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Re: email sent to Gates Foundation (important notes below, in the description section of this page)
1. Frank Ruscica fruscica@gmail.com 917.941.9836 (NYC)
My Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised1
work2
+ my 20%-
finders’-fee offer3
+ your Rolodex + . . . = the partnership
I’m seeking via said offer is established = 1) huge/
Rockefeller-ian4
$ for you (et al.) via (the prospect of) said
work/partnership yielding the most popular online market
for AI and customized-education (e.g., CE for AI5
, which will
be to the AI economy what Rockefeller’s oil was to the
industrial economy of his era), 2) COVIDS-20+ will be much
less likely6
, 3) identification of the first COVID-19 (C19)
cure and/or vaccine might result directly7
, 4) . . .
1
Links to the praise are on this page and the next, along with excerpts.
2
Keywords (details below): said work (1992-2004); subsequent 15+ years of work
to make my business model disruptive to Amazon, Microsoft, etc.; in early 2016 I
learned from a UPenn criminologist’s 2013 book that advances in molecular
genetics are IMPERILING ~77 million psychopaths (PsIMP)6.1
; from mid-2016 to
mid-2019 my primary focus was updating/adapting my work (e.g., updating my
innovation that’s designed to disrupt; adapting my Amazon-/VC-praised design of
a next-gen variant of LinkedIn) to yield an IDEAL6.8
front company for gathering
(anticipatory) intelligence6.9
re: threats posed by PsIMP (e.g., human-made C20+).
Re: said praise for my pre-2005 work:
From a 2004 email sent to me by Amazon.com’s first Director of Personalization:
Frank, I just spent about an hour surfing around your website with a bit of
amazement. I run a [now defunct] little company [funded entirely by
Amazon] . . . We are a team of folks who worked together at Amazon.com
developing that company’s personalization and recommendations team and
systems. We spent about 1.5 years thinking about what we wanted to build
next. We thought a lot about online education tools. We thought a lot about
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classified ads and job networks. We thought a lot about reputation
systems. We thought a bit about personalized advertising systems. We
thought a lot about blogging and social networking systems [my
emphasis]. . . . I guess I’m mostly just fascinated that we’ve been working a
very similar vein to the one you describe, without having a solid name for it
(we call it “the age of the amateur” or “networks of shared experiences”
instead of CLLCS [i.e., customized lifelong learning and career services],
but believe me, we are talking about the same patterns and markets, if not in
exactly the same way). Thanks for sharing what you have—it’s fascinating
stuff.
From a 2004 email sent to me by an analyst at then top VC firm Draper Fisher
Jurvetson:
Hi Frank, Thanks for your time today. If you would like to provide us with
further information about your [business] plan [for providing CLLCS], we
would be happy to review it in more detail.
From a 1998 email sent to me by the then Manager of the Learning Sciences and
Technology Group at Microsoft Research:
Frank, you are a good man. Have you thought about joining this team? Your
only alternative, of course, is venture capital. But their usual models require
getting rid of the “originator” within the first eighteen months.
3
It seems likely that the person I’m seeking to partner with will view my proposal
as an offer he can’t refuse. Details below, starting on page 108 (use keyword
search: input “finder”; in particular, see pages 267-272). Keywords: greed, fear
(e.g., of job loss).
4
Said finders’-fee will be 20%-ownership of the startup variant of Amazon.com
that’ll result from said partnership. I’ll pay you “huge $” for your ownership stake
on the day you receive it; if you wait to sell your stake, “Rockefeller-ian . . .
5
Keywords (details below): customized bundles of data, software and services,
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purchased to: 1) launch each buyer’s “1.0” AI, 2) augment buyers’ AI (e.g.,
software purchased to add features to a 1.0 AI; data that a 2.0 AI can learn from).
Excerpt from below:
From 2015 book Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, co-
authored by University of Pennsylvania professor of psychology and
political science Philip Tetlock:
Doug knows that when people read for pleasure they naturally
gravitate to the like-minded. So he created a database containing
hundreds of information sources—from the New York Times to
obscure blogs—that are tagged by their ideological orientation,
subject matter, and geographical origin, then wrote a program that
selects what he should read next using criteria that emphasize
diversity. Thanks to Doug’s simple invention, he is sure to constantly
encounter different perspectives.
From 2018 book Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and
Computers Thinking Together, by the MIT professor who’s the Director of
MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence:
What if each participant [in a market] has his or her own “stable” of
[AI-powered software ro]bots? Then participants will compete to
create smarter and smarter bots [my emphasis]. If your bots are
better than mine at making accurate predictions, then you will make
more money than I will.
. . . Today’s financial markets are leading the way, with investment
managers increasingly relying on quantitative, often AI-based, trading
algorithms.
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Keywords (details below): said 2013 book re: advances in molecular genetics are
IMPERILING ~77M psychopaths (PsIMP)6.1
; 2020 confirmatory update6.2
re: said
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advances; it’s (very) likely that a growing number of Ps: 1) are aware6.3
that PsIMP,
2) have been resisting6.4
; engineering6.5
coronaviruses and cures/vaccines for
COVIDS-19+ (C19+CV) could ENLARGE6.6
Ps’ war chest; Melinda Gates in
2018: “[B]iggest threat to humanity is a pandemic brought on by a bioterrorist
attack”; Nobel laureate virologist in April 2020: “[the novel coronavirus] could
only have been created in a lab”; in 2016 I recognized that Ps resisting would
THREATEN many non-Ps (e.g., many thousands of non-Ps who’ll expedite PsIMP
by being the most valuable of the AI-CE industry’s customers, entrepreneurs and
employees)6.7
; from mid-2016 to mid-2019 my primary focus was adapting/
updating my work to yield an IDEAL6.8
front company for gathering (anticipatory)
intelligence6.9
re: Ps resisting; Warren Buffett, longtime investor in many insurance
companies: “It would be foolish, however, for me or anyone to demand 100%
proof of huge forthcoming damage to the world if that outcome seemed at all
possible and if prompt action had even a small chance of thwarting the danger”6.10
(e.g., non-Ps today shouldn’t commit a variant of the “category error”6.11
made in
the 1930s by Neville Chamberlain et al. that led to World War II)6.12
.
6.1
Keywords (details below): unless Ps resist/coerce, they’ll soon: 1) suffer
“indefinite detention” (e.g., Ps who haven’t committed a crime) and/or career
damage/loss, 2) be unable to leverage gamete markets to conceive offspring who
can thrive/survive amid “superstar-biased” technological change. Excerpt from
below (1 of 2):
Re: psychopathy is ~70% heritable
From 2011 book The Science of Evil, by a University of Cambridge
professor of developmental psychopathology:
If a trait or behavior is even partly genetic, we should see its signature
showing up in twins.
. . . Regarding twin studies of Type P [i.e., psychopaths], none of
these show 100 percent heritability, but the genetic component is
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nevertheless substantial (the largest estimate being about 70 percent).
Re: many/most/all genetic identifiers of said ~70% are coming soon
From 2013 book The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime,
by a University of Pennsylvania professor of Criminology, Psychiatry and
Psychology:
“Behavioral genetics is a shadowy black box because, while it tells us
what proportion of a given behavior is genetically influenced, it does
not identify the specific genes lurking in there that predispose one to
violence. Molecular genetics is poised to pry open that black box . . .”
“Twenty years ago, molecular genetics was a fledgling field of
research. Now it is a major enterprise providing us with a detailed
look at the structure and function of genes.”
. . .
Re: “indefinite detention” of Ps could/should ensue
From The Anatomy of Violence (my emphases):
. . .
[This] leads the government [in 2034] to launch the LOMBROSO
program—Legal Offensive on Murder: Brain Research Operation for
the Screening of Offenders.
. . . Under LOMBROSO, those who test positive—the LPs—are held
in indefinite detention. . . . It sounds quite cushy, but remember that
the LPs have not actually committed a crime. Perhaps the main
drawback is who they live with, housed as they are in facilities full of
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other LPs—time bombs waiting to explode.
6.2
From a May 2020 article in Nature magazine:
In the past decade, studies of psychopathological genetics have become large
enough to draw robust conclusions.
6.3
From a 2016 article on PsychologyToday.com:
A [meta-analytic] review of [48] studies found that the correlation between
psychopathy and intelligence is nearly zero [i.e., ~2.3% of Ps have an IQ ≥
130; ~16% ≥ 115] . . . (O’Boyle, Forsyth, Banks, & Story, 2013).
From the 2012 article in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin titled “The Corporate
Psychopath”:
Today’s corporate psychopath may be highly educated—several with Ph.D.,
M.D., and J.D. degrees have been studied . . .
6.4
Keywords: logic, many centuries of preventive war.
From a 2018 book by a professor of international relations at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point (my emphases):
The allure of preventive war is rooted in fear . . . [F]ear is most acute when
power is shifting among states [i.e., groups].
. . . The strategic logic of preventive military action is simple: The objective
is to physically destroy or neutralize the rival’s growing offensive
capabilities with a first strike or by coaxing war, at an early stage in the
power shift, before the rival is potent enough to pose the threat that haunts
your visions of the future.
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. . . [Hence] that long parade of preventive conflicts we can observe over
thousands of years of history.
From the March 2020 op-ed on TheHill.com titled “The coronavirus: Blueprint for
bioterrorism,” written by a former assistant to a then vice-president of the U.S.:
It represents the perfect asymmetric warfare strategy . . .
6.5
From the 2018 article on Vice.com titled “This Is What It Would Take to Turn a
Virus Into a Weapon”:
A well-funded organization with scientific expertise and the resources to
grow, manipulate, or release agents, and the motivation to actually use them
. . .
Melinda Gates recently declared that the biggest threat to humanity is a
pandemic brought on by a bioterrorist attack. [The Melinda & Bill Gates
Foundation has been focused on pandemic preparation for several years.]
Re: Ps being able to fund R&D of C19 and C19CV: It’s (very) likely that, pre-C19:
1) Ps had A LOT of money for resisting, 2) the size of Ps’ war chest had been
increasing rapidly. Keywords re: “A LOT . . . rapidly” (details below): via our
current “Age of Fraud.”
Re: Ps being able to test a would-be cure/vaccine: At any given time, some/many
Ps are living with a terminal diagnosis; for some of these Ps, being infected with
C19 might impose little or no additional downside; Ps can identify one another via
psychometric testing (e.g., tests administered via the pretext of screening job
applicants; details below).
From 2020 “pandemic novel” The End of October (#24 on Amazon’s May 7 list of
best-selling books; the novel was published on April 28):
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“Really, Henry,” Bartlett asked, “you think this [virus] was man-made?”
“Biowarfare has always been a part of the arsenals of the great powers. We
shouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to have been concocted in a
laboratory. We know the Russians have tinkered with influenza. Good
scientists. Maybe they wanted to see what could be done, if there was some
way of collaborating with nature to build the ultimate weapon of war, one
that can destroy the enemy without fingerprints.”
“It only makes sense if they have also developed a vaccine,” said Bartlett
[my emphasis].
From the April 2020 article in The New Yorker titled “What Lawrence Wright
Learned From His Pandemic Novel”:
By the time Wright and I met for lunch and discussed his novel—“The End
of October,” which is out this month—he had already done the coast-to-
coast reporting. He had met with epidemiologists, immunologists,
microbiologists, security experts, vaccine experts, and public-health
officials. He had read all the books, all the journal articles.
. . . The experts, Wright notes in a letter to the reader in the galleys of his
book, “all share the concerns I’ve presented––that something like this could
happen.”
From The End of October:
“We know al-Qaeda has attempted to purchase bioweapons,” said Henry.
“And look at Aum Shinrikyo. They had microbiologists working with them,
scientists who would have been capable of editing genes if they had had the
technology we have today. We shouldn’t underestimate the ability of any
terrorist group to be able to manufacture novel viruses [my emphasis].”
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From the May 1 review of The End of October in The New York Times:
What makes Lawrence Wright’s “The End of October” exceptional is the
same quality that elevated Defoe’s work: deep, thorough research. Wright is
the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Looming Tower” and other
nonfiction books, and here he applies the magisterial force of his reporting
skills . . .
[M]uch of the book not only reads like nonfiction, it is nonfiction: Wright
weaves into the book accounts of historical epidemics, descriptions of
Russian cyber- and biowarfare capabilities . . .
. . . As Wright wrote in a recent letter to booksellers, “I am merely extending
trends I see in the world to certain logical conclusions.”
From 2017 book Warnings: How to Find Cassandras and Stop Catastrophes, co-
authored by a former U.S. National Coordinator for Security and Counter-
Terrorism (my emphases):
In 2011, Ron Fouchier, from the Erasmus Medical Center in downtown
Rotterdam, crafted a series of experiments to mutate highly lethal H5N1 into
a form contagious by air. Just five single mutations allowed H5N1 to bind
with cells in the human respiratory tract (thereby making it contagious by
air, sneezes, and dirty doorknobs, etc.). Using ferrets as incubators, and their
noses as makeshift Petri dishes, Fouchier rapidly moved infected sputum
from ferret to ferret. In a period of weeks, he created a bug as transmiss-
ible as the Spanish flu but potentially up to twenty times more lethal.
. . . Fouchier was roundly criticized for launching such a dangerous study in
a working hospital, in a crowded city, with arguably less than perfect
protections. He did it without complicated tools, available in nearly any
laboratory and to consumers. And he decided to publish his results to give
the world a step-by-step manual, steps that could be taken in nearly any
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lab to make his superbug.
. . . No intelligence agency had ever heard of Aum Shinrikyo when it
released the chemical weapon sarin into the Tokyo subway in 1995,
killing thirteen and injuring fifty-four more. Their founder, Shoko Asahara,
sported a large Cheshire cat grin and a furry beard reminiscent of Jerry
Garcia’s; he had previously worked in a yoga studio as a massage and
acupuncture therapist. He also built the largest nonstate biological and
chemical weapons program ever seen.
6.6
From said op-ed titled “The coronavirus: Blueprint for bioterrorism” (my
emphases):
It also could be a huge money-maker for terrorists or other bad actors to
pay for future attacks. Anyone controlling the pace, location and impact
of the virus could short the markets in advance, and, literally, could have
made trillions of dollars over the past few weeks.
6.7
Details below. Excerpt:
Re: PsIMP (reasons 2 and 3)
In the years ahead:
● the cost of conceiving a child via buying a top-quality gamete will
decrease steadily/rapidly (e.g., soon all women with health insurance
will be able to afford in vitro fertilization and pre-implantation genetic
diagnosis)
● “superstar-biased” technological change (SBTC) will continue to be
rapid and to accelerate rapidly
● buying a top-quality gamete will be the best way for most individuals
to co-conceive a child who can thrive amid SBTC (i.e., a buyer’s child
would receive half of his/her DNA from the buyer and half from the
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seller)
● scientists and technologists will continue to produce aids to child
development (i.e., help for (single) parents)
As demand for top-quality gametes increases, demand for indicators of
gamete quality will increase. In particular, demand for better indicators of
learning ability.
TOP indicators of learning ability will take shape via the ongoing build-out
of “human-capital” markets (e.g., said next-gen variant of LinkedIn,
prediction markets, CE).
Via the above re: “reasons 2 and 3,” there’ll be UPSIDE for all non-Ps: for
some, income via selling one’s gametes; for all, access to top-quality
gametes; etc.
Implications of this upside: Many/most people will soon be active in human-
capital markets; many/most of these people will be active on a (near-)daily
basis.
Via this activity:
Each P will be unable to reproduce via gaining access to (top-)quality
gametes, unless s/he coerces.
Each P with superstar-level ability will suffer very costly career
damage/loss, unless s/he coerces.
6.8
See pages 79-89, 157-166 and 207-252.
6.9
From America’s 2019 National Intelligence Strategy (my emphases):
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. . . Anticipatory intelligence looks to the future as foresight (identifying
emerging issues), forecasting (developing potential scenarios), or warning.
Anticipatory intelligence explores the potential for cascading events or
activities to reinforce, amplify, or accelerate conflict. It may uncover
previously unconnected groups . . .
6.10
From Warren Buffett’s 2016 annual letter to shareholders:
It would be foolish, however, for me or anyone to demand 100% proof of
huge forthcoming damage to the world if that outcome seemed at all
possible and if prompt action had even a small chance of thwarting the
danger.
6.11
From 2003 book The Innovator’s Solution, co-authored by the Harvard
Business School professor who originated the canonical theories of disruptive
innovation:
“[G]etting the categories right—is the key to developing useful theory.”
“What brings predictability to any field is a body of well-researched
theory—contingent statements of what causes what and why.”
“How can we tell what the right categorization is? . . . [A] boundary
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between circumstances is salient only when executives need to use
fundamentally different management techniques to succeed in the
different circumstances [my emphasis] defined by that boundary.”
6.12
From 2008 book The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the
Nazi Economy:
Hitler had seen himself as locked in a global confrontation with world
Jewry.
. . . For Hitler, a war of conquest was not one policy option amongst
others. Either the German race struggled for Lebensraum [i.e., territory] or
its racial enemies would condemn it to extinction.
From 2019 book Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to
War:
The failure to perceive the true character of the Nazi regime and Adolf
Hitler stands as the single greatest failure of British policy makers during
this period, since it was from this that all subsequent failures—the failure to
rearm sufficiently, the failure to build alliances (not least with the Soviet
Union), the failure to project British power, and the failure to educate public
opinion—stemmed.
7
Keywords (details below): ~3%-20% of corporate executives are (“almost”) Ps7.1
;
indicators that: 1) many Ps are employees7.2
of the WILD, worldwide criminal-
enterprise (CE) known as Deutsche Bank, 2) at least some of DB’s Ps might
know7.3
if: 2.1) C19CV exists already, 2.2) Germany’s death-rate re: C19 is so low
(e.g., ~5x lower than England’s and Italy’s) partly because Germany allows DB to
function as a variant of the VIOLENT, politically INFLUENTIAL, worldwide CE
of the 1980s known as Bank of Credit and Commerce International7.4
; Johnson &
Johnson is spending ~$500M to prepare to mass-produce7.5
its supposedly
unfinished/untested/would-be C19V7.6
; J&J’s CEO might be a stone-cold P: soldier
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for 6 years (enlistee, not draftee), decades-long history7.7
of leveraging America’s
de facto legalization of HUGE fraud7.8
(HF) to enrich himself by knowingly
harming/killing children, women, military veterans, the elderly, the mentally ill et
al.; other indicators7.9
of a plan to have J&J “discover”/sell a C19V that already
exists (e.g., some past HFs were bizarrely unsophisticated); the partnership I’m
seeking via my finders’-fee offer would almost certainly learn if said plan is being
acted on (e.g., the partnership might yield the first C19CV).
7.1
From a 2019 article on CNBC.com:
According to a study dating back to 2010, there were at least three times as
many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population.
But more recent data found it’s now a much higher figure: 20 percent.
From 2012 book Almost a Psychopath, co-authored by an associate professor of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School:
Studies that examined the prevalence of subclinical psychopathy in student
populations in the United States and Sweden showed rates in the range of 5
to 15 percent.
7.2
From a 2011 article in U.K. newspaper The Independent:
My companion, a senior UK investment banker and I, are discussing the
most successful banking types we know and what makes them tick. I argue
that they often conform to the characteristics displayed by social psycho-
paths. To my surprise, my friend agrees.
He then makes an astonishing confession: “At one major investment bank
for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psycho-
paths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate
finance roles.”
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From 2020 book Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of
Destruction, by the finance editor of The New York Times (my emphases):
“Deutsche . . . helped funnel money into countries that were under
economic sanctions for pursuing nuclear weapons or participating in
genocides.”
“The hundreds of millions of dollars that Deutsche [had] wired to Iranian
banks [by 2006] provided vital funding for the sanctioned country to pay for
its terrorism. Soon Iraq was being ripped apart by violence. Roadside
bombs detonated all over the country, targeting the country’s fragile
government and the U.S. military forces that were trying to keep the peace.
Much of the violence was the work of a terrorist group, Jaysh al-Mahdi,
which had been armed and trained by Hezbollah, which had been bankrolled
by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which had been financed by Deutsche.
. . . The sanctions violations weren’t the work of an isolated crew of rogue
Deutsche employees. Managers knew. Their bosses knew. American
regulators would later find evidence that at least one member of the bank’s
vorstand—in other words, one of Deutsche’s most senior executives—
knew about and approved of the scheme.”
“[Deutsche] would soon become enveloped in scandals related to money
laundering, tax evasion, manipulating interest rates, manipulating the prices
of precious metals, manipulating the currencies markets, bribing foreign
officials, accounting fraud, violating international sanctions, ripping off
customers, and ripping off the German, British, and United States
governments. (The list went on.)”
7.3
Keywords re: “DB’s Ps might know . . .” (details below): psychopathy correlates
strongly with hypersexuality; Jeffrey Epstein (JE) met with a top virologist several/
many times7.3.1
(e.g., in 2014); JE owned a DNA company7.3.2
(JDC); indicators
that: 1) JDC was banked by JE’s bank (JB), 2) JB was banked by DB.
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7.3.1
From George Church’s web page on the site for Harvard’s PhD Program in
Virology:
Virology Faculty Member . . .
From a 2019 article on NBCnews.com (my emphases):
Harvard science professors kept meeting with donor Jeffrey Epstein . . .
[A]ccording to the online personal calendar [for 2014] of Dr. George
Church, a renowned geneticist who holds professorships at Harvard,
Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[:]
. . . On April 22, Epstein met with Church at the Harvard Medical School's
Genetics Department building . . . The two had a phone call the next day. He
had lunch with Church on June 21, according to the calendar. . . . On Sept.
12, Epstein and Church had another phone call, which was followed by a
teleconference call Oct. 21 between Epstein and Church . . . On Nov. 30, the
calendar lists a dinner with multiple attendees: “Dinner w/ Jeff Epstein . . .
From Church’s web page (my emphases):
Our lab works on AAV therapeutic vectors, including evasion of innate
immunity, capsid design via machine learning with large synthetic libraries
for multiplex testing of tissue tropism and evasion of cell/humoral
immunity. We study variation in human populations to various viruses
including rare neutralizing antibodies for HIV. We are interested in near-
extinction-scale Elephant and Swine Viruses (EEHV and ASFV). We
harness viral and anti-viral mechanisms (e.g. recombinases, CRISPR,
deaminases) to develop new editing technologies.
7.3.2
From a 2020 article in The New York Times:
In the years after Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender [i.e., after
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2008], he . . . started a business to develop algorithms and mine DNA and
financial databases.
. . . Southern Trust [i.e., said business] generated about $300 million in
profit in six years . . . The source of Southern Trust’s revenue is not clear;
the bare-bones corporate filings made by the company in the Virgin Islands
do not list any clients.
Predictably, linking financial data and DNA data could ENLARGE Ps’ war chest.
Details, via the chapter in 2015 book Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science
Fiction to Science Fact titled “Hacking the President’s DNA” (the chapter was co-
authored by a former Resident Futurist of the FBI; my emphases):
Our next commander-in-chief will be our first commander-in-chief to have
to deal with genetically based, made-to-order [e.g., personalized]
biothreats.
. . . Within a few years, politicians, celebrities, leaders of industry . . .
will be vulnerable to murder[, extortion, etc.] by genetically engineered
bioweapon. Many such killings could go undetected, confused with death by
natural causes; many others would be difficult to pin on a defendant,
especially given disease latency. Both of these factors are likely to make
personalized bioweapons extremely attractive to anyone bearing ill will.
All told, Ps could be developing bioweapons to achieve multiple tactical objectives
(e.g., resisting via harming a large population, a tactic utilized by Pablo Escobar et
al. during the 1980s).
From a 2018 article titled “Los Extraditables, the Pablo Escobar-Led Gang That
Launched a Bloody Campaign [during the 1980s] Against U.S. Extradition”:
The terrorist group . . . claimed “we prefer a grave in Colombia to a prison in
the United States . . .”
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Escobar was a drug-trafficker whose net worth reached $58 billion (in 2018
dollars). The other leaders of Los Extraditables were wealthy drug-traffickers.
From 2001 book Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw (my
emphases):
“[Escobar] intended, he said, to use the public’s weariness with
[Extraditables-funded] violence to his benefit. He planned to turn up the
violence until the public cried out for a solution, a deal.
. . . A communiqué from the Extraditables not long after hammered home
the point:
We are declaring total and absolute war on the government, on the
individual and political oligarchy, on the journalists who have
attacked and insulted us, on the judges that have sold themselves to
the government, on the extraditing magistrates . . . on all those who
have persecuted and attacked us. We will not respect the families of
those who have not respected our families. We will burn and destroy
the industries, properties and mansions of the oligarchy.”
“At his [Pablo’s] peak, he would threaten to usurp the Colombian
State.”
“Ever since Pablo’s men had blown that Avianca flight out of the sky . . .”
“[A] total of 457 police had been killed since Colonel Martinez had started
his hunt. Young gunmen in that city were being paid 5 million pesos for
killing a cop.”
7.4
From a 1992 U.S. Senate report on BCCI (my emphases):
[L]argest case of organized crime in history, spanning over . . . 72 nations
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[during the 1980s] . . . finance terrorism . . . assist the builders of a
Pakistani nuclear bomb . . .
From 1993 book The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI, co-
authored by two journalists who covered BCCI for Time magazine (my emphases):
From interviews with sources close to BCCI, Time has pieced together a
portrait of a clandestine division of the bank called the Black Network,
which functions as a global intelligence operation and a mafia-like
enforcement squad. . . . [T]he 1,500-employee Black Network has used
sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion,
kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder.
BCCI was shut down in 1991 by regulators/attorneys-general of several nations
(e.g., nations complicit in BCCI’s crimes for many years, including the United
States).
From The Outlaw Bank (my emphases):
“Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the BCCI affair in the United States
was the failure of U.S. government and federal law enforcement to move
against the outlaw bank. Instead of swift retribution, what took place over
more than a decade was a cover-up of major, alarming proportions, often
orchestrated from the very highest levels of government.”
From said 1992 report:
BCCI systematically bribed world leaders and . . . prominent political
figures in most of the 73 countries in which BCCI operated.
Re: DB might equate to a BCCI variant
Summary (details below)
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BCCI is an IDEAL template/playbook for Ps’ resistance. Keywords: BCCI
leveraged HUGE fraud to become . . .
Re: “IDEAL”: Ps might’ve recognized this decades ago.
Again, psychopathy correlates strongly with hypersexuality.
Jeffrey Epstein FIT the profile of top executives of BCCI (e.g., BCCI leveraged
underage girls to blackmail/extort, Epstein committed many of the other crimes
committed by said execs).
It seems at least somewhat likely that Epstein’s bank was part of DB. From said
1992 report:
BCCI was from its earliest days made up of multiplying layers of entities,
related to one another through an impenetrable series of holding companies,
affiliates, subsidiaries, banks-within-banks [my emphasis] . . .
7.5, 7.6
From a March 30, 2020 article by Reuters News Agency:
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday that it and the US government will
invest $1 billion to create enough manufacturing capacity to make more than
1 billion doses of a vaccine it is testing to stop the new coronavirus.
From a March 30, 2020 article on Forbes.com:
Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson, says it will start
manufacturing this month before the [would-be] vaccine has gone
through clinical trials or been approved by the FDA [my emphasis].
That’s in order to get large quantities of the vaccine ready to go to market
early next year, if it’s given the green light by regulatory agencies . . .
7.7
J&J’s CEO since 2012 is Alex Gorsky.
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From part 11 of a 15-article series on HuffingtonPost.com titled “America’s Most
Admired Lawbreaker”:
On November 4, 2013, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the
Justice Department’s $2.2 billion settlement with Johnson & Johnson. The
company had “recklessly put at risk the health of some of the most
vulnerable members of our society—including young children, the elderly
and the disabled,” Holder charged.
. . . The New York Times’ Katie Thomas wrote that, “Much of the conduct
highlighted in the case, which for Risperdal extends from 1999 through
2005, occurred while Alex Gorsky was vice president for sales and
marketing and later president of the company’s pharmaceutical unit, Janssen.
Mr. Gorsky became chief executive of Johnson & Johnson last year.”
. . . A year later [after the settlement], as thousands of Risperdal personal
injury suits were pending . . .
From 2018 book Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year
Fall—and Those Fighting to Reverse It:
[W]hat was especially intriguing about Johnson & Johnson’s case was that
the chief executive when its federal criminal case was settled, Alex Gorsky,
had been the Risperdal sales manager and then head of the J&J division that
included Risperdal during its explosive sales growth.
. . . [Gorsky] had been in charge of selling the product at the center of the
illicit marketing activity before he had moved up the ladder. Documents the
government subpoenaed during its investigation placed Gorsky at meetings
related to the conduct that the government prosecuted and showed him on
email chains that discussed it. When, as Johnson & Johnson’s CEO, Gorsky
was asked in that 2012 deposition to explain the Risperdal business plan for
the year 2000 that targeted children despite the FDA’s prohibition on
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marketing to them, he was being asked to explain the business plan that he
was in charge of.
From the October 2019 article in The Wall Street Journal titled “Johnson &
Johnson’s Legal Challenges Mount”:
Johnson & Johnson, facing lawsuits from more than 100,000 plaintiffs over
its product safety and marketing tactics, has taken the aggressive strategy of
battling many of the cases in court.
And it is losing. A lot.
From 2011 book The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry:
[“]She said, ‘I’ve got a bad personality. I like to hurt people.’ I thought she
was winding me up. I said, ‘Okay, fine.’ So we went through the [fMRI]
tests [i.e., brain scans]. When she was looking at the photographs of the
mutilated bodies, the sensors showed that she was getting a kick off of them.
Her sexual reward center—it’s a sexual thing—was fired up by blood and
death. It’s subconscious. It happens in milliseconds. She found those things
pleasant.”
For FUGLY details re: the suffering and deaths Gorsky/J&J has caused, see: 1) the
articles linked-to above, on page 14; 2) the posts about J&J on the blog Health
Care Renewal. Re: HCR, via 2019 book Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in
an Age of Fraud:
In late 2004, [Roy] Poses[, M.D.] and a group of medical professionals . . .
began to publish the Health Care Renewal blog, to continue their
conversation about grave and growing problems in American medicine.
. . . Johnson & Johnson has been tagged sixty-one times, as Poses has
covered the company’s repeated frauds and abuses . . .
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7.8
From Crisis of Conscience, which is published by Penguin Random House:
“[H]ow hollow the edifice of American democracy has become, how
insubstantial its checks and balances, after decades of self-interested
chiseling, reaming, drilling and blasting by various experts and insiders . . .”
“[T]he sweeping redefinition of fraud as clever business that has occurred
in our society . . .”
“[B]ig healthcare firms buy their way out of the frauds and crimes they’ve
perpetrated . . .”
“Hanford’s culture of impunity remains intact, because the would-be
regulators at the DOE and the EPA, but also at the state and local levels, are
part of the game, and look silently away as the billions roll into . . . the
pockets of corrupt contractor millionaires and their government
accomplices.”
“Leaking waste [that’s radioactive and deadly] is Hanford’s ongoing, slow-
motion catastrophe, but other cataclysms could happen in seconds.
According to a number of third-party expert reports, several decrepit
structures holding large caches of radioactivity are susceptible to nuclear
accidents which would threaten people across the Pacific Northwest.”
“Wall Street’s knowledge of its own impunity, proven in the aftermath of
2008, has devastated ethics in the finance industry. It explains the banks’
business-as-usual attitude to fraud, and their cost-of-doing-business
approach to lawsuits and settlements.”
“[W]histleblowers are essential in national defense, because the factors that
facilitate fraud—secrecy, the sense of mission and mystique, the culture of
impunity, and the flow of Other People’s Money—are more extreme.”
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“[T]he power of whistleblowers is often illusory . . . We are in the midst of a
battle over whistleblowing, part of a larger struggle . . . between the rights of
individuals to know what their corporations and their government are doing,
and the ever greater power of organizations to keep their secrets. How these
conflicts are resolved will say much about the future strength of our
democracy.”
The author of CoC is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker,
The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and National Geographic.
From Tailspin:
By 2008, Michael Pearson, a Canadian-born Duke University graduate
working at McKinsey, had built the consulting company’s biggest practice
(which is saying something). Working out of an office in New Jersey, near
many of his clients, he advised some of the world’s largest drug companies,
including Johnson & Johnson, on how to maximize profit from their
patented prescription drugs.
Pearson’s advice to his clients [included:] . . . [B]oost sales by targeting
potential new groups of patients, even if that meant moving into
markets for which the FDA had not approved the use of the drug [my
emphasis]. For example, Johnson & Johnson would try to get doctors to
recommend its blockbuster anti-psychotic, Risperdal, for use by children
and the elderly, even though the FDA had determined that the drug had not
been proven safe for children or the elderly.
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From Crisis of Conscience:
GSK, Pfizer, Merck, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Medtronic and scores of other
healthcare multinationals appear again and again on the [Health Care
Renewal] blog.
7.9
Updates to this footnote are in development. Details below. Request the latest
version via email.
Re: other indicators of a plan to have J&J “discover”/sell a C19V that already
exists
Summary (details follow)
CEO Alex Gorsky, re: J&J providing C19V: “What would usually take 5-7 years,
we expect to be able to accomplish in 5-7 months.”
“5-7 months” STRAINS credulity, partly because:
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J&J’s share of the global vaccine market is ~0%.
As is previewed above and below: J&J’s “expertise” is HUGE fraud (HF),
not breakthrough science.
Credulity is strained further by J&J “risking” $500M. Re: “further”:
Attempts to develop a C19V have been undertaken by many companies/
organizations that specialize in science, including 3 of the Big 4 in the
vaccine industry.
Via HF, $500M can yield a lot of risk-free “profit.”
Credulity is strained further by J&J’s prediction that its vaccine will be available
for “emergency use by early 2021”. Re: “further”:
From an April 18, 2020 article in The New York Times:
Dr. Fauci has repeatedly said that any effort to make a vaccine will
take at least a year to 18 months.
All the experts familiar with vaccine production agreed that even that
timeline was optimistic. Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccinologist at the
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, noted that the record is four
years, for the mumps vaccine.
From the April 2020 article on the Australian Broadcasting Corp. website
titled “We've never made a successful vaccine for a coronavirus before. This
is why it's so difficult”:
[T]his particular coronavirus is posing challenges that scientists
haven’t dealt with before, according to Ian Frazer from the University
of Queensland.
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Professor Frazer was involved in the successful development of the
vaccine for the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer
—a vaccine which took years of work to develop.
He said the challenge is that coronaviruses have historically been hard
to make safe vaccines for, partly because the virus infects the upper
respiratory tract, which our immune system isn't great at protecting.
. . . There are several reasons why our upper respiratory tract is a hard
area to target a vaccine.
“It’s a separate immune system, if you like, which isn't easily
accessible by vaccine technology," Professor Frazer told the Health
Report.
Despite your upper respiratory tract feeling very much like it’s inside
your body, it’s effectively considered an external surface for the
purposes of immunisation.
“It’s a bit like trying to get a vaccine to kill a virus on the surface of
your skin.”
. . . And if a vaccine elicits an immune response that misses the target
cells, the result could potentially be worse than if no vaccine was
given.
“One of the problems with corona vaccines in the past has been that
when the immune response does cross over to where the virus-
infected cells are it actually increases the pathology rather than
reducing it,” Professor Frazer said.
“So that immunisation with SARS corona vaccine caused, in
animals, inflammation in the lungs which wouldn't otherwise have
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been there if the vaccine hadn't been given.”
Further reason to doubt that J&J will provide a C19V that doesn’t exist already:
From an April 22, 2020 article on The New York Times website (my
emphases):
The doctor who led the federal agency involved in developing a
coronavirus vaccine . . . was abruptly dismissed this week as the
director of the Department of Health and Human Services’
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority . . .
[BARDA provided J&J with a $500M grant in March 2020, via the
$1B partnership previewed above on page 20.]
In a statement released by his lawyers . . . [said doctor] said that he
will ask the HHS’s inspector general to “investigate the manner in
which this administration [i.e., Trump’s] has politicized the work of
BARDA and has pressured me and other conscientious scientists to
fund companies with political connections and efforts that lack
scientific merit.”
From the June 2019 article on PublicIntegrity.org titled “TRUMP’S PRAISE
PUT DRUG FOR VETS ON FAST TRACK, BUT EXPERTS AREN’T
SURE IT WORKS”:
Stakes are high for pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson; did
company’s relationship with president’s buddies, VA give drug a
boost?
Further reason to doubt that J&J will provide a C19V that doesn’t exist already:
Sometimes, HFs are (bizarrely) unsophisticated.
Re: “Sometimes, HFs . . .”
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From 2011 book No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, by Harry
Markopolos (a.k.a. The Madoff Whistleblower):
“Within five minutes I told Frank, ‘There’s no way this is real. This is
bogus.’”
“I knew immediately that the numbers made no sense. . . . I knew what a
split-strike [investment] strategy was capable of producing, but this
particular one [the variant Madoff claimed to be utilizing] was so poorly
designed and contained so many glaring errors that I didn’t see how it could
be functional, much less profitable. At the bottom of the page, a chart of
Madoff’s return stream rose steadily at a 45-degree angle, which simply
doesn’t exist in finance.
. . . As I continued examining the numbers, the problems with them began
popping out as clearly as a red wagon in a field of snow. There was a
stunning lack of financial sophistication. Anyone who understood the math
of the market would have seen these problems immediately. A few minutes
later I laid the papers down on my desk. ‘This is a fraud, Frank,’ I told him.
‘You’re an options guy. You know there’s no way in hell this guy’s getting
these returns from this strategy. He’s either got to be front-running or it’s a
Ponzi scheme. But whatever it is, it’s total bullshit.’”
Re: J&J’s share of the global vaccine market is ~0%
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Source: https://www.evaluate.com/vantage/articles/news/snippets/covid-19-
vaccine-who-you-gonna-call
More re: J&J’s expertise isn’t breakthrough science
From a 2018 article on CNBC.com:
[P]int-size ventures are driving pharma innovation. The majority of drugs
approved in recent years originated at smaller outfits—63 percent of them
over the last five years, according to HBM Partners, a health-care investing
firm.
From a 2018 article on the Harvard Business School website:
The pharmaceutical industry has a tendency to concentrate on “me too” drug
development—therapies that are chemically similar to established drugs—
rather than on riskier, novel drugs.
. . . [N]ovel drugs with unproven chemical formulas are riskier to pursue
because they are less likely to win approval from the US Food and Drug
Administration. These drug candidates, which cost tens of millions of
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dollars or more to develop, face a less than 10 percent chance of approval.
Me toos have greater than 20 percent chance of reaching the market, and
generally require lower investment.
From a 2020 article on ProPublica.org:
[A] drug called Spravato, made by Johnson & Johnson . . .
. . . J. Wesley Boyd, a psychiatry professor specializing in bioethics at
Harvard Medical School, objected to the cost of Spravato given its similarity
to ketamine, which is available much more cheaply. “It was derived from a
very inexpensive drug with a minor chemical tweak and then marketed at an
outrageously high price,” he said in an interview. “To see it become the next
big drug according to the hype is beyond ridiculous.”
From a 2012 article in The British Medical Journal:
Since the mid 1990s, independent reviews have also concluded that about
85-90% of all new drugs provide few or no clinical advantages for patients.
Re: attempts to develop a C19V have been undertaken by many companies/
organizations that specialize in science, including 3 of the Big 4 in the vaccine
industry
From an April 9, 2020 article on The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations website:
As of April 8, 2020, 115 vaccine candidates are in varying stages of
development.
. . . [A] number of large multinational vaccine developers (such as . . .
Sanofi, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKine) have engaged in COVID-19 vaccine
development . . .
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Re: updates to this footnote are in development
It seems possible that the C19V-production capability J&J claims to be spending
$500M to build is, in fact, a commodity already. Keywords: adenovirus vectors.
From an article on the website of the J&J division working on C19V:
On March 30, 2020 Johnson & Johnson announced a lead vaccine candidate
for COVID-19. The COVID-19 vaccine program is leveraging technologies
from the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. The
AdVac® and PER.C6® technologies provide the ability to rapidly develop
new vaccine candidates and upscale production of the optimal vaccine
candidate. The AdVac® and PER.C6® technologies provide the ability to
rapidly develop new vaccine candidates and upscale production of the
optimal vaccine candidate.
. . . AdVac Technology
A technology based on the development and production of adenovirus
vectors [my emphasis] (gene carriers).
From the 2016 article in Molecular Therapy: Methods and Clinical Development
titled “Methods and clinical development of adenovirus-vectored vaccines against
mucosal pathogens” (my emphases):
Adenoviruses represent the most widely used viral-vectored platform for
vaccine design . . .
Generation of vectored vaccines that meet the quality and quantity demands
for clinical trials can be met with multiple logistical and financial
roadblocks. These include the feasibility in vector scaling, availability of
proper equipment and facilities, and optimized/standardized Good
Manufacturing Practices protocols. Due to the extensive clinical history of
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adenoviral-vectored therapies (ranging from gene therapy to modern
vaccine trials), the ability to scale-up and purify human or nonhuman
adenoviral-based vectors from preclinical to clinical studies has become
a much more standardized practice compared with other viral vectors.34
This is made possible by the wide availability of quality-controlled cell
lines which generate high titre viral batches and of highly scalable clinical-
grade purification strategies (such as ion-exchange or size-exclusion
chromatography) which allow for generation of high purity and quality
vaccine stocks.35,36 The strategies in generating such clinical-grade vectors
are well described in refs. 34–36.
From the 2015 article in Biotechnology Journal titled “Large-scale adenovirus and
poxvirus-vectored vaccine manufacturing to enable clinical trials” (my emphases):
This mini-review describes the trends and processes in large-scale
production of adenovirus and poxvirus vectors to meet the needs of clinical
applications. We briefly describe the general principles for the production
and purification of adenovirus and poxvirus viral vectors. Currently, adeno-
virus and poxvirus vector manufacturing methods rely on well-
established cell culture technologies. Several improvements have been
evaluated to increase the yield and to reduce the overall manufacturing cost,
such as cultivation at high cell densities and continuous downstream
processing. Additionally, advancements in vector characterization will
greatly facilitate the development of novel vectored vaccine candidates.
It seems possible that J&J’s supposed use of its AdVac technology (i.e., platform)
is at odds with J&J’s goal of accomplishing in 5-7 months what would normally
take 5-7 years. From a March 30, 2020 press release issued by J&J:
Johnson & Johnson will use its validated vaccine platform . . .
. . . The COVID-19 vaccine program is leveraging Janssen’s proven
AdVac® and PER.C6® technologies . . .
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From the March 30, 2020 article in The New England Journal of Medicine titled
“Developing Covid-19 Vaccines at Pandemic Speed” (my emphases):
Multiple platforms are under development. Among those with the greatest
potential for speed are DNA- and RNA-based platforms, followed by
those for developing recombinant-subunit vaccines. RNA and DNA
vaccines can be made quickly because they require no culture or
fermentation, instead using synthetic processes. Developers’ and regulators’
experience with these platforms for personal oncology vaccines can facilitate
rapid testing and release. There are no approved RNA vaccines to date, but
RNA vaccines have entered clinical trials, and regulators have experience in
reviewing clinical trial applications and with associated manufacturing of the
vaccines.
Re: PsIMP, DB, my work, etc.
See the three write-ups below. Form of the first: excerpt from my draft of a post
for social media (e.g., for reddit). Form of the third: my funding inquiry sent to
prospective investors in my planned startup. The inquiry includes details re: my
finders’-fee offer. Excerpt from the inquiry:
Summary (part 1 of 2; some details follow, more below)
Two keys to establishing/owning the most popular online market for AI and CE:
● Implementing my Amazon-/VC-praised design that:
○ will yield a next-gen variant of LinkedIn
○ fixes the fatal flaw of 2003 “sensation” BlogShares.com
● Establishing/owning the most popular implementation of said design (i.e.,
owning the LinkedIn-killer)
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Praise for said design
From a 2004 email sent to me by Amazon.com’s first Director of Personalization:
Frank, I just spent about an hour surfing around your website with a bit of
amazement. . . . We thought a lot about reputation systems. We thought
a bit about personalized advertising systems. We thought a lot about
blogging and social networking systems [my emphasis]. . . .
. . .
[A] key to preventing/subduing said coercion [by Ps] is gathering (anticipatory)
intelligence (AntInt) about people who are hypersexual and (becoming) wealthy.
Two keys to gathering said AntInt:
● DO NOT rely on intelligence agencies of the U.S. government (IAs)
● . . .
Re: “DO NOT”
Keywords (fugly details below): my experiences since 2016; IAs’ willingness to
acknowledge/manage risks has been disincentivized via: 1) the de facto
legalization of HUGE fraud (HF) in the U.S., 2) revolving doors between
government and industry1
, 3) IAs are “effectively beyond oversight or control,”
unless whistleblowers risk career damage/loss, imprisonment, etc. (i.e., IAs are
IDEAL partners for companies seeking “profits” via HF).
1
From the 2018 article in U.S. News and World Report titled “The 10 Richest
Counties in the U.S.”:
[H]alf of the top 10 fell in northern Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital
. . .
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. . .
From [2018 book] The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: How the NSA Failed to Protect
America from the 9/11 Attacks:
[S]tarting in early summer of 2001, CounterTerror staff, managers, and even
the director were worried that something terrible was coming. . .
[U]nbeknownst to them, Al Qaeda had pushed back the date of their
impending attack from July 4 to September 11. However, warning signs
abounded that convinced the counterterror operators that something big was
imminent.
. . . Like dominoes falling, events started cascading on top of each other
throughout the month of August 2001.
. . . At the president’s ranch in Crawford, his CIA briefer Mike Morrell
presented him the soon-to-be-infamous August 6 presidential daily briefing
entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.”
. . . On the afternoon of August 20, 2001, [NSA-er] Maureen Baginski asked
Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe to her office. She explained that she was
officially terminating their program ThinThread.
From CoC:
“Trailblazer cost America more than money. ‘Trailblazer was the largest
intelligence failure in the history of the NSA,’ Binney told me. ‘By killing
ThinThread and going ahead with Trailblazer, the Agency traded the security
of the nation in exchange for money.’
This assessment isn’t merely the sour grapes of a manager whose program
lost out to a competitor in an office turf war. Tom Drake, who remained at
the agency after Binney and the others retired, describes how, shortly after
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9/11, he used ThinThread as a testbed to analyze information in the NSA
databases from the weeks preceding the attacks. The program, he says,
swiftly pinpointed each of the terrorists involved, their communications and
movements before the hijackings and their dispersion patterns afterward.”
“ThinThread . . . had been built by a handful of NSA employees for a total
cost of $3.2 million; in early 2001 it was largely complete, and had already
been implemented in intelligence sites abroad. ThinThread was doomed by
its own thrift, Binney says. ‘Six employees and $3.2 million? You can’t
build an empire with that. How many contracts can you list? That’s why they
had to kill us.’
. . . [In early 2001] Congress had enough confidence in ThinThread to direct
the NSA to deploy it in eighteen test sites, and to allocate about $9.5 million
for this purpose. A classified Pentagon report praised ThinThread’s data
analysis capabilities, and directed that the program be implemented and
enhanced. But launching ThinThread would show that the intelligence
problem for which Trailblazer was being created had already been solved,
Binney says, so the NSA slow-rolled ThinThread while proceeding with
Trailblazer, for which he says Hayden had initially requested $3.8 billion
and would eventually ask for even more.”
— End of the excerpt from my funding inquiry —
Excerpt from said draft of a post for social media
1
Re: C19 might’ve been engineered (details below): www.zerohedge.com/health/
pew-poll-30-americans-say-coronavirus-was-made-lab-number-about-grow; also,
Google “any virus can be modified.”
Re: some/many psychopaths (Ps) might’ve been involved in said engineering
Summary (details below)
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Psychopathy is ~70% heritable.
Via molecular genetics, identifiers of said ~70% are coming soon.
Police want universal genetic databases.
“[I]ndefinite detention” of Ps could/should ensue by 2034, according to a leading
psychopathy researcher who’s tenured at the University of Pennsylvania (i.e., Ps
who haven’t committed a crime could be imprisoned).
. . .
Of course, it would make sense for virus-weaponizers to: 1) engineer a vaccine to
inoculate themselves before each virus is released, 2) seek to PROFIT from the
vaccines (e.g., via shell companies, DB’s affinity for laundering money).
. . .
Re: DB banked Epstein
Title of a December 2019 article on TruePundit.com:
Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Banker at Deutsche & Citi Found Swinging From
a Rope; Executive “Suicide” Before FBI Questioned Him
Title of a 2019 article in Vanity Fair:
Of Course Jeff Epstein Moved His Dirty Money Through Deutsche Bank
Re: Epstein’s bank (EB)
From a 2020 article in The New York Times:
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In the years after Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender [i.e., after
2008], he . . . set up a bank.
Re: DB might’ve banked EB
From said 2020 article in The New York Times (my emphasis):
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York describes international bank entities
in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico [e.g., EB] as “high-risk” institutions.
Last year, it temporarily suspended applications for them to obtain financial
services from the Fed until it can issue stricter rules for them.
From Dark Towers (my emphasis):
Deutsche had been moving money—as much as $80 billion—for thousands
of “high-risk entities” in various countries.
Re: EB might’ve facilitated the engineering of C19 and a vaccine
Details below.
. . .
Re: C19 might’ve been engineered
From a 2020 paper co-authored by bioinformatics specialists at Delhi University in
India (my emphases):
We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive.
We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the
2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly,
amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those
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in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. . . . The finding of 4 unique inserts in the
2019-nCoV, all of which have identity/similarity to amino acid residues in
key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature [i.e.,
the inserts are likely to be edits via humans].
Said Nobel laureate virologist in April 2020:
Indian researchers have already tried to publish the results of the analyses
that showed that this coronavirus genome contained sequences of another
virus, . . . the HIV virus (AIDS virus), but they were forced to withdraw
their findings as the pressure from the mainstream was too great.
. . .
Re: EDC [i.e., Epstein’s DNA company] might’ve engineered C19 and a
vaccine (e.g., via EB facilitating)
From said 2020 article in The New York Times:
“Southern Trust [i.e., EDC] . . . generated about $300 million in profit in six
years . . . The source of Southern Trust’s revenue is not clear; the bare-bones
corporate filings made by the company in the Virgin Islands do not list any
clients.”
“These specialized banks [e.g., EB] have drawn scrutiny because of their
potential for abuse, including money laundering.”
Re: hypersexuality correlates strongly with psychopathy
From a 2012 article on HuffingtonPost.co.uk (my emphases):
“In one of the largest studies of its kind ever published, U.S. psychologists
have found a particular aspect of personality in men and women
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predicts what the researchers refer to as ‘hypersexuality.’
. . . This character trait is—psychopathy.”
“Psychologists are beginning to concur that it’s this unique element of
character which most powerfully predicts . . . a gamut of risky sexual
behaviors.”
“The ‘hypersexual’ have more sexual partners than the rest of the
population, fantasize more . . . and tend to favor more sex without love.”
Re: psychopathy is ~70% heritable
. . .
Re: many/most/all genetic identifiers of said ~70% are coming soon
From 2013 book The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime, by a
University of Pennsylvania professor of Criminology, Psychiatry and Psychology:
“Behavioral genetics is a shadowy black box because, while it tells us what
proportion of a given behavior is genetically influenced, it does not identify
the specific genes lurking in there that predispose one to violence. Molecular
genetics is poised to pry open that black box . . .”
“Twenty years ago, molecular genetics was a fledgling field of research.
Now it is a major enterprise providing us with a detailed look at the structure
and function of genes.”
“The essence of the molecular genetic research we have been touching on
above—identifying specific genes that predispose individuals to crime—is
that genes code for neurotransmitter functioning. Neurotransmitters are
brain chemicals essential to brain functioning. There are more than a
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hundred of them and they help to transmit signals from one brain cell to
another to communicate information. Change the level of these neuro-
transmitters, and you change cognition, emotion, and behavior.
. . . It’s 2034 . . . [A]ll males in society aged eighteen and over have to
register at their local hospital for a quick brain scan and DNA testing. One
simple finger prick for one drop of blood that takes ten seconds. Then a
five-minute brain scan for the “Fundamental Five Functions”: First, a
structural scan provides the brain’s anatomy. Second, a functional scan
shows resting brain activity. Third, enhanced diffusion-tensor imaging is
taken to assess the integrity of the white-fiber system in the brain, assessing
intricate brain connectivity. Fourth is a reading of the brain’s neurochem-
istry that has been developed from magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Fifth
and finally, the cellular functional scan assesses expression of 23,000
different genes at the cellular level. The computerization of all medical,
school, psychological, census, and neighborhood data makes it easy to
combine these traditional risk variables alongside the vast amount of DNA
and brain data to form an all-encompassing biosocial data set.
. . . Fourth-generation machine-learning techniques looked for complex
patterns of linear and nonlinear relationships . . . ”
Re: police want universal genetic databases
There’s been “a rise in calls, particularly in law enforcement, for universal genetic
databases, where everyone’s biometric data is put in one place,” according to a
2019 presentation by a professor of “strategic foresight” who’s an adjunct at the
New York University Stern School of Business.
Said calls by law enforcement can be expected to continue/increase, not least
because:
“[M]ore than 50% of all police officers killed in the line of duty are killed
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by psychopaths,” according to a study cited in a 2011 article.
Ps comprise ~1% of people.
So a P is at least ~50x more likely than a non-P to kill a police officer, all
things being otherwise equal.
Re: “indefinite detention” of Ps could/should ensue
From The Anatomy of Violence (my emphases):
It’s 2034 . . . The economic cost of crime is now astronomical. Back in 2010,
the cost of homicide in the United States was estimated at over $300 billion
—more than the combined budgets of the Departments of Education, Justice,
Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Labor, and
Homeland Security. Way back in 1999, it was estimated to consume 11.9
percent of GDP, but in 2034 it is gobbling up 21.8 percent.
. . . [This] leads the government to launch the LOMBROSO program—
Legal Offensive on Murder: Brain Research Operation for the Screening of
Offenders.
. . . Under LOMBROSO, those who test positive—the LPs—are held in
indefinite detention. . . . It sounds quite cushy, but remember that the LPs
have not actually committed a crime. Perhaps the main drawback is who
they live with, housed as they are in facilities full of other LPs—time
bombs waiting to explode.
Re: “time bombs”
From 2019 book The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent
Crime:
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As we move along the continuum to Category 9 [of 22 categories of violent
crime], we traverse an important threshold. The remainder of the scale
encompasses persons who commit “evil” acts partly or wholly as the result
of varying degrees of psychopathy . . .
TNE co-author Michael H. Stone, MD, is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
TNE co-author Gary Brucato, PhD, is: 1) a clinical psychologist and researcher in
the areas of violence, psychosis, and other serious psychopathology, 2) the
assistant director of the Center of Prevention and Evaluation at the New York
State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center.
. . .
Re: it’s (very) likely that a growing number of Ps are aware that PsIMP
. . .
From The Psychopath Test:
It wasn’t only Bob [Hare] who believed that a disproportionate number of
psychopaths can be found in high places. In the days after Essi Viding had
first mentioned the theory to me, I spoke to scores of psychologists who all
said exactly the same.
. . .
Re: it’s likely that: 1) Ps have A LOT of money for resisting, 2) the size of Ps’
war chest is increasing rapidly (part 1 of 2)
Summary (some details follow, more in part 2)
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HUGE frauds (HFs) have been growing increasingly lucrative since the 1990s
(i.e., lucrative even if penalties are incurred via lawsuits, government regulators,
etc.).
HFs create lucrative opportunities for intelligent Ps (IPs), because IPs can:
● design/implement (parts of) HFs
● be relied upon to not become whistleblowers (i.e., to not suffer crises of
conscience)
Keywords re: HFs have been creating MANY lucrative opportunities for IPs: high
ROI, money-printing by central banks, higher ROI via monopoly(-profits)-via-HF.
Re: HFs have been growing increasingly lucrative since the 1990s
From 2019 book Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud,
published by Penguin Random House:
“[H]ow hollow the edifice of American democracy has become, how
insubstantial its checks and balances, after decades of self-interested
chiseling, reaming, drilling and blasting by various experts and insiders
. . .”
. . .
Re: high ROI via HF
Since the ‘90s, companies that excel at HF (HF-Cos) have been attracting
investment from institutional investors that deploy the savings of many Americans
(i.e., HF-Cos have been delivering higher ROI than non-HF-Cos, all things being
otherwise equal).
From CoC:
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[T]hough Risperdal [law]suits have cost the company nearly $3 billion, it
sold $34 billion of the drug between 1993 and 2011 alone, sometimes at
profit margins approaching 97 percent. Viewed like this, $3 billion in fines
seems a smart investment. That’s evidently how the company felt. In April
2012, two months after the Texas trial, the board of Johnson & Johnson
made Alex Gorsky, the mastermind of Risperdal marketing, the firm’s new
chief executive. Wall Street cheered [my emphasis]: the company’s share
price held firm throughout the trial and, aside from brief blips, has climbed
steadily ever since. (Johnson & Johnson stock now sells for more than
twice what it was worth during the trial.)
Re: BCCI leveraged HF
From said 1992 report:
[BCCI’s criminality included:] fraud by BCCI and BCCI customers
involving billions of dollars; money laundering in Europe, Africa, Asia,
and the Americas; BCCI's bribery of officials in most of those locations . . .
More re: BCCI became politically influential
From The Outlaw Bank (my emphases):
Why [BCCI founder] Agha Hasan Abedi and his rogue bank went
unprosecuted for so long is the enduring mystery at the heart of the BCCI
affair.
The simple answer is that his watch-me-break-all-the-rules act relied upon
the near-absolute complicity of many sovereign governments. High
government officials and financial regulators around the world knew
what the bank was doing, and yet they created the deep silence that
cloaked BCCI's global operations.
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Re: Epstein FIT the profile of top BCCI execs
From The Outlaw Bank:
The protocol department [of BCCI] was also responsible for sweeping the
countryside in search of another kind of prey: very young girls [my
emphasis] for the entertainment of the sheikhs and Middle-Eastern
businessmen.
[T]he wife of a Pakistani doctor, was in charge of rounding up the girls and
bringing them to Karachi to be outfitted in proper clothes before being
presented to the princely clients. Often she would shepherd more than fifty
girls at a time through a department store, shopping for jewelry and dresses.
This practice was so successful—far more effective than giving away
microwave ovens or toasters—that the bank would spend as much as
$100,000 on such an evening’s entertainment. According to the Senate
testimony of Nazir Chinoy, Madame Rahim would also “interview girls,
women, and take them . . . to Abu Dhabi for a dancing show or arrange some
singing shows." Throughout the Middle East, “dancing girls” and “singing
girls” are euphemisms for prostitutes; Chinoy chose to be tactful before the
TV cameras.
From an August 2019 article on TheDailyBeast.com:
Police say Epstein was sexually abusing girls as young as 13, many of them
from poor families and broken homes. And, according to lawsuits filed by
victims, Epstein loaned them out to his famous friends.
From The Outlaw Bank:
According to [BCCI employee] Masri, the protocol officers . . . were also
responsible . . . for luring businessmen, military officers, and politicians into
Abedi’s web of intrigue through a combination of favors, money, blackmail
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[my emphasis], and intimidation.
From the 2019 article in The New York Times titled “The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told
Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People”:
The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute
conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich,
famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it. He also claimed to
know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging or
embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and
recreational drug use.
From The Outlaw Bank:
The strange and still murky ties between BCCI and the intelligence
agencies of several countries are so pervasive that even the White House
has become entangled. As Time reported . . . the National Security Council
has used BCCI to funnel money for the Iran-Contra deals, and the CIA
maintained accounts in BCCI for covert operations. Moreover, investigators
have told Time that the Defense Intelligence Agency has maintained a slush-
fund account with BCCI, apparently to pay for clandestine activities.
From an August 2019 article on TheDailyBeast.com:
“I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” [said
Alex Acosta, re: the non-prosecution plea deal that Acosta—then the U.S.
Attorney in Miami, Florida—provided to Epstein in 2007. Epstein had been
accused of unlawful sex with minors and prostitution, but ended up
pleading guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution from a minor.]
From said 1992 report:
BCCI was not a bank which made an adequate return on investment
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through lending out depositors funds like other banks, but a “Ponzi
scheme,” which used new depositors funds to pay current expenses and to
repay earlier depositors . . .
For BCCI’s 1.4 million depositors who had placed an estimated $20 billion
with the bank, there would be less than $2 billion of real assets to pay them
[after BCCI was shuttered] . . .
From the July 2019 article on TheDailyBeast.com titled “Ponzi Scheme Victims
Say Epstein Swindled Them”:
In 1991, the director of insurance for the state of Illinois sued Hoffenberg
[Epstein’s employer during said Ponzi]; Epstein was not a defendant, but
the complaint claimed he and his company improperly received $215,000
worth of checks from the insurance companies’ accounts.
From 2019 book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales—Spies, Lies and Blackmail:
Hoffenberg [see above] told reporter Doug Montero[:]
. . . Jeffrey Epstein had worked in Europe [during the 1980s]. . . . He was
very heavily involved in the illegal side of the business, of the money
laundering, the spying, the arms sales [my emphasis]. I’m sure there was
some legitimate components that wouldn’t be criminal, but the majority of
his work product was criminal.
At this late hour of many years later, I like being concise and I don’t want
to misquote, but I can tell you that they sold armaments throughout the
Middle East and around the world.
. . .
More re: DB might equate to a BCCI variant
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BCCI’s early/foundational criminality derived from Muslims feeling imperiled.
From The Outlaw Bank (my emphases):
The hidden alliances in Pakistan—and within other Islamic states—
provided Abedi and BCCI the kind of sweeping immunity from laws and
regulation that is assumed by sovereign nations when they take action in
the name of ‘national security.’ . . . BCCI, fueled by petro-dollars, was
going to forge the shining new sword of Islam. It would be a terrible
Nuclear Age sword that would give Pakistan—and other Muslim
nations—parity with the Zionists . . .
From said 1992 U.S. Senate report:
By fracturing corporate structure, record keeping, regulatory review, and
audits . . . [BCCI founder] Abedi developed in BCCI an ideal mechanism
for facilitating illicit activity by others . . .
From Dark Towers:
“A hodgepodge of hundreds of different systems polluted the bank’s
ecosystem. One implication was that there was no way for the bank to
measure or understand what it was actually doing.”
“Deutsche more than almost any other multinational financial institution
deftly managed to exploit rivalries among regulators to shield itself from
tougher rules or greater outside scrutiny.”
Re: the first DB executive to ask about a C19CV
One of the ~20 most senior execs at DB is the younger sibling of someone I was
very friendly with during high school and afterward. My former classmate is only
two years older than said exec, so I interacted with the exec quite a bit over
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several years. I also interacted with the exec’s parents on many occasions. All
told, I’m at least fairly confident that the exec isn’t a P.
Re: it’s likely that: 1) Ps have A LOT of money for resisting re: PsIMP, 2)
the size of Ps’ war chest is increasing rapidly (part 2 of 2)
Re: money-printing by central bankers
Since the financial crisis of 2008, HF-Cos have been attracting investment from
banks that have received over $13.5 trillion “printed” by central bankers (e.g.,
banks that double as HF-Cos have used printed money to purchase shares of their
own stock).
From 2018 book Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World (my
emphases):
By mid-2017, the total assets held by the G3 central banks—the US Fed, the
European Central Bank (ECB), and the Bank of Japan (BOJ)—through
conjured-money QE [i.e., quantitative-easing] programs had hit more
than $13.5 trillion. The figure was equivalent to 17 percent of currency-
adjusted global GDP.
. . . [P]rivate banks were under no obligation to do anything with this
cheap money they didn’t want to do.
. . . Wall Street used its easy access to cheap money to . . . buy back
their own shares, thus effectively manipulating their own stock—in broad
daylight and with explicit approval from the Fed.
The author of Collusion worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, ran the
international analytics group as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns in
London, was a strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase
Manhattan Bank.
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Re: monopoly
From 2019 book Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and
Democracy:
In the 1970s, we decided as a society that it would be a good idea to allow
private financiers and monopolists to organize our world. As a result, what is
around us is a matrix of monopolies, controlling our lives and manipulating
our communities and our politics.
. . . But we also face a challenge even more significant than the
consequences of a four-decade-long Reagan revolution, because layered on
top of the political revolution wrought by the Chicago law and economics
school and their left-wing allies is a technological revolution that has
enabled a far more dangerous concentration of power.
The author of Goliath was a senior policy advisor and budget analyst to the
Senate Budget Committee. He also worked in the U.S. House of Representatives
on financial-services policy, including Dodd-Frank, the Federal Reserve, and the
foreclosure crisis.
Re: monopoly(-profits)-via-HF
HF-Cos have been: 1) more likely to become monopolies than non-HF-Cos, all
things being otherwise equal, 2) able to outcompete other HF-Cos by “getting big
fast” (e.g., by maximizing HF ASAP).
Monopolies are ideally suited to profit from HF (i.e., to deliver high ROI via HF).
Keywords: too big to fail/jail.
More re: the above
176-page pdf: https://www.slideshare.net/PostRomCom/ (Slideshare is owned by
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LinkedIn; the pdf has 8154 views as of 9 pm on 4/14/20)
As fun a finish as C19 permits
Parts of said pdf show that the free part of my freemium business model can be
leveraged to maximize economic growth given social distancing. Too briefly:
My Amazon-/VC-praised design:
● is free (i.e., any company can provide an implementation)
● fixes the fatal flaw of 2003 “sensation” BlogShares.com
● will yield a next-gen variant of LinkedIn
Said LinkedIn variant will be foundational for establishing the Amazon.com of AI
and customized-education (e.g., CE for AI).
CE will be to the AI economy what oil has been to the industrial economy.
Each company that wants to provide said Amazon variant will:
● race to provide a loan program for consumers of AI and/or CE (i.e., loans
that will be variants of today’s “private” student loans)
● learn continuously as a means of:
○ lowering the interest rates of AI/CE loans
○ providing alternatives to loans (e.g., income-share agreements,
livelihood insurance)
○ improving these alternatives
All told, the offerings of said market-providers will go a long way toward
democratizing the benefits of AI and CE (i.e., toward enabling prosperity that’s
unprecedented and shared broadly, like the prosperity in the U.S. during the
1950s and ‘60s).
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From Nobel laureate economist Paul Romer’s entry on Economic Growth in the
2008 edition of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics:
“[T]he country that takes the lead in the twenty-first century will be the one
that implements an innovation that more effectively supports the production
of new ideas in the private sector [e.g., AI-produced ideas].”
“Perhaps the most important ideas of all are meta-ideas—ideas about how
to support the production and transmission of other ideas. . . . North
Americans invented the modern research university . . .”
From 2006 book Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations:
This book tells the story of a single technical paper in economics [Romer
(1990): Endogenous Technical Change] . . .
. . . Romer won a race of sorts, a race within the community of university-
based research economists to make sense of the process of globalization at
the end of the twentieth century and to say something practical and new
about how to encourage economic development . . .
From 2004 book The Mystery of Economic Growth, by a Harvard economist:
Interest in growth theory abruptly revived . . . in the 1980s. The two key
papers were by Romer (1986) and Lucas (1988). . . . Romer also initiated the
second wave of research on the “new” growth theory.
— End of excerpt from said draft of a post for social media —
Re: non-Ps who profit from HF-Cos (e.g., employees) should resist their
predictable desire to deny that PsIMP + HF-Cos is a recipe for COVIDS-20+
and other threats to non-Ps
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Precedent for Ps being $UPPORTED by big companies (e.g., by institutional
investors)
From Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy:
Hitler was using industrial power and cartel arrangements to make unwitting
allies of American monopolists . . .
From 2008 book The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi
Economy:
“The meeting of 20 February [1933] and its aftermath are the most
notorious instances of the willingness of German big business to assist
Hitler in establishing his dictatorial regime. . . . [W]hat Hitler and his
government did promise was an end to parliamentary democracy and the
destruction of the German left, and for this most of German big business
was willing to make a substantial down-payment.”
“[Hitler’s] audience [at said meeting] can have been left in no doubt. . . .
[Hitler] was more than willing to use physical force . . . Hitler left it to
Goering to reveal the immediate purpose of the meeting. Since German
business had a major stake in the struggle against the left, it should make
an appropriate financial contribution. . . .
. . . Hitler and Goering departed and Hjalmar Schacht got down to business.
He proposed an election fund of 3 million Reichsmarks, to be shared
between the Nazis and their nationalist coalition partners. Over the next
three weeks Schacht received contributions from seventeen different
business groups. . . . In the years that followed, the Adolf Hitler Spende was
to be institutionalized as a regular contribution to the maintenance of
Hitler’s personal expenses. In practical terms, however, it was the donations
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in February and March 1933 that really made the difference. They provided
a large cash injection at a moment when the party was severely short of
funds . . .”
Precedent for Ps losing the $UPPORT of big companies
From the chapter in Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and
Democracy titled “Trustbusters Against Hitler”:
In 1944, a Senate subcommittee reported that “Germany under the Nazi set-
up built up a great series of industrial monopolies in steel, rubber, coal and
other materials. The monopolies soon got control of Germany, brought
Hitler to power and forced virtually the whole world into war.” Roosevelt, in
1944, wrote to Secretary of State Cordell Hull that destruction of Nazi
armies had to be followed by the “eradication of these cartel weapons of
economic warfare.” In October of 1945, Dwight Eisenhower was publicly
advocating smashing the German I. G. Farben monopoly as essential to
preventing a recurrence of the Nazi war machine.
. . . U.S. policymakers . . . helped the Europeans, and the Japanese, break up
the cartels that had led to the war.
Related history re: the potential costs to non-Ps who don’t act against HF-Cos (e.g.,
don’t act on my finders’-fee offer)
From Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War:
One evening during the Phoney War [of 1939–40], members of the Foreign
Office’s Political Intelligence Department discussed which [British]
politicians might be considered “criminally responsible for [the] war and
should be hanged on lamp-posts.” As the former journalist and spy Robert
Bruce Lockhart recorded, there was consensus as to the leading candidates.
Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary between 1931 and 1935, was first to be
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placed in the tumbril, followed by Stanley Baldwin and Sir Samuel Hoare.
Others to receive capital sentences included “Labour lunatics who wished to
attack everyone and voted against rearmament, Beaverbrook (for isolation
and ‘no war’ propaganda), Geoffrey Dawson and The Times,” and, of
course, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain.
Four months later, following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary
Force from Dunkirk, a similar conversation took place between three
Beaverbrook journalists standing on the roof of the offices of the Evening
Standard. Appalled by the defeat—the most portentous in British history
—as well as by the circumstances that had led to it, Frank Owen, a former
Liberal MP, Peter Howard, a Conservative, and Michael Foot, the future
leader of the Labour Party, decided to write a book shaming those men they
deemed responsible for the debacle. Completed in just four days and
displaying a notable talent for invective, Guilty Men sold, in the words of
one of its authors, “like a pornographic classic.” By October, it had been
reprinted twenty-two times and by the year’s end had succeeded in pinning
the blame for the catastrophe, not just in the minds of contemporaries but for
large swaths of posterity . . .
From 2019 book Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi
Collaborators, published by Harvard University Press:
When Allied forces broke open the gates of concentration camps in 1945,
they discovered not only piles of corpses and dozens of gravely ill inmates
but also survivors who were seeking revenge. Many of those who were
liberated sought retribution not just against the Germans but against former
Jewish functionaries in the camps and ghettos as well. Freed inmates
lynched and beat Jews who, as ghetto policemen, had surrendered them and
their family members to the Nazis or who, as kapos in concentration camps,
had harassed or abused them.
This violence continued outside the liberated camps. To quell the brutality,
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leaders in the re-emerging Jewish communities in European towns and
displaced persons (DP) camps channeled these disputes into honor courts,
which were established to resolve ordinary disagreements among members
of the community. These courts, presided over by prominent individuals,
also examined the moral behavior of functionaries and issued social
punishments such as public denunciations and excommunication from the
community. In most instances, these judgments succeeded in curbing the
violence within the community; they also helped it rebuild its self-identity
as a wholesome society, free of impure elements that had contaminated it.
When survivors immigrated to Mandatory Palestine [i.e., pre-state Israel],
the same kinds of intra-Jewish clashes that had been seen in Europe erupted
in public spaces there. . . . Media commentators and public figures called
upon the heads of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Mandatory
Palestine, to alleviate tension by establishing a public committee of socially
prominent figures to deliberate these cases and issue social punishments.
The leadership chose, however, not to establish such a committee, deeming
social penalties insufficiently severe for those accused of cooperating with
the Nazi mission to annihilate the Jewish people.
It was only after the establishment of the State of Israel and after a repeated
demand from a high-ranking police officer that the Ministry of Justice
drafted a bill setting up a system for trying functionaries in criminal court,
where they would face their accusers. The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators
Punishment Law, passed by the Knesset in 1950, inaugurated what became
known as the kapo trials, which would go on for the next twenty-two years.
Title of a 2019 book:
“Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself”: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary
Germans in 1945
Bonus motivation for non-Ps to act on my finders’-fee offer
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$UPPORT for Ps THREATENS the LIVES of many police officers, for reasons
previewed above and below. Possible near-future, indicated by history and logic:
police organize against the HF-production ecosystem (e.g., against some
politicians), with: 1) $UPPORT from the AI-CE ecosystem (e.g., from most/all
genuine wealth-creators who aren’t Ps), 2) support from voters who are victims of
HFs and/or are vulnerable to future HFs and/or don’t want to be terrorized/
coerced/injured/murdered . . .
Formatting note re: my funding inquiry that starts on the next page
Google Docs—the word-processing software I’m using to write this document—
makes changes, seemingly at random, to: 1) the size of some bullets in bullet-lists,
2) the font of some numbers in numbered-lists. I haven’t checked below for
inconsistencies re: 1) and 2).
Re: writing-errors above and below (e.g., wrong verb tense, misplaced
punctuation)
From 2012 book APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur — How to Publish a Book,
co-authored by Guy Kawasaki, a former chief evangelist at Apple:
Every time I turn in the “final” copy of a book [Kawasaki has (co-)authored
twelve books], I believe that it’s perfect. In APE’s case, upward of seventy-
five people reviewed the manuscript, and [co-author] Shawn [Welch] and I
read it until we were sick of it. Take a wild guess at how many errors our
copy editor found. The answer is 1,500. [APE is 410 pages.]
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My Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised* work
+ . . . = Amazon.com of AI and
customized-education (e.g., CE for AI)
* links and excerpts below
Keywords
said work; subsequent work on making my business model disruptive (e.g., to
Amazon); CE will be to the AI economy what oil has been to the industrial
economy; Rockefeller-ian fortunes (e.g., for my seed investors)
Summary (part 1 of 2; some details follow, more below)
Two keys to establishing/owning the most popular online market for AI and CE:
● Implementing my Amazon-/VC-praised design that:
○ will yield a next-gen variant of LinkedIn
○ fixes the fatal flaw of 2003 “sensation” BlogShares.com
● Establishing/owning the most popular implementation of said design (i.e.,
owning the LinkedIn-killer)
Praise for said design
From a 2004 email sent to me by Amazon.com’s first Director of Personalization:
Frank, I just spent about an hour surfing around your website with a bit of
amazement. I run a little company [funded entirely by Amazon] . . . We are a
team of folks who worked together at Amazon.com developing that
company’s personalization and recommendations team and systems. We
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spent about 1.5 years thinking about what we wanted to build next. We
thought a lot about online education tools. We thought a lot about classified
ads and job networks. We thought a lot about reputation systems. We
thought a bit about personalized advertising systems. We thought a lot
about blogging and social networking systems [my emphasis]. . . . I guess
I’m mostly just fascinated that we’ve been working a very similar vein to the
one you describe, without having a solid name for it (we call it “the age of
the amateur” or “networks of shared experiences” instead of CLLCS [i.e.,
customized lifelong learning and career services], but believe me, we are
talking about the same patterns and markets, if not in exactly the same way).
Thanks for sharing what you have—it’s fascinating stuff.
From a 2004 email sent to me by an analyst at then top VC firm Draper Fisher
Jurvetson:
Hi Frank, Thanks for your time today. If you would like to provide us with
further information about your [business] plan [for providing CLLCS], we
would be happy to review it in more detail.
Praise for my earlier work on CE
From a 1998 email sent to me by the then Manager of the Learning Sciences and
Technology Group at Microsoft Research:
Frank, you are a good man. Have you thought about joining this team?
Your only alternative, of course, is venture capital. But their usual models
require getting rid of the “originator” within the first eighteen months.
Name of my planned startup
The Opportunity Services Group (OSG)
Re: my design of a next-gen variant of LinkedIn
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OSG’s 1.0 site/app will feature:
● a market for the advertisement spaces on solo-blogger blogs (e.g., portfolio
blogs) [1]
● a virtual currency (cash transactions will be supported also)
Prices in OSG’s virtual currency (OVC) will contain/reflect only truthful peer
ratings of work samples. Ratings of this kind are a top predictor of work
performance, according to a much-cited meta-analysis of 85 years of personnel-
selection research (5367 citations as of March 1, 2020) [2]. Other top predictors of
work performance are often unavailable (e.g., test results). So OVC prices will be
ideal for ranking people within individual job/skill categories. These rankings will
make it much easier for Jane Q. Upwardly-Mobile to identify others who (can) best
complement her (ditto for John Q.).
[1] An ad space sold for OVC will typically be on the homepage (i.e., front page)
of the seller’s blog; key reasons: 1) sales of spaces for OVC will occur via weekly
auctions, 2) per week, each blogger will be able to sell only one ad space for OVC
(which space is sold can vary weekly). Keywords re: said auctions: sealed-bid,
second-price; combinatorial auctions via fractional allocations, so each week’s
auction will provide a “spot” market and an “up-front” market; traders will make
these markets “information-efficient.”
[2] From 2015 book Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Trans-
form How You Live and Lead, by Google’s then head of “People Operations”:
. . .
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From the Schmidt-Hunter paper linked-to above:
Name of said planned site/app
Adver-ties
Re: Adver-ties will be a debugged version of BlogShares.com
From a 2003 article on rediff.com:
The latest sensation that’s grabbing the attention of netizens is BlogShares
. . . an online stock market in which you get to speculate on the future of
your favourite blogs. . . . Every player gets 500 BlogShare dollars upon
signup.
. . . How you play BlogShares depends on what you want from it. For some,
the objective is to get their blogs on the Top 100 Index.
. . . At the end of a three-week phase of beta testing, there were a staggering
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40,000 listed blogs. Over 5000 active players carry out thousands of
transactions every day . . .
Re: the fatal flaw of BlogShares
The price mechanism was easily gamed. From the rediff.com article:
[Inbound] links are the assets that drive valuations.
Re: bloggers will be able to parlay a high and/or fast-rising ad rate in OVC
into cash via: 1) sales of other ad spaces, 2) affiliate-marketing commissions,
3) subscriptions
Keywords (details follow, more below): influencer marketing (IM), antidote to the
epidemic of IM fraud.
Izea: 71% of influencers had a blog in 2018; 39% of advertisers sponsored blog
posts in 2018; 67% of social-media users in 2020 aspire to be paid social-media
influencers.
Mediakix: 44% of advertisers consider blogs to be among the social-media
channels that are most important for IM in 2020 (Facebook: 45%; Twitter: 33%;
LinkedIn: 19%); 50% of advertisers consider fraud the #1 drawback of IM in 2020.
Re: a high and/or fast-rising ad rate in OVC will be achievable partly via
OSG’s prediction markets (OPMs)
High prices/rankings in OPMs will serve as PageRank-like pointers to high-
quality blogs. Details below. Keywords: OPM prices denominated in OVC.
More precedents for Adver-ties
● Google’s PageRank search algorithm (first use of hyperlinks to inform