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It all started for me a couple years back with this crazy little book called Dr. Mary's Monkey. Crazy because people who read it seem to lose control of their fragile higher faculties –the kind of people that George Dubya Bush suggested need special attention: "You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time and those are the ones we wanna concentrate on." The author, Ed Haslam, must be taking this to heart. He wouldn't like it if I told you "don't buy this book!". But it's okay (he already doesn't like me for poking around his territory) and really, the book's a GAS. Slightly nauseating but trippy enough to upchuck a few wows. Ed says he spent fifteen years on his "research". wow.
And if you haven't read Dr. Mary's Monkey (or 'DMM' from here on) I've posted the basics at www.polioforever.wordpress.com/dr-marys-monkey/ . Some of the comments from people who have read the book emphasize how important they think it is, feelings that are, I'm certain, genuine. DMM is about injecting people (everybody!) with cancer.
…and if that's not enough to unnerve you, the people in New Orleans who knew about it also plotted to murder John Kennedy, or at least it looks that way. Lee Oswald –yup– Oswald was there, making injectable cancer in a secret lab at David Ferrie's place, destined for Fidel Castro's bloodstream and the end of Communist dictatorship in the Americas. Dr. Mary Sherman was (allegedly) supervising Ferrie's project until the end of her days which happened abruptly in July of 1964, the same day that the Warren Commission opened its New Orleans inquiry. Ed says Mary's murder is his original contribution to the larger JFK thing, something he first wrote about in 1995 with a self-published book that sold a thousand copies. Then another thousand copies and after that Ed needed to be a regular guy again and focus on making a living. He was doing that rather successfully in commercial promotion (managing an ad campaign for Chrysler and such) until Oswald's old girlfriend from 1963 turned herself in to CBS's 60 Minutes in 1999. Seems like she'd heard about Ed's first book and the secret cancer lab and thought maybe she could own up to participating in the lab work. At last, huh?, relief and recognition. It must be alright now, Ed's living. He says he was born to tell this story. Never argue about the fruition of one's congenital burden.
So… you probably guess (from my tone) that I don't like Ed. Actually, I love Ed. Later, I'll tell you all the things I love about Ed –but for starters, it got me going on the JFK assassination. Ed provided a shortcut with DMM that slices through to the grander motivations of JFK's murder by simply following up on things not said and contrasting them with his claims. And there was a lot of "Ed" besides the book to choose from –one of the especially endearing aspects being the verbal record. Audio excerpts are part of the review on the polioforever link above, so I'll skip most of it here and get on with my alternative JFK/DMM scenario.
According to biographer Richard Reeves, Kennedy was always concerned about distinguishing his administration's inherited problems from those self-inflicted. Whoever followed Eisenhower was destined to be the unprecedented de facto nuclear brinksman. Some time after the Cuban Missile Crisis [Oct.1962] Kennedy said to the press, "I am haunted by the feeling that by 1970, unless we are successful [at negotiating a nuclear treaty], there may be ten nuclear powers instead of four, and by 1975, fifteen or twenty… I see the possibility in the 1970s of the President of the United States having to face a world in which fifteen or twenty or twenty-five nations may have these weapons. I regard that as the greatest possible danger…" [p477, President Kennedy, Profile of Power, R.Reeves]
A year earlier, in September of '61, after the Soviets had disregarded a voluntary moratorium and detonated the largest ground-based 'atmospheric' nuke ever designed "in meetings with scientists, he asked..about radioactive fallout. 'Where would we be if testing had continued at the 1958 rate?' he asked Dr. Charles Dunham, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine. 'Civilized man would have been in trouble,' Dunham said. 'How does the radioactive fallout get to the earth?' he asked his science advisor, Jerome Wiesner. 'The clouds are washed out by rain,' answered Wiesner. Kennedy looked out..into the garden. It was a rainy day and he asked: 'You mean it's in the rain out there?' 'Yes' Wiesner said… Kennedy did not speak for a long time." [pp226-227]…"Nevertheless, Kennedy had initiated and was presiding over one of the greatest military build-ups of all time… In 1961, he had explicitly challenged the Soviets into an escalating arms race, doubling the production of Polaris missile submarines…[and] signing off on one thousand new U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles, each one with a charge eighty times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima.." [pp230-231] Domestically, Kennedy expected Civil Defense to prepare U.S. citizens for retaliation. "In letters to the governors of the fifty states, Kennedy wrote: 'In simple terms, the goal is to reach for fallout protection for every American as rapidly as possible." [p233] …"He thought that nuclear proliferation was the greatest single problem of the world in the 1960s…" [p311]
"The United States had approximately five thousand deliverable nuclear weapons [c.1962]. U.S. intelligence estimated that the Soviets had three hundred deliverable weapons" [p375]…and Reeves' footnote on page 376 states "As U.S. and Soviet records were released over the years…General Dimitri Volkogonov said the number of Soviet ICBMs aimed at the United States in late 1962 was actually only twenty…[and] Sergei Khrushchev, son of the late premier, also stated there were warheads on the island [of Cuba] during the 1962 crisis –a claim U.S. intelligence never could verify because aerial photography never clearly revealed storage bunkers."
Does it raise an eyebrow on you to think that with Cuba's history and intimacy with Americans as a Caribbean neighbor, all that U.S. intelligence had to go on were sketchy aerial photographs? Americans continued coming and going from Cuba after Castro's coup, in fact, medical teams came several times during 1962 to administer polio vaccines, starting in February. The Cubans were getting medical help from the U.S. at the time to build up state-of-the-art infectious disease facilities. Ed Haslam's followers might think that this is beginning to sound a bit familiar; government infectious disease labs, polio vaccines, particle accelerators and Mary Sherman's connections to U Chicago and the Manhattan Project. The "self-evident" cause of polio and the dedicated theme of the polioforever blog is that the disease is a consequence of nuclear radiation. I passed the self-evident stage on those facts long before I read Dr. Mary's Monkey. The professional medical characters in the book would have known it too, including Navy Commander Ed Haslam Sr. who ran the polio hospital in New Orleans.
NUCLEAR TRAFFICK –is that what Ed Haslam/DMM is trying to bury? And what about the Cuban Missile Crisis? Did the politicians on the Hill know that sending polio vaccines to Cuba might be a signal of a nuclear operation in progress? –or were they getting psyched, and by whom?
There are other reasons for a book like DMM to exist besides Haslam's favorite –making an Oliver Stone-type Hollywood movie– and two of them 'sing' to me: 1) flushing out Oswald's girl, Judyth Vary Baker, and bringing her existence under control and 2) perpetuating the medical frauds that support the disease continuum.
Reality is that just about everything from the Cold War era that carries over to our time is obsolete. The big Strangelove bombs of yesteryear –gone. Polio vaccines –unnecessary. In fact, polioviruses should have mutated out of existence. Today, the circulating polioviruses are all vaccine-derived with a possible exception of a new "wild" poliovirus on the border of Pakistan and China (to be explained). And even our ideas of the cancer-causing monkey virus (SV40) in the polio vaccines –obsolete! What we all need to know about Simian Virus 40 is that it functions as a DNA "switch" and cargo-carrier for foreign genes. Its known property as a potential off-switch for natural cellular tumor suppression is a problem of the past. The one question left to have answered is if the scientists who grew the polio vaccine viruses on monkey tissue before the distribution of Salk and Sabin vaccines knew of the transgenic value of SV40. Then, of course, one can ask if Kennedy knew about any of this….
Pellets in your pockets; CIA diverting plutonium to foreign countries– read more: https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/jfk-file-signs-of-traffick/
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION started as an unregulated business of medicine with X-ray machines and radium, from the introduction of efficient x-rays in 1895 and the precipitation of radium by the Curies from 1898-1903. X-ray machines served as prototypes for the next generation technology of particle accelerators, widely introduced in the 1920s. Before the existence of nuclear reactors, particle accelerators were capable of transforming stable minerals into radioactive isotopes. A specialized design of particle accelerator created by Ernest Lawrence called the 'cyclotron' (developed 1928-1931), for example, was used to make the first plutonium, later to become the bomb-fuel of choice as warheads were miniturized and concentrated. Any large particle accelerator of sufficiently high voltage can make bomb fuel. Between 1947 and 1950, Lawrence engineered the building of a giant linear accelerator (called a linac) near San Francisco, in Livermore, dubbed the Materials Testing Accelerator (MTA) for the express purpose of making plutonium and the hydrogen isotope tritium for thermonuclear weapons, demonstrating the capability of particle accelerators. At the center of the action in Haslam's story is a secretly-built particle accelerator that was hidden in a government-run Infectious Disease Laboratory near downtown New Orleans. The infectious disease lab 'front' is one that's been used before –the Nazis hid their nuclear reactor project in a "Virus House" too– and not because it's a disguise, but because it's a natural fit and had been going on in hospital and research labs for decades.
The alternative JFK/DMM conspiracy theory accepts the premise of the of the New Orleans particle accelerator. Its existence satisfies a huge body of evidence related to the JFK assassination that would otherwise ramble homeless over the historical landscape, as it seems to have done these many long years. And appropriately crazy enough is that Ed Haslam offers no credible proof that the accelerator was even plausibly there. Ain't it rich? Haslam trots out the anonymous witnesses, Misters "X", "Y", and "Z" ("X" didn't know anything except what he heard as a rumor from "Y", and "Z" didn't know either Mr."X" or Mr."Y"). So the first thing a critic would say is, "Ed! That's no proof of a particle accelerator in New Orleans!". uh-huh. Exactly. No proof at all.
But, the presence of a New Orleans accelerator is so predictable, logical, and perfectly patterned that an historian of America's nuclear technology would demand to know why there wasn't one if such were the case. Hence, perhaps the secrecy, the real secrecy, that draws us into the mystery of 1963 New Orleans.
NELSON ROCKEFELLER was the man Kennedy expected to be running against in the 1964 presidential campaign. Privately, he was having Rockefeller and the family's foundation investigated. It's likely that the Kennedy men learned what Ernest Lawrence knew: "if it hadn't been for the Rockefeller Foundation, there would have been no atomic bomb." [p219, The Molecular Vision of Life, by Lily E. Kay https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/molecular-vision-rockefeller-science/] They would have learned that the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (RIMR) had an iron grip on polio research from its inception in 1901. They would have known all about Rockefeller's role as the acting head of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953 when the Salk vaccine field trials were authorized. Of course, they would have known about the Quantico sessions in 1955 when Rockefeller sponsored his 'brain trust' to design an offer on arms limitations that the Soviets would never accept, provoking an escalation that came to be called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). Rockefeller was Special Chief of Psychological Operations then. At the same time, in the 1950s, "Rockefeller took it as his mission to breathe new life into the moribund Atoms for Peace initiative. In that regard, it certainly did not hurt that he had a long-standing relationship with [Lewis] Strauss, who as a Kuhn, Loeb partner, had been one of the Rockefeller brothers' financial advisers.." http://polioforever.wordpress.com/nelson-a-rockefeller/
LEWIS STRAUSS, now there's a man to watch. As a young neophyte (born 1896) he became Herbert Hoover's assistant during World War I, operating as a liason for the U.S. Food Administration with the Joint Jewish Distribution Committee. In 1921, at age 25, he ran the busiest, and perhaps the only, polio hospital at that time in the country as its president –the Jewish Hospital for Joint Diseases (HJD)–which had been founded by the New York Rothschild family and used the labs at the RIMR. Strauss resigned the hospital in 1925 and moved on to United States Navy intelligence work and a full partnership in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The Navy later made him a Rear Admiral and Strauss made the Navy a new department, the Office of Naval Research. President Truman gave Strauss a job as commissioner on the charter Atomic Engergy Commission (AEC) in 1946 under the leadership of former Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) governor David Lilienthal. Strauss and Lilienthal had a restless power struggle in those early years of the AEC. Behind the scenes, a "Super", thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, was on the table –there since the beginning of the Manhattan Project, which was the assumed responsibility of the Atomic Energy Commission, which was the ongoing Manhattan Engineer District (MED) by another name.
The two men, Chief Lilienthal and Commissioner Strauss, both resigned their AEC positions in 1950 over the authorization of the Super but for opposite reasons. Lilienthal moved on to global energy consulting and Strauss resumed a private life as the Rockefeller Brothers financier. The impeccable timing of Strauss's resignation as a commissioner, in January of 1950 on the day that the Super was official, freed him for action on his other pursuits. He had been the Super's most ardent champion aside from the physicists Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller. Interests that were ostensibly 'life-long' for Strauss were his devotion to Israel, Judaism and "curing cancer". In 1945, before he was an AEC commissioner, Strauss got in on the ground-floor of a few other charter institutions as a lifetime trustee –Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the (renamed) American Cancer Society.
Some time in 1952, Eisenhower proffered Strauss a dream job; Chief of the Atomic Energy Commission. 1952 was the most significant year for the future of America's nuclear weapons program. It was the year of committed thermonuclear tests in the South Pacific. It also happened to be the year of the greatest number of U.S. polio cases on record. Jonas Salk told his sponsors that he thought he finally had the 'right' formula for a polio vaccine, as it turned out, made from viruses grown on human cancer cells (HeLa cells) that were later proliferated in a slurry of monkey parts. Israel decided to start its nuclear program in '52 and maybe Admiral Strauss was helping them "make the desert bloom", as Ben Gurion would later say. A pet project of the new AEC chief was nuclear-powered water desalination and that had "Atoms for Peace" written all over it.
Private citizen Strauss had arranged for nuclear technology transfers before: back in 1934, he got a business broker from Havana Cuba named Isbert Adam to set up a deal for a particle accelerator built by a relative of Adam's named Arno Brasch. Brasch called his accelerator a 'capacitron', and by the looks of it, Brasch came over with the machine. Or maybe Brasch came after the machine but, as a researcher, it's been very hard to get a good handle on how many physicists made it to the U.S. in those years, 1933-1941. For soon-to-be refugees, escaping Nazi persecution, it's surprising how many of them moved around freely, crossing and recrossing the ocean, in and out of Germany and other places. There's no particular public record (yet found) of where or how Strauss picked up his capacitron, but the man was very rich and had his own yacht or two. Word is, yachting was how Strauss liked to do his private business.
"During the 1930s, business in the Cuban capital was run directly by mafiosi with Sicilian, Corsican, Jewish or U.S. origins… Without a doubt, the most important of all the mafiosi in Cuba was.. Meyer Lansky… Originally named Maier Suchowijansky… from the 1930s until the end of 1958, no significant political event or big business deal occurred in Cuba without his involvement…
"Firstly, at the start of the 1930s, there was an accelerated penetration of the Cuban economy by financial groups controlled by the Rockefeller family (in its two branches, headed by John and William). The Rockefellers used a banking and commercial complex of great magnitude (Citibank, Chase National Bank, and the later Chase Manhattan) to reinforce imperial domination… Other groups included the Americanized German Schroeder Bank and the Sullivan & Cromwell financial complex, in which brothers John and Allen Dulles were prominent. All had sinister origins… Cuba had become one of the most important centers of international crime." [quoting Enrique Cirules, here http://polioforever.wordpress.com/dr-marys-monkey/jfk-assassination/ ]
THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS, or H-bombs, and the arms race were a foregone conclusion, probably determined back in the 1920s. The fission bombs made for the original MED were just a stage, a stage in the development of a fission-triggered fusion process that scientists hoped to makeover into controllable "free energy". As far as anybody who knew anything about it was concerned, the Russians were technically way ahead. Only six people in the U.S. were in on the Top Secret knowledge that the Soviets had blown off a thermonuclear device in 1950. Robert LeBaron, the Pentagon liason with the AEC, told the authors of Energy and Conflict (1976) that he wasn't sure if it was 1950 or 1951, but the polio statistics in Canada support the claim of 1950. Canadian polio statistics are not the only thing –the Western Shoshone who watch over the Nevada Test Site also say that thermonuclear fallout streamed over the northwest in 1950. They believe an accidental detonation off British Columbia was the cause. Whatever the cause or source, just a handful of people ever knew it; President Truman, Dean Acheson, Robert LeBaron and the rest go unnamed. It would be hard to believe that Lewis Strauss was not among them. Fallout detection was his professional specialty.
KENNEDY TOOK OFFICE knowing where the future nuclear trouble spots would be. On the cusp of his January '61 inauguration an Eisenhower transition team answered a question "about atomic weapons in other countries. 'Israel and India,' [Christian] Herter replied. The Israelis had a nuclear reactor capable of producing ninety kilograms of weapons-quality plutonium by 1963. [Herter] advised Kennedy to demand inspection and control before there were atomic bombs in the Middle East." [p32, President Kennedy, R.Reeves] But Kennedy's presidential inheritance was already a full plate and piling up fast. Eisenhower told him, "..'there is one point on which I would oppose you strongly– the seating of Communist China in the U.N. and bilateral recognition.' That took care of that. Kennedy thought it was stupid not to have diplomatic relations with the Communist government in China. But relations with Eisenhower were a more compelling concern." [p33] Eisenhower was a popular president and "the new President was determined never to cross his predecessor…[Eisenhower's] public disapproval would be devastating." [p33]
"The CIA and America's other intelligence agencies…knew little of what the Chinese were doing or had done in the atomic field. China was, former OSI chief Karl Weber recalled, 'a real mystery…big, really foreign, hard to get a handle on.'…and by 1960 China was actively engaged, without Soviet assistance, in constructing its first generation of atomic facilities." [p143, Spying On The Bomb, Jeffrey Richelson] "A June 1961 report produced for the Joint Chiefs of Staff concluded that Chinese 'attainmment of a nuclear capability will have a marked impact on the security posture of the United States and the Free World, particularly in Asia.' A few months later, George McGhee, the State Department's director of policy planning..suggested to secretary of state Dean Rusk that one way to reduce the psychological impact of a Chinese bomb was to encourage, and perhaps even assist, India to develop a bomb. India's atomic energy program, McGhee informed his boss, was sufficiently advanced so that within a few months it could produce enough fissionable material for an atomic device… McGhee's scheme found uneven support at the State Department…" [pp144-145, Richelson]
Without saying too much more about the spread of nuclear weapons, the India example should make it clear that by Kennedy's time the nuclear paradigm had shifted, metamorphically turning (bad) global proliferation into (good) global politics. And at politics, Kennedy was an ace. Richard Reeves summed up JFK this way: "John Kennedy was considered a pretty cool fellow, the most detached and rational of politicians." [p33, President Kennedy] From a lifetime of political preparedness, fourteen years in Congress and an ease that came with an insider's position, Kennedy's supporters and enemies alike knew him. He was reliably attached to projecting a public image of presidential strength and power equal to the prestige of the United States.
Cutting to the chase, 'good' proliferation was going to rebalance the world according to the rules of diplomacy. The bad kind, spectacularly demonstrated by the Cuban Missile Crisis, was a desperate invitation for formal prohibition (and very good politics). "Most Americans had forgotten, the most knowledgeable among them choosing to forget, that it was Khrushchev who had first proposed negotiations on a test ban, in February 1955. This was after the discovery that the fallout from an American test in March 1954– not the bomb but the radioactive debris carried in the atmosphere– had killed or maimed Japanese fishermen and islanders hundreds of miles from the test site…" [p121, President Kennedy] No one writing library books mentions that the prophylactic for fallout –the polio vaccine– was then in its final phase of predetermined evaluation, about to be publicly administered during Operation Teapot (Nevada Test Site, Feb-May 1955). For once, it looked like the Americans really were ahead with an antidote in hand, and for a while at least, vaccine diplomacy was the new face of 'good' proliferation. After the calculated and failed arms negotiations of '55, an olive branch went out to the Soviets to co-develop a polio vaccine with Albert Sabin. https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/vaccine-diplomacy/
Now this is where Dr. Mary's Monkey and I seriously start parting company.
POLIO HISTORY GIVES AWAY THE NUCLEAR GAME, which is why there really isn't any in DMM. I'd compare the content of polio history in DMM to anchovies on a pizza– you can see it there and the whole thing tastes fishy but if you take it out and put it in a bowl there's not enough to satisfy a kitty-cat. The complaint is pretty much the same: "You mean I paid extra for that?!"
Pizza, what a racket. But ya know, the kids love it and it's great party food. And this is something I love about Ed.
DEEP BACKGROUND is what all JFK assassination researchers are looking for. Virtually every angle that looks reasonably or remotely related to the assassination scheme has been presented and explained. We oughtta be just about done with this, dontcha think? JFK and his brother crossed the wrong people –LBJ, the CFR, the Rockefellers, the Mob, etc. The Kennedys made a few verbotten power grabs, their unpopularity caught up with them and they had it coming. Right? Time to put this overly ripe and mature conspiracy to bed.
But who would think that the Kennedys did EXACTLY what was expected of them? Who would guess that JFK's murder was planned long before his presidency? Pre-Crime is such an abhorent idea to Americans that we still treat it like science fiction even though it's the foundation of every conspiracy. What if we looked at JFK's election-to-execution like a lab experiment and suppose the objectives of the experiment were perfectly met? Let's say the Limited Test Ban treaty was the most desirable outcome and work down the list of lesser outcomes. We have to account for the trajectory of an unremarkable congressman advancing to an improbable candidate and then an unpopular president to satisfy the requisite unleashing of natural forces. We have to ensure the survival of the mechanism long enough to reach the goal and provide conditions that won't self-destruct before the end of the demonstration. And at the end of the demonstration, we have to manage the lesser outcomes in case they turn disadvantageous to the objectives, possibly in perpetuity. Nuclear material is the only stuff I can think of that needs perpetual management. The ongoing secrecy of JFK's death must be covering the kind of proliferation I barely named –traffick, the worst kind– as the illicit and organized movement of products and services.
REFRAMING THE EVENTS to fit a nuclear scheme turns the Assassination clock back to 1952. This follows an important sequence of events during 1951 meant to guarantee American hegemony. The problems of the United States achieving nuclear superiority were, and always were, physical survivability for U.S. citizens. Polio became a front-burner issue in 1951– the fallout vaccine, which didn't yet exist, made a first run with gamma globulin (for passive immunity) in a predictable hot zone by the Great Salt Lake during the second Nevada Test Site series (called Buster-Jangle). Kennedy made his Senate bid, H-bombs attained a breakthrough, Israel started their weapons program, and even Mary Sherman made a move in 1952.
Qualifiers for Kennedy's preselection, to meet the requirements of our lab experiment, unfolded over the next years as if on cue. He was a natural force. JFK's ascent displayed his potential as a teachable man and Old Joe had enough irons-in-the-fire to protect his family ambitions. When it came time to face-off with the Soviets, Kennedy looked like his own authority: Rockefeller men surrounded him, and yet he had an actionable conscience that signaled the Russians of his capacity for independence. They could work with this man.
The Israelis, on the other hand, could not. Reeves (author of President Kennedy) notes their basic status on January 19, 1961 and never mentions Israel again but they were also beneficiaries in the 1955 round of Atoms for Peace, acquiring an American-made research reactor (Soreq) in the spirit of Nelson Rockefeller's promotion that any nation wanting one should have it. After the earlier Lavon Affair, it had to be the point of no return. Americans, as far as I know, did not openly help the Israeli nuclear program after Soreq. The legitimacy of Israel's development then came from the French but by 1960 the relationship was fraught with uncertainty and delays. Jeffrey Richelson writes, "In 1960, after the departure of [France's] pro-Israeli atomic energy minister Jacques Soustelle, French foreign minister Maurice Couve de Murville made three demands, conveyed via the Israeli ambassador. Israel was to publicly acknowledge the existence of the Negev [Dimona] project, declare that the reactor was to be used for peaceful purposes, and permit international inspections. Unless Israel complied, France would refuse to supply the natural uranium needed to fuel the reactor. Accepting the French demands, particularly for international inspections, would threaten the plan to produce fissile material for atomic bombs."[p241, Spying On The Bomb]
The Israelis were not waiting on the French any more than they historically waited on the British. Nuclear power was already theirs, an entitlement by virtue of its creation as reverentially Jewish. In the 1920s, Einstein publicly predicted their days of national struggle when statehood would bind them to playing by the rules. It was a warning to prepare. Insurance on Israel's "right to exist" was, and always was, predicated on their mastery of traffick.
PRESERVING OUR IGNORANCE about radiation-caused polio has been an essential ingredient in keeping a fuller account of the JFK assassination at bay. Knowing it makes a few more chapters in the story just open up, like magic. There's no such thing as a fallout vaccine but there must have been immense pressure to sell this idea and smooth the atomic trade. A fallout vaccine, if it existed, would have to prevent cancer. There would have to be some cancer antigen in there, if it existed, huh? Salk and Sabin had what any aspiring world power could want: a twofer –such a deal! Let's play thermonuclear war!!
And this is something I love about Ed. He's working hard for our ignorance. He could have left out the references to polio and still fascinated his audience with Oswald and Mary and Ferrie. Judyth Vary Baker too, of course, the only living member of the all-dead cast. He might have had a problem though, getting interest out to the general public. So DMM is about cancer. It's about AIDS. It's about stacking as many riders on his horse as the traffick will allow. He says himself, "the JFK thing is kinda incidental to the book".
Make no mistake. The polio vaccine in Cuba before the Missile Crisis was a psy-op pitching for prohibition to the benefit of traffickers, which does not exclude the possibility that weapons-grade bomb fuel was moving in the island. Obviously, there is a lot more story here.
Companion AUDIO, November 23, 2011, with Rick Adams on RBN (first hour) http://188.8.131.52/archives32/Adams/2011/11/Adams_1_112311_210000.mp3 ; (second hour) http://126.96.36.199/archives32/Adams/2011/11/Adams_2_112311_220000.mp3
Articles previously posted on the subject of DMM:
Assassination By Cancer (premise of the book 'Dr. Mary's Monkey')
Particle Accelerator 101 (questioning 'Dr. Mary's Monkey')
Dr. Mary's Flunky
Why Were Monkey Viruses in Polio Vaccines?
The medical science involved in this story is (and will be) carried on in The Disease Continuum https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/the-disease-continuum/
"Abraham Feinberg (1908-1998) is best known lobbying for the state of Israel and organizing Harry S Truman's "whistle-stop" fundraising tour that saved his 1948 presidential campaign from certain ruin. Feinberg's obituary hints at a role trafficking arms to Jewish fighters in Palestine. As founder of Americans for Haganah and Foundry Associates, Inc., Feinberg was deeply involved in the Haganah arms smuggling network in the United States. More recently, authors such as Anver Cohen and Michael Karpin document in the book "Israel and the Bomb" and "The Bomb in the Basement" Feinberg's role in undermining US nuclear nonproliferation policy. On October 31, 1958 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion noted in his diary a conversation "he had with Abraham Feinberg, a wealthy Jewish businessman and major Democratic fund-raiser" to raise funds for Israel's nuclear weapons program among "benedictors" in the United States. A few years later, President John F. Kennedy fought for biannual international inspections of Dimona and verifiable Israeli assurances that it was not a nuclear weapons production facility. In 1960 Feinberg funded the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as it mounted US disinformation campaigns about Israel's nuclear weapons program. JFK's assassination in 1963 marked the gradual end of inspections and the US nonproliferation drive toward Israel." http://irmep.org/ILA/Feinberg/default.asp
1952 FBI memo on Feinberg
"Feinberg has been in contact with Colonel Ephraim Ben-Arazi, former Israeli Military Attaché to the United States; Theodore H. Kollek, Israeli Minister in Washington; Reuben Shiloah [founder of Mossad], personal advisor to the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs; Nahum Bernstein, Secretary of Israel Speaks. All of these individuals are known to have been active in the Israeli Intelligence Service… He [Feinberg] was in personal contact with Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel, when Weizmann visited the United States in April 1949 and on other occasions. Feinberg has been in personal contact with Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, when he visited the United States. These contacts with Israeli officials continue up to the present time.. "
"Dewey Stone smuggled arms to the Haganah, underwrote Israel's cutting-edge Weizmann Institute and outfitted a ship to carry Holocaust survivors to Palestine. Yet this larger-than-life hero is virtually unknown by history… For decades, before May 14, 1948 and during those early years when the fledgling nation struggled to deflect attacks from all sides, this behinds-the-scenes hero – who made his fortune in fabrics coatings — helped to arm, strengthen and educate the Jewish forces with his own funds and with the untold millions he raised… So it's not surprising he was a key player in the drama of the doomed voyage of the Exodus 1947. The Weston Trading Company, with Stone listed as sole stockholder, was a front used to ship supplies and refugees past American inspectors…The story of Exodus 1947 was soon news around the globe, garnering sympathy for the cause of a Jewish state.
…In 1952, Stone also emerged as an early and vocal supporter of young Congressional candidate, John F. Kennedy, who had a handicap when it came to the Jewish community. No one could forget the pro-Hitler comments his father Joseph P. Kennedy had made as ambassador to England during the war. But Stone believed the young Kennedy when he argued he shared none of his father's Nazi sympathies, and contributed to JFK's campaign, introducing him to Jewish voters and remaining close until Kennedy's assassination in 1963." http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=175275
Stone and Feinberg were both Chairmen of the Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science; Stone its founding chairman from 1949 to 1971, followed by Feinberg from 1972 to 1976. The terms of both chairmen overlapped the Weizmann presidency by (polio scientist) Albert B. Sabin, 1970-1972. Extensive work on the SV40 monkey virus went on in Israel under Sabin's term at the Weizmann. http://www.weizmann.ac.il/homepage/pages/pastofficers.shtml
PART TWO looks at uranium for the Manhattan Project, the dealers Sengier and Pregel, Meyer Lansky in New York and Robert Kennedy's 1948 role as a mouthpiece for Israel:


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The Federal Academy for Security Policy (Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik / BAKS) was founded in 1992 as a place of strategic thinking and learning. Its work is practically oriented and interdisciplinary in its approach. The Academy promotes a common understanding of national and international security policy among civil servants, officers, executives, scientists, journalists, key figures from civil society, and experts from abroad.
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Taking a look through the CrackBerry forums and on Twitter, it's looking as though some BlackBerry Z10 owners have an update to BlackBerry World appearing on their devices. The noted version shows as 126.96.36.199 with the change log simply stating improved battery life and bug fixes.
As it appears now, the update isn't showing for everyone and in fact, it actually errors out on some devices leading me to believe it's likely still processing through. Either way, if you're a BlackBerry Z10 owner then go ahead and check for updates. In the meantime, we'll be keeping our eye on this for a more widespread roll out and update the post when necessary.


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I am not a morning person, just putting that out there. However I love hiking and I love food so when I saw the Organic Breakfast Hike on the schedule I was intrigued. The only set back was that it was at 6:10am. Very early by my standards! I decided to give it a shot though and it was so worth it. Yes, it was hard to get out of bed (not going to lie), but once I was up and out the door at 6, it felt great. The sun was just coming up, the birds were chirping and the little bunny rabbits were hopping along (so cute!). I met everyone at the Main Lounge and then we started our hike towards the organic Farm.
The hike is about two miles to the farm and was a fairly easy hike across some little rolling hills. Perfect for the early morning when you're just waking up and have no food in your stomach. The promise of delicious organic breakfast definitely kept me moving. The scenery was gorgeous and the weather was warm, but not too hot. So far I was thoroughly enjoying myself and I knew the best part was yet to come. Eventually we came to the farm which has rows upon rows of beautiful organic vegetables and beautiful flower gardens as you can see in the photos.
We were greeted by a friendly cat who I learned later on is the resident guard protecting the farm from rodents. The breakfast was served where they actually hold all of their cooking classes at the farm. Everything looked so delicious and I could not wait to dig in. I'm somewhat of a health nut and really try to eat organic whenever I can, so the fact that all the fruits and vegetables were grown right here on the farm was the icing on the cake. I piled on my plate everything I could.
The oatmeal had a fantastic flavor even by itself. I added a poached plum which is one of the sweetest most delicious things I've ever tasted! I have sort of sweet tooth so I couldn't pass up the chocolate muffins either. I absolutely loved the eggs with the greens and salsa. The roasted veggies were amazing as well and so pretty!
You can tell that the chef, Denise Roa, absolutely loves her job and puts her heart and soul into what she does. She was kind enough to give us a little background on the farm and told us about the cooking class later today (which I absolutely need to take next time I'm here). Then she introduced us to Salvador Tinajero who oversees everything grown on the farm.
Salvador gave us a little garden tour where he showed us all the new summer veggies that were just starting to grow. I have never met anyone so passionate about farming and gardening. It was really inspiring and I really want to start my own garden now more than ever.
Most of all, it was just great being outside, enjoying delicious food and scenery. I honestly can't think of a better way to start the day. Hopefully I will have a chance to do this again…I would do it every morning if I could!


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In a current project we have setup the build so that we could mix Java and Scala. I would like to use more Scala in our code base to make the code more readable and concise. In the process also learn the language by handing over real features.
So I plan to use Scala for some classes to showcase its benefits and convince other devs to look into using Scala too.
For a rest based web server or a program in general what kind of code structures lend themselves to Scala's functional programming style.


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Munich, 8 April 2013: Solutions for cryogenic freezing and measures for the safe handling of food-grade gases are the highlights of Linde's appearance at this year's IFFA (Hall 9.1/A60). In addition, the company is participating for the first time in the joint presentation "Robotik-Pack-Line".
With the modular CRYOLINE® product line, Linde offers a broad range of cryogenic freezer models for IQF (individually quick freezing) with cryogenic nitrogen (N2) or carbon dioxide (CO2). Two current models can be seen at the stand as accurate reproductions on a scale of 1:4: the CRYOLINE® XF spiral freezer and CRYOLINE® CW multi-purpose freezer.
A further focus at Linde has been placed on training and services for the safe handling of technical gases in the food industry. Besides the fulfilment of legal requirements, LIPROTECT® ensures protection of employees against hazards, enhances production safety and prevents on-the-job accidents. Furthermore, LIPROTECT® components serve as proof of personnel qualification and as a prerequisite for certifications and audits.
Linde is showcasing gases and devices for packaging meat and other foods in a protective atmosphere in its "Robotik-Pack-Line" in Hall 11.1. In this respect the current MAPAX® LD system represents the state-of-the-art in detecting leaks: the innovative technology uses hydrogen as a detection gas. Even the smallest leaks are quickly, non-destructively and safely tracked down.
Linde offers the food and beverage industry a specially developed assortment of pure gases and gaseous mixtures under the brand name BIOGON®. They guarantee reproducible and consistently high quality, including exceptional purity, as required by food legislation. BIOGON® gases exceed these minimum demands. They also satisfy the special requirement for the traceability of food additives, e.g. by continuous recording and documentation of all production and delivery stages. As a manufacturer and distributor of the respective gases, Linde is certified to the internationally recognised Standard ISO 22000.
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Great Hangout last night with +Alex Koloskov, +Dave Nitsche, +ron gibbs, +Mike Broderick, +Jerry Nielsen, +Steve Savoie, +Paul Helfinstein & +Anthony Moringello. (hope I didn't miss anyone and if so I appologize)
Was really great to get critiques from +Alex Koloskov on technical aspects of our shots and from +Dave Nitsche for the over all look. Was also helpful for us to be able to add our own opinions because critiquing other peoples work, which can be hard, allows us to have a new eye for what to look for in our photos.
It can be difficult to receive criticism from others but it can help to improve our art if we are open to listen to others. Especially is it done in a constructive way. Telling someone that *you don't like something* is better than telling someone that *that what they did is crap*.
Now, it can still be a difficult thing to hear but if we can allow ourselves to get past our egos about our work, we can then be open to hear others ideas to potentially make it better.
Why are we doing this?
Ask yourself this question: Do you want to improve?
I'm not saying that your work may be bad, but if we're willing to show others, especially display it all over the web, or possibly try to sell it, wouldn't it be nice to have lots of other people help us hone our art? It's still yours,and it's still your style, but other people may be able to point things out that you may not have seen.
Last nights critiques
During last nights critiquing we discussed the lighting setups, the overall look and how to possibly improve things. Several time +Alex Koloskov would mention that maybe a highlight was missing, or that part of the image was a bit messy and would be nice to remove those bits; like little unneeded labels etc. +Dave Nitsche a couple times had mentioned how great it would be if +Genia Larionova would join us. In going over the images and how to improve them what better way to improve the cleanup portion then by having +Genia Larionova, who is a fantastic #Photoshop retoucher give us her opinion on what she may do in post processing.
Well, I've rambled on long enough. I've been busy all day and finally had a chance to post a great thank you to all who attended and that I hope we can keep this up. Per +Dave Nitsche's assignment we are to now use a bottle in a shot, not necessarily a red wine bottle, and do something sexy with it. I've got some ideas and now have to put them to action to see if they're worth posting.
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It is conjointly vital to urge a thought concerning the work time whereas choosing the most reputed Acer Laptop Service Center in Hinjewadi or elsewhere in other cities. Since latest laptops are crafted with the use of most recent technology and highest degree of sophistication, repairing them or service them is not a very time overwhelming job.
As such a decent service centre typically takes between many hours and on a daily basis to resolve most of the issues. However, in some rare cases, the service centre would possibly take a most of some of days to resolve some advanced issue in a laptop. Finally, the foremost vital issue to think about whereas choosing Acer Service Centre is the worth they charge for the services. This typically depends on the nature of the complaint moreover because the model of laptop is being repaired. Additionally, alternative factors like the costs being quoted by other service centres within the space moreover because the speed and quality of services offered conjointly influence their costing.
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I think the Flower Essence Society has been instrumental in the research done into flower essence therapy, bringing so much credibility to it as a healing modality. I am also deeply grateful that you have brought your work to so many countries throughout the world, and especially to children.
Thank you for all these wonderful essences and your articles—they are so nurturing and helping me so much.
I admire the work of the Flower Essence Society tremendously, both the dedication and seriousness of the task you've undertaken, which has been so beneficial to so many. I'm particularly struck by all the work you've done with practitioners in less advantaged countries and the immense benefit thus available to people who otherwise would have no recourse to the healing that the flowers so beautifully bring to our souls. Thank you, thank you.
Thank God for you, for all the wonders done through the flowers in many parts of the world, and for the people who continue your ministry in those countries affected by natural disasters. If fills me with joy to know that where my heart and prayers go, the flowers touch the lives of those who suffer in China, Haiti, Brazil, Japan, Angola and other countries.— Sister Mercedes Reygadas S.H., Homer Glen, IL
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My father Joe Henson founded the Cotswold Farm Park in 1971 to help protect some of our rare breeds of farm animal. Together with my business partner Duncan and our enthusiastic team, I am proud to continue in his wellington-booted footprints.
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Gov. McCrory scheduled to visit Triad for tour, retreat
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is meeting hometown friends and donors of a private nonprofit foundation as he visits the Triad.
McCrory was slated Friday to take one of his small-town "Main Street Tours" in the community of Jamestown. That's where he grew up after his family moved from Ohio to Guilford County.
He was also expected to wrap up participation in a retreat at the Grandover resort outside of Greensboro and put on by the Renew North Carolina Foundation. Guests paid up to $5,000 to attend the event, which featured a Thursday dinner with McCrory and a Friday policy briefing.
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Will Hewlett Packard survive in its current form? I doubt it. Problems manifested last week over its Autonomy purchase, but its real inadequacies go deep and Meg Whitman has done nothing to resolve them - in fact she just guaranteed HP another year of bad press and negative sentiment.
At the weekend, former Autonomy CEO and HP executive Mike Lynch fired back at Whitman after accusations that he and his people had cooked the books before selling to HP.
Lynch accuses HP of dumping bad businesses into the Autonomy division in order to clear HP of its many previous bad investments. But he also claims that working with HP was like watching pilots fighting on the flight deck. And that some HP sales staff were incentivized to sell against Autonomy.
The row is undignified but it also smacks of everyone trying to cover their backs, and fast.
Take a look at the graphs below before deciding where you stand on the HP-Autonomy row. The data comes from market-sentiment specialists Marketpsych data who plot around 2,000 different emotional responses to business activity, daily.
Marketpsychdata launch a new emotional signal service with Thomson Reuters today and Richard gave me a preview of the service and its capabilities. Data is drawn from over 100,000 finance-related, social media articles and comments per day.
The issue for HP is much bigger than in-fighting over Autonomy.
Graph 1 shows what informed opinion thinks of its innovation record. The grey line represents opinion about HP's innovation capabilities - apart from one spike it pretty much mirrors the share price decline. Both on a constant descent.
The two graphs following represent fear and anger over HP's performance.
From graph 1 you can see the steady decline of sentiment about innovation.
You can see from these two graphs that fear peaked mid-2012 at which point anger took over. Both fear and anger are inversely related to the share price, and as each rises the share price declines.
The problem for HP is that sentiment was already trending heavily negative for a year and more before the Autonomy debacle. There are no signs in there of HP running its business differently or learning how to deflect or deal with negative sentiment.
It reminds me of Nokia two years after the iPhone launch, not long before their adoption of Windows. Or of Apple since April this year.
The immediate future promises more bad news as the Autonomy row evolves. Given that, and the complicity of the board in its many bad decisions, how can it survive in its current form?
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When it comes to repairing Windows based computers, there seems to be a couple of problems that I get allot of requests for help with. One of them is when a computer cannot get updates to Windows. So here are a few of my favorite resources for fixing Windows Update.
There are several reasons why Windows Update can fail. There could be corrupted files and/or folders, the different services that Windows Update require are not starting, registry errors, etc.. The following is a list of some of the procedures I use in repairing Windows Update.
Note : Remember to always restart your computer after running any of these procedures before try Windows Update again.
This is probably the easiest and most common way to repair Windows Update. Microsoft has a Windows Update troubleshooter for every version of Windows. The following link is a general page for troubleshooting Windows Update. Just select the version of Windows you are trying to repair and then click on the Windows Update Troubleshooter link. If you are prompted to run or save the file, I recommend saving it to your hard drive. That way if you need to run it again, you will already have it ready to go.
Repair Windows Update
So if the Windows Update Troubleshooter (repair) did not fix the issue, you can try resetting all of the Windows Update components. The following link has both the automatic Microsoft Fixit troubleshooter and manual instructions for resetting Windows Update components. I recommend using an automatic troubleshooter unless you are comfortable with going through all the of manual procedures. Again, when prompted to run or save the troubleshooter, I recommend that you save it to your hard drive, just in case you need to run it again.
Reset Windows Update components
Now, if you have run both of the Windows Update troubleshooters (repair / reset) and Windows Update is still not functioning correctly, it's time to do some general system checks. Sometimes there can be an error(s) with the file system that is not allowing the troubleshooters to fix the issue(s). I have had this problem many times before. Nothing worse than feeling like a dog chasing his own tail. At this point, I recommend checking your hard drive for errors by running checkdisk.
Check your hard disk for errors in Windows 7 / Windows Vista
Check your hard drive for errors in Windows 8
Check your hard drive for errors in Windows 10
Once you are done with a checkdisk, go ahead and run the Windows Update Troubleshooters again. First run the repair troubleshooter and try checking for updates. If it doesn't fix it, run the reset troubleshooter. If Windows Update still won't work, then it is time to check to system files.
Windows has a built-in program called System File Checker (SFC) that can check system files for corruption and incorrect versions. SFC is run inside of an administrative command prompt. Just follow the link below for your version Windows for instructions on how to bring up an admin command prompt.
Open a Administrative Command Prompt in Windows Vista / Windows 7
Open a Administrative Command Prompt in Windows 8 / Windows 8.1
Open a Administrative Command Prompt in Windows 10
SFC is basically the same in all of the currently supported versions of Windows, Here is the link to the most detailed instructions for SFC (Windows 10).
Check Windows 10 system files with System File Checker
Once you are done running SFC and have corrected any problems it may have found, go ahead try running Windows Update. If it still won't work, try running the troubleshooters (repair / reset) one at time, running Windows Update in between. If you still cannot run Windows Update successfully, it may be time to run the most advanced system corruption repair tools.
Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) and System Update Readiness tool (SUR) are the most complete way of checking for file corruption in Windows. The link to the instructions on how to run both is below. DISM and SUR are meant to be used by advanced users, so if you don't feel comfortable running either one of these programs, please contact a local computer repair technician for assistance.
Fix Windows Update errors by using the DISM or System Update Readiness tool
After running either DISM or SUR check again to see if Windows Update will work. If Windows Update still will not work, it may be time to reset or reinstall Windows. The instructions on how to do this can be found online. If you require assistance with this process, please contact a local computer repair technician.
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The Snapshot wrote:There is no way Bailey does not know Kunitz is there. In fact, you can argue that he is dropping his shoulder to initiate contact with Kunitz - and his stick movement, coming up from under to lift Kunitz's stick is proof that this was the case.
Kunitz just beat him to the punch in terms of initiating.
That call was made because Bailey was weak enough on his skates and dumb enough to be unprepared for the contact.
I'll accept a "it looked so bad we need to make a call" minor. Braydon Coburn would not agree with that call though.
Agree 100%. This was a play where both players were aware of what was about to go down. But, one was prepared better.


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We're a diverse group with two things in common: we all work in the Nashville area and are passionate about advertising.
As the definition of advertising has evolved, so has our membership. We've got thinkers, creators, and promoters that represent all aspects of the selling process. Our membership includes strategists, media and sales reps, art directors, copywriters, account managers, web programmers, business owners, and a few folks who don't actually work in advertising but just like hanging out with us.
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In the digital age, not only is there no such thing as "first mover advantage," I think being the last mover often conveys a significant advantage. There's frequently more opportunity and less risk in well-known, mature markets than can be found in new segments or on new platforms. There are several compelling advantages of addressing an older market, along with one, cautionary disadvantage.
The biggest plus of mature markets is the lack of competition. That's because the quality of the competition is weak. All the bright, young, aggressive, entrepreneurial thinkers, along with their cohort of bright, aggressive, well-heeled, older venture capitalists, will be studiously avoiding it, thus allowing you to master the market with little competitive pressure.
The other big advantage is the wealth of pre-existing, useful intelligence about the market, the product, and users. Existing products provide powerful insight into the problem to be solved, and the people or companies who have purchased or used it can be readily identified and researched. You can learn ways to beat the incumbent by studying the incumbent's current users. What's more, the market composition, size, and proven willingness to buy allays most of the risk that investors fear.
The single disadvantage of entering a mature market is the entrenched market leader's large bank account, but this will only become apparent after you have begun to seriously threaten him with your disruptive product.
Go where the aggressive, well-funded competitors aren't
Most eager young technical entrepreneurs imagine themselves creating the next Google, Twitter, or Instagram. They instinctively seek out the unpopulated, unserved places on new platforms and address them with their new technologies. Often, the functions provided are simple and commonly known, but not yet available on the new platform, like status updates on your mobile, or photography that instantly posts to the Web.
Today, entrepreneurism is the hottest segment of the job market, and college kids fantasize about being the next Jack Dorsey or Sean Parker. Where do all of those bright, enthusiastic, young entrepreneur wanna-bes go with their work-all-night energy? Right into each new platform that comes along. If Google announces an intelligent goggle that doesn't do anything yet, all the twenty-somethings want to apply their boundless energy to inventing the next big goggle-based…whatever. The opportunity to be a big player in a new market beguiles many into trying for the big win. Do you want to bet your talent against theirs, or would you rather just build a successful business?
Given the choice, I would prefer not to compete head-on with these people. If you know about the new platform opportunity, so does everyone else. If you think you can make a splash in a new marketplace, so does everyone else. Why would you want to risk entering that free-for-all when a calmer, quieter, already proven opportunity sits begging for fresh talent?
Furthermore, if you are seduced by the siren song of the new platform, there is the very real risk of designing the wrong solution. The runaway successes of Instagram and Twitter, to take two examples, only appear successful in hindsight. It was absolutely not obvious in advance that either product would win, even to their creators. The inventors of those products were probing into the unknown, and the risks of choosing wrong were extremely high. The fact that they won makes their stories well known, and the human mind's predilection for inventing a post facto cause-and-effect rationale makes the risk disappear from view.
Scott Berkun addresses this phenomenon in his fine book, "The Myths of Innovation." The inevitability of their success is merely a cognitive illusion. We know the lesson of Twitter simply because it was successful, and its success makes it visible to us. We don't know the lessons of the thousands of companies that tried and failed because their failure obscures their lessons.
The established market only seems riskier
When we see a large, established, mature marketplace with a couple of companies doing 90% of the business there, we imagine that the competition is tough and opportunities few, but this is illusory. Contrary to our expectations, the least competition is going to be where the market winner is big, successful, dominant, and obvious. Because they are so dominant, they will have forced their competitors out, and their success deters new competitors from entering. This is a classic case where our instinctive common sense leads us in precisely the wrong direction.
Misled by this illusion, the most creative competitors will ignore the mature market making it a far more tempting plum. There will be far fewer small competitors in it, and the eight hundred pound gorilla dominating it will be very weak in many of the most important ways.
A big company, to meet demand, must put all of its effort into selling product, and will put very little effort into innovating, which makes them vulnerable to a fresh approach.
A big company will listen closely to its existing customers, and pay particular attention to its biggest, most lucrative customers, leaving unaddressed whole swathes of the market that want more specialized, better behaved, or lower priced solutions. The best way to compete with the big guy is by taking over a portion of the market he disdains. By using that as a revenue source, the small company can assault the big one from the flank.
In his remarkable book, "The Innovator's Dilemma," Clayton Christensen discusses the problem facing successful companies. If they make the obviously correct choice to serve their most lucrative market, they leave themselves absolutely unprotected from attack by smaller companies with more focused offerings.
Christensen drives home the simple point that a big company will be less competitive because it will tend to reject innovations. Innovations are by definition new ways of doing things. The old ways of doing things have been proven to work, and the new ways are clearly unproven. Any "good" business person will choose the proven way over the unproven way, thus paving the road for a smaller, more innovative company to gain traction in a well-defined market segment.
The established firm faces other difficulties, too. Once a product attains mainstream success, the company becomes fully occupied with the demands of growth to exploit the huge demand for the winning product, typically by ignoring further product innovation. They grow their production and distribution arms, along with the concomitant management structure, because these provide immediate revenue and profit.
As the company grows, it becomes adept at tending to its own needs and propagating its own requirements, but is notoriously bad at responding to the demands of its users, and it will become unresponsive to little competitors like you.
The 800 pound gorilla
As I mentioned at the top, the one disadvantage of going up against an established market leader is his bank account. It's hard to get his attention, but when you do, he will have more money to spend attacking you than you could possibly hope to have for defense.
At first, the successful market leader will ignore the little, entrepreneurial competitor, relaxing, secure in the knowledge that it is trusted by its market and unassailable in its success. This gives the startup just the opportunity it needs to get started in one of the many unserved corners of the market. Only when the little startup starts to steal customers away from the big guy will the giant awaken.
Many conventional business people see this as a big negative. I've spoken with many venture capitalists who are terrified of this prospect. I see it very differently. I see it as a huge advantage. Wouldn't it be great to have a big, successful company telling the marketplace that you exist by spending its abundant cash to differentiate itself from you? The best thing that could happen for a startup would be for the market leader to take public notice. It's practically a vote of confidence in your abilities.
Of course, they are still very dangerous simply because they are big and rich and they can play business games that you can't afford to. But the Web is such a great, egalitarian communications tool that it tends to dissipate the advantage of market leaders. If the startup focuses purely on being wonderful, and delivering delightful experiences to its users, the Web will work as hard or harder for the startup than it will for the market leader.
Listen to your competitor's customers
Any good user experience designer will tell you that the key to success is observing the user. You need to study the user to understand what he or she is trying to achieve. In a preexisting marketplace, identifying the user is far easier than it is with an unknown, new platform.
Most people tend to pay attention to their competition, but that makes you a follower instead of a leader. If you pay attention to your competitor's customers instead, you learn valuable lessons about what they like, and more usefully, don't like, about your competitor's solution.
There is a considerable advantage to the competitor second in line for the same reason that a golfer on the green lying closer to the hole can watch the path of the ball putted by the player farther out. The product and positioning of the entrenched market leader will tell the later competitor volumes about what to do and what not to do, what works and what doesn't. The new entry in the market doesn't have to duplicate the research and experimentation that the first-to-market player did.
Most big business successes tend to come from unforeseen second order effects, rather than from the intended first order effect. The Web, for example, was supposed to be a haven for non-commercial, academic knowledge exchange. The hugely successful, and entirely unforeseen success of the Web came from its commercial exploitation. Google is another fine example: It was intended to be a search engine but its commercial success emerged when it became, surprise, an advertising medium.
In mature markets, the first order problems are already mapped out and empirically demonstrated. The smart player can step in and dominate the huge second order win while the existing leader struggles to maintain his customer base.
Who innovates?
I don't know who is going to invent the next Facebook, but I can clearly see how to crush some of the biggest names in software in their own backyard. If I had a choice today of writing a new social networking program or going head-to-head with an established leader like Microsoft Office, Flickr, or Salesforce, I'd eschew the social networking. I'd eschew the opportunity to compete against thousands of bright, well-funded, nimble competitors in an unproven market. I'd choose instead to tackle the single, slow, saurian behemoth, squatting self-satisfied in the center of a wide and proven ring.
Alan Cooper is the co-founder of Cooper and a pioneer of the modern computing era. He created the programming language Visual Basic and wrote industry-standard books on design practice like "About Face."


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Interview: Low Anthem makes pizza-and-beer Americana
Rhode Island's The Low Anthem is a smart talking bunch of Ivy-Leaguers whose angelic harmonies make even hard-nosed critics wobbly in the knees. Despite the fancy degrees and classical training, these multi-instrumentalists play like they were raised in the Appalachian hills. Their Americana noir quakes with authenticity and includes everything from a good stomp and holler to hushed hymns. As founding bassist Jeff Prystowsky tells it, everything from recording to instrument collecting is done organically, and sometimes also soaked in booze.
The Hook: How do you feel about vinyl releases?
Jeff Prystowsky: At our apartment in Providence, we listen exclusively to vinyl. It's cool that you have to get up after a half hour to flip the record. Vinyl forces you to engage.
The Hook: Recently, vinyl copies of Nirvana's Nevermind ended up inside sleeves for your album Smart Flesh and were sold at your shows. Is that a huge collector's item now?
Jeff Prystowsky: (Laughs) We've practically been giving them away every time we find one, so you probably don't have to pay much to get it. I mean, it's not even a situation where our record is just mislabeled. You open up your Smart Flesh package and there's a Nirvana record.
The Hook: Speaking of this most recent album, pictures on your website suggest it might have been inspired by copious amounts of Jim Beam.
Jeff Prystowsky: We do drink quite a bit, but it was more beer and pizza inspired. We basically had local business sponsors while recording. We'd just call up at the end of the week and ask if we could get two more pizzas and a few cases of beer. They'd be right over with them. It kept us fueled while we recorded in a cold building.
The Hook: That building was an old pasta sauce factory, right?
Jeff Prystowsky: Yeah, it was like a big airplane hanger with windows on all sides. Lots of creaks and bats. A strange, desolate place to be. At the same time, it was very inspiring. The sound of a factory is all over this record. Particularly, the sound of its reverb. We never had to use a reverb plug-ins, amps, or pedals..
The Hook: Aside from the frigid temperatures, were there other challenges recording in a place like that?
Jeff Prystowsky: The expansiveness. Sometimes we'd have to play something all week just to get a sound we were happy with and others worked in an hour. That room was a decider.
The Hook: Why did you decide to produce the record yourselves?
Jeff Prystowsky: If we were going to go to a studio, we'd use a producer because they know all the tricks and the sounds of their studio. But just going into an abandoned factory, we thought we could capture the sound ourselves.
The Hook: Where do you get your more unusual instruments?
Jeff Prystowsky: If we have time, we seek out the local instrument shop in cities and try to find vintage gear. Sometimes it's through friends. We were just given a hammer dulcimer and a steel drum, which we're learning to play. I was also given a jaw harp by Will Lee of the Late Show band. We're always open to new sounds and textures. We're kind of instrument hoarders.
The Hook: How have things changed over the years?
Jeff Prystowsky: The dangerous thing about playing every night is that your fingers start to know what to do. You want to get back to the place where sometimes you don't know. That's where the fun is.
The Low Anthem performs at the Southern on Tuesday 6/14. Dehlia Low opens. $12-$15, 8pm.Read more on: The Low Anthemthe southern


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Screening is looking for cancer before a person has any symptoms. This can help find cancer at an early stage. When abnormal tissue or cancer is found early, it may be easier to treat. By the time symptoms appear, cancer may have begun to spread.
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If a screening test result is abnormal, you may need to have more tests done to find out if you have cancer. These are called diagnostic tests.
Oral cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the lips, oral cavity, or oropharynx.
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Most oral cancers start in squamous cells, the thin, flat cells that line the lips, oral cavity, and oropharynx. Cancer that forms in squamous cells is called squamous cell carcinoma.
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The number of new cases of oral cancer and the number of deaths from oral cancer have been decreasing slowly.
The number of new cases and deaths from oral cancer has slowly decreased over the past 30 years. However, the number of new cases of oral cancer caused by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has increased. One kind of HPV, called HPV 16, is often passed from one person to another during sexual activity.
Although oral cancer occurs in all adults, it occurs most commonly in older adults. Also, oral cancer occurs more often in blacks than in whites and in men than in women.
Tobacco and alcohol use can affect the risk of developing oral cancer.
Anything that increases the chance of getting a disease is called a risk factor. Having a risk factor does not mean that you will get cancer; not having risk factors doesn't mean that you will not get cancer. People who think they may be at risk should discuss this with their doctor. Risk factors for oral cancer include the following:
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Scientists study screening tests to find those with the fewest risks and most benefits. Cancer screening trials also are meant to show whether early detection (finding cancer before it causes symptoms) decreases a person's chance of dying from the disease. For some types of cancer, the chance of recovery is better if the disease is found and treated at an early stage.
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There is no standard or routine screening test for oral cancer.
Screening for oral cancer may be done during a routine check-up by a dentist or doctor. The exam will include looking for lesions, including areas of leukoplakia (an abnormal white patch of cells) and erythroplakia (an abnormal red patch of cells). Leukoplakia and erythroplakia lesions on the mucous membranes may become cancerous.
If lesions are seen in the mouth, the following procedures may be used to find abnormal tissue that might develop into oral cancer:
More than half of oral cancers have already spread to lymph nodes or other areas by the time they are found. No studies have been done to find out if screening would decrease the risk of dying from this disease.
Screening tests have risks.
Decisions about screening tests can be difficult. Not all screening tests are helpful and most have risks. Before having any screening test, you may want to discuss the test with your doctor. It is important to know the risks of the test and whether it has been proven to reduce the risk of dying from cancer.
The risks of oral cancer screening include the following:
Finding oral cancer may not improve health or help a person live longer.
Some cancers never cause symptoms or become life-threatening, but if found by a screening test, the cancer may be treated. Finding these cancers is called overdiagnosis. It is not known if treatment of these cancers would help you live longer than if no treatment were given, and treatments for cancer, such as surgery and radiation therapy, may have serious side effects.
Screening may also find oral cancers that have already spread and cannot be cured. When these cancers are found, treatment may cause serious side effects and not help a person live longer.
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In American Cities and the Great Divide (NYT, 5/22/07, Bob Herbert) describes how we've returned to a Gilded Age and cites an illustration where a high school student couldn't imagine a dinner for 4 in NYC costing $500. The student asked incredulously, 'How Much Can You Eat?'
Herbert points out that we've returned to a Gilded Age where for some the city is "paved for gold" and for others it is paved in "ash." Herbert observes that "One of the city's five counties, the Bronx, is the poorest urban county in the nation. The number of families in the city's homeless shelters is the highest it has been in a quarter of a century. Twenty-five percent of all families with children in New York City — that's 1.5 million New Yorkers — are trying to make it on incomes that are below the poverty threshold established by the federal government." This in contrast to the NYC wealthy where: "…8 million residents of New York City, and roughly 700,000 are worth a million dollars or more. The average price of a Manhattan apartment is $1.3 million." and "The annual earnings of the average hedge fund manager is $363 million."
In The widening gap between rich and poor: Which might have something to do with the rising rate of incivility in 2007 America" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/23/07, Dan Simpson), Simpson tried to understand why their is complacency about these gaps. Simpson describes the economic machines that are voraciously driven to get the poor having more credit cards and more shaky mortgages, but in many cases are insulated from the results when they turn financially sour — for example, the mortgage company has repackaged the mortgage and sold it off to another entity that has been compensated for the risk of non-repayment. Simpson laments that no one in the mortgage or real estate business really focuses on our common goal of home ownership, and regardless of defaults, they have made out well on the building, selling, and financing of millions of homes.
For sure some of our decline in caring about the other is wrapped up hand in hand with our declines in social capital. And the link between levels of social capital and equality is well established. [This is true across countries, across U.S. States and across periods of time, as chronicled in Bowling Alone.] This is because our level of trust in others (a close correlate of social capital) and our level of bridging social ties with others of different economic means determines whether we see the poor's economic problems as OUR problem or THEIRS.
Simpson observed that "[t]here are still enough remnants remaining of the so-called Protestant ethic at the core of American society for some to say that if people are in trouble, it is because they deserve to be in trouble. The absolutely feckless way that some people — even employed people — get themselves mired in debt beyond their ability ever to dig themselves out serves as illustration."
Simpson thinks that the 'cheery' financial news is a chimera: the unemployment rate ignores those that have long given up on finding work, the stock market is buoyed by market traders seeking short-term gains, the inflation rate under-measures actual increases in goods.
He concludes that there may be a relation between the yawning gap between rich and poor and the increasingly incivility, such as "methamphetamine and other drug abuse, identity theft, home 'invasions,' the burning of churches, petty and grand thievery, extreme religiosity, gambling and child and elderly abuse that defies belief. Some of it looks like urban Victorian England. But so do our rich resemble the lords of those days in their economic distance from the poor." And Simpson quotes Officer Krupke (West Side Story) who observed 'they are depraved because they are deprived.'