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      "body": "TOR is the dark internet, where identity thieves, drug dealers and arms sellers hang out, safely hidden. It is home to Wikileaks and Silk Road.  You can purchase anything from a billion stolen e-mail accounts to assassination services there.  Turns out TOR is a service designed and built by the CIA, and even though TOR is now a non-profit organization, it is almost entirely funded by annual “donations” from a handful of US government agencies, mostly connected - to the CIA.  The NSA sees TOR as “a honeypot”, where all kinds of people they’re after (dealers, jihadists, bombers) gather in one place.  They can be tracked and found with little effort.  So while the government bemoans the criminals hiding in plain sight on TOR, it also encourages their use of TOR with taxpayer money.\n\nHow can this be?  It seems that CIA operatives using TOR to hide their online identities were instantly recognizable as CIA operatives because their activity showed they came from TOR.  So the user base had to be broadened in order to hide the spies – in plain sight.\n\nYasha Levine obtained a carton full of documents from the Board of Broadcasting Governors, another offshoot of the CIA, using the Freedom Of Information Act.  It is all spelled out clearly and plainly, including updates to the CIA on technical progress at the supposedly independent non-profit.  Levine says TOR employees are essentially federal civil servants. This book is a warning that you never know who your friends are, and that everything can be fashioned into a weapon.\n\nSurveillance Valley, The Secret Military History of the Internet is a totally misleading title for this book. It wanders through internet history for two hundred pages, looking at the same developments we all know about.  Mostly, it is not about surveillance.  And there’s nothing new.\n\nWe all know what an open sewer the internet is.  And that Silicon Valley receives countless billions from the government for services gladly rendered, be they hosting, profiling or out and out spying.  Also nothing new.  So the book became a grating read, until quite suddenly and without warning, Levine turned to TOR.  The paradox of the US government building, promoting and subsidizing the would-be secret world of the dark net is scary enough. That it is so fragile its managers attacked a university that hacked it, accusing the university of “ethical lapses“ is both laughable and shocking. (It turned out to be cheap and easy.) That anyone thinks they are safe anywhere must forever be out of the question.\n\nEven, or similarly, Signal is a dark net product of the US government. It encrypts communications over the internet, but first requires users to upload their cellphone number and their entire phonebooks. And everyone does. Like lambs to the slaughter. Signal uses Amazon servers, so any intelligence force can watch for the pings and quickly see who is using Signal to keep their conversations secret.  Both Signal and TOR are forcefully and famously recommended by Edward Snowden and Julian Assange for their “privacy and safety”. They both must know better. So what does that mean?\n\nThe CIA used its ops network to attack Levine for his investigation, in a co-ordinated campaign. He was suddenly accused of all kinds of crime and immorality, and subjected to threats including death to his family.  Even Anonymous got after him as a wacko conspiracy theorist. All in an effort to discredit anything he might later publish. But Levine has the government’s own documents. He did the groundwork for the book on a Kickstarter campaign with 500 contributors.  And now he is delivering - a real public service – at least in the last third of it.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "(The Danger Within Us, Jeanne Lenzer, December 2017)\n\n License to kill\n\nStephen King must be envious.  Nothing he has written is nearly as frightening or as suspenseful as what the medical-industrial complex does to its customers, us.  In Jeanne Lenzer’s The Danger Within Us, the implants we now consider to be everyday miracles (hips, knees, stents, pacemakers, etc.) have caused conditions worthy of banning by international treaties against torture.  The greed, selfishness, self-dealing and corruption is unending, and nothing ever seems to stop it.\n\nThe book is structured around a single interminable case, Dennis Fegen, who was implanted with a device called a Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS) which is meant to lessen epileptic seizures, among a dozen other things, all unproven.  It dug its way into his jugular vein (from which it cannot be removed) and nearly killed him countless times, stopping his heart every three minutes.  The company bullied the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), leveraged congressmen and withheld failure stats to win approval for this device, which studies say is essentially useless, when not dangerous.  At least as many do worse with it as do better.  The US military is now considering it for vets with PTSD.\n\nMedical devices are not tracked like prescription drugs. Lenzer estimates 70 million Americans have had implants in the last ten years alone.  The number of people who died because of them is not collected either, and the FDA itself says less than 1% have been reported by the device makers.  Since the number of reported deaths is 16,000, possibly two million have actually died.  Annually.  (Overall, the health care system is the number three cause of death in the USA.) Lenzer cites several experts who estimate that a good 50% of devices get implanted unnecessarily.  Standard medical treatment would be just as effective, if not more so.  And safer.\n\nLenzer provides plenty of other examples, including drugs like Genentech’s blockbuster tPA, which has been proven to be no better than its old fashioned competition, and in some ways worse.  Though far more expensive, of course.  And as we head into the great future of the internet of things, more and more devices report data. They are hackable targets, able to kill the patient remotely, via cellphone. \n\nThere are numerous books like this in various sub-fields within medicine, as well as chemicals, nutrition and agriculture. The evidence is stark. The effects often fatal.  And nothing ever comes of it. (Just ask Dennis Fegen, who has been contacting anyone and everyone for years with zero results.)  No congressional hearings, no permit revocations, no criminal prosecutions.  Not even libel suits.  Maybe the occasional fine.  And to top it off, the Supreme Court has ended liability suits by victims if the device operated properly.  Industry bribes doctors to sell each other.  Industry finances politicians.  Industry dangles fat jobs in front of FDA types.  Doctors live in a state of suspension of disbelief when it’s not simple gullibility. The bogus VNS gizmo sits front and center on the company’s website.   At $40,000 (installation not included), it is key to their success, and to hell with the (over a thousand) bodies piling up.  The Danger Within Us in infuriating.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "(The Spinning Magnet, Alanna Mitchell, January 2018)\n\nThe Ultimate lose-Lose Proposition\n\nWith all the talk of climate change, the sixth extinction, the collision of galaxies and the death of the sun, Alanna Mitchell adds another – the fading of our magnetic field. We are protected from the sun’s ferocity by a magnetic field that comes from the core of the planet.  The sun can blow it back, but it can’t blow it away. Worryingly, all is not well with that shield.\n\nThe Spinning Magnet is almost entirely history.  Mitchell looks at the long list of milestones as we discovered and tried to understand electricity and magnetism. There are as many wrong turns as right ones, but today we have a good idea of what came before (though no feel for what comes next).  The most important discovery was that electricity and magnetism are both manifestations of the same force.  We ignore one for the other at our peril.  By 1838 we knew the magnetic field came from the center of the Earth. We’ve spend the following 200 years taking measurements everywhere, all the time, to figure out the patterns, the intensity, the movements and the implications.  But that’s also how we know it is fading.\n\nThe magnetic north and south poles used to reverse fairly regularly, and they leave traces when they do. There hasn’t been one since we came along, so we don’t know what to expect.  But reversing the poles and the field will almost certainly wreak havoc like we’ve never seen.  For one thing, we now run on electricity. When extraordinary solar flares penetrated the field in the mid 1800s, batteries powering the telegraph network all over the western world caught fire, seemingly spontaneously.  Disconnecting them did not shut the system down, however.  It ran on “celestial power”.  Today, everything is electric.  But in addition, everything runs on magnetic media.  All the software, hard drives and memory banks in the world might be wiped if the magnetic field behaves badly.  It could be like Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, but with no possibility of aid, as nothing would work anywhere.  And that doesn’t count what it might do living beings.  Birds for example, can actually see the magnetic field, and use it to navigate thousands of miles twice a year.  Many insects use it too.  We have no idea how they will handle a reversal.  If the field doesn’t reverse but fades away, the sun will be free to fry the Earth into another Mercury, and continually bombard it with killer radiation (which is why “escaping” to Mars is no solution. Its magnetic field is long gone).  It gives one pause.\n\nMitchell’s style is fast and spare.  Her book is very easy to read.  The sentences are short, direct and declarative.  The chapters are short and concise.  They are discrete entities, each having its own tight purpose.  She avoids the worst complexities.  It is page 96 before Mitchell uses the word quantum.  And it only appears once more later. That’s pretty remarkable for a book on atomic structures and processes.\n\nThe irony is that our discovery of electricity, magnetism and how to employ them has allowed us to understand that life as we know it could end with the change or demise of the magnetic field and all the wonderful ways we have deployed electricity and magnetism.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "(Our Native Bees, Paige Embry, January 2018)\n\n\nBee lover s are set for life. There are so many native varieties and we know so very little about them, that anyone interested can devote a lifetime to learning, and teaching the rest of us.  Pretty much anyone can add to the knowledge base, just by observing and reporting. Our Native Bees is a voyage of discovery rather than a science book. Lots of great photos right where you need them, too.\n\n![NativeBees4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRkLU7jeugRwsb4TSTfbA5qDAR5ruZtzJyWL3xJjzdYE7/NativeBees4.jpg)\n\nBees are not just hive residents; that’s a honeybee trait.  And honeybees are European imports.  Native bees seem to be mostly solitary and earth/hole dwellers. They come in a blizzard of colors and sizes, from smaller than grain of rice to a full inch. They have unique properties and habits, and have peculiarities and preferences in climate, foods and child rearing.  There are four thousand native species of bee and 20,000 worldwide. Typically, we can name a handful at best.\n\n![NativeBees3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeCgL5vLFFC5ZmDvvxMgiGTSmaYGF6NFZuTt8YbGB9CMK/NativeBees3.jpg)\n\nWe depend on the Paige Embrys of the world to catalog it all, because bees are just not a zoological priority for scientists.  Embry says bees have broken her out of her own introspective cocoon, and this book has forced her to fly and drive far to meet the bee-loving celebrities and experts.  Her enthusiasm is genuine and infectious.  She has learned a ton, and is sharing it. On the other hand, she is clearly obsessive.\n\n![NativeBees8.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXB7GFEmNagQSu5d7QHfVGiMonmhGFgt9kE5ibLQ7goeu/NativeBees8.jpg)\n\nBees are beset by all kinds of problems, not all of them manmade, though the manmade ones are truly unfortunate. Monocultures mean bees only get food while that one pant blooms. The rest of the year is a famine. Golf courses and manicured lawns are no help either, though the pesticide maker Syngenta is working with golf courses to line them with natural greenery outside the playing area.  Pesticides don’t select to save bees, and we overspray something fierce.  We need to just ease up and share the planet a little. It will pay huge dividends. The alternative is a well-known and predicted disaster for our food sources.\n\n![NativeBees7.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmX1m5ja4B5Fofv9AwbLoz7gFDt3hZMjNZCnG7HxswGgrL/NativeBees7.jpg)\n\nAnd it turns out Melissa is Greek for honeybee.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "(The Shame Nation, Sue Scheff, October 2017)\n\nShame Nation is a self-help book. The first half is a collection of miserable and dispiriting stories of people hunted, haunted and sometimes destroyed by online trolls. The second half is how to deal with it, primarily by preventing it in the first place, but also alternative paths, services and resources to help victims. It is fast moving and very granular.\n\nIn our isolationist society, it is easy to understand trolls. Trolling might be the only pleasure they have. “It’s easy and thrilling to hate a stranger online” says one of their interviewees. The anonymity allows them free reign to wreak havoc on both innocent and not so innocent lives. That they are judge, jury and executioner without due process never enters their minds. They are having their say and their fun.\n\nTrolls come in many variations: body-shamers, sex-shamers, extortionists, know-it-all critics and above all, superficial commenters making assumptions with no evidence. They are empowered by their ability to spout their wisdom/criticism without fear of contradiction, and more importantly, without fear of reprisal. That Americans hate this much and this intensely is not really under the microscope. \n\nThe book will hook you with all its tales of (legitimate) woe, in endless variation and outcomes from reverse-shaming the trolls to suicide by the victims. It’s a new world on the internet, where we seem to want to repeat our old world of life being nasty, brutal and short.\n\nOne thing left unsaid in all the advice to be careful before pressing Send, is that the number one role model, the president of the United States, weekly shames judges, senators, congressmen, reporters, interviewers and anyone else he thinks is criticizing him, in the most vile language he can, from personal attacks to anything that flashes in his mind at the moment – usually 5AM.  How do the authors think hundreds of millions of Americans will restrain themselves when the president is free to shame - is not raised here.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:\nhttps://epeak.in/2017/09/30/when-bumblebees-ruled-dc/",
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      "body": "(When The Senate Worked For Us, Michael Pertschuk, Sept 2017)\n\nSpot the difference \n\nIn the 1960s, Capitol Hill hired idealistic young men and women who wanted to learn and make a difference. They had mentors on congressional staffs, wrote position papers and bills, provided the momentum for keeping government at the forefront of progress, and parried the stabs of corporate lobbyists.  Today, Capitol Hill hires corporate lobbyists with their own agendas – getting more money and privileges for their industries while minimizing any effort by government to shine.  Secrecy, subterfuge and partisanship are the keys to success today.  Michael Pertschuk has lived both.  He prefers the first.  His book is a loving recounting of the era.\n\nIn those days, the 60s and 70s, the most entrepreneurial, activist and effective staffers were called bumblebees. They swarmed over a topic, found experts, legal angles and popular hooks, and made their senators and congressmen look good presenting them on the floor or in committee.  Pertschuk all but stumbled into this world and was swept along, learning on the job.  He was forgiven for mistakes rather than fired, and moved easily among positions.  It was exciting, and he was very lucky.  He has gone back and interviewed all his old interlocutors, fashioned their anecdotes into cohesive stories in a framework of genuine accomplishments , and character studies.  And to be fair, failures.\n\nPertschuk found himself at the epicenter of several epoch-making issues.  Out of nowhere came legislation to post warnings on cigarette packs.  It was the foot in the door of decades of pressure on big tobacco. He and Ralph Nader remade the attitude of carmakers to accommodate safety.  Until the first congressional hearings, GM racked up a billion in profits, spending just one million on safety.  This exposure evolved into a whole line of consumer safety bills, as his ultimate boss, Senator Warren Magnuson, morphed into the consumer advocacy expert in the senate.  This morphing came from below, not from above.  It kept Magnuson going for at least two additional six year terms.  Pertschuk and Jerry Grinstein, his mentor, created the eye of the storm, and lived there.  Such was the life of a Magnuson bumblebee.\n\nMagnuson’s Commerce Committee generated legislation rationalizing product sizes and descriptions, the meaning and extent of consumer product warranties, the creation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, banning pesticide 2,4,5-T, fireretarding children’s clothing, and corporate average fuel economy, more than doubling the miles per gallon achieved by cars.\n\nToday, we desperately need the bumblebees to straighten out the mess over cell phones, software and igadgets that purchasers never actually own, but “license” and hold at the pleasure of the manufacturer, until forced obsolescence kicks in. And airline policies treating customers as the enemy.  And privacy rights, drug price policies and the right to have medical procedure pricing in advance.  Unfortunately the foxes are running the henhouse, and the bumblebee is (actually) on the endangered species list.  But for a couple of decades, bumblebees ruled, and the USA became a better country for it.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "(The Bad Food Bible, Dr. Aaron Carroll, November 2017)\n\nThere are two points to The Bad Food Bible. Medical studies should not be used to make food decisions, and you should go ahead and eat whatever you want. \n\nDr. Aaron Carroll says there is a hierarchy of food studies, and the most reliable are the rarest.  But regardless, their results are not to be taken at face value. The media misinterpret the findings, and you can find a study to prove just about anything you desire.  There are no definitive answers. The state of our nutritional knowledge seems to be worthless.\n\nAs for food, everything is fine in moderation, so don’t bother worrying about what you eat. With cow’s milk, for example, Carroll says we need it for our breakfast cereal, and cookies without milk is just not supportable.  Save meat with a lot of fat for special occasions.  He allows his own children “four or five” sugar-free soft drinks a week.  He says with mercury-laden tuna, you must decide for yourself how much poison you and your children can handle, and adjust your consumption as desired: “Think for yourself and eat accordingly”, he says.  This is extraordinarily strange advice in the nutrition field.\n\nPoints to ponder:\n-Gluten-free is a pointless and expensive fad. One tenth of one percent have gluten issues.\n-Genetically modified organisms have been around for as long we have farmed and there is no reason to even try to eliminate them.\n-Alcohol is more beneficial than it is damaging.  Red wine in particular raises good HDL.\n-Eating fat won’t make you fat.\n-Eating cholesterol won’t raise your cholesterol.\n-Coffee is “shockingly good for you”; it’s practically a miracle drug. And it does not stunt growth or dehydrate you.\n-The empty calories in diet soft drinks are better than the empty calories from added sugar drinks, because artificial sweeteners won’t kill you.\n-MSG is a perfectly natural, and critically necessary body chemical, present in everything from tomatoes to breast milk. It has never been shown to be toxic as a flavor enhancer.\n-Science is having no success telling organic from non-organic produce.\n-Organic produce is not nutritionally superior.\n\nCarroll doesn’t venture into two of the perversions in nutrition research.  Rat studies take animals predisposed to certain diseases and overload them with foods or chemicals to see how they fare. By law since 1964, if cancer resulted, the chemical had to be banned. Thus saccharine became a carcinogen.  Didn’t matter that a human would have had to drink a hundred diet sodas a day for two years to absorb the same amount they pumped into the rats, it was cancer and it had to go. This is the same reasoning that has led to zero new wonder drugs for tuberculosis since the 1960s. TB doesn’t manifest in rats the way it does it humans, so new drugs can never pass the mandatory rat test.  But I digress.\n\nThe other is our near total lack of understanding of how our bodies work. We now think gut bacteria manufacture all the vitamins we need on demand, and consuming them as chemicals is worthless. The same goes for food-borne cholesterol. The cholesterol in our blood comes from our own livers, not eggs or burgers. Carroll also skims over the massive chemical content of meat, red or white.  Meat might not be as harmful as some say, but the antibiotics and other medicines and hormones in them are. Carroll says enjoy.\n\nThat the state of nutritional medicine is this torn and uncertain should be worrying all by itself.  Carroll makes a lot of good arguments, but they don’t add any degree of certainty about what to eat.  And he admits that. (He is currently experimenting with a low carb diet for himself.)  For those who believe if you don’t recognize the ingredient then it’s not food – this book is not going to go down well.  If you’re open to rational analysis with a splash of adventure, this is for you.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "Standing says just knowing they have the safety net means people relax, plan, join in activities and socialize more. They lose their sense of shame, poverty, and inferiority. Violence and crime decline. They feel able to take a job. Their attitudes change, their relationships change, the family get along better, kids can stay in school .... it literally makes all the difference in the world. So yes, you're right - it's all about economic growth.",
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      "body": "(Basic Income, Guy Standing, August 2017)\n\n A treasury of clear thinking\n\nThere is too much loose talk about a universal guaranteed income.  A lot of it comes from ill-informed sources. The faulty exposition leads to criticisms of the concept – for the wrong reasons.  Now possibly the best authority on basic income has gathered it all in one book so we can judge from a level playing field.  Guy Standing has dedicated himself to basic income, helping found the European Society (BIEN) for it as well giving it its name.  He knows the history of it going back to ancient Greece, and all the many pilot programs worldwide where it has proven itself beyond any doubt.  Standing examines the principles, the programs, the record, the criticisms and the failures.  It has all been taken care of.  All one need do is read it.\n\nThe concept is to take a nation’s wealth and issue what amounts to a dividend, weekly, monthly or yearly, to at all adult citizens. There is no quid pro quo – nothing is expected of the recipient, because that is limiting and adds unbearable overhead of reporting and sanctions. Standing also argues that means tests, behavior tests, sanctions and intrusive prying have not provided for the greater good, that means-spirited acts by the state foster mean-spirited acts by the citizenry. (E.G. The working poor detest the impoverished. )  Basic income is supposed to be liberating.\n\nThe need gets clearer every day.  In the newly globalized economy, uncertainty (unknown unknowns) is the biggest factor.  It doesn’t lend itself easily to unemployment insurance or workfare and requires much higher rates of mobility which are rapidly declining – because of uncertainty.  Artificial intelligence is another threat.  So is inequality.  In the USA, the federal government manages 126 different welfare programs. Then there are the states. And none of them is changing the makeup of the classes.  All that overhead could go away if there was a simple cash transfer to everyone, automatically.  The average homeless person costs the British taxpayer £26,000 a year in police, medical and prison charges.  Poverty leads to kids leaving school and overstressed families for whom strategy is a joke. They have no way to plan; they barely make it to the end of the month.  The insecurity (said Confucius, more than a few years ago) is worse than the poverty.\n\nGiving the Fed’s QE money to every American would have been a $56,000 boost to every household. Instead, all the money went to Wall Street billionaires.   What a difference household spending would have made.  That was exactly what the Fed wanted, and it went about it in exactly the wrong way. Today, a new carbon tax could fund a basic income program.\n\nStanding says that only since the 1900s has economics/government assumed that only labor in the marketplace has value, “which is nonsense”.  House work, maintenance, repairs, child rearing and business building are all unpaid, but are real work.  Jobs (labor) are not a superior function.  The basic income frees people to perform this unpaid and necessary work.  Pilot programs where recipients had no strings attached (land a job, look for work, only spend on certain things) do worse than unrestricted cash, which families use as they need to get ahead in life.  And that’s what happens, in every pilot.\n\n![basicincome.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVgNjjHvbR8J8Zh7NBo3P7QUxNAnenMFRRACGEWkuJonE/basicincome.jpg)\n\nWhat is astounding is all the pilot programs, all over the world.  There are far more than we realize. Basic income is far more established and credible than we realize.  The pilots have been funded by national and regional governments, NGOs, individuals and even crowd funding.  And it seems that every one of them, no matter how badly designed, has proffered results that consistently exceed expectations.  Basic income works.  It saves several dollars for every dollar spent when not accompanied by reporting and sanctions.  That is, it can be profitable!  At some point, some enlightened government will do it permanently, nationwide, and turn the world upside down.\n\nIn the mean time, what if the United States had offered a basic income to everyone in Afghanistan, instead of spending untold billions hammering the country into rubble?\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "(Secrecy World, Jake Bernstein, Nov 2017)\n\nThe world of secret offshore companies is outrageous. The rich and corrupt, seeking to hide assets and income from taxes, set up shell companies, foundations and trusts  –  by the hundreds of thousands  – every year.  Despite the harm it does to local government and the likely illegality of it, the industry holds public trade shows and conferences where shady lawyers, accountants, financial planners and consultants flout their services. The numbers are mind-numbing: over $100 trillion hidden from view, costing middle class taxpayers trillions to make up the difference. The treasure trove of the Panama Papers has imposed a little sunshine here, in Secrecy World.\n\nJake Bernstein has followed the leads backwards and forwards. He fills in the details of who the players are and how they got there. He also takes some minor side trips to corrupt practices like drug dealing, a slave ship, abandoned construction and a fraudulent reinsurer, to show how these players are actively ruining the lives of others with their fake firms. There is even a side trip to the Swiss tax-free art warehouses, where a good hundred billion dollars in precious art is hidden from view and taxation.\n\nThe book is structured like a tree.  Each of the roots gets an airing, and they all lead up to the visible trunk – Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm from which all the documents were leaked.  The roots consist of Mossfon bureaus around the world, dealing with various corrupt governments, corrupt banks and eager clients. The crown is the billowing scandals the journalists perpetrated, going off in many directions, covering the sky with corruption on a truly global scale.\n\nBernstein has an interesting style. He does with paragraphs what good writers do with chapters – entice. His paragraphs become cliffhangers for the next paragraph, keeping the reader hooked over a long, incredibly diverse and involved exposé. He gives the Panama Papers worldwide relevance.\n\nThe roll call of leaders using hidden offshore accounts is a who’s who. The perps include Vladimir Putin and his cabinet, Xi Jinping, Hosni Mubarak, Hafez Al Assad, both Kirchners, the king of Saudi Arabia, Nawaz Sharif, the ruling Aliyev family of Azerbaijan, David Cameron, Dick Cheney, the prime minister of Iceland, the world football regulator FIFA, and Oderbrecht.  It seems like there is not a single financial corruption case in the news today that does not pass through the offices of Mossack Fonseca.  And there is an entire chapter on Donald Trump’s connections and dealings with Mossfon clients and their offshore firms. They are his partners and friends.\n\nThe real hero of the story is the unique collaboration among journalists around the world, called the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, where Bernstein works. They spent a year trying to make sense of the documents and data. Their familiarity with their own country and region allowed them to identify players and plug them into deals.  There was so much data it took 33 8-processor Amazon servers to execute a search in parallel. 12 million documents worth 2.6 terabytes had been sent to the group over many months. No one knew when it would stop or what the final size might be or what it all meant.  More than 300 journalists in 65 countries researched the hoard, on a deadline so they could all publish on the same day.  And the whistleblower/leaker/hacker has wisely remained unidentified, seeing what has happened to the likes of Manning, Snowden and Assange.\n\nFinally, with the decline of the huge offshoring operations in Panama, Luxembourg and the BVI, the global leaders of this nefarious industry of corruption are the US states of Delaware and Nevada.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "(The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, Nov 2017)\n\nThe premise of this 50 year old essay is simply that “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies”.  In it, Noam Chomsky spreads a buffet of official lies, coverups, half-truths and self-serving prejudices to show how extraordinarily badly the West has treated the world.  The era was the Viet Nam War (it first appeared in the New York Review of Books in 1967), which was so obviously a fraud that a generation of Americans actually mobilized against it.  Since then, things have settled into a largely blind acceptance, and the essay needs a new round of exposure.  “Since we often cannot see what is happening before our eyes, it is perhaps not too surprising that what is at a slight distance is utterly invisible.” That’s where intellectuals’ responsibility comes in.\n\nThe book is a finely crafted effort to attack and destroy various pseudo-intellectuals in various American governments, emphasizing their stature and influence in sending the country down a disgusting path of destruction, poverty and slaughter overseas.\n\nAs usual, there are fireworks galore.  Chomsky cites several experts who show that Osama bin Laden succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, causing the US to waste a good $4 trillion on endless unsuccessful wars, while radicalizing Islam to jihad and terrorism as he alone could never do. They say America is still bin Laden’s greatest ally, long after his death.  \n\nTruth hurts.\n\nAll the more reason to tell it.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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      "body": "For thousands of years, the objective in war was to get the enemy’s flag – and destroy it. Capture the flag, and it's all over. Even today, winning a war means the enemy’s flag is history. Germany and Japan both had to change their flags after World War II.\n\nYet in the United States, it is somehow not considered treason to fly the confederate flag of the defeated secessionists. It is available everywhere, on all kinds of products, and was even baked into state flags. It is preferred by the alt-right over the American flag.\n\nNor it seems, was it a problem to cast 700 statues to rebel soldiers, using taxpayer money, on public property. This is bizarre. A victorious nation does not permit the vanquished to celebrate their loss. The end of the war is supposed to mean reconciliation and going forward together in a new or renewed nation. You forget the past and move on. \n\nHow is it even possible the USA permits statues and flags to taunt the nation with an old war it won nearly 200 years ago?\n\nIs this not treason in the USA?\n\nDiscuss.",
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      "body": "(The Water Will Come, Jeff Goodell, Oct 2017)\n\nThe USA, it seems, is the last bastion of climate change deniers. There is the whole rest of the world, and there are Fox News viewers.  In North Carolina, it is illegal claim the sea level is rising.  The CIA’s Center on Climate Change and National Security simply disappeared when a Congressman discovered it.  Congress will pounce and remove any reference to climate presented to it or which it stumbles upon. The president – well, you know.\n\nJeff Goodell has traveled the world looking at the ways people and nations are preparing for sea level rise.  Because it is well underway, and painfully so. He has examined Venice, Rotterdam, the Marshall Islands and also New York City, the Jersey Shore, Florida, and Norfolk, where the biggest American naval base is going under, visibly.  The differences in approach are astounding.  While the rest of the world is making huge changes or planning for escape, Americans are hunkering down. They won’t change, come hell or high water.  A lot of them expect a technological miracle to come along before it’s too late. So they’re just standing by.\n\nGlobally, 145 million people live less than three feet above sea level, “creating generations of climate refugees who will make today’s Syrian war refugee crisis look like a high school drama class production“, Goodell says.  Interestingly, climate refugee has no meaning, particularly to governments. It is not defined. No law references it. It does not exist. Just the refugees – an expected 200 million of them by 2050.\n\nGoodell says if all seven billion of us jumped in the ocean, the water would rise about 1/100 of an inch. If all the snow in Greenland melts, the oceans will rise 22 feet.  And that’s just Greenland.  The business of sea levels rising by six inches over the next 80 years is laughable to scientists. They’re looking at 55 feet.\n\nThe cognitive dissonance is gigantic. There are insane conversations about raising buildings and roads, or flood insurance and dunes, as if they could make Florida livable when it’s under (salt) water.  With no farms, no streets, airports or ports, there will be no food, water or electricity and no way to live, no matter how much insurance you have or how high the building is off the (former) ground.  Saving a condo tower does not mean Miami will be viable. But Miami is booming, and the buildings are going up without any changes from previous designs. No laws require taking flooding into account. Developers sell their projects before they break ground, leaving the condos to greater fools. Rather than cause a panic and tell builders they can’t, America provides heavily subsidized flood insurance, encouraging them to do more. The rich sue their local governments to rebuild irrational roads that wash away nearly every year. The poor are simply cut off from services.  It is Swiftian madness.\n\nGoodell reports it all matter-of-factly. He has attended the conferences, met with the scientists for really in-depth conversations, and even interviewed President Obama for an hour, alone, when they were in Alaska a year ago. (He was the first sitting president to visit, and it was about moving whole communities inland.) Obama acknowledged his inability to change general attitudes, having to bite off tiny programs and changes instead. He knows full well it is not enough. Such is the system.\n\nThe Water Will Come is a global tour in which the USA comes off looking not so good.  But it will suffer the same fate, regardless, so it probably doesn’t matter much.\n\nDavid Wineberg",
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