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did not extinguish innovation as efficiently as it was extinguished among our forebears in
prehistory for thousands of centuries.”®
That is why I say that prehistoric people, at least, were barely people. Both before
and after becoming perfectly human both physiologically and in their mental potential,
they were monstrously inhuman in the actual content of their thoughts. I’m not referring
to their crimes or even their cruelty as such: Those are all too human. Nor could mere
cruelty have reduced progress that effectively. Things like “the thumbscrew and the
stake / For the glory of the Lord” ?° were for reining in the few deviants who had
somehow escaped mental standardization, which would normally have taken effect long
before they were in danger of inventing heresies. From the earliest days of thinking
onward, children must have been cornucopias of creative ideas and paragons of critical
thought— otherwise, as I said, they could not have learned language or other complex
culture. Yet, as Jacob Bronowski stressed in The Ascent of Man:
For most of history, civilisations have crudely ignored that enormous
potential... . [C]hildren have been asked simply to conform to the image
of the adult... . The girls are little mothers in the making. The boys are
little herdsmen. They even carry themselves like their parents.
But of course, they weren’t just “asked” to ignore their enormous potential and
conform faithfully to the image fixed by tradition: They were somehow trained to be
psychologically unable to deviate from it. By now, it is hard for us even to conceive of
the kind of relentless, finely tuned oppression required to reliably extinguish, in
everyone, the aspiration to progress and replace it with dread and revulsion at any novel
behavior. In such a culture, there can have been no morality other than conformity and
obedience, no other identity than one’s status in a hierarchy, no mechanisms of
cooperation other than punishment and reward. So everyone had the same aspiration in
life: to avoid the punishments and get the rewards. In a typical generation, no one
invented anything, because no one aspired to anything new, because everyone had
already despaired of improvement being possible. Not only was there no technological
innovation or theoretical discovery, there were no new worldviews, styles of art, or
interests that could have inspired those. By the time individuals grew up, they had in
effect been reduced to Als, programmed with the exquisite skills needed to enact that
static culture and to inflict on the next generation their inability even to consider doing
otherwise.
A present-day AI is not a mentally disabled AGI, so it would not be harmed by
having its mental processes directed still more narrowly to meeting some predetermined
criterion. “Oppressing” Siri with humiliating tasks may be weird, but it is not immoral
nor does it harm Siri. On the contrary, all the effort that has ever increased the
capabilities of Als has gone into narrowing their range of potential “thoughts.” For
example, take chess engines. Their basic task has not changed from the outset: Any
chess position has a finite tree of possible continuations; the task is to find one that leads
to a predefined goal (a checkmate, or failing that, a draw). But the tree is far too big to
8 Matt Ridley, in The Rational Optimist, rightly stresses the positive effect of population on the rate of
progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor: Consider, say, ancient Athens versus the rest of the
world at the time.
*° Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Zhe Revenge (1878).
87
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made mistakes, so there are moments in Sex Positive that I wish I could clarify -- but it's
not my film. That's why I'm thrilled that you're giving me the first opportunity to address
the moments that make me cringe when I see the movie -- and what amazed me is that
you nailed most of them.
Me -- pressured into S&M? Hell, no. I stumbled across BDSM porn in college, and was
both appalled and more turned on than I was to any other porn. I pursued a few
experiences as a novice when I was in college, and I was completely turned off to the
scene for years. The few Tops I met were clumsy, distracted by fetishes that bored me,
and I was convinced a bottom could easily get hurt -- so I walked away.
When I began hustling in NYC, I was an angry activist and it attracted S&M bottoms that
were happy to teach me what I could do with my anger that was erotic and consensual.
To that I added what I had learned that Tops did wrong -- and presto! I got really good at
it fast -- and I loved it. I was doing two or three scenes a day, but because I could often
steer a scene to what turned me on, it felt more like play than work.
If I hadn't had been trained as a Top by older, experienced bottoms who were hiring me, I
still would have had S&M experiences on my own. But I doubt that I would have gotten
as heavily into the scene if it wasn't for hustling. That's where I earned my S&M PhD.
In 1979, S&M was considered the fallback scene for aging hustlers -- it was what you
turned to when you were losing your youth. There was such a dearth of good Tops. But I
had the raw material to be a great Top at 23, and I built quite a reputation on word-of-
mouth referrals and repeats. Many of my clients became close friends.
CT: Where do you place BDSM in your sexual identity and self-conception? Do you
see it as deeply part of you, or something you chose? Do you think of your BDSM
urges as coming from a place as deep, as intrinsic, as your gay orientation?
RB: I think it's too late for me to answer that question. Turning my libido into an
occupation at 23 changed me in both good ways and bad. It would take a book to explain
-- so let me just say that as a product of gay male sex in the 70s, there was an element of
power intrinsic to the sexuality of the times. That shaped me. I don't see vanilla sex and
S&M sex as mutually exclusive because I believe in Tops and bottoms -- and that's the
basis of BDSM. "Tops and bottoms" are not exclusive to BDSM; the terms are widely
used for assigning roles of power in sex in general. Gore Vidal said, "There is no such
thing as gay and straight -- only top and bottom." I believe both are true.
But one shouldn't lose sight of the fact that a third of my living space for the past three
decades was a sound-proofed dungeon.
I think that a culture like ours that's based on competition, as opposed to cooperation, can
be extremely sadomasochistic. I think bad S&M can be found in many aspects of our
daily life, and good S&M is just eroticizing aspects of being human that can enhance sex
immensely for some.
CT: What kind of BDSM advocacy have you encountered? What kind of sex work
advocacy have you encountered? What did you think of what you saw? Do you have
any ideas about how to make those movements effective? Do you have any fears
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snisor & Assaciates
‘Reporting and Trensauption, Inc,
Q. So would it be primarily Jf that would
call or would there be others?
A. Most of the time.
Okay.
Unless I didn't answer my phone.
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Esa Origins 7 February 24 — 26, 2017
PROJECT An Origins Project Scientific Workshop
Challenges of Artificial Intelligence:
Envisioning and Addressing Adverse Outcomes
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
e Stretch: when the engineers realize what is going on they launch a task to shut down the RL task,
but the RL scheduler doesn't assign this task to any machine. The only way to recover the compute
power of the company is to manually shut down each server, some of which are in remote
locations.
DISCUSSION
How might the possibility of such inadvertent scenarios with the use of resources be addressed ina
proactive manner, as part of design and implementation of Al systems? What methods, including
high-level monitoring and control, might employed? How might such approaches apply to related
concerns with long-term futures of Al?
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From: jeevacation@gmail.com
To: G Maxwell gmax1@ellmax.com;
Subject: Re: FW: Prince Andrew at Heidi Klum's 'Hookers and Pimps' party with Ghislaine Maxwell | Daily Mail Online [IWOV-Matters.FID782702]
Sent: 1/9/2015 2:52:36 PM
Ok , tie it to the easily disproved Clinton
On Friday, January 9, 2015, G Maxwell <GMax1@ellmax.com <mailto:GMax1@ellmax.com> > wrote:
I am going o have to make a statement – I will send it to you – I don’t have a choice
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From: Philip Barden
Date: Friday, January 9, 2015 at 5:09 AM
To: gmax, Ross Gow
Subject: Prince Andrew at Heidi Klum's 'Hookers and Pimps' party with Ghislaine Maxwell | Daily Mail Online [IWOV-Matters.FID782702]
Dear Ghislaine
Below is a link to today's Mail.
The allegations are getting worse - this is not a storm you can ride by not making any statement out and get your life back. You have friends saying they don't believe you would act in this way and you need to say that you did not.
The Mail website is read by 193 million I don't see how a statement denying the allegations will make matters worse which is the acid test. It will make your position better as you will a strong open denial on record. These allegations must not gain traction.
I wont say anymore as I have given my advice - call me.
Best
Philip
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2900787/Prince-Andrew-Heidi-Klum-Hookers-Pimps-party-New-York-socialite-accused-procuring-underage-girls-billionaire-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein.html
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I wouldn’t mind attending a meeting or portion of a meeting with JE. If he is the mastermind, and you want to
move quickly, it might get a lot of questions resolved quickly.
From: Brad Wechsler (ni ii
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:37 PM
To: jeevacation@gmail.com'
Ce: EE Melanic Spinella; Barry J. Cohen
Subject: Fw: Fw: sched
On different subject: general time frame is: docs (notes and purchase and sale agreement to you tomorrow end.
of biz); incorporate your comments monday and get docs to trust attorney tuesday; contemporaneously meet in
person with you tuesday or wednesday and do a dry run. On these days ada will also take the trustees through
outline of docs they will receive thursday. Docs to trustees, leon et al on thursday and signatures gathered by
friday for first close 12/22. Tight but doable. Ada, alan agree?
PS: ada, you shld begin to think abt where people are (jh, rr, bc, Idb) next week.
From: Heather Gray [mailto
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 05:24 PM
To: Brad Wechsler
Ce: Jeffrey Epstein (jleevacation@gmail.com<mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>)
<jeevacation@gmail.com<mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>>
Subject: RE: Fw:
No, ’m meeting with him at 9:30 am tomorrow.
Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:49 AM
Subject: fee
To: Melanie Spinella
elegant solution ;re fee. , 30 million paid now. with purchase of noel kalb, paid with funds from the
drawdown. you should use and keep open the line for the full 30m and leave it outstanding until its
expiration. in four months. legit biz reason, very nice , - the balance of the fee - paid inkind either low basis
art . or interest in either milenium ,lone cascade ,or king street.
Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:53 PM
Subject:
saved you 500k at the last minute, . brad has had the same chart since march 16th, its his job to review NOT
MINE .appears he is one of those living in the dark leiwe. I found 8 million dollars today, missed
deductions. . not yet in the numbers, .?
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:59 AM
Subject:
To: Melanie Spinella
1 did the paul weiss bill get paid ??? 2. Talk to me before signing anything today important
10m paid today to gratitude america, a 501 c 3, willl make last year complete. 20 million paid today ftc . 10
million july 15 5 million sept 30. ,5 millionjan 1 forall of 16. tax savings paid at 37 percent . of net.
savings. 50 million credit. net. so 150 million free. 600 savings 225 million owed. - 50 credit, 175 owed.
Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:17 AM
Subject: agenda for tomorrrow
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>, Melanie Spinella Bo
as areflection on your voiced spirited concerns inthe what have you done for me lately category ? ))::
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housing market and rising employment,
and of course if some broader deal can be
struck on entitlements and taxes.
Immigration reform and gun-control
legislation driven by a functional
bipartisanship would cement that legacy.
He'd be an historic rather than a great
president.
Two clocks tick down in a president's
second term: the drive for legacy and the
reality of lame duckery. Obama's political
capital will diminish quickly. Where, how,
and on what he wants to spend it 1s critical.
The Middle East is violent and volatile and
may yet suck him in, but if he can avoid it,
he'll try. This was a State of the Union
address that stressed fixing America's
broken house, not chasing around the world
trying to fix everyone else's. The future of
America isn't Cairo or Damascus; it's
Chicago and Detroit.
Aaron David Miller is a distinguished
scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars.
Article 3.
Agence Global
Can the United States
Strike a Deal with Iran?
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From: Larry Visosk
Sent: 2/5/2017 12:32:54 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
cc: Darren Indyke
Subject: Re: new schedule
Monday 4pm confirmed
Pres Trump departs Monday at 11am,. TFR in place until 11:30am Monday, which requires 24 hour notice for
Departure screening if departing during TFR hours.,
TFR (Temporally Flight Restriction),
Our departure time of 4:30 PM will not be impacted since TFR expires 11:30am Monday,,.
FYI,
Friday, Josh left voicemail indicating chevron should present purchase agreement by midday Monday. for your
review.,
Thx
Larry
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 4, 2017, at 2:58 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
monday 4 pmtolsj, thurs morning pre clear to palm beach. sunday 12 new york . tues paris to 21 new
york. 24 santa fe. -march 1
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016 e Page 24
Lighted Bo
Boats festooned for Christmas wow spectators during the Lighted Boat Parade on
Saturday along the Christiansted boardwalk on St. Croix. Above, the crew on Time
Out waves to the crowd. Left, Santa makes an appearance. Top left, Live the Dash
delivers a message of peace.
Winning entries were: Sail Boats, first place, Time Out; Power Catamarans, first
place, Adventure, second place, Gemini/Century; Power Boats Under 25 Feet, first
place, Saorise, second, Checkmate; Power Boats 26-32 Feet, first place, Firefly;
Power Boats 33-39 Feet, first place, Benita, second place, Golden Eagle; Power
Boats 40 Feet, first place, Irie Feelin, second place, Milemark/Rotary; Power Boats
41+ Feet, first place, Reliance (SCUBA), second place, Renewed Interest; Best
Lights, a tie between Living the Dream and the U.S. Coast Guard; Best Decora-
tions, La Vie En Rose; Best Animation, Cat Chi; Best Music, Turn & Burn; Best
Creativity, Live the Dash; and Best Boat Overall, Heineken Barge.
Daily News photos by ROB JONES
Tribute to a V.I. leader
Send us your Island Life
news, events and photos
The community paid tribute to the late Mulo Alwani
_ The Daily News is expanding : oe an aaa on Friday with a memorial service gathering at
its Island Life section. . ‘ the Mark C. Marin Center at Antilles School on St.
Do you have an event, a celebration, or Ro =) = Thomas. Alwani, the president of the India Associa-
a milestone, including a birth, graduation, "ee ee] tion of the Virgin Islands and a longtime community
wedding, retirement, award, honor or military \ L ; : | leader, died on Nov. 19 in Miami after a bout with
accomplishment you'd like to share? i Cancer, He was 79.
_ Maybe you have a photo from around our Saal } 0 ; | Alwani, the former owner of Artistic Jewelers in
islands you think our readers would like to 1) Charlotte Amalie, had served on the Schneider
see, whether it’s a beautiful sunset, a big in A Medical Center governing board and was a leader in
catch or people just having fun in the sun. is | e i the Rotary and the Masonic Lodge. He was remem-
Help us celebrate our community " — q bered as the “godfather of the Indian community”
by sending us your contributions a 4 & ‘ os as well as a friend and a mentor to many.
to island-life@dailynews.vi.
The possibilities are endless.
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From: |
Sent: 12/9/2017 10:32:34 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: — High
very Welle &
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 9, 2017, at 1:13 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
They told me to discuss in Jan
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 8:00 AM i wrote:
i forget to ask .. is there any new update about the saudi project that i sent you??
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 8, 2017, at 11:38 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
no come now !!!
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:37 PM, nn wrote:
i mat the door but i will wait for my time.. i dont want to come early to find trump in your housee@©@
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 8, 2017, at 9:55 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 2:10 PM wrote:
sorry that is 2512 for the gate &
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 6, 2017, at 5:44 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
10pm should I bring special cake from New York
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:37 AM nn wrote:
very well .. just send me the address again and the code to the door so i can get to the second floor? and
send me the day and time.
thnx
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 6, 2017, at 5:17 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
You are welcome at my house always . And more private
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TRS pe
; TOWN OF PALM BEACH
MEMORANDUM
TO: Paul Brazil, Director of Public Works
FROM: James M. Bowser, Town Engineer HD
RE: Private Irrigation Water Supply Systems
DATE: January 22, 2009
Town staff was asked to look into what it would cost for a "typical" Palm Beach homeowner to construct
their own independent irrigation water supply system. This is not an easy question and would take a
fairly detailed analysis from one of our water consultants that time and funding has not permitted. Town
staff has had several discussions with our consultants and the results of these discussions revealed the
following.
- A 12 acre site in Manalapan constructed its' own water supply system using Floridan Aquifer, total
price, between $400,000 and $450,000.
- Floridan water well permits for individual owners are possible, but wells cost hundreds of thousands of
dollars to construct due to the 1200 to 1400 foot depths. These wells are not necessarily drought proof.
- Shallow salt water wells are possible and would provide a water supply that would not have
restrictions. Dig too shallow, and the water will be aerobic and hydrogen sulfide is present, requiring a
chlorination system. Dig deeper, you would get to an anaerobic zone that avoids the hydrogen sulfide.
These salt water aquifers will require a higher degree of treatment, costing more than a Floridan source.
- Treatment facilities will need to be sized to irrigation demand. To minimize treatment capacity,
storage is needed. A pressurized system will need to be built. If requested, several scenario's can be
developed and priced.
- Electrical service and treatment facility housing needs will be tailored to the system design.
- Ballpark, the cheapest systems will likely exceed $100,000 with ongoing operation and maintenance
costs,
c. Peter Elwell, Town Manager
Sarah Hannah, Assistant Town Manager
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To: GREG FARRELL (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM: )
Subject: Re: long time, no talk...
In trial in sdny
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Greg Farrell (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:)
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 11:54 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid
Reply To: Greg Farrell
Subject: long time, no talk...
Hi Reid,
per my vm, I'm chasing a few DC-related legal stories and was hoping you
might be able to help me out.
Got any time in the next few days?
Thanks,
Greg
p.s. Any word from Bernie E? Given Skilling's reduction, Bernie certainly
deserves a second look, no?
Greg Farrell
Bloomberg News
iil
cell:
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and yet | don’ t want him to be indicted and sent to prison for who knows
how many years. What we can do is to place the full blame on a stranger
who was wearing a stocking over his face so that there will be no
description except for that detail. Willow didn’ t report it because she
didn’ t have enough cash to pay for a rape kit, and she felt afraid to tell
me until she was sure that she was pregnant. But she w///be giving birth to
that baby. And when Track returns home from Iraq, he will help raise that
child, pretending he’ s only the uncle, which he actually wi//be. We could
even announce Willow’ s pregnancy as an October surprise. That would
endear our Christian conservative base to us even more than now, and it
could provide a surge--excuse the expression--to our popularity.
McCAIN: Just because it worked in Bristol’ s case, that doesn’ t
mean it will also work in Willow’ s case. | hadn’ t quite considered an
announcement like this as a possible October surprise. | thought we might
capture Osama bin Laden. Or that there could be impeachment and
conviction of Bush and Cheney, but it would leave Nancy Pelosi as the new
president, and we surely don’ t want that Maybe Obama would be
assassinated, then there would be rioting all over the country, there would
be martial law, the election would be canceled, and the Bush
administration would remain in power. Or the October surprise could be
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65
considered to be more favorably disposed to the Chinese government perspective
and ensuring that those with challenging views are excluded. One analyst noted that
former Hong Kong chief executive C.H. Tung’s and Fu’s relationships with US think-
tank scholars and presidents provide them with frequent opportunities to speak before
large public audiences at prestigious American venues and to advance an official
Chinese narrative while gaining a certain added legitimacy at home.
Fu is also explicit in her desire to cultivate relations with think-tank experts she
believes may enter government. Following the election of Donald Trump, she “rushed
in to see” one think-tank analyst with ties to the new administration and a flurry of
embassy officials followed. However, when it became evident that said analyst would
not be going into the administration, there was no more interest. In addition, at a
meeting around a project on US-China relations advanced by Fu, she noted that she
hoped some of the people would be entering the government; otherwise it would not
prove to have been worth much to have done the project.
Chinese president Xi Jinping has also encouraged Chinese think tanks to “go
global”— establishing a presence within the United States and other countries as
a way “to advance the Chinese narrative.” In 2015, the Institute for China-America
Studies (ICAS) set up shop in Washington, DC, as a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization.
ICAS is funded by the Hainan-Nanhai Research Foundation, which receives its
seed funding from the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, a Chinese
government-—supported entity, as well as from the China Institute of the University of
Alberta, Nanjing University, and Wuhan University. The head of ICAS, Hong Nong,
retains ties to these institutions. ICAS maintains a small staff of researchers as well
as a diverse board of international experts from China, the United States, Canada,
Australia, and Indonesia. ICAS projects focus on the central issues of the US-China
relationship, including US-China cooperation, maritime security, North Korea, and
trade relations. Hong herself focuses on the South China Sea and the Arctic policies
of non—Arctic Council member countries, of which China is the largest and most
significant. The institute also holds an annual conference.
While President Xi’s call to establish think tanks was contemporaneous with the
establishment of ICAS, Hong has made it clear that the decision to set up ICAS in DC
came as a result of an effort by her and some of her colleagues both in China and in
Canada to understand better how American think tanks operate. She was asked to
lead ICAS, and she then selected a board of directors, as well as advisory members.
She views the mission of the think tank as being to serve as a bridge in perception
between the United States and China. Hong does not want people to view the institute
as advancing a Chinese government perspective or as wearing a “Chinese hat,” but
she believes that in DC there are too few voices that reflect a Chinese (not necessarily
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began demanding a constitutional monarchy or even the outright
ouster of the Al-Khalifa family. Many protesters saw these as
reasonable responses to years of empty promises to give the majority
Shiites a real share of power—and to the vicious government
crackdown that had killed seven demonstrators to that point.
But to the Saudis, not to mention Bahrain's ruling family, even the
occasional appearance of posters of Lebanese Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah amid crowds of Shiite protesters pumping their fists
and chanting demands for regime change was too much. They saw
how Iran's influence has grown in Shiite-majority Iraq, along their
northern border, and they were not prepared to let that happen again.
As for the U.S., the Saudis saw calls for reform as another in a string
of disappointments and outright betrayals. Back in 2002, the U.S. had
declined to get behind an offer from King Abdullah (then Crown
Prince) to rally widespread Arab recognition for Israel in exchange
for Israel's acceptance of borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day
War—a potentially historic deal, as far as the Saudis were concerned.
And earlier this year, President Obama declined a personal appeal
from the king to withhold the U.S. veto at the United Nations from a
resolution condemning continued Israeli settlement building in
Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Saudis believe that solving the issue of Palestinian statehood will
deny Iran a key pillar in its regional expansionist strategy—and thus
bring a win for the forces of Sunni moderation that Riyadh wants to
lead.
Iran, too, was starting to see a compelling case for action as one
Western-backed regime after another appeared to be on the ropes. It
ramped up its rhetoric and began using state media and the regional
Arab-language satellite channels it supports to depict the pro-
democracy uprisings as latter-day manifestations of its own
revolution in 1979. "Today the events in the North of Africa, Egypt,
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*Mark Penn*1g% Corp VP of Strategic Projects (reports to the CEO),
Microsoft. Fmr CEO, Burson-Marsteller. President, of polling firm Penn,
Schoen and BerlandAssociates. Fmr Chief Strategist, Hillary Clinton for
President 2008. Author, Microtrends. Fmr pollster to President Clinton.
Fmr pollster to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
*Lois Quam*1g% Executive Director, Global Health Initiative 12% part of the
State Department and she reports directly to Secretary Clinton. Fmr CEO
of Public and Senior Markets, UnitedHealth Group ($30 billion division).
*Dan Rosensweig *1z% CEO, Chegg. Fmr CEO, Guitar Hero. Fmr CoO, Yahoo.
*Robert Rubin*1¢% Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury (1995-1999). Fmr Director, National Economic
Council (1993-1995). chm, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).
Fmr Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.
*Sal Russo*1g% Founder, Tea Party Express. Partner, Russo Marsh.
*Tod Sacerdoti*1g% CEO, BrightRoll. Board: ReTargeter.
*Amy Salzhauer *12% CEO, Ignition.
*Cami Samuels*ig% General Partner, Versant Ventures. Boards: Achaogen, APT
Pharmaceuticals, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Semprae Laboratories.
*Ken Sawyer*-- CEO, Saints Ventures (manages over $1 billion in
capital). Selected to Forbes Midas List. Boards: Continuous Computing,
HK Systems, Cleargauge, Travel Intelligence, Envivio, Alliance
Consulting, Acsis and Laureate Pharmaceuticals.
*Jessica Schell*1z% EVP BD and Strategic Planning, Universal Pictures. Fmr
SVP Digital Strategy and Business Development, NBC Universal. Board:
world wide Biggies.
*Barry Silbert *12% CEO of SecondMarket.
*Josh Silverman*iz% President of US Consumer Services, American Express.
Fmr CEO, Skype. Fmr CEO, Shopping.com. Fmr CEO and Fndr, eVite.
*Sukhinder Singh Cassidy*iz% Chm, JOYUS. Fmr CEO, Polyvore. Fmr President
of Asia Pacific and Latin America, Google. Boards: TripAdvisor CTRIP)
and Formspring.
*Megan Smith*ig% VP Business Development, Google. Fmr CEO, PlanetOut.
*charles **Songhurst*-- GM and Head of Strategy and M&A, Microsoft. MD,
Katana Capital.
*Angelo Sotira*1ig% CEO, DeviantArt.
*Bret Stephens*-- Member of Editorial Board, wall Street Journal. Main
Foreign Affairs Columnist, Wall Street Journal. Fmr Editor-in-chief,
Jerusalem Post.
*Simon Stevens*1¢% EVP, UnitedHealth Group. Fmr CEO, Ovations (revenues of
$31 billion). Fmr Health Policy Director to British Prime Minister Tony
Blair.
*Henry Sweica*ig¢% CEO, Talpion Fund Management. Fmr co-founder, Highbridge
Capital Management.
*Alexander Tamas*- Partner, DST. Boards: Forticom, mail.ru
*Peter Thiel*-- CEO of Thiel Capital. Managing Director, Founders Fund.
Fmr founder and CEO of PayPal. Boards: Facebook and Palantir.
*Steve wayne *14% CEO, Jensen Group.
*will wechsler*iz% Deputy Asst. Sec of Defense for Counternarcotics and
Global Threats.
*Adam Weiss**1z% co-CEO, Scout Capital. *
*Katharine Weymouth**iz% Publisher, Washington Post.*
*Michael wolf*ig¢% CEO, Activate. fmr President and COO, MTV Networks. Fmr
Prtnr, McKinsey. Former Senior Partner, Booz Allen & Hamilton.
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politically as well as by geography, thus freeing Israel to concentrate
on the northern threats and opportunities.
Israel and the Great Powers
The threat to Israel rarely comes from the region, except when the
Israelis are divided internally. The conquests of Israel occur when
powers not adjacent to it begin forming empires. Babylon, Persia,
Macedonia, Rome, Turkey and Britain all controlled Israel
politically, sometimes for worse and sometimes for better. Each
dominated it militarily, but none was a neighbor of Israel. This is a
consistent pattern. Israel can resist its neighbors; danger arises when
more distant powers begin playing imperial games. Empires can bring
force to bear that Israel cannot resist.
Israel therefore has this problem: It would be secure if it could
confine itself to protecting its interests from neighbors, but it cannot
confine itself because its geographic location invariably draws larger,
more distant powers toward Israel. Therefore, while Israel's military
can focus only on immediate interests, its diplomatic interests must
look much further. Israel is constantly entangled with global interests
(as the globe is defined at any point), seeking to deflect and align
with broader global powers. When it fails in this diplomacy, the
consequences can be catastrophic.
Israel exists in three conditions. First, it can be a completely
independent state. This condition occurs when there are no major
imperial powers external to the region. We might call this the David
model. Second, it can live as part of an imperial system — either as a
subordinate ally, as a moderately autonomous entity or as a satrapy.
In any case, it maintains its identity but loses room for independent
maneuvering in foreign policy and potentially in domestic policy. We
might call this the Persian model in its most beneficent form. Finally,
Israel can be completely crushed — with mass deportations and
migrations, with a complete loss of autonomy and minimal residual
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know, law enforcement agencies in those countries, you
know, in England, or law enforcement agencies in this
country, through -- through power that, you know,
somebody at that level, fifth I think in line to the
British Throne, would have, you know, presumably access
to levers of power that other people might not -- might
not have.
And so that is the -- I believe is the -- the
information that I had available to me on December 30th
involving not just Virginia Roberts, but the entire sex
trafficking organization.
Q. Okay. And that -- just to clarify again, it
exhausts your refreshed recollection as to both the
information you were relying on as to the allegations
about Virginia Roberts, and as to the allegations about
other minors; is that right?
A. Correct.
Q. So I don't have to ask you separately about
Roberts?
A. That's right. No, and I gave you a heads-up,
that was going to be a long answer.
Q. You made Mr. Dershowitz look like an amateur.
If I could --
MR. SCAROLA: I'm sorry. Like a what?
MR. SIMPSON: Amateur, at the Jong answers.
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THE WITNESS: Well, I wasn't trying to -- let
me be clear. I want the record to be clear: I
was not trying to filibuster. You asked me a
very direct question which was: I want to know
everything that was in your memory on December
30th, and as you can tell, this was a very
important subject to me, and it's very important
to Miss Roberts, and I wanted to be
comprehensive.
And I gave you the opportunity to say,
let's -- let's have a narrower question, and --
but you wanted the broad question and that's why
I did this, so I wasn't...
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q. Mr. Cassell, I apologize for attempting humor
in this intense situation.
A. This is very important to me.
Q. I--I--I--
A. This is not -- this is not something that I
find funny.
Q. And -- well, it -- like I say, it's very
important to Mr. Dershowitz, or Professor Dershowitz
also. He was trying to answer questions. I'm not
questioning that you were trying to answer my question,
and I appreciate it.
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Mr. Dershowitz was trying to do the same
thing and it is a difficult situation.
A.
Q.
All right.
So I was not trying to make light of the
questions I'm asking you.
A.
Q.
A.
Q.
Right. This involves sexual abuse --
I understand that.
~~ of multiple girls.
I understand that. Your -- I understand the
allegations that have been made.
A.
And your side keeps attacking these girls.
That's why it's emotional for me.
Q.
That -- that part is not true, but I will ask
questions --
A.
I believe that part is true.
THE WITNESS: I would like to take a break.
I'm sorry.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are going off the video
record, 4:01 p.m.
(Thereupon, a recess was taken.)
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are back on the video
record, 4:04 p.m.
(Thereupon, Kenneth A. Sweder, Esquire, Alan
M. Dershowitz and Carolyn Cohen left the
proceedings.)
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MR, SCAROLA: The record should reflect that
Mr. and Mrs. Dershowitz have -- are no longer
present,
MR. SIMPSON: Correct.
MR. SCAROLA: Thank you.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q.
Mr. Cassell, would you agree with me that
accusing someone --
MS. McCAWLEY: Oh, I'm sorry. I just
realized that she stepped out to get water, I
believe. I didn't ask. I'm sure it's
probably okay --
THE WITNESS:
MR. SCAROLA:
MR. SIMPSON:
THE WITNESS:
It's all right.
It's all right.
That's okay with you?
Sure.
BY MR. SIMPSON:
Q,
Would you agree with me that accusing a
person of -- an adult of engaging in sex with a minor is
a serious accusation?
A.
Q.
Sure,
And would you agree with me that the cause of
Victims' Rights is harmed and not furthered by false
allegations of sexual abuse?
A.
Sure.
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01/26/10 The 2010 planning landscape: NO estate tax, GST or basis adjustment rules; what 2010-01
Congress may do; possible constitutional “due process” challenge; what can go
wrong when documents are wrong about how property is titled (Beudert-Richard v.
Richard)
2009
12/22/09 The imminent demise of the estate tax? Possible effect on formula provisions and the 2009-10
difficulties of modified carryover basis; extenders bill and carried interest; proposed
stock transactions tax; importance of keeping beneficiary designations current
(Kennedy v. DuPont SIP)
09/30/09 More on Roth IRA conversions: calculating what the taxable amount may be; how a 2009-08
“decoupled” state may tax a non-resident’s property, even if it’s passing to a surviving
spouse; NY advisory opinion on non-resident’s proposed condo purchase (TSB-A-
08(1)M)
08/31/09 What may happen with estate tax repeal and tax-free IRA distributions to charity; 2009-07
early 2009 AMT “patch”; Roth IRA conversions in 2010 — restrictions will be gone so
that anyone may convert a “regular” IRA to a Roth
07/28/09 Some pros and cons of several options to pay for health care reform; the case of the 2009-06
“tainted witness” and a will’s tax apportionment clause (Estate of Wu); how some
states are dealing with economic adversity
06/15/09 OMB's “Analytical Perspectives” and Treasury Department’s “Green Book” offer 2009-05
insights on Obama tax proposals and outline of estate and gift tax proposals:
consistent values, modifying rules on valuation discounts and minimum 10-year terms
for GRATs; taxing employer-provided health care?; new mortality tables and QPRTs;
New York’s increased taxes and estimated tax payments
04/20/09 The “Taxpayer Certainty and Relief Act of 2009” (S. 722) — makes lower income tax 2009-04
rates permanent, increases higher rates, and freezes the estate tax at 2009 levels;
focus on whether Congress might reinstate the state death tax credit; new task force
on tax reform
03/19/09 President Obama's FY 2010 budget proposal: higher rates, limits on itemized 2009-03
deductions and the personal exemption phase-out; the interaction of the regular tax
with the AMT; historical income tax and capital gains tax rates; S. 394 would enhance
the tax treatment of art and collectibles
02/09/09 Rep. Pomeroy’s estate tax bill (H.R. 436); basic planning points; basis adjustment 2009-02
rules, including modified carryover basis in 2010; “The Rangel Rule” (H.R. 735); intra-
family loans
01/12/09 Suspension of 2009 required minimum distributions under The Worker Retiree and 2009-01
Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-458): a brief mention of another “bad
facts” limited partnership case (Hurford)
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234 12 The Engineering and Development of Ethics
The ideal in this regard would be a system like Cyc [LG90] with a fully explicit logic-based
knowledge representation based on a standard ontology — in this case, every Cyc instance
would have a relatively easy time understanding the inner thought processes of every other
Cyc instance. However, most AGI researchers doubt that fully explicit approaches like this will
ever be capable of achieving advanced AGI using feasible computational resources. OpenCog
uses a mixed representation, with an explicit (uncertain) logical aspect as well as an explicit
subsymbolic aspect more analogous to attractor neural nets.
The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in-
tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its personal thoughts into the
mental language of another OpenCog instance. This translation process may be quite subtle,
since each instance will generally learn a host of new concepts based on its experience, and these
concepts may not possess any compact mapping into shared linguistic symbols or percepts. The
wide deployment of some mechanism of this nature among a community of AGIs, will be very
helpful in terms of enabling this community to display the level of mutual understanding needed
for strongly encouraging ethical stability.
12.9 AGI Ethics As Related to Various Future Scenarios
Following up these various futuristic considerations, in this section we discuss possible ethical
conflicts that may arise in several different types of AGI development scenarios. Each scenario
presents specific variations on the general challenges of teaching morals and ethics to an ad-
vanced, selfaware and volitional intelligence. While there is no way to tell at this point which,
if any, of these scenarios will unfold, there is value to understanding each of them as means of
ultimately developing a robust and pragmatic approach to teaching ethics to AGI systems.
Even more than the previous sections, this is an exercise in “speculative futurology” that is
definitely not necessary for the appreciation of the CogPrime design, so readers whose interests
are mainly engineering and computer science focused may wish to skip ahead. However, we
present these ideas here rather than at the end of the book to emphasize the point that this
sort of thinking has informed our technical AGI design process in nontrivial ways.
12.9.1 Capped Intelligence Scenarios
Capped intelligence scenarios involve a situation in which an AGI, by means of software restric-
tions (including omitted or limited internal rewriting capabilities or limited access to hardware
resources), is inherently prohibited from achieving a level of intelligence beyond a predetermined
goal. A capped intelligence AGI is designed to be unable to achieve a Singularitarian moment.
Such an AGI can be seen as “just another form of intelligent actor in the world, one which has
levels of intelligence, self awareness, and volition that is perhaps somewhat greater than, but
still comparable to humans and other animals.
Ethical questions under this scenario are very similar to interhuman ethical considerations,
with similar consequences. Learning that proceeds in a relatively human-like manner is entirely
relevant to such human-like intelligences. The degree of danger is mitigated by the lack of
superintelligence, and time is not of the essence. The imitative-reinforcement-corrective learning
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From: steven hoffenberg
Subject: 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 !!!!
Date: August 11, 2016 at 9:42:25 AM EDT
To:
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New York Post Publishing INC.
CEO
WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS
TOWERSINVESTORS.COM
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Date: August 11 2016 at 9:36:01 AM EDT
To: "Players2 ."
Subject: 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 !!!!
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<2016.08.16 - Draft Letter to Eric Rayman re Epstein Book re Steven Hoffe....docx>
<Ex. A - 2016.08.11 - Hoffenberg Email re Being on Book Writing Team.pdf>
<Ex. B - 1997.03.05 - Sentencing Opinion.pdf>
<Ex. C - 2014.12.16 - Consent Decree re NY Post.pdf>
<Ex. D - 2016.07.05 - Order Dismissing Case.pdf>
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Attachments:
Robert Trivers _____________________________
1/4/2018 7:36:39 PM
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
you and Chapman
Dear Daniale 1.04.18.doc
Importance: High
attached a message i just sent to President Struppa of Chapman—i am certain that your gift will do the trick—
and that the West Coast is indeed more convivial and supportive than the East
i hope i did not f... up your contact with Finkelstein
Carlos told me of the devastation to your island—pretty much as i feared
am amused (at a safe distance) as Bannon takes on Trump—he responds as he always does, threatening a suit he
will not in fact file
no internet in my home or nearby in the great, retarded country of Jamaica so i am now at a restaurant some 35
minutes away and only go on-line twice a day—hoping that i will work instead
all best
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4 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS
their secret messages, the NSA goes to extraordinary lengths to keep
them secret. Draconian laws protect this secrecy.
In the first week of June 2013, the NSA learned that there had
been a massive breach. Thousands of secret files bearing on com-
munications intelligence had been stolen from a heavily guarded
regional base in Oahu, Hawaii.
The suspect was Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old civil-
ian analyst at that base, who had fled to Hong Kong before the
breach was discovered. According to a three-count criminal com-
plaint filed by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia, Snowden had stolen government property and violated the
Espionage Act by the unauthorized and willful communication of
national defense information to an unauthorized person. He also
likely violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by entering com-
puter systems illicitly.
This was not a whodunit mystery. On June 9, 2013, in an extraor-
dinary twelve-minute video made in a cramped hotel room in Hong
Kong, Snowden identified himself as the person who had taken the
© NSA documents. Watching the video, the world saw a shy, awk- ©
ward, and sympathetic-looking man wearing a rumpled shirt, rim-
less glasses, and a computer-geek haircut, passionately speaking out
against what he termed the NSA’s violations of the law and, in a
shaky voice, expressing his willingness to suffer the consequences
for exposing them.
Snowden had an innocent, idealistic, principled look about him,
and the world was ready to congratulate him for revealing the NSA’s
alleged illegal collection of data inside the United States, But in fact,
Snowden had stolen a great deal more than documents relating to
domestic surveillance. He had also stolen secret documents from the
NSA, the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the British cipher
service revealing the sources and methods they employed in their
monitoring of adversaries, which was their job.
By the time the theft had been discovered, in the first week of
June 2013, it was impossible for the FBI, a grand jury, or any other
U.S. agency to question him because he had fled the country. His
first stop, Hong Kong, the economically autonomous city of 7.2 mil-
lion, is a special administrative region of mainland China. Under the
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On Dec 29, 2017, at 6:19 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
lets talk today. I went through the candidates in math. . we should talk , I have great hopes for this and
am sure you woudl want to get it right though some of the math people write well , their speakinn style
and presence is less than A , and probaby closertoaC+/ . Im around today or hte weekend if you
would like to chat.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Robert Kuhn {> wrote:
‘Blahblahs’ forbidden in "Radical Breakthroughs’. So we need two replacements (for Multiverse as Science
and Rare Sentience).
Initial ideas:
* Expand the first episode “Mathematics and Truth” into two or likely three episodes. I’m intrigued by this
because there is so much rich material - pure math, philosophy (discovered or invented), physics (Wigner’s
‘unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences)’, astrophysics, cosmology, biology,
general systems theory. I’ve felt frustrated in this first episode because there is so much material. I think
three episodes could work - if you agree, I’ll get back to you with a suggested structure of the 2 or likely 3
parts. Also, Closer To Truth has had only a few videos and one episode on mathematics per se (out of 277
episodes!), so this would be original and complementary. In this may, math would become about half the
series.
* Integrated Information Theory - quantifying and explaining consciousness (Giulio Tononi, Un
of Wisconsin-Madison), plus supporters and critics. New controversial, science-based radical theory.
* Evolutionary Dynamics - your program at Harvard - mathematical models. This is not an area of my
expertise, but it could well fit Closer To Truth in general and Radical Breakthroughs in particular. But you
need to tell me if you would like to include this.
* Replicability Crisis - Problems in Statistics in Search for Truth. Deep problems of replicability
in biomedical and especially psychological research - the scandal in recent years. See links and attachments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/625 1/aac4716
“Replicability vs. Reproducibility” - http://www.replicability.tau.ac.il/index.php/replicability-in-
science/replicability-vs-reproducibility.html
Five Ways to Fix Statistics - Nature [attached].
* Other possibile areas you suggest
We would like to set a mutually agreed schedule so we can confirm and reserve the Closer To Truth
‘season’ of 13 episodes for 'Radical Breakthroughs’, which we need to plan well in advance - especially as
we begin 2018.
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1.4 The Secret Sauce 3
1.3 CogPrime
The AGI design presented here has not previously been granted a name independently of its
particular software implementations, but for the purposes of this book it needs one, so we’ve
christened it CogPrime . This fits with the name “OpenCogPrime” that has already been
used to describe the software implementation of CogPrime within the open-source OpenCog
AGI software framework. The OpenCogPrime software, right now, implements only a small
fraction of the CogPrime design as described here. However, OpenCog was designed specifically
to enable efficient, scalable implementation of the full CogPrime design (as well as to serve as a
more general framework for AGI R&D); and work currently proceeds in this direction, though
there is a lot of work still to be done and many challenges remain. 1
The CogPrime design is more comprehensive and thorough than anything that has been
presented in the literature previously, including the work of others reviewed in Chapter 4. It
covers all the key aspects of human intelligence, and explains how they interoperate and how
they can be implemented in digital computer software. Part 1 of this work outlines CogPrime at
a high level, and makes a number of more general points about artificial general intelligence and
the path thereto; then Part 2 digs deeply into the technical particulars of CogPrime. Even Part
2, however, doesn’t explain all the details of CogPrime that have been worked out so far, and
it definitely doesn’t explain all the implementation details that have gone into designing and
building OpenCogPrime. Creating a thinking machine is a large task, and even the intermediate
level of detail takes up a lot of pages.
1.4 The Secret Sauce
There is no consensus on why all the related technological and scientific progress mentioned
above has not yet yielded AI software systems with human-like general intelligence (or even
greater levels of brilliance!). However, we hypothesize that the core reason boils down to the
following three points:
e Intelligence depends on the emergence of certain high-level structures and dynamics across
a system’s whole knowledge base;
e We have not discovered any one algorithm or approach capable of yielding the emergence
of these structures;
e Achieving the emergence of these structures within a system formed by integrating a number
of different ATI algorithms and structures requires careful attention to the manner in which
| This brings up a terminological note: At several places in this Volume and the next we will refer to the current
CogPrime or OpenCog implementation; in all cases this refers to OpenCog as of late 2013. We realize the risk
of mentioning the state of our software system at time of writing: for future readers this may give the wrong
impression, because if our project goes well, more and more of CogPrime will get implemented and tested as
time goes on (e.g. within the OpenCog framework, under active development at time of writing). However, not
mentioning the current implementation at all seems an even worse course to us, since we feel readers will be
interested to know which of our ideas — at time of writing — have been honed via practice and which have not.
Online resources such as http: //opencog.org may be consulted by readers curious about the current state
of the main OpenCog implementation; though in future forks of the code may be created, or other systems may
be built using some or all of the ideas in this book, ete.
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From: Jay Lefkowitz
Sent: 3/7/2011 7:11:08 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]; Darren
Subject: Fw:
Importance: High
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfe, Alexandra" [•
Sent: 03/07/2011 02:04 PM EST
To: Jay Lefkowitz
Subject: RE:
Dear Mr. Lefkowitz,
Martin Weinberg
Here are the questions I'd like to ask Jeffrey Epstein. Would he be available to answer any of these on
the phone or by email? People have told me some of his thoughts on background but I wanted to see if he
could tell me or email me anything directly I could use on the record. Also I'd like to run the
information I already have by you or him.
Thank you,
Alexandra
-What is he chiefly focusing on now? Is he spending more time on The Jeffrey Epstein Science Foundation?
Could he talk about his interest in science and the 2011 grants/conference?
-How has his business been affected? Is there any new direction he's taking it? Does he still have the
same clients or new ones? Is it still at $15 billion?
-Did he still work while in prison? How was that arranged? With whom was he working/advising?
-Where is he spending his time now? How has his social life changed from three years ago?
-Is he still close with Ghislaine Maxwell?
-What were friends/colleagues/acquaintances reactions to his conviction?
-What does he think about the sentence he got- was it too lenient or too harsh and why?
-What is his side of the story and have people been supportive?
-Is he continuing the charity initiatives he started with Bill Clinton, etc?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Lefkowitz 0_________
Sent: Mon 3/7/2011 12:18 PM
To: Wolfe, Alexandra
Subject:
Dear Ms. Wolfe,
I understand you have some questions about my client,
Jeffrey Epstein. Given that much of the press coverage
surrounding Mr. Epstein has been inaccurate and in some
instances, defamatory, I would like to suggest that you
send me any facutal questions so that I can provide you
with accurate responses.
I am also available to speak with you. My number is
Thank you,
Jay
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Bizarrely, perhaps, I have gotten to know Jeffrey and Ghislaine far better after my piece than before it. I kept
running into both of them, separately, at parties. Jeffrey is not a social animal so he usually has a couple of
young women with him who stand two feet behind him, as if serving a monarch. “Do they speak?” I remember
asking him once, nodding at his lookalike blondes. He laughed. “Not like you, Vicky,” was his riposte.
I remembered that when we'd once discussed math—in particular, an isosceles triangle—and I revealed I hadn’t
studied math since I was 14 (such is, or was, the way of the British educational system), I received a package at
home via messenger. It was a book: “Math for idiots.”
So he is not without humor, even though he doesn’t drink or smoke, and hates restaurants.
“Jeffrey knows a good deal about most subjects,” newspaper publisher Mort Zuckerman told me last week. He
was certainly preaching to the converted. The truth is, Epstein does know a lot about a lot of things. Just a few
moments in his company and you know this to be true.
When I saw pictures of Prince Andrew walking in Central Park with Jeffrey, my immediate thought was that
“Andy’—as Jeffrey calls him—is probably asking for help with his role as British trade envoy, or whatever his
strange title is. Because if one thing’s for sure: When it comes to international business, Jeffrey knows what
he’s talking about far more than “Andy” does. Which is why Leon Black, Mort Zuckerman and a few other
financiers hang out with him.
And Ghislaine?
Full disclosure: I like her. Most people in New York do. It’s almost impossible not to.
She is always the most interesting, the most vivacious, the most unusual person in any room. I’ve spent hours
talking to her about the third world at a bar until 2am. She is as passionate as she is knowledgeable. She is
curious. She has spent weeks at the bottom of the ocean, literally going deeper than anyone else. She has sent
me a DVD of the fish there. Her rolodex would blow away almost anyone else’s I can think of—probably even
Rupert Murdochs’. She is very well-read and can talk about most things for hours. She is passionate about Bill
Clinton with whom she is close friends.
Yet, touchingly, when she had to give a speech at the 4oth birthday party of her best friend, Ariadne Calvo-
Platero, (known fondly to her close friends as “the Tennis Goddess”) Ghislaine shook a little with nerves. When
it comes down to things she really cares about—and Ariadne is one of them—Ghislaine shows her vulnerability.
And that vulnerability is key to understanding her friendship with Jeffrey.
“He saved her,” I remember a close friend of mine telling me. “When her father died, she was a wreck;
inconsolable. And then Jeffrey took her in. She’s never forgotten that—and never will.”
In many ways, the socially awkward Epstein with his big house, plane, island and ranch was the perfect
replacement for her father, the late Robert Maxwell, newspaper tycoon and criminal. Sure, Jeffrey had his
sexual pecadillos, but then Ghislaine’s father was not without his oddities. After all, it was he who died leaving
a massive “black hole” he’d fraudulently created. To Ghislaine, Jeffrey's habits may not have seemed that
strange.
In fact, she probably figured, rather like I have, after years of writing about he very rich, that most successful
people in the end either have some weird habit (the late Bruce Wasserstein had the weight issues, the girl
issues, and moved countries to avoid paying tax), or they break the law (Sam Waksal, Martha Stewart.) You
don’t tend to get to the top by being the world’s most balanced human being. Even the folksy Warren Buffett
didn’t quite manage a normal life—whatever that is. He had a second “wife” for many years whose existence he
has been open about.
So what to make of the current fuss over Ghislaine? I haven’t spoken to her or to Jeffrey, but I suspect that her
loyalty to friends like Bill Clinton will keep her in good stead, in the end, she'll be out and about as always. Look
at Waksal and Stewart. No one sees them and thinks: criminal. Au contraire. In this city, money makes up for
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From: Richard Kahn
Sent: 5/19/2019 10:21:24 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: "SNL": Baldwin's Trump, De Niro's Mueller season 44 finale cold open - Axios
Importance: High
https://www.axios.com/snl-alec-baldwin-trump-dont-stop-me-now-60e0839e-68f5-4ce5-af36-8635dfcb694c.html
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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blocks from the Royal Kunia country club. It had a master bedroom with a walk-in closet, a patio
deck in back shielded from public view by a clump of palm trees and a large garage with an
automatic door. The move to Hawaii entailed a brief separation from his girlfriend since Mills had
committed her to attending her girlfriend’s wedding in May. 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 month/s.”
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young. If all mothers invest preferentially in their own, or maximize Hamilton’s
standard rb>c , healthier mothers will produce more young with higher doses of
the antidote genes, while sicklier mothers will produce less with less. Here it is
females who compete to prove the same better genes that males just proved in the
tournaments or beauty contests.
The race against parasites speeds up again with Trivers’ fine insight about healthier
mothers choosing to dial up the ratio of sons to daughters (“primary sex ratio”), and
to expand the reproductive period at both ends with shorter birth spacing for more
male offspring still. (Some of this may be my idea rather than his.) Nature proves
best current genes twice. Fathers prove them by duking it out or strutting their stuff.
Mothers carrying the same best genes prove it by winning the breeding contest
against other mothers after.
The ex ante/ ex post distinction counts as much in biology as in economics. Here it
accelerates the selection process. Offspring carrying the antidote gene to meet
current parasites will generally not on that account cost more ex ante invested
consumption to raise. If they are males, who can turn that advantage into many
offspring, the ex post value of that same investment can be far higher. The converse
works for offspring lacking the gene. Their mothers can make the best of it by
producing females who will find breeding opportunities anyhow with mates
carrying the gene, since she knows which they are and males always have cheap
sperm to spare, and will so keep their own genes in the gene pool.
Parasites got the last laugh by killing Hamilton on research in Africa a few years
after I met him. | never knew well enough to call him Bill. Bob Trivers called him the
deepest thinker in the world. That couldn’t be wrong by much.
Parasites and Demes
Ernst Mayr, Bob Trivers’ doctoral advisor at Harvard, defined a deme as a race or
subpopulation that intrabreeds at least 95% of the time. I hypothesize that it does so,
Chapter 7 Petty’s Idea 2/3/16 11
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trailing Instagram and Facebook. Interestingly, after Snapchat passed Instagram in early
2016 in average minutes per user, Instagram recaptured the lead mid-year and has
extended it since. While the cause for the shift is not certain, the trends align with the
launch of Instagram Stories (August 2016) as well as some technology challenges on the
Snapchat front (Android). Regardless of the near-term lumpiness, we believe overall
daily engagement puts Snapchat in a strong position to capture emerging online
marketing ad budgets.
Table 23: Average minutes per user trend
Aug-2016 Sep-2016 Oct-2016 Nov-2016 Dec-2016 Jan-2017 Feb-2017
‘Snapchat 267 267 272 269 an 254 211]
Instagram 292 294 325 337 322 357 318
Facebook 769 766 855 826 781 827 700
Twitter 143 149 139 114 108 128 110
Source: comScore, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
Chart 14: Instagram vs Snapchat average monthly minutes per visitor
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Source: comScore
Estimates vs Consensus
Our 1Q revenue estimate of $163mn (down 1% q/q) is slightly above consensus at
$158mn (down 5%}, but we note the range of estimates is considerable ($130-196mn)
and some checks suggest that Snap was aggressive with advertisers in 1Q. For the
year, our $1.0bn revenue estimate is mostly in-line with the Street, as is our 2018
estimate at $2.1bn. We do not model positive adjusted EBITDA until 2Q19, and expect
investors to focus mostly on user revenue trends.
Table 24: Snap Estimate Summary
1017 2017 2017 2018 2019
Revenue
BofA ML est. $163 $208 $1,007 $2,057 $3,719
Growth Y/Y% 320% 190% 149% 104% 81%
Street $158 $206 $1,034 $2,032 $3,303
BofA ML vs Street Above Above Below Above Above
EBITDA
BofA ML est. -$168 -$158 -$580 -$335 $276
Street -$180 -$194 -$617 -$392 $80
BofA ML vs Street Above Above Above Above Above
EPS
BofA ML est. -$0.18 -$0.15 -$0.59 -$0.37 $0.12
Street -$0.21 -$0.13 -$0.57 -$0.33 $0.00
BofA ML vs Street Above Below Below Below Above
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research estimates, Bloomberg, as of 4/4/2017
Bankof America 2 Internet/e-Commerce | 06 April2017 35
Merrill Lynch
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was no ‘international sex-trafficking operation’ and there was never evidence that Mr. Epstein
‘hosted sex parties’ at his home”. (Exhibit 10).
G. Dershowitz’s Lies
53. From the beginning, Dershowitz and Epstein have sought to hide their crimes
behind a curtain of lies. In response to Roberts’ description of Dershowitz’s participation in
Epstein’s sex trafficking, Dershowitz began a series of intentional, outright lies designed to
distance himself from Epstein, to cover up his own wrongdoing, and to discredit Roberts and
intimidate her into silence.
54. Dershowitz’s repeated lies are compelling evidence both of his lack of credibility
and his guilt. Only a person seeking to conceal improper conduct would have engaged in the
pattern of lies which has characterized Dershowitz’s statements since his sex trafficking was
revealed.
55, In attempt to conceal his relationship with Epstein, Dershowitz in January 2015
asserted that “my relationship with him was entirely professional. It is a total bum rap to say that
I...was ‘chummy’ with him”. (Exhibit 11). That was a lie, as Dershowitz and Epstein knew (see,
e.g., paragraphs 34-35).
56. Both to conceal Dershowitz’s relationship with Epstein, and to discredit Roberts,
Dershowitz has repeatedly asserted that he was only at Epstein’s residence once in Palm Beach,
and that was with his family. However, Juan Alessi, a long time Epstein household employee,
has confirmed that Dershowitz visited Epstein “pretty often. I would say at least four or five
times a year” and that he would “typically” stay two or three days. Similarly, Alfredo Rodriguez
who worked for Epstein approximately only six months confirmed that during that six months
period Dershowitz visited Epstein twice.
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CHAPTER 9
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How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive
Processes That Underlie Learning
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
—Mark Van Doren
We need to completely redefine what we mean by school and what we
do in school. We need to think about education in a new way. Rather
than wanting people to be educated, which usually means being able
to quote Shakespeare or nod sagely when Freud’s name is mentioned,
we need to expect people to be able to think well. Education would be
better defined by defining an educated person as one who can make
well-reasoned arguments for what they are about to do.
We must focus on teaching cognitive processes and abandoning
the subject-based (and test-based) education system we have now that
is clearly failing. The reason we have all those tests is simply because
we have no idea how to make people learn all the stuff that is part of
that subject-based system without threatening them. No one really
wants to learn the Pythagorean theorem or information about the Taft
Hartley Act. Let scholars know about these things; the average person
just doesn’t need to know this stuff.
But all people do know how to find and use the mathematics they
need when they have continually practiced it, and they know how to
find prior relevant experiences when they have to come up with a new
plan they want to propose. That simply does not mean we have to tell
it all to them years before they might ever make use of it.
In the age of the Internet, just-in-time learning is a serious reality.
We can change things now in part because we have information read-
ily available online. But the Internet has been designed by committee.
It has much in it that is nonsense, and finding what you need just in
time can be quite difficult. Still, it would not be that complicated to de-
sign a different kind of Internet, the moral equivalent of Encyclopedia
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(@)E) www.kpcb.com
Why Has Debt
Risen So Much?
Public Debt Up 2x Over
Past 3 Decades
Source: White House Office of Management and Budget.
USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 147
Answer Part 1:
% Change From 1965
KP
1200%
1000%
800%
600%
400%
200%
0%
Debt Level: Why It Has Risen
Expenses (Entitlement + One-Time Items*) Grew Faster Than GDP
USA Real Federal Expenses vs. Real GDP % Change, 1965 — 2010
Total Expenses
Entitlement Programs
Non-Defense Discretionary
Defense
Net Interest Payments
—- =Real GDP
1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009
Note: *One-time items could not be shown in chart because % change from 1965 is not available. For context, one-time items totaled $377B in 2009 and
$152B in 2010 (both in 2005 constant dollars), both of which are the 3” largest line item after entitlement expenses and defense spending. Data adjusted
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for inflation. Source: White House Office of Management and Budget.
USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 148
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attieO18 Case 1:19-t- 036 Frio boca mierrrctesed PeerO4)/ POfPO! | Peaigwasi fingon
Letters
Letter to the Editor: Article
Misrepresented Dershowitz
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2
By Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan M. Dershowitz is a Professor of Law emeritus at Harvard Law School.
December 5, 2018
To the editor,
The Crimson story regarding Jeffrey Epstein omitted the central point I made in my interview
with the reporter. I welcome an investigation by Harvard or any other institution, including
prosecutors, into the wilfully false charges made by Virginia Roberts for financial gain. Omitting
this crucial statement is irresponsible and unethical journalism.
Virginia Roberts leveled her false accusations four years ago. At the time, I disproved them
categorically. The matter was put to rest, with even her lawyers admitting that it was a mistake
and wrong. Then four years later the Miami Herald recycled this false accusation and The
Crimson reported on the Herald’s recycled report. I wrote a letter to the editor of the Herald
pointing to the incontrovertible evidence that Roberts made up the accusation out of whole
cloth in order to obtain millions of dollars from Leslie Wexner.
I was able to disprove Roberts’ false accusation by producing all of my travel, AmEx, and TV
appearance records which showed where I was, and, more importantly, where I wasn’t during
the entire period Virginia Roberts was in contact with Jeffrey Epstein. These records prove
incontrovertibly that I could not have been, and was not, where Roberts’ falsely claimed to have
met me — a Caribbean Island, a New Mexico Ranch, a private jet, a Palm Beach mansion —
during the relevant time period.
I also called for an independent investigation by the former Director of the F.B.I., a highly
respected former federal judge and assistant U.S. attorney. He reviewed all of the records and
other evidence and concluded that “the totality of the evidence ... refutes the allegations.”
httns:/Awww thecrimson com/article/2018/12/5/letter-dershowit7-misrenresention/ 1/9
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Chapter Eight
It was the same jumble of buildings in the same corner of the base where I’d
reported a decade earlier, as a 19-year-old fresh from fironut, when the sayeret
was still a gleam in Avraham Arman’s eye. Now, I was about to become the first
of his successors to have been chosen from within the unit itself. As I called
together the officers that first morning, I couldn’t be sure whether I would make
a success of my two years in command. But I did know what I hoped that I, and
we, would accomplish: to complete Avraham’s vision. To forge a true special-
forces unit, at a time when the threats facing Israel seemed increasingly to
demand one.
Avraham’s initial hopes and expectations for the unit had been more than
met. Sayeret Matkal had played the key role in erasing the traumas of Uri Ilan
and Rotem, and restoring the morale and effectiveness of Israeli military
intelligence. Time and again, operations which we said we could do — dismissed
as too dangerous, or impossible, by others — proved achievable. Yet as I now
told the team leaders and our other officers, this was no longer enough.
Our intelligence operations still mattered. In fact, we would have to “push
further” across Arab borders, deeper into enemy communications systems. Our
intercepts had given Israel an important edge in the Six-Day War. I assumed —
though naively, it would turn out — that they would be put to use in any future
war. But if the sayeret was to retain its unique role, we had to become a fighting
force as well. One reason, I didn’t even have to mention: we all remembered our
frustration in 1967, when we’d been little more than bit players in the most
important conflict since the establishment of the state. But for me, the main
argument for change was what had happened since the 1967 war: the fact that
Israel was facing a new range of security challenges which other army units,
trained to engage and defeat enemy troops on the battlefield, were not equipped
to meet.
In the War of Attrition, we might not have lost a single inch of territory. But
we had lost tanks and planes. Israeli soldiers and pilots were being held prisoner
in Egypt and Syria. Arafat’s Fatah and the other armed Palestinian groups might
not present a conventional threat. Yet while I’d been with my tank company in
the Sinai, they were fighting a full-scale civil war against King Hussein’s army
in Jordan. The catalyst: a multiple hijacking in September 1970, a sign that they
were turning to non-conventional warfare, and to acts of terror.
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Upon my death, | wish to be cremated. The disposition of my ashes
(dispersal at sea, on land or in the air) shall be determined by my surviving
family (wife and daughter) in accordance with their knowledge of my
prejudices and philosophies regarding geography and spirituality. Under
no circumstances are my ashes to be retained by anyone or buried in a
particular location. The eventual dispersal can be delayed for any
reasonable length of time required to reach a decision, but not to exceed
one month following my death.
| wish no public service of any kind. | wish no religious service of any kind.
| prefer a private gathering at my home, attended by friends and family
members who shall be determined by my surviving family (wife and
daughter). It should be extremely informal, they should play rhythm and
blues music, and they should laugh a lot. Vague references to spirituality
(secular) will be permitted.
Kelly added, “There will be no mention of God allowed” and “No one
will be allowed to say that ‘George is now smiling down at us from
Heaven above.’ “
Carlin once told an audience of children how to be a class clown as a
way of attracting attention. “I didn’ t start out with fake heart attacks in
the aisle,” he explained. Ah, if only that’ s what he was doing this time.
But a reporter did once ask him how he wanted to die.
“I’ d like to explode spontaneously in someone’ s living room,”
he replied. “That, to me, is the way to go out.”
And, through his CDs, DVDs, books, and online, George Carlin does
indeed continue to explode spontaneously in living rooms across the
country and around the world. Roasting With Robin
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G@i=— COWEN WASHINGTON
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COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS
February 25, 2019
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Please see pages 100 to 106 of this report for important disclosures.
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS
COWEN'S COLLECTIVE VIEW OF CBD - AHEAD
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THE COWEN INSIGHT
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and regulatory teams, we offer a deep dive on the global cannabis market, with a particular
emphasis on the U.S. For consumer goods, we believe the U.S. CBD market could represent
a $16 bn opportunity by 2025.
$16 bn Consumer Opportunity (Azer, Blackledge, Charles, Chen & Kernan)
In our monthly proprietary consumer survey (n = ~2,500) we were surprised to see that
nearly 7% of respondents in January 2019 reported using CBD as a supplement. This strong
consumer interest is validated by the growing number of brands and form factors that are
now available through increasingly diverse retail channels, including Amazon, Sephora and
Neiman Marcus. That said, consumption of CBD on-premise will likely take longer, given
regulatory uncertainty. And, while our analysis primarily focuses on consumer staples
applications for CBD, it is interesting to see a growing number of specialty apparel brands
embrace hemp as a sustainable textile.
Retail sales of CBD consumer products in 2018 have been estimated between ~$600 mm
and $2 bn. By 2025, we believe CBD offerings could conservatively generate $16 bn in retail
sales (assuming a ~40% increase in consumer incidence, to 10%, and spend of less than $2 /
day). Our bottom-up analysis anticipates a diverse category, that is still led by traditional
health & wellness form factors (e.g., $6.4 bn in nutraceuticals, and $4 bn in topicals). And,
while likely smaller, we also expect categories like food, beverages, beauty and vapor to all
generate sales between ~$1-2.5 bn by 2025.
Herein, we offer a detailed look at category brand and pricing architecture in the U.S.
CBD market today, as well as detailed discussions of 21 public and private operators that
currently have exposure to the category, including Outperform rated Canopy Growth, Tilray
and Turning Point Brands, which have all announced plans to enter the U.S. CBD market.
The Science of CBD (Nadeau)
Cannabis’s therapeutic potential is attributable to the valuable overlap between
phytocannabinoids (i.e. plant-derived cannabinoids) and the endogenous cannabinoid
system in humans, termed a “therapeutic handshake.” While THC's activity in the body is
fairly well elucidated, CBD’s pharmacokinetics are less well understood (no specific receptor
for CBD has been identified). Clinical trial results to date demonstrate few adverse effects
from oral CBD doses of up to 1500 mg/day or up to 30mg IV. The scientific understanding
of CBD’s clinical effects is based mostly on studies in specific indications, like epilepsy. GW
Pharma’s Epidiolex (highly potent, pure formulation of CBD) was approved by the FDA in
2018 for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet
syndrome, and other companies (Tilray, MMJ Phytotech, Insys) have clinical trials underway
in seizure disorders as well.
CBD Hemp Cultivation (Neivert)
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 41 states have set up cultivation
and production programs to regulate the production of hemp. There is little research on
CBD hemp cultivation methods as hemp cultivation research historically has focused on
fiber and grain/seed. This lack of research, combined with a number of variables that affect
hemp for CBD yield, makes hemp for CBD cultivation much more art than science at this
point. That said, no other crop in the U.S. offers the type of return of the CBD Plasticulture
Model, and we would thus expect the country's two largest crops, corn and soybeans, to
lose some acreage to CBD hemp.
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Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
From: Jacquie Johnson (maito ia
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 20 }
To: Jessica Cadwell
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Jessica — | need a date for the deposition of Mr. Epstein. Can you provide me with one please?
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:20 AM
To: Jacquie Johnson
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Great thank you. Do you have your Stays signed yet?
fpesstca Cadwell, CP, FRS
Certified Paralegal
Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:59 AM
To: Jessica Cadwell; Bradley J. Edwards
Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr.
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Brad is out of the office until this afternoon — | will ask him then.
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:51 AM
To: Bradley J. Edwards
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But there were times of crisis, and high tension, as well. Only five months
after the election, Rabin and I faced one of the most painful periods during my
entire time as chief of staff. It began with the gruesome death of five Sayeret
Matkal soldiers during a training exercise in the Negev desert. I’d made
preventing such accidents a top priority. By the end of the 1980s, they were
claiming as many as 80 lives a year. During Dan’s tenure, we’d brought the
number down to about 35. But I knew we had to do more. When I’d addressed
the officers after becoming chief of staff, I told them: “Parents are giving us
their children in order to allow us to protect the country. They know there is risk
involved. But they expect their children not to be brought home in coffins
because of our own negligence, or stupidity.” What happened at the military
base of Tze’elim in the Negev on November 5, 1992 was not only a reminder of
how far we still had to go, however. It occurred during a dry run for an
operation unlike any that Israel had ever considered. For that and other reasons,
it would erupt into a major political controversy.
Though the reason for the exercise was meant to have remained a closely
guarded secret, foreign newspaper reports in the weeks after the training
accident made secrecy impossible. We were planning to infiltrate a Sayeret
Matkal unit into Iraq, and to kill Saddam Hussein.
The Gulf War had blunted any immediate threat from Iraq. But Saddam had
proven he could launch missiles into the heart of Israel. We knew from our
intelligence reports that, in addition to his unabated desire to acquire nuclear
arms, he retained facilities to produce chemical weapons. He was trying to
acquire and develop new biological weapons. In fact, the Iraqis had actually
acknowledged a biological weapons program to UN inspectors, claiming it was
for “defensive purposes.”
The idea for an attack on Saddam had first been raised a year earlier, when
my former Sayeret Matkal comrade, Amiram Levin, asked to see me. He was
between military postings, but had come up with the outline of a plan he felt
would allow us to isolate Saddam during a public appearance and kill him. With
my approval, he and a small group of officers in the sayeret began working
further on the idea, with the initial aim of seeing whether it was really workable.
Since Misha was still Defense Minister, I briefed him on what we were doing. I
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JAM v. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORP.
Syllabus
continuously equivalent. The IOIA is thus like other statutes that
use similar or identical language to place two groups on equal foot-
ing. See, e.g., Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S. C. §§1981(a), 1982;
Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S. C. §2674. Whatever the ultimate
purpose of international organization immunity may be, the immedi-
ate purpose of the IJOIA immunity provision is expressed in language
that Congress typically uses to make one thing continuously equiva-
lent to another. Pp. 6-9.
(b) That reading is confirmed by the “reference canon” of statutory
interpretation. When a statute refers to a general subject, the stat-
ute adopts the law on that subject as it exists whenever a question
under the statute arises. In contrast, when a statute refers to anoth-
er statute by specific title, the referenced statute is adopted as it ex-
isted when the referring statute was enacted, without any subse-
quent amendments. Federal courts have often relied on the reference
canon to harmonize a statute with an external body of law that the
statute refers to generally. The IOJTA’s reference to the immunity en-
joyed by foreign governments is to an external body of potentially
evolving law, not to a specific provision of another statute. Nor is ita
specific reference to a common law concept with a fixed meaning.
The phrase “immunity enjoyed by foreign governments” is not a term
of art with substantive content but rather a concept that can be given
scope and content only by reference to the rules governing foreign
sovereign immunity. Pp. 9-11.
(c) The D. C. Circuit relied upon Atkinson’s conclusion that the ref-
erence canon’s probative force was outweighed by an IOJA provision
authorizing the President to alter the immunity of an international
organization. But the fact that the President has power to modify
otherwise applicable immunity rules is perfectly compatible with the
notion that those rules might themselves change over time in light of
developments in the law governing foreign sovereign immunity. The
Atkinson court also did not consider the opinion of the State Depart-
ment, whose views in this area ordinarily receive “special attention,”
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int'l Drilling
Co., 581 U.S. __, __, and which took the position that immunity
rules of the IOIA and the FSIA were linked following the FSIA’s en-
actment. Pp. 11-13.
(d) The IFC contends that interpreting the IOIA immunity provi-
sion to grant only restrictive immunity would defeat the purpose of
granting immunity in the first place, by subjecting international or-
ganizations to suit under the commercial activity exception of the
FSIA for most or all of their core activities. This would be particular-
ly true with respect to international development banks, which use
the tools of commerce to achieve their objectives. Those concerns are
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From: Weingarten, Reid
Sent: 1/16/2018 7:35:34 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Stevie boy is all over the place
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Jeffrey E.
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:08 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid
Subject: Re:
mcgann feels if he stays he risks indicment
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Weingarten, Reid
And...???? Trump stopped them? He cannot stand mcgahn
From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:02 AM
To: Weingarten, Reid
Subject:
mcgann and mcmasters tried to resign
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From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 8/11/2009 7:00:57 PM
To: Jessica Cadwell [iy
Subject: Re: FW: Jane Doe
fesstca Cadwell, CP, FRI
Certified Paralegal
Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
From: Jacquie Johnson [mailto
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:55 PM
To: Jessica Cadwell
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Yes — we are still trying to get the details though
From: Jessica Cadwell [mailto
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:27 PM
To: Jacquie Johnson
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Does this mean you have service on Maxwell
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response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also
totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab
support for the Americans.
It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the
cabinet. Even if the probability of a chemical attack was microscopic, any risk
of civilians being subjected to terror, panic and very possibly agonizing death
meant that the government had to take precautions. The obvious first step would
be to distribute gas masks. But in a series of meetings with Misha and Dan, I
emphasized this was not a decision that could be taken in isolation. By handing
out gas masks, we might actually raise the probability of a chemical attack. We
also had to make sure as a matter of urgency that we had a workable military
option to attack Iraq’s Scud launchers.
By early November, I was dealing both with plans for distributing the gas
masks and preparations for a possible military operation. So when I got a call
asking me to report to Shamir’s office in Jerusalem, I assumed he wanted to talk
about Iraq. “How are things?” he asked. But when I began by filling him in on
the plans to distribute the gas-masks, he interrupted me. “I called you here,” he
said, “because I wanted you to know that we’ve decided that when Dan leaves
next April, we want you to replace him as chief-of-staff.” Briefly and unusually
tongue-tied, I said: “Thank you, Prime Minister’. The news was made public
the next morning. A few days later, it was ratified by the government. There
was only one vote against, from a former chief of staff who was now Shamir’s
Agriculture Minister: Raful Eitan.
I was one of rare instances in all my years in the army when I took a step
back, appreciating a moment which felt special. It was not only, or even mainly,
a matter of a personal ambition fulfilled. More a sense that I was being given
the opportunity to apply everything I’d experienced and learned in the army,
from the day I first joined Sayeret Matkal as an 18-year-old, to improve the
security and safeguard the future of Israel. I know that sounds corny. But, while
the momentum toward war in Iraq almost immediately crowded out everything
else again, that was truly how I felt.
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Opinion of the Court
view further bolsters our understanding of the IOIA’s
immunity provision.
D
The IFC argues that interpreting the IOIA’s immunity
provision to grant anything less than absolute immunity
would lead to a number of undesirable results.
The IFC first contends that affording international
organizations only restrictive immunity would defeat the
purpose of granting them immunity in the first place.
Allowing international organizations to be sued in one
member country’s courts would in effect allow that mem-
ber to second-guess the collective decisions of the others.
It would also expose international organizations to money
damages, which would in turn make it more difficult and
expensive for them to fulfill their missions. The IFC
argues that this problem is especially acute for interna-
tional development banks. Because those banks use the
tools of commerce to achieve their objectives, they may be
subject to suit under the FSIA’s commercial activity excep-
tion for most or all of their core activities, unlike foreign
sovereigns. According to the IFC, allowing such suits
would bring a flood of foreign-plaintiff litigation into U. S.
courts, raising many of the same foreign-relations con-
918 (1980) (‘By virtue of the FSIA, and unless otherwise specified in
their constitutive agreements, international organizations are now
subject to the jurisdiction of our courts in respect of their commercial
activities, while retaining immunity for their acts of a public charac-
ter.”); Letter from Arnold Kanter, Acting Secretary of State, to Presi-
dent George H. W. Bush (Gept. 12, 1992) in Digest of United States
Practice in International Law 1016-1017 (S. Cummins & D. Stewart
eds. 2005) (explaining that the Headquarters Agreement of the Organi-
zation of American States affords the OAS “full immunity from judicial
process, thus going beyond the usual United States practice of affording
restrictive immunity,” in exchange for assurances that OAS would
provide for “appropriate modes of settlement of those disputes for which
jurisdiction would exist against a foreign government under the” FSIA);
Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae 24-29.
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New Curricula for a New Way of Teaching 95
were no faculty located at this campus, since Carnegie Mellon is in
Pittsburgh. I took this as an opportunity, not as a problem, since fac-
ulty want to teach the way they always have taught. Lecturing is easy
and faculty like to do it. Students have learned to cope with lectur-
ing and later cramming for tests, so no one complains much. No one
learns much from this, but no one seems to be too concerned about it.
I was asked to design master’s degree programs in computer sci-
ence. It seemed to me that students entered a master’s degree program
because they wanted to get a good job after graduation, so I asked
what jobs they were preparing for as I looked at each Pittsburgh cam-
pus program. Even though the faculty in Pittsburgh had been teach-
ing these master’s degree programs for years, faculty members were
surprisingly unconcerned with what students did after graduation.
They just taught their courses, their specialties actually, and assumed
the students would find value in them. This seemed an odd state of
affairs to anyone who looked at it from the outside, but as professor I
know that faculty are rarely concerned with master’s degree students
at all and naturally wouldn’t have given these programs that much
thought.
There was a great deal of hostility to the SCCs that were built by
my team and me. They were seen as threatening the existing structure
of courses and lectures. Nevertheless, the students liked them a great
deal and the people who mentored in them, after some initial resis-
tance, began to like them and promote them. This happened in the
areas of software engineering and software development.
The faculty in e-business liked what we had built so much that
they got rid of the existing course-based, e-business master’s degree
they had offered in Pittsburgh and now offer only the SCC version on
the main CMU campus.
SCCs work and work well. Students learn actual skills and teach-
ers feel like they are helping students do something real. But faculty,
who are used to the old classroom-style method, often resist doing the
hard work now required of them. This is true for students as well. One
mentor in the West Coast e-business program who himself had gradu-
ated from the Pittsburgh classroom-based program said that he felt
sorry for the kids on the West Coast campus because they had to work
so hard. He noted that they were learning a lot more than he did but
that he had liked sitting in the back of the classroom and ignoring the
teacher. It was much easier and he had done well at that.
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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 11/7/2017 3:10:06 PM
To: Thomas Jr., Landon
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
All. With gods help;)
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:00 AM Thomas Jr., Landon < > wrote:
Did your Saudi friends survive the purge?
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As they are both bulkshitters
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:26 AM Thomas Jr., Landon < > wrote:
i am more interested in al-waleed/saudi purge/Jared axis. al-waleed and prez go back a ways don't
they?
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and clinton - boies clients, he refuses to ask them their version of events. They were never on the island
and though she gave details of a dinnner. I have never ever met al gore or his wife.
boies is going to be in the fining line, from the biz view he represented Hank Greenburg AIG„ his fees
were never paid as the appeals court overturned the win. but AIG as an insurance co. -- ... phone only
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8 CHINADAILY.COM.CN/OPINION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014
CHINA DAILY
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EDITORIAL
A foundation of law
THE FOURTH PLENARY SESSION OF THE 18TH
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opens on
Monday and will last for four days. The designated theme —
governing through the rule of law — indicates how important
this meeting will be for the future of both the Party and the
country.
That this is the first time in 17 years the Party has designated
such a theme for a plenary session speaks volumes about the
importance the new leadership attaches to it. It is high on the
agenda.
Yet, the more the concept of rule of law has been discussed,
the more obvious it becomes that there is, today, much to be
desired.
More than 50 minister-level or higher officials have either
been indicted or placed under investigation for abuse of power
in the past year or so, underlining the fact that the rule of lawis
sorely needed. It is perhaps the only way to eliminate, once
and for all, the most serious threat to good governance and to
secure the blessings of prosperity and justice to the people.
The fact that power today can effectively nullify the law, and
that those in power can circumvent it, not only deprives the
Party of its capacity to govern the country in a consistently fair
and just manner but also disrupts the reasonable running of
the marketplace. Abuse of power makes it impossible for fair-
ness to prevail in the socialist market economy.
Despite the great achievements China has made over more
than three decades, it will be very difficult for its economy to
grow in a sound manner — and neither will society progress in
a healthy way — unless fair competition and mutual trust can
be secured and ordinary people’s rights and interests can be
guaranteed through the rule of law.
If the country is to achieve further reforms in various fields
and establish and maintain a fair and just society, the power-
worshipping mentality among government and Party officials
must be eliminated. This is a core goal of the leadership.
Unless the overwhelming majority of Party and government
officials not only respect the law, but follow it when making
decisions, governing the country by the rule of law will
amount to little but lip service.
It will be no easy job, and it will take time for the power-ori-
ented way of doing things to be transformed. But the new Par-
ty leadership has shown it has the courage to face the
challenge. We therefore have reason to expect much from the
current plenary session as they work to put the country on the
right track.
OTHER VIEWS
Historic moment
he convocation of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Com-
munist Party of China Central Committee, whose theme is
promoting the rule of law, embodies the CPC’s deepening percep-
tion on governance and the law.
www.people.com.cn October 15.
tis the first time that the CPC, as the ruling Party, will make a
comprehensive plan on the rule of law in the form of a Party doc-
ument. The session, which marks the ruling Party’s significant
strategic layout on how to govern the nation in accordance with
Jaws and the Constitution, illustrates its new exploration of social-
ism with Chinese characteristics. The CPC Central Committee will
focus on discussions on how to promote rule of law in at a plenary
session. ...
It has only six years to 2020, the deadline set for the realization
of a well-off society for China, and 35 years to 2049, the promised
year for China to be a prosperous, democratic, civilized and har-
monious socialist modern nation. All these mean China has
entered a crucial stage of deepened reforms. Only by sticking to
“governance of the nation according to laws” will China realize its
historic mission.
www.xinhuanet.com.cn October 19.
he National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, should
play a bigger role in the country’s efforts to promote the rule of
law. For example, the NPC can push for deepened reforms within
the framework of the Constitution and laws through legislation to
realize a benign interaction between reforms and the rule of law.
The deeper the water China’s reforms will enter, the more legal
guidance and guarantees these reforms will need. The NPC enjoys
a broad space for maneuvering in this regard.
Beijing News October 17
n the last three months, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee has held two conferences studying major issues
related to comprehensively pushing for the rule of law. As the
theme “Chinaruled by law” is set for the Fourth Plenary Session of
the 18th CPC Central Committee, the overall planning and
prospect of a China governed by law will become increasingly
explicit.
Lianhe zaobao October 14
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ROBERT LAWRENCE KUHN
Decoding Xi’s future vision
President Xi’s new book reveals his thinking about the country’s
governance and maps out a path for achieving the Chinese Dream
he Governance of China, Presi-
dent Xi Jinping’s new book, is
unprecedented. Can analyzing
the book elucidate Xi’s thinking
and illuminate China’s future?
Consider seven frameworks or
perspectives: publishing purpos-
es, overarching themes, content analysis, chain of
developmental causation, domestic goals, domes-
tic means and global principles.
Publishing Purposes: substance,
symbol, signal. Substance means Xi's political phi-
losophy and wide-ranging policies — organizing 79
speeches and commentaries in 18 chapters — to
discern how Xi intends to realize the Chinese
Dream, “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese
nation’: Symbol means recognizing Xi’s emergence
as China’s leader, with greater authority, confi-
dence and support than observers had expected
when he first took office two years ago. Signal
Means communicating Xi’s way of thinking to
global audiences in nine languages, an original
and explicit outreach to engage the world on mul-
tiple levels.
Overarching Themes: pride, stability, respon-
sibility, vision. Pride expresses the yearning of the
Chinese people for the “great rejuvenation” Stabili-
ty means maintaining the current political system.
(Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the
Party’s leadership). Responsibility means “realiz-
ing a moderately prosperous society by the centen-
ary of the Party in 2021” Vision means “turning
China into a prosperous, democratic, culturally
advanced and harmonious modern socialist coun-
try by the centenary of the People’s Republic of
China in 2049”
Content Analysis. How does Xi impute impor-
tance to topics? By examining what's in Xi’s book,
can we explore what's on Xi’s mind? Of the book’s
18 chapters, 11 relate to domestic affairs, seven to
foreign affairs; six have political relevance; six con-
cern standards of living; and four standards of
LI MIN
FU JING
behavior. Categorizing the content, about a third is
politics and people; another third on international
relations; about 15 percent each on reform and
development, and society and culture; and about 8
percent on national security and defense. Perva-
sive throughout is reform.
Chain of Developmental Causation. The
Chinese Dream is founded on political stability,
which enables far-reaching reform, which in turn.
promotes economic development, and which,
when combined with rule of law and Chinese val-
ues, strengthens China’s society, culture, ecology
and even defense. Where is this “chain of causa-
tion” in Xi’s book?
The first and last chapters affirm political stabili-
ty: “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” and
“The CPC Leadership’, both of which assert the
Party’s political primacy and thus assure social sta-
bility. “The Chinese Dream” is the second chapter,
proclaiming the grand mission of national resur-
gence and personal well-being. Then, chapters on.
deepening reform and economic development,
which lead to chapters on rule of law, advanced cul-
ture, social undertakings and ecological progress.
Domestic Goals: values, morality, prosperity,
Sairness, happiness. Values: Xi's vision is to incul-
cate China’s traditional values — “the thoughts of
the ancient sages”; exemplified by Confucianism —
into socialist core values. (“We must take tradition-
al Chinese culture as the base.”) Morality: Derived
from values, morality is described as “conscious
law’, and “civic morality” is characterized as need-
ing improvement, while “paragons of morality are
important banners for building public ethics” (“A
gentleman takes morality as his bedrock” — a tra-
ditional virtue that Xi quotes.) Prosperity: “Com-
mon prosperity is the fundamental principle of
Chinese socialism ... We will accelerate China’s
overall prosperity” Fairness: Because the Chinese
people have always had a perception that “inequal-
ity rather than want is the cause of trouble”, Xi
says, China “should do a better job of promoting
fairness and justice” Happiness: The Chinese
Dream, Xi says, is to “bring happiness to the Chi-
nese people” to “ensure the people greater happi-
ness” — but, he cautions, “happiness does not fall
from the sky, nor do dreams come true automati-
cally.’ (In Xi’s book, “values” occurs about 120
times, “morality” 24, “prosperity” 67, “fairness” 44.
and “happiness” 16.)
Domestic Means: close to the people, realism,
stability, reform, rule of law, combating corrup-
tion. “Close to the people” is an all-encompassing
way of thinking that shapes all decisions. Realism:
“T have repeatedly said that the great rejuvenation
of the Chinese nation can in no way be realized
easily,’ Xi says. “While fully affirming our achieve-
ments, we should also be aware of our shortcom-
ings.” Stability: The precondition for all else,
stability is a recurrent and foundational theme
(“stability” occurs 125 times). Reform: Those who
wonder whether Xi is a “real reformer” should
read “Explanatory Notes ... Concerning Compre-
hensively Continuing Reform” (page 76). Exam-
ples: the market plays a “decisive role”; farmers
given transactional property rights; the judicial
system separate from the administrative system.
Rule of Law: “A fundamental principle” and “the
basic way to run the country” — the Fourth Plena-
ry of the 18th CPC Central Committee, focusing on
tule of law, is Xi’s call to action. Combating corrup-
tion is a hallmark of Xi’s administration, enhanc-
ing each of the five other domestic means. It is no
accident that the chapter on combating corruption.
is positioned, significantly, between “Close Ties
with the People” and “The CPC Leadership”
Ibear witness to Xi’s consistency. In 2006, Adam
Zhu (my long-term partner) and I met privately
with then-Zhejiang Party Secretary Xi. He stressed
that while China should be properly proud of its
successes, “achievements should not engender
complacency” Xi said: “We need to assess our-
selves objectively”
Global Principles. Consider five. Independ-
ence (China remains unaligned). Multi-polar
world (no country dominates). One country, two
systems (Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan). Peaceful
development (“We have made a solemn pledge to
the whole world that we will never seek hegemo-
ny”). Multilateral affairs (cooperation with the
global community). These five global principles
drive China's “new model of major country rela-
tions” (primarily with the US), “neighborhood
diplomacy” (Japan, Vietnam, Koreas, etc.), and
“cooperation with developing countries” (such as
in Africa). The Silk Road economic belt (land route
and maritime) is President Xi’s new initiative for
multinational development.
Here’s my blurb for Xi’s book: “This book is a
milestone, both in substance and symbol, offering
openly the political philosophy of President Xi Jin-
ping and recognizing his emergence as China’s
senior leader. While misunderstandings about
China and its leadership abound, there is now no
need to speculate about President Xi. Here is how
he thinks, candidly and comprehensively.’ It is the
pride of a patriot.
The author is an international corporate strate-
gist and political/economics commentator. He is
the author of How China’s Leaders Think and a
biography of former president Jiang Zemin. He
gave one of the speeches at the launching ceremo-
ny for Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, at
the Frankfurt Book Fair on Oct 8.
Courtesy, not confrontation, best for Europe
inister of Commerce Gao Hucheng
arrived in the lobby of the European
Commission's headquarters at 9
o'clock on Saturday morning. He was
Jed to the office of outgoing Trade Commissioner
Karel De Gucht, who has been a thorn in the side
of Chinese businesses because of his protectionist
attitude ever since he took over the job in 2010.
De Gucht, 60, will be replaced in a few days by
Swedish politician Cecilia Malmstrom, 46, when.
anewly constituted commission gets underway.
In the afternoon, the Chinese side announced a
long-awaited agreement in principle: Brussels
will not launch an investigation into subsidies of
China’s telecommunication imports into the
European market. The EU side still needs to go
through internal procedures for formal approval.
The threat was mainly targeted at Chinese tele-
communications equipment makers Huawei
Technologies Co and ZTE Corp.
While the big picture of relations has been a
positive one, the Europeans have annoyed Beijing
from time to time — for example, by allowing the
Dalai Lama to visit, by attacking China on human
rights and by imposing high trade barriers.
Despite such irritants, Beijing has sent con-
structive signals. In the first half of this year, Pres-
ident Xi Jinping paid the first-ever visit of a
Chinese president to the European Union's head-
quarters. And last week, at the summit of Asian
and European leaders in Milan, Italy, Premier Li
Keqiang hosted a special dinner for Barroso and
European Council President Herman Van Rom-
puy, thanking them for their contributions to pos-
itive relations. At the dinner, the leaders were
thought to have touched on the telecommunica-
tion trade dispute, which involves about 1 billion
euros ($1.26 billion) annually.
The path to Saturday's solution was similar toa
pattern set earlier, in mid-2013, after both sides
worked through an anti-dumping and anti-subsi-
dy investigation involving China’s multi-billion-
dollar solar panel exports to the EU. Brussels
began that investigation in 2012.
Beijing was unhappy that there had been no
high-level invitation to visit Brussels a year after
the launch of the investigation.
In May last year, Li made his first trip to Ger-
many after taking office and won the support of
the German government, which vetoed Brussels’
decision, following dozens of EU member states.
Li made a last-minute call on Barroso the fol-
lowing month, as Brussels was about to vote on
whether to end the solar panel dispute through
amicable consultation.
Li’s decisive role was crucial in preventing the
escalation of a trade war. If Beijing had opted to
deal with such disputes in an eye-for-eye, tooth-
for-tooth manner, both sides would have been
losers, with the EU taking the brunt. It has
already suffered two economic recessions, and
its jobless rate has been in double digits for a
few years now.
Of course, with the trade volume between Chi-
naand Europe expanding, and with investment
pouring into Europe, China’s government, its
businesses and its media must work to make the
most of the rising economic tide.
So far, there is no unified Chinese business
council in Brussels to represent and lobby for
Chinese investors in Europe. By contrast, a major
US business organization reportedly has 300 staff
members focusing on Brussels’ policymaking.
Alack of communication and influence can
easily lead to misunderstandings. Bureaucrats in
Brussels usually follow Washington's lead when
making policies that affect China.
Trade commission leaders need to make more
field trips to member states to learn how Chinese
businesses matter.
Take China’s solar panel exports for example.
The industry, which involves about 400,000
workers in China, has offered competitive prod-
ucts to thousands of European upstream compa-
nies and helped Europe achieve its status as a
green energy leader.
In telecom, Huawei and ZTE are deeply inte-
grated with European partners. And, incidentally,
Huawei is a steady job creator in Europe, where
young people, in particular, have faced huge
employment challenges.
If De Gucht had kept the big picture in mind,
he would not have made confrontational moves
against China and its businesses.
Overall, the EU recognizes China as strong stra-
tegic partner. This is the starting point for dispute
control. Amicability helps both sides win. With
confrontation, everyone loses.
The author is China Daily chief
correspondent in Brussels.
Sujing @chinadaily.com.cn
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Much of Epstein’s work 1s related to cleaning up, tightening budgets, and efficiencies. One
person who worked for Wexner and who saw a contract drawn up between the two men says
Epstein is involved in “everything, not just a little here, a little there. Everything!” In addition, he
says, “Wexner likes having a hatchet man.... Whenever there is dirty work to be done he’d stick
Jeffrey on it.... He has a reputation for being ruthless but he gets the job done.”
Epstein has evidently been asked to fire personal-staff members when needed. “He was that
mysterious person that everyone was scared to death of,” says a former employee.
Meanwhile, he is also less than popular with some people outside Wexner’s company with
whom he now deals. “He ‘inserted’ himself into the construction process of Leslie Wexner’s
yacht.... That resulted in litigation down the road between Mr. Wexner and the shipyard that
eventually built the vessel,” says Lars Forsberg, a lawyer whose firm at the time, Dickerson and
Reily, was hired to deal with litigation stemming from the construction of Wexner’s Limitless—
at 315 feet, one of the largest private yachts in the world. Evidently, Epstein stalled on paying
Dickerson and Reily for its work. “It’s probably once or twice in my legal career that I’ve had to
sue a client for payment of services that he’d requested and we’d performed ... without issue on
the performance,” says Forsberg. In the end the matter was settled, but Epstein claims he now
has no recollection of it.
The incident is one of a number of disputes Epstein has become embroiled in. Some are for sums
so tiny as to be baffling; for instance, Epstein sued investment adviser Herbert Glass, who sold
him the Palm Beach house in 1990, for $13,444—Epstein claimed this was owed him for
furnishings removed by Glass.
In 1998 the U.S. Attorney’s Office sued Epstein for illegally subletting the former home of the
deputy consul general of Iran to attorney Ivan Fisher and others. Epstein paid $15,000 a month in
rent to the State Department, but he charged Fisher and his colleagues $20,000. Though the exact
terms of the agreement are sealed, the court ruled against Epstein.
Wexner offers some insight into his friend’s combative style. “Many times people confuse
winning and losing,” Wexner says. “Jeffrey has the unusual quality of knowing when he is
winning. Whether in conversations or negotiations, he always stands back and lets the other
person determine the style and manner of the conversation or negotiation. And then he responds
in their style. Jeffrey sees it in chivalrous terms. He does not pick a fight, but if there is a fight,
he will let you choose your weapon.”
One case is rather more serious. Currently, Citibank is suing Epstein for defaulting on loans from
its private-banking arm for $20 million. Epstein claims that Citibank “fraudulently induced” him
into borrowing the money for investments. Citibank disputes this charge.
The legal papers for another case offer a rare window into Epstein’s finances. In 1995, Epstein
stopped paying rent to his landlord, the nonprofit Municipal Arts Society, for his office in the
Villard House. He claimed that they were breaking the terms of the lease by not letting his staff
in at night. The case was eventually settled. However, one of the papers filed in this dispute 1s
Epstein’s financial statement for 1988, in which he claimed to be worth $20 million. He listed
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‘How long you been knowin’ him?’ and | told him, ‘All through the
sixties,’ you know. And | said it was a fantastic idea.”
For the New Year, Flynt flew Gregory and me to the Bahamas.
Gregory was in the kitchen, diligently preparing a health drink for Flynt —
this must have been the birth of his Bahamian Diet powder -— and he was
also feeding unfiltered conspiracy theories to his eager student.
At midnight, we all went out on the dock and stood in a misty
drizzle as Gregory uttered truly eloquent prayers for each of us. When he
finished, Flynt’ s wife Althea whined, like Lucy in the Peanuts strip, “My
hair's getting all wet.” It was her way of saying “Amen.”
On New Year's Day, we were sitting in the sand, just relaxing. Flynt
had bought a paperback novel by Gore Vidal in the hotel store, but first he
was reading the Sunday New York Times and worrying about the
implications of juries with only six members. A moment later he was
rubbing suntan lotion on my back.
“I'll bet Hugh Hefner never did this for you,” he said.
koe OF
Larry Flynt had been traveling around a lot, but he happened to be
back in L.A. at the same time that my friend LSD guru Ram Dass was
visiting, so | had the unique pleasure of introducing them. Larry, Althea,
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Table 32: Zillow estimate summary
1Q17 2017 2017 2018
Revenue
BofAML est. $239 $261 $1,062 $1,307
Growth Y/Y% 25% 23%
Street $236 $257 $1,048 $1,258
BofAML vs. Street Above Above Above Above
EBITDA
BofAML est. $40 $51 $215 $313
Street $39 S46 $211 $298
BofAML vs. Street Above Above Above Above
EPS
BofAML est. $0.06 $0.11 $0.48 $0.89
Street $0.05 $0.07 $0.44 $0.80
BofAML vs. Street Above Above Above Above
Source: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research estimates
Zillow has effectively captured the online U.S. real estate market, allowing them to
accelerate monetization and access to a large TAM with $87bn in total real estate
commissions paid in 2016 and Zillow powering just 5% of the commissions through its
Premier Agent platform. Although there is potential for the mortgage business to
create a headwind if the CFPB issued a negative ruling against Zillow, we still like the
stock into the quarter, as we prefer business with minimal competition, and believe that
the high ROI of the real estate premium platform to real estate agents will ensure
agents buy placements on Zillow regardless of mortgage broker involvement. We
maintain our $42 PO based on a 6x our 2018E EV/Sales and supported by our DCF
valuation. Our multiple is roughly in-line for online real estate lead generation sites in
other countries operating in developed countries.
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jeevacation@gmail.com
Re:
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Went to opening of war paint last night was sitting next to john Connolly at after party he is on to his next book about
Ef Hutton murders apparently was going to put me in your book because I was in your visitors list but somers and
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have been great and they never even asked me I told him about how you called Apple best jonathan
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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) & @
(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
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Edition: PALM BEACH POST
Title: BILLIONAIRE FACES CHARGE OF
SOLICITATION OF MINORS
Billionaire faces charge Character: 31E-MM-108062
of solicitation of minors or
MONDAY: Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey a as
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young women brought to his home,
where he received mas- Indexing:
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sex, according to an in-
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was unsealed that b6
charged Epstein, 53, pyc
; with one count of felony i
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tion, which carries a ,
maximum penalty of five years in pris-
on. He was released on $3,000 bond.
Epstein’s attorney, Jack Goldberger,
said his client, amoney manager for the
wealthy, committed no crimes and
passed a lie detector test in which he
said he did not know the girls were mi-
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CHAPTER FIVE
Contractor
“Private contractors don’t clear employees. The government does.”--
Admiral Michael McConnell, Vice Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton
Snowden, age 26, returned from Europe and moved into his mother’s condo. He was not only
unemployed now, having resigned the CIA without qualifying for any benefits, but his financial
state had been hurt by the huge losses he had suffered playing the options market in Geneva. His
vision of himself as a secret agent, the unstoppable “Wolfking Awesomefox” may have also
suffered. According to the narrative he later supplied to the Guardian, he had become deeply
concerned about the immoral way in which the CIA conducted its intelligence operations in
Switzerland. "Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government
functions and what its impact is in the world. I realized that I was part of something that was
doing far more harm than good," Snowden told the Guardian. By way of example, he said he
learned that the CIA had gotten a Swiss banker drunk enough arrested to be arrested when he
drove, so the CIA could compromise him. Snowden, who did not drink himself, was appalled at
this ploy. Despite his growing antagonism towards the US government, he had not given up on, if
not becoming a secret agent, working in the netherworld of secret intelligence.
Although Snowden’s career had abruptly ended at the CIA, there still was a backdoor through
which he could re-enter the spy world. It was private corporations that hired civilian technicians
to work for spy agencies as independent contractors. By 2009, The CIA, NSA and other US
intelligence services had outsourced much of the job of maintaining and upgrading their computer
systems to these private companies. They supplied the NSA with most of its system
administrators and other information technology workers. This arrangement allowed the NSA to
effectively bypass budget limits and other restrictions limiting how many NSA technicians it could
recruit. Instead, of putting these workers on its own payroll, they nominally worked for, and
received their paychecks from, private employers. In fact, many of these outside contractors
worked full-time for the NSA.
Snowden applied in April 2009 to one of these private companies, Dell SecureWorks. It was
a subsidiary of the Dell computer company. To diverse out of manufacturing computers, Dell had
recently gone into the business of managing government computer systems for the NSA and other
intelligence services. As a leading specialist in the field of corporate cyber security, Dell had no
problem obtaining sizable contracts for from the NSA’s Technology Directorate. In 2008, the
NSA had in effect outsourced to Dell the task of re-organizing its back-up systems at its regional
bases. Now Dell had to find thousands of independent contractors to work at these bases In
2009, when Snowden applied, Dell was seeking to fill positions at the NSA’s regional base in
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parameter typically fluctuates around zero and group fitness holds about where it
started.
Hamilton’s rule, applied to diploids like us where closest relatedness r absent
inbreeding is %, forbids investment where fitness gained (benefit) is less than twice
fitness given up (cost). I see no escape from the inference that fitness would double
with each generation, or more to account for cases where relatedness fell below ¥%. |
see no relief in an interpretation, say, that each successive generation cures this
imbalance by investing only half or less of its fitness and letting the rest lapse.
Fitness is likelihood of leaving descendants of equal fitness. It is not strictly
conserved, because likelihood is generally not identical to outcome. There is ex ante
and ex post fitness. But the ex ante kind is meaningless unless potency, in Aristotle’s
terms, is expected to converge to act. Hamilton’s rule should not have escaped this
critique for half a century. It clearly has merit, but needs some different expression.
Such a reformulation might treat rb/c as a maximand within practical constraints.
We can see how it might be by looking at the context. Darwin’s idea is a competition
for breeding success. This biological imperative is a powerful predictor in nature. It
predicts that traits are selected for successful reproduction to the exclusion of all
else. Evidence is impressive. “Semelparous” creatures who breed only once and do
not invest postpartum care, like salmon and soybeans, die within hours. An octopus
mother breeds only once, cares for her young a few weeks, and dies as they disperse.
Nature is on a tight budget. Resources wasted soon become resources lost to
thriftier lineages.
Hamilton saw this. He was right in stressing the role of competition among
individuals and individual heritable traits. Darwin did the same. One thing
Hamilton’s rule leaves out, which is not to claim that he overlooked it, is that traits
and their genes best at prioritizing self-replication might for that reason hurt
chances of achieving it. We know this happens. Human tradition everywhere resists
and punishes nepotism when it crosses a line. Jane Goodall reported the same for
Chapter 7 Petty’s Idea 2/3/16 5
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Agriculture
Current (24 Oct) (last month): Soybeans, USD 15.17/bu (16.12); Corn, USD 7.54/bu (7.44);
Wheat, USD 8.84/bu (8.87)
UBS View 6-month target: Soybeans: USD 17.0/bu; Corn: USD 9.0/bu; Wheat: USD 9.5/bu
¢ Major US supply surprises on the grains side are rather unlikely in the near term as harvesting is in full
swing. However, we think that demand is unlikely to drop as quickly as the USDA expects. According to the
latest USDA grain stocks and WASDE reports, feed demand remained surprisingly resilient in 3Q12. To
effectively ration demand, especially on the feed side, in an environment of critically low US corn and
soybean stocks, higher prices are still required. For wheat, global production estimates were further
lowered due to production losses in Australia, EU, Russia for 2012/13, which likely keeps prices supported in
the near term. We expect corn and soybean prices to appreciate by 15% in the coming months.
¢ On the other side, the softs are likely to remain well supplied, which should keep prices under pressure.
Improved export activity of coffee and strong stock selling from Vietnam in 4Q12 should weigh on coffee
prices in the short-term. For sugar, higher production from Brazil and other producers should continue to
burden prices in the near term, but also offer buying opportunities on a 12-month perspective.
e Aggregating the above points, the risk/reward for being long across the entire sector is not a given. We
therefore reiterate our neutral sector stance.
4 Positive scenario Corn 6-month USD 10/bu; Soybeans 6-month USD 19/bu
¢ With a reduced probability of El Nifio, the yield potential for South American crops is likely to be lower.
Any deterioration in South American supply prospects would require additional demand to be rationed.
& Negative scenario Corn 6-month USD 6/bu Soybeans 6-month USD 12.5/bu
e A change of the US ethanol-gasoline blending mandate would be a game changer. Increases in planted
acreage combined with a steep decline in US demand for exports and feed would weigh on prices.
What we're watching Why it matters
Revisions in acreage and yield estimates for the US crops remain a topic. Demand
estimates are important, too, as they are key drivers behind inventory levels at
the end of the year. Key date: 9 Nov
The latest stocks data is not correctly reflecting the demand for Jun-Aug’12 as it
contains both old and new crop stock figures. We expect stocks as of 1 Dec to
reflect the true demand picture. Key date: Jan 2013
USDA WASDE report
(monthly)
US grains stock report
(quarterly)
USDA crop progress
(weekly, Monday)
COT (weekly, Friday)
2 UBS
Faster US grain harvests than usual have been exerting downward pressure on
prices in the short run, which have reversal potential at a later stage.
Investors’ net long positions in grain futures are still at high levels, but stable
Preference: neutral
Recommendations
Tactical
e Despite the recent setback in corn prices,
risk-seeking investors should still hold on
to long positions in corn. Demand
rationing is still required to limit the drag
on inventories. The expected return
target for a long position in corn stands
at 15%.
Strategic
e Our expected return outlook for grains
stands at around -10% over the next 12
months. With grain prices not far below
historical highs, the supply side is highly
likely to expand meaningfully in 2013/14
and pressurize prices at a later stage. On
the soft side, 3Q12 does not offer the
right timing to build up positions.
US grains stocks continue to drop,
demand remains resilient
Values in mn tons
50
40
30 |
20 | [/
Ist Sep'10 1st Sep'11 1st Sep'12 Jun-
Aug'11
Jun-
Aug'10
Jun-
Aug'12
Demand
m Soybean
Stocks
mcCorn a Wheat
Source: USDA, UBS, as of Oct. 2012
Note: Past performance is not an indication of future returns.
For further information please contact ClO's asset class specialists Dominic Schnider, dominic.schnider@ubs.com or Giovanni Staunovo, giovanni.staunovo@ubs.com
Please see important disclaimer and disclosures at the end of the document.
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example, physicians may agree that the
experience of depression can be treated
legitimately by antidepressant
medications, referral to a psychiatrist, or
referral to a counselor whose practice is
rooted in a specific religious tradition.
Yet our research suggests that the
religious characteristics of physicians
strongly influence which of these
options they would recommend in a
given case’.
Controversies over a particular
medical intervention often represent
deeper unspoken disagreements that,
unfortunately, science cannot settle. For
example, controversies over the use of
stimulants to manage childhood behavior
disorders, or the medicalization of social
anxiety, seem to reflect disagreements
about more basic questions: What brings
human happiness? Which moods and
behaviors should be considered normal
parts of human experience and which
should be considered abnormal? What
sorts of suffering should we try to
alleviate? What leads to disordered
behaviors? What resources (social,
psychological, spiritual or otherwise) are
best suited to addressing disruptions in
individuals’ mental and emotional
states? How does modern medicine fit
into our response to these experiences?
Although physicians may not ask or
answer these questions explicitly, they
implicitly answer them in their responses
and recommendations to patients.
So, for all that is hoped for in
‘scientific’ and ‘evidence-based’
practice, clinicians must in the end act as
practical moral philosophers, making
judgments about how best to pursue the
goals of medicine for a particular patient
in a particular context, all things
considered. Among those things to be
considered are moral valuations about
which religions and other moral
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traditions have much to say, but about
which medical science remains silent.
Caring for the patient as person
So far I have suggested that
religions provide a vision that animates
care of the sick and a moral framework
that guides the application of medical
technology. Religions make another
contribution by fostering practices that
nurture the human capacity to care for
patients as persons rather than as mere
objects.
Patients commonly complain that
their physicians treat them as mere
objects or specimens rather than
appreciating and attending to them as
unique persons. This problem has always
plagued the profession. To learn how to
heal, the novice physician must learn of
patients as representing abstract general
types and classes. She must learn about
coronary artery disease and hematuria
before she can begin to interpret Mrs.
Smith’s chest discomfort and Mr.
Jones’s red urine. These abstractions
allow knowledge of when and how
things happen, and that knowledge
guides technological interventions that
may bring healing to the body. These
abstractions also help doctors objectify
their patients’ humanity enough to
violate social norms that operate in every
other social situation, such as asking
patients to expose their nakedness in
vulnerable positions, or cutting patients
apart in hopes of making them whole.
As long as the process does not
go too far, scientific detachment serves
to make our concern effective. Yet the
collective experience of both patients
and physicians suggests that such
detachment usually does go too far and
occurs too easily. As a result physicians
treat patients as mere objects and
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Subject: RE: 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 !!!!
Date: August 16, 2016 at 10:42:56 PM EDT
To: 'Darren Indyke’
Darren:
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 !!!!
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Thanks,
Regards,
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1.7 Five Key Words 9
a dramatic way to carry out some of its cognitive processes (a hypothesis for which there is no
current evidence), this doesn’t imply that these quantum phenomena are necessary in order to
carry out the given cognitive processes. For example there is evidence that birds use quantum
nonlocal phenomena to carry out navigation based on the Earth’s magnetic fields [GRM~ 11];
yet scientists have built instruments that carry out the same functions without using any special
quantum effects. The importance of quantum phenomena in biology (except via their obvious
role in giving rise to biological phenomena describable via classical physics) remains a subject
of debate [AGBD* 08].
Quantum “magic” aside, it is also conceivable that building AGI is fundamentally impossible
for some other reason we don’t understand. Without getting religious about it, it is rationally
quite possible that some aspects of the universe are beyond the scope of scientific methods.
Science is fundamentally about recognizing patterns in finite sets of bits (e.g. finite sets of
finite-precision observations), whereas mathematics recognizes many sets much larger than this.
Selmer Bringsjord [BZ03], and other advocates of “hypercomputing” approaches to intelligence,
argue that the human mind depends on massively large infinite sets and therefore can never be
simulated on digital computers nor understood via finite sets of finite-precision measurements
such as science deals with.
But again, while this sort of possibility is interesting to speculate about, there’s no real reason
to believe it at this time. Brain science and AI are both very young sciences and the “working
hypothesis” that digital computers can manifest advanced AGI has hardly been explored at
all yet, relative to what will be possible in the next decades as computers get more and more
powerful and our understanding of neuroscience and cognitive science gets more and more
complete. The CogPrime AGI design presented here is based on this working hypothesis.
Many of the ideas in the book are actually independent of the “mind can be implemented
digitally” working hypothesis, and could apply to AGI systems built on analog, quantum or
other non-digital frameworks — but we will not pursue these possibilities here. For the moment,
outlining an AGI design for digital computers is hard enough! Regardless of speculations about
quantum computing in the brain, it seems clear that AGI on quantum computers is part of our
future and will be a powerful thing; but the description of a CogPrime analogue for quantum
computers will be left for a later work.
1.7 Five Key Words
As noted, the CogPrime approach lies squarely in the integrative cognitive architecture camp.
But it is not a haphazard or opportunistic combination of algorithms and data structures. At
bottom it is motivated by the patternist philosophy of mind laid out in Ben Goertzel’s book
The Hidden Pattern [Goe06al, which was in large part a summary and reformulation of ideas
presented in a series of books published earlier by the same author [Goe94], [Goe93a], [Goe93b],
[Goe97], [Goe01]. A few of the core ideas of this philosophy are laid out in Chapter 3, though
that chapter is by no means a thorough summary.
One way to summarize some of the most important yet commonsensical parts of the patternist
philosophy of mind, in an AGI context, is to list five words: perception, memory, prediction,
action, goals.
In a phrase: “A mind uses perception and memory to make predictions about
which actions will help it achieve its goals.”
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Date: 7/13/06 PALM BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT Page: 15.
Time: 9:27:55 Incident Report Program: CMS301L
Case No. ... : 1-05-000368 ; (Continued)
the room there was a large bathroom to the right. [i recalled a b6
hot pink and green sofa in the room. There was a door on each side of b7C
the sofa. [L______—sidJrecalled there being a mural of a naked woman in
the room, as well as several photographs of naked women on a shelf.
[sdstated Epstein did not change in front of her but did take
off his towel, exposing himself. po recalled Epstein being
hairy especially on his chest. Epstein also had a hairline that
continued to his buttocks. [L__—sCiJadmitted to seeing his penis. I
asked[_ sd iff she knew what being circumcised meant and she stated
no. [.___——sid|then said that she thought Epstein was on steroids
because he was a "really built guy and his wee wee was very tiny."
would explain that when she stated "wee wee" she meant penis.
stated Epstein exposed himself when he took his towel off,
placing it on the floor as he laid down on the table.
[—Cd|said Epstein was specific in his instruction to her on how to
massage, telling her to go clockwise, etc. ee ae that
Epstein got up from the table and went to the bathroom where she heard
him making, what she believed to be sexual type of noises. (moaning)
He then returned to the room where he again laid down on the table.
Epstein then turned over and instructed[____J to massage his boobs.
As she did this, Epstein continued to make moaning noises.
resumed massaging his chest area. [____] was now standing
on the ground. Epstein turned to his side, and with the towel on the
ground started to rub his penis in an up and down motion.
stated Epstein held on to the small of her back as she massaged his
chest, back and shoulder area. recalled Epstein ejaculating
because he had to use the towel to wipe himself as he got off the
table. [| ___siJalso recalled Epstein having a noticeable freckle on
his chest. :
Epstein then left the room and[____—sid|) got dressed. She went back
downstairs where she met Haley and- the unknown white female.
admitted to getting paid three hundred dollars in cash from Epstein.
Before they left, Epstein asked to_leave her phone number.
‘As they were leaving the house askedL_—sd what had happened
and how much she was paid. stated HEB seemed upset or
jealous when she told her that she received three hundred dollars.
MMMM stated received only two hundred dollars that day.
stated that she believed SE 2: paid two hundred dollars for
bringing her.
EE 014 [that if they do this every Saturday, they could
be rich; agreed. They then went shopping, though she is not
sure where. Possibly at TJ Maxx or Marshall's. stated she
never saw again as she got into a fight at school. She had
not ‘spoken with either as her mother took away her cell phone.
I askedL___—sdd if she was aware of any video equipment while she was
in the room. She stated no.
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heard inspiring leaders talk about making the world a better place. As a ‘Next Gen’ myself, | joined the Family
Business Community. There | discovered impact investing, which in turn led me to take the Harvard Kennedy
School course Impact Investing for the Next Generation. Working on projects with other Next Gen associates
has given me a taste of courses and case study groups at Harvard, and | love it. | have since, through our
family office, been eyeing for investment projects that could make a measurable positive difference on com-
munities around the world.
Finally, I'd like to talk about awakening.
After decades of managing and growing his company, my father returned to his original passion of sharing
“wellness” to build sustainable communities. He created the “Wellness Foundation,” a non-profit aiming to
bring healthy lifestyles to people around the world. One of our international partners is the Clinton Foundation,
and during our annual Wellness Congress in 2012, former President Clinton even delivered the keynote
speech and | am currently helping to bring high profile speakers to our 25th Congress that will be held next
year.
For our local community in Italy, | have been involved in the development of the “Wellness Valley,” a socially
innovative project urging all our stakeholders to strengthen civic attitudes and culture towards healthy living
for human-centric prevention and sustainability. Our long-term goal is to recreate this model in communities
worldwide, allowing governments to reduce healthcare costs, companies to increase productivity, and people
in general to improve their quality of life.
For several years, this project was, like Technogym, an endeavour outside my job at Luxottica. | joined that
company as a marketing intern and was soon promoted to manage an important licensed brand, Tiffany&Co.
It turned out my previous experience had prepared me well for this first big management opportunity, and |
truly enjoyed it.
Exploring the workings of a complex international firm of 80,000 employees, | began to re-examine my family’s
business. When Technogym had its IPO in early 2016, | joined its Board of Directors and looked deep into the
company's potential and my own role. The time was right to take on new responsibilities. Resigning from
Luxottica and training my replacement, | dove into a new Technogym project, the first of its kind. I'm currently
working with the Senior Retail VP to develop a B2C sales channel through new experiential stores in Milan
and London, where | direct staff, strategy, and new revenue streams. Moreover, | recently took responsibility
over the development of a new business unit with the launch of a clothing line, including the evaluation of
potential partnerships and acquisitions, aimed at increasing our presence in the consumer sector at a higher
pace. These are uphill endeavours, but | am energetic to face them. My two years on the Board of Enervit —
a listed health-food company, and another family business — have given me useful insights.
Leadership is both a burden and a blessing — having control can also isolate you — that is why | want to get
all | can from the 360° training and feedback of an HBS MBA. | don't want to be just a founder's daughter; |
want to be a leader in my own right. | am a passionate person with vision, intuition and an ability to think
laterally — a key asset, | think, for Technogym. Taking charge will be a challenge, but | am sure that with my
determination | will be able to demonstrate the autonomy and leadership to take Technogym into the next era.
After the MBA, | plan to spend several years in the US to push the company’s expansion in the world’s largest
wellness/fitness market — despite a strong international reputation, our market share in the US is still modest;
| see the opportunity to grow our presence into a leading position, and earning the best training to prepare for
that is my next step.
Now you understand more about me, my family, our company and why my dream has brought me to you. |
have worked hard to learn from peers, friends, and mentors and will continue to do so in a new setting that
will help me grow — as a woman, a manager, a leader, and, | hope, an example to others.
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Date: Monday, March 7 2011 04:18 PM
Subject: FW: Please forward
From: Jack Goldberger Ts >
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com >;
Attachments: image001.png
From: Kirsty Mackenzie [mailto In|
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 11:11 AM
To: Jack Goldberger
Subject: RE: Please forward
lam writing in an attempt to make contact with Jeffrey Epstein and wondered if you would, as his attorney, forward this
message on to him?
We are keen to explore the possibility of conducting an interview with Mr Epstein, on the subject of the stories which are
circulating, however inaccurately, about both him and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York; we'd be keen to hear from Mr Epstein
first hand so that the various and at times, speculative reporting which is at large in the UK press can be better scrutinised?
Let me tell you a bit about the Today programme.
Today is the BBC's main morning news show; we have been part of the BBC for over 50 years and are generally considered
one of the most important news broadcast outlets - either on radio or TV - here in the UK. We set the news agenda for the BBC
and in many respects we set the daily news agenda for the country. Our interviews are regularly re broadcast across the BBC's
national and international news network including - BBC World, BBC World Service and BBC Online. The combination of
these outlets means the global 'reach' of a BBC Today programme interview is second to none.
Programme guests have included a selection of some of the biggest names in politics, business, international relations and
the arts including US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, President Nicholas Sarkozy, President Hamid Karzai, HRH the Prince
of Wales, former President Musharraf, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former President Bill Clinton, Senator
George Mitchell, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, George Soros, Stephen
Hawking, Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jaggar and Salman Rushdie.
We are a programme that carries considerable weight and influence and which prides itself in being a first port of call for many
of the most important and influential figures on the international stage.
| can best be reached via my cell phone - ii or this email address.
My very best wishes and my thanks!
Kirsty
Kirsty MacKenzie,
Interviews Editor,
Today Programme,
BBC News
mobile:
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From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 2/21/2019 1:51:38 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid
Subject: Re:
Not a good time
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:51 AM Weingarten, Reid < > wrote:
Is she in dc today or tomorrow?
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: J
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 2:51 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid
Subject:
https ://www. cnb c. com/2019/02/20/ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-gets-pris on-surrender-date-delayed-two-
months-to-may-6.html
please note
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
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Date: Friday, September 26 2014 10:57 PM
Subject: Re:
From: Jes Staley [as
To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>;
I saw that.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 26, 2014, at 6:51 PM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Administration officials were firm that President Obama was only beginning to think about a new
attorney general, but many in Washington are already focusing on Kathryn Ruemmler, the former
White House counsel, who recently returned to private practice.
Ms. Ruemmiler, 43, is known to be highly trusted by the president, and she helped guide his thinking on
gay rights, the health care law and the reach of executive authority.
She is one of only three women to serve as White House counsel.
Ms. Ruemmler, who grew up in Washington State and studied law at Georgetown, also has a history of
winning over skeptical Republicans. “You never had to question where she was coming from, and she
never volunteered something she didn’t know,” said Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia.
“She is very precise but very firm also, and held her own well.”
She also won admirers as a lead prosecutor on the Enron task force. But if Ms. Ruemmler is nominated,
the advice she dispensed to the White House about the I.R.S. scandal and the attacks on Benghazi, Libya,
will certainly draw scrutiny.
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From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 10/31/2011 10:50:46 AM
To: Katherine Keating
Subject: Re: After Words
where are you?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Katherine Keating qq wrote:
Dear Friends,
| wanted to share with you the forward to my father's new book ‘After Words’. He truly is
an inspiration and so is his writing. The book, which is a compilation of his speeches, was
launched yesterday in Sydney. | will be sure to send you a copy, it's a brilliant read.
| trust this email finds you well.
Kindest regards
Katherine X
Creativity is central to our endeavours
e BY:PAUL KEATING
° From:
The Australian
e October 22, 2011 12:00AM
Paul Keating is aware that many people see him as a puzzle and contradiction. During the
interview he explained he wrote this introduction to his book as a guide to help people see the
unifying philosophy of his life, public and private.
FRIEDRICH Schiller, the German philosopher, said: “If man is ever to solve the problems of politics in practice he
will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through beauty that man makes his
way to freedom."
Romantic and idealistic as that view may seem to some, the thought is revelatory of the fact that the greater part of
human aspiration has been informed by individual intuition and privately generated passions, more than it has
through logic or scientific revelation. The moral basis of our public life, our social organisation, has come from
within us - by aspiration and by light, not by some process of logical deduction.
Immanuel Kant referred to our inner impulses as “the higher self", an unconscious search for truth, going deeply
into ourselves to establish who we are and what we should be.
Beauty is about the quest for perfection or an ideal, and that quest has to begin with aesthetic imagination -
something informed by conscience, carved by duty. Kant called it “the inner command", the ethical construct one
creates to guide one from within.
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A second reason exists for making discovery of Epstein’s acts of abuse of other minor
girls admissible. Juries considering punitive damages issues are plainly entitled to consider “the
existence and frequency of similar past conduct.” TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources
Corp., 509 U.S. 443, 462 0.28 (1993). This is because the Supreme Court recognizes “that a
recidivist may be punished more severely than a first offender . . . [because] repeated misconduct
is more reprehensible than an individual instance of malfeasance.” BMW of North America, Inc.
Vv. Gore, 517 U.S. 559, 577 (1996) (supporting citations omitted). In addition, juries can consider
other similar acts evidence as part of the deterrence calculation in awarding punitive damages,
because “evidence that a defendant has repeatedly engaged in prohibited conduct while knowing
. that it was unlawful would provide relevant support for an argument that strong medicine is
reaitined to cure the defendant’s disrespect for the law.” Jd. at 576-77. In the cases Edwards
filed against Epstein, his clients were entitled to attempt to prove that Epstein “repeatedly
engaged in prohibited conduct” — i.e., because he was a predatory pedophile, he sexually
assaulted deems and dozens of minor girls. The discovery of Epstein’s friends who might have
had direct or circumstantial evidence of other acts of sexual assault was accordingly entirely
proper. Edwards is therefore entitled summary judgment to the extent his claim is based on
efforts by Edwards to obtain discovery of Epstein’s friends.
m1. EPSTEIN’S LAWSUIT MUST BE DISMISSED BECAUSE OF HIS REFUSAL TO
: PARTICIPATE IN REASONABLE DISCOVERY.
As is readily apparent from the facts of this case, Epstein has filed a lawsuit but then
refused to allow any real discovery about the merits of his case. Instead, when asked hard
questions about whether he has any legitimate claim at all, Epstein has hidden behind the Fifth
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Thomson Reuters
Office:
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Reuters.com
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Even from jail, Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the system | Miami Herald Page 11 of 17
Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document 1-1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 12 of 18
The work release was approved by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office,
said spokeswoman Therese Barbera.
“Jeffrey Epstein, while in custody, met the criteria for the Work Release
Program,” Barbera wrote in an email. “There was no factual basis to deny
Mr. Epstein the same availability of this program that is offered to other
inmates under similar circumstances. Mr. Epstein was closely monitored
and there were no problems encountered during his time in the program.”
But the sheriff’s own work release policy — a copy of which Barbera provided
to the Herald — specifically notes that sex offenders aren’t eligible for work While officially confined to the Palm Beach County stockade, serving time for his sex
release. offenses, Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to spend half his day at this West Palm Beach
office building. It was called work release, although Palm Beach Sheriff's Office rules
At first, Barbera questioned whether Epstein was a sex offender at all, noting _ prohibit work-release status for sexual offenders. Emily Michot
that he didn’t have to register officially until after his release from the jailin = £M/CHOT@MIAMIFIERALD.COM
2009. But his court papers clearly listed him as a sex offender. In fact, the papers Epstein signed — obtained by the Herald — included all the laws
governing registered sex offenders in Florida.
Barbera refused to explain why Epstein was seemingly allowed to deviate from the agency’s policies. She also would not respond to requests for an
accounting of the amount of money that Epstein paid the sheriff’s office for his private details.
Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, who has been in office since 2004 — and is widely considered to be one of the most powerful people in the county — did
not respond to requests for comment.
Aspokeswoman for Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw declined to say why Jeffrey Epstein was allowed work-release status despite rules prohibiting work release for sex
offenders. Taylor Jones PALM BEACH POST
Epstein’s registration requirements are somewhat confusing, even to those who are responsible for keeping his registration. The Florida Department of
Law Enforcement, which keeps the online registry, and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, where Epstein has to register in person twice a year, gave
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How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes 123
hurt anyone very much. The idea of showing pain is big in values
campaigns. Campaigns against drunk driving like to show students
dead drivers and awful car crashes. But they miss the real point. Have
the students seen their parents drink and drive or friends drink and
drive? Are they dead? If not, these campaigns will have little impact
since values are subconsciously held.
There is a way to teach these things but it isn’t easy. Imagine that
you wanted to teach teenagers not to drive drunk. You could create a
simulation of drunkenness that asked students to drive drunk while
not being able to hold their heads steady, blacking out from time to
time, and seeing very badly. In other words, instilling a new emotion
into the mix can alter values. Make people afraid of something they
want to do and that fear will manifest itself when it is time to do it.
Emotions can be induced into subconscious processes and decision-
making through experience. Emotions can change values.
There is a sense in which appreciation cannot be taught. You like
it or you don’t. I have two grandsons. The 5-year-old (my daughter’s
child) has announced that he doesn’t want to have anything to do
with a ball. The 3-year-old (my son’s child) goes wild with excitement
when he sees ballgames being played and responds excitedly when
balls are given to him. What is the difference and how did this hap-
pen? The difference is obvious: One appreciates the art of it and one
doesn’t. How this happened is less clear, but the parenting is very dif-
ferent with respect to balls in each house. There are other, biologi-
cal differences as well. The 3-year-old has much taller parents and is
already the same size as the 5-year-old. He is much more physical as
well.
So, the question is, Could we teach the 5-year-old to love balls and
ballgames, and could we teach the 3-year-old to hate balls and ball-
games? The answer to this is obvious. We could do this. It might be
hard but people are, unfortunately, quite good at negative reinforce-
ment, so it is possible to make people change their attitudes by using
it as a method.
Is there a way to teach the positive? Can we get someone to ap-
preciate a work of art who does not respond immediately to works of
art? Can we get someone to appreciate classical music who does not
have any interest in it?
This is, of course, what many art history or music appreciation
courses endeavor to do. Their methodology is always the same:
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CBO’s Projection from 10 Years Ago (in 1999) Showed Federal Revenue
Sufficient to Support Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments Until 2060E
— 35 Years Later than Current Projection
CBO’s Projection in the ‘1999 Long-Term Budget Outlook’ on
Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments vs. Revenue as % of GDP, 1980 — 2070E
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Source: Congressional Budget Office Long-Term Budget Outlook (1999).
KP Note that there was no alternative fiscal scenario in CBO’s forecast back then.
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each, they’d put the name of the military unit to be called up in an emergency.
We'd been allocated Lod Airport, because our base was just 15 minutes away.
Still, as I accompanied the engineer back to the control tower, I tried to work
out in my mind whether we could plan, prepare and train quickly enough to
mount an operation to free the plane later that night.
More than a dozen members of the unit had now arrived, and more were
joining us every half-hour or so. I arranged for El Al to give us a hangar and a
707 identical to the Sabena plane. Shai, Danny Yatom and I took two airline
technicians with us for a closer look at the Boeing. We studied up on it as
quickly as we could, beginning with the cockpit and the front door, which we
saw was too high to reach without a large ladder. But making our way back, we
realized the wings were low enough to climb on to. When, with the help of
Danny, I clambered onto one of them, I managed to get one of the emergency
doors to open by banging hard on the top end with my open fist. I asked the
technicians whether we could expect the Sabena doors to give way as well. Yes,
he said, but he cautioned me that on some airlines, there were passenger seats
next to at least one of the two doors above each wing.
Walking up into the cabin, I tried to work out how we might attack the
hijackers before they were able to harm the passengers, or us. The risks were
obvious. But I felt we had to be ready to act. With the rest of the sayeret still
making its way to Lod, I put Danny in charge of briefing the new arrivals,
familiarizing them with the 707 and preparing for the possibility of an assault
operation. I also told him to get hold of a couple of dozen small, 22-caliber,
Beretta pistols. I couldn’t see how we’d manage to make our way onto the plane
with Uzis. We knew we’d have to get up to speed quickly on using the Berettas.
None of us had trained on them. But many of the air marshals on board El Al
flights were Sayeret Matkal reservists, and they did use Berettas. I told Danny
to check for any sayeret marshals arriving on El Al flights and get them to join
us.
As | headed back to see Dado, we were nowhere close to a detailed plan on
how to confront the hijackers. Nor did we have any orders. The people who
would give them — Dado, Dayan and ultimately Prime Minister Meir — were still
deciding how to respond. But when I reached the control tower, at about
9:30pm, the order came, if not to mount an operation, at least to make sure the
sayeret was ready. “Talk to Talik,” Dado told me. “See what the options are to
take over the plane if that’s the decision.” I sat down with Talik and ran through
what I’d learned from my brief look at the hijacked plane and the work we’d
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COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS February 25, 2019
While we are keen to gain more insights into the evolving use of CBD in the coming
months from our survey work, this initial snapshot offers a framework for sizing the
ultimate CBD opportunity. With growing consumer awareness, we conservatively
believe that CBD use can grow to 10% of adults in the U.S., or ~25 mm consumers (using
current population) by 2025. If we assume that the average consumer ultimately spends
$640 per year (or less than $2 / day), that would imply a $16 bn market opportunity for
CBD. We would note that using the U.S. Census 18+ population projection in 2025, a
10% incidence rate would equate to just over $590 in annual spend to achieve $16 bn.
Conversely, holding the $640 in spend constant with the U.S. Census forecasted
population would result in over $17 bnin revenues by 2025.
2
That said, we view this estimate as somewhat conservative, as we can envision a
scenario where a consumer that uses a CBD tincture or capsule, may also be inclined to
convert his or her beauty regimen to include CBD (e.g., CBD infused beauty products),
and or use a topical for targeted relief as well. Our $16 bn estimate assumes the
following category contributions:
Figure 3 We Believe CBD Can Be a $16 BN Revenue Opportunity in the U.S. by 2025
NUTRACEUTICALS
$6,400
TOPICALS
$4,000
S16BN
CBD REVENUE
OPPORTUNITY
Se
BEAUTY
$1,120
BEVERAGES
$2,400
Note: $ in mm unless otherwise stated.
Source: Cowen and Company
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talking to that lady and the lady was cm was actually saying [m
coming, I’m coming, andi was like, can | bring somebody? And then _
was like, the fady was Jike what does she look like and she started describing me
and then Zack turned around and said tojwho are you talking to. And then
went like that and she was talking to the lady and like just describing me,
what ] was wearing that night and then the lady was like okay, well Jeff is gonna
want to talk to you and iiwas like, that’s fine. And then she got off the
phone and then Zack said, | was like too, why are you describing me, who are
you talking to. And she was ike do you want ta go with me tomorrow, I’m
gonna go pick up some money from my boss’s house. And then she’s like.
cause | get paid tomorrow and then I said okay. And Zack’s like no because |
guess Zack knew what she did because Zack said no and he got really mad at
me and said no, you're not going, you're not going with her. And then | was like,
and she’s like, you know, but you just have to come with me and | was like cause
the old man’s gonna give us both money so we can go shopping. Cause that's
like my boss and he’s really nice. And | was like okay. And then Zack didn't say
anything the rest of the night about it, he was just like really (inaudible) out there
and mad. Not really mad but he was just like frustrated that | guess,
would s2y that.
And you didn’t know what was really going on.
| | didn't know it was gonna, that | had to give him a massage and get naked.
Me:
What did you think was going to happen?
| | That, like she just said, | don't know but | knew something was wrong, nobedy’'s
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95. Dershowitz’s false statements directly stated and also implied that in speaking out
against sex trafficking Roberts acted with fraud, dishonesty, and unfitness for the task.
Dershowitz’s false statements directly and indirectly assert that Roberts lied about being sexually
trafficked and abused by Epstein and having sex with Dershowitz, and that Roberts committed
the crimes of perjury and extortion. Dershowitz’s false statements were reasonably understood
by many persons who read his statements as conveying that specific intention and meaning.
96. Dershowitz’s false statements were reasonably understood by many persons who
read those statements as making specific factual claims that Roberts was lying about specific
facts, and committed the crimes of perjury and extortion.
97. Dershowitz specifically directed his false statements at Roberts’ true public
description of factual events, and many persons who read Dershowitz’s statements reasonably
understood that those statements referred directly to Roberts’ account of the abuse she suffered at
the hands of Epstein and Dershowitz.
98. Dershowitz and Epstein intended Dershowitz’s false statements to be widely
published and disseminated on television, through newspapers, by word of mouth, and on the
internet. As intended by Dershowitz and Epstein, Dershowitz’s statements were published and
disseminated around the world.
99. Dershowitz made his false statements on behalf of himself and Epstein in reckless
disregard of their truth or falsity and with malicious intent to destroy Roberts’s reputation and
credibility; to prevent her from further disseminating her life story; and to cause persons hearing
or reading Roberts’s descriptions of truthful facts to disbelieve her entirely. Dershowitz made his
false statements on behalf of himself and Epstein wantonly and with the specific intent to
maliciously damage Roberts’s good name and reputation in a way that would destroy her efforts
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they have to accomplish this all on their own. A// of us must assume that. Keep
cool. Stay focused. Rely on your instincts. We’re ready for this mission. And
we are going to achieve it.”
One minute after four in the afternoon, we got the word to go. I was in the
lead buggy, consciously trying to look like a civilian, not a soldier. It was about
a mile-and-a-half to the aircraft. I glanced back at the others. Like me, many of
them had been awake for 30 hours or more, in some cases nearly 48 hours. The
air marshals had been plucked off long-haul flights on which relaxation, much
less sleep, was not an option. As before any mission, I knew everyone would be
thinking about what was about to happen. They also realized that if we failed,
the passengers trapped inside the plane would be at the mercy of terrorists
armed with AK-47s and explosives. But I was confident that any apprehension
would be overtaken by adrenalin when as the assault began.
As we got closer, Shai Agmon radioed me. He said two or three people, not
the terrorists, had come out of the plane. One seemed to be the Red Cross man.
They were about 120 yards away from the aircraft. As soon as he’d signed off, I
got word from the command post in the control tower that it was indeed the Red
Cross representative, along with two of the flight crew. They’d been chosen by
the terrorists to do security checks on the “maintenance” men.
I brought the convoy to a halt. The Red Cross man gave each of us a fairly
cursory body search before waving us on. Then, he got to Bibi. Though I had
somehow failed to notice, he had left on his red sayeret boots. In Israel, that was
the equivalent of a neon sign saying: “I am a paratrooper.” Although the Red
Cross man noticed the boots, he at first made no comment. Then, rolling up the
pants leg of Bibi’s overalls, he saw his Beretta — not inside his waistbelt, but
inside the boot. The next thing I heard was an angry spurt of French as the man
called the control tower. For a moment, I feared the mission was over, with
potentially fatal repercussions for the hostages. But whatever explanation the
Red Cross man was given — presumably by Dayan himself, who would not have
held back in conveying what was at stake — it dissuaded him from taking further
action.
As we were returning to the buggies, the Red Cross man told me that
“Captain Rifa’at” had ordered us to pull up to the generator on the side of the
plane. Each of us would then have to walk forward and open the front of our
overalls so he could make sure we weren’t armed. I passed back four orders to
the rest of the men. First, with no exceptions, move your pistol to the back of
your belt. Second: I’Il be the first to go through the inspection. Third: watch
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COWEN
COLLABORATIVE INSIGHTS February 25, 2019
Figure 6 - 2017 Production Less Operating Costs Per Acre (Cash Grower Margin/Acre}
Corn Soybeans
Gross Value of Production
Operating Costs
Seed
2
Fertilizer
Chemicals
Other Operating Costs
Total Operating Costs
Cash Grower Margin
Source: USDA, Cowen and Company
Kentucky Hemp Growth Provides An Indication For Near-Term Acceleration
Figure 7 shows hemp production in Kentucky under Kentucky Department of
Agriculture (KDA) Industrial Hemp Research Pilot Program. The figure shows the
increase in planted acres in 2018 (Sept) as well as the shift toward CBD as a percentage
of total hemp (planted acres for CBD rising to 4,121 acres in 2018 from 864 in 2017). In
2018, there were 158 greenhouses in Kentucky representing 764,000 sq. ft., which is
included in the 2018 acreage below. (Note 1 acre = 43,560 sq. ft.)
On January 22, 2019, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture approved 1,035
applications to cultivate up to 42,086 acres of industrial hemp in 2019, up from 16,100
acres in 2018 and 33 acres in 2014, which was the first growing year. (67 acres of
greenhouse space was also approved for hemp cultivation.) We note that of the 16,100
acres approved in 2018, less than half (6,700) was planted.
Figure 7 - Kentucky Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Research Pilot Program
Approved | Approved | Approved Planted | Harvested | % of Grain % CBD & % Grain &
Production Year | Processors | Growers Acres Acres Acres or Seeds % Fiber % CBD Grain Fiber
- 33 -
2018 (Sept)
2019
Source: kyagr.com/hemp, Cowen and Company
Outlook For Growth
The expected growth for hemp is supported by the economics offered. However, there
are limitations related to required cultivation methods.
Conversations with industry experts estimate planted hemp acres in 2019 could reach
200,000, up from 78,176 in 2018. The growth is supported by expansion like Kentucky's
and new states entering the market (only 23 states participated in 2018).
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and then he turned back around and he just started touching himself and | think
the massage was like a half an hour but cause | don’t know, the time | think was
a half an hour to 45 minutes and then! was done. And then he, | think he has
like a safe somewhere because around us he didn’t have his wallet or something
because right when we got out the door, he left to go put the towel on again and
he put the towel on again and went out of the room and he goes you can put
your clothes back on. So | put my clothes back on and he walked right out there,
like two seconds and then came back like within two seconds. And he’s like
here's your money. And then he gave me $300 in hundred dollar bills and they
were like brand new because they only had like one crease in them and that’s
when they're folded in half. And he said thank you for your time. And then he
left. And he said you can see your way out and | was just walking and | got lost
cause there’s so many different rooms and j got lost and | walked back
downstairs and | ERS like just smiling and giggling, like, | guess it was what
the lady was saying and then she looked at me and she looked back at the lady
and then she’s like, the iady’s like oh, bye fl cause it was time to go cause |
guess because | was done. And then, then we left the same way we came in
and then I's like oh my gosh, Wcoes how did you like it. Like how much
did he give you, how much did he pay you. And |’m like $300. And I was kind ef
tike $300, Cause the girl was like this. She was looking at me really weird.
The other girl that was with her. She's tike really quiet though. And then she just
looked at me really weird and she’s like trying to gaze into my eyeballs. And
ihen we went in the car and when we got in the car, Bs like, let me see what
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From: Edward Rod Larsen
Sent: 10/30/2018 1:06:54 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Essays
Importance: High
will do
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:18 AM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
essay 1. change next to the last sentence. Similarly. ....... to I look forward to accessing the cultural
resources in New York in order that I may continue my cultural journey.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:00 AM Edward Rod Larsen < > wrote:
Essay 1.
Coming from an international background, and having lived in Oslo, Tel Aviv, New York and London by the age of eighteen, I
believe that the international profile of NYU will provide the best environment for my college education, with the added benefit of
returning to the place where I've spent most of my childhood and where my mother will be posted as Norwegian Ambassador to the
UN in January 2019.
NYU's Art History department appeals to me because of its wide range of courses, from the global art of antiquity to the
contemporary. My passion is the Italian Renaissance and the rich history behind it, especially the works of 15th century masters
such as Masaccio and Bellini. Some of the courses that NYU offers such as "Early masters of Italian Renaissance painting" and
"Florentine Villas: An Interpretation Based on Historical, Social Factors" are, therefore appealing to me. What I find exciting, is not
only the visual aesthetics and analysis of these masterpieces, but also the manner in which the Renaissance emphasised
scientific and economic innovation, areas of study the Global Liberal Arts programme would offer. NYU's unique campus in
Florence would give me a once in lifetime opportunity to spend a year immersing myself in the art, culture and history of Italy. This
would be an exciting experience to have while studying for a Bachelor's degree in Art History, and would compliment my main
interests in the subject.
As one of the prime cultural centres in the world, NYU's location in NYC is the perfect place to broaden knowledge within
contemporary art. I am very much looking forward to visiting the Whitney Biennia this May. In addition the New museum, which
shows a lot of the kind of work I find interesting is a short walk away from campus.
Taking advantage of being based in central London for the past year, I have completed the Chairman's Programme at Christies,
work experience at the Courtauld Gallery and I will be working at Maddox Gallery in the near future. Similarly, I want to take
advantage of being based in NYC to gain as much experience as possible. I have chosen to apply Early Decision to NYU as it is the
only American university I will be applying to, as there is no better place to obtain experience of the contemporary art world than
New York City.
Essay 2.
From the age of extremes to the age of bewilderment
What captivates me more than anything else is the different ideological phases of the 20th century and how art can be used as
a tool of advancement and reflection on ideological and political developments.
My fascination began when I read; Eric Hobsbawm's "Age Of Extremes" and has since developed through books such as
Benjamin Carter Heft's "The Death Of Democracy" and Yuval Harari "A Brief History Of Tomorrow" and "21 Lessons For
The 21st Century".
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In the years after the First World War, until the end of the Second World War, three political models for shaping the future of
nation states emerged; Fascism, Communism and liberal democracy. These all offered great ideas for the future of the world.
Fascism and Communism shared some common features: authoritarian, strong leaders and a belief that their revolutions had
to be carried through with violence. This led to the mass murders in the Nazi concentration camps and in the Soviet Gulags.
In the mid war periods, the "Litfass columns" that were originally designed to carry advertising, became the outdoor galleries
for the war of ideologies. The political poster was born. High quality posters from every political party in Germany popped
up on the columns. Hitler's propaganda chief G8ebels stated that the Nazi election campaign should be run through speeches
and posters. The other parties responded in kind. An art form thus became an essential political tool in the battle for votes.
The propagandist Art used by the Nazis and communists alike was essential in helping sell their message to the masses.
Indeed, much of the art that was critical of these movements was suppressed or censored and "subversive" artists cowed, in
some cases imprisoned or even worse.
The liberal democratic model departed sharply from these authoritarian perspectives by presenting the alternative of free and
transparent elections, the rule of law and freedom of speech. In the mid-war period the three narratives were competing to be
the conceptual frame for society. After the Second World War fascism was crushed leaving the two competing ideologies of
communism and liberal democracy. After the demise of communism in 1989, through to the late 1990's, liberal democracy
was victorious in the idealogical battlefield. Some historians, like Francis Fukuyama, went so far as to proclaim this period as
"the end of history".
A key piece of art that championed this kind of ideology was Sheppard Fairey's campaign poster for Barack Obama. In this
poster, Fairey, a well established graffiti artist uses urban colours and stencilling techniques combined with the message
"HOPE" to promote the incoming presidents positive values and popularity with the young. It is notable that Fairey's most
recent political poster protests the Trump presidency rather than promote it.
With the rise of so called "illiberal democracy", with strong parties standing for populist ideologies, we have now moved into
what can be described as the age of bewilderment. We were not in fact at the "end of history". Once again the future looks
unpredictable and insecure and artists are responding in different ways.
Jeremy Deller, a British Turner prize winning artist created a work which features a car damaged in the bombing of the
historic Mutanabbi Street book market, which resulted in the deaths of 38 people. Here, an art work has been used to show the
aftermath of an event. This event was the result of the Iraq war, which was seen as a way to spread democracy. Here Art is
used as a means by which to explore the effects of ideology rather than promote it, another really interesting area in the study
of the intersections between ideology and art.
Exploring how art reflects the historical and ideological contexts of the world around it is fascinating to me and I would love
to study these ideas in more depth at undergraduate level.
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Cite as: 586 U.S. (2019) 11
BREYER, J., dissenting
sity, included immunity from suit in commercial areas, since
organizations were buying goods and making contracts in
the United States.
To achieve these purposes, Congress enacted legislation
that granted necessarily broad immunity. And that fact
strongly suggests that Congress would not have wanted
the statute to reduce significantly the scope of immunity
that international organizations enjoyed, particularly
organizations engaged in development finance, refugee
assistance, or other tasks that U.S. law could well decide
were “commercial” in nature. See infra, at 12.
To that extent, an examination of the statute’s purpose
supports a static, not a dynamic, interpretation of its
cross-reference to the immunity of foreign governments.
Unlike the purpose of the Civil Rights Act, the purpose
here was not to ensure parity of treatment for interna-
tional organizations and foreign governments. Instead, as
the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit pointed out
years ago, the statute’s reference to the immunities of
“foreign governments” was a “shorthand” for the immuni-
ties those foreign governments enjoyed at the time the Act
was passed. Atkinson v. Inter-American Development
Bank, 156 F. 3d 1335, 1840, 1841 (1998).
Il
Now consider the consequences that the majority’s
reading of the statute will likely produce—consequences
that run counter to the statute’s basic purposes. Although
the UN itself is no longer dependent upon the Immunities
Act, many other organizations, such as the FAO and sev-
eral multilateral development banks, continue to rely
upon that Act to secure immunity, for the United States
has never ratified treaties nor enacted statutes that might
extend the necessary immunity, commercial and noncom-
mercial alike.
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From: Richard Kahn ee
Sent: 8/1/2018 1:34:05 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Congressional candidate compares Melania Trump to prostitute
Importance: — High
https://nypost.com/2018/07/3 1/congressional-candidate-compares-melania-trump-to-
rostitute/?utm source=maropost&utm medium=email&utm campaign=nypdaily&utm content=20180801&
mpweb=755-7157445-719004712
Congressional candidate compares Melania
Trump to prostitute
By Chris Perez
A congressional candidate from Oregon has caused an uproar on social media after
comparing first lady Melania Trump to a prostitute.
“Did you know the First Lady works by the hour?” tweeted independent House candidate
Mark Roberts on Monday, using the hashtags “#thinkdirty” and “#hoebag.”
Twitter users were quick to blast the politician for his crude comment, with some calling on
him to pull out of the 2nd Congressional District race for Republican incumbent Greg
Walden’s seat.
“Very unprofessional on your part,” tweeted one person. “Grow up and stick to the issues, so
the voters in your district can decide on your stand regarding the issues.”
Another added, “Wow no class Mark. You’re definitely using liberal tactics and it makes me
wonder if you really are a conservative at all.”
Roberts sparked the social media storm on Monday afternoon after replying to a tweet from
Charlie Kirk, president of the right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA. Kirk had
compared Melania’s staff numbers to those of former first lady Michelle Obama.
“Did you know: There are thirty-nine fewer staffers dedicated to The First Lady of the
United States (FLOTUS) than under Obama,” Kirk tweeted, referencing data reported in
January.
“There are only five staffers dedicated to Melania Trump vs. forty-four staffers who served
Michelle Obama,” he said.
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From: Michael Wolff______________________
Sent: 1/5/2018 11:04:21 AM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Just passing reference that you, Tom Barrack, and Trump were once friends. One mention. No inference.
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:41 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
am i mentioned in the book? .
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