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Anti and pro-Trump protesters face off in Pershing Square rally – LA Daily News http://dlvr.it/PzG67s 

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Zero Sum Game?

“Dead-enders?” Relativity.  Vikings and my biological paternal grandmother.

Thanks Danny Harrison.

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Chinese/Sufi Parable:

“If you lost your key in the house, why are you looking for it under the street lamp?”

“The power is out.”

Banks and other financial institutions cannot monitor every $100 transaction or notice every time someone with a potentially suspicious background rents a truck.  Yet because countering terrorist financing remains the job of treasuries and finance ministries, governments will keep looking in the wrong places.  As the saying goes, ‘If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.’  As long as these ministries are in charge, that will not change.

Peter Neumann Foreign Affairs, NOV/DEC 2017 at 150

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