby of global dignitaries who had flocked
Stephens, promptly transfers to the to Washington to witness this historic
West End in October.
event was Terje Rød-Larsen, the
Oslo dramatises a period of history cultivated, softly spoken Norwegian
– and a brief spell of optimism – that diplomat who, with his wife Mona
is now a distant memory. With so Juul, made it all possible by enabling
much of the modern-day Middle East the rival delegations to meet in secret
consumed by turmoil and conflict, it’s to thrash out their differences.
al-Qaeda, so-called Islamic State, Iraq, As a journalist covering these
Syria and Libya that are dominating extraordinary events for The Daily
the headlines, not the peace process. Telegraph during the Nineties, I came
Even as we approach the
to know a number of these players
100th anniversary of the Balfour
personally. Many of them are no
Declaration, whereby Britain
longer around to reflect on Rogers’s
committed itself to the establishment version of events. Rabin, the great
of a Jewish homeland in the
Israeli warrior-turned-politician who
uncultivated area of the eastern
agreed to make peace with Arafat,
Mediterranean known as Palestine, a man most Israelis, as one Israeli
the long-running conflict between character in the play remarks, saw as
the Israelis and the Palestinians is no being akin to “Hitler in his bunker”,
longer the main story. So much so was murdered by a Jewish extremist
that theatregoers in New York were in November 1995 in revenge for
heard to remark after a performance
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2004 remains a source of controversy
among his PLO loyalists, many of
whom believe he was poisoned
by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence
service. By the time Shimon Peres, the
Nobel Prize-winning prime minister
of Israel who helped resolve many of
the more intangible issues, died more
peacefully aged 93 in 2016, he had
become one of the most accomplished
statesmen of our age.
But perhaps the greatest casualty
from that era – when there were
genuine expectations on both sides of
the Israeli-Palestinian divide that the
conflict might be resolved peacefully
– has been the peace process itself,
which today is almost nonexistent.
When, for example, I told an Arab
ambassador acquaintance I was
going to see a preview of the play,
he simply remarked: “No one talks
about the peace process any more. It
doesn’t exist.”
This makes Roger’s examination of
one of the most unlikely diplomatic
dialogues ever undertaken all the
more poignant, as it harks back to
an era when reconciliation seemed
genuinely possible.
The task facing the rival delegates
when they first meet is a daunting
one. For the Israelis, if the fact became
known that they were talking to the
PLO, the government would most
likely fall. For the Palestinians, it
would mean an assassin’s bullet.
At the heart of this danse macabre
stands Rød-Larsen, whom I met on
several occasions in Jerusalem in the
Nineties when the hard work had
begun on implementing the deal. A
quiet, patient man, he never seemed
to be entirely comfortable with the
rough-house atmosphere of the
region, where disputes were often
more likely to be resolved through
rocks and rubber bullets than rational
persuasion.
Toby Stephens’s portrayal of Rød-
Larsen gives him a great deal more
zest and personality than I recall, but
this neatly nuanced performance is
key to the pace of this fast-moving,
entertaining take on the events (Rogers
has said that, in order to liven up what
might otherwise seem a prosaic and
convoluted political process, he studied
the plays of Noël Coward).
My favourite scene from the play
is the one where the lead Israeli
negotiator, taking a break from
the negotiations, entertains his
Palestinian counterparts by giving
an impersonation of Arafat as an
effeminate narcissist, a portrayal I
found entirely plausible from my
own encounters with the PLO leader,
whose vanity knew no bounds.
Uri Savir, who was deputed by
Peres to run the Israeli side of the
negotiations, was someone else I
got to know during that period. An
urbane multi-linguist of an academic
disposition, I generally found Uri to
be softly spoken and thoughtful when
discussing regional issues. Philip
Arditti’s portrayal of him in the play,
though, makes him out to be more
like the uncompromising, muscular
Israeli type, more usually found in the
ranks of the security forces than in the
diplomatic service.
Depictions in theatre of almost
anything to do with the Middle East
tend to stir strong passions among
audiences. I was particularly struck by
Rogers’ sympathetic understanding
of the Palestinian predicament. “I was
very anxious about the combustibility
of it,” said Rogers in a recent
interview. “I assumed there would be
controversy [in America] only because
someone would be enraged that I had
allowed the ‘other side’ to have their
say.” Certainly Peter Polycarpou’s
depiction of Ahmed Qurei, the
Palestinian finance minister sent
by Arafat to make peace, admirably
captures the conflicting emotions
of enduring the pain of exile while
seeking to wreak terrible vengeance
on the Israeli occupiers.
Indeed, for all the quips and
light-hearted banter, Oslo is, at heart,
a deeply emotional drama. When the
Israelis finally strike a deal with the
Palestinians during a telephone call to
Arafat’s headquarters in Tunis, they
think they can hear music playing
in the background. In fact it is the
battle-hardened veterans of the PLO
sobbing at the prospect of being
allowed to return to their homeland.
Ultimately, the play is an implicit
tragedy about the failure of both sides
to build a lasting peace on the basis of
the painful concessions made during
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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.
Oslo is 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
from that
era has been
the peace
process itself,
which
today is
almost
nonexistent’
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maneuver so legally dubious his own lawyers advised him that the Internal Revenue Service would most
likely declare it improper if he were audited.
Thanks to this one maneuver, which was later outlawed by Congress, Mr. Trump potentially escaped
paying tens of millions of dollars in federal personal income taxes. It is impossible to know for sure
because Mr. Trump has declined to release his tax returns, or even a summary of his returns, breaking a
practice followed by every Republican and Democratic presidential candidate for more than four decades.
Tax experts who reviewed the newly obtained documents for The New York Times said Mr. Trump’s tax
avoidance maneuver, conjured from ambiguous provisions of highly technical tax court rulings, clearly
pushed the edge of the envelope of what tax laws permitted at the time. “Whatever loophole existed was
not ‘exploited’ here, but stretched beyond any recognition,” said Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow at
the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center who helped draft tax legislation in the early 1990s.
Graphic Moreover, the tax experts said the maneuver trampled a core tenet of
Mr. Trump managed to save millions in American tax policy by conferring enormous tax benefits on Mr. Trump
personal taxes by borrowing — then losing
_ aiher anale’s eney for losing vast amounts of other people’s money — in this case, money
investors and banks
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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 1/10/2015 2:57:45 PM
To: Michael Wolff
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
talk then
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. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
anytime tomorw ok
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Michael Wolff <:MM11> 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 Mi=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. <jeevacation@gmail.com> 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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USA Inc. “Business Lines” Have Expanded
From Defense to Insurance & Other Areas
USA Inc. Major ‘Business Line’ Spending as % of GDP, F1800 vs. F1900 vs. F2000
F1800 F1900 F2000
2.2% 2.5% 18.2%
Defense
Other 3.0%
0.3%
Defense
1.3%
Note: Fiscal year 1800/1900 ended in June. Fiscal year 2000 ended in September. *Health insurance includes Medicare, Medicaid (federal portion)
and other federal health programs, retirement and disability insurance is Social Security. Other spending includes public sector employee and veteran
pension & benefits cost and spending on community development, law enforcement / education / public infrastructure / energy, etc. Source: 1800 /
KP 1900 data per Census Bureau, 2000 per White House OMB.
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Defense
0.9%
nterest
Payment
0.2%
USA Inc. First 155 Years (1776-1930) = Era of Defense
Dept. of Army + Navy = 41%! of Cumulative Spending From 1789-1930
USA Inc.’s Budget Outlays For the First 155 Years (1776-1930)?
1789-1930
1789-1791 ... 1800 ... 1850 ... 1900 ... 1930 Cumulative
Total Federal Government Outlays ($MM) $4 $11 $40 $521 $3,320 $98,747
Defense $191 $839 $40,332
% of Total Outlays 37% 25% 41%
Dept. of the Army $1 $3 $9 $135 $465 $28,831
% of Total Outlays 15% 24% 24% 26% 14% 29%
Dept. of the Navy $0 $3 $8 $56 $374 $11,500
% of Total Outlays - 32% 20% 11% 11% 12%
Interest on the Public Debt $2 $3 $4 $40 $659 $13,790
% of Total Outlays 55% 31% 10% 8% 20% 14%
Other* $1 $1 $18 $290 $1,822 $44,626
% of Total Outlays 30% 13% 47% 56% 55% 45%
Veteran Compensation and Pensions $0 $0 $2 $141 $221 $8,273
% of Total Outlays 4% 1% 5% 27% 7% 8%
Note: Data is rounded and not adjusted for inflation. 1) 41% is the cumulative defense spending (excluding veterans’ benefits and services) as % of
cumulative total federal spending from 1789 to 1930. Including veterans’ benefits and services, defense spending would have been 49% of cumulative
annual budget from 1789 to 1930. 2) Data not available from 1776 to 1789. * Other includes various spending on administration, legislation and veteran
K P compensation and pensions. Source: Census Bureau, “Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970,” Data series Y 457-465.
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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 4/8/2017 9:46:30 AM
To: Lesley Groff
Subject: Fwd: Kuhn - The Science of Sleep and Dreams
Importance: High
----------Forwarded message----------
From: Robert Kuhn <11=1>
Date: Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: Kuhn - The Science of Sleep and Dreams
To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Just arrived NY, here for —10 days.
Now with the Trump-Xi Summit over (utterly overwhelmed by Syria strike), back to Closer To Truth.
When good to meet?
Robert
On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:23 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Look forward to seeing you
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:54 PM Robert Kuhn < > wrote:
Hi: Just returned from a month in China. Attached is my summary of recent politics (in South China Morning
Post), and pics of moderating (at request of govts of China and Israel) the PM's discussion with leading
Chinese technologist (Baidu CEO, dominant Chinese search engine). The PM was in China for 25th
anniversary of diplomatic relations
Back to CTT, my 'true love'... Love to discuss Science of Sleep & Dreams project. I'm in LA for week and
then NY April 8-18.
Warm regards, Robert
On Feb 15, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Robert Kuhn <1> wrote:
501 (c) (3) - private operating foundation - The Kuhn Foundation, which I set up in 1999 to support Closer To
Truth. IRS letter attached.
Thank you.
<Kuhn Foundation IRS Tax Exempt Determination Letter 1999, 2015.pdf>
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On Feb 15, 2017, at 4:17 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
is it a charity that received the funding?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn < wrote:
Pardon the formality below - I want to approach your very legitimate questions / concerns in a serious
manner.
Attached and below the same.
Dear Jeffrey:
As requested, the following addresses your two questions / concerns about our proposed Closer To Truth TV
series "The Science of Sleep and Dreams":
(i) Have there been sufficient breakthroughs in Sleep and Dreams (significantly beyond traditional
understandings) to justify a major TV series?
(ii) Even if 'yes' to (i), is now the proper time for such a foundational series, or are more years needed for
corroborative studies and further research to solidify the breakthroughs?
In preparing this response, my primary source is Professor Patrick McNamara, Department of Neurology,
Boston University School of Medicine, with whom CTT Producer/Director Peter Getzels and I spoke with at
length today. Patrick is one of the leading sleep and dream researchers (he himself more dreams). More
importantly, he is perhaps the leading chronicler of the field, with many publications (including 26 entries in
related encyclopedias). He is co-editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams" (2012) and
the sole author of the forthcoming "An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams" (Cambridge
University Press, 2018), which intends to present the latest science and to become a main textbook for
graduate courses/seminars. Patrick is a CTT contributor and colleague.
When we asked Patrick, his first response — "This is the ideal time to tell the sleep-and-dreams story" — and he
cited (in essence) your two questions, in that (i) the multiple breakthroughs are now sufficiently well
corroborated by numerous independent labs such that a substantial foundation for the new, deeper
understanding of sleep and dreams is now for the first time (over the past few years) confirmed and
established, and (ii) there are now interesting application and critical clinical questions to pose, explore and
pursue, such as for the treatment of various mental-related illnesses that have known sleep-related syndromes
(e.g., PTSD and Depression).
To understand the significance of recent breakthroughs, a defining characteristic of sleep and dreams is that
there are two distinct kinds of sleep — REM (rapid-eye-movement) Sleep and NREM (non-rapid-eye-
movement) Sleep. Most dreams are associated with REM sleep (though complex). The eye movement
gives the eponymous name, but a more important designation defines the two stages in terms of brain waves
(electroencephalograph — EEG): REM is Fast-Wave Sleep (similar to the waking state) and NREM Sleep is
Slow-Wave Sleep (very different from the waking state). This difference between REM and NREM sleep has
been known since 1953 (different EEGs since 1937), but its deep significance has only been discovered and
confirmed in very recent years (as explained below).
Following are the key areas of breakthrough in sleep and dreams (from Patrick). Patrick states that these are
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now reproducible, non-controversial, and well-accepted among experts, although still not appreciated by the
public - hence the high value of our CTT TV series. The organizing idea is why and how are sleep and dreams
essential for normal memory consolidation and bodily health / well-being.
Memory Consolidation. There is a fundamental difference between REM and NREM Sleep for memory
consolidation: REM is for emotional memories, whereas NREM is for declarative and procedural memories.
Hence, understanding and dealing with REM emotional memories can lead to treatment for the many
neuropsychiatric illnesses that have sleep/dream-related disorders or syndromes (Parkinson's Disease,
Anxiety, Substance Abuse, many sleep disorders such as Nightmare Disorder, etc., in addition to PTSD and
Depression). Research shows bi-directional causality between neuropsychiatric disorders and sleep disorders.
This is a superb example of how fundamental science breakthroughs lead to clinical breakthroughs. This fact
that REM is associated with emotional memories is nicely consistent with the apparent psychotic nature of
dreams, because in REM Sleep the frontal cortex is 'down-regulated' (and the frontal cortex is associated with
rational planning, reflection, controlling impulses), while in REM Sleep the limbic system is 'up-regulated"
(and the limbic system is associated with emotions and feelings) — see Neuroimaging below. This is
why dream states flood the ego with emotional fantasies without rational control. However, it is also true that
the limbic system enables creative ideas, thus grounding in science the long-suspected idea that sleep and
dreams can enhance creativity.
As Dr. Robert Stickgold, our other advisor on the series, wrote: "It would be nice if we could talk about sleep
and memory as if there were only one type of memory and one type of sleep. But this is far from the case.
Sleep and memory each comes in many forms, and furthermore, memories can go through multiple forms of
post-encoding processing that must be individually addressed."
Immunity / Immune System. Strengthening the immune system is now a proven product of NREM sleep.
Discerning the evolutionary basis for this is a key research project (i.e., it seems counter-intuitive
that sleeping facilitates fitness for survival in that predators lurked in the jungles and on the plains so that
going unconscious during sleep does not, at first glance, seem especially adaptive). Studies of sleep in various
non-human animals reveals a direct relationship between longer periods of NREM (Slow-Wave) Sleep and a
stronger immune system, especially in fighting parasites. NREM Sleep releases molecules that
fight inflection; NREM Sleep works for the maintenance, repair and activation of the immune system. (This
gives scientific rationale for the need or desire to sleep during illnesses.) Related are "genetic conflict" studies
with respect to REM and NREM, showing differences in heredity between material and paternal lines, and
differences between males and females in which genes get "imprinted".
Neuroplasticity. Exciting recent research has reversed the century-long conventional wisdom that new
neurons are never created in adult animals/humans. The development of new neurons — neuronogenesis — is a
vital part of maintaining normal brain and mental functioning. New neurons are being created, importantly, in
the hippocampus (brain organ where new memories are encoded) — but, remarkably, the neuronogensis in
the hippocampus occurs only/largely during REM Sleep — a stunning finding. This is another reason why
REM sleep is needed for emotional memory consolidation (normal functioning).
Dream-Content. Although dreams have sparked human fascination and fantasy for thousands of years, only
in very recent years, have large-scale surveys been conducted with rigorous design, classifications and
statistical analysis. Literally hundreds of thousands of dreams are enabling statistically significant theories,
including cross-cultural analyses (similarities and differences). Dream-posting sites have revolutionized size
and structure of dream data sets. This enables, for the first time, longitudinal studies of dreams over time.
Patterns are repeated. For example, in general, the dreams of males and females differ in fundamental ways.
Males will engage in fighting with other males; females with both males and females. Male dreamers
are often the initiator of fights and the fights are usually physical. Females fight verbally. Aggressiveness
by the dreamer is almost always in REM Sleep, rarely in NREM Sleep. (Why is a continuing question.)
"Lucid Dreaming" is a new area of fascinating research. Lucid Dreaming is where the dreamer "knows" that
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he/she is dreaming while dreaming (a talent that a small minority possesses but more can be
trained/developed). Lucid dreamers, while sleeping, can now communicate with experimenters by altering
their brain activity and thus becoming detectable by neuroimaging techniques (see below).
Neuroimaging. Finally, neuroimaging technology has enabled many of these breakthroughs. As such, it is
itself a methodological breakthrough that has enabled these other content breakthroughs. Neuroimaging now
enables detailed location of the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of REM and NREM Sleep. In
REM Sleep, the dorsolateral, frontal cortex is "down-regulated", whereas the limbic system is "up-regulated",
showing the physiological basis for the emotional, wild-fantasies of dreams (see above). (Neuroimaging will
enable good visual images for the TV series without extra costs.)
Patrick stresses that while these breakthroughs form, for the first time, a solid foundation for understanding
sleep and dreams, they also open opportunities to dig deeper into the "purpose" of sleep and dreams, as well
as engender a new series of questions and directions (e.g., clinical treatments of illnesses).
Attached is Patrick's quick compiling of summaries of a few recent leading research papers (2009 — 2017,
especially 2015-2017).
You'd enjoy speaking with him, if you want.
Love to do this series together with you.
Much appreciate and warm regards,
Robert
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How Not to Teach 175
Of course, the system teachers teach in does not allow them to
separate assessment and teaching. But it doesn’t allow them to teach
only cognitive processes either. For a cognitive process-based educa-
tion system to work, teachers must be allowed to teach, and others
should be the ultimate judges of success. Teachers need to help stu-
dents get where they are trying to go and let others decide whether
they have gotten there.
So, we have rule #2 for teaching:
Rule #2: A teacher should never be the ultimate judge of the
teachers own students’ success. Here again, this seems absurd. But
in the end, this separation of responsibilities is very important. Parents
judge how well their children are walking and talking, of course. But
the children are not anxious about passing their parents’ assessments.
The success is its own reward. And in the end, others judge how well
your children speak. A parent is really there to help, not judge.
Let’s look at mistake #3.
Mistake #3: Thinking there is something that everyone must
know in order to proceed
This is, of course, the killer mistake. Go to any faculty meeting, or
interview any teacher, and he will tell you that something is the basis
for all that follows that, and if you don’t know it, you can’t proceed
in the subject he teaches. Theory first is the mantra of nearly every
teacher. The question is why this is so. I have been in arguments about
this so often that I wonder why these views are so widely held.
Teach theory first, then practice. Because of this mantra, computer
science majors often don’t learn to program in a way that actually
would make them hirable, and budding medical students drown in a
sea of chemistry equations. Businesspeople learn about finance long
before they learn how to run a business, if they ever do learn that, and
psychology students learn about B.E. Skinner when what they really
wanted to know is why they are so screwed up.
Why do teachers like teaching theory so much? I think that the
answer is that it is orderly stuff, with official answers that the teach-
er gets to know while the students try to learn them. This puts the
teacher in a powerful situation and teachers are comfortable with
that. Teaching practice is much harder. There often are no right an-
swers and many screw-ups, and the learning process is much messier.
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Did the British promise the Arabs independence in
Palestine?
In July 1915, Hussein ibn ‘Ali, the Sherif of
Mecca, sent a letter to Sir Henry MacMahon,
the High Commissioner for Egypt, informing
him of the terms for Arab participation in the
war against the Turks. The letters between
Hussein and Mac-Mahon that followed outlined
the areas that Britain was prepared to cede to
the Arabs in exchange for their help.
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BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians
tions of regimes that have been sullied by the jailing of
dissidents or opposition leaders, the shuttering of media
generally because of other strategic concerns or simple
neglect, not because lobbyists have persuaded them
outlets, or violent attacks on peaceful demonstrators.
Is the money that authoritarians allocate for image
beautification well spent? Some campaigns have been
more successful than others, but autocracies that
hire well-known former cabinet secretaries or elected
officials to defend or deny their acts of repression often
fail to sway either the public or the policy community
in the United States. If democratic leaders have not
mounted adequate responses to such repression, it is
that the regime in question is benevolent and just.
Authoritarian efforts to change governments, as
opposed to perceptions, may ultimately prove more
rewarding. Russias wager on the rise of friendly
European populist parties already seems to be paying
off. After Britain's vote to withdraw from the EU and
the triumph of Donald Trump in the United States,
the prospect of radical shifts in global politics can no
longer be dismissed as unthinkable.
1. Brian Whitmore, “Vladimir Putin, Conservative Icon,” Atlantic, December 20, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/ar-
chive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/?single_page=true.
2. Ivo Oliveira, “National Front Seeks Russian Cash for Election Fight,” Politico, February 19, 2016, http://www.politico.eu/article/le-
pen-russia-crimea-putin-money-bank-national-front-seeks-russian-cash-for-election-fight/.
3. Andrew Higgins, “Far-Right Fever for a Europe Tied to Russia,” New York Times, May 20, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/
world/europe/europes-far-right-looks-to-russia-as-a-guiding-force.html?_r=0.
4. Susi Dennison and Dina Pardijs, “The World according to Europe's Insurgent Parties: Putin, Migration and People Power,” European
Council on Foreign Relations, June 27, 2016, http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/the world according to europes insur-
gent_parties/055.
5. Krisztina Than, “Special Report: Inside Hungary's $10.8 Billion Nuclear Deal with Russia,” Reuters, March 30, 2015, http://www.
reuters.com/article/us-russia-europe-hungary-specialreport-idUSKBNOMQOMP20150330.
6. Dennison and Pardijs, “The World according to Europe's Insurgent Parties.”
7. “Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Speech at the 25th Balvanyos Summer Free University and Student Camp,” Website of the Hungari-
an Government, July 26, 2014, http://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-minister/the-prime-minister-s-s peeches/prime-minister-vik-
tor-orban-s-speech-at-the-25th-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp.
8. Dennison and Pardijs, “The World according to Europe's Insurgent Parties.”
9. Ibid.
10. Jason Karaian, “Putin Has Friends on Europe's Far Right and Left (but Mostly Right),” Quartz, January 15, 2015, http://
gqz.com/326487/putin-has-friends-on-europes-far-right-and-left-but-mostly-right/.
11. Amber Phillips, “Paul Manafort’s Complicated Ties to Ukraine, Explained,” Washington Post, August 19, 2016, https://www.washing-
tonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/19/paul-manaforts-complicated-ties-to-ukraine-explained/.
12. Steven Lee Myers and Andrew E. Kramer, “How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump,” New York
Times, July 31, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html.
13. Ibid.
14. Engen Tham and Matthew Miller, “Exclusive: Beijing Auditions Foreign Public Relations Firms to Polish China Brand,” Reuters, April
22,2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pr-exclusive-idUSKCNOXJ007.
15. Arch Puddington, “Paul Manafort Is the Tip of the Iceberg,” Freedom at Issue, August 18, 2016, https://freedomhouse.org/blog/
paul-manafort-tip-iceberg; Ilya Lozovsky, “How Azerbaijan and Its Lobbyists Spin Congress,” Foreign Policy, June 11, 2015, http://
foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/11/how-azerbaijan-and-its-lobbyists-spin-congress/.
16. Ken Silverstein, “How Bahrain Works Washington,” Salon, December 8, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/how_bahrain
works washington/; Akbar Shahid Ahmed, “How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washington Influence Game,” Huffington
Post, September 2, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arab-gulf-states-washington_us_55e62be5e4b0b7a9633ac659.
17. Lachlan Markay, “State-Owned Venezuelan Oil Firm Spends Millions on U.S. Lobbying,” Washington Free Beacon, June 6, 2016,
http://freebeacon.com/issues/state-owned-venezuelan-oil-firms-spends-millions-u-s-lobbying/.
18. Ben Schreckinger and lulia loffe, “Lobbyist Advised Trump Campaign While Promoting Russian Pipeline,” Politico, October 7, 2016,
http://www. politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264.
19. Brian Rohan, “Egypt's Mukhabarat Hires Washington Lobbyists to Boost Image,” Associated Press, March 5, 2017, http://bigstory.
ap.org/article/d8d55dbbcedb4e589d33555cc5fa8855/egypts-general-intelligence-registers-washington-lobbyist.
20. Theodoric Meyer, “Flynn Lobbied for Turkish-linked Firm after Election, Documents Show," Politico, March 8, 2017, http://www.
politico.com/story/2017/03/michael-flynn-lobby-turkey-235843.
21. Ben Stewart, “When Russia Declared War on Greenpeace: The Story of the Arctic 30 Captured on a Gazprom Drilling Platform and
Sentenced to Years in Jail,” Independent, April 11, 2015, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/when-russia-declared-
war-on-greenpeace-the-story-of-the-arctic-30-captured-on-a-gazprom-drilling-10170138.html.
22. Andrew Higgins, “Russian Money Suspected Behind Fracking Protests,” New York Times, November 30, 2014, http://www.nytimes.
com/2014/12/01/world/russian-money-suspected-behind-fracking-protests.html.
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Date: Thursday, August 9 2018 10:47 AM
Subject: Fwd: Our May conversation - more thoughts
From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation©gmail.com>
To: BS Stern <
Hi all —
>;
I spent some time mulling additional aspects of a third choice presidential run and wanted to run five
specific attributes for a candidate by you as a group.
This much we know - the Fall elections are shaping up to be a referendum on the most divisive
American President in memory. The battle for potential Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh's
nomination this fall will only amplify the polarity of the political debate that is already deeply
overwrought on both sides. The rising tide of pressure on Donald Trump from the Mueller investigation
shows no sign of ebbing.
Unless the underlying political dynamics are disrupted, the outcomes of these unprecedented events will
still leave us with the same unsatisfactory two front battlefield of the 2016 Presidential election.
Watching these unrelenting, compounding events since our discussion in May, I am guessing we are all
asking the same question: now what? For the 48 percent of Americans who believe Donald Trump
should not be in the White House, perhaps we too want our own "chaos" candidate in 2020?
Should Trump run again, this could be a "break glass" moment for the majority of Americans who don't
support him. Do we want to break the genteel precedents of two parties running their ceremonious and
seemingly illogical nominating process to select a candidate? (Why do Iowa and New Hampshire play
such outsized roles? What kind of small-d democratic process relies on superdelegates?) The system
failed in 2016, with both parties producing terribly flawed candidates in a race to the bottom. We need to
build a back-up plan in the event the system fails again.
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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.
• 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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start out in striking distance in any three-way poll against Trump and a fill-in-the-blank
Democratic flavor-of-the day candidate. The media and political class will predetermine
irrelevance otherwise.
• A Democrat-leaning candidate would have to top the ideal third-party ticket. We need someone
with a shot at snaking a plurality of the vote in the blue states Hillary Clinton won (227 electoral
votes), but moderate enough to win a plurality in some combination of Trump states like Florida,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan (another 119 votes). The right candidate may even to put
North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana in play for a centrist bi-partisan ticket as well (totaling an electoral
sweep of 464 elector votes). A right leaning candidate would meet the same fate as a primary
challenger to Trump — for all intents and purposes we need to assume that 36% of voters won't be
cleaved from Trump under any circumstances and run to win around them. The deep red states
would be off the table entirely.
• With the Trump reality show airing daily, voters are now expecting to take their politics with a side
of entertainment. Heretofore, ratings will matter no matter how dry the policy topic. Surely
Stephen Colbert would gladly sacrifice his executive producer Chris Licht to produce a daily
comedic segment of this dream candidate interviewing Americans in truck stops and McDonald's
across the country. A few of the "Saturday Night Live" script writers could certainly be enticed to
disguise serious debates as informative amusement. Any candidate must be committed to a near
daily cadence of high quality, compelling video production. It will be especially crucial to keep
the voters' attention during what will be a raucous Democratic primary season. Rules governing
access to the general election debate stage dictate that a candidate enjoy support of at least 15% of
voters in the months leading up to the general election.
• This dream candidate would pledge to serve only four years and address all of the U.S.'s ticking
time bombs like Social Security, Medicare, health care reform, climate change, money in politics,
gerrymandering, and infrastructure investment in a single term. This one-and-done term decouples
our candidate from the usual politics and gives them the power of promise and deliver decisive
action. A four-year term pledge ensures governance independent of campaign finance concerns and
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narrow special interests inherent to winning re-election. This "fix-it" ticket would promise to force
decisions on all the underlying structural policy matters damaging America's long-term prospects
and distorting our democracy. No more kicking the can down the road.
• This candidate should also pledge to push for laws passed that reflect the will of simple majorities
in Congress. Congress now only allows bills to move forward when a "majority of a majority"
supports the policy and on many levels seems fundamentally broken. This third-party president
could force votes based on a transparent reading of where the votes lie via coalition building. The
Senate filibuster power will present a high hurdle, but a third-party candidate would be a de facto
disruptor of the two-party system. Party discipline could well break down, and moderates in both
parties could form a powerful, decisive block willing to work with the new President. The policies
passed into law may not be ideal for either Democrats or Republicans, but for the major agenda
items that must be addressed for America's long-term health, an imperfect fix that corrects course
is better than those that now have us hurtling toward national bankruptcy.
And if no candidate secures 270 electoral votes in 2020? The House of Representatives would choose the
next president. In 2016, reports suggested Michael Bloomberg declined to run on a third-party ticket for
fear of splitting support from Hillary Clinton and throwing the election to a GOP-controlled House of
Representatives who would then vote to select the president. The fear was the GOP controlled House
would have just elected Trump.
Would Democratic control of the House mean that the House would pick an alternative to Trump as
president? Each state delegation has a single vote in selecting a president and it is the incoming Congress
- the class elected in 2020 that would decide the election. But no matter which party has the speaker's
chair, the GOP would almost certainly have the upper hand in the majority of state delegations
controlled. Would the state delegations pick a president based on party majority control of the
delegation, the winner of the popular vote in each state or their own calculations as to who is best for
America? Precedent suggests that delegations use secret ballots, which means individual lawmakers may
vote their consciences.
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If we recruit this ideal candidate; threading the needle of name ID, a center-left bent, a TV- savvy
campaign team and a pledge to serve only four years with an apartisan agenda, money and campaign
expertise would certainly follow. And 50 state ballot access is a function of time (starting in the fall of
2019 would be prudential) and hard work as we have discussed and many of you have exhaustively war-
gamed.
Part and parcel of this effort would be motivating the often politically lackadaisical middle to vote. The
raft of new technologies in data targeting and biometric mobile voting technology could transform the
electorate in the next few, amping voter participation and injecting the voices of moderates (both in
political views and level of political interest) into the process. And any third-party effort must
incorporate advocacy for accelerated adaption of these all but inevitable voter verification tools. I believe
Silicon Valley could be game-changing allies in this effort.
I am sure none of us doubt that chaos could potentially be unleashed by jamming three viable candidates
into a two-party system. An election that ends up in the House of Representatives is an uncontrollable,
murky and ancient process. But might that be a less scary prospect than relying on the Democrats to
nominate a candidate who can beat Trump in 2020?
I look forward to talking more about all of our ideas on this hopeful project in coming weeks. Please feel
free to call me to discuss. Thank you for taking time to review this note.
Sincerely,
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From: Lesley Groff
Sent: 11/17/2017 12:17:02 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Marilyn
Importance: High
I had in apartment 3M. I will ask David about a room for tonight instead
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 17, 2017, at 7:06 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
what apt is Mt. staying in. call david mitchell, put her at the life hotel instead, for tonight if they have
room.
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Lesley Groff________________________wrote:
OK,...and are you OK with Larry getting you a car to take you to 71st upon landing at Teterboro on No. 26th?
On Nov 17, 2017, at 6:54 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
i will show up at aroudn 11 pm sunday so plenty of time
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Lesley Groff________________________wrote:
Reminder: Jojo and Merwin both requested off Nov. 25 and 26 to be with family in town and celebrate
Brianna's 16th Birthday. We will need to bring Marilyn to NY to help prepare for your arrival. We should
have Sonam and Leo to help as well. Shall we get a flight for Marilyn early Sat. Nov. 25th morning?
On Nov 16, 2017, at 6:47 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
marilyn
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Lesley Groff________________________wrote:
Will you want to bring back Marilyn or Carluz/Arline for the week you are in NY?
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 16, 2017, at 4:46 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
at the moment we will go to lsh on sunday the 26th early then to new york where i will stay the week,
larry , it will be assayay and I, trump is in town that week,
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14.”Overcome a final hurdle...”-- Greenwald. No Place to Hide. op.cit. p16-18
15. “Miss publishing it...” —The description of the Guardian’s reaction to
Greenwald’s offer of a scoop was reported by Luke Hardy, a Guardian reporter
commissioned by the Guardian editor to write “the Snowden Files,” a book that
Oliver Stone bought the film rights from the Guardian for $700,000. See The
Snowden Files. op cit. p.100-115
16. “Arranged for Micah Lee...”-- Micah Lee, “Ed Snowden taught me to
smuggle secrets past incredible danger.” The Intercept, Oct 28, 2014.
17. “I took everything I...” Edward Snowden and Peter Taylor, “Are you a
traitor,” Transcript. BBC Panorama, October 15, 2015 (Aired on BBC October
10, 2015)
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From: Lesley Groff
Sent: 10/13/2015 6:48:37 PM
To: Jefffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject:
Importance: High
below from
Hi Lesley,
I'm helping a friend at the doctors and should be available between 5 and 630p if we can talk then. Or anytime
tomorrow before 5pm. Going to Trump speech tomorrow night - think he's going to get the nomination....
Best,
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Chapter Twelve
My own part in the Lebanon war would change dramatically as a result of
that last military exercise in the Sinai. Arik Sharon was now Minister of
Defense, and he came for the final afternoon. From his experience as a frontline
commander — in 1956, 1967 and 1973 — he knew the dunes and wadis and
sprawling expanses of sand as well as any general in Israel. Watching our
intricate mini-war draw to its close, he made no effort to hide his enthusiasm for
the kind of quick, assertive battlefield maneuvers he’d long championed. But
more than that, his closest aide soon began sounding me out on my views about
the long-term organization, force balance and funding for the Israeli military. A
few weeks later, Arik offered me a promotion: a return to the kirya, as a two-
star general, to become head of planning for the armed forces.
I don’t know why he chose me: the Sinai exercise perhaps, the fact he knew
I'd studied “large and complex organizations” at Stanford, or maybe just the
fact our paths had first crossed two decades earlier when I was in Sayeret
Matkal. But even though it meant leaving my division command, especially
tough since the final Sinai withdrawal was approaching, it was an offer I never
contemplated turning down. Not just because of the second star on my uniform.
Ever since the 1973 war, along with a few other senior officers including Dan
Shomron, I had been making the case for a shift to more mobile and less
vulnerable forces and weapons systems. I saw the new role as a chance to help
encourage that critically important change.
There was just one hitch: all senior military assignments required the formal
approval of the chief-of-staff, my old friend Raful Eitan. Raful did manage to
delay things for several weeks. At one point, he even brought to bear a quality
I’d never suspected he had: a sense of humor. “OK, Pll agree to promote
Barak,” he told Arik. The next day, he said he’d meant /itan Barak — a very
good commander, by the way, who had been one of my instructors in officers’
school. Arik insisted, however. My appointment went through.
And one, unanticipated result was that I didn’t just play the field command
role I’d anticipated, from our Cinerama deployments, in Arik’s toweringly
ambitious, ill-planned and ultimately disastrous war in Lebanon. I became part
of months of planning discussions in the Airya before our tanks finally rumbled
across the northern border on the morning of June 6, 1982.
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BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians
continue their investigation of these techniques and
experiment with ways to combat them.
We also urge more intense coverage of Beijing's efforts
to undermine democratic norms in neighboring states
or territories, as in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and its
largely successful attempts to pressure other govern-
ments into repatriating citizens who had fled persecu-
tion in China.
Lastly, the media are not doing their job if they neglect
to give aggressive coverage to the lobbyists and pub-
lic-relations specialists who make money by repre-
senting dictators and kleptocrats. Those who flack for
the leaders of China, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and their ilk
should be made to answer for each political prisoner,
murdered opposition figure, shuttered newspaper, and
offshore account full of stolen funds that can be tied
to their authoritarian clients.
To the academic community: We urge academic
associations, individual scholars, and university
administrations to stand up for freedom of thought
and open inquiry at a time when those values are
under relentless pressure from dictatorships. We
urge statements of protest against the persecution of
fellow scholars or the politicized rewriting of history,
especially in countries, like Russia and China, that are
integrated into the international university system.
We urge universities to reject the establishment of
projects and study departments—whether at home or
overseas—that do not adhere to the highest stan-
dards of intellectual freedom or that restrict discus-
sion of certain subjects.
To the business community: We urge private busi-
nesses to avoid commercial relationships with
authoritarian governments that force them to violate
fundamental democratic principles. Private compa-
nies and investors have a clear interest in democratic
public goods like the rule of law, which guarantees
their property rights, and the transparency provid-
ed by free media and corruption watchdogs, which
ensures the accuracy of economic data and the fair
allocation of state contracts. They should therefore do
what they can to prevent any further deterioration in
the condition of global democracy.
Some sectors are especially vulnerable to authoritarian
pressure, and have a special role to play in combating it.
We urge the film industry to reject involvement in joint
ventures with companies that have close ties to au-
thoritarian regimes and reputations for demanding po-
liticized censorship of artistic content. We also urge the
technology industry to refuse business arrangements
that require active complicity in or passive acceptance
of political censorship or information control.
To the European Union: We urge the EU to undertake
a comprehensive review of member states’ democrat-
ic institutions to determine whether recent changes
have weakened checks and balances or unduly
protected incumbent parties from fair electoral com-
petition. The EU should adopt measures to publicize
departures from democratic standards and develop
a new set of sanctions that could be imposed on
noncompliant governments—whether inside, outside,
or hoping to join the bloc—even in the absence of
unanimity among member states. In the meantime,
the EU should use the sanctions already in place, even
if it means freezing a member state's participation,
and be prepared to actually impose any new sanctions
that might be introduced.
To private foundations: We urge private foundations
to recognize and oppose the current assault on
democracy. With a few exceptions, the great institu-
tions of American philanthropy have studiously—and
shamefully—ignored the steady erosion of global free-
dom and the rise of authoritarian powers. The recent
developments in Europe and the United States will
hopefully shake their complacency. There is a strong
need for analysis, support for individual dissidents,
and aid for societies under authoritarian threat, and as
many democratic governments waver in their com-
mitment to such priorities, it is essential for private
funders to step into the breach.
To mainstream political candidates: We urge re-
sponsible political figures to call out colleagues or
rivals when they show contempt for basic democratic
ideas. Until now, politicians in the democracies have
been unimpressive in their responses to opponents
who embrace authoritarian figures like Putin. This
is despite the overwhelming evidence of egregious
crimes under Putin’ rule: murdered journalists and
political opposition leaders, the invasion of neighbor-
ing states, brutish counterinsurgency campaigns in
the North Caucasus, the emasculation of a once-vi-
brant media sector, rigged elections, and much more.
If they choose to shower him with praise, political
leaders like Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, and Donald
Trump should be forced to account for the realities of
Putin's appalling record. The same is true for any politi-
cian who praises dictators in the Middle East, Asia, or
Africa.
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using a vibrator and he also paid her $200 for each other underage female E.W. brought him to
molest. She brought him between 20 and 30 underage females); Deposition of Jane Doe #4, date
(hereinafter “Jane Doe #4 Depo”) (Mepusition Attachment #5) at 32-34, and 136 (she describes
first being taken to Epstein at 15 years old, "Being fingered by him, having him use a vibrator on
[me], grabbing my nipples, smelling my butt, jerking off in front of me, licking my clit, several
times.").
3. At all relevant times Bdwards has had a good faith basis to conclude and did
conclude” that Epstein was able to access a large number of underage girls through a pyramid
abuse scheme in which he paid underage victims $200-$300 cash for each other underage victim
that she brought to him. See Palm Beach Police Incident Report at 87 (hereinafter “Incident
Report”) (Exhibit “A”)? The Palm Beach Police Incident Report details Epstein’s scheme for
molesting underage females. Among other things, the Incident Report outlines some of the
experiences of other Epstein victims. When S.G, a 14 year old minor at the time, was brought to
Epstein’s home, she was taken upstairs by a woman she believed to be Epstein’s assistant. The
woman started to fix up the room, putting covers on the massage table and bringing lotions out.
The “assistant” then left the room and told S.G. that Epstein would be up in a second. Epstein
walked over to 8.G. and told her to take her clothes off in a stern voice. S.G. states in the report
she did not know what to do, as she was the only one there. S.G. took off her shirt, leaving her
bra on. Epstein, then in a towel told her to take off everything. S.G. removed her pants leaving
? In support of all assertions concerning the actions Edwards took, what Edwards learned in the course of his
representation of his clients, Edwards’s good faith beliefs and the foundation for those beliefs, see Edwards
Affidavit and specifically paragraphs 25 and 25 of that Affidavit.
* For clarity, depositions attached to this memorandum will be identified numerically as attachments #1, #2, #3, etc.,
while exhibits attached to this memorandum will be identified alphabetically as exhibits A, B, C, etc.
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Dome,” a history of the ten years of politics surrounding the building of
the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis.
Click here to read more...
Check our ongoing updates on 2020 presidential candidates
Nazi Collaborators - Mufti Amin al-Husseini
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14. “Russia had dispatched at least...”.—Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes,
(Doubleday, New York) 2007, pp.450-451. Also, Walter Pincus, “CIA passed
bogus news to presidents,” Washington Post, October 31, 1995
15. “There are no rivers...”—Michael Hayden interview in Wall Street Journal.
Gerald Baker, “Michael Hayden Says U.S. Is Easy Prey for Hackers,” Wall
Street Journal June 22, 2015
16. “The best defense in this...”—Author’s interview with Source B/
“Meanwhile, it had become...”—NMorell. op. cit. p. xv
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Though no one claimed responsibility, there was no shortage of suspects.
During and since the civil war, Gemayel had at various times been at odds with
a whole array of enemies or rivals: Muslim militias, the PLO, other Maronite
factions and, of course, the Syrians. But I think for all of us, even Arik, the issue
of who was behind the bombing was hardly the most urgent concern. The
immediate danger was a revival of the kind of rampant bloodletting Lebanon
had endured in the civil war. The day after the assassination, I joined a half-
dozen other members of the general staff and helicoptered up to the Lebanese
capital. Arik, ignoring weeks of US pressure not to do so, had already ordered
Israeli troops into west Beirut — not to fight, but to take control of key junctions
and vantage points and keep basic order.
But the question obviously on everyone’s mind was how to make sure the
situation remained under control. It was early afternoon when we reached an
Israeli command post in the largely Palestinian southwest part of the city. It was
set up by Amos Yaron, the former paratroop commander whose division had
landed by sea at the start of the invasion and was part of the push north to the
capital. At his side was Amir Drori, the head of the northern command. They
had set up a rooftop observation post just a few hundred yards in from where I
had landed with my Sayeret Matkal team a decade earlier for the Rue Verdun
operation. It overlooked a pair of Palestinian refugee camps: Sabra and, a
couple of hundred yards closer to us, Shatila.
Raful was with us as well. So was Moshe Levy, the deputy chief-of-staff,
and Uri Saguy, the head of the operations branch in the kirya. I listened rather
than spoke. All I could gather from the other generals’ conversation was that
they were trying to figure out how to handle the Palestinian camps. No one
explicitly mentioned the idea of Israeli troops going in, presumably because
they realized that, far from helping ensure order, that might well inflame things
further. Even Raful, at least in my earshot, made no reference to the “several
thousand” PLO fighters that he and Arik still wanted out of Beirut. The only
note that struck me as odd was a general agreement that the Phalangists had not
been carrying their load of the fighting during the war. One comment in
particular stuck with me, though I didn’t take it as referring to the Palestinian
camps in particular. I can’t remember which general said it, only that everyone
seemed to agree: “Why the hell do we have to do their fighting for them?”
It was not until the next morning, back in Tel Aviv, that the alarm bells rang
for me, and by then it turned out to be too late. It was Friday, the eve of the
Jewish New Year. Yet in the wake of Gemayel’s assassination, the kirya was
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from: Richard Kahr ET
Sent: 11/21/2016 8:29:50 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Cozen O'Connor - 7 Ways the Trump Administration Will Affect Businesses
Importance: — High
https: //www.cozen.com/cozendocs/7-Trump-Administration-Policies-Affecting-Businesses/#_home
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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Regulatory Changes
On June 22, 2011, to implement provisions of Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted
final rules implementing new exemptions from the registration requirements of the Investment
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fund exemption. The General Partner may need to take into consideration certain conditions
regarding the nature of investments that may be made by investment vehicles advised by an
investment adviser relying on the venture capital exemption, which may constrain the Fund’s
investment flexibility or require certain non-qualifying investments to be disposed of earlier
than they might otherwise be. In addition, compliance with the venture capital fund exemption
may subject the Fund to limitations on the Fund’s operations, including limitations on the
Fund’s ability to borrow, provide guarantees and make short-term investments that are more
restrictive than any limitation set forth in the Partnership Agreement.
Reliance on the venture capital exemption also will necessitate reporting certain information to
the SEC about the Management Company, the General Partner and their affiliates and may
result in such entities being subject to SEC examination authority and certain Advisers Act
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targets—was largely American. It would be another 10 days before
she would go to London to arrange for the military campaign to be
handled by nato. Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United
States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict.
Madam Secretary
For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just
one critical piece of his record. But, for Hillary Clinton, the swirling
challenges of the region are likely to determine her legacy. Many
diplomats remain anxious; the world they knew has been upended.
Yet they also understand that the months ahead will be Hillary’s
moment to help turn those ripples into a permanent tide of reform and
renewal.
But Hillary’s intense diplomatic efforts to forge a coalition to go to
war in Libya came at the exact worst time, only two months after
WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing Web site run by Julian Assange,
began posting thousands of classified State Department cables online.
Candid descriptions of foreign leaders (e.g., Putin is the “alpha dog”
of a “virtual mafia state”) were published around the world and have
already led to the departure of U.S. ambassadors in Mexico and
Ecuador, with more fallout on the way. Hillary told staff that she
could not fathom how an army private, Bradley Manning, with
psychological problems and a drag-queen boyfriend could single-
handedly cause the United States unprecedented embarrassment just
by labeling massive downloads as Lady Gaga songs.
Several allies needed little comfort. “Don’t worry about it,” one
leader told Hillary. “You should see what we say about you.” Italian
prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wasn’t so forgiving. In 2008 the
loutish media baron and billionaire had described Barack Obama as
“young, handsome and bronzato (bronzed),” but after WikiLeaks he
chose to play the victim. It wasn’t clear whether he was genuinely
upset about a cable describing him as “physically and politically
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Baylor loves its students. | love the students. We want them not only to be safe, but to flourish. We
worked hard to achieve that goal in a fallen world, where all too often, students will yield to temptations
all around them. We could always do more. And the silver lining of the nine-month ordeal culminating
in the events of May 2016 is that no university is more focused on Title IX-related prevention and
effective response than our beloved Baylor.
To be sure, there were failures and shortcomings. In particular, | lament the now-known fact that first
responders were, at best, insensitive to reports of sexual violence. But there are limits to what the
University can do with respect to OFF-CAMPUS behavior, especially when alcohol flows freely — and all
too frequently, it flows to tragic excess. But that jurisdictional point — off-campus drinking, not
infrequently under-age drinking — was deemed utterly irrelevant by American culture’s ultimate
mediator, the mainstream media, led in this instance by ESPN. Its provocative investigative reporting
avenue, “Outside the Lines,” had found a target on the banks of the Brazos. Several of us, including
Coach Art Briles, an honorable and decent man (and football genius) would be fatally hit by the media’s
unrelenting fusillade.
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| am a TV journalist who covered the Epstein story for several years and wrote a best selling book
about him with James Patterson in 2016.
Jim Patterson and | are now consulting on a four hour Netflix documentary series tentatively set to
air towards the end of the year.
The showrunner, Lisa Bryant, is working with director Joe Berlinger whose work | am sure you are
familiar with, to produce a fair and balanced, in-depth recounting of the Epstein saga that, as you
know, has every possible dramatic angle and is a story like no other.
We thought of you because of your remarkable reputation in the public relations and show business
world and the fact that you were an acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein.
The tawdry side of the story has been told...We hope you can give us some insight and context into
who he was before his life fell apart.
| am sure that Lisa Bryant,Joe Berlinger and Jim Patterson would all make themselves available to
get on a call with you this week.
Jim is in Florida,and Joe is traveling overseas for his Ted Bundy film.
Lisa is in New York and would be happy to meet you in person as would |.
Thanks for giving this your consideration.
Best,
Tim Malloy
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How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools 189
obviously respected by Boeing, so he is a senior and successful man
in his field. This means a small teaching load since the best professors
teach the least. Three semester-long courses in a year is a light load at
a big state university.
You might wonder, as an outsider to the ins and outs of the uni-
versity, why the best professors teach the least. You also might wonder
why I knew the types of courses he would teach and what I mean by
that. I will explain.
To start this explanation, it is important to understand why pro-
fessors are “rewarded” with light teaching loads. (Note the word load.
This is the normal way this is discussed in a university.) I was given
an extraordinarily light load at Northwestern for two reasons. One
reason was that universities, like baseball teams, recruit so-called “su-
perstars” (yes, that is how they are referred to in the university) from
competitors. So Northwestern had to beat Yale’s offer in my case. At
Yale I taught one semester-long course per year, so Northwestern sim-
ply made me a better offer.
The reason both of these universities would even consider such a
light load is that I earned money for the university. As I used to tell
my children when they asked “why” questions, in the end it is usually
about money.
I was recruited by Northwestern (in 1988), but I was really being
recruited by Andersen Consulting. They offered Northwestern (that is,
they offered me if I came to Northwestern) $30 million (over a 10-year
period). Yes, that’s right, $30 million. I think you can see that North-
western didn’t really care what I taught or when I taught it. They
wanted that money. And, they also wanted the prestige.
Before I go too much further, I need to explain the prestige thing
because it is very important. In fact, the prestige issue for professors
and universities is precisely the root of the problem in our education
system. This will take some time to explain, so let me start simply for
now.
When Harvard plays Yale in football, they are battling for prestige.
But the battle may not be on the field exactly. The real battle is in
how powerful and important the alumni who attend the game have
become and how big their respective endowments have become and
who has the best chemistry department or business school. It is a real
battle. The battle is for reputation. And, although it may seem silly to
take this battle seriously, it is taken very seriously. There is no World
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; Origins February 24 — 26, 2017
PROJECT An Origins Project Scientific Workshop
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Challenges of Artificial Intelligence:
Envisioning and Addressing Adverse Outcomes
2) DEMOCRACY, INFORMATION, AND IDENTITY
Al, Information, and Democracy
(Incorporating contributions from Shahar Avin, Sean O hEigeartaigh, David McAllester, Eric Horvitz,
and others)
An informed public is important to the healthy functioning of democratic societies. We can expect
potential forthcoming advances around the control of information feeds with applications in
spreading propaganda, via spreading false or misleading information, creating anxiety, fueling
conspiracy theories, and influencing voting. Such methods will bring key challenges to democracy.
CHALLENGES AHEAD WITH Al, PROPOGANDA, AND PERSUASION
Data-centric analyses have been long used in marketing, advertising, and campaigning over
decades. However, over the past few years, we have seen the rise of the use of more powerful
tools, including machine learning and inference aimed at algorithmic manipulation, with the target
of influencing the thinking and actions of people. Some initial uses of these methods reportedly
played a role in influencing the outcome of recent US presidential elections, as well as the
elections in 2008 and 2012. We can expect to see an upswing in methods that manipulate states of
information in a personalized automated manner. These systems can be designed and deployed as
omnipresent/persistent, and aimed at specific goals for group- or person-centric persuasion.
As our data and models of how people consume and act on information improve, and as an
increasing portion of information consumption is mediated through digital systems managed by
potentially opaque algorithms, it becomes increasingly conceivable that the information ecosystem
would get captured by malicious actors deploying increasingly advanced tools to control, shape,
forge and personalize information, from ads to news reports.
Machine learning, in conjunction with active learning, expected value decision making, and
optimization of allocations of key resources, such as dollars or human effort, can be targeted at
monitoring, understanding, and then working to influence the beliefs and actions of large
populations of people. Data can be collected from large-scale populations, across multiple devices
and services, and used to make inferences about the psychologies and beliefs of people, and for
designing and guiding persuasive flows of sequences of information. Uses of Al can include
attempts to optimize stealthiness of the interventions.
In the future, a great deal of the information consumed by citizens on personal devices is subject
to alteration by information-engineers at media corporations and governmental propaganda
offices, such that outside a few key positions of power no one really knows what is going on in the
world. There is a danger of the growth of domination over time of large populations by a single
dominant or a few systems. We can imagine methods that modify even such feeds as Wikipedia
articles, creating personalized views—that subtly shift the version of the article seen by my
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newspaper, book, painting or magazine can be hauled into a Federal court anywhere in the
United States and charged with participating in a national conspiracy.”
Shortly thereafter, Nat Hentoff wrote a long front-page analysis of the Village Voice. Hentoff
warned his readers of the consequences of a government victory in the Reems case.
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent
constitutional lawyers, has never been known as an apocalyptic civil libertarian.
Accordingly, when Professor Dershowitz speaks of the recent criminal convictions in a
porno-film case as being so chilling as to ultimately also freeze the printed word, the
warning is a weightier than if it had come from those who habitually clamor that the
constitutional sky is falling...
Should the verdict against Harry Reems be sustained, obscenity indictments throughout
the country will pyramid.
Hentoff explained that the implications of the Reems prosecution go well beyond obscenity. Ifa
conspiracy charge like this one was to be upheld on appeal, the government could make
dangerous use of that precedent in political cases involving, for example, antiwar activists.
Hentoff then quoted my legal argument:
“[H]ere was an actor who, on the one day he worked on Deep Throat, had no idea what
the ultimate film was going to look like. He knew it was a sex film, but he had not seen
any script in advance. There was no way he could know whether it was going to be soft
core or hard core. And, in fact, Harry never even saw the film before it was released. Yet
he’s convicted of a conspiracy to move the film, in the form it finally took, across state
lines.”
Following the publication of the Hentoff article had, hundreds of readers came forward and
volunteered their assistance. It also generated numerous other stories—presenting our side of the
case.
KING OF THE PORNO ACTORS FINDS HIMSELF IN DEEP THROES
IN TROUBLE UP TO HIS THROAT
HOW HARRY GOT REAMED
DEEP THREAT
PORN’S DEEP GOAT
REEMS SHAFTED IN BIBLE BELT
Reems and I crisscrossed the country, speaking at universities, town halls and other venues. Our
appearances were widely covered by the media. The New York Times described a joint
appearance at the Harvard Law Forum:
Harry stood with a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter beaming down on
him. Besides him sat Alan Dershowitz, looking like a tweedy Marx Brother with his wild
nimbus of ash-blond hair, saying that he felt Harry Reems’ trial was the most significant
First Amendment conspiracy case since Dr. Spock.
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MR. TEIN: Stop misrepresenting the record
and calm down. I'm going to ask my question.
Stop it.
BY MR. TEIN:
MR. LEOPOLD: | think the record is very
clear.
MR. GOLDBERGER: Let me just clarify
something. When you object to the form of a
question, you're not instructing the witness not
to answer the question, are you?
MR. LEOPOLD: No. And |'m not making that
objection; only on attorney/client privilege.
MR. TEIN: Will you stop speaking now so |
can ask my question? Are you done?
Okay. I'm going to ask my question.
BY MR. TEIN:
Q, Listen, I --
MR. LEOPOLD: Hold on. Stop.
I've been doing this for 20 plus years and
have met a lot of attorneys, but I’ve never had an
experience like this where I've --
MR. TEIN: Stop your speeches.
MR. LEOPOLD: If you continue to do this,
whether it's with me or with my client, | will not
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and it's not appropriate. And I'm sure Mr.
Goldberger knows al! this, because | know that he
wouldn't do this. So ft will not put up with it.
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and let each economist decide which version is more useful. Mine, at least, correctly
describes those same four years as losing ones.
National Accounts Overall
It seems to me that national accounts are doing nothing wrong except in modeling
the depreciation curve from misleading sales evidence. Evidence seems to show
depreciation as fast at first, and slower later. That tends to be true when depreciable
assets are actually sold. Structures tend to be customized for their original owners
and occupants. They tend to be resold when results are disappointing. This
disappointment often comes when expectations are first tested. When distressed
sellers market illiquid structures customized for themselves, prices too will be
disappointing.
Better to trust evidence of structures intended in the first place to pass from owner
to owner, as with many standardized rather than customized apartment and office
and warehouse buildings. Better still, from an economist’s viewpoint if not an
accountant’s, is to trust logic. Capital is present value of expected cash flow. Its loss
of value with time, under simplifying assumptions, is the present value of the most
distant and most discounted cash flow. Depreciation of structures we keep, rather
than sell, is least at first and greatest at the end. It is the same as with a level-
payment mortgage.
National accounts are nonetheless a magnificent achievement. They need
interpretation just as corporate accounts do. That’s where economics comes in. And
national accounts are not resting on past practices. They can be congratulated on
including market valued capital, even if sixty years too late, and on extrapolating it
backward where practical. This book could scarcely have been written if they hadn’t.
I would recommend the obvious next step. Net investment should be shown
alternatively as change in market-valued, and output as that plus consumption. Let
economists decide which version is good for what.
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From: Martin G. Weinberg
Sent: 5/25/2017 1:02:58 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Subject: ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE
Importance: High
Reid mentioned along with Ted Olson, one or two others as potential add'I lawyers for Trump in today's Law 360
Martin G Weinberg PC
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Date: Friday, March 4 2011 04:31 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@grnail.corn>
To: Martin Weinberg <>; Jay Lefkowitz
>;
----------Forwarded message----------
From: GMAX <gmaxl@ellmax.com >
Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Subject: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell
To: J Jep <jeevacation@gmail.com >
Forwarded Message
From: Mark Cohen <
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:14:35 -0500
To: NY Max <gmaxlgellmax. com >
Subject: FW: Ghislaine Maxwell
FYI, following up on my email of this morning. Again, I have no intention of responding unless you direct otherwise.
From:
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 11:12 AM
To: Brett D. Jaffe
Subject: Ghislaine Maxwell
Dear Brett Jaffe,
I left you a telephone message earlier. The Mail on Sunday newspaper is running a story on Ghislaine
Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and others this weekend.
We urgently require responses from Ms Maxwell to the following questions. Our deadline is noon
tomorrow. My telephone numbers are or
Annette Witheridge
On behalf of the Mail on Sunday
1.______________________says Ghislaine Maxwell offered her a job as a masseuse with Jeffrey Epstein when she was
aged 15. Ms Maxwell led upstairs on her first visit to him at his Palm Beach house. Mr Epstein was
naked on massage table.
Ms Maxwell initiated a bisexual encounter during which Ms Maxwell rubbed her own breasts on Mr Epstein
and directed to copy her.
Please respond to these allegations and all others in the original Jane Doe 102 complaint.
2. Ms Maxwell took part in numerous other sexual encounters involving her assistant
and Mr Epstein.
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3. Ms Maxwell kept sex toys and costumes in the Palm Beach mansion and dressed prior to sex
sessions with Mr Epstein. S Maxwell herself wore black vinyl during sex sessions with Mr Epstein.
4.
men.
was paid between US $200 and $ 5000 US sex, depending on whether it involved travel and other
5, was required to have sex with friends of Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein, including Glenn Dubin, Les
Wexner, Ehud Barak, former Senator George Mitchell and Stephen Kosslyn.
6. Ms Maxwell introduced to Prince Andrew in 2001 at Ms Maxwell's London house where
had sex with him. subsequently was directed to meet him at Mr Epstein's New York house where Ms
Maxwell directed to sit on Andrew's knee with_______________ Andrew groped both girls. Ms
Maxwell directed after this to have sex with Andrew.
Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein subsequently travelled with to Little St James where she was directed
to stage an orgy for Andrew and Mr Epstein during which she performed oral sex on
them.
7. was paid extra by Mr Epstein or his employees for these sexual encounters.
8. Ms Maxwell knew age and laughed about it when she introduced her to Andrew.
9. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein tried to persuade to bear his child.
10. After sexual encounters with male friends of Mr Epstein and/or Ms Maxwell, Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein
would ask explicit questions about what went on.
11. Mr Epstein's residences in Florida and New York had surveillance cameras that taped the sex sessions and
taped even in the bathroom.
12. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein arranged for Ehud Barak to have sex with several girls, often at Mr Epstein's
Palm Beach house.
13. Ms Maxwell r.ited President Bill Clinton in a helicopter to a dinner on Little St James where two brunettes
Ms Maxwell, and Mr Epstein were at the table.
14. Mr Epstein bought Ms Maxwell the helicopter, homes in New York and London and a Mercedes.
End of Forwarded Message
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constitute inside information, and is intended only for
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mentioned the involvement of state in capitalism as one of the big dangers. But these two
parties you’ve mentioned, they actually have close ties with Putin, who is the promoter of
this big danger, so I'd like to know your thoughts about this and how you’re going to deal
with it.
Bannon: Could you summarize that for me?
Harnwell: The first question was, you'd reference the Front National and UKIP as
having elements that are tinged with the racial aspect amidst their voter profile, and the
questioner was asking how you intend to deal with that aspect.
Bannon: I don’t believe I said UKIP in that. I was really talking about the parties on the
continent, Front National and other European parties.
I’m not an expert in this, but it seems that they have had some aspects that may be anti-
Semitic or racial. By the way, even in the tea party, we have a broad movement like this,
and we've been criticized, and they try to make the tea party as being racist, etc., which
it’s not. But there’s always elements who turn up at these things, whether it’s militia guys
or whatever. Some that are fringe organizations. My point is that over time it all gets kind
of washed out, right? People understand what pulls them together, and the people on the
margins I think get marginalized more and more.
I believe that you'll see this in the center-right populist movement in continental Europe.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time with UKIP, and I can say to you that I’ve never seen anything
at all with UKIP that even comes close to that. I think they've done a very good job of
policing themselves to really make sure that people including the British National Front
and others were not included in the party, and I think you’ve seen that also with tea party
groups, where some people would show up and were kind of marginal members of the tea
party, and the tea party did a great job of policing themselves early on. And I think that’s
why when you hear charges of racism against the tea party, it doesn’t stick with the
American people, because they really understand.
I think when you look at any kind of revolution — and this is a revolution — you always
have some groups that are disparate. I think that will all burn away over time and you'll
see more of a mainstream center-right populist movement.
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world! The flyers talk about how cool it would be to vacation anywhere in the world, zip to work or
school, or have fun soaring like an eagle. The invisibility types talk about sneaking into stores and taking
clothes or music they like, eavesdropping on conversations, and playing tricks on family members and
friends. What is even more interesting about these particular answers is how they divide into pure
hedonism — flying — and pure vice — invisibility. With invisibility you can take risks at no cost, except
for the cost that soon becomes apparent to many of these newly donned superheroes: even if they don’t
get caught, they still did something bad, morally bad. This ratchets up their guilt. With this realization,
and a dip into the dark side, comes an about face, with some picking flying instead of invisibility. Rarely
do people stick with invisibility, but see how they might deploy their power for virtuous purposes. Rarely
do these superheroes realize that they can be real heroes, using their invisibility to gain covert information
about terrorist organizations, elicit drug traders, pedophilic priests, or abusive parents — minus the risks.
In real life, there are risks associated with every decision, some clear from the start and others
only clear in hindsight. As with self-control, a growing body of evidence shows that there are individual
differences in risk-taking: some are risk-averse, some risk-prone, and some seemingly risk-blind, unaware
that they are taking risks at all. Some of these differences are evident early in life. Some of these
differences are strongly associated with crime later in life. Some of these differences provide insights into
the invisible risks that individuals and societies confront, risks that can cause great harms.
Research on clinical populations with antisocial disorders, most notably those with a clinical
diagnosis of psychopathy, reveals a major cause of their high risk, costly, and violent behavior: a failure
to experience fear, anxiety, or stress in response to highly evocative images and sounds. In contrast with
healthy populations, psychopaths are emotionally blasé about the things in the world that can cause harm
or result in punishment. The problem lies in the fact that psychopaths, both adults and those identified as
candidates early in childhood, fail to learn about the dangers in life. Their failure to learn is caused by a
reduction in size and activity of two critical and connected brain areas: a region of the frontal cortex and
the amygdala. When this system works efficiently, it allows individuals to learn about the sounds, smells,
and sights that are associated with bad things in the world. When this system works well, individuals
learn to avoid antisocial, immoral, and illegal acts by developing anxiety and fear over the possibility of
punishment and personal injury. When this system works poorly, as is the case in psychopaths,
individuals act as if there are no dangers or risks of punishment — a disposition that enables inappropriate
actions. But psychopathy covers a broad spectrum, with problems that all of us confront at some point in
our lives, some of us even repeatedly. This is important as it forces us to look at non-clinical populations
for the causes of individual differences in risk-taking, especially our reactivity to dangerous events.
Studies carried out over several decades, in a wide variety of cultures, reveal that children begin
life with distinctive temperaments. Some are mellow, blasé about events that are startling to many.
Hauser Chapter 4. Wicked in waiting 133
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From: Lesley Groff
Sent: 5/23/2011 7:42:56 PM
To: Jefffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Fwd: 1st Anniversary show today -- Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin
Importance: High
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Mark Green" <
Date: May 23, 2011 3:37:46 PM EDT
To:
Subject: 1st Anniversary show today -- Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin
Dear Friend,
Both Sides Now w/Huffington & Matalin celebrates its 1st anniversary this week. As the
only 2 sides/2 women show on national radio, we've grown from 16 stations in May of
2010 to 110 now.
Arianna and Mary find consensus that, contrary to the Washington and media
conventional wisdom, the Jobs Agenda is more urgent than the Deficit Agenda ("if people
only read about shark attacks, they'll worry about shark attacks," says Arianna). And they
agree that there's an apparent outbreak of men abusing the help -- Strauss-Kahn,
Schwarzenegger, Ensign. To paraphase Freud, what do men want?
But there's sharp disagreement about whether Rep. Ryan walked into Obama's trap by
proposing to end Medicare in 10 years. Will the special election this Tuesday in Jack
Kemp's old seat produce a Democratic "Scott Brown Moment"?
To read the show summary and listen, http://www.huffindtonpost.com/huff-radio/both-
sides-now-1st-annive b 865325.html
Best,
Mark Green
Host
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Add mark@markgreen.com to your email address book to ensure delivery
Forward to a Friend I Manage Subscription I Subscribe I Unsubscribe
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Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Foundation Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
Research Office: 480.965.6378 | Assistant
Origins Office
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origins.asu.edu | twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | krauss.faculty.asu.edu
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Science reporter | BuzzFeed News
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Foundation Professor
School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404
Research Office: 480.965.6378 | Assistant (Jessica): 480.965.9825
Origins Office (Cynthia): 480.965.0053
krauss@asu.edu
origins.asu.edu | twitter.com/Ikrauss1 | krauss.faculty.asu.edu
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From: Tyler Shears
Sent: 7/16/2014 5:56:14 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
CC:
Christina Galbraith
Richard Kahn
Subject: Re: Shears Update
Importance: High
yes agree
result got worse with recent negative press, clinton, as we discussed
we were down to 1 negative (forbes) before that - Christina can confirm this.
It will get back to 1 and then 0 so long as negative things stop coming out. if new negative keeps coming out it
really dismantles much of our effort... especially when it involves an ex-president
no excuses here i'm not pleased with where it is at and am still working to make it happen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:25 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Results still very bad
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, Christina Galbraith _________________________________________ /rote:
Hi Tyler,
The social media sites are constantly updated: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, google +.
I'll be in touch later today re: feature article.
Could you put a site map into the Net site.? This helps rankings. Also could you add it to google analytics
using Jeffrey's gmail account? This allows me to monitor it's progress and index it periodically.
I'll call you later. Thanks,
Christina
Christina Galbraith
On Jul 16, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Tyler Shears
Christina,
wrote:
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http://jeffreyepstein.net/ - Site is live and Share This shows up when you scroll down page (look for top menu
bar)
I expect this to rank swiftly - I'm sending a list of all properties we need to point over in this direction with
suggested anchor text.
Do you have the topic right I'm doing a placement around? I'm going to have a few articles spun-off from it
and put into lower tier publications as well.
I want to push HARD in August with a premium placement, fresh link pushes, and some supporting
placements. We should be able to get down to 1 negative by mid-September with a goal of being clean by end
of year (unless new negative press comes again...)
For social media updates... Are you currently doing these? I'd like to look at how often we are doing them and
trying to link to our own content more often.
I'm also exploring if we can get this new site included in Google News and maybe syndicate other important
Al news through it... would give us free google news spots when we need them..
JE - There's 3 negatives today and that's 3 too many. There will be progress please continue to be patient as
you have been.
Best
Tyler
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~0929104. TXT
42
3
4 Q. All right. Let's talk about what happened
5 after the massage was over.
6 A. Okay.
7 Q. After the massage you told Epstein that you
8 wanted to bring your twin sister back so she could make
9 some money, correct?
10 A. Incorrect.
11 Q. Your twin sister isi right?
12 A. Correct.
13 Q. And you love | very much, don’t you?
14 A. Yes.
15 Q. And when you left the house you were joking
16 with the other girls, weren't you?
17 A. Incorrect.
18 Q. Well, when and the other girl in the
19 car that day made their statements to the police they
20 told the police that you were joking afterwards. Are you
21 saying that they were lying to the police about that?
22 A. No. But a question or -- questions from
23 a -- like she asked me questions, but it wasn't
24 joking. She was kind of like in a happy way, like, "Oh,
25 what did you do? What did you do?” Like those kind of
43
—_
things, but it wasn't joking about it at all.
2 Q. You joked about it, didn't you?
3 A. No.
4 Q. You said to ME that if you did this
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F.=2-C_, (A5.1)
where F, is human cash flow, z (pi) is pay, and C_ is invested consumption. The
subscript s, as usual, means saved or self-invested.
Pay z can be defined as the worker’s literal or imputed revenue. Self-invested
consumption C_ can be defined as any investment in human capital other than
through self-invested work. This makes C, all investment from outside in a sense.
But that does not mean that it is limited to transfer in. There is also plowback from
revenue (pay 7 ), as when we spend pay on textbooks or tuition. I model “pay
plowback” 7, as minor in the world we know, but definitions must account for it.
This I define
C.=(H) +m, or t(H) =C,-7,, (A5.2)
where t(H)_ is “human transfer in”. This and (A1.2a), showing F =T_, give
F(H) =c(H) =C,-z, . (A5.3)
(A3.1) and (A3.2), analyzing the firm, derived
P-P. = Y gross = Y, +D, 5
For human capital, this can show as
1-1. = W, gross = W, + D(H), , (A5.4)
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grueling work have finally paid off. King George VI and Harvey Weinstein now share the journey of a
single man who triumphs over adversity.
The Governor’s ball, held above the Kodak Theater, recreates the Mocambo-Ciro’s niteries of the 1930’s
and 40’s, using a palette of teal and white. Three bands alternate musical styles as hungry guests wolf
down wolfgang Puck’s delicious food. The winners triumphantly sachet around the room holding their heavy
eight pound gold statues.
An hour later there is a migration to the famous Vanity Fair party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Sunset
Tower Hotel owned by Jeff Klein. One celebrity after another poses in front of the green hedge standing
in the middle of the circular Vanity Fair logo to record their devotion and support to Graydon and the
magazine.
There’s a hierarchy of arrival times. The inner circle of Graydon’s 150 best friends attend a seated
dinner and viewing of the show at 5pm. They include Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg, Francis Ford
Coppola, Jon Hamm and Jennifer westfeldt, Betsey Bloomingdale, Tory Burch and Lyor Cohen, Tom Ford, Sandy
Gallin, Mitch Glazer and Kelly Lynch, Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, L’Wren Scott and Sir Mick Jagger,
Naomi Watts and Live Schreiber, Wendi Stark, Judd Apatow, Jackie and Joan Collins, George Hammilton,
Donna Karan and Steve Martin.
The best and the brightest talent in town arrive at 9pm. They are Justin Bieber and his date Selena
Gomez, Andrew Garfield, Jude Law, Vera Farmiga, Armie Hammer, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Charlize
Theron, Anne Hathaway, Hailee Steinfield,Taylor Hackford and Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Michelle
williams, Isla Fischer and Sasha Baron Cohen, Jane Fonda after her play, “33 Variations”, Melania and
Donald Trump whom I introduce to David 0. Russell as The Trumpster gushes about “The Fighter”. Donald
offers me a ride home on his plane. He is leaving in ten minutes. Too bad James Franco didn’t know
because he is presently sitting on a commercial flight back to school, skipping his own after party.
Social standings of the rest of the guests are determined by half hour increments. Every other person
previously mentioned in the story is here. VF’s Beth Kseniak and Matt Ullian tell me the list is cut down
to 800 this year.
At 11:30pm there is another celebrity migration up the hill to Madonna manager Guy Oseary’s house. One
should note that earlier in the evening Madonna came down the hill to pose in a risqué outfit with
daughter Lourdes in front of the green hedge. Madonna and co-host Demi Moore are able to lure the créme
de la créme with the promise of fabulous music, dancing and no cameras. Those reported on their dance
floor include Ryan Phillippe with Amanda Syedfried, who were making out all night and Phillippe’s ex-wife
Reese Witherspoon and new fiancé Jim Toth. They pregnant Natalie Portman and choreographer Benjamin
Millepied, Mick Jagger, Tom Hanks, Sean Penn, Ralph Feinnes, Mila Kunis, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow
and Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper boogie til dawn.
A winner’s work is never done. Colin Firth, Tom Hooper and David Seidler show up at 4:30am at The Four
Seasons Hotel for a live broadcast on The Today Show with Meredith Vieira. Functioning on an adrenalin
rush, they are back at the Kodak Theater with Geoffrey Rush to appear on Oprah’s live broadcast. Leave it
to Oprah to get the king’s last words.
----- Original Message-----
From: Peggy Siegal
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:12 PM
To: Stephanie
Subject: Oscar diary
Send to jeffrey
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From: Nicholas Ribis____________________________________________
Sent: 1/3/2017 2:07:16 PM
To: 'jeffrey E.' [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Trump appears with mobster-affiliated felon at New Year's bash/Joe Cinque
Importance: High
Jeffrey --I thought you might be interested in this article-- Nick
Trump appears with mobster-affiliated felon at New Year's bash
President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year together with Joseph "Joey No Socks" Cinque — a
convicted felon with ties to notorious Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, a recently released video has
revealed.
Cinque can be seen in a video obtained by the Palm Beach Daily News , cheering loudly as a tuxedo-clad
Trump runs through a number of campaign promises before the hundreds of guests attending the New Year's
Eve bash the President-elect threw at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Saturday.
"The taxes are coming down, regulations are coming off, we're going to get rid of Obamacare," Trump can be
heard saying as an exuberant Cinque stands next to him, pumping his fists into the air.
Cinque's Sunday appearance with Trump might raise some eyebrows.
Beyond a 1989 felony conviction for possessing nearly $100,000 worth of stolen artwork, Cinque "used to be
friends with John Gotti," according to a New York Magazine profile from 1995 .
Cinque was also "shot three times and left for dead" in a 1980 incident that authorities described as "a hit,"
according to the profile.
Further, Saturday's Mar-a-Lago party was far from the first time Cinque cheered on for Trump.
An Associated Press report from this spring showed that the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, a
company owned and operated by Cinque, has awarded more than a dozen of Trump's golf courses, hotels,
casinos and private clubs with so-called "Star Diamond" awards "of true excellence in hospitality."
The same report also found that about half of the roughly 30 people listed as "trustees" to the company are
Trump friends or business associates.
Trump, meanwhile, was listed on the company's website as its "ambassador extraordinaire," and he even
appeared in a 2009 tribute video to Cinque in which he said, "There's nobody like him. He's a special guy."
But when asked by reporters about Cinque in May, Trump denied knowing anything about him or his criminal
past.
"If a guy's going to give you an award, you take it," the President-elect said at the time. "You don't tend to look
up his whole life story."
The Trump transition team did not immediately return a request for comment on how the President-elect knows
Cinque or why they appeared together Saturday.
While standing alongside Cinque, Trump also took a moment to address the terror attack that left scores of
nightclub revelers in Istanbul dead over the weekend — and how the bloodbath somehow necessitates a
Mexican border wall.
"We will build a wall, you know that. We will build a wall," the President-elect told the raucous crowd.
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"And speaking of walls," he continued. "In Turkey tonight — has anybody heard? Big disaster took place in
Turkey tonight. Many, many, many people killed...It's a horror show. So we're going to get things running
properly."
ISIS claimed responsibility for the Saturday attack , which left at least 39 people dead and dozens more
wounded, calling the lone gunman who carried out the massacre a "heroic soldier of the caliphate." The suspect
had yet to be named and located by Turkish authorities early Tuesday.
The President-elect made building a wall along the country's southern border one of his main campaign talking
points, frequently promising his supporters that it will be a "great" and "beautiful" wall.
But his pledge to construct a border barrier has gone under several renditions, with the President-elect admitting
in November that it might actually end up "part wall, part fence."
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The fact that we feel less empathy for people in pain if they fall outside our inner sanctum
suggests that we have dehumanized them, stripping away dimensions of experience that humanize those
within the sanctum. These are the dimensions associated with emotion, and when taken away, cause us to
perceive the other as an object. Since objects can’t feel pain or joy, we can’t share in their experience
because they lack experience altogether. If that is the case, then when we perceive any human group that
has been dehumanized in this particular way, there should be little to no activity in those areas of the brain
associated with thinking, feeling, wanting, and believing. To explore this possibility, the social
psychologist Susan Fiske placed subjects in a brain scanner and presented photographs of either extreme
out-group members, such as the homeless and drug addicts, or photographs of other groups such as the
elderly, middle-class Americans, and the rich. When viewing the extreme out-group, not only did Fiske
see little activity in an area critically related to self-awareness and the process of thinking about others
thoughts and emotions — the medial prefrontal cortex — but she also observed an intense increase of
activity in the insula, a brain area that is recruited when we experience disgust.
Fiske’s results highlight the dangers of dehumanization. Once we turn off areas of the brain that
are involved in thinking about others’ thoughts and emotions, and turn on areas involved in disgust, we
have set ourselves up for moral disengagement. As the distinguished American psychologist Albert
Bandura has documented through decades of research, moral disengagement allows people to justify harm
by transforming lethal motives into morally justified and even benevolent ones. Moral disengagement
allows us to excuse ourselves from moral responsibility, either disregarding the harm imposed or
convincing ourselves that it was justified, even obligatory. In several international studies of school-aged
children, results consistently show that those who are most morally disengaged are most likely to engage
in various forms of aggression, including bullying and repeated criminal offenses. These same children
are also least likely to engage in helpful behavior, revealing that moral disengagement dispenses with the
typical process of self-censure and sanctioning that we carry around when we are morally engaged. Ina
study of American prison personnel involved in death penalty sentences, executioners were more morally
disengaged than support staff or prison guards. Executioners were more likely to dehumanize the
convicted prisoner and provide moral and economic justifications. Executioners also felt less guilt
because they had developed a narrative to justify their actions, one that ascribed complete fault and
responsibility to the victim. Support staff flipped in the opposite direction, fully involved with the
weighty moral issues associated with ending someone’s life. In a study of people’s political attitudes,
those with strong right wing authoritarian views, commonly associated with fascism and submission to
authority, were more likely to support war by means of morally disengaging. In particular, they were most
likely to support war by justifying its necessity and trivializing the harm that will necessarily arise — for
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Harnwell: The third-largest conservative news website is something to be extremely
impressed by. Can you tell for the people here who aren’t within the Anglosphere and they
might not follow American domestic politics at the moment — there seems to bea
substantial sea change going on at the moment in Middle America. And the leader of the
majority party, Eric Cantor, was deselected a couple of weeks ago by a tea party
candidate. What does that mean for the state of domestic politics in America at the
moment?
Bannon: For everybody in your audience, this is one of the most monumental — first off,
it’s the biggest election upset in the history of the American republic. Eric Cantor was the
House majority leader and raised $10 million. He spent, between himself and outside
groups, $8 million to hold a congressional district. He ran against a professor who was an
evangelical Christian and a libertarian economist. He ran against a professor who raised
in total $175,000. In fact, the bills from Eric Cantor’s campaign at a elite steak house in
Washington, DC, was over $200,000. So they spent more than $200,000 over the course
of the campaign wining and dining fat cats at a steak house in Washington than the entire
opposition had to run.
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everyday events are subject to perceptual ambiguity and its attendant variety of
interpretations, mystical union is claimed to bring the existence and meaning of
Absolute Reality into direct experience. This kind of knowing is more akin to the
Platonic view of mathematics, that theorems have been everlastingly existent, from
before our physical world, then it is to the here and now, physically based, finite
computations involving the experimental machines of physics.
The philosopher-mathematician father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl,
criticized the physics-want-to-be orientation of the 1860 empirical, objective
measure psychologies of Fechner and Wundt. He understood the best of their
findings as simply correlations between subjective and observable events. Using
mathematical discoveries as examples, Husserl spent his life arguing for the
possibility of abstract truths relevant to mind being more reliable and valid if grasped
via direct experience. Knowing by what the popular mid-twentieth century writer of
science fiction, Robert Heinlein, called grocking it. This is antithetical to the attitudes
of today’s human cognitive and brain sciences which disallow such knowing as
deeply suspect unless accompanied by objectively definable observables such as
changes in electrical or imaging indices of brain activity in one neural region or
other. The modern psycholinguistics of brain mechanics can be _ called
neolocationism. Using modern technology to measure regional blood flow, energy
metabolism and/or electrovoltage or magnetic field activity, stories of function are
spun that closely resemble those imagined more than a century ago by the first
locationists, such as Ramon Cajal. These neuroanatomists spent thousands of
hours looking at cell clusters and their connections in stained slides of human brain
tissue using microscopes and imagined their singular and integrated function.
Today, Lewis Judd, long time chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry at
UCSD in La Jolla, carries a full sized, polymeric, three-dimensional model of the
human brain when teaching his students about human subjective experience and
interpersonal behavior. In his weekly grand rounds, he explains that day’s
psychiatric patient’s problems pointing here and there at regions in this plastic
surrogate for our electrical jellied brain. Few, if any, of the psychiatry students in his
class was inclined to ask the foundational question: how it is that a finger point and
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The U.S.-lsrael relationship is based on the twin pillars of shared
values and mutual interests. Given this commonality of interests and
beliefs, it should not be surprising that support for Israel is one of the
most pronounced and consistent foreign policy values of the American
people.
Today’s interdependent global economy requires that trade policy be
developed at the national and state level. Many states have
recognized the opportunity for realizing significant benefits by seeking
to increase trade with Israel. Arizona is one of 33 states that have
cooperative agreements with Israel.
Click here to read more...
Views on Israel of U.S. Presidential Candidates 2020:
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Jean Klobuchar* was born on May 25, 1960, in Plymouth,
Minnesota. Klobuchar is the daughter of Rose (née Heuberger) and
Jim Klobuchar. She has one younger sister. Her parents divorced
when Klobuchar was 15.
Klobuchar attended public schools in Plymouth and was valedictorian
at Wayzata High School. In 1982, she graduated from Yale magna
cum laude with a B.A. in political science. During college, she was a
member of the Yale College Democrats, the Feminist Caucus, and the
improv troupe Suddenly Susan. During her time at Yale, Klobuchar
spent time as an intern for then Vice President, and former Minnesota
Senator, Walter Mondale. Her senior thesis was “Uncovering the
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James PATTERSON
Some wait a year before making their way to the courthouse,
their date with the public defender, and an appearance before
the judge. Some get out much sooner, if only they can make bail.
But there’s no bail without money — or at least collateral—and,
of course, being without money is often what lands people in jail
in the first place.
Jeffrey Epstein could have posted bail for every single inmate 4
in the Gun Club.
But that’s just one of the ways in which Epstein is unlike his
fellow inmates. He’s an admitted pedophile now. Even a famous one.
And, famously, pedophiles tend to fare poorly in jail.
Luckily for Epstein, Ric Bradshaw, the sheriff in charge of
local jails, transfers Epstein to the infirmary, where he spends
exactly one night before being transferred seven miles up the 4 a
road to a much smaller, safer location: the Palm Beach County i
Central Detention Center—or, as it’s known, the Stockade.
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It’s a far safer place for Epstein to be, and, unlike other inmates 4 mustache, and slow, me:
(except, of course, those being held in solitary), he'll end up with
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CHAPTER 31
Mc2 Model Management’s NYC branch is locking for “highly
Y motivated and energetic” interns to assist their agents part-time
a 7 or full-time. If you're thinking to yourself, whoe, it’s the agency
‘4 : 4 founded by Jean-Luc Brunel, the guy who first signed Christy
a : Turlington when she was just fourteen. Responsibilities include
, 4 scanning pictures, answering phones, assisting with updating
7 3 models’ portfolios, and working in Photoshop, Word and Excel
i 7 (so you have to already know what you're doing in those). You
Must: Be interested in the fashion, modeling and photography
industries, outgoing, well spoken, and able to keep cool while
five different people demand Starbucks / copies / phone calls /
4 F etc. This is a great opportunity to get hands-on experience at a
4 smaller agency, plus they can offer a stipend and a Metrocard
. | as well as school credit if needed. Send your resume to intern@
mc2mm.com Good luck!
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process, it was hedged with several conditions. The freeze would not be open-
ended, but last for 10 months, as a way of boosting the effort to restart
negotiations. It would apply to new construction, not work already underway. And
it would exclude the post-1967 neighborhoods inside the expanded city limits of
Jerusalem. Like his other moves, it was also dismissed as insignificant by the
Palestinians. Though there was a formal restarting of the talks, they went almost
nowhere during the period of the freeze, which Bibi cited as a reason for not
extending it further. From then on, the negotiations produced even less. I didn’t
buy the narrative that this was entirely Bibi’s fault. Abu Mazen remained
steadfastly, deliberately passive. Obviously not inclined to take the risk of further
widening his rift with Hamas in Gaza, he was content to echo the Obama
administration’s argument that nothing could happen until there was a settlement
freeze. Once the freeze was announced, he went through the motions, avoiding all
the difficult issues, in the expectation Washington would ensure the freeze was
renewed. President Obama’s initial Mideast moves had made it much easier for
Abu Mazen to avoid any serious engagement. In contrast to past presidents, Obama
had placed almost all of the onus for progress on Israel. But the end result also
suited Bibi. Though I never entirely gave up hope of persuading him it was in
Israel’s interest to seek a resolution of our conflict with the Palestinians, it became
more evident as the months went on that his aim was simply to keep things ticking
over, and avoid any major new crisis.
He appointed an old personal friend — a corporate lawyer named Yitzhak
Molcho — as our negotiator. I finally realized how pointless the exercise was when,
during a visit to the United States, I found myself in New York at the same time as
Molcho. We met at the Israeli consulate. We spoke in detail about the state of the
negotiations. With Molcho still in the room, I phoned Bibi in Jerusalem on the
secure phone line. I said I’d just been updated on the talks, and it seemed clear
there were a number of suggestions Israel could make, with no domestic political
risk but with every prospect of improving the atmosphere and accelerating
progress. “Yitzhak is one of Israel’s top lawyers,” I said. “He’s struck dozens of
deals in his life. But he strikes a deal when that’s what his client wants. You are the
client. If you tell him: bring me back the best deal you can — not a peace treaty, just
a deal on a specific issue — he’ Il do it. But if his brief is simply to negotiate, he can
go on negotiating forever. And it’s pretty clear me that’s his brief.” Bibi insisted I
was wrong. He said that what I saw as time-wasting was simple prudence, to make
sure the negotiations bore fruit. But his approach never changed. Whenever it came
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politics: that time and again, political and
ideological prerogatives trump economic
rationality. It made little economic sense,
for example, for Pakistan to pursue a
nuclear weapons program in the 1970s,
just as it makes little economic sense for
Iran to do so today. Clearly, both
Pakistan and Iran made major policy
decisions based on political-military
priorities rather than economic
calculations.
As for the surviving monarchies in the
Middle East, they too will likely be less
accommodating to American military
forces than they have been in the past. To
be sure, much of the Arab support for
past American military operations -- like
both Iraq wars -- was hidden from the
public eye. Arab states often loudly and
publicly denounced "unilateral
American" military action in the region at
the same time as they supported it in
backroom dealings, quietly authorizing
facilities support and air, land, and sea
access.
But if Arab Gulf states were quietly
supportive in the past, their opposition to
American military force is likely to grow
in the future. They read the aftermath of
the Arab uprisings much differently than
did American and European
policymakers. The Gulf monarchies were
shocked that the United States
"abandoned" Egyptian President Hosni
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From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 3/30/2017 11:11:37 AM
To: anil.ambani
Subject: Re: PC - Business standard - Thu. 30 March 2017 : After trump phone call, govt weighs if Modi should visit US early
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Dear Jeffrey,
Info.
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12 THe fbi, threatend many statutes if 1 would not plead guilty to astate crime. they suggested that a cell
phone was a means of interstae commerce ( similar to perverts who troll the internet , in searhc of underage
girs] , and in each and every one of those cases the govt is required to confirm , and they do,that the person
KNEW or that the person on the other end of the computer was underage. . all stings hve the police stinger ask
dont you know that iam 14, 13 etc. there was never any such conversation with anyone.
13. the govt said that traveling to my homeof 15 year in florida, ccould be considered traveling for thepurpsoe
of underage sex. never before anyone not crossing state lines with a person , charged with a crimge for gong
home
14. the gov said that they would not bring an mdictment if i plead guilty to being a pimp.( a crime m florida
that REQUIRES the pimpt to earh money off the the girls , (regster as a sex offender ) and pay a list of girls
whose names they would provide me only AFTER the fact. and AFTER i was in jail. I would have to agree
NOT to contest any claim by anyone they put on the list . when I attempted to do so , asinever met some of
the people on the list. I retved a letter statng that any attempt to question ther story would result in a breech of
my agreeemnt.
15. If I had tto do it over I hope i would have shown much better judgement as many of the girls came from
underprivleged familys and 1 was unaware of the potential for harm.
tmz has said she was a sex slave. . she has now admited she lied about her age. she was
never 15. she has changed th story on my wikipieia page , but no press statment. she said that clnton was on
the island, not true, she said ghilsane flew him in a black helipcopter, I did not have a black heli and she
never flew him, she said that al gore and wife were on the isalnd never happened, she has accused a prime
mmisnter a senator aprinve. ascemtist, alan dershowitz. amany in his seventies with his wife n
attendance. sex ona plane with secret service and dimplanic protection people looking the other way. . she
had an arrest warmat for her as she stole money ftom the restaurnat at which she worked, she had before made
clainds of sexual assualts but the prosecutro said she had no creidbility | emiails , suggst
adding alan dershowitz to her complaint. J) emails suggestlil might have comminted pergury
she has said that the house had many photos of underage girls , arecent press realease clearly shows
another lie.
17, the press has labled me a pedophile a disgusting term for men atracted to pre pubcesnet girsl . these
girls worked in a strip club. . Not one person ever testified that they were asked to bring underage girls
fact the opposite. all said they were told on one under 18. fbi foia request . confirms
in
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wealth was not used as an advantage. the local police chief said this case was bigger than rush limbaugh, . no
one had ever faced a federal charge for having prostituies in their own house. no violence coercion. etc
191 the police released to the press, the raw statements ofthe girls. not one was ever questioned by opposing
counsel.
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system. There are some early indicators of international economic recovery. Yet, I cannot predict that the
global economic recovery will proceed without potential hurdles. I cannot also claim that repercussions of the
economic financial meltdown are over yet. But what I can say is that the worst is already behind us, and there is
now a solid will and determination among concerned countries to join hands to collectively revive the global
economy as well as their own individual economies.
Increasing financial support to other business sectors is probable, pending the actual needs of each particular
sector. The UAE’s tourism sector is ina good shape, with UAE hotels recording high occupancy rates. The
country’s tourism industry has already successful survived the worst period and resiliently adapted itself during
the most critical times.
PAUL STOBER, Gulf News
What are the main strengths and weaknesses of the UAE, as it faces the challenge of the
global economic slowdown? What are the particular challenges that Dubai faces as it
positions itself as a global business centre?
The UAE’s strengths are numerous. The UAE’s success in facing the global financial crisis and alleviating its
impact on the Emirati economy is the most conspicuous=2 Oevidence of these strengths. The country enjoys a
leading ranking position in several fields such as productivity, environment, connectivity, and transformation
to knowledge economy. Yet the failure to match best international practices in these fields might be considered
a major weakness. We always benchmark ourselves against the best. I always say that we have just embarked
on a long journey of hard work to fulfil our promised sustainable development through a series of strategic
projects to be established during the years to come.
DURAID AL BAIK, Gulf News:
Do you feel that Dubai needs an efficient auditing body to investigate and curb
corruption in financial institutions before things become too bad? How more the UAE
can move faster in fighting corruption and promoting transparency?
There is already a government financial audit department. The department has a track record of successful
performance, and it has done very well with investigations related to corruption cases. Enhancing financial
auditing systems and capabilities is undoubtedly important and that is exactly what we are doing now. As for
promoting transparency in fighting corruption, I confirm that the UAE is completely committed to highest
levels of transparency. There is no room for corrupt officials and citizens among us. Handling corruption cases
does not mean prosecuting judging and penalising corrupt individuals only; it also aims at filling all
administrative and legal loopholes that=2 Ohave been used to breach the law.
By Al Bayan newspaper
When will the term “remote” (rural) areas disappear from the everyday vocabulary of
the UAE?
The UAE does not have remote areas in the negative connotation of the word. We only have areas that are
relatively remote from urban centers. The urban planning of these areas has to be based on scientific research to
carefully identify means of providing best efficient services to local residents.
There are sometimes exaggerated reports depicting these areas as if they are utterly deprived of basic services
while their residents live in appalling conditions. Sometimes, one reads press reports demanding a school to be
built in an area that has no more than 50 homes, while there is a school only few kilometers away with available
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Back in 1950, Associatede Press photographer Max Desfor took this dramatic photograph of refugees trying to cross a
destroyed Pyongyang bridge, over the Taedong River in North Korea to escape the country. The photo won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1951.
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Graydon and Anna
Scott Carter
The
Glory
of Gold
Über publicist Peggy Siegal has been
attending the Academy Awards for three
decades—not to mention the oodles of
parties and sensational events leading
up to the ceremony—and chronicling
Peggy
Siegal
64 | AVENUE MAGAZINE · APRIL 2011
her escapades with
stars and star-makers
for AVENUE has
become a tradition.
This year, she sets
the stage for the big
night with the behindthe-scenes
scoop on
the fierce competition
that ends when Oscar
is presented. Here, she reports on the
Hollywood glamour, excitement and social
shenanigans, including celebrating with
Colin Firth, Jesse Eisenberg, Elton John,
Oprah Winfrey and many more.
photographs by PATRICK MCMULLAN
Qaddafi is hunkering
down in Tripoli, giving
press interviews, denying
that rebels are taking
over Eastern Libya. Oil
prices are shooting up over one hundred
dollars a barrel. The U.S. government is on the
verge of a shutdown. These are not the topsecret
opening lines of Aaron Sorkin’s new
script, but the global headlines of a world
spinning out of control as I head to Los
Angeles like an overdressed lemming to attend
the 83rd Academy Awards and attempt to
make sense of artists thrust into combat.
For the second year, nearly 6,000 Academy
members have nominated 10 films and the
battle seems to be pared down to 2. The
beloved instant classic, The King’s Speech,
marches into the arena as the frontrunner, but
passionate supporters of the edgier (critics’
darling) The Social Network have not conceded.
The ballots are counted, the party invites are
out and still the feelings are raw. Nominees are
exhausted from campaigning.
Woody Allen and George Lucas tell me they
are no longer members of the Academy
because pitting artists against each other to
determine the quality of their work is insane.
They are right. My event and publicity company
is considered Switzerland by the studios, as
we help every filmmaker to present his work.
However, this year, against my better judgment,
I am somewhat emotionally sucked in.
In 2005, I met the unknown 32-year-old
English director Tom Hooper on his first film
for HBO, Elizabeth I starring Helen Mirren.
Helen later wins an Oscar for portraying
Queen Elizabeth in The Queen. Queen
Elizabeth is the daughter of King George VI,
portrayed by Oscar-winner Colin Firth in The
King’s Speech directed by Hooper. No degrees
of separation.
At the Telluride Film Festival, Tom Hooper
bathed in the glory of a hysterical standing
ovation alongside Colin Firth and Geoffrey
Rush at the very first public screening of that
film. Two weeks later at The Toronto Film
Festival, Harvey Weinstein stood with his
filmmakers witnessing the same reaction. The
film won The Audience Prize. Their strategy
was to say nothing, do nothing. They have a
possible Oscar winner—four out of five past
Best Pictures have premiered in Toronto.
Cut to New York City at the end of
September. It’s opening night at The Film
Society of Lincoln Center. One of America’s most important
and prolific producers, Scott Rudin, along with Jesse
Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Aaron Sorkin, are in a
brightly lit box waving down to their equally hysterical
audience who have just seen The Social Network. The film
opens the next day to rave reviews and endless publicity.
David Fincher is off making The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Aaron Sorkin becomes the face of the film and an immediate
shoo-in for the adapted screenplay Oscar.
The Hamptons International Film Festival in October
suddenly becomes a launching pad for 127 Hours, where
star-cum-Yale/NYU student James Franco appears. More
Oscar buzz. Producer/director Danny Boyle (Oscar winner for
Slumdog Millionaire) stays in London all fall directing the play
Frankenstein. Black Swan also unspools there in a tiny theater as
Madonna, Alec Baldwin and Harvey Weinstein slip in the
back. Darren Aronofsky is hailed a genius. Natalie Portman is
instantly the hot nominee for Best Actress. Both films are sensations,
but it’s The King’s Speech that wins The Audience Prize.
Mid-November: David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg
sneak The Fighter in Manhattan. As their audience erupts in
cheers, I tell producer/actor Wahlberg, “Clint Eastwood is
going to kill himself for not directing this.” He says, “You’re
wrong. He turned it down because he’s done it. He’s seen it
and he loves it.” David O. Russell becomes my new Clint
Eastwood. Christian Bale and Melissa Leo are hailed the
supporting actors to beat.
True Grit, directed by the Coen Brothers and also produced
by Scott Rudin, finally throws its cowboy hat in the ring in
mid-December at the Ziegfeld as the last serious Oscar
contender for Best Picture. It gallops off to box office gold.
The Social Network now cements its battle cry with one
word: relevance. Mark Zuckerberg lands on the cover of
Time Magazine as “Person of the Year.” A smart and extensive
ad campaign positions the film in the lead. Critics and
pundits proclaim the race is over. Everyone goes on holiday.
This is one of the few times in Harvey Weinstein’s life that
he’s caught off guard. He quickly mobilizes an inner team of
15 and conducts strategy meetings 7 days a week, including
Christmas. They’re like a Chinese restaurant: always open. He
sends screenwriter David Seidler and Tom Hooper to every
corner of the country doing Q&As until they are both blue in
the face from “finding their voice.” SAG voters begin seeing
the film two and three times.
In January at the Golden Globes, about 88 foreign journalists
give awards to The Social Network for Best Drama, Director
and Screenplay. The film is still perceived as the Oscar winner
and nobody can stop the steamroller. Only Academy voters
disregard these awards.
The King’s Speech wins the PGA in L.A. Everyone is totally
surprised when Tom Hooper goes on to win the DGA. After
a tremendous amount of hard work by team Weinstein, the
actors win for the SAG Ensemble. The BAFTAs reinforced
their lead; the film is now the frontrunner. It takes the media
a few weeks to catch on.
Emma
Stone
Collin Firth and
Anne Hathaway
Gwyneth
Paltrow
Sandra
Bullock
Tom Hooper
Carolina
Herrera
Jennifer
Lawrence
Marisa
Tomei
Leslie Mann
and Judd
Apatow
Melissa
Leo
Steve
Martin
Steven
Tyler and
Liv Tyler
George Hamilton and
Kimberly Blackford
Kevin
Spacey
L’Wren
Scott and
Mick
Jagger
I whisper to Harrison
[Ford], “That looks just like
Johnny Depp.” Harrison rolls
his eyes and reluctantly
introduces me to his
friend . . . Johnny Depp.
The Daily Mail announces Her Royal Highness Queen
Elizabeth has enjoyed a private screening of The King’s
Speech and is “moved” by the film. With no proof the Queen
has actually seen the film, press agents send out a global press
release thanking her Majesty for the endorsement.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Mid-day, I arrive at The Beverly Hills Hotel. As the housekeepers
unpack my bags upstairs I peek into the Polo Lounge
and find Warren Beatty in a booth. I tell him I’m rooting for
his wife, Annette Benning, and love her film, The Kids Are All
Right. Warren says The Social Network will win.
This year I am two days late arriving to Oscar weekend. I
am shown to a very, very small room—the size of a broom
closet. Uncharacteristically, I have a slight melt down. I am
moved. The housekeepers run down the hall with my clothes
flying. The hotel is sold out, so I get someone else’s room.
Another unsuspecting victim checking in downstairs will get
the broom closet.
It is cold, grey and rainy. Taffeta, organdy and embroidered
silk evening clothes hang in my closet. I stay in my sweaters
and fur coat, and head to Arianna Huffington’s home in
Beverly Hills where she and Wendi Murdoch are hosting a
party for Tom Freston’s wife, the beautiful, blonde Kathy.
Her book is called Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change
the World—perfect for monks.
Arianna has just sold the Huffington Post to AOL for $315
million dollars and is rumored to have personally landed
around $20 million. She is euphoric as she greets Nicole
Kidman and Keith Urban at the door. Other drenched power
players include Disney’s Bob Iger and wife Willow Bay,Fox’s
Jim Gianopulos, Candice Bergen and journalist daughter
Chloe Malle, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Oliver Stone escorting
his daughter Tara and avoiding questions about Charlie
Sheen, Moby, Jamie Niven, Brian Grazer, Vivi Nevo, CBS’s
Les Moonves and Julie Chen, Rob Reiner, Paramount’s Brad
Grey and fiancé Cassandra Huysentruyt and Jeff Bezos.
Hors d’oeuvres include pigs in blankets—a food group not
mentioned in Kathy’s book.
The action migrates to UTA Jim Burkus’ home for a party
for True Grit’s Ethan and Joel Coen. I pass Ron Howard on
the way in and he says, “Keep me on your list.” Is he kidding?
Sunrise and Mark Ruffalo, Focus Feature’s James Shamus,
Nancy Meyers and John Goldwyn mingle. Adorable Hallie
Steinfeld is there with her parents. I am trying to fix her up
with Justin Bieber. She giggles, “Peg, I am only 14.”
I am face to face with Harrison Ford and stupidly tell him
I love him in Morning Glory. He’s looking at me in utter
disbelief, but I will not shut up. A gorgeous guy is inches away
in a hat and glasses. I whisper to Harrison, “That looks just
like Johnny Depp.” Harrison rolls his eyes and reluctantly
introduces me to his friend . . . Johnny Depp. I babble a bit
about his great work then run for cover in a corner next to my
buddy, Jerry Bruckheimer.
I head over to the CAA/Bryan Lourd’s “Friday Night
Party.” Torrential rains and horrific winds cause a traffic jam
that makes it impossible to get near the house. The world’s
most famous faces cower under black umbrellas and make a
run for it. Bryan Lourd and Bruce Bozzi receive friends at the
door all night.
Inside, Uma Thurman tells me she finally moved into a
doorman building in New York after being terrorized by
stalkers for years. Ben Walker talks about Abraham Lincoln:
Vampire Hunter, which he is about to shoot, while his fiancé,
Mamie Gummer, looks sexy shivering in a white satin gown.
Producer Jon Kilik mentions he oversaw a new cut of Julian
Schnabel’s Miral, to be released in March. Bennett Miller,
standing with Kristin Gore, says Sony loves his new film,
Moneyball, and Brad Pitt is terrific. (When is Brad Pitt not
terrific?) Sandy Gallin tells me he has an actual job
decorating Jeffrey Katzenberg’s home. I congratulate Barry
Levinson’s son Sam, a director, for winning the writing
award at Sundance for his first film, Another Happy Day.
Also seen floating around are Taylor Swift and Jake
Gyllenhaal—but not together—Sean Penn, Tom Cruise and
Katie Holmes, Anderson Cooper, Hilary Swank, Kelly Ripa,
Paul Haggis, Marisa Tomei, Kate Beckinsale, Demi Moore
and Ashton Kutcher, Kate Hudson, Gerard Butler, Renee
Zellweger with Bradley Cooper, Biutiful director Alejandro
Gonzalez-Inarritu, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, Ellen
Barkin (who is headed to Broadway in The Normal Heart this
spring) and CAA’s Kevin Huvane, Richard Lovett and Hylda
Queally. Sony Classic’s Michael Barker tells me The Social
Network will win.
Tired celebs try to go home, but limo lock is at a standstill.
Cell phones don’t work in the area. Two hundred swells
become party prisoners and happily hang out till 5 a.m.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Out comes the sun and dries up all the rain. IAC chairmen
and owner of Newsweek/The Daily Beast Barry Diller
and his wife Diane Von Furstenberg (with her kids Alex
and Tatiana) host their 15th annual lunch for Graydon
Carter in their Coldwater Canyon home. Barry introduces
me to his star guest, Gov. Jerry Brown, just elected to his
third (nonconsecutive) term as California governor.
Like last year, enormous clear plastic tents are erected
on the hill near the house. Long wooden picnic tables sit
on oriental rugs covering the soggy ground. VIPs wears
winter clothes, comfy sweaters and sensible shoes. I arrive
in a fur coat.
Stephen Gaghan and
Minnie Mortimer
Scarlett
Johansson
Charlize
Theron
Lourdes Leon
and Madonna
Armie
Hammer
Kate
Beckinsale
Aaron Sorkin
Georgina
Chapman
Hilary
Swank
Cameron
Diaz
Wendi Murdoch, Kathy Freston and
Arianna Huffington
Natalie Portman
Brian Grazer and Jeff Bezos
Tom
Ford
Everybody knows everybody, and it doesn’t matter if
you have a hit film or T.V. show this season. Oprah
Winfrey kisses David Geffen, casually chats with former
Disney C.E.O. Michael Eisner and current Sony Chief Sir
Howard Stringer and Rob Weisenthal. Brett Ratner
arrives with his houseguest Jean Pigozzi, who is allowed to
take photographs. Graydon greets people with chic wife
Anna by his side.
Ingrid Sischy and Sandy Brant, Rupert Murdoch,
Ron Meyer, Francesco Clemente with his twin boys and
Tom Ford chat each other up. People to watch include
pregnant Victoria and David Beckham with Lynn
Wyatt, Fran Lebowitz, Larry Gagosian and Shala
Monroque, Ben Silverman, Debbie and Allen
I head over to the CAA/Bryan
Lourd’s “Friday Night Party.”
Torrential rains and horrific
winds cause a traffic jam that
makes it impossible to get
near the house. The world’s
most famous faces cower
under black umbrellas and
make a run for it.
Grubman, Sotheby’s Tobias Meyer and Mark Fletcher and
Stephen Gaghan and Mini Mortimer wearing her oversized
cat glasses.
Bruce Cohen has invited me to the Oscar broadcast
rehearsal. Inside the Kodak Theater’s massive auditorium,
I find a seat next to his proud parents. I
watch Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem come out in
white dinner jackets and flub their lines as they
pretend to present Best Adapted Screenplay and
Best Original Screenplay. Josh will later tell me
that their acting methods are completely opposite:
he’s a quick study and is very creative and
comfortable ad-libbing; Javier, whose mother
tongue is Spanish, likes to have every syllable
printed out to study with a dialect coach. Life-size
photos on cardboard plaques are taped to each
nominee’s chair. I memorize their location so when I
return Sunday I can quickly kiss them all.
Back at the Beverly Hills hotel I slip into my black
tulle Dennis Basso cocktail dress with a plunging
neckline and put on my mother’s jewels. Jim
Coleman takes me to the “Night Before Party” in the
hotel. This is Jeffrey Katzenberg’s 9th annual A-lister event
benefiting The Motion Picture & Television Fund where they
raise $6.5 million dollars in 1 night. I walk into Valentino,
who gives me an approving once-over. I tell him and
Giancarlo Giammetti that Woody Allen’s new film,
Midnight in Paris, is opening the Cannes Film Festival and
they must bring the yacht.
Elton John and David Furnish join our conversation so of
course we ask for intimate details about baby Zachary. I
segue over to Amy Adams, who, like them, mentions she
hates leaving her baby in the hotel room. Next stop is Kate
Capshaw in a black bowler hat chatting with Steven
Spielberg’s god-daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow. I have known
Steven for years (in 1982 I was a publicist on E.T.). I now tell
him I’m going to the Lincoln Center opening of War Horse
with Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall and cannot wait to
see his movie version.
I meet sweet Jennifer Aniston, her new haircut and her
perfect little body. Her date tells me her secret is a half-hour
on the treadmill everyday—such an understatement. I tell
Jesse Eisenberg I was on his plane home from the Baftas last
week, but he was hiding under his hoodie. He says innocently,
“You should have said ‘hello.’ I always cover my head because
I think my curls make me look like a girl.”
The charity gives us a coupon booklet redeemable at
various booths. Rich people run around like lunatics, collecting
gifts for their housekeepers. Among the shoppers are
Steven and Heather Mnuchin, Viacom’s Deborah and
Philippe Dauman, Tamara Mellon, Christine Taylor and
Ben Stiller, Cate Blanchet, Susan and Robert Downey Jr.
and Debra and Hugh Jackman.
Next stop is The Weinstein Company’s party at the Soho
House sponsored by MontBlanc. Long gone are the funky
Miramax Saturday night soirees where nominees spoofed
their own films in homemade costumes and ad-libbed
hilarious skits. No more grown men dressed as Anna Paquin
playing the piano in hopes of winning a Max Award.
As I come in, a 400-pound gorilla refuses to let me on the
elevator. Once on, I see Jennifer Lopez in the corner and
remind her we met on Len Blavatnik’s yacht in Cannes. She
graciously pretends to remember me. Her manager, Benny
Medina, is kicking me.
I slip into Colin Firth’s booth to have a tête-à-tête with him
and his wife Livia Giuggioli. Jokingly, I suggest he say “I’m
speechless” when he wins. Colin patiently assures me many
people, far more clever than I, thought of this. He then says that
others are waging bets on whether he might subconsciously
stutter. I grill him about his wardrobe, assuming he will be
wearing a new Tom Ford tuxedo. He tells me both he and
Ford will be in older Ford models. I tell him I made rich-butthrifty
Charles Ferguson, director of Inside Job, spend $6,000
dollars for a new Tom Ford tux.
In the back room, Jennifer Lopez is now seated with
Weinstein’s wife, Georgina Chapman. Helena Bonham
Carter, her live-in-lover Tim Burton and her mother Elena
circulate. Star power includes Adrien Brody, Mary-Kate
and Ashley Olsen, Cameron Diaz, Camilla Belle, Chace
Vera
Farmiga
Adrien
Brody
Andrew
Garfield
Oliver Stone and Tara Stone
Claire Danes and
Hugh Dancy
Hailee
Steinfeld
Taylor
Swift
Donald and Melania Trump
Donna
Karan
Lynn
Wyatt
Barry
Diller
Jon Hamm and
Jennifer Westfeldt
Anderson
Cooper
Chloe Malle and
Candice Bergen
Diane von
Furstenberg
Tory
Burch
Crawford, Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy, Darren
Aronofsky, director John Wells, Kerry Washington, Piers
Morgan, Rachel Zoe, Sean Parker, Zack Braff and Leonardo
Dicaprio with Bar Rafaeli. Speech filmmakers are functioning
on high anxiety.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Producer Donna Gigliotti is my date to the awards. We are
both so nervous we arrive at the Kodak Theater at 3 p.m. and
nobody is there. We are driven around for an hour. When we
arrive back at the world’s most famous red carpet, I guide
Donna through security check-in to the extreme right to
make sure we get on camera. I teach her the red carpet
hustle, which is five steps forward, three steps back, one inch
behind a couture-clad nominee. We greet Kevin Huvane as
Sandra Bullock is talking to ABC-TV and a billion people see
me wearing a black Marchesa gown. Five steps forward, three
steps back, we next meet Gwyneth Paltrow, and I hook up the
back of her dress while another billion people see me correct
the fashion malfunction. Five steps forward, three steps back,
we’re now posing behind Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban.
Our Blackberrys begin buzzing; the world has seen us.
James Franco and Anne Hathaway are hip hosts. This is the
year of no surprises. But it isn’t until Hilary Swank yells out
Hooper’s name for Best Director that Harvey’s gang finally
realizes they are getting the Oscar for Best Picture after all.
Harvey is sitting in Spielberg’s seat as Spielberg announces
the win from the stage. Producers Iain Canning, Emile
Sherman and Gareth Unwin leap up and kiss each other.Six
months of grueling work have finally paid off. King George
VI and Harvey Weinstein now share the journey of a single
man who triumphs over adversity.
At the Governor’s ball, held above the Kodak Theater,
the winners triumphantly sachet around the room holding
their heavy eight-pound gold statues.
An hour later there is a migration to the Vanity Fair party
hosted by Graydon Carter at Jeff Klein’s Sunset Tower
Hotel. The invitation features a gold hologram that transmits
a radio frequency of a photo and details about the
guest to VF staff as they arrive. The next day “Page Six” will
report that the backup private security firm is run by a
former Israeli operative, when in fact they are Irish
Catholics from Staten Island.
There’s a hierarchy of arrival times. At 5 p.m. the inner
circle of Graydon’s 141 best friends attend a seated dinner.
They include Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg,
Francis Ford Coppola, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt,
Betsey Bloomingdale, Tory Burch and Lyor Cohen,
Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, L’Wren Scott and Sir
Mick Jagger, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Wendi
Stark, George Hamilton, Judd Apatow, Jackie and Joan
Collins, Donna Karan and Steve Martin.
The best and the brightest talent in town arrive at 9 p.m.
Every single winner shows up. Also there are Justin
Bieber and his date Selena Gomez, Michelle Williams,
Emma Stone, Steve Tyler and Liv Tyler, Andrew
Garfield, Jude Law, Armie Hammer, Vera Farmiga,
Kevin Spacey, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway, Winter’s
Bone star-of-tomorrow Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Hackford
and Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Isla Fischer and
Sasha Baron Cohen, Tom Hanks, Sean Penn, Renee
Zellweger and Bradley Cooper and Jane Fonda after her
play, 33 Variations. I introduce Melania and Donald Trump
to David O. Russell as The Trumpster gushes about The
Fighter. David tells Donald he used to be a waiter/bar tender
at many of Trump’s parties. Donald smiles as if looking at yet
another apprentice. He then offers me a ride home on his
plane; he’s leaving in 10 minutes. Too bad James Franco
didn’t know because he is presently sitting on a commercial
flight back to school, skipping his own after-party. The rest of
the guests’ social standings are determined by half-hour
increments. VF’s Beth Kseniak, Matt Ullian and Jane Sarkin
tell me the list is cut down to 800 this year.
At 11:30 p.m. there is another celebrity migration up the
hill to Madonna manager Guy Oseary’s house. Earlier in the
I introduce Melania and
Donald Trump to David O.
Russell . . . David tells Donald
he used to be a waiter/bar
tender at many of Trump’s
parties. Donald smiles as if
looking at yet another
apprentice.
evening, Madonna came down the hill to pose in a risqué
see-thru outfit with daughter Lourdes. Madonna and co-host
Demi Moore are able to lure the crème de la crème with the
promise of dancing and no cameras.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28
A winner’s work is never done. Colin Firth, Tom Hooper
and David Seidler show up at 4:30 a.m. at The Four
Seasons Hotel for a live broadcast on “The Today Show.”
Functioning on an adrenalin rush, they return to the
Kodak Theater with Geoffrey Rush to appear on Oprah’s
live broadcast.
By the end of this year’s thrilling race between two
great producers—Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein—
Facebook and Twitter are credited for aiding political
justice from the streets of Cairo to Tripoli. But the British
film with the most heart wins as one single human voice can
still make a difference. The king has spoken. ✦
Fran
Lebowitz
Julie
Chen
Ellen
Barkin
Naomi
Watts
Joan
Collins
Chace
Crawford
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From: Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent: 10/19/2016 3:13:21 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Saudi money
Importance: — High
Anew guy for your stable of smart guys. He taught at SAIS in DC where I went in 1989. I was just
down there a few weeks ago and was on a panel with him. He is vicious on Bill C's NATO expansion --
biggest foreign policy error since WWII. Retiring. Let me know if you want an intro -- Iam sure that
your Russian friends would enjoy talking to him. Book well worth reading...
1&keywords=mission+failure
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:02 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon <> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:26 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
number
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon ii wrote:
I have spoken to a lot of ceos of fund outfits who say Saudis have been pulling billions of dollars in
separate account money -- not just from BR. And plus I cant believe they would have so much tied
up in lock ups.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:48 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
sorry, no good handle without digging
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon <> wrote:
what is your back of the envelope guess as to much saudi money tied up in such funds?
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:43 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
most of the saudi money is tied up in pe funds. no withdrawals allowed . and im not seeing much in
the secondary market... blackrock is more money market , more like custodian than investor .
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon {i wrote:
Interesting. CEO of big finance form told me that Saudis (SAMA) have withdrawn $200 billion
that has been parked with usual suspects over past year or so. That number seem in line with
what you know?
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:04 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
words that you to refer to one thing, USA. the stock market / the Royal family, . are no longer
very useful. In politics the USA meant the white house. now there is pentagon. cia, state, and
congress in addition, each feels empowered to act more independantly. | stock market even in
tech, needs biotech, consuner tech. infrastrucrue tech. etc. same with Royal family, there are
20k members ofa tribe. called the royal family, the words are misleading. if your article is
focused on bin salman, or the very top. no one is wondering where they can find the local
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The United Arab Emirates, on its own or through the GCC, the Arab League and the specialized international
institutions, plays an integral role on this front. The capitalist system did not fail. What has failed is the
excessive economic liberalism, which pushed to minimize the intervention of the regulatory government
institutions in the markets and banks’ activities.
Certainly the world is witnessing the birth of a new economic and financial order. The results of the G20
summit are a prelude toward this end. However, consensus on the format and the content of this new global
economic system would not be reached soon. Different factors determine the future of this system, including
growing global competition and conflicting national economic interests. No party would easily give up its
position and gains for the benefit of the global economy recovery.
As for the suggestion on the Islamic banking, it is of interest to the global banking sector. However, to be a
substitute to the current economic systems, even if only temporarily, is a much more complex approach, which
relates to the nature of economic systems, the size of the economies of nations, and the size of Islamic banks in
the banking sector worldwide. As you are aware, there are a lot of factors that govern this, such as the
distribution of the economic, military, scientific and social powers in the world, as well as the competitive
nature of civilizations, and the strong links between the civilizations and religions.
By Thabet Amin Awad of Al Ahram Egyptian newspaper
There are many other positive aspects of the global financial crisis which were embodied
in refining the current competencies, reviewing the need for expatriate expertise, and
strengthening the bonds of the federal entities that supported the UAE. In your opinion,
what are the lessons learned from this crisis both on the local and federal level?
There are many lessons to be learned from the crisis, the most important one being the assertion of the state’s
role in regulating and monitoring the overall economy and markets, and confirming the fact of the global
economy’s unity, in addition to the unification of the global market. The widening scope of the crisis, which
includes all parts of the world, confirms this unity and the common international pursuit. In addition, President
Obama’s public statement, which verifies that the United States cannot overcome the global crisis on its own, is
further confirmation of the unity of the economy and the market. Other lessons learned from the=2 Ocrisis is
realizing the urgent need to develop the regulations, terms of reference and working mechanisms of
international financial institutions to be commensurate with the unified markets and economies, and the
involvement of many influential players.
In the United Arab Emirates, we perform a wide range of reviews through specialized federal and local
committees which are well aware that within the challenges of the crisis, remain many opportunities. The first
opportunity to be seized is to benefit from the lessons learned from the crisis, and be prepared to deal efficiently
with the world after the crisis; a world completely different than what it was before. As for the forces of federal
entities, the fact is that the strength of these entities is what enabled them to cope with the crisis and contain its
negative effects.
By Thabet Amin Awad of Al Ahram Egyptian newspaper
You have said that "our vision is clear, our goals are obvious, our strengths are great, our
will is strong and we are ready. We want Dubai to be a global center of excellence,
creativity and leadership, and we are able to achieve excellence, creativity and
leadership." Do you still stand by your vision? If yes, how so?
Yes, we still stand by it. Plans, programs and projects may alter, but the vision does not change. We want the
UAE and Dubai to be a global center of excellence, innovation and leadership, and we are indeed on the
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Drilldown on USA Inc. Financials...
e To analysts looking at USA Inc. as a public corporation, the financials are challenged
- Excluding Medicare / Medicaid spending and one-time charges, USA Inc. has supported a 4% average net
margin’ over 15 years, but cash flow is deep in the red by negative $1.3 trillion last year (or
-$11,000 per household), and net worth2 is negative $44 trillion (or -$371,000 per household).
e The main culprits: entitlement programs, mounting debt, and one-time charges
— Since the Great Depression, USA Inc. has steadily added “business lines” and, with the best of intentions,
created various entitlement programs. Some of these serve the nation’s poorest, whose struggles have
been made worse by the financial crisis. Apart from Social Security and unemployment insurance,
however, funding for these programs has been woefully inadequate — and getting worse.
- Entitlement expenses (adjusted for inflation) rose 70% over the last 15 years, and USA Inc. entitlement
spending now equals $16,600 per household per year; annual spending exceeds dedicated funding by
more than $71 trillion (and rising). Net debt levels are approaching warning levels, and one-time charges
only compound the problem.
- Some consider defense spending a major cause of USA Inc.'s financial dilemma. Re-setting priorities and
streamlining could yield savings — $788 billion by 2018, according to one recent study*® — perhaps without
damaging security. But entitlement spending has a bigger impact on USA Inc. financials. Although
defense nearly doubled in the last decade, to 5% of GDP, it is still below its 7% share of GDP from 1948 to
2000. It accounted for 20% of the budget in 2010, but 41% of all government spending between 1789 and
1930.
Note: 1) Net margin defined as net income divided by total revenue; 2) net worth defined as assets (ex. stewardship assets like national
parks and heritage assets like the Washington Monument) minus liabilities minus the net present value of unfunded entitlements (such as
Social Security and Medicare), data per Treasury Dept.'s “2010 Annual Report on the U.S. Government’, 3) Gordon Adams and Matthew
Leatherman, “A Leaner and Meaner National Defense,” Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2011)
www.kpcb.com
USA Inc. | Introduction 15
...Drilldown on USA Inc. Financials...
e Medicare and Medicaid, largely underfunded (based on ‘dedicated’ revenue) and
growing rapidly, accounted for 21% (or $724B) of USA Inc.’s total expenses in F2010,
up from 5% forty years ago
- Together, these two programs represent 35% of all (annual) US healthcare spending; Federal Medicaid
spending has doubled in real terms over the last decade, to $273 billion annually.
e Total government healthcare spending consumes 8.2% of GDP compared with just
1.3% fifty years ago; the new health reform law could increase USA Inc.’s budget
deficit
- As government healthcare spending expands, USA Inc.’s red ink will get much worse if healthcare costs
continue growing 2 percentage points faster than per capita income (as they have for 40 years).
e Unemployment Insurance and Social Security are adequately funded...for now. The
future, not so bright
- Demographic trends have exacerbated the funding problems for Medicare and Social Security — of the
102 million increased enrollment between 1965 and 2009, 42 million (or 41%) is due to an aging
population. With a 26% longer life expectancy but a 3% increase in retirement age (since Social
Security was created in 1935), deficits from Social Security could add $11.6 trillion (or 140%) to the
public debt by 2037E, per Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
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PS: does my story on Abraaj get me a meeting with Gates next time he is in town:)
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Even from jail, Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the system | Miami Herald Page 14 of 17
Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 15 of 18
Maxwell’s lawyer, Laura Menninger, declined to comment, referring the Herald to the court history.
wy! 4 g ry
“{Roberts] fabricated a story of abuse at the hands of Ms. Maxwell in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars from British tabloids with a motive
for selling papers and advertisements and without regard for truth, veracity or substantiation,” Menninger noted in a 2016 response filed in the case.
In February, the Miami Herald filed a federal court motion in the Southern District of New York, seeking access to documents that were sealed in the
Maxwell case. The motion, which was not opposed by Roberts, could have cast light on the full scope of Epstein’s possible sex trafficking operation, who
was involved and whether it was covered up. Maxwell has opposed the Herald’s motion, which was denied in August.
The Herald is appealing.
Today, Epstein has a new private jet, which takes him around the world. Flight records show that he spends most of his time on his private island, Little St.
James in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which he now lists as his permanent residence. He is registered in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands as a sex offender.
New Mexico, where he owns a sprawling ranch, does not list him as a convicted sex offender.
As part of its investigation, the Herald learned that in 2013, the federal government conceded that it had given Epstein what it called “valuable
consideration” for information he provided to the FBI as part of his plea deal. The documents do not elaborate, but Epstein — a hedge fund manager who
once worked for the investment firm Bear Stearns — was listed as a key investor who lost money in the financial crash of 2008.
Francey Hakes, a former federal child sex crimes prosecutor, said any consideration the government gave to Epstein should be made public.
“The public has a right to know why he gota slap on the wrist, and what was the interest that was so great that allowed him to not get prosecuted?”
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pushing the boundaries of what is known. Wouldn’t this be a bet-
ter course than Introduction to Physics? The teachers could introduce
whatever aspects of physics they wanted to help students understand
the predictive process in that area, but other faculty who did predic-
tion in other areas would be part of the discussion. There would be a
set of interesting issues ranging from predictions that were thought
to be right but weren't, to predictions that are being made today in
each area. The content would be the predictive process itself, not the
traditional subject matter. Statistics (and other useful tools) would be
taught in this context while the predictive process was being studied.
Modeling. Who build models? Psychologists think about models of
the mind, as do computer scientists and philosophers who specialize
in thinking about thinking. Architects and economists build models
of a different sort. Engineers work with models regularly. All of these
people use different modeling tools but they work on the same thing:
trying to figure out how something works by building it and seeing if
they can replicate it. They may be using a computer or building blocks
or electricity or art. It makes no difference. It is all an attempt to see
how things work by building some facsimile. This is an important idea
in human thinking, and a course should be taught to undergraduates
on how to do it by the people who actually do it, teaching different
techniques as they go. They are many ways to build a model, and
students in college should know the possibilities before they take on
further study.
Experimentation. Psychologists do experiments. Chemists do
experiments. Physicists do experiments. Medical researchers do
experiments. (The drug companies are constantly doing experiments
that affect us all.) Why is there no course in learning how to do an
experiment? Shouldn't students be learning how to come up with a
hypothesis and how to test that hypothesis? Isn’t that more important
as a fundamental building block of the mind than any course offered
to freshmen in college today?
Evaluation. Every academic field does evaluation. In every
discipline there are ways and means to discuss and evaluate the
worth of papers and research and practical proposals. Businesses are
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Jeffrey Epstein: July 2009
effrey Epstein walks out of the Stockade on July 21, 2009,
having served less than thirteen months of his eighteen-month
: sentence. One of the concessions his lawyers have gotten
while working out his plea-deal guarantees is that the media not
_ be alerted to the time and day of his departure.
_ But from now on, Epstein, who is fifty-six, will carry the
mark of a level 3 sex offender—level 1 being the lowest, and
" level 3 indicating the highest possible risk of a future criminal
“act of a sexual nature. Wherever he goes, he will be forced to reg-
“ister as such.
_ Every ninety days, Epstein will have to check in with the
authorities. Every year, the New York City Police Department
Will take his mug shot. And for a full year, Epstein will be under
House arrest in Palm Beach.
| This last prohibition doesn’t stop him from flying, with court
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Brooklyn boy knew nothing about. One friend jokes that she
taught Epstein the difference between a fish fork and a salad fork.
‘e his demise. “It was poor. It
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We were very poor. We didn't
id. They had shoes, they had But despite—or was it because of?—-Maxwell’s devotion to
the war, I discovered the fate of Epstein, she, too, graduated from girlfriend to friend status.
thers, relatives, and neighbors. According to Jane Doe 102 vs. Jeffrey Epstein, a civil complaint
1 their minds as they realized | filed in 2009 by a woman later identified as Virginia Roberts, one
; chamber.” . of the services Maxwell provided for Epstein was the procure-
owed by an international scan- ; ment of underage women. (Through her lawyer and in court
hundreds of millions of pounds bE papers, Maxwell has vehemently denied any involvement with
js and used them to prop up his 4 Virginia, with any other young woman Epstein was involved
ried for conspiracy to commit s : with, or with any criminal activities committed by Jeffrey Epstein.
‘But Ghislaine, who had grown 4 In a 2016 answer to a defamation lawsuit brought by Roberts,
md counted the Duke of York, “4 i Maxwell called the allegations fabricated for financial gain.)
sates, could not escape the dark 1 The case of Nadia Bjorlin, who was thirteen when she was
king to start fresh, she took the first noticed by Epstein, raises questions in this regard, at least
in the eyes of her mother.
Bjorlin’s Iranian-born mother spoke to a British tabloid some
years ago about her family’s disturbing experience with Maxwell
and Epstein. Bjorlin’s father, a celebrated conductor of classical
music, had died a year earlier, the mother said. She believed that
this made the girl a vulnerable and easy target.
| Epstein were lovers. “She was
_a longtime friend of Ghislaine's. j
more. Ghislaine took care of 3
She managed his household and 4
rooklyn-born Jewish boys coull 4
1g to lawsuits and witness teste =
“She was at school at the famed Interlochen Arts Center, in
1 Michigan, when she met Epstein,” the mother said.
“My daughter was a singer. She was a baby. She was a skinny
4 little girl, not mature for her age. She was thirteen, but everyone
3 thought she was nine or ten.
“Epstein was a big donor, and he heard about Nadia and that
her father had died, so she was vulnerable, and he contacted her.
H e said, ‘Here’s my number.
if several women who procured ~
ing to people who knew her back”
‘emed to take pleasure in satisly
“He kept saying, ‘Come—will you come?’ He said he wanted
L
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/ BARAK / 135
Yet especially with my main points of contact in the administration — first Bob
Gates and then his successor, Leon Panetta, as Secretary of Defense —our broadly
shared views, mutual respect, and the strength of the US-Israeli alliance
outweighed any of that. Neither they, nor indeed President Obama, wavered from
their commitment to the principle that Israel needed to retain our “qualitative
military advantage” over any combination of threats we might face, nor to the $3
billion package of annual US aid that underpinned it. We were even able to agree
on additional US backing for our increasingly effective range of anti-missile
systems: the Arrow, against long-range ballistic missiles, developed in
coordination with the US defense contractor Raytheon; “David’s Sling,” to target
enemy forces’ mid-range missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft; and our new Iron
Dome system, integrating sophisticated Israeli radar and guidance technology and
designed to deal with the missile threat from Hizbollah on our northern border and
Hamas in Gaza. It had not yet been used in battle. But from test firings, we were
confident it could destroy incoming rockets with nearly 90-per-cent success.
By late 2011, the issue of Iran had taken on much greater urgency. There was
still no sign the American-led diplomatic efforts were succeeding in removing the
nuclear threat. As for an American military strike, though the President
intermittently declared that “all options” remained on the table, I knew from senior
administration members that it was extremely unlikely to happen. Iran, meanwhile,
had been acquiring thousands more centrifuges, more uranium, and heavier
protection around its key sites. And the “window of vulnerability” was now only
about a year away.
Operationally and politically, at least now a majority of the key players in Israel
agreed that we had to be prepared to take military action if there was no alternative
way to rein in the Iranians. Ashkenazi’s successor as chief-of-staff, Benny Gantz,
had signed off on the attack plan. While the Iranians were getting ever closer to
nuclear-weapons capability, the strike force that we were assembling was also
better equipped, trained and prepared to mount a complex, yet almost certainly
successful, operation. The damage to Iran’s nuclear ambitions would be
considerably less than if we had acted earlier. But our intelligence analysts still
estimated we could set back the Iranians’ program by about two years.
The immediate problem turned out to be timing. A major joint military exercise
with the Americans, agreed on two years earlier, was due to take place in Israel in
April 2012. It would include Patriot missile batteries, naval vessels, and thousands
421
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elections as soon as possible, which is the
right way to solve our differences: Let
our people decide, those in Palestine as
well as our people in the Diaspora.
Having said so, Hamas has recognized
the Palestine Liberation Organization as
the sole and legitimate representative of
the Palestinian people, including its
mandate to negotiate a final status
agreement with Israel. Once that is
achieved, we expect to hold a national
referendum.
FP: How would you describe Egypt's
role in the peace process now? What do
you expect from President Barack
Obama's administration with regards to
the peace process?
SE: Egypt has played a central role, and
continues to do so. We trust that Egypt,
under President Mohamed Morsy's
leadership, will continue to play a strong
role because Palestine and Egypt have a
common interest in achieving peace.
President Obama had stated that he has a
personal commitment to bring peace to
the Middle East. We, the Egyptians, and
the rest of the Arab world tell him that we
are ready for peace. We have the Arab
Peace Initiative. This goes in line with
the stated U.S. national interest.
Washington's failure to explicitly say that
Israel is to blame for choosing
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few restraints about the way he deals with his adversaries. He could act
unilaterally and shut down the investigation, forcing a legal test likely
before the Supreme Court. He could order the Attorney General—even
given his prior recusal—to repeal the Special Counsel regulations and
close down the investigation, and fire him if he refused. Or he could fire
Rosenstein and seek someone else to oversee the investigation in ways
more to his liking. The Mueller team continues to believe it is protected
by political realities—the President can not know how Congress might
respond, and it might well respond with impeachment. At the same
time, it has tried to game out the uncharted legal areas of exactly what
happens to all of its "work product" and to the sitting grand juries if the
investigation is in fact shut down or its mission altered.
Likewise, people around the President—embracing a
constitutional face-off as militantly as they maintain the Mueller
investigation is—say this unknown legal area that might be
advantageous to the President. The delays and disruption that result as
courts sort out the ramifications of the President's actions might well be
the President's legal friend—the reason some in the White House have
been urging the President to end the investigation, whatever the
political fallout.
The President's constitutional pardon powers appear to be some
of the most troubling and threatening issues for the Special Counsel. The
Counsel's office believes the President will use his pardon power as an
instrument to undermine the investigation.
According to present and former White House advisors, the
President's recent spate of pardons are in part his way of taunting the
Special Counsel. The White House, according to these sources, is aware
that the Special Counsel has concluded the President's pardon power is
near absolute: the President can certainly pardon himself, and others
involved in the investigation.
Most immediately, the Special Counsel's office believes that the
President will pardon Michael Flynn, perhaps in the coming weeks. The
question for the Mueller team is if it can build an exception to the
President's pardon authority. It’s view here falls back on the
egregiousness of the President's own behavior: there is a level of
obstruction of justice that all reasonable men might know when they
see it. If you pardon someone to get yourself off the hook, that's
obstruction, and subverting the rule of law and the constitution you've
pledged to uphold.
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
The Handler
1. “As for his [Snowden’s] communication...”-- Anatoly Kucherena Interview, “Snowden
believes he did everything right,” Sophie & Co, RT Television, September 23,2013
2. “I learned from a Russian researcher...”-- Author’s interview with Vassili Sonkine
3. “When I had been investigating...”—Edward Jay Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime,
op.cit, pp. 209-240
4. “I don’t know him...”—Author’s interview with Andrei Lugovoi
5. “It was a rare...”— The vast majority of the 15 Americans defectors to the Soviet Union
in the Cold War, including Joel Barr, Morris and Lona Cohen, Victor Hamilton, Edward
Lee Howard, George Koval, Bernon Mitchell, William Martin, Isaiah Oggins, Alfred
Sarant, Robert E. Webster and Flora Wovschin were involved in espionage. The
remaining three, Harold N. Kochs, a Catholic Priest protesting the Vietnam War, Arnold
Lockshin, a Communist party organizer, and Lee Harvey Oswald, a U.S. Marine, defected
for idealistic principles. All were given asylum, and two, Webster and Oswald, redefected
to the United States.
6. “They had been invited...”—Tanya Lokshinam “Meeting Edward Snowden,” Dispatches,
July 13,2015 https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12/dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden
7. “Read a prepared statement. ..”—“Statement by Edward Snowden,” July 12, 2013,
https://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html.
8. “Iasked how he...”-- Author’s interview with Anatoly Kucherena.
“Kucherena had personally approved. ...”—Author’s interview with Sophie Shevardnadze
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From: Richard Kahn
Sent: 12/8/2016 7:43:45 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Trump's conflict web
Importance: High
http://therealdeal.com/issues articles/trumps-conflict-web/
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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even when subjects respond to names commonly associated with Caucasian and Black people. A quick
skim through the many blogs commenting on this work reveals a common refrain that makes the key
point: many that have taken this test, whether focusing on race, sexual orientation, or political affiliation,
opine that the test must be invalid because they explicitly disavow any groupish biases. But that’s the
point! What we disavow explicitly has less impact than we would like on what we hold implicitly.
If our implicit system champions one view of racism and our explicit system another, then we are
continuously faced with an epic conflict. To resolve this conflict, and enable the explicit system to emerge
triumphant, requires self-control, keeping the implicit system quiet. Studies of the brain provide
interesting insights into this process. Recall that when we experience conflict, regardless of its content,
there is activation in the anterior cingulate. When we exert self-control, regardless of content, there is
activation in particular regions within the prefrontal cortex. When we feel threatened by a dangerous
animal or person, there is activation in the amygdala. These three brain regions tell an interesting story
about how we process race. When Caucasian subjects view faces of Black as opposed to Caucasian
people staring at them, there is greater activation in the amygdala. This racial difference disappears if
subjects view photos of faces looking away or with eyes closed. It is the potentially threatening aspect of
a face staring at you that engages the racial difference. If you briefly flash faces at Caucasian subjects so
that they are unaware of them, there is stronger activation in the amygdala for Black than Caucasian
faces. But if you present the faces for long enough, allowing them to enter conscious awareness, the
amyegdala’s pattern of activity goes away, replaced instead by strong activation in the anterior cingulate
and prefrontal cortex. Staring longer at someone from a different race triggers a sense of conflict and
engages the system of self-control, pushing down our implicit racism to enable more explicit neutrality
and equality.
What this work shows is that understanding our attitudes and actions toward those of the same
and different race requires consideration of implicit and explicit components. Think of this process like a
hand pushing down on an automatic watering fountain. The machinery that produces the pressure to push
water out of the holes in the fountain operates without concern for what happens outside in the world. The
hand that pushes down is under human control, consciously guided, perhaps with the aim of simply
spreading the water or feeling its’ coolness on a hot day. Though the hand may try to control the
movement of the water, it may only do so to some extent, guided by the power of the automatic engine
below. Thus, we have an automatic bottom up mechanism and a controlled top down mechanism. So it is
with race. The bottom up mechanism operates automatically, pushing forward our implicit prejudice. The
top down mechanism attempts to exert control, when and where it can, to avoid looking racist, sexist, or
what have you. Somewhere, the two meet, creating a personality profile that is more explicitly racist,
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Roberto A. Soltero
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
December 15, 2015
Page 3
Extraordinary Assumptions and Hypothetical Conditions
The value conclusions are subject to the following extraordinary assumptions that may affect the assignment
results. An extraordinary assumption is uncertain information accepted as fact. If the assumption is found to
be false as of the effective date of the appraisal, we reserve the right to modify our value conclusions.
1. The subject property has a fueling dock and four fuel storage tanks located on site; including three diesel
and one gasoline. There were no signs of contamination during our inspection and we have assumed that
there is no adverse environmental impact in connection with the existing fuel equipment used on the
subject property.
2. The parking garage at the subject slightly encroaches on the neighboring property to the immediate
northwest. This land is owned by the Government of the Virgin Islands and we have assumed that no claim
will arise from the encroachments.
3. For this analysis, we have valued the going concern interest in the subject property and have allocated the
value of the personal property from the value of the real property. We were provided with financial
statments from ownership that indicates the depreciated book value of these assets. Itis beyond our scope
to value these assets in use; therefore, we have assumed that the book values of teh personal property
items shown in the statments provided by ownership are reasonably accurate for the purpose of this
allocation exercise.
The value conclusions are based on the following hypothetical conditions that may affect the assignment
results. A hypothetical condition is a condition contrary to known fact on the effective date of the appraisal
but is supposed for the purpose of analysis.
1. No hypothetical conditions were employed in this analysis.
The opinions of value expressed in this report are based on estimates and forecasts that are
prospective in nature and subject to considerable risk and uncertainty. Events may occur
that could cause the performance of the property to differ materially from our estimates,
such as changes in the economy, interest rates, capitalization rates, financial strength of
tenants, and behavior of investors, lenders, and consumers. Additionally, our opinions and
forecasts are based partly on data obtained from interviews and third party sources, which
are not always completely reliable. Although we are of the opinion that our findings are
reasonable based on available evidence, we are not responsible for the effects of future
occurrences that cannot reasonably be foreseen at this time.
ire.
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Force, that fought this great war, really the Judeo-Christian West versus atheists, right?
The underlying principle is an enlightened form of capitalism, that capitalism really gave
us the wherewithal. It kind of organized and built the materials needed to support,
whether it’s the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back
continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East.
That capitalism really generated tremendous wealth. And that wealth was really
distributed among a middle class, a rising middle class, people who come from really
working-class environments and created what we really call a Pax Americana. It was
many, many years and decades of peace. And I believe we’ve come partly offtrack in the
years since the fall of the Soviet Union and we're starting now in the 21st century, which I
believe, strongly, is a crisis both of our church, a crisis of our faith, a crisis of the West, a
crisis of capitalism.
“T believe we’ve come partly offtrack in the
years since the fall of the Soviet Union and
we’re starting now in the 21st century, which I
believe, strongly, is a crisis both of our church,
a crisis of our faith, a crisis of the West, a
crisis of capitalism.”
And we're at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict, of which if the
people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I
feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs,
but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that’s starting, that will completely
eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.
Now, what I mean by that specifically: I think that you’re seeing three kinds of converging
tendencies: One is a form of capitalism that is taken away from the underlying spiritual
and moral foundations of Christianity and, really, Judeo-Christian belief.
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may partition the space of values taken by the journey of the orbital action
generated by the equation over time with rectangular grids of increasing fineness.
The result is an equipartition of phase space such that there is at most one orbital
point in each rectangle of the grid, with, of course, many rectangles in the finer grids
being empty. This final grid partition is called a generating partition. The proportion
of the available boxes of the partition occupied by points is called its area or volume
measure. This measure has been given a variety of names including Liouville, Haar
and Lesbegue measures. lf every box is occupied, it has measure one. If at most
one box, it has measure zero. If we allow partitions to be non-uniform and/or not
fine enough to be generating and apply probability weightings for how many points
fall into each particular box of the grid, the method is called the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen
or SRB measure after Kolmogorov’s students and followers, the Russian, Ya Sinai,
the Belgian Frenchmen, David Ruelle and the American, Rufus Bowen.
Similar to the SRB measure, the distribution of box occupancy probabilities
multiplied by their logarithms and summed over all cells of the partition yields a
statistical measure that is close to the informational entropy of Claude Shannon as
described above. It is called the metric entropy ( Hy = -X(p; In(pi)), where H means
entropy and gj; is the proportion of the total observations that occupy cell i of the
phase space or state space partition. It was the above noted Russian father of
modern dynamical systems, Kolmogorov, who in 1956 proved that the Shannon
metric entropy is a quantifiable invariant of systems even in very complicated
motion. Stanford University's Donald Ornstein won a Field’s Medal (the under forty
year old mathematician’s Nobel Prize) for his late 1960’s work proving that the
Shannon metric entropy, Hy, was the only invariant for a large class of appropriately
defined, expansive (near by points separating in time) dynamical systems. Recall
that we refer to metric entropy reflecting the relative occupancy as probability
among the possible boxes (or states) as Hy. Hy is maximal when the percentage
occupancy of all occupied boxes is uniform.
IBM’s Roy Adler in New York and Brian Marcus in California, Hebrew
University’s Benjamin Weiss, Warwick University’s English mathematicians, William
Parry, Peter Walters, Mark Pollicott and others developed and proved the relevance
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THE HOUSE OF THE NOBLEMAN
CURATED BY WOLFE VON LENKIEWICZ & VICTORIA GOLEMBIOVSKAYA
PRESS CLIPPING (INTERNET)
Future art stars cause a New Sensation
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent
15.10.10
Twenty artists hailed as stars of the future are getting the chance to show their work alongside that of 60 masters,
from Picasso and Warhol to Manet, Rodin and Cézanne.
The 20 were chosen from hundreds of graduate students in the New Sensations Prize, a contest now in its fourth
year, organised by Charles Saatchi's gallery and Channel 4.
Their work is part of The House of the Nobleman, an exhibition of art borrowed from international collections
that is being staged in an 18th-century mansion in Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, a stone's throw from the
Frieze Art Fair.
Four of the graduates were selected to receive £1,000 bursaries to develop a project for inclusion. They are:
German Pablo Wendel, 30, whose degree work involved squatting in a derelict chip shop to which he built a
staircase, later dismantled by Royal College of Art staff in a health and safety row; Katie Surridge, 25, and Russian
Nika Neelova, 23, both Slade School graduates, and Ross M Brown, 24, who is still studying in Dundee. One of
them will be named this year's overall winner on Monday and the exhibition runs until Wednesday.
Rebecca Wilson, associate director of the Saatchi Gallery, said: “The 20 shortlisted artists have created a stunning
range of work, including
photography, painting, installation and sculpture. The exhibition offers a wonderful opportunity to discover the
bright stars of the future.”
More than half of the graduate artists are based in the capital. “London is still one of the best places to do a fine
art degree and has that reputation across the world, as well as being one of the most vibrant centres for
contemporary art,” Ms Wilson added.
New Sensations at the House of the Nobleman, 2 Cornwall Terrace, is open until Wednesday.
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From: Lawrence Krauss
Sent: 12/11/2017 6:34:49 PM
To: ame Ueleere © |
cc: Lawrence Kraus i
Subject: Re: URGENT: BuzzFeed News inquiry re allegations of sexual harassment
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Importance: — High
Hello Peter. Iam currently on a plane. I sent you earlier from the plane an email response to your letter, which
IT hope you received. Regarding your note below: My earlier remark to you was based on my correspondence
with the universities during and after the investigation, and the conclusion I drew from the ANU report, which I
quoted for you in my response to your note. The claims made in the allegation which were later demonstrated to
be false, or which were then not supported after repeated requests from the University to substantiate the claim,
provided evidence that the claim was fabricated (as I knew it must be), and therefore maliciously so.
I had been planning on resigning my honorary appointment at ANU before I received the original letter from
ANU because my wife had moved to the US several years ago, and I no longer visited the University regularly
to work with colleagues there as I did in earlier years. When I received the letter from ANU regarding the
complaint, I decided to wait to resign my appointment until the investigation was completed and the complaint
was dismissed. After it was, I sent my note of resignation in, and I note that upon its receipt the Dean he
suggested I remain on until my appointment expired at the end of this year, but as I had made my decision to
resign earlier I felt no need to wait until then. I received a very nice note from the director of the unit I work
with (who was made aware of the complaint and its resolution by the Dean) who expressed thanks for my many
contributions to the University while there, and my interactions with staff, students, and faculty there.
I hope this clarifies your issues.
LMK
On Dec 11, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Peter Aldhous ( wrote:
Dr. Krauss,
Since sending the note below, we have heard from the Australian National University. They informed us:
"The characterisation by Professor Krauss that The Australian National University (ANU) found the complaint
to be ‘unsubstantiated and fabricated with malicious intent’ is false."
They also told us that you resigned your honorary appointment at ANU on November 3. Can you comment on
the reason for your resignation from ANU?
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you. Again, we are planning on publishing our story
Tuesday morning, Eastern US Time. Please provide any comments you wish us to consider before then.
Sincerely,
Peter Aldhous
On 12/10/17 5:12 PM, Peter Aldhous wrote:
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spiritually mordant Jews in Rome. His message was among the simplest and most
compact and personal possible: The transmission of faith requires nothing more and
nothing less than faith itself. Romans teaches us that believing in God, which is faith,
is enough for access to all the riches of heaven: God’s righteousness, an afterlife,
forgiveness.
By Luther’s age, however, access to those riches was not so simple. Among other
things, spiritual control had become a source of lucre for the church. The glory of the
Catholic Church, her magnificent cathedrals and clothes, and her insidious habits of
selling passes to heaven in the form of indulgences - this was a deployment of faith
and power marked by a venality that grated against Luther’s from-faith-to-faith
sensibility. When he saw his own congregation increasingly slipping away to
churches with priests who would do what he would not, which was to market and
sell indulgences, he saw a rank, strange hypocrisy: The Church as an economic
instrument. His rage boiled over in the summer of 1517, and he summarized his
case against the Church in the 95 Theses that he nailed to the door of his local
church on October 31s". Papa non vult nec potest ullas penas remittere preter eas,
quas arbitrio vel suo vel canonum imposuit, he wrote in Thesis Five: No matter what
you might pay him, the Pope can’t influence what happens to you after you die. Or,
Thesis 78, Euangelici rhetia sunt, quibus olim piscabantur viros divitiarum.
Indulgences are nets with which one fishes for the riches of men.
As much as Luther was crying for a restoration of Saint Paul’s sense of a personal
faith, he was also starting a difficult and - for the Church - unpleasant argument
about power. Our relation to God, Luther meant, is our relation. It’s not something to
be brokered or sold or negotiated. It does not require fancy clothes or cathedrals or
hierarchies. For Luther, this new logic had engendered a profound spiritual crisis.
He recalled, later in life, the very first time he’d encountered the possibility of direct
access to God, in the pages of Saint Augustine, probably around 1508. “When I came
to the words ‘thee, most merciful father,” he wrote, “the thought that I had to speak
to God without a mediator almost made me flee.”?! Who was he, Martin Luther, to
speak directly to God? But from then on, Luther’s experience of God, his own sense
of power honestly passing from faith to faith - and not from faith to church to faith -
embodied an extremely heretical idea about power: faith without a middleman.
Such a concept undid much of what had been taken as inarguable doctrine. The
Church immediately understood the danger. They rushed to label Luther as heretical
and, later, crazy. In arguing that the Catholic Church, with all of its magnificent
trappings of faith, was really a useless toll gate, Luther was picking at a still larger,
more significant question: How should power be split? If Luther was right, and God
should be accessible directly to each of us, then some other questions tumbled after
that one. Should we have direct access to political power? To ideas? To money and
land and control of our own economic destiny? Could “from faith to faith,” be recast
as “from idea to idea” or “truth to truth” or - and this turned out to be the really
91 “When I came to the words”: Preserved Smith, The Life and Letters of Martin
Luther, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911) Introduction
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