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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Book recommendation. I’d read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago years ago, never realizing how much more he’d written. That one work is an incredible revelation of his personal history with Stalin’s political prison system in the 1940s-50s, but he wrote so much … Continue reading

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“Would you like the $9,400 CT scan or the $450 CT scan?”

  “Would you like the $9,400 CT scan or the $450 CT scan?”      We’re not all careful. Some of us ride motorcycles on the highway,… recklessly. A nephew ended up at a Level I trauma center in Houston, Texas, … Continue reading

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Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, by Michael Scheuer

  Mr Scheuer is an insider, ex-CIA, an expert for decades on anti-terrorism, even prior to the attack on the Towers in 2001. He says things, and critiques in ways, that the Establishment does not tolerate from others because those … Continue reading

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The War on Cash: India version

I’m referencing an enlightening zerohedge article on the topic today: “‘There’s Chaos Everywhere’ – Indians Angry As ATMs Run Dry After Cash Ban” This is Governments’ and Big Banks’ continued war on cash, India version. As powermongers and money-lusters continue … Continue reading

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Edward Snowden Addresses The US Election Result In Public Webcast

Mr. Snowden, considered an enemy of the state by some, is a hero, patriot and statesmen for others of us. His whistleblowing from inside the US Surveillance Apparatus revealed illegal, unconstitutional and immoral secret activities by the US government against … Continue reading

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A Nation Divided: maybe that’s the point.

  I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t vote for either (or any) of them – for reasons economic, philosophic, and moral. None could enunciate a consistent philosophy of civil liberties and personal freedoms, of privacy, of respect for the individual, … Continue reading

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The Intellectual Yet Idiot by Nassim Taleb

Great article on the highly “educated,” yet extremely vision-limited, pseudo-intellectual class of idiots which collude to rule the world, impose their ideology and views on the vast majority of regular humanity, and have no insight into the endless harm done … Continue reading

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Democracy Is War By Other Means

Referencing a zerohedge article from this morning. Democracy has been hi-jacked by Gov and its political forces. Co-opted for its own well-being. Turned on its head, from a method of public representation to one of citizen control. “Democratic politics is … Continue reading

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Amnesty Report: ISIS armed with U.S. Weapons

From a CNN report some months ago, but increasingly relevant in a terror war that has no end – perhaps of purposeful design. Decades and decades of filling the Middle East with US weapons, of funding and arming and training … Continue reading

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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War – James Risen

James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter with the NY Times (despite their many efforts to suppress his work), has written an enlightening, although in no way surprising, account of the mismanagement, greed and idiocy involved in the War … Continue reading

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