sent 9/22/14 a dialog with an "undisclosed recipient" Re: Major Foundations and Investors, Including Heirs to Oil Fortune, Pledge Fossil Fuel Divestment Re: (it's good) Paul Krugman Has Some Truly Shocking News About Climate Change

Please help take the link to this message viral if you will, because I think it is worthy of that, there being much to be found.  Do keep in mind that other than by specific explicit request that I publish something, and generally not then, even, I take great care not to disclose, to anyone, the name, email address, or other identifying information about anybody who replies to me.  Thank you!
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1. Just in case anything horrible should happen to Democracy Now [or to the one download link I gave you (below)], this is another instant download link for the program of today, September 22, 2014, from Amy Goodman at Democracy Now.  Hey, this is historic, whatever else. :-)
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2. This dialog with my new friend Anon 686--please don't ask me to explain--began as a reply to my message to you of Saturday afternoon.  The conversation continued through and after my earlier message to you of today.

Anon 686:

Larry,
This is all part of the Agenda 21 UN planet dominance control plan.
<Anon>
LS:

Hi <Anon>,

First, I really do not know what "this" you referred to(?)  I trust you do not mean that the wilder and wilder weather that we've been experiencing and that is projected to get worse at an exponential rate is part of any human being's "planet dominance control plan."

Anyway anybody can make up a plan, anybody can make all kinds of allegations about hidden thoughts of people thinking about plans.  Nothing much besides meetings has actually happened yet with any such plans except for things like NAFTA; various "trade pacts" that Canada has entered into with other countries; and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership plan, in the negotiation of which America is heavily involved.*  None of those plans actually involves the UN that I know of.  The design of those plans does or would worsen the biggest problem overall at least for our descendants, that being wilder and wilder weather.
Anon 686:

Larry,
Glen Beck provided a good overview of AGENDA 21 in his recent "so named" book. 
<Anon>
Larry:

<Anon>,
I do not trust Glen Beck as far as I could throw him.  I found many hits on Agenda 21 and looked at some of them before I responded to your previous message above, where you mentioned it, as part of my trying to know what I'm talking about before I speak.  My response therefore stands.

I have to add, I have actually watched Glenn Beck with my very own eyes a few times--enough to know that he gets so apoplectic in his showmanship that one is almost tempted to think there must be some truth behind it even though what he is saying makes no sense in the context of much clearer news sources from around the world.  Again, he is totally untrustworthy.

What I said above is not related to this, truly, but it might help to keep in mind who it is that is actually paying Glenn Beck for his services aside from writing books.  Apparently he serves their interests.
Anon686:
So then I take I you are comfortable with the activities and agenda of the UN and one world government architects??
LS:
WHERE DID YOU GET SUCH A CRAZY IDEA?

The thought crosses my mind that perhaps you are just out to be annoying.

I just got through saying, <Anon>, there are all kinds of different ideas about what "the" UN agenda might be, and nothing has been decided by the UN about climate change except more meetings.

The only "one world government architects" that I know about are the Koch Brothers and their friends, some of whom I could name and may have named through the last 10 years or so, and ISIS, which has that ambition whether or not we take them seriously.  The Koch Brothers have made a lot more progress with their architecture.

In fact the huge corporations are said to be in control of whatever is going to happen at the UN tomorrow.

Continuing seriously, leaving aside that they UN is not getting anything done to control anything anyway, at least on this problem, I really do not have a lot of hope that any or all of mankind is really going to get enough done fast enough to make a BIG difference in dealing with the weather getting worse and worse and people losing water and places to grow food.

Not much hope. BUT if I am wrong, and seriously effective things might get done, then I think it's going to take a big and serious collective effort and not just a few "architects," of the UN or otherwise, no matter who they are or might aspire to be.  And such a big and serious collective effort might be building.  I am old for one thing, and there are truly huge numbers of people in this world with a younger perspective.  Much could happen, unimaginable things even. 

If you pray, let us pray and then do what we can with this along with everything else in our lives.

Added 9/23/14: Then Anon686 went and wrote to me again this morning.  This is the continuation so far.  I think we waxed eloquent:

Anon686:

As a highly trained weather observer <business name omitted for anonymity> I have personally seen unexplainable changes in atmospheric phenomena which are clearly increasing in intensity and frequency as we speak.  These phenomena are obviously man made and well orchestrated.
LS:

I wonder what you mean by "obviously," <Anon686>?  I mean, possible signs of "man made and well orchestrated" in what you have observed are not leaping into my mind.  I do get that you've seen something or some things that had never before been observed.  In itself I don't think that would be evidence of any particular cause.  I do not mean there is no scientific explanation.  I'm just suggesting that we might not know the explanation for particular events.  In fact that's what scientists have said about the many strange events; I'm pretty sure I've got this right:  "Except in certain cases we don't know which ones of most these events might be caused by greenhouse gases, only that some are, and everything is getting wilder at least partly because those greenhouse gas related events are happening."
I remember reading from some good source or from a good documentary, one or the other focused on some of the many things the broad U.S. military-related worldwide infrastructure is doing that had not gotten talked about much.  Maybe it was a security leak or something.  Anyway, "the U.S. military" has been taking climate change seriously for years, engaging in planning about how to maintain what are called "U.S. interests" through the progress of wilder and wilder weather that they know is coming, though maybe not the finer details of it getting out further into the future.

I have seen no mention from an intelligent, knowledgeable, and relatively unbiased source asserting that the broad U.S. military-related worldwide infrastructure, or anybody else with the theoretical power, is engaged in trying to control the weather in some big way, directly.  [And yes that does include HAARP, just so you all know.  They are just not doing any such thing either.]
Anon686:

The cumulative impact on every aspect of our environment is staggering.  We wonder why there is an epidemic surge in children with autism. The incidence of Alzheimers, and the surge in various types on cancers in humans and animals.  I fear that we are both unwitting lab test subjects and marked for eventual extermination.
LS:
Yes.  I think, though, that you would probably be more correct were you to place some of the blame on fossil fuels production AND some of the blame on the use of glyphosate (Wikipedia) in modern agriculture.  There is plenty of evidence that glyphosate (article) is the cause of some of the very types of problems you just listed. 

That Wikipedia link does not support what I've just said.  From a corporate (Monsanto--not BP Oil, but big enough) point of view the dispute is of an importance comparable to the importance to fossil fuels-related companies of the dispute over the weather getting worse, exponentially yet.  But the percentage of scientists knowledgeable in that area who have expressed alarm about glyphosate has not so far grown to the 97 percent that climate scientists warning about fossil fuels has reached.  Anyway, here's another article.  Just looking at the abstract, this one links to glyphosate agriculture specific diseases that you mentioned .   And those two things, fossil fuels and glyphosate, leave out mention of the growing problems with other seriously poisonous air and water pollutants.

But I do not accuse anyone of starting out with the notion of conducting that experiment.  I do not imagine that old John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) (Standard Oil) ever had all this in mind.

And I do not imagine that John E. Franz and Monsanto Company (a publicly-traded corporation) started the development of glyphosate and their huge domination of agriculture in the world around glyphosate with the intent of killing off Americans.

OK, "we are unwitting [--or maybe now witting--] lab test subjects and [probably] marked for eventual extermination," but I think the lab experimenters were unwitting also.  Now they know or should know, but those involved with Monsanto and/or the successors to Standard Oil are on a big roll (with forward momentum), obviously.  And for right now, sure, my life currently rests partly on the existence of gasoline-powered vehicles, among other things.  What I personally do or what you personally do--other than choosing between speaking truly to the best of one's ability, or not--is totally beside the point.
Larry

sent 9/22/14 Major Foundations and Investors, Including Heirs to Oil Fortune, Pledge Fossil Fuel Divestment Re: (it's good) Paul Krugman Has Some Truly Shocking News About Climate Change

Subject: Major Foundations and Investors, Including Heirs to Oil Fortune, Pledge Fossil Fuel Divestment Re: (it's good) Paul Krugman Has Some Truly Shocking News About Climate Change

1.
Major Foundations and Investors, Including Heirs to Oil Fortune, Pledge Fossil Fuel Divestment ("print friendly" link), by Jon Queally, Common Dreams staff writer, Monday, September 22, 2014.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/22/major-foundations-and-investors-including-heirs-oil-fortune-pledge-fossil-fuel

...... Ultimately, the activist investors say, their actions, like those of the anti-apartheid divestment fights of the 1980s, could help spur international debate, while the shift of investment funds to energy alternatives could lead to solutions to the carbon puzzle.

“This is a threshold moment,” said Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, which has coordinated the effort to recruit foundations to the cause. “This movement has gone from a small activist band quickly into the mainstream.”


2. In the time that was left of it after I returned from my Sunday morning job of singing in a choir in a beautiful church yesterday, I watched the People's Climate March" in Manhattan through the auspices of Democracy Now and Amy Goodman.  WOW!  It was big!  There were hundreds of different kinds of organizations represented from all over the world, including a big section from some from American labor organizations, unions etc.  It is now being said that there were over 400,000 people there, which is the biggest gathering in the United States in many years.  It was a trip, I tell you, just watching it!

You can see some of it shown as part of today's show now at http://www.democracynow.org/ .  Today's show goes on to talk about the big fossil fuels divestment that is the topic of the Common Dreams article and then on to other things in the news today.

If you'd like to have those scenes for posterity or just play the video once in better quality on your computer's software--maybe Windows Media Player or something--here's the instant file downloading link, in the mp4 video protocol:
http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/ipod/dn2014-0922.mp4

There did not appear to be any way to save the actual live broadcast from the People's Climate March of yesterday.  I am sorry about that.

Larry

On 9/20/2014 1:43 PM, Larry Scott wrote:

sent 9/20/14 (it's good) Paul Krugman Has Some Truly Shocking News About Climate Change

A (it's good) "Paul Krugman Has Some Truly Shocking News About Climate Change," Alternet, September 19, 2014
"...Climate despair is all wrong."--Paul Krugman

OR http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/opinion/paul-krugman-could-fighting-global-warming-be-cheap-and-free.html?_r=0

According to two recent studies that Mr. Krugman cites and to which he provides links, it is NOT TRUE that the only way to limit carbon emissions is to bring an end to economic growth.  "[It is] now easier to to slash emissions and stay powered up than seemed possible even a few years ago,  and reduced emissions would produce large benefits in the short-to-medium run. So saving the planet would be cheap and maybe even come free."

WHAT STANDS IN THE WAY is 1) the personal interests of those like the Koch Brothers--(link)--who are employed in the production and sale of fossil fuels,  and 2) the erroneous belief on the part of many that the change cannot be made.  Slowing it down is not an absolute impossibility after all. 

That's the "shocking news." :-)

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B tomorrow is September 21st

If you want to see what's going on with the climate change march on New York City tomorrow, you can watch tomorrow, Sunday, between 10:30am and 1:30pm.  There is introductory material there now, including an interview with Naomi Klein about her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate.
http://www.democracynow.org/live/peoples_climate_march
The word is, you may have heard, the state heads of China and India are not coming after all,* our President was just stopping in for lunch, I think it was, and the big corporations are well in control of whatever is going to happen.  But I might take glance or so, just to admire the demonstrators for trying to do something.  And hey, their fortitude, stamina, and persistence might matter, especially if they can manage to get too big to ignore.

For the links to the video on the preparation for this demonstration see sent 9/7/14 Watch Disruption: "'Disruption': Film Offers Grassroots Global Revolt as Key Answer to Climate Crisis"

* India has moved or is about to move ahead of China as number one in fossil fuel emissions, I read recently.
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Bonus: "Exclusive: DA Joins the Climate Activists He Declined to Prosecute, Citing Danger of Global Warming," Democracy Now, September 10, 2014.

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For previous messages from me about big weather predictions (climate change) see these messages and article and video links and any further messages from me that are linked inside these three:

sent 3/18/14 HELP SHARE THE FACT THAT global warming is NOT in dispute http://whatweknow.aaas.org/

sent 5/31/14 Prof Michael T. Klare What's Big Energy Smoking? +3, video Re: climate disaster update [was the last word on climate change 30 min vid dead serious (message 1 of 2)]

sent 6/27/14 climate disaster is not so bad right around where I am; "Warmest May temperatures on record worldwide"; Monsanto GM foods part 1.

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sent 9/15/14 Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?

"Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?" by Lee Fang, The Nation, September 12, 2014.
http://www.thenation.com/article/181601/whos-paying-pro-war-pundits
It turns out that the pro-war pundits have hidden big interests in an increasing American military budget.

Repeating from a recent message of mine:
The Nation is the oldest print publication in the country still in print.  The 1865 founding prospectus says: "The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred."

Obviously they've still got a job on their hands there at The Nation.  I have been watching for a few years, and to me it appears they are still working hard at the job as described.  Just so you know.
The above article really fits together with the ones I just sent you a moment ago, sent 9/15/14 2. ...because you can do something here that might matter; 1. " Russia: We warned the Yanks about Islamic State..."

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For links to my previous messages of the past few months in the topic of Iraq and our involvement with Iraq see
sent 9/13/14 "Obama is picking his targets in Iraq and Syria while missing the point" and
sent 9/4/14 Islamic State issues fake tax receipts to keep trade flowing (+) and follow back the links in those to earlier messages.

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sent 9/15/14 2. ...because you can do something here that might matter; 1. " Russia: We warned the Yanks about Islamic State..."

Subject: 2. ...because you can do something here that might matter [toward minimizing the damage to our lives from gratuitous U.S. warmongering]; 1. " Russia: We warned the Yanks about Islamic State..."

1.
Checking Al Jazeera this morning for the first time in awhile, I find that there are some things there that matter, about Russia for one thing.

"Russia: We warned the Yanks about Islamic State:
Russian officials fear regional war may turn into a world war,"
by Alexander Nekrassov, last updated September 15, 2014.  "Alexander Nekrassov is a former Kremlin and government adviser."  He now lives in London, England.  I do not know his current connection with the Russian government, if any, except he is said to be a supporter.  That does not appear to mean that he advocates for Russia taking over the world or trying to take over the world like some in the United States influence policy such as to look to the rest of the world as though we along with Israel are trying to take over the world.

There is mention of Libya in the above article.  Just for reference and orientation, here is a recent message of mine with a link to a good analysis of the failure of U.S. policy in Libya:
"sent 6/15/14 about Libya--another place--boy did "we" ever f*** up there!"

I'd like to work to stop our President, big business, and specifically the military industrial complex from attacking Syria, but this time the President proposes to do it without consulting Congress.*  So I am not sure what to do about it at this point, though I feel that because I am an American I have an obligation to try to stop an attack on Syria just because I agree that doing so would almost inevitably creep into attacking the Syrian government, more of the same stupidity, making ourselves even worse off in the end, not better.

*2. Just before sending this I notice here that some in Congress are working today and perhaps for a day or two now to try to get back some authority over exactly which rebels get U.S. funding and weapons before those things are distributed, leaving the rest of the authority that Bush and Obama have claimed they had and have after Congress supposedly gave the office of President blanket power to attack anybody any time with no further permission.  Congress could take back and turn off that permission--any or all of it--at any time, assuming the votes were there to do that.  But Congress taking back responsibility for even this much war making control would be good.  It would be something, some improvement, at least.  America would be that little bit more of a representative democracy at least on the surface, money notwithstanding.

So I guess I'll be calling my Federal House Representative about getting that bill before Congress and getting it passed.  You can do that too, and I hope you will, unless you adjudge that doing that might get you in trouble with the Koch Brothers machine and don't care to run that risk.  sent 7/6/14 2. help maintain civilization 1. ‘Citizen Koch’ Filmmakers: Watching This Movie Is ‘Civil Disobedience’

I'm sure you remember this Friends Committee on National Legislation tool for contacting members of government using any and all of the possible methods.  Finding those tools involves getting to where you can click on and look under the photo of the official to/with whom you want to communicate.  Then click the "Contact" tab.  If you want direct phone numbers they are there; or you can click the link to "Web Form."  That leads to a row of buttons where you can choose among the issues listed or click the one for "I want to write my own letter."  Then when you click "Next" you can choose to have this wonderful FCNL service send for you whatever you write, by email, printed letter, or fax. 
http://capwiz.com/fconl/directory/congdir.tt

I am getting this out before I complete mine.  I think I might just say something like:

"In any bill pending right now this week to authorize the training and equipping of Syrian rebels, please support the inclusion of language whereby Congress would take back more control over the broader administrative strategy against the militants, also known as ISIS, starting with the question of which rebels get what, before any training begins or equipment is transferred. 

"After that I am interested in keeping under control the strategies proposed by those individuals and other entities that have any potential interest in making money from an increased military budget."

Something like that. I think I will ask for an email and a fax.  I think I will also call tomorrow.

Larry
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sent 8/17/14 FCNL action alert; "From the Left, From the Right: Calls to Demilitarize Ferguson, and America"

sent 9/13/14 "Obama is picking his targets in Iraq and Syria while missing the point"

"Obama is picking his targets in Iraq and Syria while missing the point," by Andrew J. Bacevich, Reuters, September 10, 2014
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/10/obama-is-picking-his-targets-while-missing-the-point/?print=1&r=

“We are now living in what we might as well admit is the Age of Iraq,” New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks recently wrote.  There, in the Land of the Two Rivers, he continued, the United States confronts the “core problem” of our era — “the interaction between failing secular governance and radical Islam.”

Brooks is wrong. For starters, he misconstrues the core problem — which is a global conflict pitting tradition against modernity.
--Andrew J. Bacevich

He explains the last statement above, and the explanation is significant.  I think you will find it worth reading, and my working to try to summarize it would not be shorter or easier.  Actually I think it's rather easy to understand, for those who are able to read word for word what's on a page.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/10/obama-is-picking-his-targets-while-missing-the-point/?print=1&r=

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sent 9/4/14 Islamic State issues fake tax receipts to keep trade flowing (+) and follow back the links I gave to earlier messages.

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sent 9/11/14 P.S. Wired Re: 9/11 -- 2014: 911: Thirteen Years On

The lead story in Wired for September 2014 is great and is related.  Besides adding a couple or so more new things we didn't know that affect us, this is a deeper story about Edward Snowden the man and how he got from working for General Michael Hayden*--there's a photo of the two of them standing and smiling together at a party--than I think I've seen before.  It is most interesting just how he got, or mostly just happened to get, into a position to do that for which he is now famous.  Not everyone knows his name even now, but many do.

"The Untold Story: The Most Wanted Man in the World,"
by James Bamford, Wired, September 2014.  There is some focus in this piece on 9/11/2001 as the beginning of a very negative transformation.

Take a look at James Bamford (Wikipedia link),the author who spent three whole days in Moscow with Mr. Snowden recently.  He's another most interesting man.  James Bamford was involved in the reform of the intelligence abuses of the 1970s under the leadership of the great Senator Frank Church.

Larry
* See General Hayden now retired through http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/sent-9714-youtube-video-glen-greenwald.html

On 9/11/2014 10:36 PM, Larry Scott wrote:
[ see sent 9/11/14 9/11 -- 2014: 911: Thirteen Years On ]

sent 9/11/14 9/11 -- 2014: 911: Thirteen Years On

I agree with Jim Wright once again.  I too remember the morning and afternoon of 9/11/2001.  I too think our country would be far better off, might make a start on getting to a state of some normalcy, if we stopped reliving 9/11/2001 and let that event be history. 

But come to think of it the Jews, or anyway the Zionists, still make hay over reliving the Holocaust all the time, and that was even longer ago.  Their doing that affects the rest of us, and it's not good.  I think our country would be better off if they would stop that also--and let the Holocaust be history also.  Good luck to all of us in getting ourselves out of making our present lives an obsession over the most negative events of past.  We certainly have enough to deal with without that. Heh.

But this by retired U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer and writer Jim Wright is about 9/11/2001 and the World Trade Center in New York.  The piece is not long.  I recommend it.

"911: Thirteen Years On," September 11, 2011, repeated September 11, 2014.

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sent 9/10/14 fascinating: gay kids are being thrown out of their parents' homes at increasing rates. Who'da thunk!

Subject: fascinating: gay kids are being thrown out of their parents' homes at increasing rates. Who'da thunk!

This is a fabulously interesting article from Rolling Stone. It is most personal for the interesting lesbian author, her story; and it is also about what's going on in general these days. 

I had no idea of this.  If you happen to be (closet of course) gay or lesbian or one who empathizes with gays and lesbians, you might want to forward this.  Hey, you might want to forward it even if you empathize with the so-called religious parents in this article.  I don't call them that.  Or at least I object seriously to them having any exclusive use of the term "religious" when other religious people like me dislike seeing and hearing about the real damage that they cause.  These are people who totally break ties with their children.  Children!!!  Sheesh!

The most important thing is perhaps warnings should be issued to these kids: You maybe don't want to tell your parents, actually!  Just because it's ok with most people does not mean you can assume that it will be ok with them!  You might split the family, to your surprise.

"The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families," by Alex Morris, September 3, 2014.

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sent 9/7/14 YouTube video Glen Greenwald and *Alan Dershowitz* (2014) "State Surveillance"

Read below to see why I starred the name *Alan Dershowitz* in the subject line.

Glenn Greenwald VS Alan Dershowitz (2014) "State Surveillance"
This is a full Munk Debate that took place in Toronto May 2, 2014 before an local audience of 2,500 people as well as live on line.  Munk is the name of the family that has sponsored a number of important debates including this one.  Officially, as given at the beginning, this debate was on whether or not to pass this resolution:

 "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate [defense] of our freedoms… ."  1hr35min

Actually, that turned out not to be the topic of the debate, since everyone agreed early that state surveillance is necessary.  Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian, a creator of Reddit, want us to follow the historic general rule of investigators actually explaining to a judge and getting a court order before spying on an American citizen.  Alan Dershowitz and retired General Michael Hayden totally oppose any such requirement.  That was the debate and still is the debate.

The audience vote on passing the resolution, whatever it means, was, before the debate 33% pro 46% con 21% undecided, with a high percentage indicating openness to changing their minds.  After the debate, the audience vote was 41% pro 59% con, the yays having gained eight (8%) percent and the nays having gained 13 percent. https://www.munkdebates.com/debates/state-surveillance

I think everyone has heard of Glenn Greenwald by now.  I want to add a bit more about Alan Dershowitz than what appears in his introduction at the May 2, 2014 debate in Toronto, Canada.  And yes I'm going somewhere relevant with this.  Please bear with me.

In addition to the information that was given about him, Alan Dershowitz has been one of the primary spokesmen for AIPAC, if not the primary spokesperson.  AIPAC as you may know is the most powerful Zionist organization in the world aside from the Israeli government itself.  I have mentioned AIPAC many times before, particularly at the time of the notorious publication of a study in The London Review of Books in March 2006, a study by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt.  Their followup book of similar title, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" was published in August 2007 and was a bestseller.  AIPAC is a big part of the so-called Israel Lobby, though the Israel Lobby includes other smaller organizations, like separate organizations of Christian Zionists.  According to a Congressional poll back at the time, AIPAC was considered to be the second most influential lobby to Congress hands down, second only to the AARP.

Now the connection: Since a major and directed economic transition--away from agriculture I think--in the 1990s, Israel's economy is now based heavily on the design, manufacture, and sale to much of the rest of the world, including to the United States, of high tech military equipment.  Much or most of that high tech military equipment is surveillance equipment including some amazing and major sorts of computer surveillance software.  Aside from U.S. businesses, Israel also has a very real and very serious economic investment involving a much higher percentage of its population in the outcomes of any serious debates on the proposition, "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedoms… ," the outcome of the debate in America and the outcomes of the debates in other parts of the world as well.  So.  Alan Dershowitz, eh?  And from listening to him in the above video he obviously wants to be right there involved with the development of any new rules.

Alexis Ohanian made his big point repeatedly, that the universal surveillance capabilities that are now set up, whether or not the full capabilities are used all the time, require that the structure, the hardware and software, be kept insecure enough for the surveillance capabilities to be able to work.  He says making the structure more secure, more hacking resistant, would make us more secure.  The surveillance state, as it is, is making us less secure, not more secure.  It did not appear that Alan Dershowitz understood what self-professed nerd Alexis Ohanian was talking about.  Or maybe it was something Alan Dershowitz did not want to talk about even though he was given numerous opportunities.

The straight back of retired General Michael Hayden is an interesting sight if you happen not to have seen it before.

By the way, here is the latest Glenn Greenwald/Edward Snowden disclosure, on The Intercept, the September 5, 2014 publication of another secret document by Glenn Greenwald and some other people who are also important:
The U.S. Government’s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations.

Note that it was announced recently--you may have seen it--that our government has added The Intercept to the list of sites that government employees and contractors including military personnel are forbidden to visit.  This is another question.  Besides the question of whether or not we want to work enough to have fact-based opinions ourselves, do we want our government employees to be allowed to form a fact-based view of the world?  I mean, are they American citizens also, at least some of them?  ROFLOL

Here are a couple of the things I sent about a year ago.  Much has happened since, but I think they are still most interesting if you missed them.
sent 8/15/13 fascinating story: How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

sent 9/6/13 "NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure"; new Snowden documents today

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sent 9/6/14 standing up to bullies: "Everybody’s So Different, I Haven’t Changed"

Though he is 15 or 20 years younger than I am and has had a far different life, I strongly identify with Jim Wright in this writing as well as with some but not all of his other pieces.  He talks about standing up to bullies.

"Everybody’s So Different, I Haven’t Changed," by retired U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer and writer Jim Wright, December 10, 2011

The attached graph is a rotated blowup of the graph that appears in the middle of the piece.  I did this to make it possible to read more easily.  The all-important labels are now sideways along the right side.  I suggest looking the graph both as it is on the page and as it is attached.  It is copyright Jim Wright.  I am sending it here as an exception to copyright law, educational and nonprofit, content unchanged.  I do not think it terms of labels, or I try not to, but I find it interesting.

love to all,

Larry
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sent 9/4/14 Islamic State issues fake tax receipts to keep trade flowing (+)

"Islamic State issues fake tax receipts to keep trade flowing," McClatchy Washington Bureau, September 2, 2014.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/09/03/238508/islamic-state-issues-fake-tax.html

I find that whole setup simply fascinating in the details--another example of truth being stranger than fiction.  And somebody actually thought this up!  Heh.

For collected links to my previous collected insights and authorities on Iraq see "sent 9/3/14 'How America Made ISIS' Re: good guys/bad guys lies and hypocrisy," edited since last night to add one link that I'd omitted, without special emphasis on that one.

Larry
P.S. Fascinating too, though maybe less fascinating, is the fact that that second American journalist that ISIS killed dramatically on a video was an Israeli citizen also--I call that divided loyalty at best--who wrote most for The Jerusalem Report.  ISIS might or might not have known those those things about him.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/09/03/238537/slain-us-journalist-held-israeli.html
Some days all that can be said is, "It's an [interesting] world we live in Master Jack."  [I had to change that quotation a bit as less and less seems strange any more.  Yes new things keep happening, but I seem to be less and less surprised.]
See also "How America Made ISIS," by Tom Engelhardt, September 2, 2014. "......We, however, ignore the virtual library of videos and other imagery the U.S. generated, images widely viewed (or heard about and discussed) with no less horror in the Muslim world than ISIS’s imagery is in ours.....," Mr. Engelhardt says.  Then he lists some of those videos.  You may remember them.  Steven Sotloff's family and friends have my complete sympathy regardless, of course.
And see also, "The Whys Behind the Ukraine Crisis," by Robert Parry, Consortium News, September 3, 2014.

love to all,
Larry
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sent 8/17/14 FCNL action alert; "From the Left, From the Right: Calls to Demilitarize Ferguson, and America"
"One of the ways I think about integrity is that one is willing to confront the truth even when it may cause narcissistic injury – i.e. even when it might burst the bubble of a cherished idealistic illusion we have about ourselves or the world."
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Hanu Man Ji
January 25th, 2011

sent 9/7/14 Watch Disruption: "'Disruption': Film Offers Grassroots Global Revolt as Key Answer to Climate Crisis"

Watch the 53 minute film Disruption here http://watchdisruption.com/ or download it by clicking http://ge.tt/api/1/files/6DlWGlu1/0/blob?download to play it with your own video software as an .mp4 video file.

Paraphrased from the movie: "[It is critical to realize that no leader is going to come forth to save us.  To get anything done that will have any positive effect we need to scare them into doing something.]"
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Disruption is one of the lead-ins to the climate change march taking place in New York City around another world summit taking place later this month.  See these two August 16, 2014 combined messages of mine for more and for travel details.  You may recognize some of the people in the film.  There are many many people around the world who are hoping for something better, more useful, to come out of this summit than has happened in the past. 

See a written introduction via CommonDreams.

For me the film streaming sputtered a bit at the beginning but smoothed out and was fine later.  With a large number of people connected all at once, the Vimeo servers from which the film streams could have been struggling.  Just available today is a .mov format download file, which I have just obtained.  [Added 9/8: I have converted the movie from .mov format to .mp4 video file format.  Clicking http://ge.tt/api/1/files/6DlWGlu1/0/blob?download will start the download process or open your "where do you want it" dialogue box.]

For previous information I've sent on the topic of wilder and wilder weather to come, just how wild depending on us, see these messages and article and video links and any further messages from me that are linked inside these three:

sent 3/18/14 HELP SHARE THE FACT THAT global warming is NOT in dispute http://whatweknow.aaas.org/

sent 5/31/14 Prof Michael T. Klare What's Big Energy Smoking? +3, video Re: climate disaster update [was the last word on climate change 30 min vid dead serious (message 1 of 2)]

sent 6/27/14 climate disaster is not so bad right around where I am; "Warmest May temperatures on record worldwide"; Monsanto GM foods part 1.

love to all,

Larry
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sent 9/4/14 Chief Warrant Officer and writer Jim Wright: "Ass Backward Into The Unknown"

You may remember from June 16th the downright pithy writing of retired Chief Warrant Officer and writer Jim Wright, of his Stonekettle Station, stonekettle.com.  This new piece seems as though it might be the best piece of writing I've seen in years.  It's that great even though it is on the topic of American national politics.

"Ass Backward Into The Unknown," by Jim Wright, August 26, 2014

http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/08/ass-backward-into-unknown.html

Larry
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sent 9/3/14 "How America Made ISIS" Re: good guys/bad guys lies and hypocrisy

Subject: "How America Made ISIS" Re: good guys/bad guys lies and hypocrisy

This writing is more or less on the original topic of American group thievery from yesterday, in which our attack on the Ukraine was one example.  We just haven't gotten as far as creating the full mess yet in the Ukraine/Russia part of the world.

This article is worth spending a bit of careful time on, just for its excellent review of facts that we've been living through for the past few years in our relationship with a different part of the world, keeping in mind the original point of it all, which was mainly to steal oil, as of course most of us know by now, never mind the picture that some of the bankers and politicians created for us.

"How America Made ISIS," by Tom Engelhardt, September 2, 2014.  Tom Engelhardt (Wikipedia link), as you may or may not know, is generally reliable on facts.  These are facts that I remember knowing about, by the way, though I do not spend all my time thinking about them or remembering them all at once.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175888/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_escalation_follies/#more

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Previous sendings on Iraq*:

sent 9/2/14 good guys/bad guys lies and hypocrisy

Watching football games is a very popular activity.  And I think there is a social pressure to watch wars the same way we watch football.  I am not suggesting that anyone feel guilty for watching football.  It's entertainment.  Pick a team, root for your team, and everyone goes home after the game.

We Americans have never managed to get along for very long without engaging, as a group, in stealing property and voice from various groups of people here and there.  On the other hand, we humans in general, of which group we Americans are a part, seem to tend not to like having our property and voice stolen.  So then we kill our victims, steal their lives so to speak.

Those are just simple facts to begin with.  Something to think about is whether we ought to be really trying to do something different than that; just keep on with the pretend trying; or actually phase out the practice of theft regardless of temptation.

I really do not have a lot of hope for that particular thing, the phasing out of the practice of theft, regardless of what I might do personally, whatever that might be.  But I do get disgusted over the cold and vicious hypocrisy of the good/guys bad guys scenarios that most of our politicians and other major propagandists generate in everyone's sight with such terrific expertise. 

But perhaps you disagree.  Perhaps you think that living lies is better than accepting any fact-based responsibility. 

My main thought right now is about our thieving from areas outside the boundaries of the United States, though of course there is also some of the same question with respect to some groups stealing from other groups within the United States, creating other us vs them good guy/bad guy scenarios.

But we have been forced to accept that America is effectively a plutocracy for awhile now, no longer a democracy, so perhaps there is nothing better to do than watch it like football.  Much is secret, and mainstream Democrats are right in it with mainstream Republicans, so voting does not present a choice about these things.  Besides, however would we live if we weren't stealing, what would we have to do?

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Here is a news article on our thievery from the Ukraine, typical goings on these days--just for background, not the main thing here.  I am getting to that.
"Charges of 'Open Aggression' Spoil Hopes for Cease Fire in Ukraine," by John Queally, Common Dreams, September 1, 2014.
"NATO's "Military Hysteria" Undermines Hope for Peace in Ukraine, says Russia," by John Queally, Common Dreams, September 2, 2014.

I would like for you to please remember and keep well in mind, now that you can see our progress since, that it was our new Ukrainian government that earlier this year demoted the Russian language and removed Russian from the list of official languages, leaving English.  We created that new government, partly by paying some enthusiastic private neo-Nazi Ukrainian killers money to take part in a "revolt" against the previous elected government and partly by bribing officials.  Many or most of the residents of the eastern part of the Ukraine are Russian speakers and have been since forever, and now all of a sudden they are not supposed to speak Russian any more.  That was a major thing that gave rise to everything that has followed.  It's almost like we were trying to start another big war.  That's aside from having immediately broken our promise to Russia not to turn the countries on the Russian border into NATO counties.  As I said, it's almost like we were trying to start another big war.  Remember this is at least in good part about fracking the eastern Ukraine, thievery as I said.

This is to remind you of things I have sent you previously on the Ukraine situation, all authoritative, authoritative meaning including other people who are smarter and more knowledgeable than I am about this one particular example situation.  Everything that has happened around and about the Ukraine since was predictable, in broad outline anyway:

sent 3/18/14 must read Robert Parry: [Ukraine:] The Danger of False Narrative

sent 5/3/14-5/5/14 Europe and Ukraine: And now, here is the rest of the story; It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war

sent 5/26/14 China Russia gas deal--a major geopolitical event & stupid U.S. foreign policy

So.  Truth?  Or lies?  What is your personal preference?

You can treat that question as rhetorical if you like, or you can respond.

In the meantime I think I'm going to find myself some diversion for awhile. :-)  Perhaps I'll come back later.

Larry
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Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
--Wendell Berry

sent 8/17/14 my father's VOICE: GOOD WILL TO MEN

Subject: my father's VOICE: GOOD WILL TO MEN

My father's name was Lewis H. Scott, sometimes Rev. Lewis H. Scott, (1919-1998).

Some time back a family member went to great pains to digitize and clean up some recordings he did in the living room for an old Wollensak reel-to-reel tape recorder that I'd borrowed for the occasion from the local high school.  This was sometime toward the mid-1960s.  She gave the members of the family each a Christmas gift of a compilation she had made on a CD that included two of my father's rather famous solos.  The name of one of the songs he sang is: "Good Will to Men." Before the recording I had already heard that song many times growing up, and great it was, always.  The title of the compilation CD is Touching the Elephant.  The title relates to the old story from India, "Blind Men and an Elephant." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

This link goes to where you can play that compilation, Touching the Elephant, song by song, in any order, by clicking big play buttons.  http://ge.tt/9QAufVr1, and here (below) is the complete song listing.  As you see, GOOD WILL TO MEN sung by Lewis H. Scott is number 13 on the list below and among the play buttons at http://ge.tt/9QAufVr1.  This other link will download just that one song to have for play locally if you like.  If you have a local music player in your computer and/or have an mp3 player and if you know how to put things where you know where they are and can find them again then I recommend it.  There are optional links at http://ge.tt/9QAufVr1 for downloading any or all of the other songs on Touching the Elephant.  NOTE: THIS COMPILATION WAS CAREFULLY DESIGNED FOR THE SONGS TO BE PLAYED IN ORDER.  Another note too, you might as well know that number 12 is on this album because I was part of that performance. :-)

Note the terms for this particular item at ge.tt, 30 day availability from today then maybe gone.

GOOD WILL TO MEN

love,
Larry

1. Joan Baez - [Touching the Elephant #01] Outside the Nashville City Limits
2. Cat Stevens - [Touching the Elephant #02] Morning has Broken
3. Mahalia Jackson - [Touching the Elephant #03] What Child Is This
4. Sweet Honey in the Rock - [Touching the Elephant #04] I Remember I Believe
5. Tracy Chapman - [Touching the Elephant #05] All That You Have is Your Soul
6. Joan Osborne - [Touching the Elephant #06] Spider Web
7. Eric Clapton - [Touching the Elephant #07] Sinner's Prayer
8. Bob Dylan - [Touching the Elephant #08] Dear Landlord
9. George Harrison - [Touching the Elephant #09] Hear Me Lord
10. Eric Clapton - [Touching the Elephant #10] Knockin' on Heaven's Door
11. Joan Baez - [Touching the Elephant #11] Last Night I had the Strangest Dream
12. Unitarian Universalist Church choir - [Touching the Elephant #12] Sanctus, Mass in Bb, Opus 77
13. Lewis H. Scott - [Touching the Elephant #13] Good Will to Men
14. Bette Midler - [Touching the Elephant #14] The Rose
15. Lewis H. Scott - [Touching the Elephant #15] God is My Strength
16. Jewel - [Touching the Elephant #16] Hands
17. Joan Baez - [Touching the Elephant #17] Edge of Glory
18. Sons Of The Pioneers - [Touching the Elephant #18] Cowboy Camp Meetin'
19. Joan Baez - [Touching the Elephant #19] Forever Young
20. Elaine Silver - [Touching the Elephant #20] By the Earth
21. Peter, Paul & Mary - [Touching the Elephant #21] Early in the Morning

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sent 8/17/14 don't miss Leonard Cohen's "Anthem"; Perla Batalla & Julie Christensen (YouTube)

Anthem, Perla Batalla & Julie Christensen (YouTube link)

"Ring the bells that still can ring..."
Let us sing it! love, Larry

"Anthem"

The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.

I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring ...

You can add up the parts
but you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.

sent 8/17/14 FCNL action alert; "From the Left, From the Right: Calls to Demilitarize Ferguson, and America"

Subject: FCNL action alert; "From the Left, From the Right: Calls to Demilitarize Ferguson, and America"

I've said before that I am a racist.  By that I mean the colors of people's skins that are different from mine (white) are a constant distraction for me that gets in the way of communication.  The different accents also do not help.  I grew up in an area that was completely unaffected by the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education (Wikipedia link). I am not sure but what the first time I ever heard of it was in law school.  There just were not any people around with different colored skins with whom to desegregate my school.  Now we've seen one result of that case, as white people have moved to the suburbs, colored people have moved to the cities, and the rich are now pushing hard to make money on privatizing cities' schools.

But me being a racist or not, these military attacks on U.S. citizens are a total embarrassment if nothing else, that police can get away with acting like this in my country.  I may find different colored skins distracting, but I have been polite, have never hurt anybody, and do not like seeing even people with different skin hurt.  I have had a few friends of different hues as well as some excellent business relationships, with me doing my best to conceal my constant awareness of their skin color.  Besides which, now that it's "us versus them" as opposed to the old "protect and serve," I do not feel safe from the police any more myself even if I am white with good hair.

"From the Left, From the Right: Calls to Demilitarize Ferguson, and America," by John Nichols, The Nation, August 15, 2014

The Nation is the oldest print publication in the country still in print.  The 1865 founding prospectus says: "The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred."

Obviously they've still got a job on their hands there at The Nation.  I have been watching for a few years, and to me it appears they are still working hard at the job as described.  Just so you know.

I have referred you to Friends (Quakers) Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) actions on a number of previous occasions.  One thing you can count on them for is they are not haters.  Representative Hank Johnson is about to introduce legislation that would stop local police departments from getting weapons designed for war from the Pentagon. Please urge your representative to cosponsor this important legislation.  The FCNL offers this easy gateway for doing that. http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=63298701&PROCESS=Take+Action

This links recent articles and comments of mine on the militarization of America's communities from before we'd ever heard of Ferguson, Missouri specifically.
sent 6/25-27/14 "How the NSA is Transforming Law Enforcement" Re: big and pithy Paul Craig Roberts, main focus the militarization of police in the U.S., also Russia
See also: From the wonderful American Civil Liberties Union, "War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Police."   "Militarization of policing encourages officers to adopt a 'warrior' mentality and think of the people they are supposed to serve as enemies."  Here's an immediate download link for the 98 page report.  It has an index, so it's easy enough to skip around in it.
And also: "4 Reasons the Police Are Suddenly Terrifying," by C. Coville, Cracked, June 9, 2014

Larry
P.S. I've just happened upon this relevant article at CounterPunch "The Shortest Distance Between Palestine and Ferguson," by Jaime Omar Yassin, August 15-17, 2014
And here's another from TomDispatch.  As usual at TomDispatch the article begins below an introduction by Tom. "To Terrify and Occupy: How the Excessive Militarization of the Police is Turning Cops Into Counterinsurgents," by Matthew Harwood, August 14, 2014.
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sent 8/16/14 Bill McKibbon on the 9/21 NYC event: If you're looking for hope...

Subject: Bill McKibbon on the 9/21 NYC event: If you're looking for hope...
 
The first and subject message is below this P.S.: Never been to Manhattan? It's easy!
If you've never visited Manhattan you might not know how easy it is to get around, if you are able to stand and are able to walk short distances.  It's much easier without a car, and the subway maps make it easy to get around even if you don't have money for cabs, which by the way are everywhere.  And I can attest that Manhattan tends to be beautiful in September.  Amtrak trains arrive in the middle of downtown Manhattan, itself a very interesting area. Larry
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Subject: Bill McKibbon on the 9/21 NYC event: If you're looking for hope...

Bill McKibbon today wrote me and another friend and maybe you or maybe not:
Friends,

If you’re on the fence about heading to the People’s Climate March on Sept. 21st, you may be wondering: will it matter if I go?

That’s a reasonable question. It’s certainly true that marching alone is not going to stop climate change. But by bringing the whole movement together, we let the world’s leaders understand that there are strong demands for real action.

Since the other side has all the money (the fossil fuel industry is the richest industry on earth), they’ll always win unless we show up in force. When we do -- in the fight against the Keystone pipeline, for example -- we stand a chance. We’ve helped keep that one from being built for three years now because our protest has been a match for their cash.

The New York march is about the whole climate fight the world over. Together we hope to make a statement for ourselves, and on behalf of all of our brothers and sisters from pole to pole. With so many world leaders assembled in New York, as they will be the week of Sept. 21st, we need folks on this continent to help make that global passion visible to the powers-that-be.

Of course marches don’t work by themselves. Crucially important work will be done in the weeks and months after Sept. 21. But that work will be more powerful because we’ve stood together, and felt each other’s strength.

Here’s another question, one I’m asked almost every time I speak. “How do you stay hopeful?”  I don’t always, but most of the time I do -- precisely because I get to see, every day, the remarkable people involved in this fight.

If you're looking for hope, I can't think of anywhere better to be than the streets of New York this September.

See you there,

Bill
Previous on this event, with participating organizations link--700 as of August 1st--and transportation link: Note the code for a 10 percent discount on the best available transportation to New York City September 15th to September 24th.  "Call 1 (800) 872-7245 or contact your local travel agent.  This cannot be done on line."  Convention Fare Code X22T-908.
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/sent-8814-climate-summit-very-big-deal.html

Previous on longer range weather forecasts:
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-62714-climate-disaster-is-not-so.html
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-6114-something-good-big-progress.html
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-61814-al-gore-turning-point-new.html Note that "previous links" in this one sent 6/18/14 overlap with the "previous links" in the first of these three, sent 6/27/14.  So you can catch up or review by following back the previous linkage given in the one dated 6/27 and just the main articles in the other two.

Larry
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The question of how a relatively small group of cloistered gangsters can so consistently destroy everything they touch (except the bank accounts of their benefactors) and still remain in power gets to the heart of the American conundrum. --Rob Urie (link)