Via my Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised* entrepreneurship (mEnt) UKRAINE can gain SUPPORT (esp. from the U.S.)
* Links to the praise, along with excerpts, are online at the below URL, in the second of two sections titled “Re: said praise”.
[3/12 update: I posted an update/new-introduction to the below.]
Summary (details follow)
Via mEnt, I identified a threat to many/most Americans et al. (T2M) that’s taking shape via: 1) Putin and other kleptocrats (PKs), 2) ongoing advances in molecular- genetics research that imperil PKs (in)directly, 3+) . . .
Ukraine can gain SUPPORT by raising awareness of T2M, not least because:
Putin’s invasion and high-profile reactions to it in the U.S. have primed many Americans to ACT on my T2M-analysis (e.g., to ACT against Putin)
my finders’-fee offer, via mEnt, will help/HELP to motivate Americans to ACT (esp. members of the Biden administration and members of Congress)
Re: T2M, starting with said ongoing advances
From https://ike1952yang2020ruscica2024.substack.com/p/threat-to-many-or-most-people (i.e., said URL):
T2M summary (part 1 of 4; details follow)
From a University of Pennsylvania criminologist’s 2013 book: ~78 million psychopaths (Ps) are IMPERILED (PsIMP) by ongoing advances in molecular- genetics research (e.g., “indefinite detention” of Ps by the year 2034).
From a 2020 article in Nature: “In the past decade, studies of psychopathological genetics have become large enough to draw robust conclusions.”
Very likely: a growing number of Ps are aware that PsIMP.
Re: psychopathy is ~70% heritable
From 2011 book The Science of Evil, by a University of Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology:
If a trait or behavior is even partly genetic, we should see its signature showing up in twins.
. . . Regarding twin studies of Type P [i.e., psychopaths], none of these show 100 percent heritability, but the genetic component is nevertheless substantial (the largest estimate being about 70 percent).
Re: many/most/all genetic identifiers of said ~70% will be identified soon
From 2013 book The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime, by said University of Pennsylvania professor of Criminology (and Psychiatry and Psychology):
“Behavioral genetics is a shadowy black box because, while it tells us what proportion of a given behavior is genetically influenced, it does not identify the specific genes lurking in there that predispose one to violence. Molecular genetics is poised to pry open that black box . . .”
“Twenty years ago, molecular genetics was a fledgling field of research. Now it is a major enterprise providing us with a detailed look at the structure and function of genes.”
“The essence of the molecular genetic research we have been touching on above—identifying specific genes that predispose individuals to crime—is that genes code for neurotransmitter functioning. Neurotransmitters are brain chemicals essential to brain functioning. There are more than a hundred of them and they help to transmit signals from one brain cell to another to communicate information. Change the level of these neurotransmitters, and you change cognition, emotion, and behavior.
. . . It’s 2034 . . . [A]ll males in society aged eighteen and over have to register at their local hospital for a quick brain scan and DNA testing. One simple finger prick for one drop of blood that takes ten seconds. Then a five- minute brain scan for the “Fundamental Five Functions”: First, a structural scan provides the brain’s anatomy. Second, a functional scan shows resting brain activity. Third, enhanced diffusion-tensor imaging is taken to assess the integrity of the white-fiber system in the brain, assessing intricate brain connectivity. Fourth is a reading of the brain’s neurochemistry that has been developed from magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Fifth and finally, the cellular functional scan assesses expression of 23,000 different genes at the cellular level. The computerization of all medical, school, psychological, census, and neighborhood data makes it easy to combine these traditional risk variables alongside the vast amount of DNA and brain data to form an all-encompassing biosocial data set.
. . . Fourth-generation machine-learning techniques looked for complex patterns of linear and nonlinear relationships . . .”
Re: “indefinite detention” of many/most/all Ps could/should ensue
From The Anatomy of Violence (my emphases):
It’s 2034 . . . The economic cost of crime is now astronomical. Back in 2010, the cost of homicide in the United States was estimated at over $300 billion —more than the combined budgets of the Departments of Education, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Labor, and Homeland Security. Way back in 1999, it was estimated to consume 11.9 percent of GDP, but in 2034 it is gobbling up 21.8 percent.
. . . [This] leads the government to launch the LOMBROSO program— Legal Offensive on Murder: Brain Research Operation for the Screening of Offenders.
. . . Under LOMBROSO, those who test positive—the LPs—are held in indefinite detention . . . It sounds quite cushy, but remember that the LPs have not actually committed a crime. Perhaps the main drawback is who they live with, housed as they are in facilities full of other LPs—time bombs waiting to explode.
From 2019 book The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime:
As we move along the continuum to Category 9 [of 22 categories of violent crime], we traverse an important threshold. The remainder of the scale encompasses persons who commit “evil” acts partly or wholly as the result of varying degrees of psychopathy . . .
TNE co-author Michael H. Stone, MD, is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
TNE co-author Gary Brucato, PhD, is: 1) a clinical psychologist and researcher in the areas of violence, psychosis, and other serious psychopathology, 2) the assistant director of the Center of Prevention and Evaluation at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center.
From 2011 book The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry:
[“]She said, ‘I’ve got a bad personality. I like to hurt people.’ I thought she was winding me up. I said, ‘Okay, fine.’ So we went through the [fMRI] tests [i.e., brain scans]. When she was looking at the photographs of the mutilated bodies, the sensors showed that she was getting a kick off of them. Her sexual reward center—it’s a sexual thing—was fired up by blood and death [my emphasis]. It’s subconscious. It happens in milliseconds. She found those things pleasant.”
From the 2017 article in The Atlantic titled “When Your Child Is a Psychopath”:
At 11, Samantha is just over 5 feet tall and has wavy black hair and a steady gaze. She flashes a smile when I ask about her favorite subject (history), and grimaces when I ask about her least favorite (math). She seems poised and cheerful, a normal preteen. But when we steer into uncomfortable territory—the events that led her to this juvenile-treatment facility nearly 2,000 miles from her family—Samantha hesitates and looks down at her hands. “I wanted the whole world to myself,” she says. “So I made a whole entire book about how to hurt people.”
Starting at age 6, Samantha began drawing pictures of murder weapons: a knife, a bow and arrow, chemicals for poisoning, a plastic bag for suffocating. She tells me that she pretended to kill her stuffed animals.
“You were practicing on your stuffed animals?,” I ask her.
She nods.
“How did you feel when you were doing that to your stuffed animals?”
“Happy.”
“Why did it make you feel happy?”
“Because I thought that someday I was going to end up doing it on somebody.”
“Did you ever try?”
Silence.
“I choked my little brother.”
. . . One bitter December day in 2011, Jen [who adopted Samantha] was driving the children along a winding road near their home. Samantha had just turned 6. Suddenly Jen heard screaming from the back seat, and when she looked in the mirror, she saw Samantha with her hands around the throat of her 2-year-old sister, who was trapped in her car seat. Jen separated them, and once they were home, she pulled Samantha aside.
“What were you doing?,” Jen asked.
“I was trying to choke her,” Samantha said.
“You realize that would have killed her? She would not have been able to breathe. She would have died.”
“I know.”
“What about the rest of us?”
“I want to kill all of you.”
Samantha later showed Jen her sketches, and Jen watched in horror as her daughter demonstrated how to strangle or suffocate her stuffed animals. “I was so terrified,” Jen says. “I felt like I had lost control.”
Four months later, Samantha tried to strangle her baby brother, who was just two months old.
Jen and Danny had to admit that nothing seemed to make a difference—not affection, not discipline, not therapy. “I was reading and reading and reading, trying to figure out what diagnosis made sense,” Jen tells me. “What fits with the behaviors I’m seeing?” Eventually she found one condition that did seem to fit . . .
“In the children’s mental-health world, it’s pretty much a terminal diagnosis, except your child’s not going to die,” Jen says. “It’s just that there’s no help [i.e., no treatment/cure].”
From a 2015 article on CNN.com:
“The more severe the psychopathy, the greater the inheritance for the disorder,” . . . said [J. Reid Meloy, forensic psychologist and author of The Psychopathic Mind].
Re: it’s (very) likely that a growing number of Ps are aware that PsIMP
From a 2016 article on PsychologyToday.com:
A [meta-analytic] review of [48] studies found that the correlation between psychopathy and intelligence is nearly zero [i.e., ~2.3% of Ps have an IQ ≥ 130; ~16% ≥ 115].
From the 2012 article in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin titled “The Corporate Psychopath”:
Today’s corporate psychopath may be highly educated—several with Ph.D., M.D., and J.D. degrees have been studied . . .
En route to raising awareness, Ps can use the pretense of screening job applicants to test for psychopathy (i.e., to identify other Ps).
T2M summary (part 2 of 4; details follow)
(Very) likely:
a growing number of Ps are resisting PsIMP
Ps’ war chest is large and growing larger rapidly (e.g., via kleptocracy, ransomware, other means previewed on pp. 132-7)
Re: said likelihoods:
Worldwide, kleptocracy is BOOMING.
Necessity for kleptocrats (Ks): hiring contract killers often.
Contract killers are Ps in “virtually all” cases (source: 2019 article in The Atlantic).
So Ks (e.g., non-Ps) need to RESIST PsIMP (e.g., by FUNDING (other) Ps after making them aware that PsIMP).
Indicators that the alliance of Ks and Ps has reached an advanced stage: parallels/ similarities between Deutsche Bank and the defunct, wildly violent, politically influential/coercive, worldwide criminal enterprise of the 1980s known as Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
Re: kleptocracy is BOOMING
Title of a 2020 book by a Financial Times reporter:
From a June 2021 article on Foreign Policy magazine’s website:
Biden Jump-Starts Fight Against Kleptocracy: New memorandum puts anti- corruption efforts at the heart of national security strategy.
Re: Ks hiring contract killers often
— Summary (details follow) —
Ks need to use violence (e.g., murder).
Ks don’t want “their” violence perpetrated by people with inside-knowledge of the Ks’ kleptocratic/criminal activity.
Re: Ks need to use violence
From Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World (my emphases):
“[F]or the kleptocrat, ruling by licensing theft rather than seeking consent, money can achieve most of what needs to be done. For everything else, there is violence.”
“[V]iolence was still required. It was to dirty money what the law was to clean—a guarantee that agreements would be honoured.”
Re: Ks don’t want “their” violence perpetrated by people with inside-knowledge . . .
From Kleptopia (my emphases):
Geremeyev had rented a flat in Moscow for the hit squad, then flew out the day after their work was done, alongside the shooter. Putin’s officials had permitted the investigators to indict the hit squad and the missing driver, but refused to allow any charges against Geremeyev. That would have brought the matter too close to the sacred networks of kleptocratic power that stretched between Moscow, Grozny and beyond.
Precedent for Ks “outsourcing” murder to contract killers (CKs)
From Wikipedia:
Murder, Inc. . . . was an organized crime group, active from 1929 to 1941, that acted as the enforcement arm of the Italian-American Mafia, the Jewish Mob, and other closely connected organized crime groups in New York City and elsewhere.
More indicators that Ks outsource to CKs
From Kleptopia:
They formed a new five families, these international kleptocrats: the Nats, the Brits, the Sprooks, the Petros and the Party.
. . . The Party, the Nats, the Brits, the Petros and the Sprooks are like the clans of the Cosa Nostra that came before them. On the surface they are rivals. But ultimately they are engaged in a common endeavour . . .
From November 2021 book American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History:
BCCI had created a blueprint that numerous kleptocrats and international criminals would soon follow. It was one of the earliest case studies in what would grow into the modern kleptocracy playbook . . .
From 1993 book The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI, co-authored by two journalists who covered BCCI for Time magazine (my emphases):
From interviews with sources close to BCCI, Time has pieced together a portrait of a clandestine division of the bank called the Black Network, which functions as a global intelligence operation and a mafia-like enforcement squad . . . [T]he 1,500-employee Black Network has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder.
From a 2021 article on CNN.com titled “Hundreds arrested after police infiltrate secret criminal phone network”:
EncroChat, which offered a secure mobile phone instant messaging service, was a “criminal marketplace” used by 60,000 people worldwide for coordinating the distribution of illicit goods, money laundering and plotting to kill rivals . . .
. . . The crime agency said it had worked with police partners to prevent kidnappings and executions by “successfully mitigating over 200 threats to life.”
From a different 2021 article on CNN.com:
[T]here were other, larger encrypted communication apps which police were working to access.
Re: BCCI
From a 1992 U.S. Senate report on BCCI:
“[L]argest case of organized crime in history . . . finance[d] terrorism . . . assist[ed] the builders of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . . .”
“BCCI systematically bribed world leaders and . . . prominent political figures in most of the 73 countries in which BCCI operated.”
From The Outlaw Bank (my emphases):
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the BCCI affair in the United States was the failure of the U.S. government and federal law enforcement to move against the outlaw bank. Instead of swift retribution, what took place over more than a decade was a cover-up of major, alarming proportions, often orchestrated from the very highest levels of government.
Re: Deutsche Bank (DB)
Title of the 2020 book by the finance editor of The New York Times:
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction
Indicators that DB: 1) employs many Ps, 2) banks many Ks and Ps, 3) functions (partly) as a next-gen variant of BCCI
From a 2011 article in U.K. newspaper The Independent:
My companion, a senior UK investment banker, and I are discussing the most successful banking types we know and what makes them tick. I argue that they often conform to the characteristics displayed by social psychopaths. To my surprise, my friend agrees.
He then makes an astonishing confession: “At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles.”
From Dark Towers (my emphases):
“[DB] helped funnel money into countries that were under economic sanctions for pursuing nuclear weapons or participating in genocides.”
“The hundreds of millions of dollars that Deutsche [had] wired to Iranian banks [by 2006] provided vital funding for the sanctioned country to pay for its terrorism. Soon Iraq was being ripped apart by violence. Roadside bombs detonated all over the country, targeting the country’s fragile government and the U.S. military forces that were trying to keep the peace. Much of the violence was the work of a terrorist group, Jaysh al-Mahdi, which had been armed and trained by Hezbollah, which had been bankrolled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which had been financed by Deutsche.
. . . The sanctions violations weren’t the work of an isolated crew of rogue Deutsche employees. Managers knew. Their bosses knew. American regulators would later find evidence that at least one member of the bank’s vorstand—in other words, one of Deutsche’s most senior executives— knew about and approved of the scheme.”
From a 2020 article in The New Yorker (my emphases):
“Between 2011 and 2015, ten billion dollars left Russia through Deutsche Bank’s mirror trades.
. . . The recently published FinCEN files . . . add some fascinating detail to the mirror-trades affair.
. . . The FinCEN files cover around two trillion dollars’ worth of suspicious transactions reported at major banks between 1999 and 2017. Of that two trillion, more than half—around $1.3 trillion—passed through Deutsche Bank.”
“As we now know, mirror trades were not just suggestive of financial crime. Major criminal organizations, terrorist groups, and drug cartels used them to launder and transfer money, and benefited more generally from this geyser of dirty money.”
“According to the documents . . . nearly fifty million dollars were also funneled through mirror trades to the Khanani network, whose clients include associates of Hezbollah and the Taliban.”
“The FinCEN documents are based on Suspicious Activity Reports— essentially whistle-blowing reports made by banks themselves—filed to the U.S. government. They were leaked to BuzzFeed News, then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which shared them with news outlets around the world.”
From Dark Towers (my emphases):
“[DB] would soon become enveloped in scandals related to . . . tax evasion, manipulating interest rates, manipulating the prices of precious metals, manipulating the currencies markets, bribing foreign officials, accounting fraud, . . . ripping off customers, and ripping off the German, British, and United States governments. (The list went on.)”
“To any government official paying attention [in 2017], this was a powerful signal: Investigate Deutsche and risk the [U.S.] president’s wrath.”
More indicators that DB functions (partly) as a next-gen variant of BCCI are below (pp. 17, 19-20, 27-43).
Re: Ps are (very) likely to be “PROFITING” from ransomware
. . .
T2M summary (part 3 of 4; details follow)
At least fairly likely: Donald Trump is a P.
Possible future:
Ks and Ps fund much/most of TrumP’s 2024 presidential campaign.
TrumP is re-elected, after which he:
uses PsIMP as a pretense for granting himself emergency/war powers (EWPs)
leverages EWPs to ADVANCE Ps’ resistance to PsIMP
Re: TrumP
From the 2020 book by Mary Trump, the clinical psychologist (Ph.D.) who’s Donald Trump’s niece:
A case could be made that he [Donald Trump] also meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, which in its most severe form is generally considered sociopathy.
From the 2018 article on PsychologyToday.com titled “The Differences Between Psychopaths and Sociopaths”:
Many psychiatrists, forensic psychologists, criminologists, and police officers . . . use the terms sociopath and psychopath interchangeably.
From Mary Trump’s book:
“In addition to teaching graduate psychology, including courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology, for several years as an adjunct professor, I provided therapy and psychological testing for patients . . .”
“[Donald Trump’s father] Fred seemed to have no emotional needs at all. In fact, he was a high-functioning sociopath.”
Re: Ks and Ps might fund much/most of TrumP’s 2024 presidential campaign
From a 2018 article co-authored by President Biden:
[L]ack of any requirement to disclose the beneficial (i.e. “true”) ownership of limited liability companies (LLCs) makes it easy for foreign [and/or criminal] entities to establish [anonymous] shell companies [ASCs] in the United States. These shell companies can then . . . channel money directly to a super PAC.
In 2021 ASCs were banned in the U.S. (after President Trump’s veto was overridden), but existing ASCs in the U.S. can operate until 2023.
From American Kleptocracy (my emphases):
[E]ven with the ouster of a would-be authoritarian like Trump, and with the passage of the new anti–shell company legislation, the fight to end the reign of American kleptocracy is hardly tied to a single event, or a single president, or to his removal. If anything, it’s just beginning.
There are a few areas of obvious, low-hanging fruit on the counter-kleptocracy front moving forward. (The one benefit of surveying the landscape of loopholes and financial secrecy mechanisms remaining in the U.S.: there’s an entire buffet of options for reformers!)
From a 2020 article on the website of Foreign Policy magazine:
[BCCI went] so far as to fund leading U.S. presidential campaigns, corrupt the leading voices in at least one American political party, and even grow close to the American president himself.
Re: President TrumP could leverage EWPs to ADVANCE Ps’ resistance
From 2021 book Peril, co-authored by Bob Woodward (my emphases):
“Former defense secretary William J. Perry had been saying for years that the president has sole control of the use of U.S. nuclear weapons.
In an article published in early 2021, Perry said, ‘Once in office, a president gains the absolute authority to start a nuclear war. Within minutes, Trump can unleash hundreds of atomic bombs, or just one. He does not need a second opinion.’”
“[General Mark] Milley [chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2019] felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump.”
From 2010 book Annihilation From Within, by a former U.S. undersecretary of defense (my emphases):
[T]he United States, other democracies, and indeed most nations ought to prepare themselves to cope with a new, potentially more overwhelming form of aggression. Nations will have to prevail against an attack that seeks to annihilate their political order from within . . .
. . . Within the next half century, perhaps even within a decade or two, a nation might be vanquished—not by a foreign terrorist organization or by the military strength of a foreign power, but by a small group of domestic evildoers ruthlessly using weapons of mass destruction against their own country.
. . . After the first nuclear detonation, the aspiring dictator would rely mainly on his legitimate organizations and his popular influence to seize political power by exploiting the chaos, havoc, and psychological shock he had deliberately caused.
#potential_playbook
From Peril (my emphases):
Milley often said that the use of nuclear weapons had to be “legal” and the military did have rigorous procedures.
But no system was foolproof, no matter how finely tuned and practiced. Control of nuclear weapons involved human beings and he knew that human beings, including himself, made mistakes. As a practical matter, if a president was determined to use them, it is unlikely a team of lawyers or military officers would be able to stop him.
. . . There was a dark and theoretical possibility that President Trump could go rogue and order military action or the use of nuclear weapons, without going through the required procedures.
. . . “Pulling a Schlesinger” was what he [Milley] needed to do to contain Trump and maintain the tightest possible control of the lines of military communication and command authority.
. . . Was he subverting the president? Some might contend Milley had overstepped his authority and taken extraordinary power for himself.
Title of a 2018 article on NPR.org:
Trump Appoints Gen. Mark Milley Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
A future JCS Chairman appointed by TrumP could be a P, of course.
Re: the prospect of President TrumP ADVANCING Ps’ resistance via: 1) nuking Americans, 2) HELPING to undo American democracy
From Hillary Clinton (HC)’s October 2021 novel State of Terror (SoT; my emphases):
“Even with all they knew, it would take months, maybe years, to untangle all that had happened. And to ferret out all the members of HLI.”
“[HLI is] a group, an organization, all highly placed in different branches of [a fictional U.S.] government. Including, God help me, the military.”
“Why did they [i.e., HLI] do it? I can see being disenchanted with where the country is going, but nuclear bombs? . . . With Al-Qaeda as their ally? The Russian mafia as an ally?”
From HC’s part of the acknowledgments section of SoT:
It’s up to us to make sure its plot stays fictional.
BCCI’s pursuit of nukes derived from Muslims feeling imperiled.
From The Outlaw Bank (my emphases):
The hidden alliances in Pakistan—and within other Islamic states—provided Abedi and BCCI the kind of sweeping immunity from laws and regulation that is assumed by sovereign nations when they take action in the name of ‘national security.’ . . . BCCI, fueled by petro-dollars, was going to forge the shining new sword of Islam. It would be a terrible Nuclear Age sword that would give Pakistan—and other Muslim nations—parity with the Zionists . . .
From a December 10, 2021 article on Newsweek.com (my emphases):
[Hillary] Clinton also cautioned those who had a complacent attitude towards what she said was an effort to destabilize American democracy.
“I worry still that too many people are like, ‘Oh, it can’t be that bad’, or ‘it can’t go that far’. It’s a failure of imagination, and I wrote after January 6 that one of the findings . . . of the 9/11 Commission was a failure of imagination,” she told Geist.
. . .
Re: FAILURE of imagination:
From 2008 book The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, by Columbia University historian Adam Tooze:
Hitler had seen himself as locked in a global confrontation with world Jewry. . . . For Hitler, a war of conquest was not one policy option amongst others. Either the German race struggled for Lebensraum [i.e., territory] or its racial enemies would condemn it to extinction.
From 2019 book Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War:
The failure to perceive the true character of the Nazi regime and Adolf Hitler [my emphasis] stands as the single greatest failure of British policy makers during this period, since it was from this that all subsequent failures—the failure to rearm sufficiently, the failure to build alliances (not least with the Soviet Union), the failure to project British power, and the failure to educate public opinion—stemmed.
. . .
From the 2018 article titled “Los Extraditables, the Pablo Escobar-Led Gang That Launched a Bloody Campaign [during the 1980s] Against U.S. Extradition”:
The terrorist group . . . claimed “we prefer a grave in Colombia to a prison in the United States . . .”
Escobar was a drug-trafficker whose net worth reached $58 billion (in 2018 dollars). The other leaders of Los Extraditables were wealthy drug-traffickers.
From 2001 book Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw (my emphases):
“[Escobar] intended, he said, to use the public’s weariness with [Extraditables-funded] violence to his benefit. He planned to turn up the violence until the public cried out for a solution, a deal.
. . . A communiqué from the Extraditables not long after hammered home the point:
We are declaring total and absolute war on the government, on the individual and political oligarchy, on the journalists who have attacked and insulted us, on the judges that have sold themselves to the government, on the extraditing magistrates . . . on all those who have persecuted and attacked us. We will not respect the families of those who have not respected our families. We will burn and destroy the industries, properties and mansions of the oligarchy.”
“At his [Escobar’s] peak, he would threaten to usurp the Colombian State.”
“Ever since Pablo’s men had blown that Avianca flight out of the sky . . .”
“[A] total of 457 police had been killed since Colonel Martinez had started his hunt. Young gunmen in that city were being paid 5 million pesos for killing a cop.”
From a U.S.-Military-Academy-at-West-Point professor’s 2018 book (my emphases):
[The] allure of preventive war is rooted in fear . . . [F]ear is most acute when power is shifting among [groups (e.g., shifting against Ps via advances in molecular genetics)] . . . [Hence the] long parade of preventive conflicts we can observe over thousands of years of history.
— End of Re: T2M, starting with said ongoing advances —
Re: high-profile reactions in the U.S. to Putin’s invasion have primed many Americans to ACT on my T2M-analysis
From the website of New York magazine (key phrase: “what we’re all thinking”):
From CNN.com (keywords: Putin, psychopathy):
Re: my finders’-fee offer will help/HELP to motivate Americans to ACT (part 1 of 2)
From https://ike1952yang2020ruscica2024.substack.com/p/threat-to-many-or-most-people:
Via my Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised AI-preneurship (mAIP), I identified a threat . . . Via my finders’-fee offer (mFFO), you can profit and be much safer.
Details (237-page pdf):
[At said URL, a downloadable copy of the pdf appears here.]
Excerpt:
. . .
Re: mAIP
Details below (e.g., pp. 56-68, 190-2). Excerpt:
[mAIP] + my subsequent disruptive innovations + . . . + customized- education-for-AI will be to the AI economy what oil has been to the industrial economy = . . . [via mFFO,] finders gain [up to 20%] . . . of a Rockefeller-ian fortune
Re: mFFO and you acting on it are parts of a textbook approach to preventing/subduing T2M
See: 1) the below excerpt (p. 23) from 2021 book Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds, by an Administrator of President Obama’s White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 2) details re: mFFO (pp. 43-7, 52-3).
. . .
From Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds (my emphases):
In special circumstances, you might consider avoiding the worst-case scenario and thus following the maximin principle, which calls for eliminating the worst of the worst cases. The strongest cases for following that rule would involve three factors: (1) Knightian uncertainty, understood as an inability to assign probabilities to various options; (2) catastrophic or grave consequences from one option, but not from other options; and (3) low or relatively low costs[*], or low or low benefits foregone, as a result of choosing the option that avoids the worst-case scenario.
* e.g., profits for you et al. via mFFO, which is designed in part to lead to elimination of the worst case re: TrumP
— End of excerpt from said URL —
Precedent for my T2M-analysis HELPING Ukraine
From 2005 book The Cold War: A New History (my emphases):
Kennan’s “long telegram” became the basis for United States strategy toward the Soviet Union throughout the rest of the Cold War . . . What would be needed, as Kennan put it in a published version of his argument the following year, was a “long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.”
From the entry on containment in the Encyclopedia Britannica:
The policy was implemented in the Truman Doctrine of 1947.
From a 2012 article on the website of The Council on Foreign Relations (my emphases):
[T]he title of being the most consequential U.S. foreign policy doctrine . . . belongs to the Truman Doctrine, which Harry S. Truman unveiled in a speech to a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947.
. . . The president met privately with congressional leaders to get their support. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a former isolationist, told Truman that . . . if he wanted public support, he had to “scare the hell out of the American people.”
Re: my finders’-fee offer will help/HELP to motivate Americans to ACT (part 2 of 2)
From http://ike1952yang2020ruscica2024.substack.com/p/threat-to-many-or-most-people:
Re: mFFO (part 1 of 2)
From an earlier write-up:
Partial formula:
your Rolodex + 20% finders’-fee I’m offering to pay + ~5 degrees of separation* between you and the U.S. president I need to partner with . . .
* ~6 total, 1 between you and me
. . . When ~5 finders are able to connect me with President Biden, the ~5 and I will sign a legally-binding FFO.
Formation of a partnership between the president and MPC [my planned company] would trigger the payout to finders of 20% of the equity in MPC.
. . . Said connect-me yielding said partnership seems LIKELY, given that:
Again, President Biden would receive 64%* of the equity in MPC in exchange for delegating EWPs to MPC. [EWPs are the ideal means of FUNDING the launch of MPC; keywords (KWs) re: “ideal”: “[private] capital is a coward.”]
The exchange would make MPC a de facto monopolist. KWs: Duplicate delegated-EWPs are precluded by Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem.
Post-exchange, then, the 64% would yield a Rockefeller-ian fortune ASAP.
The Biden administration is seeking to combat “root causes of malicious cyber activities.”
Again, the Biden administration wants to combat kleptocracy.
Implication of “MPC a de facto monopolist”: Post-exchange, finders of said kind would be able to monetize their equity stakes any time after receipt (e.g., I’d borrow money—using my equity stake in MPC as collateral—and purchase each finder’s shares as soon as any/all were for sale).
* Presumably, the equity could/would be escrowed until Biden left office. Related:
From a September 2021 article on Politico.com:
Ben Schreckinger’s “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” out today, finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.
A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, “10 held by H[unter] for the big guy [i.e., for Joe Biden]?”
Re: offering said 64% is a textbook tactic:
From Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds:
In special circumstances, you might consider avoiding the worst-case scenario and thus following the maximin principle, which calls for eliminating the worst of the worst cases. The strongest cases for following that rule would involve three factors: (1) Knightian uncertainty, understood as an inability to assign probabilities to various options; (2) catastrophic or grave consequences from one option, but not from other options; and (3) low or relatively low costs, or low or relatively low benefits foregone [my emphasis], as a result of choosing the option that avoids the worst-case scenario.
Re: (3): If I pay out a 20% finders’-fee and President Biden owns 64% of MPC, I’ll own 16% of the Standard Oil of the AI economy. For me, the marginal utility of the “lost” 84% would be zero. And, in exchange for this zero, I’d have secured insurance that: 1) I perceive to have substantial value, 2) I can’t secure any other way.
Update #1: Precedent for preventing/subduing T2M via leveraging social/professional networks
Such leveraging was the key to experts gaining control of America’s Covid response.
From 2021 best-seller The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, by Michael Lewis:
. . . It troubled him deeply to use his sister’s boyfriend to get attention for a scientific discovery, but he didn’t know anyone else in the federal government in Washington, DC. “You just don’t do this in science,” Glass said. “But I said, I’m going to do something someone my age never does. I’m going to go around the system. I write him an email and attach the paper and ask: ‘Do you know anyone who needs to see this?’”
At that point, he’d spent the better part of six months trying to get the attention of experts in disease control. Inside of six hours, he had a call from Richard Hatchett. “He said, ‘We’re in the White House,’” recalled Bob Glass. “‘When can you come and talk to us?’”
. . . He and Richard and others had spent years creating and selling the ideas that would, if quickly seized upon, prevent a lot of Americans from dying. Those ideas were useful, and yet no one in authority seemed willing to use them. “We were going nuts,” said Carter. Each of the Wolverines went into their contact lists to look for what Carter called “high-value nodes.” People they knew who might influence American policy . . .
. . . Park and Patil presented the . . . output [of the Wolverines’ pandemic “model”] to Governor Newsom’s senior advisers. “When we showed them what the model was saying, it sucked the air out of the room,” said Park. The next day, Governor Newsom issued the country’s first statewide stay-at- home order.
. . . What [Wolverine] Charity [Dean] couldn’t figure out was how, or even if, what she said on the calls found its way into the ears of the decision makers [in the U.S. federal government]—and who those people were. At one point she put the question to [Wolverine] James Lawler. “James,” she asked, “who exactly is in charge of this pandemic?” “Nobody,” he replied. “But if you want to know who is sort of in charge, it’s sort of us.”