Menendez Croney's Office Raided.

October 31, 2013 at 2:02 P.M. "Halloween Mischief" at NYPL, Morningside Heights branch resulted in a hackers' attack that disabled several computers, prevented me from signing-in at 1:55 P.M., and required me to obtain a temporary permit to use another computer -- one of the few not disabled by these mysterious attacks -- in order to write at all today. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "How censorship works in America.")

The librarians at the Morningside and Inwood branches of the NYPL deserve combat pay and bonuses for engaging with terrorists on a daily basis. They have my sympathy and respect.

October 30, 2013 at 8:56 A.M. It was reported on this morning's "Democracy Now" broadcast that the Cuban Embargo was rejected, again, by the global community at the UN. Only Israel (which cannot vote against the U.S.) joined the U.S. in upholding and continuing the stranglehold on the Cuban people's access to food and other essential items. 

The embargo has cost the Cuban economy $1 TRILLION since its inception, impoverished millions, taken lives that might have been saved, limited the intellectual opportunities and access to technology of millions of persons who may have contributed to the growth of knowledge for all of humanity. 

So much unnecessary suffering justified, allegedly, by "human rights violations" in a country that has opened its borders to UN human rights assessments and complied with all suggestions for improvements is not only illegal, but evil. I do not know and cannot say when Internet access will be restored to the NYPL computers allowing millions of New Yorkers to regain the opportunity for self-expression on-line. 

I cannot send or receive e-mails, no images can be posted here, my writings are plagiarized, censored, suppressed. I am often prevented from writing on-line. This situation is known to the U.S. authorities. 

October 29, 2013 at 6:12 P.M. Regrettably, NYPL computers were obstructed, again, from accessing the Internet. This is true not only at Morningside Heights, but also at other library branches. Evidently, "Verizon" experienced "difficulties." I will continue to try to make use of NYPL computers on a daily basis.  

Please remember, Mr. Menendez, that I am not the only person using library computers. ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey?")

October 28, 2013 at 6:39 P.M. Earlier today, at about 1:30 P.M., I attempted to write at NYPL, Morningside Heights branch. All Internet connections were disabled at that branch and, at least, at two other branches of the library. Perhaps all library computers were disabled. Printers were disabled also. It is not known when Internet services can be restored for library patrons -- patrons whose only Internet access is, often, from the public library. 

This situation must have been the result of an organized attack by hackers, perhaps persons with political protection aiming to silence me.  

Is this acceptable to the NYPD? Mr. Kelly, even Republicans must not get away with such tactics. ("America's Banana Republicans.")

A new Google sign-in sheet that seems not to come from Google was back today at my blogs. This leads me to wonder whether I will be able to continue writing or whether these blogs will be destroyed and I will be silenced. Threats and assaults will not stop me from writing if I am able to regain access to these blogs in the future. 

I will attempt to write from public library computers tomorrow. Please remember that, if no alteration of these blogs takes place after two days, it means that I am prevented from writing against my will. I suspect that persons behind these attacks may also be obstructing "Obamacare" sites. ("How censorship works in America" and "More Censorship and Cybercrime.")

October 26, 2013 at 9:52 A.M. I encountered the usual pop-ups and obstructions threatening to prevent me from signing-in, again. I will make use of public computers later today to check on this text and print my work. If more than two days pass without alteration of these blogs, it means that I am prevented from writing against my will. I am grateful for the good wishes of many persons, especially (I hope and believe) of friends in Cuba and in many countries. 

Mathew McGrath, "Sex Offender Jailed for Alleged Web Activity," The Record, October 24, 2013, p. L-2. ("Thadeus Gill," 46, of Newark is a convicted sex offender who assaulted a 10 year-old girl. He was charged with engaging in social "activities" on-line in violation of his parole. Any relation to "John McGill, Esq."? Gil Garcia? "John McGill, Esq., the OAE, and New Jersey Corruption" and "Herbert Klitzner, Esq.'s Greed and New Jersey's Hypocrisy.")

Landon Thomas, "Jury Finds Bank of America Liable," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. B1. (Isn't N.J.'s George E. Norcross, III affiliated with Bank of America? "George E. Norcross, III is the Boss of New Jersey's Politics and Law.")

Kate Zernike, "Year Later, Storm Victims Challenge Christie's Status as Savior," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. A1. ("Kate Zernike" may also be "Jennifer Shuessler" and/or "Jill Abramson" and/or "Barbara Buono.")

Mark Landler, "Pakistani Premier Meets Obama to Mend Ties: Request is Made to Halt U.S. Drone Strikes," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. A10. (Halt the killing of civilians, Mr. Obama.)

Jackie Calmes, "White House Official on National Security Is Fired After Twitter Posts Are Unmasked," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. A18. ("JOFI JOSEPH" may have visited my blogs, along with CAROLYN LEDDY. Both may have been acting for Right-wing politicians in doing so. Malbus? Jill? "The Philosophy Cafe"?)

Herb Jackson, "Feds Again Raid Top Menendez Donor's Office: Doctor Says It's Retribution for Suit," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. A-3.

"Legal problems continue for Senator Bob Menendez's biggest campaign benefactor, as federal agents this week raided an office of Florida eye surgeon Dr. Salomon Melgen that the FBI had already visited once before in January."

Dr. Melgen's frequent trips to the Dominican Republic and/or fondness for young prostitutes (an interest that is, apparently, shared with New Jersey's so-called "Lion of the Senate," Bob Menendez) is not his primary problem with the federal government. ("Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")

Dr. Melgen has taken up what is called "The Miami Mambo" -- this is a technique of theft that involves figuring out ways to scam the U.S. government out of money by way of fraudulent claims, perhaps assisted by crooked Cuban-American politicians. ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security" and "Miami's Cubanoids Protest Against Peace.")

Dr. Melgen who owns an airplane -- as so many South Florida drug dealers do! -- often hosts N.J.'s Senator from Hudson County's Union City, where 14-year-old girls may be "purchased," allegedly, for $500. ("Marilyn Straus Was Right!" and "Diana's Friend Goes to Prison" then "14 Year-Old Girl Goes For $500 in New Jersey.")

Medicare believes that Melgen has engaged in "fraudulent" billing. Is this "ethical," Mr. Menendez? ("New Jersey's Child Sex Industry" and "Is Menendez For Sale?" then "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics.")

Dr. Melgen has been "cut off" from further payments by the federal government and is, as it were, no longer "on the tit." ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

Dr. Melgen called his friend (Senator Bob) and possible "employee," and Menendez then asked Medicare for "clarification" concerning the rules they claim Dr. Melgen violated. 

Mr. Menendez continues to be the subject of an FBI investigation as well as proceedings before the U.S. Senate's Ethics Committee which the Senator may believe are "fixable," politically or financially. 

Essentially, Medicare objects to Dr. Melgen billing a sum much larger than what he is due for services he actually performed and dispensing fewer drugs than what he sought compensation for, or actually obtained, giving rise to the question: "What was Dr. Melgen doing with the residue of the 'undispensed' drugs?"

Medicare has explained that they are against FRAUDULENT billing even when professionals DEFRAUDING the government happen to have politicians as friends or employees. I guess the feds are just a little touchy about things like FRAUD. ("Bribery in Union City, New Jersey" and "Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whore House?" then "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")

"Melgen and Menendez are close friends, and Melgen, his company and his family members[,] contributed more than $950,000 to committees Menendez controlled or that supported his reelection last year."

Dr. Melgen "overbilled" about $9 MILLION for which he is now suing the federal government which sought and has retained the said nine big ones. After all, investing ten percent of your revenue in a politician is not too expensive. ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Menendez Gets Over on the Feds.")

In exchange for his "contributions" and occasional free trips to the D.R. for a little "fun with the ladies," allegedly, Menendez pressured Medicaid for some "answers" and "clarifications."

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Dr. Melgen still has not received the $9 million smackers that he was hoping his bosom-buddy could procure. ("'Michael Clayton': A Movie Review" and "New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")

Menendez reimbursed the $59,000 cost of the flights to Santo Domingo and other parts of the D.R. only after he was caught getting a free ride, as it were, even as (it is said) that Menendez failed to pay the Dominican working ladies -- "stiffing" them, in a manner of speaking -- in more ways than one. ("Is Menendez 'For' Human Rights?" and "Menendez Says: Xanadu and You Are Perfect Together!")

"Medicare suspended all payments to Melgen in August because of credible allegations of fraud, according to a letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services attached to Melgen's lawsuit. A spokesperson for the federal agency would not comment Wednesday."

U.S. Guilty in Drone Report.

October 24, 2013 at 2:35 P.M. A new Google sign-in sheet today instills fear (in me) concerning whether I will be able to write again. Also, I remain concerned about plagiarism, censorship, silence from American and New Jersey authorities and media outlets (same thing?), even as (I believe) world media continues to provide coverage of my matters. 

Alison Smale, "Anger Growing Among Allies On U.S. Spying," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. A1. (France, Germany, Brazil and Mexico are raising concerns about American spying in their countries. Russia and China may be next to complain about cyberspying and computer crime.)

Ben Protess & Jessica Silver-Greenberg, "JP Morgan Faces Possible Penalty in Madoff Case," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. A1. (Affiliations between JP Morgan and Mr. Madoff are coming to light. Also, the Morgan Bank -- fittingly, given its robber-baron origins! -- may be subject to Interpol investigation for money-laundering for cartels. Enjoy the Opera, Jamie.)

Michael M. Grynbaum & Michael Barbaro, "Lhota in Acrid Second Debate, Turns Up the Heat on de Blasio," The New York Times, October 24, 2013, p. A1. (Mr. Lhota's nasty tactics -- right out of the Republicans' government "shut-down" playbook -- may backfire and hurt his chances in the election. "Jofi Joseph" and other NSA/White House security personnel may have visited my sites before "throwing the Constitution under a bus." Mr. Lhota, you are no Rudi Giuliani. Rudi has a lot of charm as well as the famous toughness.)

Declan Walsh & Insamullah Tisu Mershad, "Civilian Deaths Cited in a Report On Drone Strikes," The New York Times, October 22, 2013, p. A1. 

"Names of the Dead," The New York Times, October 22, 2013, p. A10. (2,273 Americans killed in Afghanistan; about 20,000 wounded; 15-20,0000 Americans killed in Iraq; 110,0000 wounded; numbers of dead and wounded Americans in Pakistan and "elsewhere" in 2013 is not known.)

Pakistanis report living in a permanent state of terror over the unpredictable drone bombs raining death on militants as well as innocent civilians, including children and old people. 

The U.S. claims that the drones are used with great precision, sparingly and highly effectively, to "control" Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters and militants in northwestern Pakistan, parts of Afghanistan, Yemen and "elsewhere." 

U.S. officials do not dispute, however, that more than 3,000 "collateral victims" -- far more than the total number killed by the illicit use of chemical weapons, allegedly, by Mr. Assad in Syria -- have been KILLED by U.S. drones in Pakistan alone. ("Mr. Putin's Advice to America" and "America's Drone Murders.")

The total number of innocents killed by U.S. drones in the world (beyond Pakistan) may be twice the figure in Waziristan. No one knows the exact figure, but few of the young victims of these drone bombings -- including "survivors" maimed for life -- have been nominated for the Nobel prize or will be interviewed by Dianne Sawyer on ABC/Disney's "World News." ("What is memory?" and "Can you lie to yourself?")

In terms of international human rights law, the following facts and principles are not disputed by any government: 1) The U.S. is not at war with Pakistan or Yemen, nor with the people of Afghanistan; 2). civilians -- even "foreseeable unintended casualties" -- are not "acceptable collateral harm" resulting from drone bombings within any country's borders; and 3). indiscriminate killings of civilians by the thousands in a non-combatant nation is a "crime of war" and a "crime against humanity." ("Mr. Obama's Waterloo.") 

Drone killings can only be regarded as heinous violations of international law which have been brought to the attention of President Obama by young Miss "Malala," the Afghan nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and by Pakistan's Prime Minister during a recent White House visit. 

Targeting civilians to make a political point was the crime committed by the 9/11 terrorists. Suggesting that the killing of civilians is "permissible" ignores the basic premise of human rights laws and the UN Charter -- each person's rights to life, dignity, justice are precious and, I argue, deontological in nature. ("Zero Dark Thirty" and "Drawing Room Comedy: A Philosophical Essay in the Form of a Film Script.")

No person is a political football to be kicked down the field to serve the interests of powerful forces using people for their own purposes. 

A man or woman is not a "thing" to be "used" for purposes that are not his or her own by anyone. For this reason, also, men and women may not be tortured to obtain information valued by any state or other group:

" ... a new Amnesty International investigation that found, among other points, that at least 19 civilians in the surrounding area of North Waziristan had been killed in just two of the drone attacks since January, 2012 -- a time when the Obama administration has held that strikes have been increasingly accurate and free of mistakes." (emphasis added!)

A separate Human Rights Watch report on American drone strikes in Yemen echoes the findings and conclusions published with respect to Pakistan:

"While the strike rate has dropped drastically in recent months, the constant presence of circling drones -- and accompanying tension over when, or whom, they will strike -- is a crushing psychological burden for many persons."

I have lived with such terrorism for about twenty-six years. Today, a new Google sign-in sheet appeared when I signed-in at the NYPL, computer #02, Morningside Heights branch. I can never know whether I will be able to write from one day to the next, even as my work is plagiarized, censored, or destroyed. 

Threats, silence, continued violations of my rights to the truth about my life from New Jersey's legal authorities are meant to instill a sense of hopelessness and fear in me. I will remain hopeful, optimistic and I will continue to write. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")

America's use of terror as an instrument of foreign and/or domestic policy, even as we proclaim a war against terror, leads to absurdity. Contradictions between our statements and practices concerning human rights and torture, terrorism and opposition to indiscriminate killings of civilians undermines American credibility for many persons and countries whose cooperation is essential to winning the "war against terror." ("Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?" and "Legal Ethics Today" then "American Doctors and Torture.") 

An embargo is also an act of war. Starvation tactics are never properly used against countries with which we are at peace. ("Time to End the Embargo Against Cuba" and "American Hypocrisy and Luis Posada-Carriles" then "Cubanazos Protest Against Peace!")

" ... in a speech announcing changes to the drone program in May, Mr. Obama admitted that 'mistakes had been made.' Civilian deaths from drone strikes will haunt him, and others in the American chain of command, for as 'long as we live,' he said."

No pronouncements concerning legal ethics by a jurisdiction identified with corruption, theft from the public treasury, organized crime-controlled judges, child-porn and -prostitution together with hypocrisy about all of these things can be believed by Americans or the peoples of the world. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

Mr. Obama's assurances that innocent civilians were not killed by drones is contradicted by Amnesty International's report, which suggests near indifference to the "collateral" loss of life in Pakistan, and ... 

" ... examines 45 known strikes in North Waziristan between January, 2012 and August, 2013 [and] asserts that in several cases drones killed civilians INDISCRIMINATELY." (emphasis added!) 

"Indiscriminately" is the criteria under international law for what constitutes "Crimes Against Humanity." 

Is this how we will defeat terrorism and uphold human rights in the world, Mr. Obama? 

Slavery Today.

October 23, 2013 at 12:51 P.M. As set forth below, many young women are subjected to violation and enslavement, often through induced inebriation at restaurants or other locations where they are employed, as a mechanism of control, with disastrous consequences not least for those responsible for such heinous crimes. ("New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")

I have a tendency to refer to Jamie Dimon as "Jamie Dimond," perhaps as a way of recognizing that "diamonds are a guy's best friend." At least, diamonds and gold may be Mr. Dimon's best friends. ("America's Banana Republicans.")

October 22, 2013 at 2:04 P.M. Keys on this keyboard stick, making writing laborious and difficult, so that it may take longer to complete an essay. Evidently, this is due to sabotage at computer #12, NYPL, Morningside Heights. I will do my best to continue writing from public and private computers, moving from one to another, every day.  

Jane Gray, "Modern Slavery," Epoch Times, October 18-20, 2013, p. 1. (30 MILLION people around the world are enslaved; 60,000 people in the U.S. alone are slaves today; nearly all of these slaves are exploited, sexually and in other ways, quite a few are under the age of consent. New Jersey may lead the nation in the sexual enslavement of the very young and not only in the extent of political corruption throughout the legal as well as political systems. Perhaps such levels of filth are impossible without woefully failed legal and political institutions.)

Jeff Green, "Priest Accused of Groping a Boy Resigns His Ministry," The Record, May 13, 2013, p. A-1. (Rev. Michael Fugee, 52, after groping a boy in Wykoff more than ten years ago, faced additional charges in May. After pleading guilty to these charges recently, Mr. Fugee may face additional charges in October, 2013.)

On the very day these child sex charges were filed against more than one defendant, the person in New Jersey who headed the FBI's most wanted list is "Assata Shakur," a 65 year-old woman living (peacefully) in another country who is said to be "dangerous." 

Stephanie Akin, "A Reminder That a 1970s Cop Killer Remains a Threat," The Record, May 13, 2013, p. L-1. ($2 MILLION reward for Ms. Shakur who is a university professor and scholar at a think tank in Havana, Cuba. Ms. Shakur was never convicted in a court of law of killing anyone.)

John Petrik, "25 Years in Deaths of Two Women," The Record, May 13, 2013, p. L-1. (Donald Beach, 42, sentenced to 25 years for "sexual enslavement and murder" of two women. "New Jersey is Stronger Than the Storm.")

Nick Madigan, "Mob's Reach is On View in Florida Murder Trial," The New York Times, October 21, 2013, p. A12. (Two alleged mafia bosses -- with rumored ties to Marco Rubio and Iliana Ros-Leghtinen as well as VARIOUS Miami officials -- are on trial for criminal activity in South Florida. ANTHONY (BIG TONY) FERRARI and ANTHONY (LITTLE TONY) MOSCATIELLO do a "little of this, a little of that" and claim that Bob Menendez will vouch for them: "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?")

Here is the real organized crime in America:

Ben Protess & Jessica Silver-Greenberg,"U.S. Deal With JP Morgan Followed Crucial Call," The New York Times, October 21, 2013, p. A1. (Mr. Dimon's personal intervention may have led to the historic deal: $13 BILLION fine -- term of payment is not specified in news accounts -- for a bank that earned $90-100 BILLION last year. The various criminal charges will serve as a "hammer" that may come down, at any time, until the full fine is paid.)

Jessica Silver-Greenberg & Ben Protess, "Despite Legal Tempests, Dimon Appears Solid as Ever Atop JP Morgan," The New York Times, October 21, 2013, p. B1. ("Smooth Operator" Jamie Dimon -- who may be seen in the orchestra section at the MET Opera -- may have "orchestrated" the slickest deal of his career. Get your tickets for Werther early, Jamie. I'll see you at the Espresso line. I hope the tickets are not too expensive for you.)

Ben Protess & Jessica Silver-Greenberg, "Tentative Deal Hands JP Morgan Record Penalty: $13 Billion Settlement," The New York Times, October 20, 2013, p. A1. (Sale of questionable mortgages ALONE netted JP Morgan over $15 BILLION. No allegations of money laundering for cartels either at JP Morgan or HSBC or Barclays Bank will be the subject of any American criminal actions at this time.)

Do Wall Street banks and financial firms have anything to do with the international erotica/sex industry that generated $15-20 BILLION last year in earnings? Or with money laundering for cartels which, taken together, earned between $50-100 BILLION last year? Business is up! Or with financing arms sales to the Third World from the First World, i.e., in places like lovely downtown Damascus, Syria? No illustrious Wall Street banker or financier will go to prison in America for such transactions or activities? None of the lawyers serving these institutions will be disbarred (nor even arrested) for such activities? Quite a few of these lawyers reside in New Jersey. No, it seems that everything is hunky-dory for our Wall Street friends. ("Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics" then "New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit" and "New Jersey Lawyers' Ethics Farce.")

Christopher Maag, "Small Town, Big Challenge: $4 BILLION 'American Dream' Needs E. Rutherford Council's Report," October 15, 2013, p. A-1. (The biggest "mob deal" in New Jersey is the American Dream/Xanadu money pit which has already cost Garden State and federal taxpayers $5 BILLION for an incomplete shopping mall. Now an additional $800 MILLION bond is sought from the "chumps." YOU are the chumps. "Joe Ferreiro is Bergen's Godfather" and "Ferreiro Pleads Not Guilty.")

Joe Malinconico, "Workers' Comp Payments Will Exceed $600,000 [in Paterson]: Some No Longer in City's Employ," The Record, October 15, 2013, p. L-1. (Alleged "scams" from insiders in WC system in Paterson, mostly involving police, firefighters, and other town employees. No lawyers or judges are being investigated. Nydia Hernandez? Lilian Munoz? "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.") 

New Jersey has always had a slavery problem connected to the child-prostitution and organized crime-controlled sex industry. ("Marilyn Straus Was Right!" and "Diana's Friend Goes to Prison" then "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

Slavery has become a global problem. More than 60,000 persons in the United States of America are slaves or in situations that are "tantamount to slavery," usually with a sexual component, many of these persons are immigrants. ("New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry" then "New Jersey Rabbi Faces Child Sex Charges.")

Sex is a lucrative industry for the various mobs. "Legitimate" porn or erotica is a $10-15 BILLION per year industry in America, according to estimates by the federal government. Illicit or criminal porn, usually involving children or video-taped rapes and worse, may account for several billion more dollars worldwide:

"Adult trafficking victims are most commonly exploited for sex. In 2012, the UK's National Referral Mechanism, an organization that helps identify and support victims of trafficking, received referrals of 1,186 potential victims of trafficking. Out of 813 adult cases, 379 reported sexual exploitation, more than any [other] type of exploitation."

In New York city alone, 18,000 persons per year are trafficked for sex slavery, about 3,000 children are "trafficked" into the sex industry in the city. It is simply impossible to allow this evil to go unpunished. Again, most victims are women. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")

Places like Atlantic City, UNION CITY, and other parts of New Jersey seem to have "very cooperative officials" who are paid-off by the traffickers, allegedly. ("Bribery in Union City, New Jersey" and, again, "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" then "Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whore House?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry" then "Is Menendez For Sale?" )

There is no other way to explain why New Jersey continues to be such a "welcoming" place for child-prostitution and -abuse without cooperative officials, lawyers, judges, police and prosecutors. ("New Jersey Welcomes Child Molesters" and "New Jersey is the Home of Child Molesters.")

Is this an example of New Jersey's legal ethics, Mr. Rabner? ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!" then "Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest" and "Jennifer Velez is a Dyke Magnet!")

N.J.'s Ed Cheatam Gets 33 Months.

October 18, 2013 at 10:35 P.M. Hackers have interfered with the on-demand feature of my television service. I am sure that this is only a coincidence. ("John McGill, Esq., the OAE, and New Jersey Corruption.")

A bogus "N.J. Division of Consumer Affairs Final Order" has been posted on-line, also a false "Facebook" site has been created by persons affiliated with New Jersey government agencies, apparently. I am sure that this is also only a coincidence. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.") 

Steven Strunsky, "Democrats Say They'll Investigate if Politics Caused GWB Lane Closures," The Star Ledger, October 3, 2013, p. 13. (PA closes a lane in GWB bridge to inconvenience Fort Lee Democrats, probably on behalf of Christie.)

Dan Ivers, "Ex-Cop Gets 5 Years in Sex Crime Deal," The Star Ledger, October 3, 2013, p. 17. (Steve Vigorito gets another 5 years. "Why is it O.K. for Bob Menendez to date little girls?" Mr. Vigorito is alleged to have asked. "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")

Jason Grant, "Ex-Official in 'Bid Rig' Bust Gets 33 Months: Cheatam Implicated 10 Others in Sweep," The Star Ledger, October 8, 2013, p. 17. (Edward Cheatam ADMITS taking $70,000 in Solomon Dwek-related 'Bid Rig' scams that implicated the likes of Stuart Rabner and multiple N.J. public officials, all Demorats.)

Tom Hayden, "Ex-Worker Admits Scamming Union County Out of $200,000," The Star Ledger, October 8, 2013, p. 17. (Neil Palmieri, who earned $112,000 per year as a Union County official admits that he stole $200,000 from the taxpayers. These officials were all Democrats.)

Ted Sherman & Josh Margolin, The Jersey Sting: Chris Christie and the Most Brazen Case of Jersey Style Corruption Ever (New York: St. Martin's, 2011).

AP, "High Court Rejects James' Appeal," The Star Ledger, October 8, 2013, p. 21. (Sharpe James, charged with $3,000 in "questionable" expenses is convicted criminally, whereas Joe Di Vincenzo scams hundreds of thousands of dollars from a padded election campaign account and will not face criminal charges. New Jersey's Supreme Court, featuring Solomon Dwek croney Stuart Rabner, does not wish to hear Mr. James' appeal. Jaynee LaVecchia, who is rumored to be "affiliated" with the Lucchese crime family, has not explained the disappearing $300 MILLION in the HIP scam. No conflict of interest in the HIP matter for Jaynee? "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

"A former Jersey City housing commissioner and education official who admitted taking $70,000 in bribes from Solomon Dwek, the government informant at the heart of 2009's massive 'Operation Bid Rig III' corruption sting, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 33 months in prison, according to court records and his lawyer."

The federal judge imposing this sentence is Jose Linares. ("JoeD Doesn't Know From Nothing" and "JoeyD Knows How to Eat!")

Edward Cheatam was part of the biggest corruption sting in N.J. orchestrated by Christopher Christie as U.S. Attorney, long before Christie himself became an allegedly corrupt official, that involved colorful characters (like Solomon Dwek) and nearly every prominent member of N.J.'s Orthodox Jewish community in the state's legal and political world. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "46 Persons Arrested in New Jersey Corruption Scandal.")

The role played by Terry ("The Jewish Mengele") Tuchin of Ridgewood, New Jersey in the Dwek matter is not known. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

Mr. Cheatam implicated 10 others, important and well known Hudson County officials such as L. Harvey Smith, former Hoboken Mayor Peter Camarano, former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell. ("Herbert Klitzner, Esq.'s Greed and N.J.'s Hypocrisy.")

Many others were allegedly aware of what was going on, but were not named or indicted: "Big Nicky" Sacco and Bob Menendez among others were at least "aware" of Mr. Dwek's efforts and may well have expected to, as it were, "wet their beaks."

N.J.'s Chief Justice Stuart Rabner is alleged to have been offered -- and to have accepted -- a cash-in-an-envelope "consultation fee" from Mr. Dwek. Was the consultation concerned with ethics matters, Mr. Rabner? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")

The Dwek fiasco was a revelation or crystalization of politics in N.J. as a system of pay-offs, mutual favors, avoidance of ethics rules and criminal laws, but mostly HYPOCRISY where everyone is utterly cynical about the rules and what may be said, publicly, as opposed to done, privately:

"Known as the largest corruption sweep in the history of New Jersey, the FBI investigation started as a dig into money laundering in the Orthodox Jewish community before growing to focus on political corruption. Eventually, several mayors and a raft of other lawmakers were convicted of crimes." ("New Jersey Rabbi Faces Child Porn Charges.")

As usual in New Jersey, many more persons should have been charged and convicted for these and many other scams, including a number of lawyers serving on the disgraced and discredited ethics committee of the N.J. bar association:

"Cheatam admitted funneling $15,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign of Jersey City's Democratic Mayor Jeremiah T. Healy."

Mr. Healy was recently photographed sitting naked and reading a newspaper on the porch of his home. He is a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and member of the Hudson County ethics committee:

"Only one defendant's case is still pending in Bid Rig III prosecutions: Lavern Webb-Washington, a former unsuccessful candidate for Jersey City's council, who faces wire and mail fraud charges tied to campaign contribution reporting [-- or failures to report.] One defendant is still on the lam, and another died after charges were brought."

It is alleged that his death was due to natural causes after the prospective witness was shot several times. ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")

Have public officials and the legal establishment learned any lessons from these convictions? No, it is still lies, hypocrisy, cover-ups and theft in New Jersey's politics and courts: 

"Through the scheme with Frank Vincendere, owner of Viva Group, [mob front?] Palmieri received kickbacks in cash, $1,000 gift cards to Lowe's and Sam's Club, a $2,000 kitchen range and a $3,000 bowflex fitness mahine ... $25,800 [in cash] were seized from the [Union County official's home.]"

Do you speak to me of "ethics" in New Jersey? 

Joe Di Vincenzo Didn't Know From Nothing!

October 18, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. The "mouse" (browser) was disabled at computer #05, NYPL, Morningside Heights. I will continue to write. ("Serendipity, III.")

October 17, 2013 at 9:11 P.M. Pop-ups and threats to prevent me from signing-in at my home laptop are nothing new. I will continue to struggle to write from multiple public and private computers. 

October 17, 2013 at 2:25 P.M. The recent government shut-down has cost America $24 BILLION. I hope Mr. Boehner is confident that this "effort" was worthwhile because very few others seem to agree with him. ("America's Banana Republicans.")

Kathleen Lynne, "Merck Jobs Reflect Rough Times For N.J. Drug Makers: 8,500 Lay Offs Latest Loss for Sagging Industry," The Record, October 2, 2013, p. A-1. (Corruption continues to be one of the reasons given by employers for leaving the state. Several more thousand jobs have departed New Jersey's cranberry fields since this announcement.)

Salvador Rizzo, "Retired Judges Stepping in to Advise On Court Standoff," The Record, October 2, 2013, p. A-3. (Gallipoli and Wefing will guarantee judicial independence even though these were not the most inspiring judges in Hudson County: "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "James T. Zazzali and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey." Judge Wefing was frequently described as "brain dead.")

Kibret Marcos, "$700K to Settle School Bias Suit: Driver Molested Disabled Girl in '07," The Record, October 2, 2013, p. L-1. (N.J. continues to lead the nation in child-molestation and -exploitation, including child-porn distributed throughout the country and world: "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes" then "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry" and "Is Menendez For Sale?")

John Brennan, "En Cap Chief Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud: Accepts Deal in Case Unrelated to Golf Plan," The Record, October 2, 2013, p. L-3. (William Gauger, of En Cap Golf, faces 6 months in prison for a shakedown scheme that allegedly involved N.J. public officials, named and un-named, receiving $900,000 or more in "success" fees as well as other alleged perks. Children made available for sex, perhaps? "Joe Ferreiro is Bergen's Godfather" and "Joe Ferreiro Indicted Again" then "Ferreiro Pleads Not Guilty.")

Matt Friedman, "Essex Exec. Charged With Illegal Use of Election Fund: Personal Spending, Lack of Disclosure Questioned," The Star Ledger, October 3, 2013, p. A1. ("JoeyD Knows How to Eat!")

"The state's election watchdog yesterday charged Essex County Executive JOSEPH DI VINCENZO -- one of New Jersey's most powerful Democrats and a crucial ally of Republican Gov. Chris Christie -- with misusing more than $16,000 in campaign funds and failing to disclose nearly $72,000 in campaign spending over a two-year period." ("Joe Ferreiro is Bergen's Godfather.")

Mr. Di Vincenzo is a trusted advisor to BARBARA BUONO, the Democratic candidate for governor and a fellow political "family" member. ("Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics" and "Celeste Carpiano Likes Da Shore" then, again, "JoeD Knows How to Eat!" and "Diana's Friend Goes to Prison.")

Mr. Di Vincenzo has been "linked to" prominent members of the judiciary, like Maurice J. Gallipoli. ("New Jersey Lawyers' Ethics Farce" and "New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")

The Essex County "boss" has been seen in alleged surveillance tapes with the likes of Richard J. Codey and Jose Linares. In fact, Mr. Linares -- now a federal District Court Judge -- introduced me to "JoeD" on a memorable occasion. ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "New Jersey is Lucky Luciano's Havana" then "Marilyn Straus Was Right!")

I am sure Jose Linares remembers Marilyn Straus. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

"Di Vincenzo faces big potential fines if he is found to have used his campaign kitty to pay for sporting events, a tuxedo" -- perhaps he had a funeral to go to? Opera night? -- "parking tickets and other personal expenses, the state Election Law Enforcement Commission said." ("More Mafia Arrests in New Jersey and Anne Milgram is Clueless" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

Perhaps "JoeD" was able to host Ralph -- "Little Ralphie Boy" -- Lamparello, Esq., current N.J. Bar Association President and former member of the ethics committee that went after me at the request of Bobby Menendez, allegedly. Mr. Lamparello is now the subject of an FBI investigation, also allegedly. ("Cement is Gold" and "Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whore House?") 

Mr. Lamparello has been called a "bag man" for the Hudson County Democrats. ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")

"In a 13-count complaint, the Commission accused Di Vincezo of illegally spending at least $16,548." ("Herbert Klitzner, Esq.'s Greed and New Jersey's Hypocrisy" then "Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "North Bergen, New Jersey is the Home of La Cosa Nostra.")

Some of this campaign money may have been "shared," allegedly, with members of the judiciary and/or political officials. ("Jim Florio and the Mafia in Atlantic City" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")

In fact, 614 campaign expenditures -- many of a highly personal nature (Larry Flynt says "Thank You," Joe!) -- totalling $71,810 from 2010 to 2012 were not disclosed. Evidently, Mr. Di Vincenzo enjoys fine dining experiences at YOUR expense. ("Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics.")

The fine for each of these disclosures is $6,800. Mr. Di Vincenzo is rumored to have puffed a fine Cuban cigar (given to him by Mr. Linares, perhaps?) and answered concerned friends with assurances that "somebody" is taking care of things for him, like Mr. Russo in Hunterton County. ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "New Jersey Supreme Court's Implosion.")

Mr. Di Vincenzo and Mr. Lamparello have been mentioned as candidates for the state's legal ethics committee. I welcome the comparison of my ethics with the so-called "ethics" of such distinguished New Jersey lawyers. ("New Jersey's Disgraced Judiciary" and "New Jersey's Soiled Judges" then, again, "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")

"In January, 2012 The Star Ledger [sic.] reported that since 2011, Di Vincenzo racked-up about $250,000 in charges to his personal credit-cards, then paid the bill with his campaign account without disclosing what the money was spent on." 

Where's the OAE? ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")

N.J. Sheriff Escapes Punishment.

October 16, 2013 at 2:10 P.M. As of this writing it is uncertain whether the U.S. Senate's plan to forestall a further catastrophe will be approved by the House of Representatives. One can only hope and expect that, given the loss of 160 million dollars per day for the national economy resulting from this "shut-down," cooler and wiser voices will prevail among Republicans: 20% of America's economic recovery is gone because of this self-inflicted wound. 

Many nations in the world are wondering whether America is determined to commit suicide. Me too. A move is being planned to change the base currency in the world because, as China's news agency expressed it, we seem incapable of getting our "economic house in order." 

We will see where things are five years from now. New Jersey has become symbolic of national corruption, incompetence, failure and apathy. This is true not only for me, but for many observers in the world. 

Please deal with this problem, Mr. Rabner and Mr. Christie. 

Michael Powell, "The Quashing of a Case Against a Christie Ally," The New York Times, October 11, 2013, p. A1.

Eric Schmidt, "C.I.A. Noted Its Suspicions Over Snowden: Red Flags Overlooked 4 Years Before Leaks," The New York Times, October 11, 2013, p. A1. ("What did you know, Mr. Rabner, and when did you know it?")

Stephen Jacino, "Ex-Mayor Sentenced to 28 Years in Corruption Case That Helped Detroit Go Broke," The New York Times, October 11, 2013, p. A12. ("I should've gone to Jersey!" the former mayor said.)

The latest corruption and cronyism scandal in New Jersey is helpful in explaining to readers exactly what is wrong -- and demonstrated to be wrong in the hundreds of essays in these blogs -- with the state's pervasive legal farce. ("New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit" and "Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics" then "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

It is not simply thefts in the millions of dollars, gross incompetence, officials lying about disastrous failures, cover-ups, obstruction of justice, tainted police departments, mutual back-scratching among police and prosecutors involved in organized crime, but disparities throughout the system that are only explicable on the basis of the proverbial thumbs on the scales of justice. ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "Cement is Gold.")

The legal system is used by "bosses" of various kinds to enhance personal power and destroy enemies, often by facilitating the commission of crimes. The distinction between those wielding illicit power, as crime bosses corrupting officials, and the legal decisions of judges and officials in the state, ostensibly on the merits, is being lost, so that everything (including the few things, if any, that aren't dirty) looks dirty because so many things ARE dirty. ("You Gotta Pay to Play!")

The rottenness in New Jersey has contaminated just about every aspect of the state's legal system and many uses of police power. In fact, persons entrusted with "policing" themselves or the system may be the most corrupt players in the legal game:

"FLEMINGTON, N.J. -- Prosecutors sent tremors through rural Hunterton County when they announced a sweeping indictment of the Republican sheriff and her two deputies in 2010."

Now it is Mr. Christie, allegedly, providing assistance to dirty cops and prosecutors (or judges) who happen to be his political loyalists. Similar conduct, however, may be attributed to others -- conduct that was the subject of irate responses from Mr. Christie when he was U.S. Attorney in New Jersey and the culprits happened to be Democrats! -- violating legal ethics rules and statutory law to "assist" or secretly target persons based on their political affiliations or because of a lack of loyalty to the "boss." By the term "boss" I do not mean Bruce Springsteen. ("Let's see what Buono has under her fingernails!" Christie is alleged to have said.)

Is it likely that Mr. Christie would take such tactics to Washington, D.C. if he were elected to national office? You decide. 

After Rand Paul's obvious affiliation this week with the shut-down proponents, it seems that Republicans have shot themselves not in the foot, but in the head before the next presidential election. 

It certainly seems clear that Mr. Menendez has done exactly such dirty "things" (a little of this and a little of that usually with underage girls!) as U.S. Senator. It may be absurd to expect anything different from New Jersey's politicians regardless of their party loyalties. This includes politicians like Mr. Booker, Mr. Codey, or Middlesex County's own Steven Sweeney. ("Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes" and "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" then "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")

"The 43 count indictment read like a primer in smalltown abuse of power. It accused Sheriff Deborah Trout of hiring deputies without conducting proper background checks, and making employees sign loyalty oaths. Her deputies, the indictment charged, threatened one of their critics and manufactured fake police badges for a prominent donor of Gov. Chris Christie." ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" and "Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?") 

New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) seems to have a similar double-standard when it comes to the criminal actions of its own attorneys: for instance, being complicit in the commission of crimes like theft, rape, false imprisonment, criminal violations of civil rights, tampering with witnesses, falsifying evidence, and much worse. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "Sexual Favors For New Jersey Judges" then "John McGill, Esq., the OAE, and New Jersey Corruption" and "New Jersey Lawyers' Ethics Farce.")

This Hunterton incident conceals as much as it  reveals of realities in the reign of "Christopher the First." Is Governor Christie a bloody tyrant or friend of the people? You'll decide in November. Thus far, it seems, that Christie is no different from McGreevey or Corzine in terms of ego and cronyism. ("Christie Rails Against New Jersey's Corrupt Judges" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")

Christie is not unusual in having "friends" among cops and sheriff's officials (also journalists?) as well as prosecutors who will do "favors" (go after somebody he does not like or cover-up for someone he does like) for political reasons or a reward, both are usually bestowed behind the scenes. 

The OAE, again, will ignore misconduct (or even crimes) by its people doing dirty work for powerful politicians or judges, or will target radical lawyers and other so-called "outsiders" to the club in Trenton. 

The goal of these methods is to intimidate people into "playing ball" with the bosses sitting at the top of the power-structure -- which makes me feel sorry for those on whom Mr. Christie is, as it were, "sitting." There is no "h" in that last word of the previous sentence -- not yet, anyway. 

"Undersheriff Michael Russo" and others, for example, assured friends that Mr. Christie would "take care of things" for him as well as all others in this conspiracy. Mr. Russo was right: 

"On the day the indictment was unsealed, the state attorney general, a Christie appointee, [Paula Dow,] took over the Hunterton prosecutor's office. Within a few months, three of its most respected veterans lost their jobs there, including one who led the case [against the Christie loyalists.]"

It seems obvious that state prosecutors acted unethically (the OAE does not care), and that Paula Dow (who is now a Superior Court Judge and still a Christie soldier) was Mr. Christie's "garbage removal person" in this operation. 

Does this behavior by Ms. Dow comport with the canons of judicial ethics? ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest!") 

Some culprits were PROTECTED, crimes were COVERED-UP, there was blatant OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE as files were removed, then (secretly) shipped-off to undisclosed locations in Trenton. 

Much the same has occurred in my matters. Mr. Rabner has chosen in every instance to look the other way -- as have other concerned police and judicial officials -- perhaps in exchange for a promised reward of some kind at some point "down the road." ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!" then "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Is Menendez For Sale?")

The OAE, New Jersey's judiciary and legal profession is, once again, sitting on a pile of legal excrement:

"There is no [direct] evidence that Mr. Christie ordered the dismissal of the charges against Sheriff Trout. [Who else would have done so?] But his Attorney General, PAULA T. DOW, who had served as his counsel at the U.S. Attorney's office, supervised the quashing of the indictment and the ouster of the respected prosecutors."

Do you speak to me of ethics in New Jersey's soiled legal profession?    

Dialectics, Entanglement, and Special Relativity.

October 13, 2013 at 7:38 P.M. My home Internet connection was blocked. Computer crime has made accessing these blogs difficult. I will attempt to post a new essay from multiple computers during the week. ("How censorship works in America" and "More Censorship and Cybercrime.")

October 8, 2013 at 3:34 P.M. Disruptions and distractions at NYPL, #2, Morningside Heights, have made writing difficult. Perhaps the altercation involving several library patrons was intended for me? 

I will continue writing this essay from multiple computers. I hope to add a final section and list of sources to this work if I am able to regain access to my blogs.

David Z. Albert & Rivka Galchen, "A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity," Scientific American, August 12, 2013, p. 94.

Dennis Overbye, "Einstein and the Black Hole," The New York Times, August 13, 2013, p. D1.

A list of sources mentioned or alluded to in the essay appearing below will be attached at the conclusion of the text.

I.

Entanglement relations emerging in quantum physics have heightened the paradox or "problem of reconciliation" with Einstein's Special Relativity in contemporary science. 

Discussion of this important issue in a recent New York Times article by "Dennis Overbye" (Jennifer Shuessler?) is confused and filled with factual and scientific errors that, I am sure, will become clear during the following analysis. 

I can neither explain nor understand why this person or persons, "Mr. Overbye" -- who is clearly not a scientist nor philosophically adept -- is entrusted with the discussion and analysis of these matters in America's newspaper of record. It may be that more than one person is responsible for this latest disaster in America's newspaper of record. 

To mention only three errors, among many others, that render Mr. Overbye's discussion of limited value: 1). It is misleading or inaccurate to regard the Higgs field boson as the source of matter "for other particles" as opposed to the source of all matter in the universe; 2). to speak of "falling into a black hole" and then of what would happen when one "reaches the bottom" is, as it were, to "throw contemporary science under a bus" because these are the very spacial metaphors (derived from classical physics) which must be transcended in current efforts to fathom the complexities and beauties of the universe revealed by post-quantum physics as well as cosmology after Hawking's work on black holes: Mr. Overbye speaks of a man falling into a black hole as feeling "weightless then and all the way until he hit the bottom." (p. D2.) 

There may be no "bottom" to hit, Mr. Overbye. A black hole may be "infinite" or "open on to" another place in time/space. A black hole is not necessarily the same thing as a wormhole. Incidentally, Mr. Overbye, entanglement relations are not limited to black hole physics. More fruitful areas for such research in recent years have had little to do with distant galaxies or exploding stars. 

3). Finally, to speak of particle A apart from particle B is to lapse into the "error of particularity," atomism, or locality in analyzing entities whose essence is non-locality. There is no particle A as opposed to, or distinctly and independently from, particle B, let alone particle C. No "illegal marriages" between particles are contemplated, Mr. Overbye. Rather, there are dynamic and fluctuating entanglements (a dialectic) between/among particles that simply "are" entanglements/interactions which must be (and are) mutually constitutive. Hence, the following observations by Mr. Overbye are not only mistaken, they are absurd:

"But quantum theory forbids promiscuous entanglements. In the language of quantum information, Alice, [particle A] can marry either Bob, [particle B] or Ted, [particle C] but not both, even if the second marriage happens inside the black hole where most of us can't see it." (p. D2.) ("What is Enlightenment?" and "Derek Parfit's Ethics.")

The point to entanglement, again, is that there are no "separate" and distinct particle-partners comprehensible apart from their interactions. There is no Alice, Bob, or Ted, but only a complex set of entanglements creating possibilities inclusive of the relevant particle-pairs, constituting a larger entity, even forming networks of entanglements. Entanglement has been defined as "identity in a rule" or dialectic. (See Professor Loughlin's A Different Universe.)

In comprehending these structures theorists have found the writings of physicists such as David Bohm and his "hidden variable" theory suggestive, but also the writings of philosophers and logicians have provided useful metaphors for dialectics/entanglements, such as the "fusion of horizons" between entities defined by dynamic orientations that are mutually-constitutive for all partners-in-relation. It is a profound error to formulate the issues as Mr. Overbye does in this article:

"Quantum entanglement, also known as a spooky action at a distance, in which particles separated by light years can still instantaneously appear to remain connected." (p. D2, emphasis added.)

The connection is not merely "apparent"; it is quite real. Quantum "weirdness" is a feature of reality, not merely of our theories and descriptions of reality. 

The debate between Einstein and Bohr and John Bell focuses on the completeness of our understanding of quantum phenomena in alignment with what we know of classical physics or reality. 

The most difficult term in this discussion is "reality" since the epistemological and metaphysical implications of quantum theory have not been lost on philosophers, notably Christopher Norris and Tim Maudlin, concerned to establish the boundaries between knowledge and the object of knowledge in a universe that challenges the very notion of "boundaries." 

Today the search is for a new interpretation of data and ideas that will allow science to incorporate the truth discovered by investigators on either side of this controversy. This is a hermeneutic project in which terms essential to philosophical analysis (understanding/interpretation) are basic tools of research and conversation. Please see Juan Galis-Menendez, Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Freedom (North Carolina: Lulu, 2004). (Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please see: "How censorship works in America.")

All of the traditional metaphysical issues concerning "Appearance" and "Reality" are restored to the agenda of intellectuals in the twenty-first century making the writings of thinkers from Kant and Hegel to Derrida suggestive and, fascinatingly, also resulting in frequent paraphrasing of philosophical texts by scientists unaware that they are quoting philosophers in their most up-to-date works. ("Jacques Derrida's Philosophy as Jazz" and "John Searle and David Chalmers on Consciousness.")

The now empirically established entanglement relation at the sub-atomic level was predicted -- even described -- a priori, mathematically, long before the existence of the supercollider in Berne, Switzerland. 

Much contemporary particle physics has strengthened the foundations of rationalism (epistemology) and forms of idealism (metaphysics/ontology) as well as constructivism making mathematical realism (Platonism) attractive to scientists such as Roger Penrose. (Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, pp. 540-541, and entirety.)

Readers with a humanistic interest in these issues of entanglement may wish to turn for suggestive analogies to the writings of Christopher Peacocke and Roy Bashkar, as well as Christopher Norris and Timothy Maudlin -- as I have suggested -- not only to scientists Stephen Hawking's and John Wheeler's works, but also crucial, again, are the writings of hermeneutic thinkers in Continental theory, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricouer are especially important in this tradition. In American philosophy the works of the so-called "Pittsburgh School" are recommended, especially John McDowell's and  Robert Brandom's writings: 

"Now I have argued against indexicalism (ego-present centrism) and punctualism for non-anthropocentric and distanced concepts of space-time and against blockism and closure for an unactualized and open future. But in what sense are past, present and future real? The 'or a' or some past is real as existentially intransitively determined and determinate (or fixed in its indeterminacy), whether it is knowable or not. The/a/some present (which is an indeterminately extendable boundary state) is real at the moment (or, within the moment, the node) of happening. The/a/some future is real as (generally, increasingly) shaped possibility of happening (and of coming to be determined). These are implicit in the descriptions under which we must act as embodied beings, even if it is only to effect or record a measure, and therefore presuppose a change in the system of material things upon which we must act -- for to act is to bring about a state of affairs which (unless it were overdetermined) would not otherwise have occurred." (R. Bashkar, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, p. 252.) ("A Review of the T.V. Show 'Alice.'") 

It may be useful, first, to look more closely at entanglement in quantum physics; I describe the tension (not necessarily a contradiction or paradox) between Entanglement and Einstein's "Special Relativity"; I then review some suggestions for possible resolutions -- or dissolutions -- of this dilemma of entanglement made possible by multidimensional accounts of space-and-time. I conclude with a brief comment on ideas emerging in Continental hermeneutic theory that may be applied to debates in mathematics, physics, perhaps biology, leading, someday, to a more unified physics. (See Mark Taylor's discussion of "strange loops" in my list of sources.)

II.

Underlying many of our intuitions and much of our thinking are common sense assumptions about the predictability and order of the universe or what we call "reality." 

Many of these common sense assumptions are, in fact, derived from Newtonian or classical physics and would seem strange to persons in the ancient world or to non-Westerners at any time in the way that traditional Chinese medicine's demonstrated efficacy (way beyond placebo effects) seems strange to Western scientists studying the phenomenon today.  

The principle of locality, for example, is associated with our understanding of cause-and-effect in Western metaphysics -- especially for the architects of the Enlightenment or Modernity, notably in the discussion that includes Hume and Kant as well as contemporary legal thought. ("Roberto Unger's Revolutionary Legal Theory.")

We can "affect" only objects we can touch (directly or indirectly) in classical theory. Accordingly, the world seems governed by the "principle of locality" in terms of the assessment of events and actions:

"If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect -- the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B." (Albert & Galchen, p. 94.)

The principle of locality is also affiliated with concepts of determination in empirical reality leading to the free will controversy in metaphysics and ethics. ("'The Adjustment Bureau': A Movie Review" and "'In Time': A Movie Review.")

Advocates of free will -- relying sometimes on developments in the hard sciences -- have been encouraged by the detection of entanglement relations among subatomic particles that "appear" to, and do in fact, violate the principle of locality. 

It is important to understand that quantum mechanics not only "allows for" but embraces action at a distance (what the medieval world called "magic") whereby two particles behave synchronously with no intermediary or visible shared connection. ("The Galatea Scenario and the Mind/Body Problem.")

"Two particles might spin in opposite ways, yet with neither one definitely spinning clockwise. Or exactly one of the particles might be exited, but neither is definitely the exited one."

"Serendipity, III" and "Metaphor is Mystery" are stories dramatizing these quantum realities, among other things.

"Entanglement may connect particles irrespective of where they are, what they are and what forces they may exert on another -- in principle, they could perfectly well be an electron and neutron on opposite sides of the galaxy." (Albert & Galchen, p. 96.)

Imagine that I am sitting at a dimly-lit and cozy restaurant. Directly across from me is Kate Winslet. We are leaning close to one another to gossip about Meryl Streep. According to classical physics, we are separable entities transmitting sound waves (even in a whisper) to one another. If we -- Kate and I -- happen to be entangled subatomic particles, however, Kate would blend into me and I would be connected to, or part of, her. It would no longer be meaningful to speak of separate or localized persons interacting, but more accurate to speak of one entity that is an entanglement-relation. This would remain true if Kate is in Hollywood and I am in New York. It follows that, in such a state of entanglement, when Kate's nose itches, I find myself scratching my nose and solving her problem. 

It is undisputed by all debaters that geographical or spacial distance is irrelevant to the entanglement relation in quantum mechanics. An open question, as we will see, is whether temporal distance -- or, indeed, the concept of distance, locality/non-locality -- needs to be revised in order to be made meaningful or aligned with shifting paradigms emerging not only in quantum physics, but also in the mathematics of manifolds and abstract objects useful to describe these realities of the micro-cosmos, as well as in the arts and philosophy. 

Interpreters of Special Realitivity and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen objection (EPR) argue from a reduction to absurdity that entanglement established by quantum mechanics "appears" to violate the speed limit of the universe by requiring particles to affect one another faster than the speed of light (186,000 miles-per-second), which is impossible. Hence, quantum mechanics principles may provide accurate predictions, Einstein says, but cannot be the full story. David Bohm suggests that we are missing the "hidden variable" that explains this apparent and actual contradiction. 

None of the scientists dispute the accuracy of quantum mechanics in describing these real effects, their debate focuses on possible explanations of these realities in light of our theories. For instance, John Bell's theorem demonstrates the instantaneous mutuality of effects in reality and not only in mathematical descriptions. 

New theories of the multidimensionality of time may resolve the dispute as particles may "pop" into and out of one universe in order to fuse together in another, only to reemerge in our reality. If scientists now believe that there is no such thing as empty space, then it "appears" that time possesses no "inherent" unidirectional "arrow" nor is it a single dimension. 

Understanding what may be involved in "instantaneously" affecting particle B when interacting with particle A may require no violation of the "speed limit" for the universe, but a new appreciation of the multidimensionality of time, leading to a new definition of "immediacy" allowing for incorporations of unanticipated complexities: To paraphrase Michio Kaku, we may speak not only of "hyperspace" but "hypertime." This suggestion allows for a return to the discussion of entanglement: 

"Thus, entanglement makes for a kind of intimacy amid matters previously undreamt of. ..." (Albert & Galchen, p. 96.) ("What you will ..." and "Conversation On a Train.")

III.

Brian Greene, string theorist at Columbia University, summarizes the lessons of this controversy:

"These [entanglements] are a magnificent affront to our conventional notions of space and time. Something that takes place long after and far away from something else nevertheless is vital to our description of that something else. By any classical -- commonsense -- reckoning, that's well, crazy. Of course, that's the point: classical reckoning is the wrong kind of reckoning to use in a quantum universe. We have learned from the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen discussion that quantum physics is not local in space. If you have fully absorbed that lesson -- a tough one to accept in its own right -- these experiments which involve a kind of entanglement across space-and-time, may not seem thoroughly outlandish. But by the standards of ordinary experience, they certainly are." (B. Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos, p. 199, "Time and the Quantum.") ("What is Memory?" and "Master and Commander.")

Professor Greene paraphrases Bishop Berkeley directly and knowingly. There are also weird (unconscious) paraphrases of Kant and Hegel found in his wonderful book:

"When they are not being observed or interacting with the environment, particle properties have a nebulous, fuzzy existence characterized solely by a probability that one or another potentiality might be realized. The most extreme of those who hold this opinion would go as far as declaring that, indeed, when no one and no thing is 'looking' at or interacting with the moon in any way, it is not there." (B. Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos, p. 121 emphasis added, see also, pp. 116-123.)

It is important to see that quantum entanglement alters our sense of what it means for something to exist "in" space-and-time: locality/non-locality is transformed with the alterations or greater complexity in our understanding of space-and-time. 

The analogies from quantum physics to developments in inter-personal psychology were obvious to psychoanalysts and philosophers, like R.D. Laing and Michel Foucault. It is possible for a best version of a person to emerge only in relation to validating emotional interactions with others as opposed to environments of dis-confirmation of identity and values. Reality has become a set of relationships among entities with overlapping boundaries. ("Drawing Room Comedy: A Philosophical Essay in the Form of a Film Script.") 

We are accustomed to thinking in terms of more stable and static realities, where clarity of thought or faithfulness to "reality" means being precise about the factual nuggets in our experience and abstract logical propositions. 

Reality, inconveniently, does not seem to have a "bottom line" or clear boundaries between facts and values, masculine and feminine, caucasians and non-caucasians, allegedly "superior" and "inferior" races of human beings. This observation seems to hold for the empirical world and our systems of meanings. 

We exist in (and may be) a seamless web of connections to others and our world which amounts to another definition of "love." ("Would Jesus be a Christian?" and "Cornel West On Universality" then "Carlos Fuentes and Multiculturalism" and "Is it rational to believe in God?") 

This does not mean that "it is all relative" nor that there is no "truth," for it would be impossible to articulate entanglement (or anything else) without concepts of accuracy to reality, subjectivity and objectivity, truth and falsehood. ("Hilary Putnam is Keeping It Real.")

We are required to think more carefully about these matters because the universe, inconveniently, is much more complex and our appreciation of that complexity must become more subtle, elegant and beautiful than it ever has been before. (Again: "Is it rational to believe in God?" and "John Finnis and Ethical Cognitivism.")

Not surprisingly, these developments in the hard sciences were anticipated by artists and philosophers during the twentieth century. From the "Surrealist Manifestos" to the hermeneutic turn in Western thought, humanists may be seen to paraphrase scientists even as scientists are now paraphrasing (even quoting) philosophers without realizing it. ("Stephen Hawking's Free Will is Determined" and "Stephen Hawking is Right On Time.")

Whenever such a phenomenon is detected, intellectuals in multiple fields articulating the same or similar ideas in different contexts, something very important is taking place. ("Jacques Derrida's Philosophy as Jazz.")

We are witnesses, I believe, to a major paradigm shift in Western civilization that seems to complete and move beyond the Kantian-Hegelian revolution that led to Einstein and quantum mechanics in our time. We are forced to reconsider our boundary-based, border-secure thinking in academia, politics, law, as well as the sciences. 

We are being liberated from limited or closed categories and into a world of open categories or interpretive freedom from "rigid" binary oppositions: normal/abnormal, sane/insane, here/there, now/then -- all of the bivalences of our existential situation are called into question: 

"To elucidate a quantum concept of time," David Deutsch writes, "let us imagine that we have sliced the multiverse into a heap of individual snapshots, just as we did with space-time, What can we use to glue them back together with? As before the laws of physics and the intrinsic, physical properties of the snapshots are the only acceptable glue. If time in the multiverse were a sequence of moments, it would have to be possible to identify all the snapshots of space at a given moment, so as to make them a super-moment. Not surprisingly, it turns out that there is no way of doing that: In the multiverse, snapshots do not have 'time stamps.' There is no such thing as which snapshot from another universe happens 'at the same moment' as a particular snapshot in our universe, for that would again imply an overarching framework of time, outside the multiverse, relative to which events in the multiverse happen. There is no such framework." (D. Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, p. 278. "Wrinkles" in space-time?)

The meaning of all of this is still undecided. Hans-Georg Gadamer's conclusion in Truth and Method that "all being that can be understood is being in language" -- where language is a social space(s) with multiple time-signatures (like a symphony) -- creates at least the possibility of "fusions of horizons" through this very understanding that transcends all borders and boundaries:

" ... What the actor plays and the spectator recognizes are the forms and the action itself, as they are intended by the poet. Thus we have a double mimesis: the writer represents and the actor represents. [And the audience represents?] But even this double mimesis is one: it is the same thing that comes into existence in each case. ..." (H.-G., Gadamer, Truth and Method, p. 103, p. 105.) ("'Inception': A Movie Review" and see William Shakespeare's "The Tempest.")

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2. Alain Badieu, Conditions (New York: Continuum, 2008). (Please see the chapter "What is Love?" and the excellent introduction.)

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