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You can answer the question.
Sure.
Is there anything that would refresh your
memory that in fact you told Mr. Epstein's assistant, the
one who walked you upstairs, that you went to college and
you had just moved down here from Ohio?
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That would be a lie, right?
No. | really don't remember.
Do you remember Detective Michelle Pagan of
the Police Department, Palm Beach Police Department?
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Do you remember you spoke to her?
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agencies—the so called “alphabet agencies”—such as the FCC, FPC, SEC and FDA. The rest
were run of the mill criminal cases—murder, robbery, rape, assault and other street crimes. It
was a perfect combination for a budding law professor who was interested in constitutional and
criminal law.
Our task began with a case record, which consisted of the appellate briefs filed by the lawyers and
an “appendix,” which included relevant excerpts from the trial transcript and motions filed before
the trial court. Some records were relatively short, perhaps 300 pages in total. Others were
humongous, as many as 5,000 pages. Then there was the complete trial transcript—a verbatim
account of every word spoken during the trial, as well as during the pretrial and post-trial
proceedings. Judge Bazelon would often ask me to read the entire transcript in search of errors
or particular issues that were of interest to him.
When we completed the review, we would discuss the case with the judge, who had read the
briefs and perused the appendix in preparation for the oral argument in court. Occasionally, we
were permitted to listen to the oral argument, especially when leading lawyers were arguing
(which was rare), or when issues close to the judge’s heart were being considered. But generally,
we were required to remain in the chambers working while the judge presided over the oral
argument.
Since Bazelon was the Chief Judge, he always presided and got to assign the opinion to one of the
three judges on a panel (or nine when on rare occasions the entire court heard the case “en
banc”). Following the oral argument, there was a conference among the judges during which a
tentative result was reached and the case assigned. Bazelon always assigned the most interesting
cases to himself, or to a judge whose decisions he wanted to influence.
When the conference was over and the case assigned, we would meet with the judge and he
would tell us which clerk was to work on the opinion. I always got the interesting cases (at least
the ones that interested the judge). My co-clerk, who the judge didn’t much like, got the dregs.
This was fine with him, since he didn’t much like working closely with the judge.
Then the real work would begin. Draft after draft was submitted, marked up by the judge and
rejected with the admonition, “You can do better,” or sometimes “start over, this draft isn’t
right.”
After many drafts, and some pressure from the other judges on the panel, the opinion was
released to the public. Generally, they were majority opinions, often unanimous, but frequently
they were dissenting or concurring opinions. This was a deeply divided court and the dissenting
opinions pulled no punches in criticizing the majority, and vice versa.
At the end of the year, the clerks would prepare bound volumes of all the opinions we worked on
during our clerkship. One was given to the judge and the others to us, as mementoes of our year.
As I write these words, I have in front of me the maroon volume engraved with the following
words:
“Chief Judge David L. Bazelon
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Table 8: Combined metric rankings
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Such a system, Jefferson wrote, was particularly appealing to him because it
contrasted so sharply with the violent shearing of daily life then underway all
around him in Europe. “France, with all its despotism, and two or three hundred
thousand men always in arms, has had three insurrections in the three years | have
been here,” he marvels. In fact, France’s revolutionary age was only just beginning.
The fall of the Bastille was 18 months away; the flight and death of the King five
years off. Paris would soon see a time when one riot a year felt like peace. You can’t
miss in Jefferson’s letter, and in the others he exchanged with Madison that winter
and the following spring, his instinct that the world was changing, that it was being
riven by urgent new forces, and that America must be positioned for the fresh order
both internally and in her foreign policy. Jefferson knows what this new age
demands - liberty - and in that spirit he fires off suggestions for Madison. It is in this
December, 1787 letter that he remarks that he “does not like” the absence of a “bill
of rights”, a hint that led to an adjustment of historic import.
It is possible to regard the transformations of politics, economics and military affairs
over the past centuries, the sorts of bold remakings that tore apart places like the
Bastille or built up instruments like the American Constitution, as emerging froma
few crucial periods, the sorts of historic turns that mark moments when power
makes an epochal shift. It is striking how, in passing through these periods of
unthinkable change, America has benefited so much, so fully. The country was, to
begin with, born out of the social and political revolutions of the 18" century. The
national liberation that pulled Jefferson from his Virginia farm and into politics was
the first of the great, revolutionary movements that convulsed and fractured a
dozen European powers. France followed America, as did Germany and Italy and
soon most of the continent. “The boisterious sea of liberty,” Jefferson called the new
political order*. It required a strong stomach. Tempests of accumulated social
pressures - the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution - had
passed over one ancien regieme after another like powerful waves. America, begun
on fresh land and with new ideas inked onto clean paper, had a natural advantage in
the situation of her birth. “I think our government,” Jefferson concluded in his letter
to Madison, “will remain virtuous for many centuries.”
A second transformation of global order began in the middle of the 19 Century, as
Jefferson and Madison's age ended. Their period had largely been one of internal
revolutions, as the nations of Europe realigned their domestic orders. What came
next were furious contests between these countries. We might think of this new
period as starting with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and as running, with
increasing violence, through to the summer of 1945 and the end of World War Two.
In this era, Europe’s statesmen struggled from one tragically collapsed balance to
another. The demands of industry and nationalism and ideology and economy could
only be reconciled, it seemed, by war, as if it was absolutely necessary to devour the
old buildings and the young men before a new order could settle in. The scale of this
45 “The bousterious sea of liberty”: Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, The Papers
of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29: 1 March 1796 to 31 December 1797 (Princeton
University Press, 2002), 81-3
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let me clear all of that misunderstanding up.
You know, that's -- frankly, if I had gotten
something like that, that's what I would have
said.
The answer that came back was -- from
Mr. Dershowitz was something along the lines of,
if I remember correctly, well, tell me what
you -- you -- tell me what you want to know and
I'll decide whether to cooperate, was I think
the phrase that was used. And -- and so there
was an attempt, you know, a 2009 attempt, a 2011
attempt to get information from Mr. Dershowitz.
Then there was another subpoena without
deposition for -- for documents. You know, we
have heard a lot about records in this case that
could prove innocence. There was a records
request to Mr. Dershowitz in 2013. And, again,
my understanding was that there was no -- you
know, no documents were provided on that.
And so those -- I had that information.
Another bit of information that I had was that in
2011, I believe in early April -- this is not
attorney/client privileged information from
Virginia Roberts. This is a telephone call that
she placed from Australia where she had been
DESQUIRE
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Charles
From: Darren Indyke [mailto
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 5:35 PM
To: Michael, Charles
Subject: Privileged and Confidential - Fwd: JAMES PATTERSON NEW BOOK TELLING FEDS COVER UP OF BILLIONAIRE
JEFF EPSTEIN CHILD RAPES RELEASE DATE OCT 10 2016 STEVEN HOFFENBERG IS ON THE BOOK WRITING TEAM !!!!
Regards,
Darren
DARREN K. INDYKE
DARREN K. INDYKE, PLLC
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10022
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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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monogamous and that the child would belong in Jeffrey’s custody in the
event of a falling out between the two of you.” She kind of threw that last
one in there quickly, as if she could get away with me not hearing that I
would basically have to relinquish the rights to my own flesh in blood
and surrender them to a life of servitude and abuse with these people. My
maternal alarm bells went off straight away and I already knew my
answer. No way I could I do that to any poor baby, God only knew what
these monsters had in store for me let alone a baby, but it was an instant
reaction that saved me. “I don’t know guy’s, | mean I’m really young
and never really even thought about having kids yet. Wow, I just don’t
know.” I slicked my hand through my hair nervously and took in a silent
breath. [ had to go beyond what I was truly feeling and give them the
feeling that I’d never let them down. Putting an eager smile on my face
and sucking up my gut’s intuition I told them “You know what, let me get
my certificates in massage and have some time to prepare for this and get
healthy then next year we’ll all think about having a baby together.” It
was crazy to even hear me say out loud but from the expressions on their
faces I had fulfilled their wishes.
Much reason to celebrate that night they were both in a cheery mood
around the dinner table. Except for me who had taken double the dosage
of Xanax to even cope with the high amounts of anxiety I had been
suffering from since we got back from the dock. I wasn’t sipping the
champagne that night, I was gulping it and when their moods tumed from
cheery to raunchy later that evening it wasn’t hard for me to comply.
From the full effects of the state I was in I would’ve agreed to just about
anything, allowing them to treat themselves to ravishing the tender parts
of my body.
Over the next few weeks everything went on as it normally would, and
not another mention of their proposal. My birthday was only a week away
and I was turning nineteen that year. All ] wanted was to get my
certificates before I got any older and get trapped into this life for good.
When my big day rolled around I was in New York with Jeffrey and
Ghislane. Sitting on my bed listening to MTV’s channel blare in the
background of my room I was painting my toenails when I was suddenly
buzzed on the intercom. It was Jeffrey calling himself to ask me to meet
him in his office in ten minutes. Perfect timing to let my nails dry I
thought to myself. Already contemplating his desire to come downstairs I
knew it had something to do with my birthday present but I was more
expecting the usual shopping money or piece of jewelry, definitely not
what he had in store for me.
I knocked on the slightly ajar door to Jeffrey’s office and heard him
beckon me inside. “Hello, what cha up too?” I asked in a cutesy tone of
voice. Walking over to his desk he looked up at me taking his reading
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glasses off while granting me a big smile. “Come over here and sit down
with me” as he ushered me to come sit on his lap. Pulling me onto him he
had a funny look on his face, like he had something really big to tell me
and was letting the anticipation build in the thickness of the silence.
“What???” I laughed at the way he was looking at me now. “First of
all.:. Happy birthday today.” Was only the beginning of his
announcement and he proceeded to tell me “I know how much you have
wanted this for so long and you are more than deserving of it. You are
going away to Thailand to learn authentic Thai Massage and within eight
weeks you'll receive a certificate for being a qualified Thai Massage
Therapist.” Astonished at his attempts to see me get what 1 wanted, not
exactly the type of massage I was interested in but it was a start and a
first certificate for me to acquire. My eyes lit up and I threw my arms
around his neck, planting a big kiss on his lips, which I rarely ever did.
“Wow, I don’t know what to say, this is beyond my wildest
dreams...thank you so much!” I did well to let him know I appreciated
his grandeur offer. He went on to give me the details of where I’d be
staying, the school’s schedules, and how much he loved Thai massage,
apparently it was the next big thing to hit the shores of America. He had
planned out an entire itinerary for me. I was to depart at the end of
August and he had already enrolled me in a class at “ITM Massage
School”. I would only have a few days to settle in before I would be
attending classes five days a week over eight hours a day. He even had an
assignment for me to do while I was over there. | was to meet up with a
girl who was also being put up at the “Princess Hotel” where | was
staying. She had an Asian sounding name so I just assumed she was a
local girl hoping for an opportunity of a lifetime, if she only knew what
she would be getting herself into. If 1 decided that she met Jeffrey’s
particular quota of approval then she would be sent over to the U.S to
meet with him or one of his esteemed colleagues. Besides the guilt of
having to decide a stranger’s uncertain fate, everything else sounded
more than wonderful. Eight weeks gone from Jeffrey sounded like a
lifetime away and I couldn’t be more excited at this chance. It was the
opportunity of my lifetime and I wasn’t going to waste a second of it.
Ghislane came in a few minutes later and the look on her face told me
she already knew. I got up from Jeffrey’s lap and gave her a big hug and
told her, “This is so nice of you guys, Thank you so much!” She didn’t
share my enthusiasm of excitement. In a dull tone she responded, “I
didn’t have a thing to do with it, it was all Jeffrey’s idea but good-luck
anyways.” She gave me her best impression of being human for a brief
second and hugged me back. It was just her way and I had come to accept
it. Depending on the level of slander her insults provoked was just her
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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 11/11/2016 5:29:35 AM
To: Zubair Khan
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
New York ? How ? It was hillary no doubt always
On Friday, 11 November 2016, Zubair Khan <> wrote:
Out of 13 states we got 11 right. The ones we got wrong are NY and WI.
In the last report, analyzed data was of 3 days in which Clinton got a positive spike after she got clearance
from FBI. However Trump dominated the social media positively if we analyze one week data before starting
time of election, monthly data and entire data which we have gathered for months. Based on this we predicted
on our Facebook page on 30th October that Trump will be next president of US.
Our model works but I think the important question which we failed to answer is that how much historic data
must be analyzed to make the right decision. This could have been answered if we had a Data Scientist. Also I
believe its a great tool to track voters and get them to vote. It can be used in French elections next year or
elections of Brazil in 2018 but unfortunately I have to shut down this project as getting data from Twitter is
expensive and the start up is running out of money.
I am going to focus on cyber security again and will definitely reach out if I have a powerful investable idea.
Regards,
Zubair Khan
On Nov 11, 2016, at 4:49 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
not so good
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Contractor | 37
Eleu Street in the middle-class suburb of Waipahu. It was part of
the Royal Kunia development, which contained three hundred
similar-looking homes. According to Albi Matco, the manager of the
community association for the development, many of the residents
worked at military facilities in the area. The corner house Snowden
rented was comfortable enough, with three bedrooms, a walk-in
closet, a living room with a high ceiling, and a single-car garage, but
in no way lavish. It did not even have a backyard. He moved in on
April 2, 2012, which entailed a brief separation from his girlfriend,
Mills, who had committed herself to attending a girlfriend’s wedding
the following month. After he left for his new assignment, she wrote
on Instagram, “Sex toy party and then saying goodbye to my man—
well not goodbye so much as see you in two months.”
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and the secret to vigor and longevity. “...to achieve fullness of life one had to abide
in empty nothingness, xuwu.” In Lao-Tsu’s Tao-Te-Ching, “...the Way is gained by
daily loss, loss upon loss until...by letting go, it all gets done...”
William James, in The Principles of Psychology, tried to capture the subjective
dynamics of the brain as an on-going preconscious stream of statistical wave
processes. He envisioned autonomously increasing and decreasing coherence
emerging spontaneously and from sensorial evoked thoughts via the confluence
tt
and disaggregation of statistical wave processes, “...wave crests and hollows...”
that achieved temporary statistical stability by “...feelings of relation, consubstantial
with our feelings or thoughts of the terms between which they (only temporarily)
obtain.” In the more receptive, higher entropy brain systems, fleeting forms change
without continuity, Jumping from one to another with “magical rapidity,” but being not
already engaged, are available for use for self-organized structure evoked by new
information. Without ordered, low entropy, preconceived ideational defects in the
resting random brain field, the full attentional statistical machine is available to
sensitively respond in self-organized, quasi-stable states of cognitive, conative and
affective integration. They then disappear; this brain relaxes quickly, ready for new
experience. This contrasts with those brains that are dominated by islands of order
composed of personality fixations and rigid belief systems, low entropy defects,
which interfere with sensorially responsive sel/f-organization.
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Jay Lefkowitz/New To Ami Sheth/New York/Kirkland-Ellis@K&E
Sent byt Kilt Areiersen iRexe ce Eugene Kornel/New York/Kirkland-Ellis@K&E
York/Kirkland-Ellis bec
42/12/2007 04:19 PM Subject Fw: Epstein
----~ Forwarded by Kristin Andersen/New York/Kirkland-Ellis on 12/12/2007 04:19 PM -----
Jay Lefkowitz/New
York/Kirkland-Ellis To "Sloman, Jeff (USAFLS)"
11/28/2007 04:29 PM cc "Acosta, Alex (USAFLS)"
Subject Re: Epstein)
Dear Jeff:
I received your email yesterday and was a little surprised at the tone of your letter, given
the fact that we spoke last week and had what I thought was a productive meeting. I was
especially surprised given that your letter arrived on only the second day back to work after the
Thanksgiving Holiday, and yet your demands regarding timing suggest that I have been sitting on
my hands for days.
You should know that the first time I learned about Judge Davis’s selection of Podhurst
and Josephsberg, and indeed the first time I ever heard their names, was in our meeting with you
on Wednesday of last week. Nevertheless, I have now been able to confer with my client, and we
have determined that the selection of Podhurst and Josephsberg are acceptable to us, reserving, of
course, our previously stated objections to the manner in which you have interpreted the section
2255 portions of the Agreement.
We do, however, strongly and emphatically object to your sending a letter to the alleged
victims. Without a fair opportunity to review and the ability to make objections to this letter, it is
completely unacceptable that you would send it without our consideration. Additionally, given
that the US Attorney’s office has made clear it cannot vouch for the claims of the victims, it
would be incendiary and inappropriate for your Office to send such a letter. Indeed, because it is
a certainty that any such letter would immediately be leaked to the press, your actions will only
have the effect of injuring Mr. Epstein and promoting spurious civil litigation directed at him.
We believe it is entirely unprecedented, and in any event, inappropriate for the Government to be
the instigator of such lawsuits.
Finally, we disagree with your view that you are required to notify the alleged victims
pursuant to the Justice for All Act of 2004. First, 18 USC section 2255, the relevant statute
under the Non-Prosecution Agreement for the settlement of civil remedies, does not have any
connection to the Justice for All Act. Section 2255 was enacted as part of a different statute.
Second, the Justice for All Act refers to restitution, and section 2255 is not a restitution statute.
It is a civil remedy. As you know, we had offered to provide a restitution fund for the alleged .
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From: Jack ANG
Sent: 7/17/2017 8:48:09 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: — High
You were spot on, Jeffrey!
Le 10 juil. 2017 a 23:17, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> a écrit :
re trump. asi said they will first go after his family
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From:
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Martin G. Weinberg
3/18/2016 4:30:13 PM
jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]; Kathy Ruemmler
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From: jeffrey E.
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 11:41 AM
To: Martin Weinberg ; Kathy Ruemmler; Darren Indyke
Subject: Fwd: Patterson
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From: Michael Wolff
Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:39 AM
Subject: Patterson
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
A few things to think about:
If the Patterson book is being published in August, that presents some time frame issues. You would not be
able to do a competing book or documentary before then. This is not to say that they shouldn't be pursued. In
a sense, better that they know what Patterson's position is and, a year from now say, be able to counter it. I
have some thoughts on book and doc to share at your convenience.
That being said, you do need an immediate counter narrative to the book. I believe Trump offers an ideal
opportunity. It's a chance to make the story about something other than you, while, at the same time, letting
you frame your own story. Also, becoming an anti-Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which you
decidedly don't have now. Still, this necessary involves you going public. And so the most basic decision is
about your willingness to do that. My view is that in a couple of weeks you could master message and
technical proficiency. I know a bunch of people who could be very helpful here. This would involve something
along the lines of you writing an op-ed, doing a high profile television interview (Charlie Rose, I'd say), and
perhaps some social media efforts.
Speaking of which, again, I think a strategic plan, involving your public identity, philanthropic activities and
interests, and the development of media allies, ought finally to be put in place. A big, comprehensive,
expensive effort.
The alternative is to continue to keep head down and hope Patterson book is just more he-said she-said and
Connolly getting lost in the reeds (which, as an inveterate conspiracist, he always does). My worry is that
Patterson can be counted on to produce a bestseller, and while he isn't regarded as a serious writer, he'll
surely be unloading a lot of tabloid copy. Because this will be tied to the election, the Trump-Clinton angle will
amp up the attention 10-fold, in fact, possibly, a hundred fold. Possibly more than anything you've
encountered before.
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Meanwhile--
In a lawyer's letter, I'd suggest including the following points--not necessarily legal, but a warning about how a
press campaign might unfold (publishers are more worried about being caught in negative media controversy
than they are of legal threats):
1) Little, Brown has made on the record representations to at least one well-known journalist that it was not
publishing a book by James Patterson about Jeffrey Epstein--possibly an effort to avoid inquiries about the
questionable nature of the book;
2) The actual author of the book, John Connolly, is someone other than the stated author, James Patterson.
Connolly is known to have developed an obsession with Epstein, such that, his longtime employer, Vanity Fair,
has refused to allow him to write about Epstein for the magazine;
3) Sources have confirmed for us that Patterson has had little more than a minimal consulting role in the book,
and that Connolly has functioned in every material way as the book's researcher and writer. We believe
Patterson's "authorship" of the book will not stand up to scrutiny. And, indeed, that the entire notion of an
extension of the Patterson franchise into nonfiction, as it has been used in fiction and children's book--
effectively other authors writing under the Patterson name—presents a host of journalism ethical issues.
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From: Faith Kates
Sent: 8/14/2012 1:05:43 PM
To: Faith Kates [
Subject: Fwd: Public work vs private AMAZING
> This is crazy please read it and pass it on!!!
> • Sent from my iPhone
> • Begin forwarded message:
> From: John Connolly Ed.D.•
> Date: August 4, 2012 3:54:25
> To: RALPH BERNSTEIN <
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Morad Tahbaz
> Subject: FW: Public wor vs private AMAZING
> John J. Connolly, Ed.D.
> President & CEO
> Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
>
> 42 W. 24th St.
> New York, NY 10010
> P.
> F.
> www.castleconnolly.com
> From: ed thompson [mailto:
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 6:03 PM
> To: ;
> Subject: Fw: Public work vs private AMAZING
,
"Joseph Bernstein
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> There are actually two messages here. The first is very
>
>
>
>
>
>
> interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.
>
> A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very
> interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International
> Health organization.
>
> Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
>
> U.S. 65%
>
> England 46%
>
> Canada 42%
>
>
> Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received
> treatment within six months:
>
> U.S. 93%
>
> England 15%
>
> Canada 43%
>
>
> Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it
> within six months:
>
> U.S. 90%
>
> England 15%
>
> Canada 43%
>
>
> Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within
> one month:
>
> U.S. 77%
>
> England 40%
>
> Canada 43%
>
>
> Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million
> people:
>
> U.S. 71
>
> England 14
>
> Canada 18
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>
> Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are
> in "excellent health":
>
> U.S. 12%
>
> England 2%
>
> Canada 6%
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And now for the last statistic:
National Health Insurance?
U.S. NO
England YES
Canada YES
Check this last set of statistics!! The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is a real-life business, not a government job Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt..................... 38%
Taft.................................. 40%
Wilson ............................. 52%
Harding........................... 49%
Coolidge.......................... 48%
Hoover............................ 42%
F. Roosevelt.................... 50%
Truman............................ 50%
Eisenhower...................... 57%
Kennedy.......................... 30%
Johnson........................... 47%
Nixon............................... 53%
Ford................................ 42%
Carter............................. 32%
Reagan............................ 56%
GH Bush......................... 51%
Clinton ........................... 39%
GW Bush........................ 55%
Obama..................... 8%
This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration:
only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!
That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the
last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big
corporations how to run their business?
How can the president of a major nation and society, the one
with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when
he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for
92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia,
government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers." They should have been in an employment
line
Pass this on because we'll NEVER see these facts in the main
stream media.
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were told that they would receive no
medicine at all. The researchers at-
tempted to assess the combined impact
of many different kinds of trials using
meta-analysis, a statistical technique for
extracting information from studies that
are not statistically significant by them-
selves. Their article, “Is the Placebo Pow-
erless? An Analysis of Clinical Trials
Comparing Placebo with No Treat-
ment,” published in The New England
Journal of Medicine, was a long-overdue
response to Beecher’s 1955 paper.
In almost every case, the researchers re-
ported, there was essentially no difference
between the placebo group and the openly
untreated group. There were particular ex-
ceptions in studies of pain, where there
was a slight but measurable placebo effect.
Since we are physiologically capable of
manufacturing our own painkillers—en-
dorphins—the result may not have been
surprising. Expectations and suggestion
clearly influence behavior, and when we
expect to receive medicine our bodies
often begin to prepare for it. (As the evo-
lutionary biologist Robert Trivers recently
pointed out, in “The Folly of Fools,” his
book about the historical necessity of de-
ceit, what the brain expects to happen in
the near future affects its physiological
state. Trivers’s theory would explain a fact
that has often baffled scientists: the pla-
cebo effect doesn’t appear to work with
Alzheimer’s patients. Trivers suggests that
this is because most people who have Al-
zheimer’s disease are unable to anticipate
the future and are therefore unable to pre-
pare for it.)
The Danish researchers repeated the
study in 2004, and again last year, incor-
porating new data each time. The re-
sults and their conclusions remained
the same. “We found little evidence in
general that placebos had powerful clin-
ical effects,” Hrdbjartsson wrote. “Out-
side the setting of clinical trials, there is
no justification for the use of placebos.”
Kaptchuk has great respect for Hré-
bjartsson, yet he is wary of relying on
meta-analyses, and he believes that an
honest interaction between a doctor and
a patient can significantly alter the out-
come of treatment. That was the point of
his study of irritable-bowel syndrome, in
which some subjects were told that they
would not be treated. I.B.S., a chronic
gastrointestinal disorder, is one of the
most common reasons that people seek
medical care. Effective long-term thera-
pies have proved elusive. In Kaptchuk’s
study, eighty patients were randomly di-
vided into two groups. Patients in the first
group received a placebo pill twice a day;
those in the second received nothing. Be-
fore the study began, both groups were
told that placebos were “inert or inactive
pills, like sugar pills, without any medica-
tion in them.” They were also informed
that placebos have been shown in “rigor-
ous clinical testing to produce significant
mind-body self-healing processes.” Pa-
tients who received the openly distributed
placebo scored far better on standard as-
sessments of their condition than those
who received nothing. There were also
statistically significant differences in the
severity of symptoms.
Although a group of eighty patients is
too small to draw definitive conclusions,
honesty seemed to work. “Asbjorn’s stuff
is a constant intellectual challenge,” Kapt-
chuk wrote in an e-mail. “His meta-anal-
yses are tops. Great methods, very careful.
Clear.” Yet Kaptchuk also pointed out
that placebos are not the only interven-
tions that can cause complicated reac-
tions. Drugs do, too. Opiods, for exam-
ple, increase pain in about ten per cent of
those who take them. Antibiotics don’t al-
ways work, and neither does cortisone, a
powerful steroid used each year by mil-
lions of people. Meta-analyses are useful
to help understand large amounts of data
from different trials. But statistical results
that combine information from a
variety of medical centers, with
different kinds of patients, often
in different countries, adminis-
tered under different conditions,
cannot be uniform and therefore
cannot be conclusive.
Hrébjartsson and Kaptchuk
are united on at least one front.
Like Wayne Jonas, they agree
that the medical system needs to
change. “You have to put this into
the context of the society in which
you live,” Hrébjartsson told me. “Because
I think this may be as much a matter of
philosophy as of science. There is an anti-
technological, anti-science feeling in the
West. We constantly see frustration with
the limits of medicine. The placebo can be
seen in some sense as a logical avenue for
those frustrations. Everyone wants a sim-
ple, pain-free solution. But I wonder if that
approach isn’t just the mirror image of the
pharmacological way of handling illness—
that there is a pill for every disease.
“The entire idea of a placebo is very
‘soapy, ” Hrébjartsson continued. “It slips
away whenever you try to find a border.”
That has always been true. After all, for
many people a placebo is just a sugar pill.
For others, the definition includes the en-
tire ritual of treatment, the complete inter-
action between doctor and patient. In-
creased attention has mostly raised new
questions: What are the physical and psy-
chological mechanisms that produce pla-
cebo effects? What are the conditions they
most easily affect? And can we actually
identify people who respond to placebos?
Scientists now have bits of answers to some
of those questions, but to reach their goal,
and introduce placebos into clinical prac-
tice, they will need to answer all of them.
T Kaptchuk gets a great deal of
pleasure from focussing on what
other people reject. Indifference seems to
motivate him. “I was raised in a crazy
home, and it prepared me to accept any
proposition,” he said. That, he once told
me, is why he was so active in the sixties:
“Tt was a time when the underpinnings of
the universe were questioned.” Both of
Kaptchuk’s parents, who were Poles, sur-
vived the Holocaust. “That really defines
a lot of what I do. My father was a Red,
so I have a tendency to get pleasure from
subversiveness.”
A particularly radical son of the six-
ties, Kaptchuk was one of the
founders of the Columbia Uni-
versity chapter of Students for
a Democratic Society, in 1965,
but the organization was soon
dominated by a faction that be-
came the Weather Under-
ground. That was too radical
even for Kaptchuk. He fled to
the West Coast. “I was hanging
out with the San Francisco Red
Guards and reading Mao, trying
to get away from U.S. imperial-
ism,” he said. “I was militant and crazy.
But at some point I said, Ted, this is not
being human.”
Kaptchuk decided to pursue studies in
Chinese philosophy and medicine at the
source. Beijing had yet to open its bor-
ders to Americans, but Kaptchuk hoped
that his revolutionary bona fides would
prompt the leadership to make an excep-
tion. “My request to study there was de-
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Freedom House
Eastern Europe, and military dictatorships elsewhere,
there was an explosion of newspapers, radio and
television stations, and other independent media with
diverse editorial policies. But the internet in particular
was seen as an irresistible force that could render
censorship of any kind impossible. In 2000, President
Bill Clinton compared China's efforts to control inter-
net content to “trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.””
Third, a growing number of experts began to identify
anew instigator of democratic change in global civil
society. Unlike the “peoples movements’ of earlier
decades, in which well-known leaders mobilized mass
demonstrations and often insurrectionary violence
with the goal of overthrowing despotic regimes, the
phenomenon that was labeled civil society consisted
of organizations that were often committed to a single
cause or a few causes united by a particular theme.
Most activists were young, with little prior involvement
in politics, and many regarded themselves as part of
a global effort to advance goals like reducing carbon
emissions, empowering women, or fighting corruption.
In a prescient 1997 article, Jessica T. Mathews predict-
ed that in the future global civil society would be the
triggering force behind liberal change.* She suggested
that in many cases civil society organizations would
play amore important role than governments. Her
words seemed prescient in light of later events in
Serbia, where student activists organized a campaign
that eventually brought about the downfall of President
Slobodan MiloSevicé in 2000, and in Ukraine, where
young reformers played a pivotal role in ensuring that
the 2004 elections were not stolen through fraud.
In declaring that dictatorships or even authoritarian
methods were destined to succumb to this triad of
new social forces, commentators were also express-
ing optimism about the universal appeal of liberal
values. The decade after the end of the Cold War
was a heyday for democratic ideas and norms. It was
increasingly expected that countries would not only
hold elections, but that their elections would meet
international standards and be judged “free and fair.”
There was also an expectation that political parties
would be able to compete on a reasonably level
playing field, that opposition leaders would not be
harassed or arrested, and that minorities would be
able to pursue their agendas through normal political
channels and not find it necessary to wage perpetual
protest campaigns.
However, there were nagging questions. It remained
unclear whether most societies would have access to
multiple sources of political ideas, multiple interpreta-
tions of the news, and open scholarly inquiries about
the past. Would there be honest judicial proceedings,
especially in cases with political implications? Would
property rights be secure?
Beyond these primarily domestic issues, there was
another series of questions related to individual
governments’ relations with their neighbors and the
rest of the world. The end of the Cold War had brought
a peace dividend, both financial and psychological,
for all sides. At the time, most assumed that peace
would prove durable. But would the general decline
in military budgets hold? Would the new national
boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and
the former Yugoslavia be sustainable?
As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex-
panded its influence, the answers to these questions
are increasingly negative.
1. Freedom in the World 2016 (New York: Freedom House, 2016), https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/free-
dom-world-2016.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ceylan Yeginsu, “Turks Feud Over Change in Education,” New York Times, December 8, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/
world/europe/erdogan-pushes-ottoman-language-classes-as-part-of-tradtional-turkish-values.html.
5. Eleanor Albert, “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization,” Council on Foreign Relations, October 14, 2015, http://www.cfr.org/
china/shanghai-cooperation-organization/p10883.
6. “Freedom in the World at 41,” in Freedom in the World 2014 (New York: Freedom House, 2014), https://freedomhouse.org/sites/
default/files/Freedom%20in%20the%20World%202014%20Booklet.pdf.
7. “Chinas Internet: A Giant Cage,” Economist, April 6, 2013, http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21574628-internet-
was-expected-help-democratise-china-instead-it-has-enabled.
8. Jessica T. Mathews, “Power Shift,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 1997), https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1997-01-01/
power-shift.
www.freedomhouse.org
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sure she won the respect of many Israelis for taking an all-to-rare stand of
principle. She certainly won mine. But I was not alone in wondering whether it
was worth the price that she, Kadima, and the country would pay as a result: Bibi’s
return as Prime Minister in a Likud-led coalition.
Though I was not surprised when he asked me to remain as Defense Minister,
and to keep Labor inside the coalition, that was not an easy argument to make to
my reduced Knesset contingent. They saw joining Bibi, especially in a government
with the right-wing Lieberman as Foreign Minister, as a betrayal of all the efforts
that they and I had made to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Still, the decision
on whether to join the coalition ultimately rested with the party central committee,
almost every one of whose members was on a local government council. For them,
the choice was between a share of power, however limited, and the wilderness of
opposition. So we joined Bibi’s government.
I was personally in favor of our doing so, but for more complicated reasons. I
knew that Bibi’s background, his instincts and his undeniably powerful political
rhetoric were all firmly rooted on the political right. I recognized that he was often
more interested in politics than policy, and perhaps above both of those, in the
tactical maneuvering required to consolidate his political position. But I had known
him long enough to dismiss the suggestions of many of my colleagues that he was
intellectually shallow. I felt he was capable of doing what was best for Israel, and
that he had a basic pragmatism that would guide how he got there. All that,
however, was just a reason for not saying “no” when he asked me and Labor to
stay on. The reason I felt it was right to say yes had to two with specific policy
challenges. The first was to ensure there at least some peace process with the
Palestinians. But that, in turn, was in large part because I believed it would win us
the diplomatic support, especially from the Americans, needed to tackle a more
urgent threat. It again involved an enemy state trying to get nuclear weapons. But
not Syria. The Islamic theocracy of Iran.
We’d been aware for a number of years about Iranian efforts to go nuclear. The
Mossad had notched up a series of successes in delaying the Iranians from getting
there. But they were getting inexorably closer. In fact, when I’d taken over as
Defense Minister under Olmert, I formally directed the new chief-of-staff, Gaby
Ashknazi, to get to work on a plan to attack the most important facilities in the
Iranians’ nuclear network, with the aim of pushing back the point at which they
might develop a bomb by five to six years. But it became clear we didn’t have the
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From: Weingarten, Reid
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To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: RE: Re:
Importance: High
As usual you nailed it....tomorrow will be an interesting day
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it also includes barrack, saying not is only donald crazy but hes stupid. SO MCH FUN
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Weingarten, Reid < wrote:
Does he have a lawyer? Is he dealing with mueller?
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told you
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Internet is crashing right now about this....trump apparently off his rocker
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103 Minn. L. Rev. 844, *902
Responses to unjustified police violence reveal a third outcome for enforcement redundancy confined to the federalism model.
Federal enforcement authority extends to cases of police violence to a much greater degree than for sexual assaults. That
authority extends as well to other kinds of bias-motivated wrongdoing by both private actors and government officials, which
local police and prosecutors have at times ignored or devalued, and for which state-level enforcement commitment continues to
be uneven. !” Federal jurisdiction is coextensive with state jurisdiction regarding police wrongdoing, and the Justice
Department's institutional capacity for enforcement probably exceeds that of its state counterparts, but in one respect the
overlap is not complete. The key substantive criminal offenses available to prosecutors in the federal code are somewhat more
restrictive. The primary federal statute used to charge cases of [*903] police excessive use of force requires proof of willful
deprivation of rights, °°
a strict mens rea standard that makes it harder for federal prosecutors to prove liability than it would
be for state prosecutors relying on typical assault or homicide offense definitions. 7°! The fact that Congress has for decades
let stand this mens rea hurdle to excessive-force prosecutions suggests that federal legislators, if not Justice Department
officials, are less committed to a full federal-state enforcement redundancy - or "to altering the federal-state balance in order to
reinforce state law enforcement" - than they are for public corruption offenses. 7°
That limit notwithstanding, federal prosecutions in this area have a track record of succeeding where state prosecutions failed
or were never attempted, and in that way providing at least a partial remedy for underenforcement by state criminal justice
officials. Much of the federal advantage comes from the fact that federal prosecutors are, in general, better situated to
objectively investigate, assess, and prosecute wrongdoing by police officers than are local prosecutors who ordinarily interact
with and depend upon those officers (or at least their agencies). This is not a particular criticism of local prosecutors’ offices; it
is one instance of the basic problem that officials (and people generally) are untrustworthy judges of the conduct of others with
whom they have affiliations, allegiances, or ongoing relationships. For that reason a few states assign such cases to state-level,
rather than local, officials. 7° And the U.S. Justice Department attempts to collect data on deaths in jails, prison, or during
[#904] attempted arrests, to facilitate Justice Department oversight. ?°4 The same concerns motivate English laws applying
special judicial scrutiny (when triggered by requests from victims' families) to prosecutor's decisions not to charge in the case
of death caused by law enforcement officials or occurring in official custody. 7°
131 Some federal states such as Germany and Canada lack enforcement redundancy because they use a single, nationwide, criminal code,
which is enforced for prosecution agencies and courts organized at the state or provincial level. See generally Eric P. Polten & Eric Glezl,
Federalism in Canada and Germany: Overview and Comparison (2014) (describing similarities in German and Canadian federalism,
including allocating authority over substantive criminal law to the federal government but criminal justice administration to state or
provincial prosecutors and courts). In Australia, like in the United States, states and the federal government each have their own criminal
codes. But Australian federal criminal authority is confined much more narrowly than in the United States to conduct that implicates a
distinct federal interest. See generally Arther B. Gunlicks, The Lander and German Federalism 59, 72, 129 (2003) (describing German
criminal affairs and jurisdictions as compared to the United States); Polten & Glezl, supra, at 5-6, 10, 13-14; Brian Galligan, Comparative
Federalism, in The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions 261, 266-75 (Sarah A. Binder et al. eds., 2008) (discussing federalism and
judicial review and regulations); Kathleen Daly & Rick Sarre, Criminal Justice System: Aims and Processes, in Crime and Justice: A Guide
to Criminology 357 (Darren Palmer et al. eds., 5th ed. 2017) (examining the processes and purposes of the criminal justice system); Vicki
Waye & Paul Marcus, Australia and the United States: Two Common Criminal Justice Systems Uncommonly at Odds, Part 2, 78 Tul. J. Int'l
& Comp. L. 335 (2010) (highlighting similarities and differences between the two countries in relation to criminal laws and policies).
32 Since 2011, Switzerland also now has unified national criminal law and procedure codes administered in all cantons. See Anna Petrig,
The Expansion of Swiss Criminal Jurisdiction in Light of International Law, 9 Utrecht L. Rev. 34, 36 (2013).
33 See Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 s 10(2); Annual Report 2014-15, supra note 71.
34 Tn unusual circumstances, two states may also have concurrent jurisdiction over the same crime, enabling one to assess the adequacy of
the other's enforcement effort. For a rare example, see Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82, 91-93 (1985).
35. See U.S. Const. amend. V (Double Jeopardy Clause); Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121, 136-39 (1959) (affirming power of state to
prosecute defendant after a federal prosecution for the same bank robbery); United States v. Lanza, 260 U.S. 377, 384-85 (1922) (approving
federal prosecution after state prosecution based on same conduct).
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almost inevitable. Subsequently, the conflict in Syria is dramatically impacting its
neighboring countries. More than a million of refugees from Syria have fled to
Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq.
Some critics, looking at the turmoil in Syria, Egypt, Lybia, claim that the warm Arab
spring has turned into a cold winter. Tunisia, for example, the first of the Arab
countries to overthrow their dictatorship, is on the edge of another civil war after
two political assassinations. It might take years until the situation in Syria stabilizes,
decades until the country turns into a genuine and a true democracy. If Americans
are to learn from their mistakes in Iraq and Libya, military intervention is off the
table. To stop Syria’s turmoil, the United States needs a new strategy aimed at
pressuring both sides into negotiating. Syrian conflict cannot be resolved by military
methods. The only way to end the war is through political dialogue. Providing the
rebels with weapons would only aggravate the situation and lead to more deaths
and casualties.
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ny’s products are sold directly to cannabis con-
sumers and through cannabis dispensaries in
California.
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BAS Research
Berkeley, California
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extraction consulting services, contract manu-
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Boulder, Colorado
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BDS Analytics is a provider of data analytics
solutions to the cannabis industry. The com-
pany tracks data from point-of-sale systems
to provide insight into consumer buying
patterns. The company sells its solutions to a
wide range of customers.
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assured him that he had ‘nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from
Reagan’ s powers.’ “
So who /s this Aquino guy? According to Cathy, “In the early 1980s,
my base programming was instilled at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, by U.S.
Army Lt. Colonel Michael Aquino. He holds a Top Secret clearance in the
Defense Intelligence Agency’ s Psychological Warfare Division (PSYOP).
He is a professed neo-Nazi, the founder of the Himmler-inspired satanic
Temple of Set and has been charged with child ritual and sexual abuse at
the Presidio Day Care in San Francisco. But like my father, Aquino remains
‘above the law’ while he continues to traumatize and program CIA-
destined young minds in a quest to reportedly create the ‘superior race’
of Project Monarch mind-controlled slaves.”
| contacted Aquino, who retired in 1994, and he responded:
“Not only was | never stationed at Fort Campbell at anytime
throughout my entire Army career, but I’ ve never even visited that
particular post, on- or off-duty. | have never had any contact at anytime,
anyplace, anywhere with Cathy O’ Brien. | have never programmed sex
slaves for the government or anyone else. | have never participated in any
form of child abuse whatever.”
What does he think her motivation is?
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ts 2 ap+e@(l—p). This equilibrium condition has a natural interpretation as well:
in order to sustain CWOL, the long term gains to player 1 from the ongoing relationship
must suffice for player 1 to cooperate when player 1 expects the temptation to sometimes
be high. That is, not looking makes the expected—as opposed to realized-gains from
defection relevant, in a sense smoothing the temptation to defection. Thus, the range
where CWOL is an equilibrium and CWL is not, ep + e@(1 — p) < <5 < @, has the
following interpretation: the expected temptation is low but the maximal temptation is
high. In the appendix, we confirm this result using our subgame perfections analysis. We
also use dynamics to show that, CWOL increases relative to CWL when we increase the
maximal temptation, but hold the mean temptation constant.
We identify a second condition under which people will be most likely to avoid and
detect looking by relaxing the assumption d > reel Then, in the region where d < raretlD
there is a fourth equilibrium. It is the strategy pair where player 2 always continues if
player 1 cooperates when the temptation is low, and player 1 looks and cooperates only
when the temptation is low (we refer to this as the ONLYL equilibrium). In contrast,
CWOL is an equilibrium for all values of d. CWOL is thus the only cooperative equilibrium
in the parameter region d > eat which has the interpretation: defection is sufficiently
harmful to player 2 such that player 2 prefers to avoid the interaction if player 1 only
cooperates some of the time.
Note that CWOL is an equilibrium over a wider parameter region than both CWL
and ONLYL, and thus that the ability to avoid looking and to detect whether others look
increases the parameter space over which cooperation is feasible. To see this, consider re-
moving player 1’s strategy which consists of not looking. Alternatively, consider removing
player 2’s strategy where he conditions his behavior on whether player 1 has looked. In
either case, cooperation is only sustained in a Nash Equilibrium if +. > ap+c2(1—p) or
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The New Leaf team applies a rigorous, systematic, fundamentals-driven approach to diligence
on all new deals, which, in addition to assessment against the sector specific strategies, includes
consideration of the following risk/ reward factors:
e Medical need and market size
e Competing therapies, both drugs and devices
e Strength of intellectual property
e Ease of physician adoption of new therapy
e Specific details of clinical trial design and trial execution risks
e Regulatory and reimbursement risks across relevant geographies
e Management team’s ability to both execute the business plan and the exit
e Time and money required to reach next important milestone(s)
e Likely exit; potential acquirers, IPO prospects.
The Fund Managers will continue their proven investment philosophy and investment process,
which emphasizes a team approach to proactive deal sourcing, rigorous investment analysis,
significant involvement with portfolio companies and active management of investments and
exits, and a focus on key “risk inflection” points based on the disease and technology.
Investments will include both development stage and start-up stage companies, as well as
growth equity or expansion capital investment in NLV-III’s targeted sectors, in the private and
public markets.
The Fund Managers have a long history of separating the roles of transaction finder,
negotiating/ closing the transaction, and board member, as needed. New Leaf seeks to put the
most appropriate investment professional on the board of companies, based on experience. The
Fund Managers have fostered a culture that discourages any professional from feeling the need
to control all aspects of an investment. Credit is given for each professional's role, and for each
team member's ability to be a team player. New Leaf seeks to avoid “lone ranger” behavior and
instead actively implements a team approach.
The Fund Managers intend to create a very selective portfolio of 24 to 28 companies, which will
include a balanced mix of investments in private companies and small capitalization public
companies. The targeted portfolio is expected to be diversified across biopharmaceuticals (50 -
60%), information convergence (up to 25%), and the remainder across investments in later stage
medical device and biological tools and infrastructure companies. While the Fund Managers
believe this distribution of investments is the most likely outcome, it also intends to take full
advantage of pricing discontinuities should they emerge in any of the identified sectors of
interest, possibly resulting in variance from this targeted allocation.
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104 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 59, *93
In 2006, Epstein's acts of abuse came to the attention of the Palm Beach Police Department, which began investigating the case.
195 At this point, once again, the victims would not have had rights under the proposed CVRA test. The CVRA extends rights in
the federal criminal justice process. A state investigation does not trigger the CVRA (although it may trigger certain state law
protections, as discussed below). !%°
At some point in 2006, the Palm Beach Police Department asked the FBI to investigate Epstein on federal sex offenses, such as
using a means of [*94] interstate communication in connection with sex offenses and traveling in interstate commerce for the
purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors. !97 The local police provided the FBI with information, which the
FBI then investigated. Following an investigation, the FBI determined that the allegations of abuse against Epstein were
credible, and it presented the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. In 2007, the Office
contacted counsel for Jeffrey Epstein and began negotiating a resolution of the case against him. 78
Under our proposed test, the victims would not have had CVRA rights the first moment that the FBI became aware of Epstein’s
possible commission of sex offenses. But after the FBI developed substantial evidence of those sex offenses, identified victims
of those offenses, and presented the case to the appropriate U.S. Attorney's Office for prosecution, CVRA rights would have
attached. Accordingly, the FBI would have been required to notify the identified victims of their rights under the CVRA (as
well as under the VRRA). From that point forward in the case, the victims would have had CVRA rights, such as the right to
fair treatment and the right to confer with prosecutors. In this case, the victims would have had the right to confer with
prosecutors about the nonprosecution agreement that they ultimately reached with Epstein. 1°?
C. CURRENT DEPARTMENT POLICY ON PRE-CHARGING RIGHTS
One objection that might be made to the formulation offered above is that it might unduly burden federal law enforcement
officers and prosecutors, who would need to make judgment calls about when an investigation has coalesced to the point where
"victims" are in existence, "substantial evidence" has been collected, and notice of rights has to be provided. Any such
objection would be ill-founded, though, as it does not appear that implementing such an approach would be difficult. 7°
Presumably the Justice Department has already been providing such rights in at least Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to
comply with the Fifth [*95] Circuit's 2008 ruling in In Re Dean, which held that the CVRA extends rights to victims before
defendants are charged. 7°! We have not seen any reports that providing the rights has been difficult.
Perhaps the reason for the lack of any reported difficulty is that the Department's current policy on crime victims' rights already
requires notices to victims during investigations. The Justice Department has promulgated the Attorney General Guidelines for
Victim and Witness Assistance, the latest edition of which is from May 2012. The Guidelines discuss crime victims’ rights
under both the CVRA and the earlier VRRA. Because of the OLC memorandum discussed above, the Guidelines limit CVRA
195 See Probable Cause Affidavit, Palm Beach Police Department: Police Case No. 05-368(1) (May 1, 2006), available at
http://goo.gl/fAPFw5; see also Statement of Undisputed Facts, Epstein v. Rothstein, No. 50 2009 CA 040800XXXXMBAG (Fla. Cir. Ct.
Sept. 22, 2010), available at hitp:-//goo.gl/DzMbe8.
196 See supra notes 178-95 and accompanying text as well as infra Part IV.D.
197 See 18 U.S.C.882422(b), 2423(b), (e) (2012).
198 A more substantial summary of the case is available in case filings. See Jane Doe Motion, supra note 40.
199 See supra Part II.
200 This Article does not discuss mass victim cases in which notice needs to be provided to hundreds of victims. But in such situations, the
CVRA already provides for "reasonable" alternative procedures. /8 U.S.C. § 3771(d)(2) (2012). The Department of Justice, for example, has
used websites to provide notice in terrorism cases to large numbers of victims. See, e.g., United States v. Ingrassia, No. CR-04-0455ADSJO,
2005 WL 2875220, at 4 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 7, 2005); Criminal Division's Victim Notification Program, U.S. Dep't of Justice,
hittp://goo.gl/6H6IEk (last visited Dec. 4, 2013).
201 527 F.3d 391 (Sth Cir. 2008).
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stringent requirements, as compared to Nasdaq and the NYSE. The following chart provides a com-
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BALANCE OF POWER
The Race Between State and Society
By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
[US — Penguin Press, UK — Viking, Germany — Fischer Verlag, Netherlands — Nieuw Amsterdam, Italy —
Il Saggiatore, Spain — Duesto, Brazil — Intrinseca, Greece — Livanis, Korea — Sigongsa, Taiwan —
Acropolis, Vietnam — Tre Publishing, Audio — Penguin RH; Proposal and sample chapter; 500 pages;
Delivery: December 2018]
Balance of Power is the important, groundbreaking new book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, authors
of Why Nations Fail, a widely acclaimed international bestseller that has sold close to half a million copies in
English, and hundreds of thousands in translations around the world.
"Balance of Power," Acemoglu and Robinson write, "develops an entirely original thesis about the diversity of
the ways in which states function, resolve conflicts, provide public services and more broadly use their powers.
It is the logical extension of a research agenda we have been developing together for twenty years, and we have
a great deal to offer on this topic. We have demonstrated our ability not only to produce original, thought-
provoking social science works but also to reach and explain our ideas to a broad audience."
DARON ACEMOGLU is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of
Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in
2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of forty by the American
Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers prize, awarded every two years for work of lasting
significance in economics. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, Bosporus University,
and the University of Athens.
JAMES A. ROBINSON is an economist and political scientist who is currently one of eight University
Professors at the University of Chicago and one of only twenty-one people who have held such a position. He
has conducted research in Bolivia, Botswana, Chile, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti,
Mauritius, Mexico, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. He was selected as one of Foreign Policy's
"Top Global Thinkers of 2012" and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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THE JANUS POINT
A New Theory of Time's Arrows and The Big Bang
By Julian Barbour
[US — Basic Books, UK — Bodley Head; Proposal; 80,000 — 100,000 words; Delivery: November 2017]
"The Janus Point," writes Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and author of The End
of Time, "proposes a novel and remarkably simple solution to one of the most fundamental problems in physics
and cosmology. It concerns the experienced direction of time: Why is the past so different from the present and
the future? This difference is encapsulated in the expression the arrow of time. It is problematic because all the
known laws of nature have exactly the same form, whatever direction, in which time is supposed to flow. The
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technical expression for this is time-reversal symmetry. This basic property seems to be entirely at odds with the
pronounced unidirectionality of experienced time. In fact, there are several arrows.
"Until recent work by myself and my collaborators Tim Koslowski and Flavio Mercati, essentially only one
proposal had been made—in well over a century—to explain why, despite the time-reversal symmetry of all the
laws of nature, these pronounced arrows of time exist, and always have existed, throughout the observable
universe. As I explain in The Janus Point, this sole explanation is a manifest stop gap and satisfies no serious
scientist.
"This has been dubbed the past hypothesis. However, it is not in any sense an explanation that follows from the
structure of the law and does not lead to any new prediction. It is an admission of defeat: Modern science fails to
explain the most profound aspects of our existence.
"The Janus Point is clearly timely because it is about a set of very simple ideas and insights that have the
potential to solve one of the deepest and longest-standing problems in physics. Everyone is interested in time
and its numerous puzzling aspects. Proof of that is the success of my earlier book The End of Time, which is still
selling more than sixteen years after its publication. Some of the ideas conjectured in that book are, in fact,
realized in the model now proposed.
"For readers, The Janus Point tells the fascinating story of one of the greatest mysteries in science and what
looks to be its unexpected and, in principle, remarkably simple solution. More than most books in popular
science, its subject resonates profoundly with the reader. Nothing touches us more intimately than the drama of
birth, life and death."
JULIAN BARBOUR, an independent researcher, is currently visiting professor at the University of Oxford. He
has devoted significant time and effort to issues that lie at the foundations of science, above all the nature of
time and motion. His first paper was published in Nature and attracted favorable editorial comment and most
importantly led to six years of very valuable collaboration with the well-known Italian theorist Bruno Bertotti. It
culminated in 1982 with a joint paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, which is now regarded
as a seminal paper on the interconnection of local dynamics with the universe at large. Barbour made a big
impact in the physics community with the publication of his book, The End of Time, in which, according to
physicist Lee Smolin, he presented "a new theory of time that is the most interesting and provocative new idea
about time to be proposed in many years."
AMERICAN KINGPIN
The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
By Nick Bilton
[US — Portfolio, UK — Virgin Books, Audio — Penguin RH; Manuscript; 304 pages; Publication: May 2017]
From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross
Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road.
In American Kingpin Bilton turns his investigative journalism to the story of Ross Ulbricht, the notorious and
enigmatic founder of a drug empire called Silk Road. This is a true-life thriller about ambition gone awry,
spurred on by the defining clash of our time: the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralized
web advocates and the old world of government control, order, and the rule of law. Bilton's dazzling rendering
and gift for narrative make for an endlessly fascinating drama.
In 2011, Ulbricht, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian idealist and former Boy Scout, launched "a website where
people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that could lead back to them." He called it
Silk Road, opened for business on the Dark Web, and christened himself the Dread Pirate Roberts (after the
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Princess Bride character). The site grew at a tremendous pace, quickly becoming a $1.2 billion enterprise where
you could buy or sell drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, guns, grenades, and poisons.
The Silk Road soon caught the attention of the Feds, who embarked on an epic two-year manhunt for the site's
proprietor. Ulbricht, in the meantime, struggled to maintain control of his double life and his marketplace, which
he originally started to prove that legalizing drugs could make society safer. He gradually abandoned his
libertarian ideals to rule Silk Road with increasingly authoritarian force. At one point, he engaged the services of
hired hit men to take out employees he felt had wronged him. Soon, some of the Federal agents who were
supposed to be hunting for Ulbricht were lured into the dark world and switched sides to join him.
NICK BELTON is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he writes about technology, business, and
culture, and a contributor at CNBC. He is the bestselling author of Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money,
Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (The Wall Street Journal Reader's Choice "Best Book of 2013"), which has
been optioned by Lionsgate and is currently being turned into a television series. He was a columnist for the
New York Times for almost a decade.
YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE
The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
By Dean Buonomano
[World English — W. W. Norton, China— Huazhang, Audio — Audible; Manuscript; Pub Date: April 2017;
304 pages]
Pioneering neuroscientist Dean Buonomano examines how the brain tells time, predicts the future, and
understands the past in a book that straddles the fields of physics, psychology and neuroscience.
Few questions are as perplexing and profound as those that relate to time. Philosophers ponder what time is.
Physicists grapple with why time appears to be a one-way street, and debate whether it is a single lonely point or
a full-blown dimension. Neuroscientists and psychologists struggle to understand what it means to "feel" the
passage of time and how the brain tells it. Time is also key to the question of free will: is the future an open
path, or is it preordained by the past?
The brain, argues Buonomano, is at its core a time machine. It is the brain's ability to anticipate the actions of
prey, predators, and mates, and to predict when events will occur in a dynamically changing world, that
ultimately translate into the evolutionary currency of survival and reproduction.
The ability of animals to predict the future culminated with Homo sapiens' capacity to grasp the concept of time.
Only then were we able to craft a blade for future use, or plant a seed to quench projected hunger.
Your Brain is a Time Machine explains that, in the end, our intuitions and theories about time reveal as much
about the architecture and limitations of our brains as they do about the true nature of time.
DEAN BUONOMANO is a professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology at UCLA, and an
investigator in the Integrative Center for Learning and Memory. He is the author of Brain Bugs: How the Brain's
Flaws Shape Our Lives, which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and his research has been highlighted in
many national and international magazines and newspapers, including Discover, Newsweek, Scientific American,
Zeit, Cosmos, Horzu Wissen, and the New Yorker.
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SCIENCE IN THE SOUL
Selected Shorter Writings
By Richard Dawkins, Edited by Gillian Somerscales
[UK — Transworld; Manuscript; Pub Date: June 2017; 110,000 words]
A new book from Richard Dawkins, internationally bestselling author and one of the greatest scientists of our
age. As much as his full length books such as The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion,
have changed our perceptions of both science and the world it opens, his essays and articles are potent, pithy,
thought provoking and revealing windows into the world as he, himself, perceives it. Science in the Soul is a
collection of some of Dawkins' best writing: articles and lectures, reflections and polemics, reviews, forewords,
tributes or eulogies, both published and unpublished.
From the introduction, by Gillian Somerscales: "Richard Dawkins has always defied categorization. One
eminent biologist of mathematical bent reviewing The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype was startled to
find a scientific work apparently free of logical errors and yet containing not a single line of mathematics; he
could come to no other conclusion than that, incomprehensible as it seemed to him, 'Dawkins . . . apparently
thinks in prose.'
"If readers of what follows here come to appreciate not only the writer's clarity of thought and facility of
expression, the fearlessness with which he confronts very large elephants in very small rooms, the energy with
which he devotes himself to explication of the complex and the beautiful in science, but also some of the
generosity, kindness and courtesy that have characterized all my dealings with Richard over the years since that
first collaboration, then the present volume will have achieved one of its aims.
"It will have achieved another if it embodies a condition felicitously described in one of the essays reproduced
here, where 'harmonious parts flourish in the presence of each other, and the illusion of a harmonious whole
emerges.' Indeed, it is my belief that the harmony resounding from this collection is no illusion, but the echo of
one of the most vibrant, and vital, voices of our times."
RICHARD DAWKINS is the former Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding Of Science at Oxford
University; Fellow of New College; author of The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind
Watchmaker, River out of Eden (ScienceMasters Series), Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the
Rainbow, The Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth and The
Magic of Reality. He is founder of The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
FROM BACTERIA TO BACH AND BACK
The Evolution of Minds
By Daniel C. Dennett
[US — W. W. Norton, UK — Penguin UK, Italy — Raffaello Cortina Editore, Holland — Atlas
Contact, China — Cheers, Audio — Recorded Books; Manuscript; Pub Date: February 2017; 448 pages]
One of the world's foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind.
What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates people from poets and painters to
physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant
answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of
evolution, brains, and human culture.
Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have
sustained Dennett's legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought. In his inimitable style—laced
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with wit and arresting thought experiments—Dennett shows how culture enables reflection by installing a
bounty of thinking tools, or memes, in our brains. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this
interplay. The result, a mind that can comprehend the questions it poses, emerges from a process of cultural
evolution.
An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and other researchers, From Bacteria to Bach and
Back will delight and entertain anyone who hopes to understand human creativity in all its wondrous
applications.
DANIEL C. DENNETT is the author of Intuition Pumps, Breaking the Spell, Freedom Evolves, and
Consciousness Explained. He is the University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and
co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
A CRACK IN CREATION
Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
[US — Houghton Mifflin, UK — Bodley Head, China — Hunan Science, Audio — Audible; Manuscript; Pub
Date: June 2017; 320 pages]
In the tradition of The Double Helix, A Crack in Creation is an insider's account of the biggest scientific
discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril.
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world against its use.
Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the
use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest,
most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic
diseases, and some cancers, and will help address the world's hunger crisis. Yet even the tiniest changes to DNA
could have myriad, unforeseeable consequences—to say nothing of the ethical and societal repercussions of
intentionally mutating embryos to create "better" humans.
Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, Doudna shares the thrilling story of her discovery, and
passionately argues that enormous responsibility comes with the ability to rewrite the code of life. With
CRISPR, she shows, we have effectively taken control of evolution. What will we do with this unfathomable
power?
JENNIFER A. DOUDNA is a professor in the Chemistry and the Molecular and Cell Biology Departments at
the University of California, Berkeley, investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and researcher in
the Physical Biosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is internationally
recognized as a leading expert on RNA-protein structure and function, CRISPR biology, and genome
engineering.
SAMUEL H. STERNBERG received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2014, and has
been a member of Jennifer Doudna's laboratory since 2010. He was a lead researcher and author of numerous
high-profile publications on the CRISPR technology. He has been awarded the RNA Society's Scaringe Award
and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, among other
honors.
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ENDURANCE
A Natural History of Exercise and Health
By Daniel Lieberman
[Proposal; Delivery: April 2019; 120,000 words]
Endurance is the new book from Daniel Lieberman, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at
Harvard, and author of The Story of the Human Body, a New York Times bestseller. Lieberman is well known for
his unique and unusually integrative approach to research, which combines paleontology, anatomy, physiology
and experimental biomechanics.
"Endurance," Lieberman writes, "argues that we need to rethink how we think about exercise using the dual
lenses of anthropology and evolutionary biology. As the modern word 'exercise' itself implies, people today
generally think of physical activity as a pastime or a form of medicine. Most of us spend the majority of the day
sitting and then we briefly exercise in our spare time, sometimes for fun, but increasingly to ward off ill health.
Yet, until very recently, physical activity was a paradoxically fundamental part of being human: utterly
necessary but instinctively avoided. Put simply, we evolved to be reluctant endurance athletes.
"This legacy underlies and points to urgently needed solutions for today's exercise dilemma. Everyone knows
that exercise is vital for good health, yet the vast majority of Americans and others in the developed world are
unable to exercise enough. Our species endured because we had no choice but to be athletes, and if we wish our
health to endure as individuals, then we still need to make exercise indispensable today. Rather than thinking of
exercise as a 'magic pill' for good health, it is the absence of physical activity, primarily endurance exercise, that
accelerates aging and hastens death. Endurance points to a new way of understanding and solving this global
problem.
"Endurance is the product of a long journey, part intellectual, part physical. Over the last decade I have
traversed the globe to observe, often as a participant, how humans are physically active in different traditional
cultures from Africa to Greenland to India. Among other experiences, I've run barefoot and carried water on my
head in Kenya, tracked muskoxen and kudu with indigenous hunters in Greenland and Tanzania, participated in
the ancient Tarahumara ballgame under the stars in Mexico, dug millet fields in Rwanda, played barefoot cricket
in rural India, and raced on foot against horses in the mountains of Arizona. Back in my lab at Harvard, my
students and I have intensively studied the evolution, biomechanics and physiology of key human physical
activities, including how we walk, run, throw, dig, climb and even chew.
"Endurance weaves together these experiences, perspectives and insights into the form of a highly personal
natural history of first rest, then strength, and finally endurance."
DANIEL LIEBERMAN is a professor and chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard.
A leader in the field of human evolutionary biology, Lieberman's research asks how and why evolution made the
human body the way it is. He is the author of The Story of the Human Body (Pantheon, 2013) and has been
published in such journals as Nature, Science, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, among
others. Lieberman has been interviewed by PBS, The History Channel, NPR, BBC, Horizon, and elsewhere.
His research and discoveries have been highlighted in the New York Times, Discover, National Geographic,
Runners World, Running Times, and numerous other journals and newspapers.
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IMPROBABLE DESTINIES
Predicting the Future of Evolution
By Jonathan Losos
[US — Riverhead, UK — Allen Lane, German — Hanser, Audio — Penguin RH; Manuscript; Pub Date: June
2017; 110,000 words]
Evolutionary biologist and Harvard professor Jonathan Losos is widely known for his unique approach to
studying evolution in realtime and using experimental means. As E.O. Wilson writes, Losos is a "world leader in
research and theory of the overlapping fields of herpetology, biodiversity, and species formation."
"In the last few years," Losos writes, "evolutionary biologists have come to realize that evolution can occur
much more rapidly than Darwin and a century of subsequent biologists ever expected—fast enough, in fact, to
observe as it occurs, even during the span of a single research grant! Now that we know that evolution can
proceed rapidly, experimental studies in natural systems have begun."
Losos' work on lizards has been at the forefront of the experimental evolution movement. Using small
Bahamian islands as test tubes, he and his team have altered conditions and made predictions about how
populations should evolve in response. And the results are resoundingly consistent: evolution is extremely
predictable.
Improbable Destinies is not only about what we know about evolution, but how we know what we know. Not
just the technology and theories of science, but where the ideas come from—how researchers think them up,
how they are honed by experiences in the field, and how much of science is the serendipitous juxtaposition of
disparate ideas brought together by unexpected observations.
JONATHAN LOSOS is the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America and professor
of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a number of awards,
including the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution and the David Starr
Jordan Prize from the American Society of Naturalists.
DISEMPOWERED
(working title)
By Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
[Proposal; Delivery: 9-12 months from signing contract; 60,000 — 80,000 words]
Disempowered is an expansion to book-length of the cover story by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt that
appeared in the September 2015 issue of The Atlantic: "The Coddling of The American Mind" (CAM).
It became the Atlantic's second most-read cover story of all time and has been referenced in hundreds of articles
in a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Review,
Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, the Guardian, The Korea Herald, and the Irish Times; and it even
drew the attention of President Obama.
"A full-length book is necessary for several reasons," writes Lukianoff. "First, even with the article's generous
word limit, we could not present the full scope of the intersection of harmful psychological theories and political
correctness. We could only do a cursory explanation of the new reality on campus and how terms like 'trigger
warnings,' microaggressions,' and `disinvitations' suddenly rose from obscurity to become part of higher
education's and the nation's vocabulary. A full-length book allows us to cover a host of new hot topics, including
so-called 'safe spaces' and how a warped idea of safety is used to justify campus censorship, as well as campus
'bias response teams' (BRTs)—Orwellian programs that police the language students use in their private lives
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and professors use in the classroom. It is worth noting that this past spring a professor was actually investigated
by one of these BRTs for assigning CAM as class reading!
"Second, since the article was published, the situation on campus has only worsened. Within a few months after
the article's release, student demands for censorship had broken out across the country.
"Third, and possibly most importantly, we want to reactivate and deepen the discussion that we started in CAM
about the science of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as a useful lens for looking at any number of modern
problems. CBT is a remarkably simple, successful treatment that helps patients overcome their anxiety and
depression by teaching them how to identify and combat 'cognitive distortions,' the wild mental exaggerations
in which the anxious and depressed overindulge. To our knowledge, CAM was the first and only major article to
propose that we should not only use CBT to examine our own inner thoughts, but also the world around us.
"The issue of free speech on campus is extremely hot, and will continue to be for years to come, but virtually no
one besides us is offering a solution that gets to the heart of the problem and can actually help students rather
than simply ridiculing them.
"Regarding the market, when CAM came out, it seemed that this was a uniquely American problem. But just in
the last year, it has spread throughout the UK, and is beginning to appear in Australia. In fact, there has been
major interest in CAM in the UK and European countries. In Europe, I was recently interviewed by
Siiddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's biggest daily newspaper, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also ran a major
article. When I recently spoke in Denmark, the president of the University of Oslo chastised me for not
knowing that all the students had read CAM and had been discussing it all year."
GREG LUKIAN01-1-, is an attorney and the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education (FIRE). He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
and Freedom From Speech. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New
York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, the Boston Globe, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, the Stanford
Technology Law Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and numerous other publications.
JONATHAN HAIDT, a social psychologist, is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York
University's Stern School of Business. His academic specialization is morality and the moral emotions.
Haidt is the author of two books: The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People
are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), which became a New York Times bestseller. He was named one of
the "top global thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the "top world thinkers" by Prospect
magazine. His three TED talks have been viewed more than 4 million times. He is the founder of
HeterodoxAcademy.org, a collaboration of professors who advocate for increasing viewpoint diversity in
universities throughout the English-speaking world.
VIGILANCE
Who We Trust, What We Believe, and Why
(working title)
by Hugo Mercier
[Proposal; Delivery: 18 months from signed contract; 100,000 words]
"What leads voters to support policies and politicians that make them worse off?" writes cognitive scientist
Hugo Mercier. "How could terrorists believe that blowing themselves up will lead to an eternity of bliss? Why
do Dalits —untouchables —endorse a worldview that confines them to the lower echelons of society? Why do
crowd members drive each other into rampaging fury? The common wisdom in psychology and in the social
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sciences: people are easy to influence, they are too trusting, and they tend to place their trust in the wrong
people. This is the answer of most social psychologists.
"They take the famous Asch conformity experiments, in which participants believe a group over the evidence of
their own eyes; and Milgram obedience experiments, in which participants agree to electrocute one another at
the experimenter's request to show that people are sheep.
"Psychologist Daniel Gilbert, a strong proponent of the view that humans are gullible, has even claimed that
people couldn't help but believe (at first at least) everything they read! Tim Levine, a leading researcher
working on lie detection, thinks that people rely on others to be trustworthy most of the time, and that as a result
they can afford to be so bad at detecting deception. Paul Ekman, the famous emotion researcher, claims that
when we see someone express an emotion, we can't help but mimic it. No surprise then that crowds and
their emotional members drive each other mad! Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson, and Joseph Henrich, proponents
of the dominant mode of cultural evolution, postulate that people are easily influenced by prestigious individuals
—wherever their prestige comes from—and consensual opinions—whatever their value.
"This is also the answer of dominant figures in anthropology and sociology, explaining the persistence of culture
by our tendency to suck in whatever ideas surround us without a second thought; in political science since the
ancient Greeks, explaining the success of demagogues by how easily people follow charismatic leaders, even
toxic ones; and in much social commentary, consider Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam
Chomsky as an example.
"In Vigilance, I argue that they are wrong."
HUGO MERCIER is a cognitive scientist working for the French National Center for Scientific Research in
Lyon. Previously, he did a postdoc in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of
Pennsylvania, and another one at the University of Neuchatel. He has published numerous scholarly articles on
the topic of the book, and has taught some of its contents in Europe and America. He has also made his work
more widely accessible through newspaper articles, blog posts, interviews, and public lectures. The Enigma of
Reason, a co-authored book with Dan Sperber concerning their research on "The Argumentative Theory of
Reasoning," is scheduled for publication in late May (US: Harvard University Press; UK: Allen Lane), with
several planned translations.
GENETIC RESCUE
Saving Wildlife the Way Evolution Does
By Ryan Phelan, Introduction & Epilogue by Stewart Brand
[Proposal; Delivery: 12-18 months from signed contract; 70,000 — 80,000 words]
Genetic Rescue is "the first book to present a critically important and new scientific field emerging through the
synthesis of molecular biology and conservation biology. At the heart of this intersection is the development of a
new tool kit for 21st Century conservation. Advances in comparative genomics, cloning, germ cell transmission,
ancient genome assembly, de-extinction, synthetic DNA, and genome engineering with CRISPR and gene drives
are now being applied to help solve seemingly intractable conservation problems."
Genetic Rescue makes the compelling case for human intervention in situations where the natural evolutionary
process is compromised. It is replete with specific examples of wildlife on the brink (from the black-footed
ferret to the northern white rhino) and the impact of wildlife diseases (amphibians with Chytrid disease and bats
with white-nose syndrome)."
"Genetic Rescue also presents a provocative new vision for conservation—the development of a 21st Century
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tool kit that can help prevent extinction. And more importantly, it helps frame the issues that need to be
thoughtfully considered before these new technologies can be responsibly deployed. It is the first book written
on this subject, and more importantly, it is written by an insider who is helping shape and define the field for
conservation."
RYAN PHELAN is the Executive Director of "Revive & Restore", whose mission is to increase biodiversity —
specifically through genetic rescue, helping species that are either on the brink or are already extinct. The
Introduction and the Epilogue are by cultural icon Stewart Brand, creator of The Whole Earth Catlog, and author
of The Media Lab, How Buildings Learn, and Whole Earth Discipline among many other landmark books and
projects. Brand is cofounder of "Revive And Restore" and founder of the parent organization, "The Long Now
Foundation".
THE EVOLUTION OF BEAUTY
How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us
By Richard 0. Prum
[US — Doubleday, Audio — Penguin RH; Manuscript; Pub Date: May 2017; 480 pages]
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed
"the taste for the beautiful" —create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the
tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can
adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature?
Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum —reviving Darwin's own views—thinks not. Deep in tropical
jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winged
Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-
wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of
fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display traits that seem disconnected from, if not outright contrary to,
selection for individual survival. To explain this, he dusts off Darwin's long-neglected theory of sexual selection
in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons—for the mere pleasure of it—is an independent
engine of evolutionary change.
Mate choice can drive ornamental traits from the constraints of adaptive evolution, allowing them to grow ever
more elaborate. It also sets the stakes for sexual conflict, in which the sexual autonomy of the female evolves in
response to male sexual control. Most crucially, this framework provides important insights into the evolution of
human sexuality, particularly the ways in which female preferences have changed male bodies, and even
maleness itself, through evolutionary time.
The Evolution of Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how nature's splendor contributes to a more
complete understanding of evolution and of ourselves.
RICHARD 0. PRUM is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University. A lifelong bird
fanatic, Prum has published more than 100 scientific articles on diverse topics including the evolution, behavior,
song, anatomy, developmental biology, phylogenetics, paleontology, optical physics, and pigmentary chemistry
of birds. He has made ground-breaking scientific contributions to our understanding the evolutionary origin of
feathers, the physics of structural coloration, dinosaur feathers, fossil coloration, and the phylogenetic evolution
of behavior. Over the past thirty years, Prum has developed a unique scientific perspective on evolution, and he
has documented this view with major scientific discoveries.
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THE INTERACTIVE BRAIN
(working title)
By V.S. Ramachandran
[US — Penguin Press, Audio — Penguin RH; Proposal; Delivery: 24 months from signed contract; 60,000 —
70,000 words]
A new book by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, author most recently of The Tell-Tale Brain.
"The Interactive Brain," writes Ramachandran, "is a tour of some of the most cherished yet elusive qualities of
our minds. The book argues that recent advances in neurosciences have contributed to a revolutionary new
model of the brain, in which brain function is controlled, not by highly specialized, hierarchical modules, mainly
hard-wired, as once thought, but rather by highly interactive modules that can shift their roles in a matter of days
or even hours The implications are not merely theoretical but have practical applications in medicine, offering
solutions for everyone from stroke patients to those with obsessive compulsive disorder.
"There are many neurological syndromes I'll discuss throughout the book. For example, a patient who was
otherwise smart and level-headed but kept insisting that his reflection in the mirror was the 'real David,' and that
the David viewing the mirror was a clone. He wiped off a tear from his eye and asked 'Dad, if the real David
returns will you disown me?' Even the axiomatic foundation of our selfhood—the notion that I'm a single
person in one body—is called into question when we encounter patients like him.
"Not only can we change our own brains, but we can change the brains of others because of the implications of
mirror neurons. The Interactive Brain incorporates case studies, such as David's, and my own research on topics
ranging through Capgras Syndrome, chronic pain, calendar synesthesia, gender incongruity, mirror visual
feedback, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, the majority of which I have not considered in detail in my
previous books.
"I conclude by visiting some of the most prized but elusive aspects of our minds considered unapproachable by
science, such as math, music, and metaphor, and suggest that these quintessentially human abilities are best
elucidated by combining an evolutionary approach with old-fashioned neurology."
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and a professor with the
Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of
Phantoms in the Brain, which has been translated into fourteen languages and formed the basis of a two part
series on Channel Four TV (UK) and a 1 hour PBS special in the USA, and more recently The Tell-Tale Brain
which was a New York Times best-seller.
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BEHAVE
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By Robert M. Sapolsky
[US — Penguin Press, UK — Bodley Head, Germany — Hanser, Holland — Ambo/Anthos, Brazil —
Companhia Das Letras, Korea — Munhakdogne, Israel — Kinneret, Audio — Penguin RH; Manuscript; 496
pages; Publication: April 2017]
"Robert Sapolsky is one of the best scientist-writers of our time, able to deal with the
weightiest topics both authoritatively and wittily, with so light a touch they become
accessible to all."
—Oliver Sacks, M.D.
The first major book from celebrated Stanford neurobiologist and author Robert Sapolsky in over a decade,
Behave answers the most basic question about human behavior: "What made you do that?" Substitute "me" or
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"us" or "they" and it's a question asked millions of times a day in all the languages of the world in response to
all manner of human behavior, good and bad.
What brings out the best in us? What brings out the worst? For every complex problem, there's a solution that's
simple, appealing, and wrong, H. L. Mencken famously said, and there are certainly many simple and wrong
answers to this most important of questions, the question at the root of the way we parent, the way we educate,
the way we manage, and the way we punish. The simple yet correct response, of course, is that it's
complicated. The longer answer? For that, the great neuroscientist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky needed
ten years, and this book.
Behave is an epic achievement. In order to make sense of all the sources that conspire to affect human behavior,
it begins in the very moment of action, when we commit the decisive deed in question. What is happening in
our brain and body at the very moment, and in the minutes that preceded it? The book then pulls back to look
how the behavior is conditioned by what the body is exposed to in the days, weeks and months leading up to
that behavior. It then goes back to childhood and adolescence, at how the bending of the bough effects how the
tree grows. And so on, from neurobiology, endocrinology and the interaction of our senses with the
environment to a lifetime's most primal shaping influences, and from there back to our genetic makeup and the
very sticky wicket of how genes and environment interact (and how they don't). Finally, Sapolsky expands the
view to take in factors that push us past any single person's inheritance and experience: namely culture, in the
present tense and back hundreds, even thousands of years, and then back millions of years, to the first humans
and the evolution of behavior.
The result is surely among the most dazzling tours d 'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted,
a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research, some of it the author's own, across a range of disciplines to
provide a subtle and necessary reckoning with the roots of our most troubling and inspiring behaviors, relating
to racism, tribalism, and xenophobia; tolerance and altruism; hierarchy and competition; morality and free will;
and war and peace. Wise, learned, funny, and fearless, Behave is a great scientist's towering achievement, a
book that takes both the angel and the devil off of our shoulders and into our hands.
ROBERT SAPOLSKY is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, holding joint
appointments in several departments, including Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and
Neurosurgery. He is the author of more than 400 technical papers published in biomedical journals. He also
writes extensively for non-scientists in magazines such as Discover, Natural History and the New Yorker.
Sapolsky's books include Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, A Primate's Memoir, The Trouble With Testosterone,
and Monkeyluv.
TAMING INFINITY
The Surprising Story of Calculus and the Geniuses Behind It
(working title)
By Steven Strogatz
[US — Eamon Dolan Books; Proposal; 80,000 words; Delivery: Spring 2018]
A fascinating new book from Steven Strogatz, award-winning mathematician and author, who brings the story
of calculus to life in a single narrative that spans continents, centuries, and disciplines to a dramatic climax.
Writes Strogatz, "The quest to tame infinity, and to harness it toward our ends, is a narrative that runs through
the whole 2,500-year story of calculus. Yet this saga is an untold story, as far as today's general audience is
concerned. Taming Infinity will tell it for the first time.
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"Calculus is one of the greatest ideas that anyone has ever had and certainly the greatest idea in all of
mathematics. The scientific and technological importance of calculus is one reason why we require all budding
scientists and engineers to learn the subject. Taming Infinity is the human side of calculus: the gripping story of
how it was discovered, and lost, and then rediscovered a thousand years later, or how it perplexed many of the
geniuses who struggled to invent it, and in a few tragic cases, drove them insane. In a very real sense, this
humanistic side of calculus is just as fascinating and important as its scientific side as it, too, has changed the
world.
"Central to the story is the mathematicians' quest to tame infinity, which begins with the philosopher Zeno of
Elea (about 450 BC, before Socrates) who raised paradoxes about infinity, continuity, time, space, and motion
that confounded his contemporaries and provoked no less than Aristotle to banish infinity from Greek
philosophy and mathematics from then on. Fast-forward more than 2,500 years, and we're still wrestling with
infinity and the paradoxes it raises. In between, the inventors of calculus, starting with Archimedes around 250
BC and culminating with Newton and Leibniz in the mid-1600s, tried to domesticate infinity to make what we
now regard as integral and differential calculus. And to a large extent, they succeeded. The carefully controlled
use of infinity is the secret to calculus, the source of its enormous predictive power.
"But like Frankenstein's monster or the golem in Jewish folklore, infinity was never quite under control. As in
any tale of hubris, the monster inevitably turned on its creator. Soon after the work of Newton and Leibniz,
disturbing paradoxes emerged in the 1700s and early 1800s. Calculations came out wrong. Calculus seemed
unreliable. These difficulties provoked another wave of philosophical and logical handwringing, much as Zeno's
had two millennia earlier. These conundrums were resolved over the next century by the mathematicians who
called themselves 'analysts.' The name was apt. They put calculus on the couch, and probed it, trying to root out
every last trace of pathology. They succeeded for calculus, but not for infinity itself. There the pathology ran
deeper. The riddles of infinity are still challenging logicians, mathematicians, and philosophers today."
STEVEN STROGATZ is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University.
He is the bestselling author of The Joy Of X, The Calculus Of Friendship, and Sync. His research has been
featured in Nature, Science, Scientific American, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and broadcast on BBC
Radio, National Public Radio, CBS News, among others. In 2010, he wrote a 15-part series about the elements
of math for the New York Times, and a second series, Me, Myself and Math, appeared in 2012. Strogatz has
spoken at TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival and has been a frequent guest on Radiolab and Science Friday. He
has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and public communication, including, most
recently, the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2015).
THE POWER OF HUMAN
By Adam Waytz
[US — W.W. Norton; Proposal; 70,000 words; Delivery: February 2018]
Adam Waytz is a rising star in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, whose research
uses methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study how people think about minds. Waytz
is the first person to receive twice the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology. He is also the winner of the SAGE Young Scholar Award and the International Social Cognition
Network's Early Career Award.
Waytz writes: "Everyday life is increasingly human-free. Robotic technology has begun replacing human jobs
and will replace millions more over the next five years. In domains such as manufacturing and agriculture,
robotic employees are already a reality. Tasks like getting directions from another human or consulting with a
bank teller to deposit money have become obsolete. These advances contribute to well-documented declines in
social interaction. Not only has interaction with human beings diminished, but existing human interaction has
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declined in quality. People feel less trusting of others than in previous decades, face-to-face communication is
less frequent, and people's social networks have become more fragmented, producing smaller social clusters
rather than expansive, civic community groups. Empathy with other humans, considering others' wants, feelings,
needs, and motivations (the essence of what makes us human), has diminished considerably. Rises in income
inequality and political polarization also mean that our diversity of social experiences—encountering people
unlike 'us' —is diminishing as well, enabling little consideration of humans dissimilar to ourselves.
"The Power of Human represents a call to action. This book details the psychological cost of losing our
humanity and elucidates scientifically supported strategies to counteract this trend, many of which are already
underway. Although scholars have bemoaned declines in social interaction, their concerns often erroneously
center on people's deteriorating social skills, communication abilities, and intelligence (for which evidence is
decidedly mixed). Meanwhile, the real costs of this decline on moral behavior, employee productivity,
mobilizing social movements, and finding meaning in life have gone overlooked. This book elucidates how we
often overlook how psychologically powerful humans are, and provides strategies to rejuvenate efforts to
recognize others' humanity.
"The Power of Human is unique in providing solutions to this problem that will help businesses retain customers
and employees, help charities raise more money, help people experience greater significance from simple
everyday activities, help technologists design better robots, help reduce conflict between different political and
religious sects, and increase happiness in relationships with friends and spouses."
ADAM WAYTZ is an associate professor of management and organizations in the Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University. His research has been published in leading journals such as
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and
Psychological Review. Waytz received the 2008 and 2013 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, the SAGE Foundation Young Scholar Award, and the International Social
Cognition Network's Early Career Award. In 2015, Poets and Quants named him one of the "Best 40 Business
School Professors Under the Age of 40." He has written articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Wall
Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, and Slate.
SCALE
The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to
Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
By Geoffrey West
[US — Penguin Press, UK — Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Holland — Het Spectrum, Finland — Terra Cognita,
Brazil — Das Letras; Japan — Hayakawa; Korea — Gimm Young; Taiwan — Locus; China — CITIC; Russia
— Atticus; Audio — Penguin RH; Manuscript; 400 pages; Publication: May 2017]
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of
complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be misleading,
however, because what makes West's discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that
unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our
businesses.
Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of
why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing and changed science, creating a new
understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of
mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you
can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it
will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal's circulatory systems
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scales up precisely based on weight: If you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph,
you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient—and lives 25% longer. This
speaks to everything from how long we can expect to live to how many hours of sleep we need. Fundamentally,
he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove
waste from the organism's body.
West's work has been game-changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his
work's applicability to cities. Cities, too, are constellations of networks and laws of scalability relate with eerie
precision to them. For every doubling in a city's size, the city needs 15% less road, electrical wire, and gas
stations to support the same population. More amazingly, for every doubling in size, cities produce 15% more
patents and more wealth, as well as 15% more crime and disease. This broad pattern lays the groundwork for a
new science of cities.
Recently, West has applied his revolutionary work on cities and biological life to the business world. This
investigation has led to powerful insights into why some companies thrive while others fail. The implications of
these discoveries are far-reaching, and are just beginning to be explored.
Scale is a thrilling scientific adventure story about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in simple but
profound ways. Through the brilliant mind of Geoffrey West, we can envision how cities, companies and
biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune, however diverse and unrelated they are to
each other.
GEOFFREY WEST, a theoretical physicist, is distinguished professor and past president at Santa Fe Institute.
His primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics and biology. West is a Senior Fellow at Los
Alamos National Laboratory and a distinguished professor at the Sante Fe Institute, where he served as the
president from 2005-2009. He has been featured in many publications world-wide including the New York
Times, Nature, Science, the Financial Times, Wired and Scientific American, and has participated in television
productions including Nova, the National Geographic and the BBC. His work on cities and companies was
selected as a breakthrough idea of 2007 by Harvard Business Review, and in 2006 he was selected for Time
Magazine's list of "100 Most Influential People in the World."
FUNDAMENTALS
(working title)
By Frank Wilczek Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT
Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
[US — Penguin Press, UK — Allen Lane, Audio — Penguin RH; Proposal; 50,000 words; Delivery: March
2019]
An exciting new book by Frank Wilczek, one of the world's most eminent theoretical physicists and the most
important of his generation. His scientific work provides the basis for the LHC experiments at CERN. He has
received many prizes for his work in physics, including the Nobel Prize (2004) for work he did as a graduate
student at Princeton University, when he was twenty-one years old, and the King Faisal Prize in 2005.
Writes Wilczek: "The premise of the book is simple: I formulated ten basic propositions, which together convey
the core of what every thinking person should know about science. In Fundamentals, the ten basic propositions
support a series of interesting and connected chapters, which give historical and cultural context, outline the
evidence, and draw out the implications. I want the marketing of this book to be based on the following slogan:
"If you read just one book about science, this should be the one."
Here are three examples of the ten basic propositions:
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1. The World Is Very Big
Our neighborhood (Earth, Solar System, Milky Way). The accessible universe. How we measure large
distances. Consistency checks. The multitudes within.
2. The World Is Very Old
The nature of time. How we measure the age of objects on Earth. What we mean by the age of the
universe, and how we measure it. Consistency checks.
3. Matter Is Built From A Small Menu Of Ingredients, Which Exist In Vast Quantities
Microscopy and its modern refinements. Matter from the bottom up—building from electrons, photons,
nuclei (protons and neutrons) to everyday materials. How we analyze the chemistry of distant objects,
like stars, and establish that they're made of the same stuff. Extraordinary objects.
Fundamentals is a short, sophisticated book that the explains fundamentals of science.
FRANK WILCZEK won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work he did as a graduate student. His 1989
book, Longing for the Harmonies, was a New York Times notable book of the year. Wilczek is a regular
contributor to Nature and Physics Today and his work has also been anthologized in Best American Science
Writing and the Norton Anthology of Light Verse. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is the
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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From: Sean J. Lancaster
Sent: 4/26/2011 7:28:33 PM
To: BEE ; jeevacation@gmail.com; ie
cc: Pe
Subject: RE: Boeing
| was told it was going for part out by Wendy ? | don’t know this buyer you describe
Best regards,
Sean J. Lancaster
Bristol Associates Inc.
El www. bristolassociates.com
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Cc:
Subject: Boeing
Jeffrey and Sean,
| heard Trump has a contract on his B727, no money has changed hands, sold for 2.2M as is,, he needs three engine
overhaul's in the next 14 months, 600k worth total...
Sean may know this guy, he is Indian, | think his name is Shugo or something like that, he is buying the plane and leasing
it to company in Singapore, FYI info,.
thx,
Larry
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distributing cocaine they bought from a biker gang, the Pagans, one of
whose members was a police informer. The two men were from a
particularly conservative Amish sect, where not only electricity and tractors
were forbidden, but even zippers. Did the sight of those Amish-tempting
zippers on the Pagans’ leather motorcycle jackets serve as a gateway
drug to cocaine?
Speaking of illegal drugs, at the festival | came across the only
individual I’ ve ever met who had actually hallucinated on toad slime. |
pictured him as a young lad with a tadpole in his pocket, and now as a
grown man with a frog in his pocket.
| also met Reverend Ivan Stang, leader of the infamous Church of
the SubGenius. He talked about “how to milk the Internet for all it’ s
worth, and get away with murder, before the Conspiracy figures out how
to spoil it for us.”. But Stang was in deep embarrassment mode, since this
was only a couple of weeks after the failure of his widely circulated
prediction that, on July 5th at 7 a.m., Pleasure Saucers would descend to
Earth as part of the great “Rupture” and take away all those
SubGeniuses who had paid $30 for the privilege.
The festival climaxed with its traditional 50-foot-diameter, 25-foot-
high bonfire, constructed during the week with the aid of a derrick. On
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investors to grasp the complexities and opportunities of the small biotech companies before the
formal filing of their IPO registration statements, and the start of the traditional IPO road show.
The Fund Managers believe the JOBS Act and the use of “testing the waters meetings” has been
one of the factors that helped open the current biotech IPO window, expanded the base of
investors (public market specialist and generalist investors) participating in the recent offerings,
and helped drive the after-market performance of many of these offerings.
25
20
# of IPOs
15
Capital Raised ($ in millions)
10
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Q1
(M@@@miPre-Phase3 MEMMPhase3 MEMMMarketed =e=—#of IPOs
The combination of all of these positive factors has significantly strengthened the position of
smaller development and early commercial stage healthcare technology companies, and creates
a unique period of opportunity for investors in the sector.
30 CONTROL NUMBER 257 - CONFIDENTIAL
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104 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 59, *102
In other words, while few state judiciaries have addressed the precise timing of state crime victims’ rights, those that have
addressed the question have typically found that the rights do extend to pre-charging situations.
Despite the relative dearth of state court cases, it is worth noting that most state statutes unequivocally provide for notification
rights early in the criminal process. 7>! For example, the Illinois statute imposes a limited duty on law enforcement agencies to
keep victims mformed of the status of an investigation until the accused is apprehended or the agency discontinues the
investigation. *°? Similarly, law enforcement agencies in Iowa must keep the victim apprised of the investigation "until the
alleged assailant is apprehended or the investigation is closed." 7°? Michigan's statute requires law enforcement to provide
information within a mere twenty-four hours of contact between the agency and the victim. 74
In sum, while state law on crime victims' rights before charging is not fully developed, what law exists tends to support the
position that crime victims deserve rights before the formal filing of charges. This law fits the long-standing trend in states
toward expanding protections for crime [*103] victims. *°° The decision by state legislators to extend notification or
conferral rights to crime victims demonstrates an express recognition that crime victims' meaningful participation in the
criminal justice process may involve granting those victims rights before indictment.
Conclusion
Crime victims have important rights at stake in the criminal justice process, even before prosecutors formally file criminal
charges. It is hardly surprising, therefore, to find that a federal law that Congress in fact designed to create "broad and
encompassing" rights for victims protects victims during a criminal investigation. As this Article has explained, interpreting the
CVRA to cover crime victims during the pre-charging phase of a case is consistent with the statute's purposes, text, legislative
history, and interpretive case law. And state criminal justice systems also appear to be moving in that direction.
The Justice Department's contrary interpretation seems unlikely to prevail when challenged. The CVRA signals a paradigm
shift in the way that crime victims are to be treated, at least within the federal criminal justice system. Before enactment of the
law, federal investigators and prosecutors might have been able to keep victims at arm's length, refusing to confer with them
about the case and otherwise ignoring or even mistreating them during the process. But those days are over. The CVRA
promises victims that they now have the right to confer with prosecutors and the right to be treated fairly while their cases are
investigated. It is time for the Department of Justice to recognize and embrace that new reality.
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology
249 See Ex parte Littlefield, 540 S.E.2d 81, 85 (S.C. 2000).
250 See Kimberly J. Winbush, Annotation, Persons or Entities Entitled to Restitution as "Victim" Under State Criminal Restitution Statute, 92
A.L.R. 5th 35, 35 (2001) (recounting cases in which unnamed victims were entitled to restitution).
21 See, e.g., Minn. Stat. Ann. § 611A4.0315(a) (West 2009) (requiring a prosecutor to "make every reasonable effort to notify a victim of
domestic assault ... or harassment that the prosecutor has decided to decline prosecution of the case" but providing the right to participate in
proceedings to circumstances in which the offender has been charged).
252 See 725 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 120/4.5 (2008).
253 Towa Code Ann. § 915.13(1)(f) (West 2003).
24 See Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 780.753 (West 2007). Michigan's conferral right is particularly ambiguous, because the notification
requirement imposed upon the prosecuting attorney contains a time limitation (after arraignment), but the legislature did not include an
express time limitation on the conferral right. See Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 780.756(3) (West 2007) (requiring the victim have the
opportunity to consult prior to “any negotiation that may result in a dismissal, plea or sentence bargain, or pretrial diversion"); see also Afiss.
Code Ann. § 99-43-7(1) (2007) (imposing a requirement on law enforcement officials to notify a victim within seventy-two hours).
255 See Jeffrey A. Parness et al., Monetary Recoveries for State Crime Victims, 58 Clev. StL. Rev. 819, 850 (2010); Tobolowsky, supra note
221, at 59 (describing a "significant expansion of victim rights to be consulted by the prosecutor and heard by the court").
DAVID SCHOEN
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De ee eee ee ee ee i ee
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
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much bigger concern, with twelve hundred employees and stock ~
that traded over the counter. But Hoffenberg still spent fifteen
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Freedom House
Tightening the Screws: The Kremlin's Legal Campaign against Civil Society
e@ JANUARY 2006: Amendments to Certain
Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation
This law gave authorities the power to deny
registration to organizations that “threaten”
Russia, bar foreigners from opening
organizations, subject foreign funding to more
scrutiny, and make the founding and operation of
organizations excessively burdensome, including
by imposing frequent audits and reporting
requirements.
e@ JULY 2012: Amendments to the Law on
Noncommercial Organizations, the Criminal
Code, the Law on Public Associations, and the
Law on Combating Money Laundering and the
Financing of Terrorism
This package of measures, which included
the provision known as the “foreign agents
law,” required nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs) that receive foreign funding and carry
out broadly defined “political activity” to register
with the Justice Ministry and meet onerous
requirements, including filing quarterly financial
reports, submitting to annual and unscheduled
audits, subjecting foreign donations to
monitoring, and marking all publications and
events with the “foreign agent” label. Penalties
for noncompliance include fines, suspension
of funds, and imprisonment of personnel.
Other amendments penalized creating and
participating in “illegitimate” groups and groups
that urge citizens to shirk their civic duties or
perform other illegal acts.
e@ FEBRUARY 2014: Amendments to the Law on
Noncommercial Organizations
This change greatly expanded the list of reasons
for unannounced audits of NGOs.
Confronted by mass demonstrations, the authori-
ties ordered a rerun. The candidate of the reformist
Orange coalition won that election, which was widely
seen as free and honest.
The Orange Revolution was to have far-reaching reper-
cussions. While democracies celebrated the outcome,
repressive regimes reacted with alarm. The concerns
expressed by Russian officials were soon echoed
e@ JUNE 2014: Amendments to the Law on
Noncommercial Organizations
Enacted to strengthen enforcement of the
foreign agents law, this legislation authorized
the Justice Ministry to register NGOs as foreign
agents without their consent and without a court
order, and shifted the burden of proof to NGOs,
compelling them to go to court to fight the label.
e@ MAY 2015: Amendments to Certain Legislative
Acts of the Russian Federation
Known as the “undesirable organizations
law,” this package of changes empowered the
prosecutor general to shut down or restrict the
activities of NGOs that are deemed “undesirable,”
vaguely defined as groups that pose “a threat
to the foundation of the constitutional order of
the Russian Federation, the defense capability
of the country, or the security of the state.”
The amendments bar such organizations from
opening delegate offices, carrying out programs,
and promoting their activities in Russia, and
subject collaborators with these NGOs to
possible fines and imprisonment.
e@ JUNE 2016: Amendments to the Law on Public
Associations and the Law on Noncommercial
Organizations
This legislation revised the loose definition of
“political activity” under the foreign agents law,
but rather than narrowing the meaning of the
term, it applied the law's restrictions to any
activity aimed at influencing the government
or public opinion. That could include opinion
surveys, monitoring of government agencies
performance, analysis of laws or policies, and
petitions or other communications aimed at
government officials.
in China, lran, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, and
other authoritarian countries. Vladimir Putin spoke
of the color revolution as the latest form of American
interventionism, and began a process of restricting
Russian NGOs that was to reach a climax a decade
later.
Yanukovych eventually won the presidency in a 2010
comeback, but a second protest-driven revolution
www.freedomhouse.org
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From: Michael Wolff
Sent: 12/4/2018 1:23:53 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
I think it's a useful point, potentially a powerful one. But I don't think anything is going to get attention now. I
would look for some reporter to do a more nuanced post-morten on the case--with it's Trump overtones, legal
joustings, #metoo-isms, and profit-motives. WSJ is probably right place.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 7:59 AM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
do you think the press would react to the fact that all the settlement money is going to the attorney and none to
the girls.? react to the fact that the case was settled but the lawyers wanted to trumpet their success.
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Thief | 43
in a 2013 interview. “He then walked into the NSA and said you
should hire me because I am this good on the test.”
The reason why he attempted to gain entry into the upper ranks
of the NSA in the late summer of 2012 is less clear. If his Internet
posting and libertarian riffs are an indication of his state of mind
then, he was hostile to the surveillance activities of the NSA. If so, it
made little sense that he would seek a permanent career there. If this
is considered in light of the career move he made six months later
(in March 2013), which, as he himself admits, was for the express
purpose of getting at tightly held documents stored on computers
that were not available to him in his job at Dell, then he might have
been seeking wider access in 2012 for a more nefarious purpose than
an NSA job.
In any case, despite the near-perfect scores, the NSA did not offer
him a Senior Executive Service job. “It was totally unrealistic for
Snowden to expect to get an SES position,” a former senior NSA
officer told me. Snowden’s ambitions might have been disappointed
in this instance, but it did not prevent him from later claiming that
© he had been a senior adviser to the CIA and also a senior adviser to ©
the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Instead of an SES position, the NSA offered him a lowly G-13 job
as an information technology worker, which was not an improve-
ment on his job at Dell. He took this slight as evidence of the NSA’s
incompetence, subsequently joking to a reporter in Moscow that his
ability to steal the test answers should have been seen as a qualifica-
tion for the NSA job. In September 2012, he turned down the NSA
offer. If he was to advance himself now, he had to find a new way.
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AN U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Southern District of Florida
500 South Australian Ave., Suite 400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
(561) 820-8711
Facsimile: (861) 820-8777
November 29, 2007
DELIVERY BY HAND
Miss
Re: Crime Victims’ Rights — Notification of Resolution of Epstein Investigation
Dear Miss :
Several months ago, I provided you with a letter notifying you of your rights as a victim
pursuant to the Justice for All Act of 2004 and other federal legislation, including:
(1) The right to be reasonably protected from the accused.
(2) The sight to reasonable, accurate, and timely notice of any public court proceeding
involving the crime or of any release or escape of the accused.
(3) The right not to be excluded from any public court proceeding, unless the court
determines that your testimony may be materially altered if you are present for other
portions of a proceeding.
(4) The right to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court
involving release, plea, or sentencing.
(5) The reasonable right to confer with the attorney for the United States in the case.
(6) The right to full and timely restitution as provided in law.
(7) The right to proceedings free from unreasonable delay.
(8) The right to be treated with fairness and with respect for the victim's dignity and
privacy.
I am writing to inform you that the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein has been
completed, and Mr. Epstein and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have reached an agreement containing
the following terms.
/ill plead guilty to two state offenses, includi
which will require him to register as
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From: Lisa New
Sent: 10/5/2013 7:26:32 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Or we could do the taping at my house. That would be totally delightful too
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Lisa New <_________________> wrote:
Absolutely. 23rd is great. I teach my seminar that day at 1 but could tape in the morning or after class--in my
office (very private), or at the Harvardx studios (less) or in the Woodberry poetry room (the nicest place). . If
Woody wanted, we could bring some students into the taping or just do the two of us...
Woody is absolutely welcome to come to the seminar, of course
John McCain, Tony Kushner, Al Gore have all signed on the last 2 days...crazy
Lisa
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
does the 23 work in cambridge
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Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Harvard University
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148 Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
02138
Elisa New
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Harvard University
148 Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
02138
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Price objective basis & risk
Hess Corp. (HES)
Our price objective of $80 / share is based on a 5-year outlook which assumes a 5.5x
DACF multiple and a commodity deck of $67.50 WTI and $70 Brent to which we add
$10/ sh for Liza in offshore Guyana. The multiple is based on a finite timeline to
delivery which is supported by core NAV.
The risks to our price objective are: 1) the oil and gas price environment, (2) slowdowns
in development drilling that leave production below expectations, and (3) news flow
around HES' exploratory and appraisal drilling activities that could impact the stock.
Analyst Certification
|, Doug Leggate, hereby certify that the views expressed in this research report
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effectiveness of a system of law enforcement, then there is something very wrong with
that system.
The theme of this paragraph — the right to know of one’s rights — has pervaded my thinking and
teaching.
During that term, I also drafted opinions—some majority, some concurring, some dissenting—on
trial by jury, freedom of speech, desegregation, reapportionment, immunity and other important
and changing areas of the law. There could be no better foundation for the next phase of my
career—teaching law students at the nation’s largest and most prestigious law school, Harvard.
Before I leave the Supreme Court, I must recount one vignette regarding Justice Goldberg that
caused me considerable disappointment. One of the great villains of the day to all liberals was J.
Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI. On several occasions, I let my negative views about Hoover
be known to Goldberg, but he never said a word. I didn’t understand why. A few years later, I
asked Bazelon, who smiled, and said “I probably shouldn’t tell you, but it’s important for you to
know that there are no perfect heroes.” He continued, “Hoover and Goldberg got along well,
because when Goldberg was the lawyer for the labor movement, he worked hard to rid the C.I.O.
of Communist influence.” I asked whether that meant he informed on Communist with the Union.
Bazelon replied, “I wouldn’t use the word informed, but he worked closely with Hoover on a
common goal: to rid the C.I.O. of Communist influence.”
Bazelon then told me that Thurgood Marshall had played a similar role with regard to the
NAACP-—trying to cleanse it of Communist influences.”
“That’s how Thurgood and Arthur made it to the Court. If Hoover had opposed them, they
might not have been appointed.”
I was shocked. “But there have been other liberals appointed as well,” I insisted.
“Yes, Douglas, but he was Joe Kennedy’s boy, and Hoover liked Joe Kennedy, at least back in the
day when Douglas was appointed. With Hoover, it wasn’t so much what you believed as were
you with Hoover or against him.”
“What about Justice Brennan?,” I asked.
“Bill was an accident, an Eisenhower mistake. They didn’t know he would be so liberal.
Eisenhower regarded Warren and Brennan as his worst mistakes.”
Bazelon then paused and said he would tell me something else, if I promised to keep it a secret
until Goldberg and Marshall were both dead. I promised.
“Hoover had something on both of them.”
“What?” I asked.
“Goldberg apparently had a brief ‘friendship’ with some European woman who may have been a
Russian spy. Hoover covered it up.”
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From: Steve Bannon PY
Sent: 4/23/2019 12:57:52 PM
To: Michael Wolff [is |
cc: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners
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were a regional superpower, with a military as effective as any in the world, and a
high-tech economic sector justifiably compared to Silicon Valley.
Every few weeks, Bibi, Lieberman and I would meet for a wide-ranging
discussion on the patio of the Prime Minister’s residence. Shortly after we’d
abandoned the idea of a military strike, I raised head-on my objections to the
skewed image Bibi was promoting of our country. It wasn’t just inaccurate, I said.
Especially when his rhetoric was in full flight, and he compared the prospect of a
nuclear Iran to a new “Holocaust,” it struck me as a betrayal of the core tenet of
Zionism: an state in which Jews were in control of their own destiny. “We are in
that position now,” I said. It was nonsensical to argue we were so threatened by
everything around us, for instance, that we couldn’t “risk” taking the initiative
required to disentangle ourselves from the Palestinians on the West Bank. “I don’t
get you,” I said, turning to Lieberman as well. “Your rhetoric suggests you have
spines of steel. But your behavior is living proof of the old saying that it’s easier to
take Jews out of the ga/ut, than take the galut out of the Jews.” Galut is Hebrew for
the diaspora. “The whole Zionist project was based on the idea of taking our fate
into our own hands, and actively trying to change the reality around us. But you
behave as if we never left the ga/ut. You’re mired in a mindset of pessimism,
passivity and anxiety, which in terms of policy or action, leads to paralysis. Of
course, there are risks in any action, or any policy initiative. But in the situation
where Israel finds itself, the biggest risk of all is being unable or unwilling to take
risks, as 1f we somehow on the brink of destruction.”
I was especially upset by Bibi’s increasingly use of Holocaust imagery. “Just
think of what you’re saying,” I told him. ““You’re Prime Minister of the State of
Israel, not a rabbi in a shfet/, or a speaker trying to raise funds for Israel abroad.
Think of the implications. We’re not in Europe in 1937. Or 1947. If it is a
‘Holocaust,’ what’s our response: to fold up and go back to the diaspora? If Iran
gets a bomb, it’ll be bad. Very bad. But we’ll still be here. And we’ ll find a way of
dealing with the new reality.”
Yet “fortress Israel” was irresistibly comfortable for Bibi politically. I now had
to accept that, while he and I had known each other for more than half-a-century,
nothing I could do or say was going to change that. With the next Israeli election
months away, in January 2013, I confided to Nili, and then to my closest aides, that
I was not going to run for a seat in the Knesset. Israeli military action against Iran
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Approximately 3,000 innocent victims died in the 9-11 attacks. As of early 2011, some where between
900,000 to over a million soldiers and civilians have died in Afghanistan and Iraq due to the war. This is
excessive. This is no longer revenge. This is senseless brutality.
On one reading, Pope Benedict XVI kept his knowledge of pedophilic priests quiet and
confidential in order to forgive them and protect the church. But this seemingly benign desire led to a
disaster, one that was foreseeable: continued sexual assault on thousands of innocent children and for
many, a loss of trust in the church and their moral and spiritual leader.
Discoveries by molecular biologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists reveal important
individual differences in our capacity to fuel desire, differences that constrain the paths we take from birth
until our last breath. Some individuals are more risk-prone, some are impatient, and some gain a greater
hit of dopamine in anticipation of reward, thereby doping themselves on the brain’s pharmaceutical
offerings. Some are born with a set of genes that diminish the capacity for self-control. These individuals
start with lower levels of serotonin. These individuals, if raised by abusive parents, have a higher
probability of taking someone’s head off if they are challenged. Some individuals are born with low
stress levels. These individuals are more likely to be sensation-seekers, voracious desirers who will stop
at nothing less than the spectacular, even if this means the spectacularly violent. None of these biological
catalysts operate in a vacuum. All of these biological catalysts feed off of particular environments that we
create. Geological and climatic factors create savannahs, oceans, and mountains. We create slums,
refugee camps, and totalitarian regimes. We are responsible for creating toxic environments and equally
responsible for cleaning them up. How we think about individual responsibility in cases of brain damage,
developmental disorders or innate differences in the starting state of our neurochemistry is a different
problem, one that I will touch upon in the last section.
Denial. We all engage in it, at least some of the time. Like the psychology of desire, our
engagement with denial is sometimes benign and often beneficial as a coping mechanism. We
dehumanize in order to buffer ourselves from the pain of another’s pain. We self-deceive in the service of
boosting self-confidence and self-esteem. When doctors turn their patients into machines that require
repair, they have deployed an adaptive mechanism that keeps empathy at bay when it is unnecessary.
Good doctors, the ones that we all want, turn empathy back on when their patients awake from surgery,
flesh and blood pulsating, thoughts and emotions humming. Bad doctors never turn empathy back on.
Evil doctors, such as Carl Clauberg who injected liquid acid in the uterus of Jewish prisoners as part of a
Nazi inspired sterilization program, not only lack empathy for their patients, but see them as vermin or
parasites that require extermination in the name of science and the preservation of our species. Denial has
transformed other human beings into nonhuman forms, from inert objects to wild animals and parasites.
Denial has allowed military leaders and airplane pilots to ignore clear signs of trouble, marching
thousands to their death. When this happens, moral responsibility checks out. Denial provides individuals
and nations with a certified license to maim, rape, burn, mutilate and kill without feeling guilt, shame or
remorse.
As with desire, the sciences provide a rich offering of evidence to explain how and why we
engage in denial, either by means of dehumanizing others or self-deceiving ourselves. Both
dehumanization and self-deception have a clear evolutionary logic. Dehumanization is a mechanism that
enhances an individual’s competitive edge by making hatred and killing easier. Hatred and killing are the
essential and ancient ingredients for defending the in-group and effacing the out-group. Sometimes,
soldiers would rather avoid killing the enemy. But when dehumanization of the enemy takes hold in the
mind of a soldier or civilian, killing is not only easy, but addictive. The brain’s inhibitory mechanisms,
processed by circuitry in the frontal lobes, shut down. Other brain regions involved in working out what
people believe and intend, enter into hibernation. With these circuits on leave, so too is our moral
conscience. When the mind runs its dehumanization software, abstinence from killing is like withdrawal
from a drug. Killing is satisfying. Killing is delicious.
Self-deception evolved in the service of deception. By functionally fooling ourselves into
believing that we are stronger, wiser, and more competent, we can convince others to go along for the
ride, to work for us or work against a fictional enemy. Like dehumanization, this has both adaptive and
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But Snowden found diversions in Japan. In July 2009, Lindsay
Mills joined him there. She had become an amateur photographer,
specializing in arty self-portraits. She also saw herself as a global
tourist, writing in her blog after arriving in Japan that she had trav-
eled to seventeen countries. Like Snowden, she also deemed herself,
tongue in cheek, a “super hero.” In this sense, her Internet avatar
was a match for Snowden’s Wolfking Awesomefox.
In Japan, Mills and Snowden spent time with another Ameri-
can couple, Jennie and Joseph Chamberlin, who also worked at the
Yokota base. Jennie, a sergeant in the public affairs section of the U.S.
Air Force, had been at art college with Mills and called herself in her
blog the Little Red Ninja. Joseph Chamberlin was a decorated U.S.
Navy pilot who now flew highly sensitive intelligence-gathering
missions from the Yokota base. Jennie described Lindsay in her blog
as her “super-model friend.” The two couples also went on expedi-
tions in Japan together. As far as is known, the Chamberlins were
the only Americans at the base with whom Snowden socialized. On
August 17, 2009, the foursome attempted to walk up Mount Fuji,
® but they got lost en route and wound up in the Mount Fuji gift ©
shop. Jennie described the misadventure in her blog: “Our adven-
ture started off a little rocky with our attempts to find the interstate.
Alas, our iconic mountain was obscured by cloud. A short stop at
the Mt. Fuji combination soba noodle stand/gift shop was enough to
whet our appetite for the further exploration that is to come.” Pho-
tographs taken that day show Snowden wearing Hawaiian shorts
and a black tank top emblazoned with an eagle and the letters USA.
They also show Mills wearing safari shorts, a brown sweater, and
what appears to be an engagement ring. “Ed was looking rather red-
necky,” Lindsay commented on one photograph. Snowden described
her, in turn, as “nerdy.” They never made it to the top of Mount Fuji.
Snowden also sought to advance himself by getting credit toward
a college certificate by enrolling in a summer online course at the
University of Maryland’s Asia program, which had a regional cam-
pus on the Yokota base. Known as UMUC, it had a contract with
the government to provide military personnel with such educa-
tional opportunities. Snowden would later claim that he was tak-
ing courses for a graduate degree in computer sciences, but William
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were behaving linearly and smoothly whereas within this region we observe global
and dramatic changes via a forced discontinuity in what Thom called a catastrophe
and others use related words such as bifurcation or phase transition. The transitions
from painful fatigue to running rage and then to ecstatic transcendence feels like the
gifts from two kinds of Gods, the first, bearing the righteous lawfulness of the Old
Testament, the second bringing the empathic forgiveness of the New Testament
Jesus. Catastrophe and bifurcation theories predict and keep track of these
transitions using mathematically describable changes in global characteristics of the
“motion” using technical descriptors such as eigenvalues, germs and jets.
Thom taught me my first catastrophe, called the cusp, in words during our
late afternoon walks along a shadowed green wooded path on the grounds of the
Institute des Hautes Etudes, outside of Paris. My homework consisted of trying to
visualize his verbal descriptions. It was not until weeks later that he drew the
geometric object being discussed on the blackboard. With eyes twinkling and in his
provocatively playful style, he said,
“Imagine an empty rectangular box with the front edge of its roof buckled
into an *S’ and the back edge, an unfolded, left-to-right gradually rising simple
smooth curve. If one moves the causal force from low to high, from left to right along
the back of the box, the changing effect (represented by height) would be smooth;
moving from left to right in the front encounters a sudden drop off at the S shaped
buckling, a discontinuity in roof height indicating a discontinuity in effect. The energy
equivalent height of the roof graphically indicates the amount of result. The roof is
the manifold upon which the result of causal change is portrayed. The two
dimensional floor of the box represents a graph of the two causal parameters, the
increasing amount of normal factor going left to right along the °x’ dimension, the
increasing amount of splitting factor (taking one from the back to the front to the
region of the buckling) going back to front along the ‘y’ dimension.”
He gave me some examples of systems that showed cataclysmic changes in
effect from smooth changes of normal and splitting factors. About the onset of a
war: “At the back of the top surface of the box, the manifold, the normal factor
increasing from left to right is the amount of the perceived threat. The splitting factor
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does not make me their relationship therapist, and it doesn't make me best friends with
his other girlfriends (or boyfriends, for that matter). I am responsible for what I do, but
I'm not responsible for what he does. I am responsible for how I treat his spouse, but I
can't be responsible for how he treats his spouse.
But what if I'm already friends with someone, and one of my partners gets involved with
that person? Do I have special responsibilities in that case? I'm still figuring that one out.
2. When is it actually the best time to start talking about polyamory and setting out
relationship definitions? My approach so far has been to put poly on the table during
initial conversations, and then talk about it more when the topic of the relationship comes
up. But I've been thinking lately that I probably should go into more detail sooner,
because people have such different stereotypes of open relationships that I can't be sure
they're on board with what I'm talking about unless we've discussed polyamory in-depth.
I feel like I talk to a lot of people who think they want a supposedly "polyamorous”
relationship because they see it as a no-strings-attached free-for-all, and that's definitely
not what I want. Or I talk to people who back away from polyamory for the same reason.
I see polyamory as being about more commitment to relationship negotiation, not less. I
see it as being about setting individual boundaries, if necessary -- it's not about having no
boundaries. I see it as being about creating a secure situation for all parties involved --
not making anyone insecure, or ignoring anyone's needs. And being polyamorous doesn't
make my relationships unimportant to me. Being in love doesn't seem at odds with
polyamory for me.
This is a hard thing to communicate in a small dose, though, especially if I'm dealing
with someone who has minimal exposure to the concept. On the other hand, having a
Serious Conversation about polyamory on the first date is a bit much.
3. Is it a good idea for me to get involved with guys who ultimately want
monogamy? As I noted earlier, I might compromise to monogamy eventually, but poly is
a priority for me. (Who knows, maybe I'll decide it's my ideal relationship formation
again someday. This seems unlikely to me right now, but anything's possible.)
But what if I get really into a guy who ultimately plans to be monogamous? Is this a bad
call on my part? On the one hand, if I go on a few dates with a 28-year-old guy who
doesn't want to get married until his mid-30s but definitely wants a monogamous
marriage when he does... I mean, why not have a relationship? On the other hand, I may
be setting myself up for heartbreak in such situations, if he basically sees our relationship
as "not real” from the start. This brings me to my next point...
4. Some people see polyamory as a sign of commitment-phobia. I've made this
mistake myself -- in fact, the "polyamory as commitment-phobia" stereotype is so strong
that I've occasionally reversed it and wondered if my desire for it was a sign of
commitment-phobia. But the fact is, my appreciation for polyamory only increased as I
became more certain about what I'm seeking in a partner, and as I gained more
understanding of how to negotiate that. It's come along with relationship confidence and
understanding.
I feel pretty okay with believing in commitment in the context of polyamory. But my
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Appendix 1
— —
Acknowledgments
Front Matter
Cover
Spine Equations
Author Photograph
ACPMM, Wolfson College Cambridge
Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge
Introductory Image
Chapter 1
Computer versus Human
Kasparov versus Deep Blue
The Music of Emily Howell
IBM’s Watson Plays Jeopardy
Watson Questions and Answers
Steve Wozniak
Turning Images to Music
Brain Image of Fish Hunting Prey
Babbage Difference Engine No. 2
19" Century Calculators
Model of the Antikythera Mechanism
Vladislav Ociacia
Illustration by Arabella Tagg
Arabella Tagg
James Tagg Personal Collection,
Course changed name to ACDMM in
1990.
Hipgnosis, www.shutterstock.com
Photograph by James Tagg
Blutgruppe/Corbis
Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Kind permission of David Cope and
Centaur Records. Emily Howell: From
Darkness, Light. Picture and Audio
Clip
Associated Press Carol Kaelson/
Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
Illustration by James Tagg
TIM CHONG/Reuters/Corbis
Credited to: Maxim Dupliy, Amir
Amedi and Shelly Levy-Tzedek
This work (or this video) was pub-
lished from Kawakami lab in National
Institute of Genetics , Japan (Muto,
A. et al. Current Biology 23, 307-311,
2013)”
Photograph by James Tagg @ The
Computer History Museum
Wikimedia, Ezrdr, CC3
Wikimedia, Geni, CC3
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10, 2014 http:/Awww.thenation.com/article/edward-snowden-speaks-
sneak-peek-exclusive-interview/
>
20. “You have been ‘selected’...”-- Snowden Emails to Poitras. op. cit.
21. “Binney had been a...” —Frontline Interview, “William Binney,” PBS.
December 13, 3013, //www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-
elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-
william-binney/
22. “What you know as Stellar Wind,”-- Andy Greenberg, “These Are the
Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks,” Wired,
October 13, 2014
23. “Presidential policy 20...”
24. “My most trusted confidante...”-- Andy Greenberg, “These Are the
Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks,” Wired,
October 13, 2014
25. “He had Poitras write Barton Gellman...”—The Frontline
Interview, “Barton Gellman,” PBS, March 7, 2014.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-
politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-barton-
gellman/
26. “CAIR, a pro-Moslem...”-- CAIR-NY Blog “Glenn Greenwald Speaks at
CAIR-NY Annual Banquet,” May 16, 2013, https://cair-
ny.org/blog/glenn_greenwald_speaks_at_cairny_annual_banquet.ht
ml#sthash.6D Vny6U8.dpuf
“After they finally found...”—The descriptions of the initial two meetings
between Greenwald and Poitras in April 2013 are provided on
Greenwald’s 2014 boo, Greenwald, No Place to Hide. op. cit. p. 5ff-
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and Mr Epstein.
3. Ms Maxwell kept sex toys and costumes in the Palm Beach mansion and dressed J prior to sex
sessions with Mr Epstein. S Maxwell herself wore black vinyl during sex sessions with Mr Epstein.
4. | | was paid between US $200 and $ 5000 US sex, depending on whether it involved travel and other
men.
sO 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 Virginia to Prince Andrew in 2001 at Ms Maxwell's London house where gi
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 EM 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. P| was paid extra by Mr Epstein or his employees for these sexual encounters.
8. Ms Maxwell knew, s age and laughed about it when she introduced her to Andrew.
9. Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein tried to persuadelaa 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 J 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 piloted President Bill Clinton in a helicopter to a dinner on Little St James where two brunettes
Ms Maxwell, a and Mr Epstein were at the table.
14. Mr Epstein bought Ms Maxwell the helicopter, homes in New York and London and a Mercedes.
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Epstein’s many Hollywood pals include Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.
‘Jeffrey once had me give Matt a foot massage when he was flying on the jet with us,’ Virginia says.
‘He laughed and did drawings of Bart and Homer for my little brother and my dad.
‘lL also met Naomi Campbell at a birthday party of hers on a yacht in the South of France. She is a
friend of Ghislaine’s but she was a real bitch to me.
"She was very fake. She turned away from me when we were introduced by Ghislaine and Jeffrey.
‘Donald Trump was aiso a good friend of Jeffrey's. He didn’t partake in sex with any of us but he
flirted with me. He'd laugh and tell Jeffrey, “You've got the life.” '
Palm Beach Police say Epstein seemed utterly unfazed by the allegations against him when they
began their long and detailed investigation.
‘Jeffrey's craw: Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell, right, pictured with President Barack Obama and
But he also took his defence very seriously indeed. Epstein engaged his friend, the Harvard law
professor Alan Dershowitz — whose celebrity clients have included Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Claus
von Bulow and O.J. Simpson ~ to run his legal defence.
He aiso employed a firm of private investigators to investigate the backgrounds of the girls.
Detectives painstakingly built a case which they believed showed that Epstein systematically paid
teenage girls to recruit other teenage girls to his sex ring.
However, as the investigation continued, they found that Epstein’s team had already spoken to key
witnesses, suggesting that the financier would reward those who helped him.
In addition, Epstein's defence team agreed to the unusual move of suggesting that the alleged
victims sue Epstein in the civil courts. The result was a plea bargain in which Epstein admitted a
single charge of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution ~ a deal which infuriated many police
officers who worked on the case.
More than 20 of Epstein’s girls are said to have sued him for damages. At least 17 have settled out
of court.
Mr Clinton, Mr Gore and Mr Mitchell were all contacted about their friendship with Epstein but
declined to comment.
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presidential hopeful
wasn't going to come on
anyway
WITS
Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills to ‘bring
back privacy’ to her life
after dramatic season
that documented her
divorce and accusations
she was faking iliness
Victoria Beckham
shows a hint of sideboob
and flash of leg as she
flaunts her sartorial
sass for cover of Vogue
Korea
Striking shoot
A mellow day! Rumer
Willis dresses downina
grey maxi dress as she
hangs out with a friend
in West Hollywood
Taking a break from the
presidential campaign
Catherine Zeta-Jones’
daughter Carys is her
doppelganger as the
pair arrive in London
with Michael Douglas
and son Dylan
Family trip
Stephen Colbert
compares Trump toa
NAZI as he draws a
swastika on chalkboard
while trying to ‘figure
out’ Obama’s response
to Orlando massacre
Grieving Adam Levine
is pictured playing golf
in first outing since
Christina Grimmie's
death... after offering to
pay for the Voice star’s
funeral
Does North West have
her own glam squad?
Kim Kardashian ‘hires
daughter $5k a week
team including
hairstylist and
manicurist’
The smile’s back!
Demi Lovato appears
happy at airport while
looking chic in olive coat
as she recovers from
Wilmer Valderrama
shock split
Wore classic combo
‘Fm not killing off
Harrigon Ford’: Steven
Spielberg reveals he
won't end Indiana Jonas’
life in next film as he
gives rare interview
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Eye on the Market | November 21, 2011 J.P Morgan
Topic: The quixotic search for energy solutions
Another Don Quixote Thanksgiving. Every year at Thanksgiving’, we look in-depth at an issue that affects markets and
portfolios. Last year, we examined the unraveling situation in Europe. Unfortunately, most concerns we expressed last year
have been borne out, and are getting much worse (I spent the weekend reading legal documents on a Eurozone break-up, just in
case). Like Don Quixote, Europe went on its journey for all the wrong reasons, adopting a half-pregnant monetary union to
support a political objective that had arguably already been achieved by 1955”. This year, a look at something just as worrying
in the long run as the fiscal problems of the West: the search for energy solutions. This journey has been fraught with
similarly quixotic dead ends, fairy tales and blunders ignoring economic (and thermodynamic) realities. This is important to us,
since energy cost and availability is central to how we think about growth, profits, stability and our portfolio investments.
As part of this effort, I made a pilgrimage to Manitoba to spend a day with Vaclav Smil. Vaclav is one of the world’s foremost
experts on energy, and has written over 30 books and 300 papers on the subject (he’s #49 on Foreign Policy’s list of the 100
most influential thinkers). Vaclav’s book “Energy Myths and Realities” should be required reading for politicians or regulators
impacting energy policy. We start with an unflinching look at these realities before turning to solutions, and some potentially
encouraging developments, which have less to do with how electricity is generated, and more to do with how it might be stored.
“A dream is a wish your heart makes” (Cinderella)
Over the last 50 years, a lot of proposed solutions have not panned out as expected. While the process of discovery and
invention always includes large doses of failure, energy policy is different than say, cell phones or VCRs, since more public
money, time and effort are spent on them. Hopes are raised, and as a result, less flashy but more reliable solutions are
sometimes postponed or avoided altogether. Here are a few memorable predictions of our energy future:
e 1945, Oak Ridge National Laboratory nuclear physicists Weinberg and Soodak predict that nuclear breeders will be man’s ultimate
energy source; a decade later, the chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission predict it would be “too cheap to meter”
e /973. “Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other
country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving.” Richard Nixon
e 1/978. “Through modeling of supply and demand for over 200 US utilities it was projected that, by the year 2000, almost 60% of US
cars could be electrified, and that only 17% of the recharging power would come from petroleum.”
1979. An influential Harvard Business School study projects that by 2000, the US could satisfy 20% of its energy needs through solar
1980. Physicist Bent Sorenson predicts that 49% of America’s energy could come from renewable sources by the year 2005
1994. Hypercar Center established, whose lightweight material and design would yield 200 mpg cars with a 95% decline in pollution
1994. InterTechnology Corporation predicts that solar energy would supply 36% of America’s industrial process heat by 2000
1995. Energy consultant and physicist Alfred Cavallo projects that wind could have a capacity factor of 60%, which when combined
with compressed air storage, would rise to 70 — 95%"
1999. US Department of Energy hopes to sequester | billion tonnes of carbon per year by 2025
e 2000. Fuel cell companies announce 250-kilowatt production plants that can fit into a conference room and produce energy at 10 cents
per kilowatt hour, with the goal of 6 cents by 2003
e 2008. “Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100% of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free
sources within 10 years. This goal 1s achievable, affordable and transformative.” Al Gore
e 2009. Gene scientist Craig Venter announces plans to develop next-generation biofuels from algae in a partnership with Exxon Mobil
How have things turned out? There are no commercial nuclear breeders on anyone’s horizon; global nuclear capacity is only
20% of the Atomic Energy Agency’s 1970 forecast; the Hypercar is nowhere to be seen; solar and wind make up a miniscule
portion of US electricity generation; wind capacity factors range from 20%-30%; the US is reliant for 50% of its oil from
foreign sources; 70% of US electricity generation comes from coal and natural gas; fuel cells haven’t worked as expected;
hybrids are 2% of US car sales; “clean coal” is mostly a blueprint; and Venter announced that his team failed to find naturally
occurring algae that can be converted into commercial-scale biofuel (they will now work with synthetic strains instead)’.
" Some clients tell me it is helpful to have something to read this weekend, when/if family gatherings become unwieldy, or aggravating.
* A few years ago, Swedish and Dutch politicians mobilizing support for the EU Constitution referred to “Yes” votes as necessary tribute to
the dead from the Second World War, and more urgently, to avoid the pre-war divisions which led to it. Conflict between European empires
existed for hundreds of years (1871-1914 was the only period of peace until 1945), so the idea of a united Europe would have seemed
appealing in 1945. However, conditions for securing a lasting peace within Western Europe were arguably already in place by 1954.
* A 2005 paper from Stanford raised expectations further by estimating theoretical wind power at 72 TW, 30x global electricity production.
* Algae are inefficient photosynthetic reactors (they do not consume CO, when the sun isn’t shining), and allocate only a tiny fraction of
captured solar energy into lipid production. A 2007 study by Krassen Dimitrov at the University of Queensland predicted GreenFuel’s
demise in advance, claiming that the company estimated its photosynthetic efficiency at almost double the maximum theoretical rate, and
could only be profitable at $800 per barrel of oil. Genetic improvements of plant life have historically focused on disease resistance and
modifying the split between production of “fruit vs. stem”; it is used less often to increase growth rates of biomass itself.
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VICTIM NOTIFICATION SYSTEM (VNS)
VNS is a free service that provides victims of Federal crime with
information and notification regarding the status of the case and
the offender's custody status, to include dates of court
hearings, sentencing, parole and release. Information is
provided in English or Spanish.
To access this system, your Victim Specialist will provide you
with a Victim Identification Number (VIN) and a Personal
Identification Number (PIN). If you have chosen to
participate in VNS, but have not received these numbers,
please contact the Victim Specialist at your local FBI field
office.
You will receive letters, as updates to your case are
available. You may also call the VNS Call Center at
1-866-365-4968 or access VNS on-line at
http://www. Notify.USDOJ.gov for current case, court or
custody information. You will be prompted to provide both
your VIN and PIN when contacting the VNS Call Center.
The Call Center and VNS is available onthe internet during
the following hours (Eastern Standard Time):
6:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m. - 42:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Monday - Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
LIMITED CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
As your Victim Specialist, | certainly am here to assist you as
you go through the criminal justice process. However, you
should know that | work as part of a team with the FBI Agent
and personnel from the United States Attorney's Office.
Discussions that you have with me may not be considered
completely confidential. As part of the team, there are times
when | may need to share information you provide with the
other team members. This is especially important if you
share information regarding your safety, a medical
emergency, when the information relates to child abuse
and/or when the nondisclosure of the information could
interfere with the investigation or prosecution of the case.
If you have any questions about limited confidentiality, you
may contact me for clarification.
Remember, your interests are important to us. Many victims
have questions and we are here to help provide you with
answers and practical assistance.
a E 4 Ceantt "
IMPORTANT CONTACT NUMBERS
FBI Victim Specialist:
Name
Phone
FBI Special Agent:
Name
Phone
INFORMATION CARD
Victim Identification Number (VIN)
Personal Identification Number (PIN)
Investigation/Court Case Number
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IX. CERTAIN INVESTMENT CONSIDERATIONS
An investment in the Fund entails a significant degree of risk and, therefore, should be undertaken only
by investors capable of evaluating the risks of the Fund and bearing the risks it represents. There can be
no assurance that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved or that an investor will receive a
return of its capital, and therefore, an investor should only invest in the Fund if such investor is able to
withstand a total loss of its investment. In addition, there will be occasions when the General Partner
and its affiliates may encounter potential conflicts of interest in connection with the Fund. Prospective
investors in the Fund should carefully consider the following factors in connection with an investment in
the Fund. The following is not a complete list of all risks involved in connection with an investment in
the Fund. In addition to the items discussed below, prospective investors should also consider the
information described in Section XI, “Certain Tax & ERISA Considerations” and elsewhere in this
Memorandum. Prospective investors are cautioned not to rely on the prior returns set forth in this
Memorandum in making a decision whether or not to purchase the Limited Partner Interests offered
hereby. The return information contained in this Memorandum has not been audited or verified by any
independent party and should not be considered representative of the returns that may be received by an
investor in the Fund. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Risk of Venture Capital Investments
While venture capital investments offer the opportunity for significant gains, such investments
also involve a high degree of business and financial risk and can result in substantial losses.
Among these risks are the general risks associated with investing in companies at an early state
of development or with little or no operating history, companies operating at a loss or with
substantial variations in operating results from period to period, and companies with the need
for substantial additional capital to support expansion or to achieve or maintain a competitive
position. Such companies may face intense competition, including from companies with greater
financial resources, more extensive development, manufacturing, marketing and service
capabilities and a larger number of qualified managerial and technical personnel. Due to the
limited number of investments that the Fund may make, poor performance by some of the
Fund’s investments could significantly affect the total returns to Limited Partners.
Focused Investment Strategy
The Fund will be focused on life sciences and healthcare technology investments and may not
enjoy the reduced risks of a broadly diversified portfolio. A specific investment focus is
inherently more risky and could cause the Fund’s investments to be more susceptible to
particular economic, political, regulatory, technological or industry conditions or occurrences
compared with a fund, or a portfolio of funds, that is more diversified or has a broader industry
focus.
Risks Associated with Investments in Life Sciences and Healthcare Technology Companies
The success of the Fund’s portfolio companies may be dependent upon obtaining certain
governmental approvals. Companies in the life sciences and healthcare technology industry
typically require the approval of agencies such as the FDA prior to marketing their products to
the public. Of particular significance are the FDA requirements covering research and
development, testing, manufacturing, quality control, labeling and promotion of drugs for
human use. The approval process is very lengthy and very costly, and there can be no
guarantee that a portfolio company will obtain the necessary approvals for its products. If a
portfolio company is unable to obtain these approvals in a timely fashion, the portfolio
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ENDIX 3
Chinese-Language Media Landscape
Official and Semi-Official Chinese-Language Media
By 2018, all of the major official Chinese media outlets had embedded themselves
deeply into the communications and broadcasting infrastructure of the
United States.
CCTV or CGTN (English and Chinese), the semiofficial Hong Kong-based
Phoenix TV, and a few Chinese provincial TV channels are available in add-on
packages of two major satellite TV providers in the United States, DISH Network
and DIRECTV. CCTV channels (English and Chinese) are in the cable systems of
all the major metropolitan areas of the United States.
The major official Chinese TV networks, including CCTV and major Chinese
provincial TV networks, and the quasi-official Phoenix TV, are all in the
program lineups of Chinese TV streaming services that have become popular
among Chinese communities in the United States. There are four major Chinese
streaming services in the United States: iTalkBB Chinese TV (##4##), Charming
China (#42 '7HI), Great Wall (R444), and KyLin TV (RBS). All these services
carry the major official Chinese TV channels, including major provincial
channels, and are accessible nationwide.
The major official Chinese media organizations, CCTV (CGTN), Xinhua, the
People’s Daily, and China Daily (the only major official newspaper in English),
have a heavy presence on all major social media platforms of the United States
and have many followers. All these outlets use Facebook and Twitter and other
platforms, even though those platforms are blocked in China.
Quasi-official Phoenix TV (AB), a global TV network with links to the PRC’s
Ministry of State Security and headquartered in Hong Kong with branches around
the world, including the United States, also has a substantial presence on all the
major social media platforms in the United States.
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The secretary runs a brisk, no-nonsense meeting. “We present and she
interrogates, in the best sense of the word,” says Patrick Kennedy, the
undersecretary for management. Received wisdom gets eviscerated.
“Jeff, you’ve got to do better than that,” she told Jeffrey Feltman, the
assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, one day when he
presented a shopworn idea. With USAID undergoing an overhaul,
she listens to every reform report, down to the details of how chlorine
tablets for clean drinking water can be transported by truck in
Honduras. “She’s looking at the guts of how we work,” says Dr. Raj
Shah, who runs USAID.
According to old State hands, Hillary represents some of the better
qualities of her predecessors. She has Baker’s obsession with
preparation, reaches out like Colin Powell (who advised her to resist
the efforts of bureaucrats to strip her of her BlackBerry), and offers
continuity with Condi Rice’s policy on aids and Africa. But she
might most resemble Ronald Reagan’s second secretary of state,
George Shultz, a canny pragmatist who made significant progress in
several areas without being associated with a single momentous
event. Shultz was known for valuing the “career people” (foreign-
service officers) and casting a wide net for advice. Hillary does that,
too, though she’s still surrounded by a Praetorian Guard of loyalists
from her Senate office who are too political for the taste of some
diplomats in the building. (They preferred the military veterans
around Powell or academics around Rice.) Her great weakness over
the years was too often choosing subordinates based more on loyalty
than competence. She has been better about this since moving to
State, but still slow to extend her trust.
When she travels, Hillary manages to be simultaneously remote from
the media (joint press conferences with foreign ministers are limited
to two questions for each) and accessible to the public. Unless a crisis
obliterates her schedule, she routinely subjects herself to what Reines
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From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 5/23/2019 12:53:04 AM
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Subject: Re:
Home
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:24 PM Michael Wolff <i > wrote:
Where are you tomorrow?
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:23 PM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Why had no one interviewed some of trump classmates at wharton ? Deutsh bank papers very bery bad
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6) Lear Siegler, Inc., Energy Products Division v. Lehman, 842 F.2d 1102 (9th Cir. 1988), withdrawn
in part 893 F.2d 205 (9th Cir. 1990) (en banc): The President refused to comply with provisions of the
Competition.in Contracting Act that he viewed as unconstitutional and thereby allowed for judicial
resolution of the issue. The Ninth Circuit rejected the President's arguments about the constitutionality
of the provisions. The court further determined that Lear Siegler was a prevailing party and was
entitled to attorneys' fees, because the executive branch acted in bad faith in refusing to execute the
contested provisions. In this regard, the court stated that the President's action was “utterly at odds with
the texture and plain language of the Constitution," because a statute is part of the law of the land that
the President is obligated to execute. Id. at 1121, 1124. On rehearing en banc, the court ruled that Lear
Siegler was not a prevailing party and withdrew the sections of the opinion quoted above.
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BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL, LLC
CCP II, LP
OCTOBER 2015
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TECHNOLOGY THOUGHT-LEADERS ARE CONVINCED
Bill Gates:
“Bitcoin is be0er than currency…a technological tour de force.”
Ben Bernanke
“[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-‐term promise, parDcularly if the innovaDons promote a faster,
more secure and more efficient payment system.”
Eric Schmidt
“Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something that is
not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value.”
Milton Friedman (1999)
“I think the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government…
The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-‐cash”
Peter Thiel
“I do think Bitcoin is the first encrypted money that has the potenDal to do something like change
the world.”
Al Gore
“I’m a big fan of Bitcoin…RegulaDon of money supply needs to be depoliDcized”
David Marcus (former CEO PayPal)
“I really like Bitcoin. I own Bitcoins. It’s a store of value, a distributed ledger. It’s a great place to
put assets."
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INCUMBENTS EMBRACING THE BLOCKCHAIN
NASDAQ -‐ partnered with Chain to launch private company exchange
“As blockchain technology conDnues to redefine not only how the exchange sector operates, but the global
financial economy as a whole, NASDAQ aims to be at the center of this watershed development,” -‐ Robert
Greifeld, NASDAQ CEO,
Ci< -‐ launched “Ci<coin” project
"Blockchain technology not only has an opportunity to transform financial services but also extend far beyond
payments to new use-‐cases and applicaDons across industries," -‐ Debby Hopkins, Chief InnovaDon Officer at
CiD
Santander -‐ published: “Fintech 2.0 Paper: Reboo<ng Financial Services”
“Blockchain technologies could reduce banks' infrastructural costs by $15-‐20bn a year by 2022”
Standard Chartered
"The banking industry is starDng to see the many potenDal benefits of its underlying technology. For banks,
the blockchain has the potenDal to become a technology model for a low-‐cost and transparent transacDon
infrastructure.” -‐ Anju Patwardhan, Chief InnovaDon Officer
Royal Bank of Scotland -‐ announced a $3.5 Billion technology revamp over next 3 years
"I don’t know what’s going to succeed. What I'm certain of is that we are going to see blockchain soluDons,
peer-‐to-‐peer soluDons emerging in our industry and we want to be close to that development.” -‐ Simon
McNamara, Chief AdministraDve Officer at RBS
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THREE TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTIONS OF DISRUPTION
1995
2015
1975
The PC Era The Internet Era The Blockchain Era
Semiconductor Technology
TCP/IP Protocol
Bitcoin Protocol
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EXPERIENCED TEAM IN INVESTING
BART STEPHENS BRAD STEPHENS BROCK PIERCE PAUL STEPHENS
EXPERIENCE
• Stephens Inv.
Mgmt.
• Ivanhoe Capital
• E*Trade Group
• Princeton
• Stephens Inv.
Mgmt.
• Fidelity Ventures
• CSFB
• Furman Selz
• Duke
• Chairman of the
Bitcoin Foundation
Board
• Founded 15x
Startups
• Raised > $200M
• Invested in > 25x
• Robertson
Stephens & Co.
• RS Investments
• Duke Endowment
• UC Berkeley
Endowment
Startups
RECOGNITION
#2 U.S. Long/Short Hedge Fund*
$500 Million AUM
2.5x Venture Fund, 11.5% IRR
Founded 8 crypto
currency startups
and often referred
to as the “father of
digital currency”
40 Years in Silicon
Valley Investment
Management and
Banking
Leaders in Technology
Investing
Incubated and Founded
Dozens of Startups
100’s of Silicon Valley
Investments
*Absolute Return Magazine 2004
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SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD OF HOME RUNS
PRIVATE
PUBLIC
2014
25.0x 2014 77.0x
2004
8.1x
2009
39.0x
2008
6.9x
2010
4.6x
2008
5.0x
2011
5.1x
2014
TBD
2007
3.4x
( 7 IPOs and 13 Acquisitions ) ( 17 Public Acquisitions )
Private and Public Exits through Multiple Market Cycles
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BROCK PIERCE - CHAIR OF THE BITCOIN FOUNDATION
INDUSTRY LEADER AND SPOKESPERSON
SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
IGE (2001-2007) - Merged with ItemBay
Zam (2004-2012) - Sold to TenCent
Singularity
University
IMI Exchange (2004-Present)
Xfire 2.0 (2011-Present)
Playsino (2011-Present)
GoCoin (payment processor)
Blade Financial (Bitcoin debit card)
Coin Congress (conference)
Repeat Entrepreneur and Digital Currency Visionary
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PARTNERS AND ADVISORY BOARD
ALISON DAVIS* | Director: Royal Bank of Scotland, XOOM, Fiserv and First Data
MARY CRANSTON | Director: VISA, ex-CEO and Chair of Pillsbury Winthrop
TERRY SCHWAKOPF | EVP: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, banking supervision
MICHAEL MCADAM | CFO: Union Bank (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group)
SIMON MCNAMARA | CTO: RBS, ex-CIO of Standard Chartered, BNP and Deutsche Bank
VINNY LINGHAM | CEO: Gyft (acquired by First Data)
BOBBY LEE | CEO: BTC China
NICCOLO DE MASI | CEO: Glu Mobile
STEVE BEAUREGARD | CEO: GoCoin
CHRIS PALLOTTA | Special Advisor: MIT Media Lab, Partner: Raptor Capital
MATT OCKO | Partner: Data Collective
WILL O’BRIEN | Co-founder: BitGo
CHARLIE LEE | Coinbase, Founder of Litecoin
* Chairman of the Advisory Board
Built a robust team of Advisors and LPs from the Blockchain ecosystem
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CRYPTO CURRENCY PARTNERS I, LP
The First Dedicated Bitcoin Venture Fund - 30 Investments, Fully Deployed
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CRYPTO CURRENCY PARTNERS II, LP
Current portfolio - both contributed and new investments
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PIPELINE & PROCESS
600+
Business Plans
CONSUMER
200+
Meetings
• Exchanges
• Remittance
• Digital Wallets
• Deep Global Domain
Knowledge
37 Portfolio
Companies
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Side Chains
• Blockchain Apps
• Mining
ENTERPRISE
• Multi-sig workflow
• Extensive Networks
• Proprietary Deal Flow
• Primary Investigative
Due Diligence
• Exhaustive
Management/Industry
Interaction
• Recruiting
• Business Development
• Capital Introduction
• M&A
HISTORIC
VENTURE
RETURNS
• Payment Gateways
• Financial Tools
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ACTIVE BLOCKCHAIN VENTURE INVESTORS
Blockchain Capital has co-invested with these leading VCs
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CCP II - 8 CONTRIBUTED INVESTMENTS
DATE INVESTED $ AMOUNT DETAILS
BitGo
June ’14
$75,000
Series A preferred
Coinsetter
December ’13
$50,000
Converted to Series A at 1.5x
expresscoin
November ’13
$25,000
Convert to Series A, $2.5m Cap
GoCoin
October ’13
$100,000
Converted to Series A at 4.5x
Kraken
April ’14
$70,000
Series A preferred
LedgerX
July ’14
$50,000
Series A preferred
BitAccess
September ‘14
$25,000
Note discounted to Series A preferred
BitNet
October ‘14
$75,000
Series A Preferred
TOTAL
$470,000
(current value ~ $815,000… 1.7x)
General Partners contributed co-investments at cost to CCP II
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CCP II - 12 NEW INVESTMENTS MADE
DATE INVESTED $ AMOUNT DETAILS
PeerNova
September ’14
$50,000
Converted to Series A preferred
BlockStream
October’14
$100,000
Series A preferred
ChangeTip
November ’14
$250,000
Series A preferred
Bonafide
November’14
$50,000
Note discounted to Series A preferred
BitPesa
December ’14
$100,000
Note discounted to Series A preferred
Coinbase
December ’14
$200,000
Series C preferred
itBit
January ’15
$250,000
Series B preferred
Ripple
March ’15
$250,000
Series A preferred
ABRA
July ’15
$100,000
Series A preferred
Stem
August ’15
$250,000
Note discounted to Series A preferred
Chain
September ’15
$250,000
Series C preferred
Gem
September ’15
$250,000
Series A preferred
TOTAL
$2,100,000
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CCP II - STRATEGY AND MAKE-UP
EXPOSURE
Diversified Sector-specific
FUND POSITION
ALLOCATION
50%
30%
20%
New CCP II investments
Reserves for CCP II follow-on rounds
Option to use CCP I’s follow-on rights
INVESTMENT STRATEGY
Leverage our network and industry expertise to find
investments that utilize Blockchain technologies and help
these portfolio companies disrupt legacy industries.
Access to CCP’s early seed deals as well as future deals
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CCP II - SUMMARY OF TERMS
FUND TARGET
$10-15M
TERM
6-8 Years
FEE/INCENTIVE
2.5% / 25%
GP CONTRIBUTION
+5% Fund or +$1m
INVESTMENTS
25 ($100k - $500k per deal)
STRUCTURE
4 x 25% capital calls, BTC Accepted
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CCP II - SERVICE PROVIDERS
ADMINISTRATION / CFO
Kranz & Associates
LEGAL
Sidley Austin
TAX / AUDIT
Crawford Pimintel
BANK
Silicon Valley Bank
CUSTODIAN
Merrill Lynch
BTC VAULT
Xapo & BitGo
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USE CASES FOR BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Financial and Records
Legal / Health / Education
Bitcoin
Private Equities
Bonds
Public Equities
Smart Contracts
Signatures/identity
Degrees
Shareholder Voting
Remittance
Crowd-funding
Wills
Genome data
Trusts
Licensing
Spending Records
Micro-payments
Commodities
Medical Records
Escrows
Delivery records
Trading Records
Derivatives
Mortgage/loan records
Arbitration
Grades
Patents
Copyrights
Digital Coupons
Servicing records
Micro-charity
Certifications
Academic Credits
Public Records
Commercial / Media
Land titles Birth certificates Vehicle registries
Business license Business Incorporation/dissolution
HR Records
Supply chain mgmt
Business transaction records
Accounting records
Software licenses
Business Ownership records
Regulatory records
Trademarks
Spam Filters
Hotel room keys
Criminal records Passports Death certificates
Voter IDs Building permits Health/safety inspections
Non-profit records Court records Gun permits Voting
Global trade network Loyalty Points Vouchers
Domain names Betting records Movie Tickets
DRM: Music/movie/book license GPS network identity
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OPPORTUNITES FOR BLOCKCHAIN ADOPTION
Micro-Transactions
All Global Media Companies
Financial Settlement
Stock, Bonds, Derivatives, etc
Remittance Hot Spots
USA, UAE -> India, Mexico, Philip.
Early-Adopt Millennials
USA, EU, AU
Currency Controlled Markets
Korea, S. Africa, China, India
Unstable Markets
Africa, Venezuela, Argentina
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INDUSTRY GROWTH: 2014 to 2015
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CASE STUDY: ChangeTip
ChangeTip enables a “tipping” feature using Bitcoin on other companies’ websites. It
has built a Bitcoin micropayment platform that is currently integrated with Twitter,
GitHub, Reddit, Google+, Tumblr, and YouTube.
We believe that ChangeTip’s micro transaction platform is poised to be the financial
equivalent of the “Like” button, and enabling new mechanisms for premium online
constant to be monetized.
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HYPER-GROWTH- 2013 to 2015
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SUMMARY
FIRST DEDICATED BITCOIN VENTURE FUND
UNPARALLELED ACCESS TO DEAL-FLOW
PROVEN TRACK RECORDS
Building the Future Leaders in the Blockchain Economy
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Hardwired for Hope?
I would have liked to tell you that my work on optimism grew out of
a keen interest in the positive side of human nature. The reality is that
I stumbled onto the brain's innate optimism by accident. After living
through Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City, I had set out to investigate
people's memories of the terrorist attacks. I was intrigued by the fact
that people felt their memories were as accurate as a videotape, while
often they were filled with errors. A survey conducted around the
country showed that 11 months after the attacks, individuals'
recollections of their experience that day were consistent with their
initial accounts (given in September 2011) only 63% of the time.
They were also poor at remembering details of the event, such as the
names of the airline carriers. Where did these mistakes in memory
come from?
Scientists who study memory proposed an intriguing answer:
memories are susceptible to inaccuracies partly because the neural
system responsible for remembering episodes from our past might not
have evolved for memory alone. Rather, the core function of the
memory system could in fact be to imagine the future — to enable us
to prepare for what has yet to come. The system is not designed to
perfectly replay past events, the researchers claimed. It is designed to
flexibly construct future scenarios in our minds. As a result, memory
also ends up being a reconstructive process, and occasionally, details
are deleted and others inserted. To test this, I decided to record the
brain activity of volunteers while they imagined future events — not
events on the scale of 9/11, but events in their everyday lives — and
compare those results with the pattern I observed when the same
individuals recalled past events. But something unexpected occurred.
Once people started imagining the future, even the most banal life
events seemed to take a dramatic turn for the better. Mundane scenes
brightened with upbeat details as if polished by a Hollywood script
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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 6/1/2016 4:37:29 PM
To: Kathy Ruemmler
Subject: Fwd: The book on you...
----------Forwarded message----------
From: Thomas Jr., Landon <
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: The book on you...
To: Story <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Darren lndyke
everyone except the NYT it seems:) yes or no question: does he win?
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Story <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
every day
On Jun 1, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon < wrote:
are you still getting calls from reporters re Trump?
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:28 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
no
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Thomas Jr., Landon________________________wrote:
Keep getting calls from that guy doing a book on you -- John Connolly. He seems very interested in
your relationship with the news media. I told him you were a hell of a guy:) One oddity: he said he
had been told that that quote from Trump about you in the original NY Mag story had been
manufactured. ie, that I did not actually speak to Donald. Which is bull shit of course. I am sure
that is what Trump told him as they have been getting a lot of questions from reporters about you.
He actually seemed to be a sensible guy/solid reporter -- just from the few conversations I had with
him. I think he is close to finishing up.
Did you ever speak to him?
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporte
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon jr thomas/inde
x.html
please note
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43. Because Epstein became a convicted sex offender, he was not to have contact
with any of his victims. During the course of his guilty pleas on June 30, 2008, Palm Beach
Circuit Court Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo ordered Epstein “not to have any contact, direct or
indirect” with any victims. She also expressly stated that her no-contact order applied to “all of
the victims.” Similar orders were entered by the federal court handling some of the civil cases
against Epstein. The federal court stated that it “finds it necessary to state clearly that Defendant
is under this court’s order not to have direct or indirect contact with any plaintiffs ... .” Order,
Case No. 9:08-cv-80119 (S.D. Fla. 2008), [DE 238] at 4-5 (emphasis added); see also Order,
Case No. 9:08-cv-80893, [DE 193] at 2 (emphasis added).
Edwards Files Civil Suits Against Epstein
44, Edwards had a good faith belief that his clients felt angry and betrayed by the
criminal system and wished to prosecute and punish Epstein for his crimes against them in
whatever avenue remained open to them. On August 12, 2008, at the request of his client Jane
Doe, Brad Edwards filed a civil suit against Jeffrey Epstein to recover damages for his sexual
assault of Jane Doe. See Edwards Affidavit, “N” at 7. Included in this complaint was a RICO
count that explained how Epstein ran a criminal conspiracy to procure young girls for him to
sexually abuse. See Complaint, Jane Doe v. Epstein (Exhibit “T”’).
45. On devteniber 11, 2008, at the request of his client E.W., Brad Edwards filed a civil
suit against Jeffrey Epstein to recover damages for his sexual assault of E.W. See Complaint,
E.W. v. Epstein (Exhibit “U”’).
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CHAPTER 64
Declaration of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, filed on
January 19, 2015 by attorneys representing Jeffrey
Epstein’s victims (continued)
20. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was around
Epstein frequently. Dershowitz was so comfortable with the
sex [that] was going on that on one occasion he observed me
in sexual activity with Epstein.
21. Lhad sexual intercourse with Dershowitz at least six
times. The first time was when I was about 16, early on in
my servitude to Epstein, and it continued until I was 19.
22. The first time we had sex took place in New York in
Epstein’s home. It was in Epstein’s room (not the massage
room). I was approximately sixteen years old at the time. I
called Dershowitz “Alan.” I knew he was a famous professor.
23. The second time that I had sex with Dershowitz was
at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach.
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/ BARAK / 88
Chapter Twenty-Three
It didn’t fully hit me how draining our efforts had been until the morning that
the summit collapsed, when President Clinton called me to come talk to him in the
living room at Laurel Lodge. When I arrived, Madeleine was already there, sitting
on the edge of the sofa. She greeted me with a resigned shrug and a valiant but not
altogether successful effort at a smile.
“We tried,” Clinton said quietly as I took a seat in a wooden chair opposite his.
“We gave it everything.” The nominal reason for the meeting was to brief me on
the communiqué the Americans were going to issue: mostly boilerplate assurances
that both sides remained committed to seeking peace, but with an additional
“understanding” that neither would take unilateral actions in the meantime. But
mostly, Clinton wanted to reinforce his message of a few days earlier: don’t “lock
yourself into a losing option.” Don’t close the door. Don’t give up. “I won’t,” I told
him, an assurance I echoed in remarks to reporters a few hours later, when I said
that while the peace process had “suffered a major blow, we should not lose hope.
With goodwill on all sides, we can recuperate.”
But I told the President that we couldn’t just ignore what had happened at Camp
David. Yes, in the event Arafat suddenly had second thoughts about the potentially
historic achievement he’d passed up, he would know where to find me. But until
and unless that happened, I told Clinton that I assumed my “pocket” concessions
would now be firmly back in his pocket. And while we couldn’t erase them from
memory, I said it was important both of us make it clear that, in legal and
diplomatic terms, they were not going to provide Arafat a new starting point from
which he could make his customary demand for more.
“And I have to tell you that, given what has happened, there’s no way I can
justify handing him control of more land. I am not going to go ahead with the Wye
redeployments in these circumstances.”
“You don’t have to,” Clinton replied. “Ill back you.”
Though I never discussed internal Israeli politics with any foreign leader, even
the closest of allies, I didn’t doubt that the President’s support was partly a
recognition of what awaited me once I got home. The compromises I’d been
willing to consider had gone further — much further, on the politically combustible
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From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 1/24/2018 11:35:28 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Keep the March Alive!
happy to help. but I thought by colorful past might be more of a burden with re conribtuions.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 9:59 PM, Diane Ziman <
Jeffrey --
Did you see my son's email on Sunday?
> wrote:
I was so proud to see him speak at the Women's March this weekend, joining thousands of
passionate Floridians who want real change in our state, and across the country.
But we both know that change doesn't come easy. And there are a lot of folks in Tallahassee
that want to keep things the same as usual.
We can't afford the status quo so they can have their way. We need leadership that will
bring the change that so many have been marching for over the past year.
Can I count on you to help my son bring that change to Tallahassee?
Click here to join his campaign today, and help him do the right thing for our
neighbors across the state.
#ThatsMyBoy
- Diane
Forwarded message
I spent the day with thousands of fellow Floridians, celebrating the one year
anniversary of the Women's March.
I was inspired by the crowds, their voice, and their passion.
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Empowering women in the age of Trump is an essential part of moving this country
forward. But that means moving forward on issues that have long been stalled -
equal pay, better education, and a living wage.
In 2018, we have the chance to move these issues forward, and I'm asking for your
help in makincit happen.
[:ta:4 014 ITIM:1 IN 10 17:Alefi 1 0 s s TA
If the crowds we saw in St. Petersburg, Miami, and dozens of other cities across this
country are any indication, we have the momentum!
Now we need to bring it to Tallahassee.
Sincerely,
Philip
Paid by Philip Levine, Democrat, for Governor
Philip Levine for Governor
960 Alton Road
Miami Beach FL 33139 United States
We're so thankful of your support, and we hope you will take the next step by signing up to
volunteer with our campaign. If you would like to be removed from our email list, please
click the following link and we will remove you promptly: unsubscribe
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Ukrsibbank
Q1 2017 Q1 2016
Interest income 29 38
Interest expense -6 -14
Net interest income 23 24
Net commission income 12 10
Trading & other income 3 7
Employee costs -10 9
Depreciation -1 “1
Administrative and other -6 -6
operating costs
Other provisions 0 0
General & Admin. -18 -16
Expenses
Pre Provision Income 20 25
Provision for loan 9 -56
impairment
Profit before tax 11 -31
Income tax expense -2 -0
Net profit 8 -31
Please see summary of 2016 audited financial statements for Ukrsib, Ukrgas
and Raiffeisen as well as their 1Q17 statements in Appendix I.
The bank is overcapitalised at 21.37% CAD mainly due to subordinated debt
provided by EBRD in USD during the years of crisis. About EUR 135 million
were outstanding at 1.5% (1Q17: EUR 104 million) with their contribution to
regulatory capital being EUR 73 million which is equivalent to 7.51% CAD
ratio. The minimum CAD required by NBU is 10%. 71% of the subordinated is
due to be repaid in 2019.
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intimidating. A broken leg, for example, may have been thought of as
"terrible" before choosing it over some other malady. However, after
choosing it, the subject would find a silver lining: "With a broken leg,
I will be able to lie in bed watching TV, guilt-free." In our study, we
also found that people perceived adverse events more positively if
they had experienced them in the past. Recording brain activity while
these reappraisals took place revealed that highlighting the positive
within the negative involves, once again, a téte-a-téte between the
frontal cortex and subcortical regions processing emotional value.
While contemplating a mishap, like a broken leg, activity in the
rACC modulated signals in a region called the striatum that conveyed
the good and bad of the event in question — biasing activity in a
positive direction.
It seems that our brain possesses the philosopher's stone that enables
us to turn lead into gold and helps us bounce back to normal levels of
well-being. It is wired to place high value on the events we encounter
and put faith in its own decisions. This is true not only when forced
to choose between two adverse options (such as selecting between
two courses of medical treatment) but also when we are selecting
between desirable alternatives. Imagine you need to pick between two
equally attractive job offers. Making a decision may be a tiring,
difficult ordeal, but once you make up your mind, something
miraculous happens. Suddenly — if you are like most people — you
view the chosen offer as better than you did before and conclude that
the other option was not that great after all. According to social
psychologist Leon Festinger, we re-evaluate the options postchoice to
reduce the tension that arises from making a difficult decision
between equally desirable options.
In a brain-imaging study I conducted with Ray Dolan and Benedetto
De Martino in 2009, we asked subjects to imagine going on vacation
to 80 different destinations and rate how happy they thought they
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Rabin’s closest aide, whom I knew well, was aware that Unit 8200 had
intercepts that laid bare the details, and left no doubt the murderers were from a
PLO group. He called and asked me to appear on a weekly television interview
program called Moked. It was hosted by Nissim Mishal: brash, incisive, and one
of Israel’s best-known broadcast journalists. I pointed out to the Rabin aide that
I’d never done anything like this before. But he insisted it would go well. He
briefed me on the questions I could expect, not just about the Achille Lauro but
the wider issue of Palestinian attacks, as well as Syrian President Hafez al-
Assad’s efforts to re-equip his air force after his losses in Lebanon. So I came to
the interview prepared. I brought audio tapes of the hijackers, and a large
photograph of the MiG-25s which the Syrians were seeking to acquire.
My appearance will not go down in the annals of great moments in
television. But at the time, very few Israelis even knew who I was, and I felt ’'d
done OK. I was surprised, however, when Rabin phoned the next day. “Ehud, I
didn’t see it. I was attending some event,” he said. But his wife, Leah, had
recorded the program. “I just watched it. I should tell you, I think it was
exceptional. You did a great job. It was highly important for us, for the army,
and, I dare say, for you.”
I was not sure what he meant by saying it might be good for me as well,
although a decade later, at the end of my army career, he would play the central
role into my entry into Israeli politics. It is true that there was also some politics
at the upper reaches of the military as well, especially around the choice of chief
of staff, and that Moshe Vechetzi’s term had only a year-and-a-half to go. But I
didn’t view myself as a serious candidate at this stage. Moshe’s own preference
seemed to be either Amir Drori, the head of the northern command during the
Lebanon War, or Amnon Lipkin, the veteran paratroop commander who’d been
with me on the Rue Verdun raid in Beirut. My own hope was that the nod
would go to any even closer friend of mine: Dan Shomron.
I had first got to know Dan well in the late sixties after Karameh, Israel’s
costly standoff with Arafat, when Fatah’s influence was in its infancy. We
exchanged impressions on what had gone wrong, and why? When I became
commander of Sayeret Matkal, we remained in touch, and he took a close
interest in all of our operations. We also crossed paths in the Sinai in the 1973,
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310 17 A Preschool-Based Roadmap to Advanced AGI
However, the briefer treatment given here should suffice to give a sense for how the competencies
manifest themselves practically in the AGI Preschool context.
1. Perception
e Vision: image and scene analysis and understanding
— Example task: When the teacher points to an object in the preschool, the robot
should be able to identify the object and (if it’s a multi-part object) its major
parts. If it can’t perform the identification initially, it can approach the object and
manipulate it before making its identification.
Hearing: identifying the sounds associated with common objects; understanding which
sounds come from which sources in a noisy environment
— Example task: When the teacher covers the robot’s eyes and then makes a noise
with an object, the robot should be able to guess what the object is
Touch: identifying common objects and carrying out common actions using touch alone
— Example task: With its eyes and ears covered, the robot should be able to identify
some object by manipulating it; and carry out some simple behaviors (say, putting
a block on a table) via touch alone
e Crossmodal: Integrating information from various senses
— Example task: Identifying an object in a noisy, dim environment via combining
visual and auditory information
e Proprioception: Sensing and understanding what its body is doing
— Example task: The teacher moves the robot’s body into a certain configuration. The
robot is asked to restore its body to an ordinary standing position, and then repeat
the configuration that the teacher moved it into.
2. Actuation
e Physical skills: manipulating familiar and unfamiliar objects
— Example task: Manipulate blocks based on imitating the teacher: e.g. pile two blocks
atop each other, lay three blocks in a row, etc.
e Tool use, including the flexible use of ordinary objects as tools
— Example task: Use a stick to poke a ball out of a corner, where the robot cannot
directly reach
e Navigation, including in complex and dynamic environments
— Example task: Find its own way to a named object or person through a crowded
room with people walking in it and objects laying on the floor.
3. Memory
e Declarative: noticing, observing and recalling facts about its environment and expe-
rience
— Example task: If certain people habitually carry certain objects, the robot should
remember this (allowing it to know how to find the objects when the relevant people
are present, even much later)
e Behavioral: remembering how to carry out actions
— Example task: If the robot is taught some skill (say, to fetch a ball), it should
remember this much later
e Episodic: remembering significant, potentially useful incidents from life history
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with which he did not want to be associated. Richardson was not called to testify nor was he ever
subpoenaed to testify. See Edwards Affidavit, Exhibit “N” at 418.
76. Edwards learned of allegations that Epstein engaged in sexual abuse of minors on
his private aircraft. See Jane Doe 102 Complaint, Exhibit “B.” Accordingly, Edwards pursued
discovery to confirm these allegations.
Fi Discovery of the pilot and flight logs was proper in the cases brought by Edwards
against Epstein. Jane Doe filed a federal RICO claim against Epstein that was an active claim
through much of the litigation. The RICO claim alleged that Epstein ran an expansive criminal
enterprise that involved and depended upon his plane travel. Although Judge Marra dismissed
the RICO claim at some point in the federal litigation, the legal team representing
Edwards' clients intended to pursue an appeal of that dismissal. Moreover, all of the subjects
mentioned in the RICO claim remained relevant to other aspects of Jane Doe’s claims against
Epstein, including in particular her claim for punitive damages. See Edwards Affidavit, Exhibit
“N” at 19.
78. Discovery of the pilot and flight logs was also proper in the cases brought by
Edwards against Epstein because of the need to obtain evidence of a federal nexus. Edwards's
client Jane Doe was proceeding to trial on a federal claim under 18 U.S.C. § 2255. Section 2255
is a federal statute staf (unlike relevant state statutes) established a minimum level of recovery
for victims of the violation of its provisions. Proceeding under the statute, however, required a
“federal nexus” to the sexual assaults. Jane Doe had two grounds on which to argue that such a
nexus existed to her abuse by Epstein: first, his use of telephone to arrange for girls to be abused;
and, second, his travel on planes in interstate commerce. During the course of the litigation,
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JAMES PATTERSON f
“Jordan. He wanted a massage. But I had to take off my
clothes. He climbed on top of me. It hurt. I started to bleed, and
it wouldn't stop. The doctor came.” |
“Dominique,” the cops say. “We're going to arrest this man. 4
But we need you to return to New York so you can testify.” i ¥
“Non,” says the girl. “Non! Jamais! Jamais!” |
For Epstein, there are other embarrassments, many of which
have to do with his royal friends. The wedding of Prince Wil-
liam and Kate Middleton is approaching, and the ongoing trou-
bles of Prince William’s uncle Prince Andrew keep threatening
to derail the festivities. On March 6, a spokesperson for Sarah
Ferguson confirms that Epstein paid off part of the seventy-eight
thousand pounds that the duchess borrowed from a man who
was once her personal assistant.
The next day, headlines appear in the Telegraph and other
British papers: DUKE OF YORK “APPEALED TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN TO HELP
DUCHESS PAY DEBT.” :
“] personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey q
Epstein became involved in any way with me,” Prince Andrew's q
ex-wife tells journalists. “I abhor paedophilia and any sexual 4
abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of 3
judgment on my behalf. 4 |
“| am just so contrite 1 cannot say. Whenever 1 can 1 will 7
repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey
Epstein ever again.” {
That week, as part of the ongoing civil lawsuits against
Epstein, Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova are both asked
about Prince Andrew’s relations with Epstein.
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end of the day, dozens of Israelis and Palestinians were injured. Five Palestinians
lay dead. Though the media almost instantly labelled it a new “intifada”, this one
was very different. It was not a burst of anger, however misdirected, by stone-
throwing youths convinced that a road accident in Gaza had been something more
sinister. There had been no serious unrest on the day of Arik’s visit. We would
later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged with guns and grenades, by
Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Fatah offshoot Tanzim, and Arafat’s own police
force.
The media had changed, too, in the 13 years since the first intifada, with the rise
of twenty-four-seven news broadcasters, including the Arabic-language Al Jazeera.
Images of pain and suffering and fear stoked anger on both sides. None, in the first
days of the violence, was more powerful, or heart-rending, than the picture of a
terrified 12-year-old Palestinian boy named Mohammed al-Durrah, sheltered by
his father as they took cover from the crossfire in Gaza. The facts of the incident,
as best we could establish immediately afterwards, were that the Palestinian
security forces had opened fire on Israeli troops near the settlement of Netzarim.
Ten Palestinians, including the little boy, lost their lives when the soldiers returned
fire. We later established with near certainty that the boy had in fact been killed by
Palestinian gunfire. But even if we’d been able to prove that at the time, I’m sure
that in the increasingly poisonous atmosphere, it would have made little difference.
Nor would it have changed the next, deeply disturbing escalation: the spread of
the violence into Israel itself, with unprecedentedly serious clashes between our
own Arab citizens and the police in the Galilee, in Wadi Ara, in the main mixed
Arab-Jewish cities, and the Negev. Beyond the political implications, the
demonstrations of solidarity with the Palestinian violence presented a security
challenge of a different order: to the ability of the Israeli police, and by extension
the government, to ensure basic law and order inside our borders. The worst of the
clashes lasted barely a week. But they left thirteen Arab Israeli protestors dead,
sparking demonstrations as far afield as Jaffa, as well as ugly incidents of mob
violence by Israeli Jews against Arabs in some areas.
President Clinton tried his best to help us halt the violence on the West Bank
and in Gaza. I doubted the Americans would succeed, but was fully ready to join in
their efforts to try. About ten days into the new intifada, I attended a crisis meeting
with Arafat, mediated by Madeleine Albright and Dennis Ross, at the US
ambassador’s residence Paris. It was nominally under the aegis of President
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103 Minn. L. Rev. 844, *845
Structural responses to the state declining to use its enforcement authority are much fewer and less prominent. At least in
common law countries, enforcement decisions are the province of police and prosecutor discretion, and oversight of officials’
failures to enforce has been left almost wholly to the political process. Decisions to search, arrest, or charge face modest
judicial scrutiny on evidentiary grounds and - at the extreme margins - racial or [*846] ethnic bias. ° Decisions not to arrest or
charge are virtually immune from judicial review or other nonpolitical oversight. !° Like other common law jurisdictions, U.S.
justice systems have always rejected an approach long adopted in some civil law jurisdictions to prevent unjustified and
disparate nonenforcement - a rule of mandatory prosecution that restricts executive officials’ discretion over arrest and charging
decisions. |!
A broader view, however, reveals that all criminal justice systems incorporate one or more strategies to address
underenforcement, which can be collectively described as redundant charging authority. All are to some degree familiar,
though they are not usually described in these terms or understood as serving this common purpose.
One approach is creation of two distinct enforcement agencies with overlapping or duplicative jurisdiction. This model is a
familiar safeguard against underenforcement of transnational crimes or crimes on the high seas; international criminal law
routinely grants nation-states coextensive, duplicative jurisdiction to enforce international or domestic criminal laws outside
12 can be
their borders. International treaties on subjects such as public corruption, drug trafficking, and human trafficking
understood as agreements to create enforcement redundancy among national criminal justice agencies to solve
underenforcement problems by particular states. !> The same arrangement occurs domestically for enforcement of civil or
regulatory law when administrative agencies have overlapping, and thus redundant, [*847] jurisdiction over the same
regulated activities. '4 The most important version of this model in the United States, however, is criminal justice federalism.
Due to the steady growth of federal criminal law, jurisdiction, and institutional capacity over the last century, state and federal
5 Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 111-16 (1975) (holding that the Fourth Amendment requires a judicial determination of probable cause
prior to extended detention); County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44, 52-58 (1991) (defining "prompt" under Gerstein's requirement
of a prompt judicial determination of probable cause).
6 Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 86 (1963) (holding prosecution's withholding of the confession of defendant's confederate violated
defendant's due process rights).
7 Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 342 (1963) (extending Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel to indigent state criminal
defendants); Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, 53 (1932) (holding defendants’ rights to counsel of their choice throughout the prosecution
process had been violated).
8 In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358, 364 (1970) (holding that proof beyond a reasonable doubt is constitutionally required under the Due Process
Clause).
° United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456, 456-71 (1996) (examining selective prosecution claim based on racial bias); see also Whren v.
United States, 517 U.S. 806, 813 (1996) (holding that, in assessing the legality of police decisions to stop suspects under the Fourth
Amendment, courts should ignore officers’ subjective motivations).
10 See, e.g., Abby L. Dennis, Reining in the Minister of Justice: Prosecutorial Oversight and the Superseder Power, 57 Duke L.J. 131, 132-33
(2007) (describing prosecutors' "limitless, unmonitored and ... unreviewable power").
!l See infra Part ILB.
2 See Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, G.A. Res. 55/25, annex II (Nov.
15, 2000), hitps://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/intro/UNTOC html; United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime, World Drug
Report 2017, U.N. Sales No. E.17.X1.7 (2017), https:/Avww.unodc.org/wdr2017/index.himl; U.S. Dep't of State, Trafficking in Persons
Report 438 ( 2017), Attps://www.state.gov/documents/organization/271339.pdf.
B See Neil Boister, An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law 135-95 (2d ed. 2012),
http://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/aw/9780199605385.001.0001Aaw-9780199605385-chapter-12.
4 See Jacob E. Gersen, Overlapping and Underlapping Jurisdiction in Administrative Law, 2006 Sup. Ct. Rev. 201, 201-03 (2007).
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Uncommon Ground
Hillary has often said that this is the hardest job she’s ever had. It’s
not just the constant travel but also the speed and range of the issues
she must master. She finds being secretary of state even more taxing
than the 2008 campaign, where she could go on autopilot and give
the same speech six times in a day, and had heard all the questions
before. “With each month there’s more wear and tear,” says Jake
Sullivan, a young lawyer and former Rhodes scholar, who has
emerged as one of her closest advisers. “But she also gets more
energized and comfortable.” A half-dozen of her friends agree that
they have never seen her more in her element. “She seems engaged,
happy, focused, determined, and very tired from all the travel,”
observes Tom Vilsack, an early supporter from his days as governor
of Iowa, who is now the secretary of agriculture. “I can’t remember
her ever working this much,” says Dr. Irwin Redlener, who has
advised her for many years on children’s issues.
Despite running against each other, the president and secretary of
state have a lot in common in the way their minds work—more,
arguably, than either has in common with Bill Clinton. Staffers have
noticed that both Obama and Hillary are methodical, secure, and
human-scale when you talk to them; they’re deductive thinkers who
drill down into a problem. The former president, by contrast, is
discursive, needy, and larger-than-life; he’s an inductive thinker with
a connective mind.
Of course, the sense of order and discipline that Obama and Hillary
share belies significant differences that may yet re-emerge. Hillary
long ago instructed staffers not to look back to the bitter 2008
primaries or criticize Obama, and for the most part they don’t. But
late at night, when they’re safely distant from “the seventh floor” (the
mahogany-lined part of the State Department where Hillary and the
other power players work), aides complain that Hillary’s creative
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Dissenting Opinion
SUSAN SHIRK
Although I have no problem with the factual research that has gone into specific sections
of the report, I respectfully dissent from what I see as the report’s overall inflated
assessment of the current threat of Chinese influence seeking on the United States. The
report discusses a very broad range of Chinese activities, only some of which constitute
coercive, covert, or corrupt interference in American society and none of which actually
undermines our democratic political institutions. Not distinguishing the legitimate from
the illegitimate activities detracts from the credibility of the report. The cumulative effect
of this expansive inventory that blurs together legitimate with illegitimate activities is to
overstate the threat that China today poses to the American way of life. Especially during
this moment in American political history, overstating the threat of subversion from
China risks causing overreactions reminiscent of the Cold War with the Soviet Union,
including an anti-Chinese version of the Red Scare that would put all ethnic Chinese under
a cloud of suspicion. Right now, I believe the harm we could cause our society by our own
overreactions actually is greater than that caused by Chinese influence seeking. That is why
I feel I must dissent from the overall threat assessment of the report.
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