June 9, 2014 at 2:02 P.M. "Errors" previously corrected in this essay were restored to the text in order to maximize frustrations. I have made the necessary corrections yet again. These "errors" corrected today are not found in print versions of this text.
April 1, 2013 at 1:01 P.M. My profile showed zero hits this morning. Perhaps this is someone's notion of a practical joke for "April Fool's Day." It must be a very witty person who could come up with such a wonderful joke. Needless to say, this constitutes a violation of my copyright and also of blogger's and Google's intellectual property rights. I have copied this altered profile page. Spacing between paragraphs and sentences may be affected by N.J. hackers and other inserted "errors" must be expected. ("How censorship works in America" then "Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?")
March 30, 2013 at 1:36 P.M. I am at computer #6, NYPL, Morningside Heights. This is one of three computers at this library branch which have been vandalized through the removal of keys necessary to writing for their users. Obviously, the authorities could not care less about these continuing defacements and destruction of library equipment that, I believe, is about trying to silence me. Printers are damaged, put out of service, computers are destroyed on a regular basis by "operatives" of New Jersey political bosses and politicians. The losers are the people of New York and the American Constitution. I will continue to write.
The size of letters and spacing of paragraphs is altered, regularly, by hackers making use of N.J. government computers. I cannot access my email accounts; I cannot post images at these blogs; my writings are stolen and I am plagiarized on a regular basis in leading newspapers as well as magazines in America. The authorities are aware of these crimes. Some officials have cooperated, I believe, in the continuing cover-ups of these offenses. ("How censorship works in America.")
My discussion is based on the following sources:
Periodicals:
David Amsden, "The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Schwartz," in Rolling Stone, February 28, 2013, at p. 58. http://www.rollingstone.com
Matt Taibbi, "Too Big to Fail," in Rolling Stone, February 28, 2013, at p. 58. (Wall Street greed and lack of accountability.)
Noam Cohen, "A Data Crusader, a Defendant, and Now a Cause," in The New York Times, January 14, 2013, at p. A1.
"Interview: 'Sanity From Death Row' -- Filmaker Explores the Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal," in The Indypendent, February 20-March 19, 2013, at pp. 18-19. (Interview with filmaker Stephen Vittoria by John Tarleton concerning the documentary "Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abu-Jamal," First Features, 2012.)
"Assault, Battery, and Government Liability," (Editorial) in The New York Times, February 18, 2013, at p. A16. ("KIM MILLBROOK," inmate, was beaten-up, abused, forced to perform oral sex on a prison guard. "Foucault, Rose, Davis and the Meanings of Prison.")
Michael Powell, "Release Likely Today After Unjust Jailing," in The New York Times, March 21, 2013, at p. A24. (DAVID KANTA, 58, served 22 years for a crime he did not commit because police and prosecutors perpetuated a fraud and covered-up the truth. Prosecutors then lied about the cover-up for many years and continue to refuse to acknowledge their responsibility for this tragedy. "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Jack Hanley, "Wrongfully Convicted and Seeking Restitution: Many States Don't Make Up For Years Lost," in The New York Times, March 14, 2013, at p. A18. (ROBERT DEWEY, 52, spent 18 years in prison after a wrongful conviction and is now a pariah in the society that owes him an apology.)
"About the Black Sites, and Government Liability," (Editorial) in The New York Times, February 18, 2013, at p. A16. (America's secret partners in the torture policies, publicly, deplore our actions and, privately, continue to assist in the commission of crimes for a small fee.)
Joseph Berger, "Headmistress, Jilted Lover; Killer, Then a Force for Good in Jail," in The New York Times, December 29, 2012, at p. A1. (Jean Harris's life amounts to a rebellion by a "Stepford Wife." "'The Stepford Wives': A Movie Review.")
Abbi Smith, "Undue Process: An Investigative Journalist Examines a Juvenile Justice Scandal, and A Maverick Defense Lawyer Recounts His Most Fraught Case," in The New York Times Book Review, March 31, 2013, at p. 21.
Books:
Robert Barskey, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (Cambridge: MIT, 1997).
Richard Bernstein, The Abuse of Evil (Cambridge: Polity, 2005).
Noam Chomsky, 9-11 (New York: Seven Stories, 2001).
Mark Danner, Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (Berkeley: North Atlantic, 2004).
William Encenbarger, Kids For Cash: Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme (New York: The New Press, 2013).
Michael Ignatieff, The Needs of Strangers (New York: Picador, 1984).
William J. Stunz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 2012).
Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (New York: Penguin, 2004).
On January 11, 2013, Aaron Schwartz committed suicide. This horrible act -- ending the life of a 26 year-old, brilliant scientific and social thinker -- has become symbolic of a number of issues concerning the proper scope of government power in a Constitutional democracy, rights of conscience and expression, as well as access to information and, primarily, the endangered right to political dissent.
There is no doubt in my mind that Aaron Schwartz was subjected to a politically-motivated prosecution, also that induced stress and other forms of psychological torture were deployed against Aaron's frail and beautiful mind in an effort that was finally "successful" to destroy him. We are all diminished by this thinker's death.
I will begin with a few observations about Mr. Schwartz's life and achievements. With all allegations against Aaron being duly-noted -- they will remain forever mere allegations and his character is unsullied by any criminal conviction -- nothing should obscure the reality of Aaron's originality and intellectual creativity, but also of his moral seriousness and concern for others.
Lurking under this ugly governmental torture and destruction of a young man who promised so much for the future is blatant anti-intellectualism and hostility to science as well as to persons, like Aaron, who seem to frighten those enamored of political power and addicted to domination over others.
Aaron Schwartz will be remembered by friends from all over the world (most will never have met him) as, in the deepest meaning of the word, a "successful" human being -- regardless of the amount of money, if any, that he left behind at his death. ("Shakespeare's Black Prince.")
Eventually, we will see young people wearing "Aaron Schwartz t-shirts" in many of the world's capitols -- including Havana, Cuba. This folk-hero status is well-deserved because Aaron's greatest success has nothing to do with technological innovations that made him a millionaire while he was still in his teens. The litigation against the U.S. Attorney's office consumed much of his personal wealth.
Aaron's true success and "wealth" must be the recognition -- now by millions of persons -- that he was a young man genuinely concerned with the plight of powerless persons, who are unfairly denied education and access to information, leaving them as little more than slaves in a scientific age. ("Magician's Choice.")
Aaron's vocation was to struggle in the ways that he could, based on his areas of expertise, on the side of the wretched of the earth. Not even his worst enemies suggest that Aaron's life was without meaning or importance.
Aaron tried to do something about the grotesque injustice of enforced ignorance through means that are highly ethical, but often misunderstood by technologically (and otherwise) ignorant people in power. ("Why I am not an ethical relativist" and "John Finnis and Ethical Cognitivism.")
Aaron's life was devoted, equally, to intellectual inquiry and social justice. He became a reluctant revolutionary struggling to enhance access to information on-line, freedom of expression, and the right to establish connections with fellow members of the Internet community because he saw so few others trying to do these things.
Aaron appreciated that, if knowledge is power and nearly all knowledge today requires access to technology along with increasing -- or life-long -- education, then to deprive people of information and deny them the tools to acquire that information on their own, is to disempower them, perhaps permanently.
Aaron then made a further and more disturbing discovery: powerful forces in American society are not only at peace with billions of people in the world being disempowered, but this "disempowerment for the masses" is exactly what they desire.
It is far more convenient for the powerful few if the vast bulk of the population is distracted and ignorant concerning their own rational interests.
As with other controversial figures -- Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur, Noam Chomsky, and so many more -- all of the government's efforts to destroy Aaron's achievements, to deny his merits, or to define Aaron Schwartz as a criminal or "unethical," have produced the opposite of the government's desired effect.
Aaron has become the world's reluctant academic "revolutionary." He is the Che of the Internet and the Woody Allen of the academic campus, who evokes our protectiveness and paternal instincts as well as our admiration. ("Bernard Williams and Identity.")
Cutting-edge young people today refuse to be told what to read, think, or say on-line. They refuse to be controlled in their opinions and, at the same time, the technology and techniques of state control -- including methods of psychological manipulation and regimentation -- have become much more subtle, sophisticated, and effective. ("What is Memory?" and "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")
Students and intellectuals in cyberspace and all over the world have realized that control of information is the power to define reality. ("'Total Recall': A Movie Review" and "'Inception': A Movie Review.")
The result of all this is the war being waged for information that allows ideas and understandings to emerge and be SHARED by all. Like fresh water and food, energy and shelter -- knowledge has become a basic necessity in our postmodernist culture. Our struggle today is a hermeneutic struggle for the freedom to interpret ourselves, for ourselves, and for the future. We refuse to be defined by governments and corporations or large institutions of any kind. ("Roberto Unger's Revolutionary Legal Theory" and "Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me.'")
Aaron, like me, was offended by the ways in which innocent people are kept in the darkness of ignorance in order that they may be exploited, stolen from, enslaved, and made irrelevant by unscrupulous and powerful global interests: Children and many women become sexual toys; poor men become disposable laborers paid subminimum-wage salaries, if they are lucky, because they have been denied knowledge and have no way of extricating themselves from such nightmare-like conditions.
To see children or young people, especially, deprived of their futures (NYU?) because of corruption, greed, or to control them or their elders became as loathsome to Aaron, I am sure, as it should be to most Americans and as it is for me. For this reason, Aaron opposed the U.S. government's efforts to impose political censorship on Internet discussions and debates.
Curtailing debates limits the range of discussions and destroys long-term open-ended dialectics, thus diminishing participants in such debates to the status of apprentices or perpetual "children." America's effort at global censorship is usually obscured with Orwellian double-speak, but it is about control. ("Irony?" and "Torture.")
For Aaron, access to information leading to understanding of our shared reality, on-line, was bound to result in praxis. "Revolutionary struggle" -- meaning thinking for yourself -- leading to greater social justice that would result in enhanced information available to everyone and more education for all. ("Manifesto For the Unfinished American Revolution.")
Aaaron's vocation as an intellectual and revolutionary grew out of a very American optimism about human nature and authentic political ideals. It is important to note, again, that Aaron became a revolutionary only when he realized there was no other way to dramatize what was at stake and that not too many others were willing to do what needed to be done. Resistance and struggle are never a person's first choices in life. They are necessary responses to oppression. ("Freedom For Mumia Abu-Jamal" and "'Che': A Movie Review.")
This advocacy for the voiceless in our world brought Aaron to the attention of the U.S. government in our post-9/11 National Security State. There are forces in America that are always obsessed with control of a population that they seek to "protect" or keep safe by infantilizing it, much as they would still like to do to women. The goal of such forces is -- and always will be -- to impose a child-like condition of intellectual dependence and/or "learned helplessness" upon the bulk of the people. ('''The Adjustment Bureau': A Movie Review.")
Freedom for ordinary people is frightening to powerful forces in America. "Freedom," Norman Mailer said and Aaron would probably have agreed with him, "is worth a little risk."
"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy," said a family spokesperson: "It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. The decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's office and at the F.B.I. contributed to [Aaron's] death."
Aaron Schwartz was never a terrorist. He was not a criminal nor a thief. What he did was the equivalent of borrowing too many library books in order to share their contents with the world, especially the millions of children and young people who would otherwise never have access to necessary intellectual works -- all of which were in the public domain or public information. (Rolling Stone.)
Damaging NYPL computers and printers, Mr. Menendez, hurts many poor people in my city with no other access to this essential technology. (I type these words on computer #13 that is missing the letter "L" because of sabotage.) ("Controlling the NSA.")
Despicable tactics will not silence me or other critics of imperialism. Julian Assange is not the enemy of America. Mr. Assange is merely an information-provider. Information is a precious commodity in our world that belongs to everyone and that, like human intelligence, must be at the service of justice for all people, especially the poor, and not only at the service of rich people. ("Pieta.")
My intellectual works are copyrighted, but they are made available to the world community for "fair use" in academia and/or intellectual discussions, on-line, where we are all equals. To have others steal my texts in order to make money with them is to steal from all of us. Ideas and philosophy belong to everyone. ("Why philosophy is for everyone" then "What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review.")
Part of the difficulty in this situation is that the law is lagging behind science and technology, as usual. The federal prosecutor in Massachusetts (granting, arguendo, her good faith and absence of malice) simply failed to appreciate what Aaron was doing and why it could not be stealing.
The allegedly aggrieved party (JSTOR) did understand Aaron's motives and was not looking to press charges against this brave young man.
Lawyers -- like golfer, Tiger Woods -- assume that "winning is everything." There are times when overzealousness by prosecutors results in a loss for the system, whatever the outcome of a case may be. Unethical (if well-meaning) actions by prosecutors may even undermine the rule of law and its integrity while generating profound injustices in society as well as for particular individuals. ("Justice For Mumia Abu-Jamal.")
I have suggested that Aaron is a great success. On the other hand, his prosecution is a great failure for America's legal system. Worse, the "failure" to prosecute cybercrimes and state censorship at these blogs -- cybercrimes seen by the global Internet community -- constitute a disaster for any U.S. claims concerning the "ethics" of law practice in New Jersey or "opposing" cybercrime in the world. Hypocrisy defines us as the opposite of the people we hope to be. ("Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?")
A frightening question is whether, as I believe, Aaron Schwartz was targeted, specifically, for intense or aggressive prosecution that included psychological tortures/pressures BECAUSE of his activism for Internet freedom and refusal to go along with censorship legislation proposed in congress. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Such motivations for wielding the mechanisms of state prosecution are illicit and maybe criminal. Yet Aaron's death was "welcomed" by powerful forces in Washington, D.C. that would be even more pleased by my demise. Aaron said it best:
"There is a battle going on right now, a battle to define everything that happens on the Internet in terms of traditional things that the law understands." (Rolling Stone.)
As I read these words, I could not avoid speculating about what a wonderful lawyer Aaron would have made:
"Is sharing a video [online] like shoplifting from a movie store, or is it like loaning a videotape to a friend? Is the freedom to 'connect' like the freedom of speech, or like the freedom to murder?" (Ibid.)
Aaron's engagement with such issues and published internal dialogue on freedom against nihilistic power grabs by governments and corporations means that his life contains and reflects the contradictions of his time.
Aaron was among the few persons "enabled" to see and understand those contradictions. Aaron tried to share his vision of a better and more just future through technology. For that reason, government officials decided to destroy Aaron Schwartz.
Once again the forces of totalitarianism have learned the painful lesson that persons like Aaron cannot be destroyed. Aaron is now known and admired by more people than he could have met in a lifetime. He has become a living presence in public debates concerning "ownership" of ideas and freedom of thought in the continuing struggle against all forms of oppression. Aaron's struggle and mine is best summarized by Cornel West:
" ... the great dramatic battle of the twenty-first century is the dismantling of empire and the deepening of democracy. This is as much or more a colossal fight over visions and ideas as a catastrophic struggle over profits and missiles. Globalization is inescapable -- the question is whether it will be a democratic gobalization or a U.S.-led corporate globalization (with thin democratic rhetoric). This is why what we think, how we care, why we fight mean so much in democractic matters. We live in a propitious yet perilous moment in which it has become fashionable to celebrate the benefits of imperial rule and acceptable to condone the decline of democratic governance. The possible climate of opinion and the prevailing culture of consumption make it difficult for us to even imagine the revival of the deep democratizing energies of our past and conceive of making real progress in the fight against imperialism." (West, pp. 22-23.)
Friday, March 29, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Website Denies Link to Menendez Case.
March 26, 2013 at 1:11 P.M. A notice appeared that I could not eliminate when signing-in this afternoon at Morningside Heights, NYPL, computer #8. It is never certain whether I will be able to sign-in at these blogs from one day to the next.
No one is now, or ever has been, authorized to speak or act on my behalf. If this situation ever changes, I will indicate as much in writing and post the fact on-line. Please note that I am unable to respond to e-mails because I cannot access my accounts which have been hacked into or taken over, presumably by governmental or quasi-governmental entities.
If more than two days pass without alteration at these sites, it can only mean that I am prevented from writing against my will. I will struggle to continue writing at all times. ("How censorship works in America" and "More Censorship and Cybercrime" then "Torture" and "More in Sadness Than in Anger.")
March 25, 2013 Investigations and press accounts of matters pertaining to Mr. Menendez only continue to deepen and spread the "manure." The stench is now contaminating the Senate of the United States of America.
All sides are spending money in the Dominican Republic to purchase statements and recantations of testimony, often from the wrong persons. The only "winners" (so far) are the attorneys and/or prostitutes in the D.R. providing conflicting statements for the highest bidders.
Much of this activity is totally irrelevant to the U.S. Senate's Ethics Committee. It is unclear whether N.J.'s legal ethics committee is looking into Mr. Menendez's activities. However, any such action in N.J. can be "fixed" easily by Menendez. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Allegations in my blogs concerning multiple criminal conspiracies have been brought to the attention of law enforcement agencies in America. I believe that legal observers in other parts of the world are also aware of these matters. Public attention to these blogs prevents cover-ups or avoidance of an eventual confrontation on the issues.
Carole Leonning & Luz Lazo, "Website Denies Link to Menendez Case," in The Record, March 23, 2013, at p. A-3.
Matt Friedman & Ben Horowitz, "Secret Sex E-Mails Revealed in Stalking Case; Steamy Exchanges Between Assemblyman, Ex-Lobbyist Turn-Up in Driveway," in The Star Ledger, March 26, 2013, at p. 1. (JOE CRYAN, Menendez-buddy/foe and "boss" of the Democrats in New Jersey, also a seemingly tempestuous and erotica-loving paramour of KAREN GOLDING, his former stalker and one-time lobbyist. This situation calls out for extended analysis. Mr. Cryan has also served on the legal ethics committee.)
Kibret Marcos, "Ex-Secretary to Hackensack Lawyer Gets Probation For Thefts: Will Have to Repay More Than $53,000," in The Record, March 23, 2013, at p. L-3. (Alexandra Ramirez? Gilberto Garcia? Was Mr. Garcia "persuading" Alexandra Ramirez to violate confidentiality? How many others were involved in such efforts to corrupt persons in my office and for how long a period of time was such a criminal conspiracy in effect? Did money change hands in connection with such efforts?)
" ... the local lawyer told Dominican investigators that a foreign man, who identified himself as 'Carlos,' had offered him $5,000 to find and pay women in the Caribbean nation willing to make the claims about Menendez, according to Jose Antonio Polanco, district attorney for the La Romana region, where the investigation is being conducted."
Allegations that The Daily Caller was behind the accusations against Mr. Menendez have been rejected as conclusory. ("Herbert Klitzner, Esq.'s Greed and New Jersey's Hypocrisy" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
It is unlikely that a person who wishes to remain anonymous will provide information concerning his alleged employer, but not his last name. Each story that perpetuates these sordid allegations further reinforces the allegations and the "sleaze factor" for Menendez and, worse, for the U.S. Senate:
"The Daily Caller issued a statement Friday saying that the information allegedly provided by the Dominican lawyer, MELANIO FIGUEROA, was false." ("Menendez Must Give Up the Gavel" and "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")
It should be noted that this notoriety is probably the best thing that could happen to The Daily Caller. Numerous other sites have also been carrying these stories from day one of this scandal.
The two women providing the original statements at The Daily Caller have NOT retracted their statements, other complainants, evidently, have also sustained their charges or allegations against New Jersey's junior senator:
"The site reported that 'the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic. ... They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100."
Mr. Figueroa suffers, allegedly, from a condition which is not uncommon among attorneys. He says whatever he is paid to say by his most recent client even if it contradicts what he has said earlier:
" ... Figueroa was ON RECORD with another news outlet as saying the women he represented were telling the truth about their initial allegations against Senator Menendez." (emphasis added!)
Was Mr. Figueroa lying then? Or is he lying now? Will Mr. Figueroa sue Senator Menendez for the $800 still owed to the young women making these accusations? ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?")
"The account provided that Dominican authorities said they received from Figueroa could not be independently confirmed by The Washington Post."
The best is yet to come for Mr. Menendez.
Sources:
New York & the World:
Scott Shane, "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror: Mark of Obama Era," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A1. (Assassination outside the boundaries of law is something everybody can manage. Will Americans be assassinated by hostile powers?)
Scott Shane, "Ex-Lawyer in State Department Criticizes Drone Secrecy," in The New York Times, May 9, 2013, at p. A8. (Howard H. Kuh, probably a former intelligence officer, suggests there is far too much secrecy in our policies. I concur.)
Azam Ahmed, "Afghan Children Among the Dead in U.S. Strike," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A8. (American strikes, including drones, kill 18.)
Charlie Savage, "Judge Reverses Suspensions of Prosecutors in Stevens Case," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A12. (Judges bend over backwards to protect prosecutors for conduct that would result in disbarment of defense counsel.)
Joseph R. Gregory, "'Iron Lady' Who Set Britain On a New Course," in The New York Times, April 9, 2013, at p. A1. ("The lady is still not for turning.")
Damien Cave, "Trip to Cuba by Beyonce and Jay-Z Investigated," in The New York Times, April 9, 2013, at p. A7. (Miami-Havana tensions rise as Florida lawmakers seek an inquiry into a trip APPROVED by the State Department by two independent citizens using their own money to travel. Forget about it, Ms. Ros-Leghtinen.)
Steven Erlanger, "France's Chief Rabbi Declines to Resign Over Plagiarism," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A3. (Rabbi Gilles Bernheim refuses to resign over ADMITTED plagiarism: "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review" then "What is it like to be plagiarized?")
Damien Cave, "Cuba Trip by Star Pair Was Legal, Official Says," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A8. (What a relief.)
Sam Wheaton, "F.B.I. Is Reviewing Claim by McConnell of Bugging," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A12. (The source for the bugging was not Ashley Judd, but Republican rival, Marco Rubio, perhaps? How about a bottle of "Evian," Marco?)
"Sequestration of Justice: Budget cuts for federal public defenders are gutting the Constitutional right to counsel," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 12, 2013, at p. A26. (P.D. services are fundamental to our system.)
"Are Human Genes Patentable? In an important case about science and law, the Supreme Court should emphatically say no," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 15, 2013, at p. A18. (Human DNA patents? I hope not. Without international acceptance, such patents will be meaningless anyway. There are international conventions governing what are acceptable items of intellectual property, not just patents. If a patent granted does not adhere to those conventions, there will be no protection, other countries will duplicate patents at will.)
New Jersey's Putridness:
Jay Weaver, "Menendez's Donor's Maids Criticize the FBI," in The Record, April 3, 2013, at p. A3. (Menendez's "rapid-response" political team attacks the FBI by way of his donor's maids -- were they "under-age," Senator? -- with the assistance of the Cuban American National Foundation, perhaps.)
"Out of Bounds: Guilty Pleas in Sports Swindle," (Editorial) in The Record, April 3, 2013, at p. A8. (New Jersey corruption allows for scams from taxpayers for public sports equipment.)
Richard Cowen, "Designer Labels at 3 Stores Called Fakes: $40,000 of accessories seized in Passaic raids," in The Record, April 13, 2013, at p. L-1. (Now you know why New Jersey outlets are so cheap. You want a Rolex for $50.00?)
Peter J. Sampson, "Ex-Sports Gear Execs. Agree to Restitution: Admit $1 MILLION Fraud," in The Record, April 3, 2013, at p. L-3. (The kickback aspect of this scandal is not being fully explored. Politicians and government employees made this dirty deal. Where did the money go?)
John Reitmeyer, "State Revenue Put at $300 MILLION Shy of Target: But March Figure Was On Pace," in The Record, April 4, 2013, at p. A-3. (N. J.'s budget troubles are even worse than these numbers indicate. With the death of Mr. Lautenberg, a new Senator -- Mr. Kean? -- will be needed. With the possible forced resignation of Mr. Menendez, perhaps Mr. Codey will be moving to Washington.)
AP, "British Library Gets Set to Archive the Internet: 4.8 MILLION Websites to be Scanned and Recorded," in The Record, April 15, 2013, at p. A-11. (I can neither confirm nor deny that these blogs are among the websites to be archived.)
Abbott-Koloff & Richard Cowen, "More Hits Were On Tap, Police Say: MURDER-For-Hire Suspect Allegedly Wasn't Stopping," in The Record, April 12, 2013, at p. A-1. ("Tick-Tock" diner manager had an extensive hit-list and was discussing the matter in Clifton, New Jersey. Friend of yours, Diana Lisa Riccioli?)
"Where's the Beef? $100,000 in Bergen Politics Stolen," in The Record, April 12, 2013, at p. A-3. (Rumors that these pricey "burger platters" are being used in N.J.'s Assembly cannot be confirmed. $1,000 for a burger thanks to the taxpayers?)
Jimmy Gallen, "Terror in Boston: Deadly Blasts at Marathon Finish Line Put U.S. On Edge," in The Star Ledger, April 16, 2013, at p. 1. (We will probably see an escalation of such attacks against U.S. cities, especially where I live, and increased security precautions. New Jersey has a parallel population to the terrorists' "self-identification" with Chechnya, but is not taking expensive or extra precautions.)
Jason Grant, "Judge Hands Out Sentences in Terror Plot: Alessa, Almonte Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Conspiring to Murder Outside the U.S.," in The Star Ledger, April 16, 2013, at p. 13. (Given N.J.'s population, future strikes are EXPECTED from persons like the Boston defendants. Are you allocating resources intelligently in Trenton? Or are you too busy playing games with me to worry about the people you should be protecting?)
Robert Marcos, "Speziale Loses Retaliation Lawsuit: Jury Sides With Sheriff's Department Captain," in The Record, May 9, 2013, at p. L-1. (Jury protects website browsers and free speech in New Jersey.)
No one is now, or ever has been, authorized to speak or act on my behalf. If this situation ever changes, I will indicate as much in writing and post the fact on-line. Please note that I am unable to respond to e-mails because I cannot access my accounts which have been hacked into or taken over, presumably by governmental or quasi-governmental entities.
If more than two days pass without alteration at these sites, it can only mean that I am prevented from writing against my will. I will struggle to continue writing at all times. ("How censorship works in America" and "More Censorship and Cybercrime" then "Torture" and "More in Sadness Than in Anger.")
March 25, 2013 Investigations and press accounts of matters pertaining to Mr. Menendez only continue to deepen and spread the "manure." The stench is now contaminating the Senate of the United States of America.
All sides are spending money in the Dominican Republic to purchase statements and recantations of testimony, often from the wrong persons. The only "winners" (so far) are the attorneys and/or prostitutes in the D.R. providing conflicting statements for the highest bidders.
Much of this activity is totally irrelevant to the U.S. Senate's Ethics Committee. It is unclear whether N.J.'s legal ethics committee is looking into Mr. Menendez's activities. However, any such action in N.J. can be "fixed" easily by Menendez. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Allegations in my blogs concerning multiple criminal conspiracies have been brought to the attention of law enforcement agencies in America. I believe that legal observers in other parts of the world are also aware of these matters. Public attention to these blogs prevents cover-ups or avoidance of an eventual confrontation on the issues.
Carole Leonning & Luz Lazo, "Website Denies Link to Menendez Case," in The Record, March 23, 2013, at p. A-3.
Matt Friedman & Ben Horowitz, "Secret Sex E-Mails Revealed in Stalking Case; Steamy Exchanges Between Assemblyman, Ex-Lobbyist Turn-Up in Driveway," in The Star Ledger, March 26, 2013, at p. 1. (JOE CRYAN, Menendez-buddy/foe and "boss" of the Democrats in New Jersey, also a seemingly tempestuous and erotica-loving paramour of KAREN GOLDING, his former stalker and one-time lobbyist. This situation calls out for extended analysis. Mr. Cryan has also served on the legal ethics committee.)
Kibret Marcos, "Ex-Secretary to Hackensack Lawyer Gets Probation For Thefts: Will Have to Repay More Than $53,000," in The Record, March 23, 2013, at p. L-3. (Alexandra Ramirez? Gilberto Garcia? Was Mr. Garcia "persuading" Alexandra Ramirez to violate confidentiality? How many others were involved in such efforts to corrupt persons in my office and for how long a period of time was such a criminal conspiracy in effect? Did money change hands in connection with such efforts?)
" ... the local lawyer told Dominican investigators that a foreign man, who identified himself as 'Carlos,' had offered him $5,000 to find and pay women in the Caribbean nation willing to make the claims about Menendez, according to Jose Antonio Polanco, district attorney for the La Romana region, where the investigation is being conducted."
Allegations that The Daily Caller was behind the accusations against Mr. Menendez have been rejected as conclusory. ("Herbert Klitzner, Esq.'s Greed and New Jersey's Hypocrisy" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
It is unlikely that a person who wishes to remain anonymous will provide information concerning his alleged employer, but not his last name. Each story that perpetuates these sordid allegations further reinforces the allegations and the "sleaze factor" for Menendez and, worse, for the U.S. Senate:
"The Daily Caller issued a statement Friday saying that the information allegedly provided by the Dominican lawyer, MELANIO FIGUEROA, was false." ("Menendez Must Give Up the Gavel" and "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")
It should be noted that this notoriety is probably the best thing that could happen to The Daily Caller. Numerous other sites have also been carrying these stories from day one of this scandal.
The two women providing the original statements at The Daily Caller have NOT retracted their statements, other complainants, evidently, have also sustained their charges or allegations against New Jersey's junior senator:
"The site reported that 'the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic. ... They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100."
Mr. Figueroa suffers, allegedly, from a condition which is not uncommon among attorneys. He says whatever he is paid to say by his most recent client even if it contradicts what he has said earlier:
" ... Figueroa was ON RECORD with another news outlet as saying the women he represented were telling the truth about their initial allegations against Senator Menendez." (emphasis added!)
Was Mr. Figueroa lying then? Or is he lying now? Will Mr. Figueroa sue Senator Menendez for the $800 still owed to the young women making these accusations? ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?")
"The account provided that Dominican authorities said they received from Figueroa could not be independently confirmed by The Washington Post."
The best is yet to come for Mr. Menendez.
Sources:
New York & the World:
Scott Shane, "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror: Mark of Obama Era," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A1. (Assassination outside the boundaries of law is something everybody can manage. Will Americans be assassinated by hostile powers?)
Scott Shane, "Ex-Lawyer in State Department Criticizes Drone Secrecy," in The New York Times, May 9, 2013, at p. A8. (Howard H. Kuh, probably a former intelligence officer, suggests there is far too much secrecy in our policies. I concur.)
Azam Ahmed, "Afghan Children Among the Dead in U.S. Strike," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A8. (American strikes, including drones, kill 18.)
Charlie Savage, "Judge Reverses Suspensions of Prosecutors in Stevens Case," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A12. (Judges bend over backwards to protect prosecutors for conduct that would result in disbarment of defense counsel.)
Joseph R. Gregory, "'Iron Lady' Who Set Britain On a New Course," in The New York Times, April 9, 2013, at p. A1. ("The lady is still not for turning.")
Damien Cave, "Trip to Cuba by Beyonce and Jay-Z Investigated," in The New York Times, April 9, 2013, at p. A7. (Miami-Havana tensions rise as Florida lawmakers seek an inquiry into a trip APPROVED by the State Department by two independent citizens using their own money to travel. Forget about it, Ms. Ros-Leghtinen.)
Steven Erlanger, "France's Chief Rabbi Declines to Resign Over Plagiarism," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A3. (Rabbi Gilles Bernheim refuses to resign over ADMITTED plagiarism: "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review" then "What is it like to be plagiarized?")
Damien Cave, "Cuba Trip by Star Pair Was Legal, Official Says," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A8. (What a relief.)
Sam Wheaton, "F.B.I. Is Reviewing Claim by McConnell of Bugging," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A12. (The source for the bugging was not Ashley Judd, but Republican rival, Marco Rubio, perhaps? How about a bottle of "Evian," Marco?)
"Sequestration of Justice: Budget cuts for federal public defenders are gutting the Constitutional right to counsel," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 12, 2013, at p. A26. (P.D. services are fundamental to our system.)
"Are Human Genes Patentable? In an important case about science and law, the Supreme Court should emphatically say no," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 15, 2013, at p. A18. (Human DNA patents? I hope not. Without international acceptance, such patents will be meaningless anyway. There are international conventions governing what are acceptable items of intellectual property, not just patents. If a patent granted does not adhere to those conventions, there will be no protection, other countries will duplicate patents at will.)
New Jersey's Putridness:
Jay Weaver, "Menendez's Donor's Maids Criticize the FBI," in The Record, April 3, 2013, at p. A3. (Menendez's "rapid-response" political team attacks the FBI by way of his donor's maids -- were they "under-age," Senator? -- with the assistance of the Cuban American National Foundation, perhaps.)
"Out of Bounds: Guilty Pleas in Sports Swindle," (Editorial) in The Record, April 3, 2013, at p. A8. (New Jersey corruption allows for scams from taxpayers for public sports equipment.)
Richard Cowen, "Designer Labels at 3 Stores Called Fakes: $40,000 of accessories seized in Passaic raids," in The Record, April 13, 2013, at p. L-1. (Now you know why New Jersey outlets are so cheap. You want a Rolex for $50.00?)
Peter J. Sampson, "Ex-Sports Gear Execs. Agree to Restitution: Admit $1 MILLION Fraud," in The Record, April 3, 2013, at p. L-3. (The kickback aspect of this scandal is not being fully explored. Politicians and government employees made this dirty deal. Where did the money go?)
John Reitmeyer, "State Revenue Put at $300 MILLION Shy of Target: But March Figure Was On Pace," in The Record, April 4, 2013, at p. A-3. (N. J.'s budget troubles are even worse than these numbers indicate. With the death of Mr. Lautenberg, a new Senator -- Mr. Kean? -- will be needed. With the possible forced resignation of Mr. Menendez, perhaps Mr. Codey will be moving to Washington.)
AP, "British Library Gets Set to Archive the Internet: 4.8 MILLION Websites to be Scanned and Recorded," in The Record, April 15, 2013, at p. A-11. (I can neither confirm nor deny that these blogs are among the websites to be archived.)
Abbott-Koloff & Richard Cowen, "More Hits Were On Tap, Police Say: MURDER-For-Hire Suspect Allegedly Wasn't Stopping," in The Record, April 12, 2013, at p. A-1. ("Tick-Tock" diner manager had an extensive hit-list and was discussing the matter in Clifton, New Jersey. Friend of yours, Diana Lisa Riccioli?)
"Where's the Beef? $100,000 in Bergen Politics Stolen," in The Record, April 12, 2013, at p. A-3. (Rumors that these pricey "burger platters" are being used in N.J.'s Assembly cannot be confirmed. $1,000 for a burger thanks to the taxpayers?)
Jimmy Gallen, "Terror in Boston: Deadly Blasts at Marathon Finish Line Put U.S. On Edge," in The Star Ledger, April 16, 2013, at p. 1. (We will probably see an escalation of such attacks against U.S. cities, especially where I live, and increased security precautions. New Jersey has a parallel population to the terrorists' "self-identification" with Chechnya, but is not taking expensive or extra precautions.)
Jason Grant, "Judge Hands Out Sentences in Terror Plot: Alessa, Almonte Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Conspiring to Murder Outside the U.S.," in The Star Ledger, April 16, 2013, at p. 13. (Given N.J.'s population, future strikes are EXPECTED from persons like the Boston defendants. Are you allocating resources intelligently in Trenton? Or are you too busy playing games with me to worry about the people you should be protecting?)
Robert Marcos, "Speziale Loses Retaliation Lawsuit: Jury Sides With Sheriff's Department Captain," in The Record, May 9, 2013, at p. L-1. (Jury protects website browsers and free speech in New Jersey.)
Friday, March 22, 2013
Menendez's Troubles Are Far From Over.
March 22, 2013 at 3:29 P.M. Internet connections were totally eliminated or "unavailable" at Morningside Heights. Apparently, this may have been the result of sabotage. How strange? I am at computer #7, Inwood, NYPL. Printing services are unavailable on this day.
Perhaps nothing is as difficult as the pain of injustice. Difficult to live with, personally, and much more difficult to endure when it afflicts those we love. Powerlessness is felt most intensely, perhaps, in the inability to shelter one's children and loved-ones from vicious injustices, cruelties, and deprivations that are designed to control us -- as most persons and billions of children are controlled in our world -- and even to enslave us in some terrible places. (Soon: "What is it like to be raped?" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
I wish that I could provide my brilliant and good child with a more just world in which opportunities and goods were equitably distributed, where lives taken would not be dismissed as "collateral damage," where children would not be threatened, injured, or killed to "control" their parents' expression of opinions or political actions. ("How censorship works in America.")
The fight for such a world takes place, every day, within ourselves, also on the Internet and in many battlefields, including these blogs. I will continue to write. My child, you must continue to struggle for your beliefs and values. You are not alone.
Herb Jackson, "Senator's Troubles Are Far From Over: Menendez Awaiting Findings of Ethics, Criminal Probes," The Record, March 20, 2013, at p. A-1.
"Menendez Smears: Senator Fights 'False' Accusations," (Editorial) in The Record, March 20, 2013, at p. A-12.
Kibret Marcos, "Hearing Offers Glimpse of Teaneck Rabbi's Sexual Assault Cases," in The Record, March 20, 2013, at p. L-3. (Rabbi UZI RIVLIN is accused of molesting 2 teenage boys. Terry Tuchin's friend? "Menendez and New Jersey's Child Sex Crisis.")
"Growing evidence that prostitutes were paid to lie about trysts with Senator Menendez will have little impact on other investigations into the Senator reportedly underway, ethics experts say."
The "delay" in repaying costs of a flight with his "contributor," Dr. Melgen, would be sufficient for disbarment in New Jersey, except for Senator Menendez. Menendez only made "restitution" after being caught accepting the gift of airfare and "entertainment" without reporting it as a gift. ("Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes" and "Menendez Gets Over On the Feds.")
Cover-ups, lies, obfuscations in connection with OAE complicity in criminality should result in disbarment of responsible attorneys no matter what state agency in Trenton they may have worked for, i.e., allegedly, John McGill, Esq. and/or anyone cooperating with unethical and illegal efforts to solicit grievances against a targeted attorney. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Yet another attorney and political figure as well as former member of the bar association's ethics committee, Rob Andrews, is alleged to have "improperly used campaign funds and his official resources for personal purposes, and [to have] made false statements to federal officials." ("Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?" and "American Doctors and Torture.")
Mr. Menendez may well find himself facing identical charges to those brought against Mr. Andrews. Numerous interviews between Mr. Menendez and the F.B.I. have taken place, including (possibly) conversations in which Mr. Menendez was asked about me.
Evidently, the F.B.I. may wish to question Mr. Menendez, again, suggesting that they are "not satisfied" with his responses. It is a crime to lie to the F.B.I. ("More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!")
Mr. Menendez may have served, secretly, on the ethics committee targeting me despite the conflict of interest arising from my prior support of a political opponent of the Senator. ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Is Menendez For Sale?")
Mr. Rabner and Ms. Poritz may have sought to protect TERRY TUCHIN from liability by providing a cover-up of all matters pertaining to me. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
Presumably, all of these matters are under investigation. ("Another Warm Letter From the DRB" and "The OAE and DRB Back Down.")
Menendez may also have "asked State and Commerce Department officials at a hearing about a Dominican port security contract held by a company Melgen partly owned."
Was Melgen a front for Cuban-American organized crime? ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security" and "Cubanoids Protest Against Peace!")
Quid pro cuo allegations have been made in the past about Senator Menendez's efforts. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Crooked Broker Paid-Off Menendez!" then "More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!")
There are -- and soon may be -- MORE and far worse allegations against Senator Menendez:
" ... Menendez has had to deal with continuing questions about his activities instead of solely concentrating on his new job as chairman [chairperson] of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, one of the more influential posts in Washington ..." ("Menendez Must Give Up the Gavel" and "Menendez Goes to Bat For a Croney.")
Sources:
New York & the World:
William Neuman, "Star Hurls Musical Barbs Before Venezuela's Budget," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A4. (Congratulations to Venezuela's new President, Nicolas Maduro.)
"Nearly 70 Years Later, A New Round of Auschwitz Prosecutions," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A6. (The process of pursuing Nazi war criminals continues and it should continue.)
"Names of the Dead," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A8. (The number of dead in Iraq is no longer disclosed; casualties in Pakistan, Yemen, Bahrain, and elsewhere where U.S. troops are fighting are not disclosed. 2,179 Americans have died in Afghanistan. The wounded are not listed. Is a military struggle against North Korea feasible, given America's depleted military and economic resources, in light of China's alliance and support for North Korea? I doubt it.)
Azad Ahmed & Taimoor Shah, "Man With Ties to Karzai Dies in a Military Raid," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A8. (Renewed attacks in Afghanistan.)
Lizette Alvarez, "Cuba Returns Couple Who Fled With Sons in Custody Fight," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A8. (U.S. and Cuba acted consistently with international norms governing custody of minors. This allowed for an avoidance of any international incident. Ms. Alvarez is a card-carrying member of the Republican party in Florida who is "loyal" to Ms. Ros-Leghtinen as well as Mr. Rubio.)
Charlie Savage, "Army Judge Raises Burden In Private's Trial on Leaks," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A13. (Private Bradley Manning had good reason to believe the U.S. was engaging in war crimes and covering-up those crimes. The videos seem to indicate that Pfc. Manning was correct about that charge against the U.S. military.)
Azad Ahmed, "Taliban Attack in Afghan City, Killing Dozens," in The New York Times, April 4, 2013, at p. A8. (This is not a sustainable way of life or long-term "solution" for Israel.)
Michael Grynbaum, "Councilman's Boast, On Wiretap, Renews Questions of Quinn's Oversight," in The New York Times, April 4, 2013, at p. A20. (Is there a "Jersey Connection" for this attack on Ms. Quinn? I suspect so.)
Scott Shane, "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War On Terror," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A1. (President Obama will be defined, internationally, by the contradiction between our human rights stand, on the one hand, and the normalizing of targeted killings, drone use allowing for "collateral damage," and the continuing existence of the Guantanamo prison on the other hand.)
New Jersey's Disintegration:
Thomas Fitzgerald, "McGreevey's Second Act," (Op-Ed) in The Record, March 27, 2013, at p. A-8. (Mr. McGreevey and Mr. Wiener will join forces in future political efforts, allegedly, like a government "ethics panel.")
Kibret Marcos, "Trial to Open for Cop in Sex Case," in The Record, March 27, 2013, at p. L-3. ("JEFFREY KIMMEL," 49, former police officer is accused of molesting an underage girl. He is one of many police officers and lawyers facing similar charges in New Jersey.)
Peter J. Sampson, "Paterson Doctor Pleads Guilty to Massive Fraud," in The Record, April 11, 2013, at p. L-1. (Doctor JOSE KATZ, 68, of Closter, and several colleagues -- with the assistance of lawyers, I am sure -- were evidently involved in scams from medicaid and insurance companies.)
Rene Stutzman, "Ex-Fla. GOP Chief Sentenced for Theft From the Party," in The Star Ledger, March 28, 2013, at p. 8. (Lizette Alvarez, journalist at the Times and formerly at The Miami Herald, writes of the troubles of Mr. Rubio's rival JIM GREER, convicted thief and former Chairman of Florida's GOP. Is Lizette Alvarez also "Rene Stutzman"? Does Ms. Alvarez write at the behest of Ms. Ros-Leghtinen? Or Mr. Menendez?)
Bill Wichert, "Alleged Sex Assault Leaves Girl Pregnant," in The New York Times, March 28, 2013, at p. 17. (A 12 year-old girl is 20 weeks pregant after being assaulted by 27 year-old, alleged Bob Menendez-supporter, JOSE BONILLA. Persons who are not "Boss Bob"-supporters fail to get government work or to do well in Hudson County. So I was told in any case.)
Ben Horowitz, "Ex-Teacher Enters Pre-Trial Program," in The Star Ledger, March 28, 2013, at p. 17. (AMANDA ADLER, 25, will participate in drug treatment program after losing her teaching position. This program will result in no criminal record and little damage to her professional life. Participation in this program is within the discretion of prosecutors and is rarely offered to African-American young offenders in drug cases, who are often treated much more severely than Ms. Adler. "So Black and So Blue in Prison.")
Abbott-Koloff & Rebecca Baker, "Accused Engineering Firm Files for Chapter 11: Move Follows Indictment of Seven Executives," in The Record, March 30, 2013, at p. A-1. (The Birdsall Services Group of Eatontown is seeking bankruptcy protection to pay employees. "7 Executives Indicted in New Jersey.")
Larry Neumeister, "Insider Probe Widens: SAC Captial Manager Accused of Being Part of Illegal Grapevine," in The Record, March 30, 2013, at p. A-10. (Hedge-fund portfolio manager, MICHAEL STEINBERG, who enjoys many N.J. connections, arrested on Friday. This is a very minor player in Wall Street scams. A "Grapevine" usually includes more than one person.)
Abbott-Koloff, "Indicted Consultant Allowed to Pay Staff From Frozen Assets: Judge Frees $1.7 Million For Birdsall's Use," in The Record, April 2, 2013, at p. A-3. (A federal judge allowed access to frozen assets of Birdsall Group to permit payments to employees. Perhaps Mr. Corzine may be appointed as "Special Master" to oversee these expenses?)
Abbott-Koloff, "Seminar Trips by Judges Raise Some Concerns: Report Cites Attendance by 3 Federal Jurists From N.J.," in The Record, April 2, 2013, at p. L-1. (Should judges attend privately-funded seminars?)
Perhaps nothing is as difficult as the pain of injustice. Difficult to live with, personally, and much more difficult to endure when it afflicts those we love. Powerlessness is felt most intensely, perhaps, in the inability to shelter one's children and loved-ones from vicious injustices, cruelties, and deprivations that are designed to control us -- as most persons and billions of children are controlled in our world -- and even to enslave us in some terrible places. (Soon: "What is it like to be raped?" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
I wish that I could provide my brilliant and good child with a more just world in which opportunities and goods were equitably distributed, where lives taken would not be dismissed as "collateral damage," where children would not be threatened, injured, or killed to "control" their parents' expression of opinions or political actions. ("How censorship works in America.")
The fight for such a world takes place, every day, within ourselves, also on the Internet and in many battlefields, including these blogs. I will continue to write. My child, you must continue to struggle for your beliefs and values. You are not alone.
Herb Jackson, "Senator's Troubles Are Far From Over: Menendez Awaiting Findings of Ethics, Criminal Probes," The Record, March 20, 2013, at p. A-1.
"Menendez Smears: Senator Fights 'False' Accusations," (Editorial) in The Record, March 20, 2013, at p. A-12.
Kibret Marcos, "Hearing Offers Glimpse of Teaneck Rabbi's Sexual Assault Cases," in The Record, March 20, 2013, at p. L-3. (Rabbi UZI RIVLIN is accused of molesting 2 teenage boys. Terry Tuchin's friend? "Menendez and New Jersey's Child Sex Crisis.")
"Growing evidence that prostitutes were paid to lie about trysts with Senator Menendez will have little impact on other investigations into the Senator reportedly underway, ethics experts say."
The "delay" in repaying costs of a flight with his "contributor," Dr. Melgen, would be sufficient for disbarment in New Jersey, except for Senator Menendez. Menendez only made "restitution" after being caught accepting the gift of airfare and "entertainment" without reporting it as a gift. ("Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes" and "Menendez Gets Over On the Feds.")
Cover-ups, lies, obfuscations in connection with OAE complicity in criminality should result in disbarment of responsible attorneys no matter what state agency in Trenton they may have worked for, i.e., allegedly, John McGill, Esq. and/or anyone cooperating with unethical and illegal efforts to solicit grievances against a targeted attorney. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Yet another attorney and political figure as well as former member of the bar association's ethics committee, Rob Andrews, is alleged to have "improperly used campaign funds and his official resources for personal purposes, and [to have] made false statements to federal officials." ("Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?" and "American Doctors and Torture.")
Mr. Menendez may well find himself facing identical charges to those brought against Mr. Andrews. Numerous interviews between Mr. Menendez and the F.B.I. have taken place, including (possibly) conversations in which Mr. Menendez was asked about me.
Evidently, the F.B.I. may wish to question Mr. Menendez, again, suggesting that they are "not satisfied" with his responses. It is a crime to lie to the F.B.I. ("More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!")
Mr. Menendez may have served, secretly, on the ethics committee targeting me despite the conflict of interest arising from my prior support of a political opponent of the Senator. ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Is Menendez For Sale?")
Mr. Rabner and Ms. Poritz may have sought to protect TERRY TUCHIN from liability by providing a cover-up of all matters pertaining to me. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
Presumably, all of these matters are under investigation. ("Another Warm Letter From the DRB" and "The OAE and DRB Back Down.")
Menendez may also have "asked State and Commerce Department officials at a hearing about a Dominican port security contract held by a company Melgen partly owned."
Was Melgen a front for Cuban-American organized crime? ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security" and "Cubanoids Protest Against Peace!")
Quid pro cuo allegations have been made in the past about Senator Menendez's efforts. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Crooked Broker Paid-Off Menendez!" then "More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!")
There are -- and soon may be -- MORE and far worse allegations against Senator Menendez:
" ... Menendez has had to deal with continuing questions about his activities instead of solely concentrating on his new job as chairman [chairperson] of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, one of the more influential posts in Washington ..." ("Menendez Must Give Up the Gavel" and "Menendez Goes to Bat For a Croney.")
Sources:
New York & the World:
William Neuman, "Star Hurls Musical Barbs Before Venezuela's Budget," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A4. (Congratulations to Venezuela's new President, Nicolas Maduro.)
"Nearly 70 Years Later, A New Round of Auschwitz Prosecutions," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A6. (The process of pursuing Nazi war criminals continues and it should continue.)
"Names of the Dead," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A8. (The number of dead in Iraq is no longer disclosed; casualties in Pakistan, Yemen, Bahrain, and elsewhere where U.S. troops are fighting are not disclosed. 2,179 Americans have died in Afghanistan. The wounded are not listed. Is a military struggle against North Korea feasible, given America's depleted military and economic resources, in light of China's alliance and support for North Korea? I doubt it.)
Azad Ahmed & Taimoor Shah, "Man With Ties to Karzai Dies in a Military Raid," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A8. (Renewed attacks in Afghanistan.)
Lizette Alvarez, "Cuba Returns Couple Who Fled With Sons in Custody Fight," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A8. (U.S. and Cuba acted consistently with international norms governing custody of minors. This allowed for an avoidance of any international incident. Ms. Alvarez is a card-carrying member of the Republican party in Florida who is "loyal" to Ms. Ros-Leghtinen as well as Mr. Rubio.)
Charlie Savage, "Army Judge Raises Burden In Private's Trial on Leaks," in The New York Times, April 11, 2013, at p. A13. (Private Bradley Manning had good reason to believe the U.S. was engaging in war crimes and covering-up those crimes. The videos seem to indicate that Pfc. Manning was correct about that charge against the U.S. military.)
Azad Ahmed, "Taliban Attack in Afghan City, Killing Dozens," in The New York Times, April 4, 2013, at p. A8. (This is not a sustainable way of life or long-term "solution" for Israel.)
Michael Grynbaum, "Councilman's Boast, On Wiretap, Renews Questions of Quinn's Oversight," in The New York Times, April 4, 2013, at p. A20. (Is there a "Jersey Connection" for this attack on Ms. Quinn? I suspect so.)
Scott Shane, "Targeted Killing Comes to Define War On Terror," in The New York Times, April 8, 2013, at p. A1. (President Obama will be defined, internationally, by the contradiction between our human rights stand, on the one hand, and the normalizing of targeted killings, drone use allowing for "collateral damage," and the continuing existence of the Guantanamo prison on the other hand.)
New Jersey's Disintegration:
Thomas Fitzgerald, "McGreevey's Second Act," (Op-Ed) in The Record, March 27, 2013, at p. A-8. (Mr. McGreevey and Mr. Wiener will join forces in future political efforts, allegedly, like a government "ethics panel.")
Kibret Marcos, "Trial to Open for Cop in Sex Case," in The Record, March 27, 2013, at p. L-3. ("JEFFREY KIMMEL," 49, former police officer is accused of molesting an underage girl. He is one of many police officers and lawyers facing similar charges in New Jersey.)
Peter J. Sampson, "Paterson Doctor Pleads Guilty to Massive Fraud," in The Record, April 11, 2013, at p. L-1. (Doctor JOSE KATZ, 68, of Closter, and several colleagues -- with the assistance of lawyers, I am sure -- were evidently involved in scams from medicaid and insurance companies.)
Rene Stutzman, "Ex-Fla. GOP Chief Sentenced for Theft From the Party," in The Star Ledger, March 28, 2013, at p. 8. (Lizette Alvarez, journalist at the Times and formerly at The Miami Herald, writes of the troubles of Mr. Rubio's rival JIM GREER, convicted thief and former Chairman of Florida's GOP. Is Lizette Alvarez also "Rene Stutzman"? Does Ms. Alvarez write at the behest of Ms. Ros-Leghtinen? Or Mr. Menendez?)
Bill Wichert, "Alleged Sex Assault Leaves Girl Pregnant," in The New York Times, March 28, 2013, at p. 17. (A 12 year-old girl is 20 weeks pregant after being assaulted by 27 year-old, alleged Bob Menendez-supporter, JOSE BONILLA. Persons who are not "Boss Bob"-supporters fail to get government work or to do well in Hudson County. So I was told in any case.)
Ben Horowitz, "Ex-Teacher Enters Pre-Trial Program," in The Star Ledger, March 28, 2013, at p. 17. (AMANDA ADLER, 25, will participate in drug treatment program after losing her teaching position. This program will result in no criminal record and little damage to her professional life. Participation in this program is within the discretion of prosecutors and is rarely offered to African-American young offenders in drug cases, who are often treated much more severely than Ms. Adler. "So Black and So Blue in Prison.")
Abbott-Koloff & Rebecca Baker, "Accused Engineering Firm Files for Chapter 11: Move Follows Indictment of Seven Executives," in The Record, March 30, 2013, at p. A-1. (The Birdsall Services Group of Eatontown is seeking bankruptcy protection to pay employees. "7 Executives Indicted in New Jersey.")
Larry Neumeister, "Insider Probe Widens: SAC Captial Manager Accused of Being Part of Illegal Grapevine," in The Record, March 30, 2013, at p. A-10. (Hedge-fund portfolio manager, MICHAEL STEINBERG, who enjoys many N.J. connections, arrested on Friday. This is a very minor player in Wall Street scams. A "Grapevine" usually includes more than one person.)
Abbott-Koloff, "Indicted Consultant Allowed to Pay Staff From Frozen Assets: Judge Frees $1.7 Million For Birdsall's Use," in The Record, April 2, 2013, at p. A-3. (A federal judge allowed access to frozen assets of Birdsall Group to permit payments to employees. Perhaps Mr. Corzine may be appointed as "Special Master" to oversee these expenses?)
Abbott-Koloff, "Seminar Trips by Judges Raise Some Concerns: Report Cites Attendance by 3 Federal Jurists From N.J.," in The Record, April 2, 2013, at p. L-1. (Should judges attend privately-funded seminars?)
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Menendez Tries to Change the Subject.
Herb Jackson, "Senator Pursues Smear Charges: Menendez Urges Prosecution for Those Who Paid Prostitutes to Lie," in The Record, March 19, 2013, at p. A-1. ("Jennifer Velez is a Dyke Magnet!" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Ted Sherman & Salvador Rizzo, "Police: Women Lied About Menendez," in The Star Ledger, March 19, 2013, at p. 1. (It is now alleged that 3 of the 11 women making accusations against Menendez were lying. It is also alleged that these women have been "paid to lie about having lied previously." The women retracting statements may not be the same women videotaped making accusations against Mr. Menendez at The Daily Caller and elsewhere.)
Stephanie Akin, "Attorney Faces Life in Prison: Bergrin Guilty On All 23 Charges, Including Murder," in The Record, March 19, 2013, at p. A-1. (Analogies to the possible fate of Mr. Menendez?)
Stephanie Akin, "Hacker Sentenced to 3 Years in Jail: Stole 120,000 Email Addresses of IPad Users," in The Record, March 19, 2013, at p. A-3. ("Malbus"?)
Dan Goldberg, "Hacker Gets 41 Months for AT&T Breach," in The Star Ledger, March 19, 2013, at p. 13. ("Malbus" has a problem. Anne Rodgers? Theodore Romankow? Alex Booth? Terry Tuchin? Were all of you "role-playing" as "Malbus" at The Philosophy Cafe at MSN? No ethics problem?)
John Petrick, "Ex-Lawyer Gets 3 Years in Prison: Stole More than $1 MILLION From His Clients," in The Record, March 19, 2013, at p. L-3. (CARLO COPPA, 63, allegedly "connected" to Jaynee LaVecchia and to the Gambino crime family in New Jersey, dipped into the trust account for more than one million dollars. I have never been charged with a crime nor was it ever alleged that I stole from clients. The OAE said "forget-about-it," Carlo. Until Mr. Coppa was caught. Has the OAE investigated the trust transactions of Mr. Ginarte? Gilberto Garcia? Again: "New Jersey's 'Ethical Legal System" and "Jennifer Velez is a Dyke Magnet!")
" ... police raided Melgen's medical practice in West Palm Beach in what is believed to be an investigation into fraudulent billing, [emphasis added] and renewed attention was focused on the ties between Melgen and Menendez[,] his good friend." (The Star Ledger.)
Issues of trading favors for money, selling his influence and receiving kickbacks continue to haunt Senator Menendez, who is trying to change the subject by claiming that women were paid to lie about having sex with him for money. ("More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!")
Others allege that such women have been "paid to lie about having lied about sex" with the Senator from Union City, New Jersey. ("Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whorehouse?" and "Crooked Broker Paid-Off Menendez!" then "Bribery in Union City, New Jersey.")
"A federal grand jury in Florida is reportedly looking into whether Menendez [illegally] intervened in the health case fraud investigation while The Los Angeles Times last week reported A SECOND INVESTIGATION looking into whether Menendez aided Melgen in his business dealings in return for political contributions." (The Star Ledger.) (emphasis added!)
Allegations extend to a new "contributor" reported upon by The Washington Post. ("Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
This contributor is yet another money person -- not Mr. Bigica or Dr. Melgen -- whose allegations may become public soon:
"Menendez, D-N.J., faces investigations by the Senate's Ethics Committee, a federal grand jury in Florida and the Justice Department [F.B.I.] in Washington, published reports have said, but the Dominican Police report casts further doubt on the most salacious allegations -- that a top donor supplied him with prostitutes. (The Record.)
There are more troublesome allegations that women "paid to lie about Menendez," allegedly, are NOT the women who appear in videotaped interviews, some of whom have disappeared (mysteriously) and cannot be found. ("Is Menendez 'For' Human Rights?" and "Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey?")
"The conservative website that first published those allegations, The Daily Caller, reported Monday that it would 'continue to investigate the case' because it was NOT sure the women they [Dominican Police] spoke to were the same ones they [The Daily Caller] quoted." (The Record, p. A-6.)
There are serious concerns about some UNDERAGE women making allegations against Mr. Menendez. The junior senator from New Jersey's assumption of the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee (by seniority) notwithstanding, these problems about appearances suggest the aroma of corruption that has hovered about Mr. Menendez is something he will not shake off.
Most people will assume not that politics has led to these recent accusations, but that corruption has allowed Menendez to get away with his peccadillos -- if he does get away unscathed, which is highly doubtful. ("Menendez and New Jersey's Child Sex Crisis.")
Women who are witnesses against the Senator may be threatened or killed. They may also be framed for something in order to get rid of them as potential witnesses. (Marilyn Straus?)
More accusations against Mr. Menendez are forthcoming, allegedly. I have reason to believe that matters referred by me to the F.B.I. and Justice Department as well as Mr. Vance are receiving serious attention for some reason. ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" then "Menendez Must Give Up the Gavel.")
Sources:
New York & the World:
Mark Landler, "U.S. Sees China as Lever to Press North Korea," in The New York Times, (Does China see its role as serving U.S. policy interests?)
Randal C. Archibald, "Editor Who Wrote of Racism in Cuba Loses His Post, Colleagues Say," in The New York Times, April 6, 2013, at p. A8. (The Cuban journalist actually seems to have received a promotion and was infuriated at the alteration of his text by the Times. Coverage of Cuban matters at this newspaper will be filtered through the perspective of Right-wing Cuban-American politicians. Roberto Zurbano is the journalist in question in Havana.)
Michael D. Shear, "Obama Apologizes for Praising Attorney General's Looks," in The New York Times, April 6, 2013, at p. A10. (Kamala Harris "forgives" President Obama for noticing that she is an attractive woman. This absurd focus on such statements by so-called feminists diminishes the importance of women's issues for many persons in the world. This kind of P.C. absurdity damages the cause of women's empowerment.)
"Hunger Strike at Guantanamo: It's time to close that shameful political prison and end the lawless indefinite detention," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 6, 2013, at p. A16. (Shameful spectacle of torture and murder in America's premier concentration camp continues as does censorship and cybercrime at these blogs.)
Floyd Abrams & Yochai Benchler, "Death to Whistle Blowers?," (Op-Ed) in The New York Times, March 14, 2013, at p. A35. (Democracy requires knowledge and truth on the part of citizens. Stop lying and covering up the truth, Mr. Rabner. "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")
Michael Powell, "Man Jailed In '90 Killing of a Rabbi Is Released," in The New York Times, March 22, 2013, at p. A25. (No action will be pursued against prosecutors and cops who lied and covered-up the truth in yet another conviction of an innocent man.)
Adam Liptak, "Justices Say Time May be Wrong for Ruling On Gay Marriage: Court Strains to Find Middle Ground on Challenge to California's Ban," in The New York Times, March 27, 2013, at p. A1. (I believe the Court will kick it back to the states and duck the issue.)
Elsabetta Provoledo, "Italian Court Orders New Trial for Amanda Knox, Overturning Acquittal," in The New York Times, March 27, 2013, at p. A10. (Extradition is unlikely.)
Peter Lateman, "F.B.I. Arrests Senior Trader at Hedge Fund: Insider Inquiry Reaches Into Higher Ranks," in The New York Times, March 20, 2013, at p. A1. (Middle level Wall Street player is a distraction from the real culprits in the financial community.)
Steven Erlanger, "France's Chief Rabbi Declines to Resign Over Plagiarism," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A3. (Rabbi, GILLES BERNHEIM, plagiarist, refuses to admit responsibility: "What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review.")
New Jersey's Open Sewer:
Herb Jackson, "After 18 Months, Judge Confirmed: Faced Initial Doubts From Menendez," in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. A-1. (Patty Schwartz from Passaic County finally confirmed after Bob Menendez blocked her appointment for years. "Boss Bob Holds a Grudge.")
Peter J. Sampson, "Meidcaid Fraud Allegedly Profited by Baseless Tests: 4 Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Run Up [sic.] Lab Bills," in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. A-1. (Patients subjected to sometimes painful and pointless tests by physicians and lawyers -- often after being given bogus diagnoses -- in order to scam money from the government. Allegations of kickbacks to politicians cannot be confirmed: "More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!" and "Crooked Broker Paid-Off Menendez.")
"Money Finds a Way: Despite Campaign Reforms, Donations Flow," (Editorial) in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. A-8. (Corruption in New Jersey will not be controlled until some effort is made to halt the flow of illicit funds from, say, "gamblers," to New Jersey politicians. "Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
Denisa R. Superville, "U.S. Informant Admits She Lied: Faces Prison in Immigration Probe," in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. L-3. (How many so-called "informants" lied to the OAE? Who was contacting PEDRO BALAREZO to file grievances against me? Gilberto Garcia? John McGill? Edgar Navarrete?)
Bill Wichert, "Man, 28, Accused in Sexual Assault," in The Star Ledger, April 9, 2013, at p. 19. (LUIS O. TORRES, from Bound Brook, admitted to a sexual assault of a 4 year-old girl.)
AP, "Authorities Smash Alleged Drug Ring," in The Star Ledger, April 9, 2013, at p. 19. (Network involved in drug ring included Municipal Dispatcher and OTHER town employees, including school employees. Culprit is an alleged Bob Menendez supporter and maybe a Latino.)
Anthony Altrino, "State Police Seize $124,000 in Fake Goods," in The Star Ledger, April 9, 2013, at p. 19. (This is an industry that involves many politicians "looking the other way" in New Jersey. There are MILLIONS of dollars of this merchandise moving over the Turnpike and GW Bridge, every day. On the other hand, where and how else can you get a Rolex for $60.00?)
AP & Denise R. Superville, "Vt. Holds N.J. Man, 18, On Sex Assault Charge: Also Faces Drug Counts With 2 Jersey City Teens," in The Record, April 8, 2013, at p. L-2. (RAFAEL JACQUEZ, from North Bergen, New Jersey, also an alleged Bob Menendez supporter, is held on $250,000 bail on sexual assault charges.)
Anthony Campisi, "Camden Schools Taken Over by the State: Christie Says District Failed Its Children," in The Record, March 26, 2013, at p. A-3. (The corruption and incompetence in Camden is so bad that a state takeover of schools is necessary. Courts may be worse. Police services are among the most corrupt and racist in the nation. Federal takeover may be necessary soon.)
Lisa Rose, "Embattled Sandy Charity Operated Just Like First Lady's, Attorney Says," in The Star Ledger, March 26, 2013, at p. 24. (N.J.'s Consumer Affairs Division is suing several Sandy Charities, already, for fraud and scams. Some of these charities may be affiliated with the mafia.)
Ted Sherman & Salvador Rizzo, "Police: Women Lied About Menendez," in The Star Ledger, March 19, 2013, at p. 1. (It is now alleged that 3 of the 11 women making accusations against Menendez were lying. It is also alleged that these women have been "paid to lie about having lied previously." The women retracting statements may not be the same women videotaped making accusations against Mr. Menendez at The Daily Caller and elsewhere.)
Stephanie Akin, "Attorney Faces Life in Prison: Bergrin Guilty On All 23 Charges, Including Murder," in The Record, March 19, 2013, at p. A-1. (Analogies to the possible fate of Mr. Menendez?)
Stephanie Akin, "Hacker Sentenced to 3 Years in Jail: Stole 120,000 Email Addresses of IPad Users," in The Record, March 19, 2013, at p. A-3. ("Malbus"?)
Dan Goldberg, "Hacker Gets 41 Months for AT&T Breach," in The Star Ledger, March 19, 2013, at p. 13. ("Malbus" has a problem. Anne Rodgers? Theodore Romankow? Alex Booth? Terry Tuchin? Were all of you "role-playing" as "Malbus" at The Philosophy Cafe at MSN? No ethics problem?)
John Petrick, "Ex-Lawyer Gets 3 Years in Prison: Stole More than $1 MILLION From His Clients," in The Record, March 19, 2013, at p. L-3. (CARLO COPPA, 63, allegedly "connected" to Jaynee LaVecchia and to the Gambino crime family in New Jersey, dipped into the trust account for more than one million dollars. I have never been charged with a crime nor was it ever alleged that I stole from clients. The OAE said "forget-about-it," Carlo. Until Mr. Coppa was caught. Has the OAE investigated the trust transactions of Mr. Ginarte? Gilberto Garcia? Again: "New Jersey's 'Ethical Legal System" and "Jennifer Velez is a Dyke Magnet!")
" ... police raided Melgen's medical practice in West Palm Beach in what is believed to be an investigation into fraudulent billing, [emphasis added] and renewed attention was focused on the ties between Melgen and Menendez[,] his good friend." (The Star Ledger.)
Issues of trading favors for money, selling his influence and receiving kickbacks continue to haunt Senator Menendez, who is trying to change the subject by claiming that women were paid to lie about having sex with him for money. ("More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!")
Others allege that such women have been "paid to lie about having lied about sex" with the Senator from Union City, New Jersey. ("Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whorehouse?" and "Crooked Broker Paid-Off Menendez!" then "Bribery in Union City, New Jersey.")
"A federal grand jury in Florida is reportedly looking into whether Menendez [illegally] intervened in the health case fraud investigation while The Los Angeles Times last week reported A SECOND INVESTIGATION looking into whether Menendez aided Melgen in his business dealings in return for political contributions." (The Star Ledger.) (emphasis added!)
Allegations extend to a new "contributor" reported upon by The Washington Post. ("Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
This contributor is yet another money person -- not Mr. Bigica or Dr. Melgen -- whose allegations may become public soon:
"Menendez, D-N.J., faces investigations by the Senate's Ethics Committee, a federal grand jury in Florida and the Justice Department [F.B.I.] in Washington, published reports have said, but the Dominican Police report casts further doubt on the most salacious allegations -- that a top donor supplied him with prostitutes. (The Record.)
There are more troublesome allegations that women "paid to lie about Menendez," allegedly, are NOT the women who appear in videotaped interviews, some of whom have disappeared (mysteriously) and cannot be found. ("Is Menendez 'For' Human Rights?" and "Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey?")
"The conservative website that first published those allegations, The Daily Caller, reported Monday that it would 'continue to investigate the case' because it was NOT sure the women they [Dominican Police] spoke to were the same ones they [The Daily Caller] quoted." (The Record, p. A-6.)
There are serious concerns about some UNDERAGE women making allegations against Mr. Menendez. The junior senator from New Jersey's assumption of the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee (by seniority) notwithstanding, these problems about appearances suggest the aroma of corruption that has hovered about Mr. Menendez is something he will not shake off.
Most people will assume not that politics has led to these recent accusations, but that corruption has allowed Menendez to get away with his peccadillos -- if he does get away unscathed, which is highly doubtful. ("Menendez and New Jersey's Child Sex Crisis.")
Women who are witnesses against the Senator may be threatened or killed. They may also be framed for something in order to get rid of them as potential witnesses. (Marilyn Straus?)
More accusations against Mr. Menendez are forthcoming, allegedly. I have reason to believe that matters referred by me to the F.B.I. and Justice Department as well as Mr. Vance are receiving serious attention for some reason. ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" then "Menendez Must Give Up the Gavel.")
Sources:
New York & the World:
Mark Landler, "U.S. Sees China as Lever to Press North Korea," in The New York Times, (Does China see its role as serving U.S. policy interests?)
Randal C. Archibald, "Editor Who Wrote of Racism in Cuba Loses His Post, Colleagues Say," in The New York Times, April 6, 2013, at p. A8. (The Cuban journalist actually seems to have received a promotion and was infuriated at the alteration of his text by the Times. Coverage of Cuban matters at this newspaper will be filtered through the perspective of Right-wing Cuban-American politicians. Roberto Zurbano is the journalist in question in Havana.)
Michael D. Shear, "Obama Apologizes for Praising Attorney General's Looks," in The New York Times, April 6, 2013, at p. A10. (Kamala Harris "forgives" President Obama for noticing that she is an attractive woman. This absurd focus on such statements by so-called feminists diminishes the importance of women's issues for many persons in the world. This kind of P.C. absurdity damages the cause of women's empowerment.)
"Hunger Strike at Guantanamo: It's time to close that shameful political prison and end the lawless indefinite detention," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 6, 2013, at p. A16. (Shameful spectacle of torture and murder in America's premier concentration camp continues as does censorship and cybercrime at these blogs.)
Floyd Abrams & Yochai Benchler, "Death to Whistle Blowers?," (Op-Ed) in The New York Times, March 14, 2013, at p. A35. (Democracy requires knowledge and truth on the part of citizens. Stop lying and covering up the truth, Mr. Rabner. "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")
Michael Powell, "Man Jailed In '90 Killing of a Rabbi Is Released," in The New York Times, March 22, 2013, at p. A25. (No action will be pursued against prosecutors and cops who lied and covered-up the truth in yet another conviction of an innocent man.)
Adam Liptak, "Justices Say Time May be Wrong for Ruling On Gay Marriage: Court Strains to Find Middle Ground on Challenge to California's Ban," in The New York Times, March 27, 2013, at p. A1. (I believe the Court will kick it back to the states and duck the issue.)
Elsabetta Provoledo, "Italian Court Orders New Trial for Amanda Knox, Overturning Acquittal," in The New York Times, March 27, 2013, at p. A10. (Extradition is unlikely.)
Peter Lateman, "F.B.I. Arrests Senior Trader at Hedge Fund: Insider Inquiry Reaches Into Higher Ranks," in The New York Times, March 20, 2013, at p. A1. (Middle level Wall Street player is a distraction from the real culprits in the financial community.)
Steven Erlanger, "France's Chief Rabbi Declines to Resign Over Plagiarism," in The New York Times, April 10, 2013, at p. A3. (Rabbi, GILLES BERNHEIM, plagiarist, refuses to admit responsibility: "What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review.")
New Jersey's Open Sewer:
Herb Jackson, "After 18 Months, Judge Confirmed: Faced Initial Doubts From Menendez," in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. A-1. (Patty Schwartz from Passaic County finally confirmed after Bob Menendez blocked her appointment for years. "Boss Bob Holds a Grudge.")
Peter J. Sampson, "Meidcaid Fraud Allegedly Profited by Baseless Tests: 4 Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Run Up [sic.] Lab Bills," in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. A-1. (Patients subjected to sometimes painful and pointless tests by physicians and lawyers -- often after being given bogus diagnoses -- in order to scam money from the government. Allegations of kickbacks to politicians cannot be confirmed: "More Problems For Menendez -- Tapes!" and "Crooked Broker Paid-Off Menendez.")
"Money Finds a Way: Despite Campaign Reforms, Donations Flow," (Editorial) in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. A-8. (Corruption in New Jersey will not be controlled until some effort is made to halt the flow of illicit funds from, say, "gamblers," to New Jersey politicians. "Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
Denisa R. Superville, "U.S. Informant Admits She Lied: Faces Prison in Immigration Probe," in The Record, April 10, 2013, at p. L-3. (How many so-called "informants" lied to the OAE? Who was contacting PEDRO BALAREZO to file grievances against me? Gilberto Garcia? John McGill? Edgar Navarrete?)
Bill Wichert, "Man, 28, Accused in Sexual Assault," in The Star Ledger, April 9, 2013, at p. 19. (LUIS O. TORRES, from Bound Brook, admitted to a sexual assault of a 4 year-old girl.)
AP, "Authorities Smash Alleged Drug Ring," in The Star Ledger, April 9, 2013, at p. 19. (Network involved in drug ring included Municipal Dispatcher and OTHER town employees, including school employees. Culprit is an alleged Bob Menendez supporter and maybe a Latino.)
Anthony Altrino, "State Police Seize $124,000 in Fake Goods," in The Star Ledger, April 9, 2013, at p. 19. (This is an industry that involves many politicians "looking the other way" in New Jersey. There are MILLIONS of dollars of this merchandise moving over the Turnpike and GW Bridge, every day. On the other hand, where and how else can you get a Rolex for $60.00?)
AP & Denise R. Superville, "Vt. Holds N.J. Man, 18, On Sex Assault Charge: Also Faces Drug Counts With 2 Jersey City Teens," in The Record, April 8, 2013, at p. L-2. (RAFAEL JACQUEZ, from North Bergen, New Jersey, also an alleged Bob Menendez supporter, is held on $250,000 bail on sexual assault charges.)
Anthony Campisi, "Camden Schools Taken Over by the State: Christie Says District Failed Its Children," in The Record, March 26, 2013, at p. A-3. (The corruption and incompetence in Camden is so bad that a state takeover of schools is necessary. Courts may be worse. Police services are among the most corrupt and racist in the nation. Federal takeover may be necessary soon.)
Lisa Rose, "Embattled Sandy Charity Operated Just Like First Lady's, Attorney Says," in The Star Ledger, March 26, 2013, at p. 24. (N.J.'s Consumer Affairs Division is suing several Sandy Charities, already, for fraud and scams. Some of these charities may be affiliated with the mafia.)
Monday, March 18, 2013
New Child Sex Crisis in New Jersey.
March 18, 2013 at 2:35 P.M. The essay that appears below was blocked when I first typed and attempted to publish it. I was forced to create a new post in order to publish it on-line. Censorship and cyberstalking efforts -- as one part of harassment aimed at silencing me -- continues to emanate from Trenton.
Attacks are increasing against these blogs and me. Please feel free to contact Mr. Rabner and Mr. Christie, whose silence is bizarre, to request the truth in these matters and some effort to control N.J.'s criminal cybercensorship.
"No comment" is not an acceptable response to public criminality. Have you no sense of decency, Mr. Rabner? Perhaps Mr. Rabner will take our calls if we identify ourselves as "Mr. Prisco"? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")
UN, "UN Official Says U.S. Drones Breach Pakistan's Sovereignty," in The New York Times, March 16, 2013, at p. A5. (UN human rights investigator has concluded that the U.S. has violated Pakistan's sovereignty and the human rights of drone victims.)
Charlie Savage, "Court Orders the C.I.A. to Disclose Drone Data," in The New York Times, March 16, 2013, at p. A15. (Federal Circuit Court "holds C.I.A. must disclose ... its records in drone strikes." Officially, there is no drone policy. When America's own courts do not accept the official White House canard, something has gone seriously wrong with American policies.)
Anthony Campisi & Abott-Koloff, "Child Porn Sting Nets 25: Men Allegedly Shared Videos of Graphic Sexual Abuse," in The Record, February 28, 2013, at p. A-1.
Kate Zernike, "New Jersey Lawyer Guilty of Murder," in The New York Times, March 19, 2013, at p. A21. (Mr. Bergrin operated a brothel in Manhattan to which prominent members of the legal profession and judiciary -- like his former colleague from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Chief Justice Rabner perhaps? -- were invited.)
"Six men from Bergen and Passaic Counties were among 25 people across the state charged with possessing and distributing child pornography after an investigation that involved high-tech computer tracking, state law enforcement authorities anounced Wednesday."
These arrests and the latest child exploitation crisis affecting the entire state of New Jersey involves a conspiracy to create and distribute child pornography, to make children available for prostitution, sometimes also to offer adult women and men for sexual "use" for money as well as (I believe) distribution of illegal drugs. ("New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester" and "Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne, New Jersey.")
None of this hateful criminal exploitation of children could take place in N.J. without the cooperation of public officials, lawyers, judges and police. ("New Jersey is the Home of Child Molesters" and "New Jersey Welcomes Child Molesters.")
The videos -- despite the reservations of state police -- were probably, in some cases, actually made in New Jersey and are more lucrative for criminals than drugs.
This suggests that many of the events depicted in the videos (which are truly horrifying and repulsive) have taken place in New Jersey, presumably with impunity for the makers, since only low-end distributors have now been caught.
This is an area where Garden State Cuban-American organized crime seems to be very "successful." ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security.")
Tons of this material comes across the G.W. bridge every day. This is only possible because of bribery of local officials and police. ("Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
"They depicted children ranging in age from infancy to 10 years old, [sic.] said Detective John Gorman of the New Jersey State Police. He said the investigators don't know whether any of the photos or videos were made in New Jersey, but that they were produced in various locations across the nation, with some coming from other countries."
State Police will not confirm whether DIANA LISA RICCIOLI is a person of interest in connection with a sexual abuse investigation. In New Jersey, it may be that such matters would be taken care of for Ms. Riccioli, allegedly.
Was Ms. Marilyn Straus under hypnosis at any time when you "knew" or questioned her, Diana? Did you make Ms. Straus available for sex with others, while Ms. Straus was in an impaired state, Diana? Was Deborah T. Poritz sexually involved with Diana Lisa Riccioli when Ms. Riccioli "knew" Marilyn Straus? ("Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest!" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")
This is the second major child pornography ring broken-up by police. Federal authorities have done even more damage in breaking-up New Jersey's "plethora" of child exploitation networks that are one result of the state's organized crime stranglehold on legal institutions. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics.")
Alleged Bob Menendez supporter and "friend," LUIS CEDENO, 46, of Palisades Park, New Jersey, home of the escort agency involved in the Spitzer case in New York, may have been a "ring leader" in this revolting matter. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" then "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")
Sadly, Cuban-American organized crime CONTINUES to "lead the field" in this child abuse endeavor or industry as well as in cyberstalking me. ("Bribery in Union City, New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Crisis.")
The massive amounts of money to be made from raping and abusing children creates a great deal of protection for these loathsome criminals among dishonest and greedy politicians. (Again: "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes" and "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?")
Token arrests aside, there are massive amounts of this activity generating billions of dollars for New Jersey criminals and perverts. There are 50 to 100 arrests per county (70 arrests in Passaic County alone in 2011), more arrests were made elsewhere in the state.
Estimates are that this number represents only about 5% of total volume of yearly production of such filth which is still one of the few areas where New Jersey leads the nation. New Jersey is the place to get child porn. Congratulations. Do you speak to me of "ethics," Mr. Rabner? ("Herbert Klitzner, Esq.'s Greed and New Jersey's Hypocrisy" and "So Black and So Blue in Prison.")
Not one of the persons involved in this child pornography ring is African-American.
Hold your nose when you get on the Turnpike. A list of sources detailing the continuing corruption in New Jersey will be added to this essay in the days ahead. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "New Jersey Rabbi Charged With Child Abuse.")
Sources:
New York & the World:
William Neuman, "Chavez Dies at 58 With Venezuela in Deep Turmoil," in The New York Times, March 6, 2013, at p. A1. (U.S. caught off guard by the reaction to the death of Hugo Chavez.)
William Neuman & Ginger Thompson, "A Leader's Cry In Venezuela: 'I'm Chavez' -- U.S. Looking for Clues on Policy Direction," in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A1. ("Ginger Thompson" is probably the same person-faction using the name "Manohla Dargis.")
Scott Shane, "C.I.A.'s History Poses a Hurdle for a Nominee," in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A1. (John Brennan's confirmation may be a validation of torture, targeted assassination, drone killings, and more illegal tactics.)
Luis Lula da Silva, "Latin America After Chavez," (Op-Ed) in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A27. (Fidel says hello.)
"Hugo Chavez," (Editorial) in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A26. (Menendez and Rubio?)
Richard W. Stevenson & Ashley Parker, "Drone Debate Scrambles Both Left and Right," in The New York Times, March 8, 2013, at p. A1. (Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky's fair-haired Republican hopeful, took a surprisingly brave and correct stance on the drone issue. Who knew?)
"Mr. Brennan's Excuse: The New C.I.A. Chief Should Commit to Making the Senate Report on Torture Public," (Editorial) in The New York Times, March 8, 2013, at p. A24. (The public needs to know the truth on these issues.)
Michael M. Brynbaum, "Court Halts Ban On Large Sodas in New York City: Mayor Vows to Appeal," in The New York Times, March 12, 2013, at p. A1. (This is what the American legal system is focusing on? As we say in New York: Ya-gotta-be-kidding-me.)
Mark Landler & David E. Sanger, "U.S. Demands Chinese Block Cyberattacks," in The New York Times, March 12, 2013, at p. A1. (Chinese readers of these blogs will decide how serious is the U.S. about ending cybercrime and censorship against on-line dissidents and critics. China says: "We don't speak English.")
Ethan Bonner, "Right to Lawyer Can be Empty Promise for the Poor," in The New York Times, March 16, 2013, at p. A1. ("The doors to the Halls of Justice are open to all -- like the doors to the Plaza Hotel.")
New Jersey's Farce Continues:
Zach Patberg, "Accused Firms Donated to Passaic Sheriff: One Also Sold $4,800 in Auto Parts to Department," in The Record, March 6, 2013, at p. A1. (Same firm investigated for selling counterfit auto parts has "contributed" to the Passaic County Sheriff, RICHARD BERDNICK, and sold auto parts as well as providing "other services" for the county.)
Richard Cowen, "Teacher Faces More Sex Charges: Accused of Luring Ex-Students on Facebook," in The Record, March 6, 2013, at p. L-3. (THOMAS WEIR, Paterson High School teacher faces additional charges. Many N.J. school employees are facing child molestation charges. More on this issue is coming up.)
Scott Fallon, "Water Utility Fined for Record Keeping After Dumping Incident," in The Record, March 6, 2013, at p. L-3. (State officials fined the East Orange Water Commission $402,000 for FALSIFYING RECORDS less than a month after two officials were INDICTED for dumping polluted -- toxic? -- water illegally.)
Hannan Adeley, "Hackensack to Pay Cops $500,000 in Legal Bills: Two Were Acquitted of Alleged Cover-Up," in The Record, March 7, 2013, at p. A-1. (Hackensack is paying allegedly crooked cops -- who belong to Zisa, also allegedly -- legal fees amounting to half a million dollars. Some of that money will probably come back to the cops and Zisa -- maybe to other Hackensack officials -- under the table. Mr. Zisa has yet to serve ONE day of his 3 to 5 year sentence.)
Shawn Boburg, "Feds Are Watching Sandy Aid For Fraud: FBI Says Small-Time Scams Can Add-Up," in The Record, March 7, 2013, at p. A-1. (Amounts disappearing from Sandy charities are already in the hundreds of thousands, allegedly.)
Michael Linhorst, "N.J. Probe Claims Medicaid Fraud: Says Facilities Owe $10.2 Million," in The Record, March 7, 2013, at p. A-3. (Adult care facilities bilked the government of $10.2 MILLION. It's the Jersey way.)
Kibret Marcos, "Investor Mystery Spurs Fraud Claims: Widow Sued as Husband's Clients Demand Answers," in The Record, March 11, 2013, at p. A-1. (George Swan of Ridgewood, New Jersey left a mystery -- missing investor funds -- resulting in litigation against his weeping widow who may lose the insurance millions. Mr. Swan was a long-term political contributor in New Jersey. Investigations of these "matters" are on-going.)
John C. Ensslin, "Calendar Has 21 Photos of County Clerk: Freeholder Rips $60,000 Cost," in The Record, March 14, 2013, at p. L-1. (Bergen County Freeholder MAURA DI NICOLA criticized County Clerk JOHN HORGAN for spending $60,000 to print a calendar that features 21 pictures of him. No nudes? Mr. Christie wishes to do a swinsuit issue from this same printer that will cost $120,000.)
Shawn Boburg, "DEP Says Hauler Borrowed Decals to Dump Waste," in The Record, March 21, 2013, at p. A-3. (Unlicensed waste disposal of hazardous materials by alleged mob front under investigation. Health hazard may be serious in America's jurisdiction with highest cancer rates. That's the cost of corruption -- human lives.)
Attacks are increasing against these blogs and me. Please feel free to contact Mr. Rabner and Mr. Christie, whose silence is bizarre, to request the truth in these matters and some effort to control N.J.'s criminal cybercensorship.
"No comment" is not an acceptable response to public criminality. Have you no sense of decency, Mr. Rabner? Perhaps Mr. Rabner will take our calls if we identify ourselves as "Mr. Prisco"? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")
UN, "UN Official Says U.S. Drones Breach Pakistan's Sovereignty," in The New York Times, March 16, 2013, at p. A5. (UN human rights investigator has concluded that the U.S. has violated Pakistan's sovereignty and the human rights of drone victims.)
Charlie Savage, "Court Orders the C.I.A. to Disclose Drone Data," in The New York Times, March 16, 2013, at p. A15. (Federal Circuit Court "holds C.I.A. must disclose ... its records in drone strikes." Officially, there is no drone policy. When America's own courts do not accept the official White House canard, something has gone seriously wrong with American policies.)
Anthony Campisi & Abott-Koloff, "Child Porn Sting Nets 25: Men Allegedly Shared Videos of Graphic Sexual Abuse," in The Record, February 28, 2013, at p. A-1.
Kate Zernike, "New Jersey Lawyer Guilty of Murder," in The New York Times, March 19, 2013, at p. A21. (Mr. Bergrin operated a brothel in Manhattan to which prominent members of the legal profession and judiciary -- like his former colleague from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Chief Justice Rabner perhaps? -- were invited.)
"Six men from Bergen and Passaic Counties were among 25 people across the state charged with possessing and distributing child pornography after an investigation that involved high-tech computer tracking, state law enforcement authorities anounced Wednesday."
These arrests and the latest child exploitation crisis affecting the entire state of New Jersey involves a conspiracy to create and distribute child pornography, to make children available for prostitution, sometimes also to offer adult women and men for sexual "use" for money as well as (I believe) distribution of illegal drugs. ("New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester" and "Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne, New Jersey.")
None of this hateful criminal exploitation of children could take place in N.J. without the cooperation of public officials, lawyers, judges and police. ("New Jersey is the Home of Child Molesters" and "New Jersey Welcomes Child Molesters.")
The videos -- despite the reservations of state police -- were probably, in some cases, actually made in New Jersey and are more lucrative for criminals than drugs.
This suggests that many of the events depicted in the videos (which are truly horrifying and repulsive) have taken place in New Jersey, presumably with impunity for the makers, since only low-end distributors have now been caught.
This is an area where Garden State Cuban-American organized crime seems to be very "successful." ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security.")
Tons of this material comes across the G.W. bridge every day. This is only possible because of bribery of local officials and police. ("Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
"They depicted children ranging in age from infancy to 10 years old, [sic.] said Detective John Gorman of the New Jersey State Police. He said the investigators don't know whether any of the photos or videos were made in New Jersey, but that they were produced in various locations across the nation, with some coming from other countries."
State Police will not confirm whether DIANA LISA RICCIOLI is a person of interest in connection with a sexual abuse investigation. In New Jersey, it may be that such matters would be taken care of for Ms. Riccioli, allegedly.
Was Ms. Marilyn Straus under hypnosis at any time when you "knew" or questioned her, Diana? Did you make Ms. Straus available for sex with others, while Ms. Straus was in an impaired state, Diana? Was Deborah T. Poritz sexually involved with Diana Lisa Riccioli when Ms. Riccioli "knew" Marilyn Straus? ("Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest!" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")
This is the second major child pornography ring broken-up by police. Federal authorities have done even more damage in breaking-up New Jersey's "plethora" of child exploitation networks that are one result of the state's organized crime stranglehold on legal institutions. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics.")
Alleged Bob Menendez supporter and "friend," LUIS CEDENO, 46, of Palisades Park, New Jersey, home of the escort agency involved in the Spitzer case in New York, may have been a "ring leader" in this revolting matter. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" then "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")
Sadly, Cuban-American organized crime CONTINUES to "lead the field" in this child abuse endeavor or industry as well as in cyberstalking me. ("Bribery in Union City, New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Crisis.")
The massive amounts of money to be made from raping and abusing children creates a great deal of protection for these loathsome criminals among dishonest and greedy politicians. (Again: "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes" and "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?")
Token arrests aside, there are massive amounts of this activity generating billions of dollars for New Jersey criminals and perverts. There are 50 to 100 arrests per county (70 arrests in Passaic County alone in 2011), more arrests were made elsewhere in the state.
Estimates are that this number represents only about 5% of total volume of yearly production of such filth which is still one of the few areas where New Jersey leads the nation. New Jersey is the place to get child porn. Congratulations. Do you speak to me of "ethics," Mr. Rabner? ("Herbert Klitzner, Esq.'s Greed and New Jersey's Hypocrisy" and "So Black and So Blue in Prison.")
Not one of the persons involved in this child pornography ring is African-American.
Hold your nose when you get on the Turnpike. A list of sources detailing the continuing corruption in New Jersey will be added to this essay in the days ahead. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "New Jersey Rabbi Charged With Child Abuse.")
Sources:
New York & the World:
William Neuman, "Chavez Dies at 58 With Venezuela in Deep Turmoil," in The New York Times, March 6, 2013, at p. A1. (U.S. caught off guard by the reaction to the death of Hugo Chavez.)
William Neuman & Ginger Thompson, "A Leader's Cry In Venezuela: 'I'm Chavez' -- U.S. Looking for Clues on Policy Direction," in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A1. ("Ginger Thompson" is probably the same person-faction using the name "Manohla Dargis.")
Scott Shane, "C.I.A.'s History Poses a Hurdle for a Nominee," in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A1. (John Brennan's confirmation may be a validation of torture, targeted assassination, drone killings, and more illegal tactics.)
Luis Lula da Silva, "Latin America After Chavez," (Op-Ed) in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A27. (Fidel says hello.)
"Hugo Chavez," (Editorial) in The New York Times, March 7, 2013, at p. A26. (Menendez and Rubio?)
Richard W. Stevenson & Ashley Parker, "Drone Debate Scrambles Both Left and Right," in The New York Times, March 8, 2013, at p. A1. (Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky's fair-haired Republican hopeful, took a surprisingly brave and correct stance on the drone issue. Who knew?)
"Mr. Brennan's Excuse: The New C.I.A. Chief Should Commit to Making the Senate Report on Torture Public," (Editorial) in The New York Times, March 8, 2013, at p. A24. (The public needs to know the truth on these issues.)
Michael M. Brynbaum, "Court Halts Ban On Large Sodas in New York City: Mayor Vows to Appeal," in The New York Times, March 12, 2013, at p. A1. (This is what the American legal system is focusing on? As we say in New York: Ya-gotta-be-kidding-me.)
Mark Landler & David E. Sanger, "U.S. Demands Chinese Block Cyberattacks," in The New York Times, March 12, 2013, at p. A1. (Chinese readers of these blogs will decide how serious is the U.S. about ending cybercrime and censorship against on-line dissidents and critics. China says: "We don't speak English.")
Ethan Bonner, "Right to Lawyer Can be Empty Promise for the Poor," in The New York Times, March 16, 2013, at p. A1. ("The doors to the Halls of Justice are open to all -- like the doors to the Plaza Hotel.")
New Jersey's Farce Continues:
Zach Patberg, "Accused Firms Donated to Passaic Sheriff: One Also Sold $4,800 in Auto Parts to Department," in The Record, March 6, 2013, at p. A1. (Same firm investigated for selling counterfit auto parts has "contributed" to the Passaic County Sheriff, RICHARD BERDNICK, and sold auto parts as well as providing "other services" for the county.)
Richard Cowen, "Teacher Faces More Sex Charges: Accused of Luring Ex-Students on Facebook," in The Record, March 6, 2013, at p. L-3. (THOMAS WEIR, Paterson High School teacher faces additional charges. Many N.J. school employees are facing child molestation charges. More on this issue is coming up.)
Scott Fallon, "Water Utility Fined for Record Keeping After Dumping Incident," in The Record, March 6, 2013, at p. L-3. (State officials fined the East Orange Water Commission $402,000 for FALSIFYING RECORDS less than a month after two officials were INDICTED for dumping polluted -- toxic? -- water illegally.)
Hannan Adeley, "Hackensack to Pay Cops $500,000 in Legal Bills: Two Were Acquitted of Alleged Cover-Up," in The Record, March 7, 2013, at p. A-1. (Hackensack is paying allegedly crooked cops -- who belong to Zisa, also allegedly -- legal fees amounting to half a million dollars. Some of that money will probably come back to the cops and Zisa -- maybe to other Hackensack officials -- under the table. Mr. Zisa has yet to serve ONE day of his 3 to 5 year sentence.)
Shawn Boburg, "Feds Are Watching Sandy Aid For Fraud: FBI Says Small-Time Scams Can Add-Up," in The Record, March 7, 2013, at p. A-1. (Amounts disappearing from Sandy charities are already in the hundreds of thousands, allegedly.)
Michael Linhorst, "N.J. Probe Claims Medicaid Fraud: Says Facilities Owe $10.2 Million," in The Record, March 7, 2013, at p. A-3. (Adult care facilities bilked the government of $10.2 MILLION. It's the Jersey way.)
Kibret Marcos, "Investor Mystery Spurs Fraud Claims: Widow Sued as Husband's Clients Demand Answers," in The Record, March 11, 2013, at p. A-1. (George Swan of Ridgewood, New Jersey left a mystery -- missing investor funds -- resulting in litigation against his weeping widow who may lose the insurance millions. Mr. Swan was a long-term political contributor in New Jersey. Investigations of these "matters" are on-going.)
John C. Ensslin, "Calendar Has 21 Photos of County Clerk: Freeholder Rips $60,000 Cost," in The Record, March 14, 2013, at p. L-1. (Bergen County Freeholder MAURA DI NICOLA criticized County Clerk JOHN HORGAN for spending $60,000 to print a calendar that features 21 pictures of him. No nudes? Mr. Christie wishes to do a swinsuit issue from this same printer that will cost $120,000.)
Shawn Boburg, "DEP Says Hauler Borrowed Decals to Dump Waste," in The Record, March 21, 2013, at p. A-3. (Unlicensed waste disposal of hazardous materials by alleged mob front under investigation. Health hazard may be serious in America's jurisdiction with highest cancer rates. That's the cost of corruption -- human lives.)
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The Trouble With Algorithms.
March 15, 2013 at 12:14 P.M. Yesterday, I was subjected to hacks into my blogs. The spacing between words and sentences in my third paragraph in this essay was altered so that it could not be corrected. After so many years of censorship, cyberstalking, cybercrime, and so much worse in my life, I am not surprised by this continuing psychological torture effort that is about covering-up was has been done. Equally unsurprising is a new inquiry in the Washington Post concerning another contributor to Mr. Menendez.
I am saddened and frightened for America's future. The celebration of ignorance and stupidity, violence and suppressions of speech -- as a response to dissent and also out of hatred for intelligence -- is a repulsive example of a new fascism. If these crimes displayed to the world are what we mean by freedom of speech on-line and respect for human rights, we will be regarded, rightly, as hypocritical and dishonest when we ask others to abide by these same rights. As a result, dissidents in many places will be less safe.
I will try to repair the harm done by hackers to my text. There is always a risk that what I do will only make things worse. The defacements of this essay should serve as a symbol of what many thinkers in the world struggle against. I am unable to send or receive email, no images can be used at these blogs, only 45 minutes per day are available to me for on-line writings after the destruction of my home computer.
March 14, 2013 at 2:25 P.M. Alterations in spacing of paragraphs in this essay cannot be corrected and may be one indication that I am right in my criticisms of Mr. Lohr's essay. Censorship, plagiarism, attempts to destroy intellectual work have usually been the weapons of the enemies of science and learning. ("How censorship works in America" and "What is it like to be plagiarized?")
Steve Lohr, "Algorithms Get a Human Hand In Steering the Web," in The New York Times, March 11, 2013, at p. A1. (Is Mr. Lohr also "Abigail Tucker"? "'Nice Babies' and Bad Psychologists.")
Simon Blackburn, Philosophy (New York: METRO, 2009).
Simon Blackburn, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1994).
David Deutsch, "Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions," in Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 455 (1999).
David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (New York: Viking, 2011). (Quantum computing is discussed by its first great theorist, Professor Deutsch.)
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Viking, 1987).
Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (New York & London: W.W. Norton, 2005).
Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1989).
Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting," in Mind (1903).
Nathan Salmon, Philosophical Papers, I: Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2005). (Can there be non-recursive forms of proof?)
Mark C. Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 2001).
M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992). ("Classifiers and Instantiation.")
Quentin Hardy, "Testing a New Class of Speedy Computer: For Lockheed Martin, A Machine to Harness Quantum Technology," in The New York Times, March 22, 2013, at p. B1. (This article appeared after posting this essay. I will write about this fascinating development soon.)
I.
As computer searches become more ubiquitous and urgent, efforts are underway to sharpen as well as enhance the capacity of search engines to answer questions or provide information to Internet users.
Human assistance is required to improve computer capacities to provide more precise or focused searches, also to scrutinize a larger quantum of data -- a capacity which is, often, simply about computational power which is growing at a geometric rate. ("Stephen Hawking's Free Will is Determined" and "Stephen Hawking is Right On Time" then "Mind and Machine" and "John Searle and David Chalmers On Consciousness.")
I notice that the word "algorithm" is used in this article extensively without being defined. I believe that, unconsciously, the term substitutes in Mr. Lohr's analysis and discussion for "denotation" and also for "representation," "connotation" and "association."
When persons ask a search engine questions about, say, "Big Bird," what do they really want to know? Are these inquiries about the scope of an utterance hermeneutic-interpretive issues? (Lohr, p. B6.)
Luckily, we are told, that a college student and Google employee "assists" the company's search engines to overcome ambiguities and "literal-mindedness" in the application of such mathematical-philosophical concepts. ("Whatever!" and "Nihilists in Disneyworld.")
The goal is to "tweak," as it were, inquiries and responses from members of the public in order to yield the best possible responses to such inquiries.
To meet this goal (best response) a human/machine "dialectic" has been created. I believe that this is a promising approach for reasons that are somewhat different from Mr. Lohr's conclusions to the extent that I can discover conclusions in this article.
I must say that Google seems like a great company for geeks, including philosophy geeks. Mr. Lohr states the issue for Google's great minds in ambiguous terms:
"Although algorithms are growing ever more powerful, [sic.] fast and precise, the computers themselves are literal-minded, and context and nuance elude them." ("The Galatea Scenario and the Mind/Body Problem" then "The Entanglements Are Primary.")
How are computers "themselves" different from the algorithms that determine their operations? How can a computer not be literal-minded while remaining precise as an instrument of calculation? What exactly is a computer? Hard drive? Software? A set of mathematical equations? How is chaos thinking or complexity theory relevant to this discussion? Why not allude to Godel's "Incompleteness Theorem" or Russell's comments on "denotation/connotation" which are, necessarily, at the heart of this discussion? ("Immanuel Kant and the Narrative of Freedom.")
II.
Each of these concepts transgressing disciplinary boundaries merits a separate essay. I will confine my brief efforts (again, I only have 45 minutes per day) to their application in reasoning about the scope and limits of algorithms in dealing with open-ended as opposed to (potentially) "closed" or purely factual inquiries.
I also will be concerned with problems that contain both open and closed features, that is, requests for answers to factual questions as well as judgments of meaning, usually in combination, that will certainly feature in future computing challenges:
"The word algorithm comes from the name of ninth century Persian [Iran] mathematician Abu Ja 'Far Mohammed ibn Musa al Khowarzim who wrote an influential mathematical textbook about 825 A.D. entitled 'Kitab al-jabr wa'l-mugabe.' [Euclid's "algorithm" dates from 300 B.C. but is pre-algebraic and pre-calculus.] ..." (Penrose, pp. 40-41.)
Algorithms are "systematic procedures for finding factors" or a "set" of "rules or instructions for the solution of a problem." (Penrose, pp. 40-47 and Blackburn, ed., Dictionary of Philosophy, p. 11.)
Recently developed evolutionary algorithms, that are not mentioned by "Mr. Lohr," are crucial to the growth of search capacity or "responsiveness" for search engines. This is because such protean algorithms make use of "simulations that are variable and multiple trials," each variation leading to new options. (Deutsch, p. 160.)
The complexities and ambiguities of questions dependent on uncertain information lead to difficulties in the construction of algorithms that seek to accomodate and respond to various levels of complexity in any solution.
Multidimensional problems or questions require "decision procedures" (algorithms) and answers that are also multidimensional. The challenge of developing such algorithms has allowed computer science to meet chaos theory in physics and mathematics as well as hermeneutics in philosophy and analytical "fuzzy logics." Much of this work can be seen in efforts to create new theories of infinity or "eternal loops." ("Projects.")
"Complexity theory is concerned not so much with the difficulty of solving single problems algorithmically, but with infinite families of problems where there would be a general algorithm for finding answers to all problems of one single family." (Penrose, p. 182.)
A Google search that gives you only one site is less successful than one that provides you with multiple options.
Given Godel's "Incompleteness Theorem" and Russell's concerns about human failures to "denote," or to provide meaningful utterance when articulating questions for computers or persons to ponder or seek to answer, an area for solutions to multilayered, complex and open-ended inquiries is dialectical or hermeneutical processes.
The conversation between human and machine, for example, or between questioner and answer-provider is "representable," mathematically, in algorithmic terms that yield "options" rather than definite or closed responses. Accordingly, evolutionary algorithms may be designed to yield open dialectics. ("What is memory?")
The ability to create algorithms that fragment results into levels of discussion, leading to further fragmentations producing more patterns of meaningful information, brings us to chaos thinking. Fractals and other branches of mathematics attempt to address these new realities.
If consciousness is essentially self-consciousness or awareness of thought, subjectivity, qualia, then developments in computer thinking -- especially quantum computing for multiple levels of inquiry and response -- may finally bring us within reach of consciousness for artificial intelligence systems as well as networks. ("Mind and Machine" then "John Searle and David Chalmers On Consciousness.")
You may recall Mr. Gleick's discussion of snow flakes and crystals as instantiating reproducible and predictable patterns that are knowable a priori and, potentially, infinitely reproducible and that are strikingly beautiful. The more beautiful the pattern, the more useful and manageable will be even the most massive amounts of information.
"Elegance" then becomes an organizing principle for algorithmic responses, and also to "understand" as well as "know" the universe. The result is what I call the "Rosebud" phenomenon. In Citizen Kane a single word to denote a boy's sleigh comes to define the hopes and dreams along with the meaning/identity of a man's entire life. All memory is contained in a single image and name: "Rosebud." (''Inception': A Movie Review" and "'In Time': A Movie Review.")
Similarly, massive amounts of information can be organized by a single metaphor/image ("butterfly effects") that captures or "represents" the complexity in order to "open the door" to the various levels of difficulty and nuance responding to an original inquiry. ("Arthur Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Art.")
These matters reveal the persistence of a paradoxical human ambition that may be called "Promethean." We yearn for a single unified field theory (UFT) or a formula for the universe; we hope for an entirely absolutely knowable and certain rational order revealed, perhaps, by an all-encompassing "algorithm." We also yearn for freedom and ambiguity that allows for the inscrutability of our inner lives. ("'Prometheus': A Movie Review.")
Chaos theory and the emerging language of manifolds in mathematics suggests that we may be able to satisfy both of these desires: Einstein represents one side of this equation (the search for certainty); Godel/Heisenberg represent the other side of this same equation (acceptance of uncertainty).
Resolution of this tension between certainty or knowledge (science) and the freedom of mystery (religion) simply is human nature, the eternal inner dialogue that becomes external between self and/as other, human and machine, appearance and reality, knowledge and truth that can only be dialectical. ("Has Science Made Religion Obsolete?" and "Consciousness and Computers.")
The future of computing -- as Google demonstrates -- is not to contain this dialectic, but to make it available to the world by liberating inquiries that are always "unfinished." David Deutsch's discussion of "quantum computing" only makes these issues more important and fascinating. Perpetual dialogue or inquiry may be the only true "formula for the universe" and the best definition of what we are. Dissatisfaction with all of our answers reveals us to be eternal questioners:
"Our empirical science, our discoveries about the way the world works, give us more than mere hypotheses or conjectures. They give us our certainties and beliefs which our whole lives presuppose. In fact, the philosophical skeptic arguing that we should not have any confidence in these certainties is wasting his breath. Nature forces us to expect things as we do, I cannot jump off a cliff without expecting to fall, or deliberately walk into a wall without expecting to be stopped, any more than a dog or cat can. Our animal natures tell us how to navigate our world. They make us confident, and no reasoning could ever undermine that confidence."
Please compare "John Finnis and Ethical Cognitivism" with, again, "Stephen Hawking is Right On Time":
" ... Just as the law that between every pair of even numbers there lies an odd number is immutable, immune to time, necessarily true not just in the world as it happens to be, but in any other possible world we can imagine, so we would like to find a constraining fact, a physical or metaphysical directive, ensuring the continuing good behavior (from our point of view) of the natural order." (Blackburn, Philosophy, pp. 126-127.)
I am saddened and frightened for America's future. The celebration of ignorance and stupidity, violence and suppressions of speech -- as a response to dissent and also out of hatred for intelligence -- is a repulsive example of a new fascism. If these crimes displayed to the world are what we mean by freedom of speech on-line and respect for human rights, we will be regarded, rightly, as hypocritical and dishonest when we ask others to abide by these same rights. As a result, dissidents in many places will be less safe.
I will try to repair the harm done by hackers to my text. There is always a risk that what I do will only make things worse. The defacements of this essay should serve as a symbol of what many thinkers in the world struggle against. I am unable to send or receive email, no images can be used at these blogs, only 45 minutes per day are available to me for on-line writings after the destruction of my home computer.
March 14, 2013 at 2:25 P.M. Alterations in spacing of paragraphs in this essay cannot be corrected and may be one indication that I am right in my criticisms of Mr. Lohr's essay. Censorship, plagiarism, attempts to destroy intellectual work have usually been the weapons of the enemies of science and learning. ("How censorship works in America" and "What is it like to be plagiarized?")
Steve Lohr, "Algorithms Get a Human Hand In Steering the Web," in The New York Times, March 11, 2013, at p. A1. (Is Mr. Lohr also "Abigail Tucker"? "'Nice Babies' and Bad Psychologists.")
Simon Blackburn, Philosophy (New York: METRO, 2009).
Simon Blackburn, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1994).
David Deutsch, "Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions," in Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 455 (1999).
David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (New York: Viking, 2011). (Quantum computing is discussed by its first great theorist, Professor Deutsch.)
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Viking, 1987).
Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (New York & London: W.W. Norton, 2005).
Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1989).
Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting," in Mind (1903).
Nathan Salmon, Philosophical Papers, I: Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2005). (Can there be non-recursive forms of proof?)
Mark C. Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 2001).
M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992). ("Classifiers and Instantiation.")
Quentin Hardy, "Testing a New Class of Speedy Computer: For Lockheed Martin, A Machine to Harness Quantum Technology," in The New York Times, March 22, 2013, at p. B1. (This article appeared after posting this essay. I will write about this fascinating development soon.)
I.
As computer searches become more ubiquitous and urgent, efforts are underway to sharpen as well as enhance the capacity of search engines to answer questions or provide information to Internet users.
Human assistance is required to improve computer capacities to provide more precise or focused searches, also to scrutinize a larger quantum of data -- a capacity which is, often, simply about computational power which is growing at a geometric rate. ("Stephen Hawking's Free Will is Determined" and "Stephen Hawking is Right On Time" then "Mind and Machine" and "John Searle and David Chalmers On Consciousness.")
I notice that the word "algorithm" is used in this article extensively without being defined. I believe that, unconsciously, the term substitutes in Mr. Lohr's analysis and discussion for "denotation" and also for "representation," "connotation" and "association."
When persons ask a search engine questions about, say, "Big Bird," what do they really want to know? Are these inquiries about the scope of an utterance hermeneutic-interpretive issues? (Lohr, p. B6.)
Luckily, we are told, that a college student and Google employee "assists" the company's search engines to overcome ambiguities and "literal-mindedness" in the application of such mathematical-philosophical concepts. ("Whatever!" and "Nihilists in Disneyworld.")
The goal is to "tweak," as it were, inquiries and responses from members of the public in order to yield the best possible responses to such inquiries.
To meet this goal (best response) a human/machine "dialectic" has been created. I believe that this is a promising approach for reasons that are somewhat different from Mr. Lohr's conclusions to the extent that I can discover conclusions in this article.
I must say that Google seems like a great company for geeks, including philosophy geeks. Mr. Lohr states the issue for Google's great minds in ambiguous terms:
"Although algorithms are growing ever more powerful, [sic.] fast and precise, the computers themselves are literal-minded, and context and nuance elude them." ("The Galatea Scenario and the Mind/Body Problem" then "The Entanglements Are Primary.")
How are computers "themselves" different from the algorithms that determine their operations? How can a computer not be literal-minded while remaining precise as an instrument of calculation? What exactly is a computer? Hard drive? Software? A set of mathematical equations? How is chaos thinking or complexity theory relevant to this discussion? Why not allude to Godel's "Incompleteness Theorem" or Russell's comments on "denotation/connotation" which are, necessarily, at the heart of this discussion? ("Immanuel Kant and the Narrative of Freedom.")
II.
Each of these concepts transgressing disciplinary boundaries merits a separate essay. I will confine my brief efforts (again, I only have 45 minutes per day) to their application in reasoning about the scope and limits of algorithms in dealing with open-ended as opposed to (potentially) "closed" or purely factual inquiries.
I also will be concerned with problems that contain both open and closed features, that is, requests for answers to factual questions as well as judgments of meaning, usually in combination, that will certainly feature in future computing challenges:
"The word algorithm comes from the name of ninth century Persian [Iran] mathematician Abu Ja 'Far Mohammed ibn Musa al Khowarzim who wrote an influential mathematical textbook about 825 A.D. entitled 'Kitab al-jabr wa'l-mugabe.' [Euclid's "algorithm" dates from 300 B.C. but is pre-algebraic and pre-calculus.] ..." (Penrose, pp. 40-41.)
Algorithms are "systematic procedures for finding factors" or a "set" of "rules or instructions for the solution of a problem." (Penrose, pp. 40-47 and Blackburn, ed., Dictionary of Philosophy, p. 11.)
Recently developed evolutionary algorithms, that are not mentioned by "Mr. Lohr," are crucial to the growth of search capacity or "responsiveness" for search engines. This is because such protean algorithms make use of "simulations that are variable and multiple trials," each variation leading to new options. (Deutsch, p. 160.)
The complexities and ambiguities of questions dependent on uncertain information lead to difficulties in the construction of algorithms that seek to accomodate and respond to various levels of complexity in any solution.
Multidimensional problems or questions require "decision procedures" (algorithms) and answers that are also multidimensional. The challenge of developing such algorithms has allowed computer science to meet chaos theory in physics and mathematics as well as hermeneutics in philosophy and analytical "fuzzy logics." Much of this work can be seen in efforts to create new theories of infinity or "eternal loops." ("Projects.")
"Complexity theory is concerned not so much with the difficulty of solving single problems algorithmically, but with infinite families of problems where there would be a general algorithm for finding answers to all problems of one single family." (Penrose, p. 182.)
A Google search that gives you only one site is less successful than one that provides you with multiple options.
Given Godel's "Incompleteness Theorem" and Russell's concerns about human failures to "denote," or to provide meaningful utterance when articulating questions for computers or persons to ponder or seek to answer, an area for solutions to multilayered, complex and open-ended inquiries is dialectical or hermeneutical processes.
The conversation between human and machine, for example, or between questioner and answer-provider is "representable," mathematically, in algorithmic terms that yield "options" rather than definite or closed responses. Accordingly, evolutionary algorithms may be designed to yield open dialectics. ("What is memory?")
The ability to create algorithms that fragment results into levels of discussion, leading to further fragmentations producing more patterns of meaningful information, brings us to chaos thinking. Fractals and other branches of mathematics attempt to address these new realities.
If consciousness is essentially self-consciousness or awareness of thought, subjectivity, qualia, then developments in computer thinking -- especially quantum computing for multiple levels of inquiry and response -- may finally bring us within reach of consciousness for artificial intelligence systems as well as networks. ("Mind and Machine" then "John Searle and David Chalmers On Consciousness.")
You may recall Mr. Gleick's discussion of snow flakes and crystals as instantiating reproducible and predictable patterns that are knowable a priori and, potentially, infinitely reproducible and that are strikingly beautiful. The more beautiful the pattern, the more useful and manageable will be even the most massive amounts of information.
"Elegance" then becomes an organizing principle for algorithmic responses, and also to "understand" as well as "know" the universe. The result is what I call the "Rosebud" phenomenon. In Citizen Kane a single word to denote a boy's sleigh comes to define the hopes and dreams along with the meaning/identity of a man's entire life. All memory is contained in a single image and name: "Rosebud." (''Inception': A Movie Review" and "'In Time': A Movie Review.")
Similarly, massive amounts of information can be organized by a single metaphor/image ("butterfly effects") that captures or "represents" the complexity in order to "open the door" to the various levels of difficulty and nuance responding to an original inquiry. ("Arthur Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Art.")
These matters reveal the persistence of a paradoxical human ambition that may be called "Promethean." We yearn for a single unified field theory (UFT) or a formula for the universe; we hope for an entirely absolutely knowable and certain rational order revealed, perhaps, by an all-encompassing "algorithm." We also yearn for freedom and ambiguity that allows for the inscrutability of our inner lives. ("'Prometheus': A Movie Review.")
Chaos theory and the emerging language of manifolds in mathematics suggests that we may be able to satisfy both of these desires: Einstein represents one side of this equation (the search for certainty); Godel/Heisenberg represent the other side of this same equation (acceptance of uncertainty).
Resolution of this tension between certainty or knowledge (science) and the freedom of mystery (religion) simply is human nature, the eternal inner dialogue that becomes external between self and/as other, human and machine, appearance and reality, knowledge and truth that can only be dialectical. ("Has Science Made Religion Obsolete?" and "Consciousness and Computers.")
The future of computing -- as Google demonstrates -- is not to contain this dialectic, but to make it available to the world by liberating inquiries that are always "unfinished." David Deutsch's discussion of "quantum computing" only makes these issues more important and fascinating. Perpetual dialogue or inquiry may be the only true "formula for the universe" and the best definition of what we are. Dissatisfaction with all of our answers reveals us to be eternal questioners:
"Our empirical science, our discoveries about the way the world works, give us more than mere hypotheses or conjectures. They give us our certainties and beliefs which our whole lives presuppose. In fact, the philosophical skeptic arguing that we should not have any confidence in these certainties is wasting his breath. Nature forces us to expect things as we do, I cannot jump off a cliff without expecting to fall, or deliberately walk into a wall without expecting to be stopped, any more than a dog or cat can. Our animal natures tell us how to navigate our world. They make us confident, and no reasoning could ever undermine that confidence."
Please compare "John Finnis and Ethical Cognitivism" with, again, "Stephen Hawking is Right On Time":
" ... Just as the law that between every pair of even numbers there lies an odd number is immutable, immune to time, necessarily true not just in the world as it happens to be, but in any other possible world we can imagine, so we would like to find a constraining fact, a physical or metaphysical directive, ensuring the continuing good behavior (from our point of view) of the natural order." (Blackburn, Philosophy, pp. 126-127.)
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