tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post512439058769130204..comments2024-03-28T06:07:03.667-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: THE OLD PHILOSOPHER RETURNS, OR THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY APARTMENT.Robert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-14729222307044414582017-07-03T16:29:27.699-04:002017-07-03T16:29:27.699-04:00Kew Gardens. Haven't been there in ages. I wen...Kew Gardens. Haven't been there in ages. I went to high school (early 80s) in Fresh Meadows, not too far away from there. My orthodontist was in Kew Gardens. I would make trips out there every few weeks for him to adjust my braces. He'd be screaming, "CONFESS! CONFESS!" as he turned the screws, or so it seemed at the time.<br /><br />Anyway, here's a vintage photo of Kew Gardens that I came across recently: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Bohack.jpgmesnenorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10813095598060277786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-62838948526809639442017-07-03T11:10:57.017-04:002017-07-03T11:10:57.017-04:00Thanks. Do you think we really need 17? It's...Thanks. Do you think we really need 17? It's easy to see how the mistake could have been made--if DNI wasn't deliberately trying to make it appear that way. In any event, good to have cleared up. The fact remains that the agencies most concerned with this have come to the conclusion that the Russians were interfering. My guess is that they saw Trump as their tool because of his financial ties to Russian banks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01601151117159492920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-83826995678818523302017-07-03T08:40:39.277-04:002017-07-03T08:40:39.277-04:00David,
They are listed here:
https://en.wikiped...David, <br /><br />They are listed here:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_CommunityJerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-67623657392049027132017-07-03T07:00:15.746-04:002017-07-03T07:00:15.746-04:00I'm wondering what the 17 intelligence agencie...I'm wondering what the 17 intelligence agencies are. DNI, CIA, FBI and NSA are four. The Army, Navy, and Air Force each of intelligence branches and that would make seven. DoD also does. That's eight. What are the other nine?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01601151117159492920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-12697782757637369182017-07-03T01:37:17.205-04:002017-07-03T01:37:17.205-04:00from the NYTs:
A White House Memo article on Mond...from the NYTs:<br /><br />A White House Memo article on Monday about President Trump’s deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia orchestrated hacking attacks during last year’s presidential election. The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the American intelligence community.<br /><br />This itself isn't correct either: the DNI only coordinated the reports of the other three agencies and in those agencies, the analyses were delivered by "hand-picked" (read pro Hillary) analysts.<br /><br />Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-74772016296007945742017-07-03T01:29:51.800-04:002017-07-03T01:29:51.800-04:00oops here's the link:
http://news.antiwar.co...oops here's the link:<br /><br />http://news.antiwar.com/2017/07/01/new-york-times-ap-retract-false-claims-on-intel-report-on-russia-hacking/Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-52239117039929243912017-07-02T11:36:29.465-04:002017-07-02T11:36:29.465-04:00As a compulsive Eeyore, I add the following:
&quo...As a compulsive Eeyore, I add the following:<br /><br />"Among the most oft-repeated claims of the entire Russia election hacking scandal is that of absolute unanimity among US intelligence agencies, with media and politicians regularly claiming that 'all 17 US intelligence agencies have agreed that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump.' It’s not true. Nearly a year into the hacking scandal, both the New York Times and the Associated Press are finally copping to the fact that this allegation is untrue, and retracting it outright."<br /><br />https://www.google.it/search?q=tigger&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=5Q9ZWbevJsak6ATCxbH4Cw#q=tigger+vs<br /><br />This, it seems to me, gives our mentally unbalanced President fodder for his "fake news" canon. Perhaps it would behoove the Democratic leadership to tear into Trump's policies - day after day - and get behind not just the Resistance, but the Transformation, single-payer perhaps? Seems rather elementary.Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-43962223894433409822017-07-02T08:22:34.955-04:002017-07-02T08:22:34.955-04:00Trump is Smerdyakov is to a lot more in America th...Trump is Smerdyakov is to a lot more in America than just the GOP.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-87709473986658023542017-07-01T23:31:16.731-04:002017-07-01T23:31:16.731-04:00A propos, Professor Wolff's son evidently agre...A propos, Professor Wolff's son evidently agrees with him: Trump is Smerdyakov to the GOP's Ivan. <br />Charles Pigdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01131765562671298571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-84358848475017928652017-07-01T21:26:21.004-04:002017-07-01T21:26:21.004-04:00David Palmeter,
What you say about the Pentagon u...David Palmeter,<br /><br />What you say about the Pentagon under Nixon is very heartening and let's hope that the same sort of rationality still prevails there now.<br /><br />Like you, I've been rereading classics. I'm about to finish the Brothers Karamavoz. I had to skim or even skip some of the Christian stuff this time, but after that, I'm off to more Dostoyevsky. I hadn't realized until now what a great literary craftsman and story-teller Dostoyevsky is.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-67026840835532102092017-07-01T21:03:50.561-04:002017-07-01T21:03:50.561-04:00First, welcome back Professor. You've been mi...First, welcome back Professor. You've been missed. I don't have the capacity right now to respond to the substance or your or Tobias's comments, but they are welcome just the same. I've become so overloaded with Trump and his atrocities that I've been reading all sorts of other things, rather than the newspapers--Beowulf, John Gardner's Grendel, telling the story from the monster's point of view, Ferlinghetti's Coney Island of the Mind--anything but current events. Just finished a re-read of Ulysses and have Moby Dick on the top of the pile to read next. Maybe I'll just go put my head in the sand until it all goes away.<br /><br />S. Wallerstein--it wouldn’t be the first time we had to rely on DOD to preserve democracy. During Watergate, James Schlesinger, the Sec. of Defense, became concerned that Nixon would become so unhinged that he would do something drastic. Schlesinger gave orders that no order for military action originating in the White House should be acted on without the prior approval of himself or Kissinger. (I know--Kissinger; but he was more sane than Nixon). Schlesinger also had military plans drawn up to insure a peaceful transition in case of Nixon’s refusal to accept a conviction of impeachment from the Senate. <br /> <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01601151117159492920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-58141069932997617072017-07-01T16:48:36.074-04:002017-07-01T16:48:36.074-04:00Welcome back!
I have no idea whether the senior m...Welcome back!<br /><br />I have no idea whether the senior military could or would refuse to carry out an irrational order from the President. It's a sad day when we on the left depend on the Pentagon to save us, but that the way things are. <br /><br />Your son seems to believe that Trump will not last 4 years in the White House nor quite possibly will Pence. He may well be right. <br /><br />My crystal ball takes Saturdays off (it's Jewish), so I have no idea what the future will bring. s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.com