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COMMENT: On Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 28, Dave pre­sent­ed is fifth and final set of three talks for Sep­tem­ber.

In what might be termed “Auschwitz Nation,” Mr. Emory read the dark­ly mov­ing account of life in Auschwitz by the late Pri­mo Levi.

Recount­ing how respons­es were pro­vid­ed to the new arrivals at Auschwitz by SS men using sub­dued, mea­sured tones, the inmates found their words reas­sur­ing.

When asked by new­ly arrived inmates about tak­ing their lug­gage with them, they were told: “Lug­gage after­wards.” When they asked about stay­ing with their wives, they were told: “Togeth­er again after­wards.” When moth­ers expressed the desire to stay with their young chil­dren, they were told: “Good, good, go with chil­dren.”

The arrivals nev­er got their lug­gage, nev­er reunit­ed with their wives and the moth­ers who went with their chil­dren shared the fate of the oth­er old and/or frail inmates and young chil­dren.

All were gassed at Birke­nau straight away.

Mr. Emory not­ed the pow­er­ful Wall Street fig­ures who cre­at­ed Auschwitz, espe­cial­ly the Bush fam­i­ly. Those who cre­at­ed the camp were at the epi­cen­ter of 20^th and 21^st cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can pol­i­tics, indus­try and finance.

After not­ing the dev­as­tat­ing effect of Trump’s Big Beau­ti­ful Bill on health care, Mr. Emory not­ed Trump’s cre­ation of an “AI Force” and dire warn­ings from AI crit­ics about what the tech­nolo­gies por­tend.

Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Includes: A law­suit by sur­viv­ing Auschwitz inmates argu­ing that the exter­mi­na­tion of 400,000 Hun­gar­i­an Jews could have been pre­vent­ed by U.S. mil­i­tary action which was appar­ent­ly blocked by pow­er­ful Wall Street actors; Warn­ings by AI expert Gary Mar­cus about Ope­nAI and Sam Altman’s appar­ent lack of prop­er restraint; Mar­cus’ alarm about the lat­est AI mod­els being released; Trump allies and pro­po­nents’ advo­ca­cy of AI secre­cy, com­bined with a “full-speed-ahead” devel­op­ment dynam­ic; White House Office of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy direc­tor Michael Krat­sios and his strong links with the Peter Thiel polit­i­cal and finan­cial machine; George W. Bush’s Harken Ener­gy; The employ­ment of Pri­mo Levi at an I.G. Far­ben plant designed to pro­duce syn­thet­ic rub­ber; Review of the Jas­co Agree­ment between I.G. Far­ben, Stan­dard Oil and Dupont that gave the Ger­mans the tech­nol­o­gy to pro­duce Buna (syn­thet­ic rub­ber).