Ridiculously so – there is a small cabal of a few dozen people (Swedish men, mainly) who write the majority of international pop hits and she is in that cabal, like Carole King on elephant steroids.
"Stalin was way worse than Hitler," he continued, "that's why the Potus gotta wear a kippa," suggesting Barack Obama is in thrall to some cabal of Jewish global overlords.
Once a sender is blacklisted by this cabal, the majority of its e-mail is bounced back, marked as undeliverable.
I can't believe that a person like Wolfowitz or Cheney or whoever it was in the neocon cabal would allow themselves to be manipulated in this way.
Every successful writer is part of this cabal.
And obviously, we'll need to be constantly inculcating people in this cabal, including people who aren't even born yet.
At least we can draw comfort from the fact that this terrifying power to sway the emotional state of millions is in the right hands: an anonymous cabal of secret experimenters who don't know what "empathy" is.
Where Yellen falls short, however, is in her connections to any particular cabal.
New members are elected by existing members through a multistage system almost chesslike in complexity, meaning that no one person or small cabal is in charge, and no "quotas" or "preferences" can be demanded.
It was also what happened to Helmut Schmidt in 1982, when the FDP broke away from its coalition with his SPD.If such a plot is in the works now, a prospective cabal will find a lot of support.
