My Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised* AI-preneurship and the "simulation argument" indicate a >50% likelihood we live (partly) in a simcom that'll feature my planned startup's:
— comedy-vs.-Trump-2024 (keywords: particular premi$e; NO COURAGE REQUIRED IF PART OF A SIMCOM; if courage required, might preclude/disrupt competing startups)
— startup comedy (keywords: HELP** product-development groups to: 1) raise equity-crowdfunding, 2) spin off; disruptive to Amazon, Microsoft, etc.)
— flowmantic comedy (keywords: flow is the state-of-mind that enables top performance/problem-solving; often, "group flow" sparks romantic attraction)
* Links to the praise are below, along with excerpts (search keywords: “praise for my AI-preneurship“).
** i.e., help enormously
Summary (12 parts; details follow)
Re: “‘simulation argument’ . . . >50% likelihood”
Title of an October 2020 article on ScientificAmerican.com:
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are About 50–50
From the Amazon.com page for 2019 book The Simulation Hypothesis:
(More) re: “>50%”: See the 12th part of this summary. Excerpt: “[L]ikelihood that we’re living in ‘base reality’ [i.e., not in a simulation], . . . concluded [Elon Musk, comedy investor and world’s richest person], was just ‘one in billions.’”
Keywords re: comedy-vs.-Trump-2024 (CvT24) might require courage
psychologist Mary Trump’s diagnosis of her uncle; from a UPenn criminologist’s 2013 book: ~78 million psychopaths (Ps) are IMPERILED (PsIMP) by advances in molecular genetics (e.g., “indefinite detention” by the year 2034); from a 2020 article in Nature: “In the past decade, studies of psychopathological genetics have become large enough to draw robust conclusions”; from a U.S.-Military-Academy-at-West-Point professor’s 2018 book: “[The] allure of preventive war is rooted in fear . . . [F]ear is most acute when power is shifting among [groups (e.g., shifting against Ps via said advances)] . . . [Hence the] long parade of preventive conflicts we can observe over thousands of years of history”; likely*: a growing number of Ps are aware that PsIMP (one reason, via a 2016 article on PsychologyToday.com: “A [meta-analytic] review of [48] studies found that the correlation between psychopathy and intelligence is nearly zero [i.e., ~2.3% of Ps have an IQ ≥ 130; ~16% ≥ 115]”); likely also**: 1) Ps (who’ll be) resisting PsIMP have a LOT of money (e.g., via the de facto legalization of HUGE fraud (HF) in the U.S.), 2) the size of Ps’ war chest is increasing rapidly; Ps could be partnering-with/manipulating known groups of violent extremists; if re-elected, TrumP could leverage emergency powers
*,** Key reason: Global kleptocracy is BOOMING. From below:
Necessity** for kleptocrats (Ks): hiring contract killers often.
Contract killers are Ps in “virtually all” cases (source: 2019 article in The Atlantic).
So Ks (e.g., non-Ps) need to RESIST PsIMP (e.g., by FUNDING (other) Ps after making them aware that PsIMP).
[Update (1/14/21): This write-up was posted before the 1/6/21 “insurrection” on Capitol Hill (ICH). A possible link between ICH and said partnering-with/manipulating is previewed below, after the section titled partly “Comedy opener of my first startup comedy”.]
[Update (4/22/21): After said update, including said preview, I added updates on 2/23 & 3/15. Excerpt from 3/15: “See the rest of this update below for details re: ICH having primed people who work on Capitol Hill to act on my threat analysis. Keywords: more justification for the high cost of additional security (e.g., “The National Guard’s deployment at the U.S. Capitol is expected to cost $521 million through May”).”
On 4/20 I exchanged text messages with the chairman of the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee (a screenshot of the exchange is below).
From https://uscp-fop.com/executive-board-officers/:
A copy of my email to Gus: https://comedyvstrump2024.substack.com/p/uscp-email. The image attached to my second text:
The rest of the 3/15 update is below, along with the rest of this 4/22 update.]
Precedent for CvT24
Bob Hope’s comedy amid Nazi bombing during World War II, en route to Hope becoming in 1944 the most popular entertainer in America
Premi$e for CvT24
Soon, many Ps will want to:
(continue) resist(ing) PsIMP
not resist, in part because my planned startup (MPS) will HELP to:
REWARD Ps who submit to indefinite-detention or an alternate form of threat-neutralization
ADVANCE human-longevity science, and medical research more generally
From 2014 book Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why, by a cognitive neuroscientist (my emphases):
We laugh at what forces us to integrate incompatible goals or ideas . . .
. . . [O]ur brains act by letting ideas compete and argue for attention. This approach has its benefits, such as allowing us to reason, solve problems, and even read books. However, it sometimes leads to conflict, for example when we try to hold two or more inconsistent ideas at once. When that happens, our brains know of only one thing to do—laugh.
Re: it’s too late to be stealthy/covert about preventing/subduing Ps’ resistance
During October 2020 I abandoned my plan to have MPS double as a front company (FC) for gathering (anticipatory) intelligence about people who are: 1) likely to be hypersexual (psychopathy correlates strongly with hypersexuality), 2) (becoming) wealthy (i.e., intel about people who are likeliest to (be) fund(ing)/lead(ing) Ps’ resistance). Keywords re: “abandoned”: my experiences since 2016 with government agencies in the U.S. (e.g., police departments, before* I learned that PDs employ many Ps); seeming indicators that at least some Ps: 1) were aware of my FC work, 2) wanted to discourage me (e.g., in October 2020 a parole officer came to my residence and asked to see me; I don’t have a criminal record); the willingness of U.S. intelligence agencies (IAs) to acknowledge/manage risks has been disincentivized via: 1) said legalization of HF, 2) revolving doors between government and industry, 3) IAs are “effectively beyond oversight or control,” unless whistleblowers risk career damage/loss, imprisonment, etc. (i.e., IAs are IDEAL partners for companies seeking windfall$ via HF).
* Details below (in this part of the summary).
— Re: examples of ‘HF-windfall > managing-risk’ that feature U.S. government agencies —
An ALL-TIME FUGLY example—featuring an IA—is detailed in:
2018 book The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: How the NSA Failed to Protect America from the 9/11 Attacks
2019 book Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud, published by Penguin Random House
Crisis of Conscience details other FUGLY examples. Excerpts from the books are below.
— Re: “IAs are IDEAL partners” —
From the 2018 article in U.S. News and World Report titled “The 10 Richest Counties in the U.S.”:
[H]alf of the top 10 fell in northern Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital . . .
— Re: “before I learned” —
From a 2017 write-up of mine:
“[M]ore than 50% of all police officers killed in the line of duty are killed by psychopaths,” according to a study cited in a 2011 article.
Psychopaths (Ps) comprise ~1% of humans (i.e., ~77M of 7.7B).
So a P is at least ~50x more likely than a non-P to kill a police officer, all things being otherwise equal.
So I thought the police would be (among) the biggest supporters of my efforts to identify people who are likely to be Ps. This thinking of mine persisted into 2019 . . .
From a 2019 write-up of mine:
There’s been “a rise in calls, particularly in law enforcement, for universal genetic databases, where everyone’s biometric data is put in one place,” according to a 2019 presentation by a professor of “strategic foresight” who’s an adjunct at the New York University Stern School of Business.
Said calls by law enforcement can be expected to continue/increase, not least because:
“[M]ore than 50% of all police officers killed . . .
Re: “REWARD Ps”
Keywords: for each of us (e.g., non-Ps like me), maximizing the amount of time we’re in a flow state is a key to thriving amid “superstar-biased technological change” (e.g., amid “winner-take-all” markets); often, flow via collaboration—“group flow”—sparks romantic attraction; keeping collaborators happy . . . polyamory . . . ; human society is a type of “complex adaptive system”; CASs generate “order-for-free” (OFF) at “the boundary between order and chaos”; variant of OFF that seems very likely to emerge soon, partly/largely via group flow and MPS: orgies-for-free (O-F-F); women-FRIENDLY almost certainly; re: w-F and “seems very likely”: 1) “new science” re: “women, lust and infidelity,” 2) women are ~60% of recent college grads in many countries (e.g., the U.S.)., so MPS has to be w-F, 3) women can invest B-B-BILLION$ via crowd-investing (e.g, via equity-crowdfunding); partly via (the prospect of) O-F-F, MPS will provide Ps with a next-gen variant of Pablo Escobar’s La Catedral; MPS’s comedy that’ll educate Ps et al. about the continuous improvement of MPS’s LaCat.
— Re: MANY orgies (will) result from people adapting to said tech-change (i.e., to an evolutionary selection-pressure that’s intensifying rapidly) —
From 2018 book Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life:
I will offer an analysis of the largest-ever survey of Americans’ sexual fantasies . . .
89 percent [of respondents] reported fantasizing about threesomes, 74 percent about orgies, and 61 percent about gangbangs. . . . [T]he majority of women reported having each of these sex fantasies . . .
More than three-quarters of the men and women I surveyed hope to eventually act on their favorite sexual fantasies.
Tell Me’s author has a PhD, is a former lecturer at Harvard and is a Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute.
— Precedent for O-F-F, via humans’ closest primate relative —
From 2018 book Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free:
[T]he bonobo, with whom we share nearly 99 percent of our DNA . . .
A 2017 study comparing human, chimp and bonobo muscles confirmed what previous molecular research had suggested: “Bonobo muscles have changed the least [from our common ancestor], which means they are the closest we can get to having a ‘living’ ancestor,” according to the research head of the George Washington University Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology.
. . . [P]erhaps the most remarkable thing about bonobos . . . Basically, they seem to have sex constantly throughout the day, with just about anybody. Meredith Small reports being in a room of three hundred or so primatologists and journalists of some early footage of bonobos in 1991, before much was known about them. Moments after the film began, the room fell utterly silent as the assembled took in the spectacle of these primates having sex more times and in more positions and combinations than most humans in any culture could even imagine.
. . . [B]onobos have sex to diffuse potential tension—when they come upon a cache of food, for example, or a new bonobo troop, having sex is a way to bond and take the stress level down. Parish pointed out that this was happening as we observed them being fed. Once the food was flung down to them, at least one pair of bonobos began to “consort” immediately. Only then did they get down to the business of eating.
— Re: La Catedral —
From 2019 book Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar:
We watched it all on TV—the surrender of Pablo Escobar.
None of us saw it coming, and we all took it badly—a crushing blow to our efforts to bring him to justice. It was June 19, 1991, and I was in Medellín, but Toft immediately called me back to Bogotá after the surrender was announced. We all watched the events live at the embassy in stunned silence: the yellow government chopper landing near the ranch-style prison that included a pool, jacuzzi, soccer field, and what we assumed were luxurious accommodations close to Escobar’s hometown of Envigado in the mountains outside Medellín. The sprawling “jail” was housed in the former Rehabilitation Centre for Drug Addicts, renovated to Escobar’s specifications, so spectacular that it was nicknamed La Catedral [my emphasis].
From 2018 book Mrs. Escobar: My Life With Pablo (my emphases):
I started going up to La Catedral several days a week. And while Pablo was meeting with somebody or playing soccer, I’d take the opportunity to organize, rearrange and mend anything in his room that needed attention, but I also looked through the many letters he’d started receiving. They were messages from women all over the world, many of them with photos showing the senders in various poses, many of them naked, and the common denominator was that they were offering themselves to him in exchange for money. I was even more surprised when I read shocking letters from women recalling their recent intimate encounters with him in great detail and inviting him for an encore whenever he wanted; others wrote flowery missives dreaming of another night of passion in La Catedral.
. . . At La Catedral he returned to his old predilection for beauty queens, who visited in droves . . .
Re: CvT24-in-a-simcom wouldn’t require courage
From 1997 book Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting, by Robert McKee (my emphases):
Comedy contains myriad subgenres as well, each with its own conventions, but one overriding convention unites this mega-genre and distinguishes it from drama: Nobody gets hurt. In Comedy, the audience must feel that no matter how characters bounce off walls, no matter how they scream and writhe under the whips of life, it doesn’t really hurt.
Keywords re: CvT24-via-said-premi$e will REWARD comedy talent
opportunities to be REWARDED by top AI-preneurs*—and, indirectly, by MANY equity-crowdfunders—for risking the wrath of Ps RESISTING
* e.g., MPS-ers, including product groups that spin-off from MPS
Re: MPS leveraging emergency powers (EPs) to prevent/subdue* Ps’ resistance
Partial formula:
your Rolodex + 20% finders’-fee I’m offering to pay + ~5 degrees of separation* between you and the U.S. president I need to partner with + 64% of my ownership stake in MPS in exchange for delegated powers (e.g., emergency, war) + . . . = you own ~4% of MPS
* ~6 total, 1 between you and me
In particular, MPS would leverage EPs to protect MPS-ers (e.g., part-owners via said finders’-fee or equity-crowdfunding; spin-offs from MPS that are part-owned by MPS).
[Update (3/15/21): See the rest of this update below for details re: ICH having primed people who work on Capitol Hill to act on my threat analysis. Keywords: more justification for the high cost of additional security (e.g., “The National Guard’s deployment at the U.S. Capitol is expected to cost $521 million through May”).]
* MPS’s EPs would complement MPS’s La Catedral (i.e., EPs, LaCat: stick, carrot).
Re: much more information fits MPS-in-a-simcom
Example: Several similarities/parallels between me and a historical figure might INCREASE the likelihood that Ps won’t harm MPS-ers et al. In particular, the similarities might HELP MPS:
become a recipient of emergency/war powers delegated by a U.S. president
make Ps CONFIDENT that they wouldn’t be denied their variant of LaCat after submitting to indefinite detention or the like (i.e., wouldn’t be victimized by a bait-and-switch)
More precedents for MPS’s comedy
From a 2015 issue of a newsletter about podcasts:
Gimlet, your friendly neighborhood podcasting company that narrates its own emergence [on its podcast titled StartUp] . . .
[A]ccording to the StartUp episode that dropped last Thursday, Graham Holdings invested $5 million into the $6 million round [raised by Gimlet], with the remainder split between some existing investors upping their commitment and a crowdfunded pool [via StartUp listeners] that was mediated through Quire, the equity- crowdfunding platform [my emphasis] . . .
From 2009 book Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America, published by Oxford University Press:
“Playboy tied the pursuit of pleasure to national purpose.”
“Changes in sexual morality were also linked to developments in the consumer society. Policymakers and captains of industry after World War II upheld economic growth as the fount of national well-being. . . . Americans had to come to believe that indulging in all the unnecessary items made possible by mass production was a positive endeavor, even a moral one. The widespread adoption of an ethical framework that sanctioned pleasure-seeking . . . helped sustain the nation’s consumer society.”
From 2003 book Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s:
These rebel forces were heavily backed by Hugh Hefner, whose Playboy magazine and nightclub circuit made him a major comedy power broker of the time. Playboy’s panels and interviews showcased all the rising, new, socially relevant wits . . .
From 2017 book Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, for which the author was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in History:
[A] small cadre of Los Angeles Jews—including Hollywood actors and studio heads—thwarted Nazi plans to lay the groundwork for Germany’s New Order in America.
. . . Lewis, Roos, and their network of spies refused to sit back and allow their city and nation to be threatened by hate groups. They showed us through their actions that when a government fails to stem the rise of extremists bent on violence, it is up to every citizen to protect . . .
From 2008 book The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, by Columbia University historian Adam Tooze:
Hitler had seen himself as locked in a global confrontation with world Jewry.
. . . For Hitler, a war of conquest was not one policy option amongst others. Either the German race struggled for Lebensraum [i.e., territory] or its racial enemies would condemn it to extinction.
Re: “>50% likelihood”
From said 2020 article on ScientificAmerican.com:
[E]ver since Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford wrote a seminal paper about the simulation argument in 2003 . . . [o]thers have attempted to calculate the chance of us being virtual entities. Now a new analysis shows that the odds that we are living in base reality—meaning an existence that is not simulated—are pretty much even.
From said paper by Bostrom:
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
From said 2020 article:
Kipping began by turning the trilemma into a dilemma. He collapsed propositions one and two into a single statement, because in both cases, the final outcome is that there are no simulations. Thus, the dilemma pits a physical hypothesis (there are no simulations) against the simulation hypothesis (there is a base reality—and there are simulations, too). “You just assign a prior probability to each of these models,” Kipping says. “We just assume the principle of indifference, which is the default assumption when you don’t have any data or leanings either way.”
So each hypothesis gets a prior probability of one half, much as if one were to flip a coin to decide a wager.
The next stage of the analysis required thinking about “parous” realities—those that can generate other realities—and “nulliparous” realities—those that cannot simulate offspring realities. . . .
. . . Bostrom agrees with the result—with some caveats. “This does not conflict with the simulation argument, which only asserts something about the disjunction,” the idea that one of the three propositions of the trilemma is true, he says.
So Kipping’s 50-50, given the principle of indifference, equates to:
25%: #1 is true (i.e., humans are very likely to go extinct pre-posthuman)
25%: #2 is true (i.e., posthumans are extremely unlikely to run many ancestor-simulations)
50%: #3 is true (i.e., we live in a simulation almost certainly, because there’s only a one-in-a-possibly-HUGE-number chance that we live in base reality)
The likelihood that #1 is true will decrease via:
neutralizing Ps
advancing O-F-F (see below)
The likelihood that #2 is true will decrease via MPS leveraging O-F-F and comedy to neutralize Ps (keywords re: “decrease via MPS”: Elvis Presley, disco music; details below).
And, again, much more information fits MPS-in-a-simcom.
— Re: the likelihood that #1 is true will decrease via neutralizing Ps and advancing O-F-F —
From 2019 book The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution, by a Harvard professor of biological anthropology:
The decisive form of social control represented by the killing of aggressive males could clearly have had far-reaching significance in human evolution. With regard to the idea that Homo sapiens self-domesticated, the critical question is whether individuals with a particularly high propensity for reactive aggression tended to be killed. The characteristic fact of egalitarian relationships indicates that the execution of would-be despots was indeed systematic.
. . . In the millennia before groups found a way to control the bullies, reactive aggression would have dominated social life in the same way as it does in most social primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and baboons. In those species, alpha males achieve their position at the top of their group’s dominance hierarchy by defeating each rival in turn in physical and often bloody fights. . . . The alpha’s bullying is strongly correlated with having high levels of testosterone, which appear to support his motivation to dominate others. To judge from the ubiquity of such behavior in the social primates, our ancestors once followed the same brute fashion.
. . . [T]here is no reason to regard our domestication as complete. How much more domesticated we could become . . . is an open question. Given sufficient sanctions against reactive aggressors . . . humans could in theory become as hard to rile as lop-eared rabbits at a petting farm, which remain gentle even when stroked repeatedly by dozens of eager children.
— Bonus cause for optimism re: >50% —
From a 2016 article in The New Yorker:
The case that we live (partly) in a simcom is strengthened, of course, by the fact that Musk . . . comedy . . . richest . . .
— End of 12-part summary —
Praise for my AI-preneurship
From a 2004 email sent to me by Amazon.com’s first Director of Personalization:
Frank, I just spent about an hour surfing around your website with a bit of amazement. I run a [now defunct] little company [funded entirely by Amazon] . . . We are a team of folks who worked together at Amazon.com developing that company’s personalization and recommendations team and systems. We spent about 1.5 years thinking about what we wanted to build next. We thought a lot about online education tools. We thought a lot about classified ads and job networks. We thought a lot about reputation systems. We thought a bit about personalized advertising systems. We thought a lot about blogging and social networking systems. . . . I guess I’m mostly just fascinated that we’ve been working a very similar vein to the one you describe, without having a solid name for it (we call it “the age of the amateur” or “networks of shared experiences” instead of [AI-powered] CLLCS [i.e., customized lifelong learning and career services], but believe me, we are talking about the same patterns and markets, if not in exactly the same way). Thanks for sharing what you have—it’s fascinating stuff.
From a 2004 email sent to me by an analyst at then topVC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson:
Hi Frank, Thanks for your time today. If you would like to provide us with further information about your [business] plan [for providing CLLCS], we would be happy to review it in more detail.
From a 1998 email sent to me by the then Manager of the Learning Sciences and Technology Group at Microsoft Research:
Frank, you are a good man. Have you thought about joining this team? Your only alternative, of course, is venture capital. But their usual models require getting rid of the “originator” within the first eighteen months.
Re: the praise is from 1998 and 2004
— Summary (details below) —
My work from 1992 to 2006:
is the foundation of my current plan to provide the most popular online market for customized-education and artificial-intelligence (e.g., CE-for-AI, which will be to the AI economy what oil has been to the industrial economy)
didn’t yield a business model that would’ve been disruptive to Amazon, Google, etc. (i.e., that would’ve enabled me to launch a startup that could (be expected to) survive competition from Amazon, etc.)
Since 2006 my primary focus has been innovating so MPS will:
outperform all classes of competitors (e.g., would disrupt a future startup funded initially by Bill Gates, who has donated/invested a LOT of money to advance CE)
become to the AI economy what John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil (SO) became to the industrial economy of his era (SO made Rockefeller the richest person since the Industrial Revolution)
A product of said innovating: comedy-writing craft/artfulness that’ll HELP many comedy talents earn (large) parts of: 1) a Rockefeller-ian fortune, 2) adjacent fortunes.
Re: said fortunes: The wealthiest people benefit most from advances in longevity science, often benefit most from other advances in medical research, and can invest unlimited amounts via equity-crowdfunding.
Comedy opener of my first startup comedy (SC; a serial “non-fiction novel” that I’m rewriting)
“Fifteen states,” I said, “have legalized recreational marijuana. A lot of partying happens away from home. Smoking weed gives people the munchies. Many popular night-spots don’t serve food. So there’s a greenfield opportunity at the intersection of mobile storage, weed storage, and food storage. Specifically, an opportunity for OSG [i.e., MPS] to patent my design of clothing-pockets that close via Ziploc.”
Mindy’s eyes widened for an instant. Then her lips formed a thin smile.
“I see you’re worried about developing laugh lines,” I said. “You shouldn’t be. Laugh lines are no match for modern cosmetic surgery. After all, cosmetic surgery is getting so advanced that, soon, it will be a simple matter to make a woman’s face after surgery appear completely different than her face before surgery.”
Then I tried to appear struck by a flash of insight.
“Which means,” I said, “that soon millions of Caucasian women will find it impossible to get a date! Unless . . .”
I picked up the handset of my desk phone, then appeared to dial an extension.
“It has come to my attention,” I said into the handset, “that OSG can profit obscenely by purchasing the rights to develop and market the only DNA test that enables a woman to prove she’s not Lorena Bobbitt!”
Mindy laughed.
I restored the handset to its cradle, then used my laptop. A new presentation slide appeared on the wall-mounted screen:
From a 1978 article in The New Yorker:
“When it comes to saving a bad line, [Johnny Carson] is the master”—to quote a tribute paid in my presence by George Burns.
. . . One sometimes detects a vindictive glint in Carson’s eye when a number of gags sink without risible trace, but [Tonight Show writer Pat] McCormick assures me that this is all part of the act . . .
— End of comedy opener —
[1/14/21 update continued:
Re: possible link between ICH and Ps partnering-with/manipulating known groups of violent extremists (part 1 of 2)
— Summary (details follow) —
Anonymous shell companies (ASCs) were banned in the U.S. on 1/1/21, after: 1) the ban was legislated by veto-proof majorities in the House (on 12/9/20) and Senate (12/11/20), 2) President Trump’s 12/23/20 veto was overridden. Some/many Ps might’ve started on 12/11 to work to (de facto) reverse said ban (e.g., worked via ICH to prime members of Congress to receive variants of Pablo Escobar’s offers of “plata o plomo”).
— Re: “variants” (part 1 of 2) —
Said ban portends HUGE* problems (e.g., financial distress/ruin, imprisonment) for many WEALTHY criminals (WCs; e.g., kleptocrats who, of necessity**, hire contract killers often).
— Re: “Ps might’ve started” —
Contract killers are Ps in “virtually all” cases (source: 2019 article in The Atlantic). So some/many WCs (e.g., non-Ps) need to RESIST PsIMP (e.g., by FUNDING*** (other) Ps after making them aware that PsIMP). So it’s possible some/many Ps are FUNDED and know that a key to maximizing resistance to PsIMP is WCs owning ASCs in the U.S.
— Re: Ps might’ve “worked via ICH” —
From a 2018 article co-authored by President Biden:
[L]ack of any requirement to disclose the beneficial (i.e. “true”) ownership of limited liability companies (LLCs) makes it easy for foreign [and/or criminal] entities to establish [anonymous] shell companies in the United States. These shell companies can then . . . channel [dark] money directly to a super PAC.
From a 1/9/21 article on CNBC.com:
[P]ro-Trump dark money groups helped organize the rally that led to a deadly riot on Capitol Hill.
* From the 2020 article on DailyBeast.com titled “The Kleptocrats’ Money-Laundering Middleman Who Did Deals With Trump”**** (my emphases):
“[2020 book] Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World[, by a Financial Times reporter,] is the terrifying true story of how kleptocrats—those who rule through corruption—are uniting, clandestinely fusing their business interests, and forming alliances.”
“From Budapest to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, they have seized power and are busily guzzling their nations’ wealth.”
“What they crave is legitimacy—for their money and their power. That means hijacking democracies . . .
. . . An architecture of shell companies would keep the money incognito, and if anyone did find out who it belonged to, provide plausible deniability for those who had received it.”
Potentially MUCH worse for WCs: Anti-Kleptopians have expansive plans for further actions (e.g., President Biden’s plan).
** From Kleptopia:
[F]or the kleptocrat, ruling by licensing theft rather than seeking consent, money can achieve most of what needs to be done. For everything else, there is violence.
. . . [V]iolence was still required. It was to dirty money what the law was to clean—a guarantee that agreements would be honoured.
From said article on DailyBeast.com (my emphases):
There is nothing they will not do to maintain control. Those who dare to cross them are massacred on the Kazakh steppe and brutalized during Zimbabwe’s sham elections; those who threaten to spill their secrets have their mouths permanently closed.
*** Existing ASCs in the U.S. can operate until 2023.
**** From said article on DailyBeast.com:
After 9/11, [U.S.] banks were on orders to pay some attention to whose money they were handling, lest they abet terrorism. Conveniently, there was another route to the West that retained its secrecy: real estate. The five [Mafia] families had laundered their criminal proceeds through American property for decades. Now the new kleptocrats followed them [e.g., via owning ASCs in the U.S.]
Trump’s role [my emphasis] would be to rent out his name.
Which could (partly) explain said veto by Trump/TrumP . . .
Re: said ban could explain the possibility that ICH was enabled by members of the U.S. federal government (e.g., of the military, of IAs)
Again: In 2018, 5 of the 10 richest counties in the U.S. were just outside the nation’s capital.
December 2019 articles in The Washington Post collected as “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War” indicate that the U.S.’s ongoing, 18-year “war” is an HF.
From a 2019 article on the website of the Federation of American Scientists:
During the five year period from 2013-2017 . . . the Department of Defense entered into more than 15 million contracts with contractors who had been indicted [for], fined [for], and/or convicted of fraud, or who reached settlement agreements. The value of those contracts exceeded $334 billion, according to the . . . Report on Defense Contracting Fraud, DoD report to Congress, December 2018.
Re: HF involving an IA: Again, see the below excerpts from 2018 book The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: How the NSA Failed to Protect America from the 9/11 Attacks.
Congress . . . insider trading, etc. . . . being (re-)elected partly/largely via money from ASCs . . .
A 1/11/21 tweet:
HF-ers need to hide (much of) their money (e.g., via ASCs) . . .
Re: possible link between ICH and Ps partnering-with/manipulating known groups of violent extremists (part 2)
— Re: variants of plata-o-plomo (part 2) —
Summary (details follow)
From the chapter in 2015 book Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact titled “Hacking the President’s DNA,” co-authored by a former Resident Futurist of the FBI:
Our next commander-in-chief will be our first commander-in-chief to have to deal with genetically based, made-to-order [e.g., personalized] biothreats.
. . . Within a few years, politicians, celebrities, leaders of industry . . . will be vulnerable to murder[, extortion, etc.] by genetically engineered bioweapon. Many such killings could go undetected, confused with death by natural causes; many others would be difficult to pin on a defendant, especially given disease latency. Both of these factors are likely to make personalized bioweapons extremely attractive to anyone bearing ill will.
Jeffrey Epstein (JE): 1) was hypersexual, 2) owned a company (JCo) that mined DNA databases and financial databases en route to: 2.1) reporting profits of ~$300M, 2.2) not reporting the names of any clients.
Linking financial data and DNA data could yield “profits” via extortion.
There are indicators that:
JE extorted
JCo was banked by Deutsche Bank (DB)
DB employs many Ps (e.g., possible ex-suppliers of data to JCo)
DB banks many Ps (e.g., possible ex-clients of JCo)
KEY indicator of #4: DB banks many/MANY WCs (e.g., possible ex-clients of JCo).
Possibilities that fit our Time of COVID:
Some/many Ps/WCs know how to personalize bioweapons.
ICH yielded DNA from offices, desks on the Senate floor, etc.
Warren Buffett, longtime investor in many insurance companies:
It would be foolish, however, for me or anyone to demand 100% proof of huge forthcoming damage to the world if that outcome seemed at all possible and if prompt action had even a small chance of thwarting the danger.
— Re: JE was hypersexual —
From a 2019 article in The New York Post:
Jeffrey Epstein had an insatiable sexual appetite that included threesomes with “strap-on” dildos and a required three orgasms a day, according to court documents unsealed Friday.
— Re: JCo —
From a 2020 article in The New York Times:
In the years after Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender [i.e., after 2008], he . . . started a business to develop algorithms and mine DNA and financial databases.
. . . Southern Trust [i.e., said business] generated about $300 million in profit in six years . . . The source of Southern Trust’s revenue is not clear; the bare-bones corporate filings made by the company in the Virgin Islands do not list any clients.
— Indicators that JE extorted —
From the 2019 article in The New York Times titled “The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People”:
The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it. He also claimed to know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging or embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.
From a 2019 article on TheDailyBeast.com:
Police say Epstein was sexually abusing girls as young as 13, many of them from poor families and broken homes. And, according to lawsuits filed by victims, Epstein loaned them out to his famous friends.
More indicators below.
— Indicators that JCo was banked by DB —
DB banked JE . . .
Title of a 2019 article on TruePundit.com:
Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Banker at Deutsche & Citi Found Swinging From a Rope; Executive “Suicide” Before FBI Questioned Him
Title of a 2019 article in Vanity Fair:
Of Course Jeff Epstein Moved His Dirty Money Through Deutsche Bank
. . . JE owned a bank (JB) . . .
From said 2020 article in The New York Times (S20ANYT):
In the years after Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender, he . . . set up a bank.
. . . JB might’ve banked JCo . . .
From S20ANYT:
[JB] was created under a territorial law [in the Virgin Islands] that lacked many of the oversight requirements banks are usually subject to . . .
. . . These specialized banks have drawn scrutiny because of their potential for abuse, including money laundering.
. . . JB might’ve been banked by DB . . .
From S20ANYT (my emphasis):
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York describes international bank entities in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico [e.g., EB] as “high-risk” institutions. Last year, it temporarily suspended applications for them to obtain financial services from the Fed until it can issue stricter rules for them.
From 2020 book Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction, by the finance editor of The New York Times (my emphasis):
Deutsche had been moving money—as much as $80 billion—for thousands of “high-risk entities” in various countries.
— Indicators that DB employs many Ps (e.g., Ps who know PsIMP) —
From a 2011 article in U.K. newspaper The Independent:
My companion, a senior UK investment banker and I, are discussing the most successful banking types we know and what makes them tick. I argue that they often conform to the characteristics displayed by social psychopaths. To my surprise, my friend agrees.
He then makes an astonishing confession: “At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles.”
From Dark Towers (my emphases):
“[DB] helped funnel money into countries that were under economic sanctions for pursuing nuclear weapons or participating in genocides.”
“The hundreds of millions of dollars that Deutsche [had] wired to Iranian banks [by 2006] provided vital funding for the sanctioned country to pay for its terrorism. Soon Iraq was being ripped apart by violence. Roadside bombs detonated all over the country, targeting the country’s fragile government and the U.S. military forces that were trying to keep the peace. Much of the violence was the work of a terrorist group, Jaysh al-Mahdi, which had been armed and trained by Hezbollah, which had been bankrolled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which had been financed by Deutsche.
. . . The sanctions violations weren’t the work of an isolated crew of rogue Deutsche employees. Managers knew. Their bosses knew. American regulators would later find evidence that at least one member of the bank’s vorstand—in other words, one of Deutsche’s most senior executives— knew about and approved of the scheme.”
“[DB] would soon become enveloped in scandals related to money laundering, tax evasion, manipulating interest rates, manipulating the prices of precious metals, manipulating the currencies markets, bribing foreign officials, accounting fraud, violating international sanctions, ripping off customers, and ripping off the German, British, and United States governments. (The list went on.)”
More indicators below.
— Indicators that DB banks many Ps (e.g., indirectly, via banking many/MANY WCs) —
Again: DB moved as much as $80B for thousands of “high-risk entities” in various countries.
From a 2020 article in The New Yorker (my emphases):
“Between 2011 and 2015, ten billion dollars left Russia through Deutsche Bank’s mirror trades.
. . . The recently published FinCEN files . . . add some fascinating detail to the mirror-trades affair.
. . . The FinCEN files cover around two trillion dollars’ worth of suspicious transactions reported at major banks between 1999 and 2017. Of that two trillion, more than half—around $1.3 trillion—passed through Deutsche Bank.”
“As we now know, mirror trades were not just suggestive of financial crime. Major criminal organizations, terrorist groups, and drug cartels used them to launder and transfer money, and benefited more generally from this geyser of dirty money.”
“According to the documents . . . nearly fifty million dollars were also funneled through mirror trades to the Khanani network, whose clients include associates of Hezbollah and the Taliban.”
“The FinCEN documents are based on Suspicious Activity Reports—essentially whistle-blowing reports made by banks themselves—filed to the U.S. government. They were leaked to BuzzFeed News, then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which shared them with news outlets around the world.”
— End of 1/14/21 update —
1/25/21 update, because COVID variants . . . ICH . . . Ps et al. could be resisting PsIMP:
Keywords (my emphases; details below)
JE met with a top virologist several/many times in 2014; from 2020 “pandemic novel” The End of October (#24 on Amazon’s May 7 list of best-selling books; TEoO was published on April 28; written by a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for journalism): “‘Really, Henry,’ Bartlett asked, ‘you think this [virus] was man-made?’ ‘Biowarfare has always been . . . the ultimate weapon of war, one that can destroy the enemy without fingerprints.’ ‘It only makes sense if they have also developed a vaccine,’ said Bartlett”; from the April 2020 article in The New Yorker titled “What Lawrence Wright Learned From His Pandemic Novel”: “By the time Wright and I met for lunch and discussed his novel—‘The End of October,’ which is out this month—he had already done the coast-to-coast reporting. He had met with epidemiologists, immunologists, microbiologists, security experts, vaccine experts, and public-health officials. He had read all the books, all the journal articles. . . . The experts, Wright notes in a letter to the reader in the galleys of his book, ‘all share the concerns I’ve presented—that something like this could happen.’”; from the 2014 article on PBS.org titled “Lab-Mutated Viruses Could Spark Pandemic, Scientists Report”: “Virologists have been mutating known virus strains for decades in the hopes of discovering how they might evolve to become more virulent and deadly”; from a 12/23/20 article on the website of U. Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy: “[N]ew, highly mutated SARS-CoV-2 strain . . . called B.1.1.7 . . . 23 mutations in a matter of months . . . the very short time it took to develop more than 20 mutations, compared with the one or two additions or deletions expected to develop in that timeframe”; from a 1/22/21 article on the website of U.S. News & World Report: “B.1.1.7’s 23 mutations and P1’s 21 mutations aren’t randomly arrayed across the genome but clustered in the gene encoding the spike protein. One change in the spike, called N501Y, arose independently in all three variants . . . Other changes in the spike (e.g., E484K, del69-70) are seen in two of the three variants. Beyond the spike, the three variants of concern share one additional mutation that deletes a small part of the drably named ‘non-structural protein 6’ (NSP6). We don’t yet know what the deletion does, but in a related coronavirus NSP6 tricks a cellular defence system and may promote coronavirus infection. NSP6 also hijacks this system to help copy the viral genome”; title of a 1/20/21 article on Vox.com: “How the new Covid-19 variants could pose a threat to vaccination”
— End of 1/25/21 update —
2/23/21 update:
Book published on February 9, 2021: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (hereafter TIH). Excerpts:
“One day in 2008, almost simultaneously, five of the NSA’s most elite hackers turned in their security badges and pulled out of the Fort’s parking lot for the last time. Inside the agency, these men had been revered as ‘the Maryland Five,’ and time and time again, they had proved indispensable. They were each members of a premier TAO access team that hacked into the systems nobody else could.”
“The United States doesn’t forcibly conscript talented hackers at Google and MIT to moonlight as nation-state attackers like the Russians, Iranians, North Koreans, and Chinese do.”
A U.S. variant of conscription might be blackmailing top hackers who live in undemocratic countries.
More re: the VALUE of said blackmailing, via TIH:
“My source had gotten his hands on an urgent DHS-FBI alert [issued in 2017]. It was meant solely for the utilities, the water suppliers, the nuclear plants. The bureaucrats were trying to bury it on a holiday weekend. And as soon as I got eyes on it, I could see why: the Russians were inside our nuclear plants.”
“‘Cyber is a tailor-made instrument of power for them,’ former NSA deputy director Chris Inglis said after North Korea’s role in the WannaCry attacks became clear. ‘There’s a low cost of entry, it’s largely asymmetrical, there’s some degree of anonymity and stealth in its use. It can hold large swaths of nation-state infrastructure and private-sector infrastructure at risk. It’s a source of income.’ In fact, Inglis said, ‘You could argue that they have one of the most successful cyber programs on the planet, not because it’s technically sophisticated, but because it has achieved all their aims at very low cost.’”
Many top technologists are high-functioning autistics (e.g., have Asperger’s Syndrome).
~30% of male Aspies have “pedophilic sexual fantasies of female children” (source: 2017 article on the website of the U.S. government’s National Center for Biotechnology Information).
From a 2019 article on TheDailyBeast.com:
“I was told [Jeffrey] Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” [said Alex Acosta, re: the non-prosecution plea deal that Acosta—then the U.S. Attorney in Miami, Florida—provided to Epstein in 2007. Epstein had been accused of unlawful sex with minors and prostitution, but ended up pleading guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution from a minor.]
Ps could BENEFIT from helping the U.S. with said blackmailing; details below (keyword: asymmetrical).
More motivation for the U.S. to (have) blackmail(ed) via underage girls (part 1 of 2)
From TIH (my emphases):
“They—the hackers, the officials, the Ukrainians, the voices in the wilderness—had always warned me that a cyber-enabled cataclysmic boom would take us down. The Cyber Pearl Harbor. And when I started on this beat[*] nearly a decade ago I always made a point of asking, ‘Okay, then, when?’”
. . . [T]hough we have yet to see the mushroom cloud, we are closer than we have ever been.”
“But the analogy to Pearl Harbor is a deeply flawed one. America didn’t see that attack coming; we’ve seen the cyber equivalent coming . . .”
* The author of TIH reports on cybersecurity for The New York Times.
Precedent for U.S. leveraging JE and Deutsche Bank to blackmail via underage girls
From 1993 book The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI, co-authored by two journalists who covered the defunct Bank of Commerce and Credit International for Time magazine (my emphases):
“The strange and still murky ties [during the 1980s] between BCCI and the intelligence agencies of several countries are so pervasive that even the White House has become entangled.”
“The protocol department [of BCCI] was also responsible for sweeping the countryside in search of another kind of prey: very young girls for the entertainment of the sheikhs and Middle-Eastern businessmen.
[T]he wife of a Pakistani doctor, was in charge of rounding up the girls and bringing them to Karachi to be outfitted in proper clothes before being presented to the princely clients. Often she would shepherd more than fifty girls at a time through a department store, shopping for jewelry and dresses. This practice was so successful—far more effective than giving away microwave ovens or toasters—that the bank would spend as much as $100,000 on such an evening’s entertainment. According to the Senate testimony of Nazir Chinoy, Madame Rahim would also ‘interview girls, women, and take them . . . to Abu Dhabi for a dancing show or arrange some singing shows.’ Throughout the Middle East, ‘dancing girls’ and ‘singing girls’ are euphemisms for prostitutes; Chinoy chose to be tactful before the TV cameras.”
“According to [BCCI employee] Masri, the protocol officers . . . were also responsible . . . for luring businessmen, military officers, and politicians into Abedi’s web of intrigue through a combination of favors, money, blackmail and intimidation.”
“As Time reported . . . the National Security Council has used BCCI to funnel money for the Iran-Contra deals [i.e., for the “United States’ supplying weapons to both Iraq and Iran in violation of its own laws”], and the CIA maintained accounts in BCCI for covert operations. Moreover, investigators have told Time that the Defense Intelligence Agency has maintained a slush-fund account with BCCI, apparently to pay for clandestine activities.”
“Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the BCCI affair in the United States was the failure of U.S. government and federal law enforcement to move against the outlaw bank. Instead of swift retribution, what took place over more than a decade was a cover-up of major, alarming proportions, often orchestrated from the very highest levels of government.”
From a 1992 U.S. Senate report on BCCI:
[L]argest case of organized crime in history, spanning over . . . 72 nations [during the 1980s] . . . finance terrorism . . . assist the builders of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . . .
From The Outlaw Bank:
From interviews with sources close to BCCI, Time has pieced together a portrait of a clandestine division of the bank called the Black Network, which functions as a global intelligence operation and a mafia-like enforcement squad. . . . [T]he 1,500-employee Black Network has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder.
BCCI was shut down in 1991 by regulators/attorneys-general of several nations (e.g., nations complicit in BCCI’s crimes for many years, including the U.S.). More about BCCI is (linked-to) below.
More motivation for the U.S. to (have) blackmail(ed) via underage girls (part 2)
From TIH:
I came to survey the rubble at ground zero for the most devastating cyberattack the world had ever seen. The world was still reeling from the fallout of a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine that less than two years earlier had shut down government agencies, railways, ATMs, gas stations, the postal service, even the radiation monitors at the old Chernobyl nuclear site, before the code seeped out of Ukraine and haphazardly zigzagged its way around the globe. Having escaped, it paralyzed factories in the far reaches of Tasmania, destroyed vaccines at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, infiltrated computers at FedEx, and brought the world’s biggest shipping conglomerate to a halt, all in a matter of minutes.
By the time I visited Kyiv in 2019, the tally of damages from that single Russian attack exceeded $10 billion, and estimates were still climbing. Shipping and railway systems had still not regained full capacity. All over Ukraine, people were still trying to find packages that had been lost when the shipment tracking systems went down. They were still owed pension checks that had been held up in the attack. The records of who was owed what had been obliterated.
From a 2/14/21 article on CBSnews.com:
President Biden inherited a lot of intractable problems, but perhaps none is as disruptive as the cyber war between the United States and Russia simmering largely under the radar. Last March, with the coronavirus spreading uncontrollably across the United States, Russian cyber soldiers released their own contagion by sabotaging a tiny piece of computer code buried in a popular piece of software called "SolarWinds." The hidden virus spread to 18,000 government and private computer networks by way of one of those software updates we all take for granted. The attack was unprecedented in audacity and scope. Russian spies went rummaging through the digital files of the U.S. departments of Justice, State, Treasury, Energy, and Commerce and for nine months had unfettered access to top-level communications, court documents, even nuclear secrets. And by all accounts, it's still going on.
From TIH:
“Chinese hackers were not just engaged in traditional state espionage; they were pilfering intellectual property from every major company in the Fortune 500, American research laboratories, and think tanks. No longer content to be the world’s cheap manufacturing hub, Beijing had dispatched its country’s hackers to steal trade secrets from innovators abroad, the vast majority of them in the United States, and were now passing billions, by some estimates trillions, of dollars’ worth of American research and development to China’s state-owned enterprises.”
“In 2018, terrorist attacks cost the global economy $33 billion, a decrease of thirty-eight percent from the previous year. That same year, a study by RAND Corporation from more than 550 sources—the most comprehensive data analysis of its kind—concluded global losses from cyberattacks were likely on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. And that was the conservative estimate. Individual data sets predicted annual cyber losses of more than two trillion dollars.”
“Gosler began with two experiments. That year, 1985, he convinced his bosses at Sandia to sponsor a study. They called it Chaperon, and its premise was simple: Could anyone design a truly secure computer application? And could someone subvert that application with a malicious implant that could not be detected, even through a detailed forensic investigation? In other words, a zero-day [i.e., “a software or hardware flaw for which there is no existing patch. They got their name because, as with Patient Zero in an epidemic, when a zero-day flaw is discovered, software and hardware companies have had zero days to come up with a defense”].
Sandia divided its top technical brass into bad guys and good guys: the subverters and the evaluators. The former would plant vulnerabilities in a computer application. The latter would have to find them.
Gosler still spent most of his evenings away from work breaking hardware and software for the fun of it. But professionally, he had only ever played the role of evaluator. Now, he relished the chance to play subverter. He designed two implants and was sure the Evaluators would discover his first subversion.
‘I was immersed in a fantasy world back then,’ Gosler told me. When he wasn’t breaking software, he was playing the 1980s computer game Zork, popular with some of the techies he worked with.
For his first trick, he inserted a few familiar lines from the Zork game into the security application’s code. The Zork text effectively fooled Sandia’s application into revealing secret variables that could be used by an attacker to take over the application—and any data the application secured. Gosler was sure his colleagues would pick up on it quickly.
For his second subversion, Gosler inserted a vulnerability that he and others would later only describe as a ‘groundbreaking technical achievement.’
The evaluators never did find Gosler’s two implants. Even Gosler’s Zork subversion proved maddeningly difficult to track down. Sandia’s evaluators still describe the study as one of the most frustrating experiments of their career. They spent months looking for his implants before they finally threw up their hands and demanded that he tell them what he had done.
It took Gosler three eight-hour briefings, pacing in front of a whiteboard covered in notation, which he attacked in bursts, to painstakingly explain his implant. His peers nodded along, but clearly they were baffled.
Initially Gosler thought the second implant could be useful as a Sandia training exercise, but seeing employees’ frustration, his bosses rejected the idea outright. They worried that the exercise would only compel new recruits to quit.
Instead, his bosses decided to start over and put together a new study: Chaperon 2. This time, they chose someone other than Gosler to lead the subversion. Some one hundred Sandia engineers spent weeks and months hunting for the implant. While others came close, only one—Gosler—discovered the subversion and presented it in a detailed hours-long briefing.
. . . Rick Proto and Robert Morris Sr., the respective chiefs of research and science at the NSA’s National Computer Security Center, thought Gosler could teach their analysts a thing or two.
At their first meeting [in 1987], Gosler asked Morris Sr. the question that had been troubling him for some time now. ‘How complex can software be for you to have total knowledge of what it could do?’
. . . Morris Sr. told Gosler that, off the top of his head, he would have ‘100 percent confidence’ in an application that contained 10,000 lines of code or less, and zero confidence in an application that contained more than 100,000 lines of code. Gosler took that as his cue to share with Morris Sr. the more complicated of the subversion tactics he had developed for Sandia’s Chaperon 1 study. Turns out it was an application with fewer than 3,000 lines of code.
Morris Sr. invited an elite NSA squad of PhDs, cryptographers, and electrical engineers to take a look. Not one discovered Gosler’s implant, nor could any replicate the subversion once Gosler pointed them to it.”
From 2019 book Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World:
[T]he “10X” coder . . . describes a programmer who is provably better, multiple times so, than the average code monkey.
. . . Bill Gates once said, “ . . . a great writer of software code is worth ten thousand times the price of an average software writer.”
. . . When I ask venture capitalists and founders whether 10Xers really exist, many immediately say: Oh yes. Hell yes.
“I think it’s probably 1000X,” . . . Marc Andreessen . . . cofounder of Netscape . . . tells me.
From a 2014 article:
“One top-notch engineer is worth 300 times or more than the average,” explains Alan Eustace, a Google vice president of engineering.
MOTIVATION for Ps to help the U.S. with said blackmailing
— Summary (details follow) —
A key to Ps maximizing resistance to PsIMP is leveraging top cyberweapons (CWs), not least because:
Ps are ~1% of the human population, so asymmetric weapons . . .
CWs are available via the global market (i.e., CW users don’t have to double as CW developers (CWDs))
CWs that enable network intrusion can yield information for developing bioweapons, more/better CWs, etc.
CWs that serve as ransomware can yield money for developing weapons, etc.
Keys to Ps leveraging top CWs include:
identifying top CWDs
having an arrangement with the U.S. like BCCI had
Both of these keys might (have) be(en) achieved via helping the U.S. blackmail top CWDs.
— Re: the global market for CWs —
From TIH:
“‘It’s like having cyber nukes in an unregulated market that can be bought and sold anywhere in the world without discretion,’ he told me.”
“But bugs and exploits took time to find and develop, and Sabien came to the same conclusions as Watters’s team at iDefense. His twenty-five-man team could scour for bugs and develop and test exploits nine-to-five, but it would be far easier to outsource that work to the thousands of hackers around the world who spent their days and nights glued to their computer screens.
‘We knew we couldn’t find them all, but we also knew there was a low barrier to entry,’ Sabien recalled. ‘Anyone with two thousand dollars to buy a Dell is in the game.’
And so the underground market for zero-day bugs began.”
“[C]ompared to conventional weapons, exploits were cheap. Foreign governments were now willing to match American prices for the best zero-days and cyberweaponry. The Middle East’s oil-rich monarchies would pay just about anything to monitor their critics. And in Iran and North Korea, which could never match the United States in conventional warfare, leaders saw cyber as their last hope of leveling the playing field. If the NSOs, Zerodiums, and Hacking Teams of the world wouldn’t sell them their wares, well, they could just hop on a plane to Buenos Aires.”
“For years, I’d heard some of the best exploits on the market hailed from Argentina.
. . . ‘You need to dispose of your view, Nicole,’ Arce told me. ‘In Argentina, who is good? Who is bad? The last time I checked, the country that bombed another country into oblivion wasn’t China or Iran.’
In the Southern Hemisphere, the whole moral calculus was flipped. Down here, the Iranians were allies. We were sponsors of state terrorism.
. . . ‘A guy from the NSA and a guy from Iran show up with big bags of cash. Do you perform an ethical analysis? Or do you weigh the bags of cash and see which is heavier?’”
— Re: network intrusion can yield information for developing (bio)weapons —
From TIH:
“Chinese hackers were . . . pilfering intellectual property from every major company in the Fortune 500, American research laboratories . . .”
“[H]ackers seized on the coronavirus to take aim at our hospitals, our vaccine labs, and the federal agencies leading the Covid-19 response.”
“The pandemic is global, but the response has been anything but. Allies and adversaries alike are resorting to cyberespionage to glean whatever they can about each country’s containment, treatments, and response.”
— Re: ransomware can yield money —
From TIH:
By 2019, ransomware attacks were generating billions of dollars for Russian cybercriminals and were becoming more lucrative. Even as cybercriminals raised their ransom demands to unlock victims’ data from three figures to six, to millions of dollars, local officials—and their insurers—calculated it was still cheaper to pay their digital extortionists than to rebuild their systems and data from scratch.
More re: DB could be partly a variant of BCCI
From The Outlaw Bank:
BCCI helps Adnan Khashoggi finance the sale of arms to Iran as a part of the Reagan administration’s Iran-Contra effort.
From 2020 book The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell:
Leese also introduced Epstein to one of his associates: Adnan Khashoggi.
Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer, was a man of marvel and mystery. He was born in Mecca, and his father was said to have been the personal physician of Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Khashoggi was one of the world’s wealthiest arms brokers. He moved around the world surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards—men trained in the art of killing at Fort Bragg in the United States and at Hereford in the United Kingdom. The Saudi soon became another trusted client of Epstein’s.
BCCI’s early/foundational criminality derived from Muslims feeling imperiled.
From The Outlaw Bank (my emphases):
The hidden alliances in Pakistan—and within other Islamic states—provided Abedi and BCCI the kind of sweeping immunity from laws and regulation that is assumed by sovereign nations when they take action in the name of ‘national security.’ . . . BCCI, fueled by petro-dollars, was going to forge the shining new sword of Islam.It would be a terrible Nuclear Age sword that would give Pakistan—and other Muslim nations—parity with the Zionists . . .
— End of 2/23/21 update —
3/15/21 update continued:
In the aftermath of ICH, people who work on Capitol Hill—members of Congress and their staffers; members of the Capitol Police; et al.—are worried about future variants of ICH and related threats*:
Title of a 3/8 article in The New York Times:
After a Briefing by a Task Force Investigating Capitol Security, House Members Urge Swift Action
Title of a 3/10 article on the website of U.S. News & World Report:
Capitol Police ‘Extremely Relieved’ by New Pentagon Orders for Additional Security
Title of a 2/16 article in the Baltimore Sun:
After Riot, Impeachment Trial, Shaken Maryland Congressional Staff Must Navigate a U.S. Capitol Forever Changed
So ICH has primed said workers to act on my threat analysis. Bonus motivations for them: 1) said finders’-fee offer of mine, 2) more justification for the high cost of additional security (e.g., “The National Guard’s deployment at the U.S. Capitol is expected to cost $521 million through May”), 3) the most generous political donors are (almost always) the wealthiest people, who benefit most from advances in longevity science, and often benefit most from other advances in medical research. Implication of #1: You might gain part of a Rockefeller-ian fortune if you know someone who works on Capitol Hill, or if you know someone who knows someone, or . . . someone who knows someone who knows someone . . . or . . . or . . .
* From the 3/5 report issued by said task force:
[T]he Task Force was directed to review and provide recommendations in the following areas: Capitol security operations, infrastructure physical security, and Member security in their Congressional districts, their residences, and during travel.
— End of 3/15/21 update —
The rest of the 4/22 update is coming ASAP.]
Re: the making of said business plan and said serial novel
Details are in the section after the next two.
Re: longevity science (LS)
From 2020 book The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives:
[Google’s] Ray Kurzweil and longevity expert Aubrey de Grey have begun talking about “longevity escape velocity,” or the idea that soon, science will be able to extend our lives by a year for every year we live. In other words, once across this threshold, we’ll literally be staying one step ahead of death. Kurzweil thinks this threshold is about twelve years away, while de Grey puts it thirty years out.
From 2019 book Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To, by the Harvard geneticist who’s one of Time magazine’s “100 most influential people” of 2014:
“It is not at all extravagant to expect that someday living to 150 will be standard. And if the Information Theory of Aging is sound, there may be no upward limit; we could potentially reset the epigenome in perpetuity.”
“How long will it be before we are able to reset our epigenome, either with molecules we ingest or by genetically modifying our bodies, as my student now does in mice? How long until we can destroy senescent cells, either by drugs or outright vaccination? How long until we can replace parts of organs, grow entire ones in genetically altered farm animals, or create them in a 3D printer? A couple of decades, perhaps. Maybe three. One or all of those innovations is coming well within the ever-increasing lifespans of most of us, though. And when that happens, how many more years will we get? The maximum potential could be centuries . . .”
“If I am wrong, it might be that I was too conservative in my predictions.”
“When technologies go exponential, even experts can be blindsided.”
“We often fail to acknowledge that knowledge is multiplicative and technologies are synergistic.”
From cbinsights.com:
Re: MPS will HELP to advance LS
From 2020 book Longevity Industry 1.0 (my emphases):
“AI for Longevity is the ‘smart money’ sector of the industry, and can achieve enormous results and accelerated timelines in terms of progress in actual, tangible, real-world Healthy Human Longevity, even with comparatively tiny levels of financing compared to other sectors.”
“The intensive application of AI to all stages of Longevity and Preventive Medicine R&D has the potential to rapidly accelerate the clinical translation of both validated and experimental diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics, to empower patients to become the CEOs of their own health through continuous AI-driven monitoring of minor fluctuations in biomarkers . . .”
“AI will come into prominence as the critical and fundamental driver of progress in the industry . . .”
From November 30, 2020 on Google News:
More details re: “MPS will HELP” are below.
Re: the making of said business plan and said serial novel
— Summary (details follow) —
In 1985 I learned that I can reliably generate comic insights [1] (e.g., I can write jokes).
That year my focus shifted to developing a likable comic persona. My approach to said developing comprised 3 steps, with a corollary:
S1: Select a problem that’s causing many people a lot of distress.
S2: Try to solve the problem.
S3: Mine the experience for comedy.
C: The more effective I am at solving (part of) the problem, the more likable my persona will be.
The problem I selected was lack of educational/economic opportunity.
In 1992 I gained exposure to the pre-Web Internet.
In 1998 I completed my 1.0 business plan for an online provider of CE and particular complements.
In 2004 I completed my 2.0 plan. Key addition: my Amazon-/VC-praised [2] design [3] of an online market that will: 1) provide new and improved ways for (funny) influencers (e.g., subject-matter experts) to earn money, 2) yield a next-gen variant of LinkedIn.
In 2006 my focus shifted to leveraging comedy to make my 2.0 plan disruptive [4] (i.e., shifted to developing craft/artfulness in the requisite medium/form/genres [5]).
— Re: [1] (in 1985 I learned that I can reliably generate comic insights) —
More recently, I learned that I have what some neuroscientists call “comedy-writer brain” (e.g., my neuroanatomy includes a “flat” memory hierarchy that enables non-conscious processes of my brain to reliably identify associations that are perceived as very remote by other types of brains).
Re: comedy-writer brain
From Ha!: the Science of When We Laugh and Why:
[I]t’s worth noting that no single brain region is responsible for this type of creativity. One scientific review of seventy-two recent experiments revealed that no single brain region is consistently active during creative behavior. There is, however, something special about people who make novel connections or imagine the unimaginable. What sets them apart is the connectivity within their resting brains. This finding was discovered by a team of researchers from Tohoku in Japan, who observed that people with highly connected brains—as measured by shared brain activity over multiple regions—are more flexible and adaptive thinkers. Connected brains are creative brains.
From 1999 book The Entertainment Economy:
Re: non-conscious processes identifying remote associations
From 2017 book Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work:
Carhart-Harris set out to take real-time pictures of the unconscious [using neuroimaging technologies (e.g., fMRI)] and when he did, he saw the unconscious actively hunting for new ideas.
— Re: [2] (praise from Amazon, etc.) —
From said 2004 email sent to me by Amazon.com’s first Director of Personalization:
We thought a lot about reputation systems. We thought a bit about personalized advertising systems. We thought a lot about blogging and social networking systems . . .
— Re: [3] (more re: my design of said online market) —
will yield one of the two “1.0” sites/apps (SAs) in my current business plan (i.e., one of the two SAs that MPS will provide when the company begins to serve customers/users)
fixes the fatal flaw of 2003 “sensation” BlogShares.com
MPS’s implementation will be called Adver-ties
includes a virtual currency (AdVC) that I designed (Adver-ties will support/facilitate cash transactions also)
users of Adver-ties will be able to parlay (high) earnings of AdVC into increased cash-earnings via: 1) sales of ad spaces, 2) affiliate-marketing commissions, 3) subscriptions
Adver-ties will be an antidote to the epidemic of influencer-marketing fraud
More details re: Adver-ties (e.g., design, business case) are below.
— Re: [4] (leveraging comedy to make my 2.0 plan disruptive) —
MPS will need to outperform two types of companies:
big, monolithic companies that “clone” Adver-ties (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon)
startups that:
clone Adver-ties
clone MPS’s business model (e.g., via producing would-be substitutes for MPS’s SCs)
are funded initially by people who have VASTLY more investment capital than MPS’s founders and early investors
Re: disrupting BigCos
Keys will include:
developing software that complements Adver-ties
systematically spinning-off the product groups that develop the complements [4.1]
excelling at helping these spin-offs raise equity crowdfunding
This spinning-off and excelling will make joining one of said groups MUCH more attractive to TOP software developers than working at any monolithic BigCo that clones Adver-ties. Via attracting TOP devs: top complements of Adver-ties . . . more Adver-ties users . . . Adver-ties attracts more TOP devs . . . more top complements . . .
From 2019 book Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World:
[T]he “10X” coder . . . describes a programmer who is provably better, multiple times so, than the average code monkey.
. . . Bill Gates once said, “ . . . a great writer of software code is worth ten thousand times the price of an average software writer.”
. . . When I ask venture capitalists and founders whether 10Xers really exist, many immediately say: Oh yes. Hell yes.
“I think it’s probably 1000X,” . . . Marc Andreessen . . . cofounder of Netscape . . . tells me.
From a 2014 article:
“One top-notch engineer is worth 300 times or more than the average,” explains Alan Eustace, a Google vice president of engineering.
Said excelling at helping will equate largely to excelling at creating, writing and producing SCs.
[4.1] Each spin-off will continue to develop its complement(s).
Analogy re: said disrupting of BigCos
If a pro-sport league with free agency competed against a league without free agency, the with-league would attract all the top players—hence all the fans, advertisers, and sponsors—and the without-league would go out of business.
More re: MPS’s SCs will disrupt BigCos
From 2020 book Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley:
[T]he ultimate story of labor at Apple is probably the wage-fixing conspiracy. From 2005 to 2010, the market for software engineers became rather tight as fast-growing giants Google and then Facebook aggressively hired to build out their platforms. . . . Typically, tight wages lead to higher pay when workers are scarce, and that probably would have been the result, had a legally adjudicated corporate conspiracy in Silicon Valley not acted to keep salaries in line. And Steve Jobs’s Apple was at the center of it.
The plan was based on a set of no-poaching agreements, in which Big Tech companies secretly agreed not to cold-call experienced engineers at other companies. The rationale behind the agreements is that because experienced software designers are rare, they are unlikely to respond to simpler hiring techniques like job listings or employment fairs, while direct cold-calling yields somewhat better results. Once again, thanks to the subsequent court cases filed over the agreements, we have internal documents and emails from the great tech powers, and they’re even juicier than the Microsoft antitrust memos.
Among the evidence were emails from ringleader Jobs, who, for example, wrote to Google CEO Eric Schmidt in response to its efforts to recruit Apple engineers, “If you hire a single one of these people, that means war.” Given the mutual reliance of those firms reviewed above, the threat was not empty. Google’s human resources hiring documents indicated that Google had “special agreements” with certain companies and were thus on “Restricted Hiring” lists, and also a “Do Not Cold Call” list that included Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and other tech and telecom firms like IBM and Comcast. [77]
Apple reciprocated, with an internal email reading: “Please add Google to your ‘hands-off’ list. We recently agreed not to recruit from one another so if you hear of any recruiting they are doing against us, please be sure to let me know.” Emails from Schmidt on the subject started with “DO NOT FORWARD,” and indeed in later emails that referred to bringing eBay into the circle, he wrote that he would “prefer” that the communication be done “verbally since I don’t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?” His HR head replied, “Makes sense to do orally. I agree.”
At one point a Google recruiter, apparently ignoring the illegal agreements still in effect, attempted a cold call to hire an Apple employee working on web browsers. Jobs complained peevishly to a chastened Schmidt, who shortly wrote back to Jobs with an email saying the offending recruiter would be “fired within the hour.” Jobs responded with a smiley face. [78]
Later, when word of the wage-fixing deals got out, the companies faced a Justice Department lawsuit and then a large civil suit by sixty-four thousand employees. The DOJ action was settled with an agreement that the firms wouldn’t collude again to restrict attempted recruiting, even though, of course, the behavior was already illegal. But the class action suit was the bigger affair, and it resulted in the presiding judge making the unusual move of rejecting an early settlement. [79] That original $324 million settlement was later raised in 2015 to $435 million, to be paid by the various corporations involved, coming to several grand awarded per class member.
The point of the episode was summarized by liberal economist Dean Baker, who observed that the scandal proved Silicon Valley libertarians
really don’t think about the market the way [they] claim to think about the market. The classic libertarian view of the market is that we have a huge number of people in the market actively competing . . . There is so much competition that no individual or company can really hope to have much impact on market outcomes . . . However, the Silicon Valley non-compete agreements show that this is not how the tech billionaires believe the market really works. This is just a story they peddle to children and gullible reporters . . . They believed that they had enough weight on the buy-side of the market for software engineers that if they agreed not to compete for workers, they could keep their wages down. [80]
Re: MPS leveraging SC to thwart BigCos that try to eliminate MPS via funding passage of anti-competitive regulation
Details below.
Keywords re: MPS leveraging SC to disrupt startups of said kind
Former keywords: doubling as said front company for gathering (anticipatory) intelligence.
Current keywords: providing a next-gen variant of La Catedral.
— Re: [5] (requisite medium/form/genres) —
In 2006—before smartphone apps and equity-crowdfunding—my goal for leveraging comedy was running website-marketing and site-user-showcasing as a profit center.
Keys to maximizing media profits on a risk-adjusted basis: portfolio of media properties; phased investments in production values.
So MPS’s SCs will originate as serial novels, published online.
Equity-crowdfunding was legalized in 2012.
Hence my updated/present conception of SCs . . .
My gestating SC will double as a flowmantic comedy, in part because:
Again, group flow sparks romantic attraction often.
Adver-ties will give rise to MANY flowmances.
More details re: flow(mance) are below.
Re: my focus since 2006 on developing as a serial novelist
Title of a 2007 paper in The Journal of Creative Behavior:
Ten Years to Expertise, Many More to Greatness: An Investigation of Modern Writers
Said expertise equates largely to instincts that, after (~)10 years, have become passably trustworthy.
From 2017 book Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do:
Unconscious decisions tend to be better [than decisions made consciously] when the judgement is complex and many different dimensions or features have to be combined and integrated . . .
To take such full advantage of unconscious help we have to first do the conscious work [e.g., put in said (~)10 years] . . .
From 2017 book Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future, co-authored by MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson:
Go is a pure strategy game —no luck involved . . .
[I]t is estimated there are about 2 x 10¹⁷⁰ (that is 2 followed by 170 zeros) possible positions on a standard Go board. . . .
Re: I’m rewriting my SC
— Summary (details below) —
In September 2015 I realized that my instincts as a serial novelist had become passably trustworthy.
By December 2015 I had written/assembled 200 pages of the first version of MPS’s 1.0 SC, then titled Post-Romantic Comedy: A Startup Comedy (note the link’s upload date).
That month, I read that Ps are IMPERILED by advances in molecular genetics.
By June 2016 I was convinced that:
PsIMP is real
in particular, PsIMP is a THREAT to non-Ps who are and/or will be the AI-CE industry’s best entrepreneurs, employees and customers
my work to that point could be adapted/updated to yield an IDEAL front company (FC) of said kind (keywords re: “could be”: psychopathy, hypersexuality, flow, flowmance, polyamory; keywords re: resultant updates: orgies-for-free, second version of MPS’s 1.0 SC)
doubling as an FC would HELP MPS disrupt would-be competitors
Again, in October 2020 I abandoned my FC effort. Details are (linked-to) below. Excerpt:
From [2018 book] The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: How the NSA Failed to Protect America from the 9/11 Attacks:
[S]tarting in early summer of 2001, CounterTerror staff, managers, and even the director were worried that something terrible was coming. . . [U]nbeknownst to them, Al Qaeda had pushed back the date of their impending attack from July 4 to September 11. However, warning signs abounded that convinced the counterterror operators that something big was imminent.
. . . Like dominoes falling, events started cascading on top of each other throughout the month of August 2001.
. . . At the president’s ranch in Crawford, his CIA briefer Mike Morrell presented him the soon-to-be-infamous August 6 presidential daily briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.”
. . . On the afternoon of August 20, 2001, [NSA-er] Maureen Baginski asked Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe to her office. She explained that she was officially terminating their program ThinThread.
From [2019 book] Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud:
“Trailblazer cost America more than money. ‘Trailblazer was the largest intelligence failure in the history of the NSA,’ Binney told me. ‘By killing ThinThread and going ahead with Trailblazer, the Agency traded the security of the nation in exchange for money.’
This assessment isn’t merely the sour grapes of a manager whose program lost out to a competitor in an office turf war. Tom Drake, who remained at the agency after Binney and the others retired, describes how, shortly after 9/11, he used ThinThread as a testbed to analyze information in the NSA databases from the weeks preceding the attacks. The program, he says, swiftly pinpointed each of the terrorists involved, their communications and movements before the hijackings and their dispersion patterns afterward.”
“ThinThread . . . had been built by a handful of NSA employees for a total cost of $3.2 million; in early 2001 it was largely complete, and had already been implemented in intelligence sites abroad. ThinThread was doomed by its own thrift, Binney says. ‘Six employees and $3.2 million? You can’t build an empire with that. How many contracts can you list? That’s why they had to kill us.’
. . . [In early 2001] Congress had enough confidence in ThinThread to direct the NSA to deploy it in eighteen test sites, and to allocate about $9.5 million for this purpose. A classified Pentagon report praised ThinThread’s data analysis capabilities, and directed that the program be implemented and enhanced. But launching ThinThread would show that the intelligence problem for which Trailblazer was being created had already been solved, Binney says, so the NSA slow-rolled ThinThread while proceeding with Trailblazer, for which he says Hayden had initially requested $3.8 billion and would eventually ask for even more.”
. . .
From Crisis of Conscience:
When [NSA whistleblower Bill] Binney first came to [whistleblower attorney Jesselyn] Radack to ask for legal advice, after the FBI had raided his house, she remembers him warning her that if he turned up dead, it would not have been a suicide. Radack, a graduate of Yale Law School, did not dismiss his statement as grandstanding or paranoia, because she herself had experienced the acute stresses and potential dangers of blowing the whistle on high-level national security malfeasance.
. . . [Radack: “T]he retaliation is so over-the-top, so strangely creative and aberrant, that when you’re describing it to someone, it does seem impossible, almost crazy.” Bill Binney’s concern about a staged suicide did not strike her as overwrought.
Later in October I remembered La Catedral. Soon after, I:
identified the comic premi$e re: Ps (not) wanting to resist (i.e., the premise for the third version of MPS’s 1.0 SC)
realized the premise will yield a serial-comedy variant of 1942 film Casablanca
Re: “variant”: Ps resisting PsIMP could yield a next-gen variant of Nazis (e.g., via Ps partnering with known groups of violent extremists). Many details are (linked-to) below; keywords: Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis believed they were IMPERILED by “world Jewry.”