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COMMENT: Martin, In many ways I’ve long viewed your work as the reverse side of Shrodinger’s cat — more able to predict the time upon which events that will turn out to have been of significance will occur than what those events will be.  One thought I’ve pondered reading through your material over the last few […]

QUESTION:  Hi, Are random events truly possible? Doesn’t the connection of events mean that specific events aren’t random? I seem to get randomly selected by government for the same things at a rate that would appear to exceed probability.  Like random jury duty every time I’m eligible for last 30 years. Or random selected audits […]

  We have been getting a lot of emails asking if we will provide a manual and what exactly will be included in the various stages. We have so much work to do with front-end delivery systems besides trying to get four books out this year. So to say I have a full plate is […]

  QUESTION: Can a computer be better than human analysis? ANSWER: Yes. Why? Because NOBODY can be 100% all the time and NOBODY can purge all bias or presumption. It is a hard thing to do. People have come to our conferences NOT to hear my personal opinion, but to hear what the computer has concluded. […]

COMMENT FROM AUSTRALIA: Hi Marty, Australians are going through their own process of revulsion at the behaviour of politicians. Our Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is finding the dirt connecting both sides of politics. http://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/investigations/current-investigations http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-09/eddie-obeid-gives-evidence-to-icac/5378276 http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/ian-macdonald-found-corrupt-by-icac-again-20130830-2surh.html http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/icac-arthur-sinodinos-stood-to-make-tens-of-millions-from-australian-water-holdings-deal-20140317-34×89.html http://www.news.com.au/national/icac-grills-premier-barry-ofarrell-over-missing-3000-bottle-of-grange/story-fncynjr2-1226885756117 REPLY: It is systemic – it is everywhere. Republics ALWAYS degenerate into oligarchies without exception.

During the 1990s, Bill Kristol who had been a chief of staff in the White House administration during the Bush Sr Administration, was starting his magazine the Weekly Standard. To help him out, we took the back cover on a weekly basis to help him launch his magazine. I believe we were his first advertiser. […]

A ton of questions have been coming in. Why the name? I have always called him Socrates from the first day he spoke. Read the Apology of Socrates written by Plato where he was condemned to death for basically knowing too much. The Oracle of Delphi was asked who was the smartest man in all […]

by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett   Socrates’ Defense How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was – such was the effect of them; and yet they have hardly spoken a […]