Title: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 06:53:41 AM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 06:53:41 AM
Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson delivers the red pills his readers know him for, showing you the facts, statistics, and analysis that the mainstream media have worked so hard to hide
Description:
If you heard that one president deported more people than any other president, started the program of family separation, and did nothing to stop Russia's election meddling, how many of them would guess it was Obama?
In 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know Jerome Hudson dives deeply into the things Americans are not supposed to realize. Many of our most hotly debate topics are shaped by Davos power brokers, woke college professors, TV talking heads, social media activists and feckless Washington swamp monsters who want you to only follow their narrative.
Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell you:
Racial minorities fare far better in the absence of race-based affirmative action policies.
Latinos make up a little more than 50% of the Border Patrol, according to 2016 data.
The U.S. settled more refugees in 2017 than any other nation.
Between 2011 and 2016, the IRS documented 1.3 million identity thefts by Illegal aliens.
Half of federal arrests are immigration-related.
Welfare recipients in 34 states earn more than a person making minimum wage.
Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people in less than two years.
1,700 private jets flew to Davos to discuss the impact of global warming.
Google could swing an election by secretly adjusting its search algorithm, and we would have no way of knowing.
Once you're done reading 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know, you'll never trust the powers that be to give you the whole truth again.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 06:57:42 AM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 06:57:42 AM
Follow the money, find the truth. That's Michelle Malkin's journalistic mantra, and in her stunning new book, Open Borders Inc., she puts it to work with a shocking, comprehensive exposé of who's behind our immigration crisis.
In the name of compassion—but driven by financial profit—globalist elites, Silicon Valley, and the radical Left are conspiring to undo the rule of law, subvert our homeland security, shut down free speech, and make gobs of money off the backs of illegal aliens, refugees, and low-wage guest workers.
Politicians want cheap votes or cheap labor. Church leaders want pew-fillers and collection plate donors. Social justice militants, working with corporate America, want to silence free speech they deem "hateful," while raking in tens of millions of dollars promoting mass, uncontrolled immigration both legal and illegal.
Malkin names names—from Pope Francis to George Clooney, from George Soros to the Koch brothers, from Jack Dorsey to Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg. Enlightening as it is infuriating, Open Borders Inc. reveals the powerful forces working to erase America.
Review
"Michelle Malkin has the courage and clarity of vision to articulate exactly what needs to be said and done about America's immigration crisis.... Best of all, she offers a Border Defenders Action Plan for those who are determined to protect and defend America as a free and peaceful society." -- ROBERT SPENCER, author of the bestsellers The History of Jihad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)
"With trademark Malkin ferocity, Open Borders Inc. promises readers an unflinching look at the players who are bankrolling the fight for open borders." -- ROY BECK, founder of NumbersUSA Action
"Michelle Malkin brings us hard-hitting facts and incisive analysis—all thoroughly documented.... Essential reading." -- CHRISTOPHER J. FARRELL, Director of Investigations & Research, Judicial Watch
"With Open Borders Inc., Malkin uses her skill as one of the few effective, veteran investigative journalists on the right to issue one final clarion call on behalf of We the People." -- DANIEL HOROWITZ, author of Stolen Sovereignty
"Michelle Malkin is not a pretty little Filipino girl. That's just what she looks like. Her personality is more like Charles Bronson in Death Wish. When the alt-left's chant of 'No borders—No Wall—No USA at all' went mainstream, Michelle went ballistic, and this book is a veritable reball of finely tuned arguments that beautifully counter the new wave of anti- Americanism. If any book could save America from itself, this is it." -- GAVIN McINNES, co-founder of VICE, founder of the Proud Boys, host of FreeSpeech.TV
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 07:20:33 AM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 07:20:33 AM
Use this thread to plug books you like. I will get the ball rolling.Quote from: "Herman"(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062932532/x400.jpg%22%3Ehttps://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062932532/x400.jpg%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson delivers the red pills his readers know him for, showing you the facts, statistics, and analysis that the mainstream media have worked so hard to hide
Description:
If you heard that one president deported more people than any other president, started the program of family separation, and did nothing to stop Russia's election meddling, how many of them would guess it was Obama?
In 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know Jerome Hudson dives deeply into the things Americans are not supposed to realize. Many of our most hotly debate topics are shaped by Davos power brokers, woke college professors, TV talking heads, social media activists and feckless Washington swamp monsters who want you to only follow their narrative.
Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell you:
Racial minorities fare far better in the absence of race-based affirmative action policies.
Latinos make up a little more than 50% of the Border Patrol, according to 2016 data.
The U.S. settled more refugees in 2017 than any other nation.
Between 2011 and 2016, the IRS documented 1.3 million identity thefts by Illegal aliens.
Half of federal arrests are immigration-related.
Welfare recipients in 34 states earn more than a person making minimum wage.
Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people in less than two years.
1,700 private jets flew to Davos to discuss the impact of global warming.
Google could swing an election by secretly adjusting its search algorithm, and we would have no way of knowing.
Once you're done reading 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know, you'll never trust the powers that be to give you the whole truth again.
Good thread Herman. When Blurt returns, he will probably recommend a book or two.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Frood on September 22, 2019, 08:28:02 AM
Post by: Frood on September 22, 2019, 08:28:02 AM
From Wikipedia
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a partly autobiographical book written by John Perkins published in 2004. It provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. According to Perkins, his job at Main was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects that would primarily help the richest families and local elites, rather than the poor, while making sure that these projects were contracted to U.S. companies. Later these loans would give the U.S. political influence and access to natural resources for U.S. companies.[1] He characterizes his role as being an "economic hit man." Although he states that throughout his career he has always worked for private companies, and suggests a system of corporatocracy and greed, rather than a single conspiracy, he claims the involvement of the National Security Agency (NSA), with whom he had interviewed for a job before joining Main. According to the author, this interview effectively constituted an independent screening which led to his subsequent hiring as an economic hit man by Einar Greve,[2] a vice president of the firm (and alleged NSA liaison).Quote
I saw much of this sort of thing in the 70s and 80s with family members doing the same work knowingly but probably unknowingly so it wasn't a complete shock but I appreciated someone actually saying it outloud and drawing the connections.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 08:45:43 AM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 08:45:43 AM
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From WikipediaConfessions of an Economic Hit Man is a partly autobiographical book written by John Perkins published in 2004. It provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. According to Perkins, his job at Main was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects that would primarily help the richest families and local elites, rather than the poor, while making sure that these projects were contracted to U.S. companies. Later these loans would give the U.S. political influence and access to natural resources for U.S. companies.[1] He characterizes his role as being an "economic hit man." Although he states that throughout his career he has always worked for private companies, and suggests a system of corporatocracy and greed, rather than a single conspiracy, he claims the involvement of the National Security Agency (NSA), with whom he had interviewed for a job before joining Main. According to the author, this interview effectively constituted an independent screening which led to his subsequent hiring as an economic hit man by Einar Greve,[2] a vice president of the firm (and alleged NSA liaison).Quote
I saw much of this sort of thing in the 70s and 80s with family members doing the same work knowingly but probably unknowingly so it wasn't a complete shock but I appreciated someone actually saying it outloud and drawing the connections.
Seems like it would be one of those books you cannnot put down once you start reading. China is doing the same thing throughout the developing world.
And by the way, it is good to see you here again.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 09:29:11 AM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 09:29:11 AM
Use this thread to plug books you like. I will get the ball rolling.Quote from: "Herman"(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062932532/x400.jpg%22%3Ehttps://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062932532/x400.jpg%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson delivers the red pills his readers know him for, showing you the facts, statistics, and analysis that the mainstream media have worked so hard to hide
Description:
If you heard that one president deported more people than any other president, started the program of family separation, and did nothing to stop Russia's election meddling, how many of them would guess it was Obama?
In 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know Jerome Hudson dives deeply into the things Americans are not supposed to realize. Many of our most hotly debate topics are shaped by Davos power brokers, woke college professors, TV talking heads, social media activists and feckless Washington swamp monsters who want you to only follow their narrative.
Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell you:
Racial minorities fare far better in the absence of race-based affirmative action policies.
Latinos make up a little more than 50% of the Border Patrol, according to 2016 data.
The U.S. settled more refugees in 2017 than any other nation.
Between 2011 and 2016, the IRS documented 1.3 million identity thefts by Illegal aliens.
Half of federal arrests are immigration-related.
Welfare recipients in 34 states earn more than a person making minimum wage.
Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people in less than two years.
1,700 private jets flew to Davos to discuss the impact of global warming.
Google could swing an election by secretly adjusting its search algorithm, and we would have no way of knowing.
Once you're done reading 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know, you'll never trust the powers that be to give you the whole truth again.
I am pissed off.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 01:53:01 PM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 01:53:01 PM
Use this thread to plug books you like. I will get the ball rolling.Quote from: "Herman"(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062932532/x400.jpg%22%3Ehttps://i.harperapps.com/covers/9780062932532/x400.jpg%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson delivers the red pills his readers know him for, showing you the facts, statistics, and analysis that the mainstream media have worked so hard to hide
Description:
If you heard that one president deported more people than any other president, started the program of family separation, and did nothing to stop Russia's election meddling, how many of them would guess it was Obama?
In 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know Jerome Hudson dives deeply into the things Americans are not supposed to realize. Many of our most hotly debate topics are shaped by Davos power brokers, woke college professors, TV talking heads, social media activists and feckless Washington swamp monsters who want you to only follow their narrative.
Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell you:
Racial minorities fare far better in the absence of race-based affirmative action policies.
Latinos make up a little more than 50% of the Border Patrol, according to 2016 data.
The U.S. settled more refugees in 2017 than any other nation.
Between 2011 and 2016, the IRS documented 1.3 million identity thefts by Illegal aliens.
Half of federal arrests are immigration-related.
Welfare recipients in 34 states earn more than a person making minimum wage.
Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people in less than two years.
1,700 private jets flew to Davos to discuss the impact of global warming.
Google could swing an election by secretly adjusting its search algorithm, and we would have no way of knowing.
Once you're done reading 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know, you'll never trust the powers that be to give you the whole truth again.
Good thread Herman.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on September 22, 2019, 08:35:00 PM
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on September 22, 2019, 08:35:00 PM
1 - Be proactive
Take responsibility for your reaction to your experiences, take the initiative to respond positively and improve the situation. Recognize your Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern. Focus your responses and initiates on the center of your influence and constantly work to expand it. Don't sit and wait in a reactive mode, waiting for problems to happen (Circle of Concern) before taking action.
2 - Begin with the end in mind -
Envision what you want in the future so you can work and plan towards it. Understand how people make decisions in their life. To be effective you need to act based on principles and constantly review your mission statement. Are you - right now - who you want to be? What do I have to say about myself? How do you want to be remembered? If habit 1 advises changing your life to act and be proactive, habit 2 advises that you are the programmer! Grow and stay humble.
All things are created twice. Before we act, we should act in our minds first. Before we create something, we measure twice. This is what the principle is about. Do not just act; think first: Is this how I want it to go, and are these the correct consequences?
3 - Put first things first
Matrix of importance vs urgency that Stephen Covey and Dwight D. Eisenhower used in deciding where to invest their efforts.
Talks about difference between leadership and management. Leadership in the outside world begins with personal vision and personal leadership. Talks about what is important and what is urgent. Priority should be given in the following order (in brackets are the corresponding actions from the Eisenhower Matrix):
Quadrant I. Urgent and important (Do) – important deadlines and crises
Quadrant II. Not urgent but important (Plan) – long-term development
Quadrant III. Urgent but not important (Delegate) – distractions with deadlines
Quadrant IV. Not urgent and not important (Eliminate) – frivolous distractions
The order is important; after completing items in quadrant I, we should spend the majority of our time on II, but many people spend too much time in III and IV. The calls to delegate and eliminate are effective reminders of their relative priority.
If habit 2 advises that you are the programmer, habit 3 advises: write the program, become a leader! Keep personal integrity: what you say vs what you do.
4 - Think win-win
Genuine feelings for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and respect people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten their way. Think Win-Win isn't about being nice, nor is it a quick-fix technique. It is a character-based code for human interaction and collaboration.
5 - Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Use empathetic listening to genuinely understand a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to be influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, and positive problem-solving.
Habit 5 is greatly embraced in the Greek philosophy represented by 3 words:
1) Ethos -- your personal credibility. It's the trust that you inspire, your Emotional Bank Account.
2) Pathos is the empathetic side -- it's the alignment with the emotional trust of another person's communication.
3) Logos is the logic -- the reasoning part of the presentation.
The order is important: ethos, pathos, logos -- your character, and your relationships, and then the logic of your presentation.
6 - Synergize!
Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals that no one could have done alone.
7 - Sharpen the Saw; Growth
Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes exercise for physical renewal, good prayer (meditation, yoga, etc.) and good reading for mental renewal. It also mentions service to society for spiritual renewal.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 08:38:13 PM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 08:38:13 PM
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1 - Be proactive
Take responsibility for your reaction to your experiences, take the initiative to respond positively and improve the situation. Recognize your Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern. Focus your responses and initiates on the center of your influence and constantly work to expand it. Don't sit and wait in a reactive mode, waiting for problems to happen (Circle of Concern) before taking action.
2 - Begin with the end in mind -I practice this consistenly.
Envision what you want in the future so you can work and plan towards it. Understand how people make decisions in their life. To be effective you need to act based on principles and constantly review your mission statement. Are you - right now - who you want to be? What do I have to say about myself? How do you want to be remembered? If habit 1 advises changing your life to act and be proactive, habit 2 advises that you are the programmer! Grow and stay humble.
All things are created twice. Before we act, we should act in our minds first. Before we create something, we measure twice. This is what the principle is about. Do not just act; think first]
It's an older book most people have heard of..
Good choice Azhya.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on September 22, 2019, 08:46:45 PM
Post by: @realAzhyaAryola on September 22, 2019, 08:46:45 PM
It's an older book most people have heard of..
Good choice Azhya.
I know. Herman did not say it has to be a new book. He said to post books we like. I like this then and now.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 08:51:03 PM
Post by: Anonymous on September 22, 2019, 08:51:03 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Gaon on September 22, 2019, 09:08:05 PM
Post by: Gaon on September 22, 2019, 09:08:05 PM
By terrorism expert Rachel Ehrenfeld, uncovers the clandestine and sinister ways that Islamic terrorist groups finance their global network. Terrorist have grown increasingly savvy in ways to bolster their financial power. Dr. Ehrenfeld's investigation also details how these undected billions are spent to bring about chaos and destabilization. Funding Evil offers realistic and provocative strategies for winning the war on terror.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Blazor on September 23, 2019, 01:50:32 PM
Post by: Blazor on September 23, 2019, 01:50:32 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Thiel on September 24, 2019, 06:13:17 PM
Post by: Thiel on September 24, 2019, 06:13:17 PM
In 1776, the colonists declared Independence from England in large part due to the many onerous Acts thrust upon them by Parliament including the Stamp Act in 1765 the Tea Act in 1773. The combination of these burdensome Acts on the colonies coupled with "Intolerable Acts" that severely limited the colonists Liberties, America rebelled. America won her liberty finally in 1783, only to see American's freedoms put in a permanent state of peril with the successful progressive class warfare argument that resulted in the 16th Amendment in 1913.
Politicians and government bureaucrats discovered, is they can manipulate the 71,000+ page tax code to reward their cronies and punish their enemies.
The legacy of the IRS is one of scandals, malfeasance, criminality, incompetence and terror – yet Americans, for the most part tolerate it. Why? The history of IRS abuses of common citizens is legendary, and the stories you will read in this book are chilling.
Why has the IRS become "weaponized", spending $11 million on guns and ammo in the last 10 years? Surely Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams would have never let such an abusive form of government exist in the United States. Why do we?
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Blazor on September 24, 2019, 09:41:51 PM
Post by: Blazor on September 24, 2019, 09:41:51 PM
Why has the IRS become "weaponized", spending $11 million on guns and ammo in the last 10 years?
I remember this happening. Shelves were empty of ammo here due to manufacture demand under government contract.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 12:24:19 PM
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 12:24:19 PM
Why has the IRS become "weaponized", spending $11 million on guns and ammo in the last 10 years?
I remember this happening. Shelves were empty of ammo here due to manufacture demand under government contract.
Why would the American equivalent of the CRA use taxpayer money to buy guns and ammo?
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Blazor on September 25, 2019, 01:03:42 PM
Post by: Blazor on September 25, 2019, 01:03:42 PM
Why has the IRS become "weaponized", spending $11 million on guns and ammo in the last 10 years?
I remember this happening. Shelves were empty of ammo here due to manufacture demand under government contract.
Why would the American equivalent of the CRA use taxpayer money to buy guns and ammo?
Thats a very good question, now you're catching on, and not only that, but why the Social Security Administration got a bunch of hollow point bullets as well (forbidden by international law for use in war).
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 01:08:52 PM
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 01:08:52 PM
Why has the IRS become "weaponized", spending $11 million on guns and ammo in the last 10 years?
I remember this happening. Shelves were empty of ammo here due to manufacture demand under government contract.
Why would the American equivalent of the CRA use taxpayer money to buy guns and ammo?
I think a forensic audit of the CRA would reveal questionable spending too. Any government ministry that big will have financial impropriety.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 03:35:39 PM
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 03:35:39 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 05:44:43 PM
Post by: Anonymous on September 25, 2019, 05:44:43 PM
You're probably familiar with George Soros. You may be familiar with Tom Steyer. You may even know who their other billionaire buddies are on the Left, and which foundations they use to exert political pressure. But do you know how they organize their dollars and their organizations to have maximum impact, while shielding themselves from voter scrutiny and criminal charges? Behind the Curtain is a look into the murky world of dark money—massive amounts of it aligned to push a far-left agenda that would make even mainstream liberals shiver.
Behind the Curtain reveals the sordid web of limousine liberals and subversive billionaires in a chilling tale of power, greed, envy, and the politics of personal destruction. It is also the story of the lengths to which the organized Left will go to overturn the results of the 2016 election using the courts, a shadowy network of nonprofit organizations and consulting firms, and an increasingly compliant media.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Gaon on September 26, 2019, 06:23:06 PM
Post by: Gaon on September 26, 2019, 06:23:06 PM
If you only read one more book in your life, make it this one.Quote from: "iron horse jockey"(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NDvqpSxVL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%20...%203,200_.jpg%22%3Ehttps://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NDvqpSxVL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
You're probably familiar with George Soros. You may be familiar with Tom Steyer. You may even know who their other billionaire buddies are on the Left, and which foundations they use to exert political pressure. But do you know how they organize their dollars and their organizations to have maximum impact, while shielding themselves from voter scrutiny and criminal charges? Behind the Curtain is a look into the murky world of dark money—massive amounts of it aligned to push a far-left agenda that would make even mainstream liberals shiver.
Behind the Curtain reveals the sordid web of limousine liberals and subversive billionaires in a chilling tale of power, greed, envy, and the politics of personal destruction. It is also the story of the lengths to which the organized Left will go to overturn the results of the 2016 election using the courts, a shadowy network of nonprofit organizations and consulting firms, and an increasingly compliant media.
A good recommendation.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on October 04, 2019, 09:33:02 AM
Post by: Anonymous on October 04, 2019, 09:33:02 AM
Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author Kim Strassel argues how the all-out "Resistance" has become dangerously reckless in its obstruction of President Trump.
Among the most consistent and aggressive criticisms of Donald Trump is that he is a threat to American democracy -- a human wrecking ball demolishing our most basic values and institutions. Resistance (At All Costs) makes the opposite case -- that it is Trump's critics, in their zeal to oppose the president, who are undermining our foundations.
From the FBI's unprecedented counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, to bureaucratic sabotage, to media partisanship, to the drive-by character assassination of Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the president's foes have thrown aside norms, due process and the rule of law.
Resistance (At All Costs) shows that the reaction to Trump will prove far more consequential and damaging to our nation long-term than Trump's time in office.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on October 04, 2019, 12:20:18 PM
Post by: Anonymous on October 04, 2019, 12:20:18 PM
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Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author Kim Strassel argues how the all-out "Resistance" has become dangerously reckless in its obstruction of President Trump.
Among the most consistent and aggressive criticisms of Donald Trump is that he is a threat to American democracy -- a human wrecking ball demolishing our most basic values and institutions. Resistance (At All Costs) makes the opposite case -- that it is Trump's critics, in their zeal to oppose the president, who are undermining our foundations.
From the FBI's unprecedented counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, to bureaucratic sabotage, to media partisanship, to the drive-by character assassination of Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the president's foes have thrown aside norms, due process and the rule of law.
Resistance (At All Costs) shows that the reaction to Trump will prove far more consequential and damaging to our nation long-term than Trump's time in office.
Looks good
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Thiel on October 05, 2019, 08:35:03 PM
Post by: Thiel on October 05, 2019, 08:35:03 PM
Intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.
Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on October 06, 2019, 07:45:09 AM
Post by: Anonymous on October 06, 2019, 07:45:09 AM
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Intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.
Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
A classic.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Frood on October 07, 2019, 03:42:38 PM
Post by: Frood on October 07, 2019, 03:42:38 PM
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From WikipediaConfessions of an Economic Hit Man is a partly autobiographical book written by John Perkins published in 2004. It provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. According to Perkins, his job at Main was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects that would primarily help the richest families and local elites, rather than the poor, while making sure that these projects were contracted to U.S. companies. Later these loans would give the U.S. political influence and access to natural resources for U.S. companies.[1] He characterizes his role as being an "economic hit man." Although he states that throughout his career he has always worked for private companies, and suggests a system of corporatocracy and greed, rather than a single conspiracy, he claims the involvement of the National Security Agency (NSA), with whom he had interviewed for a job before joining Main. According to the author, this interview effectively constituted an independent screening which led to his subsequent hiring as an economic hit man by Einar Greve,[2] a vice president of the firm (and alleged NSA liaison).Quote
I saw much of this sort of thing in the 70s and 80s with family members doing the same work knowingly but probably unknowingly so it wasn't a complete shock but I appreciated someone actually saying it outloud and drawing the connections.
Seems like it would be one of those books you cannnot put down once you start reading. China is doing the same thing throughout the developing world.
And by the way, it is good to see you here again.
They are! They just call it Silk Road.
Asian peoole are good people but communist asian people are scum. They play the long game. I hope to snuff some of their lights out in my lifetime.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on October 07, 2019, 04:40:44 PM
Post by: Anonymous on October 07, 2019, 04:40:44 PM
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From WikipediaConfessions of an Economic Hit Man is a partly autobiographical book written by John Perkins published in 2004. It provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. According to Perkins, his job at Main was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects that would primarily help the richest families and local elites, rather than the poor, while making sure that these projects were contracted to U.S. companies. Later these loans would give the U.S. political influence and access to natural resources for U.S. companies.[1] He characterizes his role as being an "economic hit man." Although he states that throughout his career he has always worked for private companies, and suggests a system of corporatocracy and greed, rather than a single conspiracy, he claims the involvement of the National Security Agency (NSA), with whom he had interviewed for a job before joining Main. According to the author, this interview effectively constituted an independent screening which led to his subsequent hiring as an economic hit man by Einar Greve,[2] a vice president of the firm (and alleged NSA liaison).Quote
I saw much of this sort of thing in the 70s and 80s with family members doing the same work knowingly but probably unknowingly so it wasn't a complete shock but I appreciated someone actually saying it outloud and drawing the connections.
Seems like it would be one of those books you cannnot put down once you start reading. China is doing the same thing throughout the developing world.
And by the way, it is good to see you here again.
They are! They just call it Silk Road.ac_biggrin
Asian peoole are good people but communist asian people are scum. They play the long game. I hope to snuff some of their lights out in my lifetime.
Communism was never really a fit or East Asian people.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on October 08, 2019, 07:23:21 PM
Post by: Anonymous on October 08, 2019, 07:23:21 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Bricktop on October 08, 2019, 08:00:58 PM
Post by: Bricktop on October 08, 2019, 08:00:58 PM
I hope to snuff some of their lights out in my lifetime.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
And how will you do that, big boy?
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Bricktop on October 08, 2019, 08:05:02 PM
Post by: Bricktop on October 08, 2019, 08:05:02 PM
How about Grapes of Wrath. Do you guys have a problem with classics.Quote from: "Velvet"
Not I.
Les Miserables, Crime and Punishment, Lolita, War and Peace, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch, Fear, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Odd, that being English, I do not much enjoy British "classics". Dickens is torturous and many of the other revered classics are stodgy, dull and somewhat self indulgent. Classic British authors seem intent on glorifying the mundane and banal.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on October 08, 2019, 08:45:03 PM
Post by: Anonymous on October 08, 2019, 08:45:03 PM
How about Grapes of Wrath. Do you guys have a problem with classics.Quote from: "Velvet"
Not I.
Les Miserables, Crime and Punishment, Lolita, War and Peace, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch, Fear, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Odd, that being English, I do not much enjoy British "classics". Dickens is torturous and many of the other revered classics are stodgy, dull and somewhat self indulgent. Classic British authors seem intent on glorifying the mundane and banal.
Britain is a parasitical nation. As a matter of principle, I boycott all things British. Fuck France and Belgium too.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Bricktop on October 08, 2019, 08:57:15 PM
Post by: Bricktop on October 08, 2019, 08:57:15 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on October 09, 2019, 12:38:43 PM
Post by: Anonymous on October 09, 2019, 12:38:43 PM
Says she who lives in a former British colony with British cultural heritage and government.Quote from: "Bricktop"
A former French colony too.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 17, 2019, 06:45:59 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 17, 2019, 06:45:59 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 18, 2019, 09:26:25 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 18, 2019, 09:26:25 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Gaon on November 23, 2019, 07:42:55 PM
Post by: Gaon on November 23, 2019, 07:42:55 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Berry Sweet on November 23, 2019, 08:22:54 PM
Post by: Berry Sweet on November 23, 2019, 08:22:54 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 23, 2019, 08:29:59 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 23, 2019, 08:29:59 PM
I love books. I just started this one,Quote from: "Berry Sweet"(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://okawabooks.com/media/catalogue/imprint/irh_press/front/the-challenge-of-the-mind.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22https://okawabooks.com/media/catalogue/%20...%20e-mind.jpg%22%3Ehttps://okawabooks.com/media/catalogue/imprint/irh_press/front/the-challenge-of-the-mind.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Are you a Buddhist kid?
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Berry Sweet on November 23, 2019, 08:36:25 PM
Post by: Berry Sweet on November 23, 2019, 08:36:25 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 23, 2019, 08:47:33 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 23, 2019, 08:47:33 PM
No. I'm reading it for a positive influence, I guess you could say. The teachings are peaceful. IQuote from: "Berry Sweet"went to this Japanese garden in Portlandthis summer and I felt as peace, it was so pretty and they had some Buddhist stuff in the gift shop and I bought some things. I don't want religion and stupid beliefs in my life, I just want the enlightenment out of it. You know, inner peace.
That must've been delightful.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 24, 2019, 12:18:20 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 24, 2019, 12:18:20 PM
No. I'm reading it for a positive influence, I guess you could say. The teachings are peaceful. I went to this Japanese garden in Portland this summer and I felt as peace, it was so pretty and they had some Buddhist stuff in the gift shop and I bought some things. I don't want religion and stupid beliefs in my life, I just want the enlightenment out of it. You know, inner peace.Quote from: "Berry Sweet"
A book can give you inner peace.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 24, 2019, 04:27:26 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 24, 2019, 04:27:26 PM
No. I'm reading it for a positive influence, I guess you could say. The teachings are peaceful. I went to this Japanese garden in Portland this summer and I felt as peace, it was so pretty and they had some Buddhist stuff in the gift shop and I bought some things. I don't want religion and stupid beliefs in my life, I just want the enlightenment out of it. You know, inner peace.Quote from: "Berry Sweet"
A book can give you inner peace.
One book does that for me.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on December 05, 2019, 07:31:05 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 05, 2019, 07:31:05 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on December 05, 2019, 07:38:20 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 05, 2019, 07:38:20 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on January 06, 2020, 10:08:31 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 06, 2020, 10:08:31 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on January 15, 2020, 10:47:19 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 15, 2020, 10:47:19 PM
A miracle. Coal, oil and natural gas, the carbon-based fossil fuels that powered the Industrial Revolution and civilization's rapid advancement.
A menace. Climate change has how convinced many that carbon emissions are the world's greatest challenge.
The necessity and benefits of decarbonizing the global industrial and energy complex are well articulated. What is not explained is this will require the largest financial disruption in history, affecting everyone and everything.
For over a century Alberta's massive carbon resources have supported Alberta and Canada financially, helping make Canada the world's fifth-largest oil and gas producer. Carbon has been a major driver of prosperity, employment and opportunity, shaping the country we know today.
However, climate change is creating enormous challenges for Alberta - and Canada - with no possible outcomes that will satisfy all stakeholders.
Alberta has become ground zero for the changes many demand but few are willing to pay for. As the province demonstrates what carbon's future looks and feels like, unless the rest of the world participates Alberta has become a needless sacrifice.
From Miracle to Menace explains how Alberta came to be, the enormity of the planned financial dislocation, and how Alberta, and Canada, can meet the climate challenge without committing economic suicide....
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on April 11, 2020, 08:45:48 PM
Post by: Anonymous on April 11, 2020, 08:45:48 PM
The Once and Future Hegemon
In a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country
-that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago
-whose economic power rivals our own
-that believes its superior race and culture give it the right to universal deference
-that teaches its people to hate America for standing in the way of achieving its narcissistic "dream" of world domination
-that believes in its manifest destiny to usher in the World of Great Harmony
-which publishes maps showing the exact extent of the nuclear destruction it could rain down on the United States
Steven Mosher exposes the resurgent aspirations of the would-be hegemon—and the roots of China's will to domination in its five-thousand-year history of ruthless conquest and assimilation of other nations, brutal repression of its own people, and belligerence toward any civilization that challenges its claim to superiority.
The naïve idealism of our "China hands" has lulled America into a fool's dream of "engagement" with the People's Republic of China and its "peaceful evolution" toward democracy and freedom. Wishful thinking, says Mosher, has blinded us to the danger we face and left the world vulnerable to China's overweening ambitions.
Mosher knows China as few Westerners do. Having exposed as a visiting graduate student the monstrous practice of forced abortions, he became the target of the regime's crushing retaliation. His encyclopedic grasp of China's history and its present-day politics, his astute insights, and his bracing realism are the perfect antidote for our dangerous confusion about the Bully of Asia.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Blazor on April 13, 2020, 10:38:58 AM
Post by: Blazor on April 13, 2020, 10:38:58 AM
No. I'm reading it for a positive influence, I guess you could say. The teachings are peaceful. I went to this Japanese garden in Portland this summer and I felt as peace, it was so pretty and they had some Buddhist stuff in the gift shop and I bought some things. I don't want religion and stupid beliefs in my life, I just want the enlightenment out of it. You know, inner peace.Quote from: "Berry Sweet"
I TOTALLY get where you are coming from
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 31, 2020, 02:17:53 PM
Post by: Anonymous on May 31, 2020, 02:17:53 PM
he author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax picks up where that book ended with this hard-hitting, well-reasoned examination of the latest findings about "collusion" between the Trump Administration and the Russians, offering further proof that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is nothing more than a politically motivated witch hunt.
How did a small group of powerful intelligence officials convince tens of millions of Americans that the president is a traitor, without a shred of evidence?
Now that every detail and argument set forth in The Russia Hoax has been borne out by the Mueller report, Jarrett returns with Witch Hunt, providing a hard-hitting, well-reasoned evisceration of what may be the dirtiest trick in political history.
No marks have ever been as gullible as distraught Democrats in 2016. Washington insiders broke rule after rule investigating the president, chasing a conspiracy that turned out not to exist. Somehow this was spun into Donald Trump having something to hide. People associated with the president were pushed into plea deals that had nothing to do with Russian "collusion" or discouraged from serving by the threat of huge legal bills. Somehow this was spun into Trump's lawyers being bullies. The president complained that the investigation was a waste of time, but he allowed it to continue unimpeded to the end. Somehow this was spun into obstruction of justice.
In Witch Hunt, Gregg Jarrett uncovers the bureaucratic malfeasance and malicious politicization of our country's justice system. The law was weaponized for partisan purposes. Even though it was Hillary Clinton's campaign that collected and disseminated a trove of lies about Trump from a former British spy and Russian operatives, Democrats and the media spun this into a claim that Trump was working for the Russians.
Senior officials at the FBI, blinded by their political bias and hatred of Trump, went after the wrong person. At the DOJ, the deputy attorney general discussed secretly recording the president and recruiting members of the cabinet to depose Trump. Those behind the Witch Hunt have either been fired or resigned. Many of them are now under investigation for abuse of power. But what about the pundits who concocted wild narratives in real time on television, or the newspapers which covered the fact that rumors were being investigated without investigating the facts themselves?
Factual, highly persuasive, and damning, this must-read expose makes clear that not only was there no "collusion," but there was not even a basis for Mueller's investigation of the charge that has attacked Trump and his administration for more than two years. It's always been a Witch Hunt.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 31, 2020, 08:02:52 PM
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Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on June 14, 2020, 08:17:35 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 14, 2020, 08:17:35 PM
Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from the colonial period to the most up-to-date scholarship, the author challenges the widely held perception th at, while Christianity oppressed and subjugated the African people, Islam fitted comfortably into the indigenous landscape. Instead, this penetrating account reveals Muslim settlers to be as guilty of enforcing slavery and conversion as those of their more maligned sister tradition. Only with an acknowledgement of the true roles of both faiths in African history, suggests Azumah, can the people of both traditions move themselves and their continent towards a new future of tolerance and self-awareness
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Vancouver on June 16, 2020, 12:21:14 AM
Post by: Vancouver on June 16, 2020, 12:21:14 AM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on June 16, 2020, 01:03:31 AM
Post by: Anonymous on June 16, 2020, 01:03:31 AM
Our Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry released this book in 2009. It is a hot buy here in BC.(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41eOWVwcKuL.jpg%22%3Ehttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41eOWVwcKuL.jpg%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on June 21, 2020, 05:42:42 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 21, 2020, 05:42:42 PM
To effectively refute any lie, however large or small, it is first necessary to be properly informed. Toward this end, "The Myths That Divide Us" stands as a most important boo on the subject of America's enduring national dilemma -- race. This treatise offers -- in a clear, logical, and intrepid manner -- powerful evidence that the most serious social and economic problems afflicting black Americans are not due to societal racism, but rather to the tragic disintegration of the black family. By taking this position (which the author supports with hundreds of references to vital sociological, historical, and contemporary research), Perazzo's work differs markedly from the vast majority of books on race. While noting that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared as early as 1965 that the civil rights movement had already achieved its principal goals, Perazzo asserts that King's successors have nonetheless done everything in their power to keep alive the false perception that American society mistreats the black community in a host of ways, both overtly and covertly. "They contemptibly use their personal agendas to keep fueling the fire of racial enmity," he says. Perazzo contends that civil rights crusaders evaluate matters of race by two sets of standards. For instance, one chapter of his book discusses how these leaders relentlessly drew worldwide attention to the evils of South African apartheid during the 1980s, yet have said virtually nothing about the far greater atrocities perpetrated against black victims all over the African continent. Another chapter details how civil rights leaders have loudly denounced the white enslavement of blacks that occurred in a bygone age (and have gone so far as to demand that reparations be paid collectively to present-day blacks), yet they have remained silent about the black-on-black slavery that pervaded Africa since time immemorial. Indeed, these leaders refuse even to denounce the modern-day slavery that currently exists in some African nations. Closer to home, Perazzo demonstrates such major points as these: -- Notwithstanding civil rights agitators' irresponsible charges to the contrary, white racism in the United States has declined dramatically since the middle of the 20th century, to the point where the
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on July 21, 2020, 12:12:41 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 21, 2020, 12:12:41 PM
Governments around the world are in the early stages of a repositioning of power, as China rises and the United States is drawn into direct competition. However, some are beginning to wonder whether, for all of the economic benefits, engaging with China carries unseen dangers.
The Chinese Communist Party is now determined to reshape the world in its image. The party is not interested in democracy. It divides the world into those who can be won over and enemies. They have already lured many leaders to their corner; others are weighing up a devil's bargain.
Through its exercise of 'sharp power,' the party is weakening global institutions, aggressively targeting individual corporations, and threatening freedom of expression from the arts to academia. At the same time, security services are increasingly worried about incursions into our communications infrastructure. Indeed, the vaunted Great Firewall is a temporary measure, only necessary until the party has transformed the global conversation.
In December 2019, the CCP's obsession with social control led it to suppress expert warnings about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Most alarming for the West was the active collaboration of the WHO in spreading the CCP's version of events. It was a shocking example of the widespread co-optation of global institutions by the CCP, as described in Hidden Hand. As soon as Beijing thought it had the virus under control, it began a global propaganda blitz, presenting China's authoritarian system as a model for the rest of the world. Western media and pundits soon began echoing the Party line.
Hidden Hand is a detailed and devastating expose of Chinese Communist Party influence in the West, including Canada. It could not arrive at a better time in Canada, with relations between Ottawa and Beijing reaching breaking point after two years of mounting tension. China's bullying behaviour, and the mobilising of people loyal to the Chinese Communist Party on the streets of Canada's cities, has caused deep disquiet among Canadians.
But the government seems paralyzed. Hidden Hand shows how Canada's political, business, academic and cultural elites have over many years been co-opted by the Chinese Communist Party and its agencies. They are confused about what is in Canada's national interests and frequently do Beijing's bidding.
Hidden Hand shows how the Chinese Communist Party represents a profound threat to Western democracy. It's vital reading for Canadians who want to understand what is really happening, and points to a way of carving out a new diplomatic course with China. But the question remains: Does the government have the will to stand up to Beijing and its proxies in Canada or is it too late?
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 08, 2020, 01:25:58 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 08, 2020, 01:25:58 PM
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions.
But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die," contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.
Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.
Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions.
What's really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on November 18, 2020, 11:08:10 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 18, 2020, 11:08:10 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on January 03, 2021, 07:43:43 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 03, 2021, 07:43:43 PM
When the facts don't fit their Narrative, the media abandons the facts, not the Narrative. Virtually every piece of information you get through the media has been massaged, shaped, curated, and manipulated before it reaches you. Some of it is censored entirely. The news can no longer be counted on to reflect all the facts. Instead of telling us what happened yesterday, they tell us what's new in the prepackaged soap opera they've been calling the news.
For the past four years, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson has been collecting and dissecting alarming incidents tracing the shocking devolution of what used to be the most respected news organizations on the planet. For the first time, top news executives and reporters representing every major national television news outlet—from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to FOX and MSNBC—speak frankly, confiding in Attkisson about the death of the news as they once knew it. Their concern transcends partisan divides.
Most frightening of all, a broad campaign in the media has convinced many Americans not only to accept but to demand censorship over journalism. It is a stroke of genius on the part of those seeking to influence public opinion: undermine public confidence in the news, then insist upon "curating" information and divining the "truth." The thinking is done for you. They'll decide which pesky facts shouldn't cross your desk by declaring them false, irrelevant, debunked, unsafe, or out-of-bounds.
We have reached a state of utter absurdity, where journalism schools teach students that their own, personal truth or chosen narratives matter more than reality. In Slanted, Attkisson digs into the language of propagandists, the persistence of false media narratives, the driving forces behind today's dangerous blend of facts and opinion, the abandonment of journalism ethics, and the new, Orwellian definition of what it means to report the news.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on March 03, 2021, 04:32:32 PM
Post by: Anonymous on March 03, 2021, 04:32:32 PM
Children can no longer grow up innocent. At schools across America, destructive left-wing values dominate the curriculum. Children as young as three are inflicted with climate hysteria; told that the world will end soon because of the weather, which sends them into panic and despair. Climate hysteria is out of control. E is for Energy creatively and gently explains to children the truth about fossil fuels and the amazing blessing it is in their personal lives. The world will not end because of fossil fuels. This is a lie. Fossil fuels are actually the reason the modern world is able to function. This book sets the foundation for your child to think clearly and independently so they will not be seduced by the propaganda they are bound to face at school, and in the media and culture. Your child should be able to grow up happy. Protect them from climate hysteria.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on July 22, 2021, 10:56:40 AM
Post by: Anonymous on July 22, 2021, 10:56:40 AM
This book presents one chilling possibility, and it is every bit as relevant to our world today as George Orwell's masterpiece was in the aftermath of World War II.
This is a work of literary science fiction, one which has something important to say.
Stylistically, it is a work of mainstream fiction, focused on the journey of the protagonist and on the world in which she lives. It is surreal in places, heavily laced with satire, mystical realism, and even a bit of absurdism. In terms of subject matter, it lies squarely within the boundaries of the cyberpunk genre: virtual reality and sentient artificial intelligences are omnipresent, and our characters live much of their lives within a VR system that sometimes seems more real than reality itself. The virtual world and the AIs who live within it act as a mirror, reflecting our own existence. It is also a solid work of hard science fiction: everything it portrays is technologically feasible, and much of it is already part of our daily lives.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Thiel on May 01, 2022, 09:25:52 PM
Post by: Thiel on May 01, 2022, 09:25:52 PM
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world.
Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education.
False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong — and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 01, 2022, 09:42:51 PM
Post by: Anonymous on May 01, 2022, 09:42:51 PM
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How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world.
Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education.
False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong — and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
On Facebook, this would probably have the usual "see how the average temperature in your area is changing."
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Thiel on May 08, 2022, 04:42:55 PM
Post by: Thiel on May 08, 2022, 04:42:55 PM
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How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world.
Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education.
False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong — and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
Bjorn Lomborg is one of the most knwledgeable people on the costs of trying to slow climate change. He is also a gay man.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Breakfall on May 09, 2022, 02:33:50 AM
Post by: Breakfall on May 09, 2022, 02:33:50 AM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 09, 2022, 06:53:57 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 09, 2022, 06:53:57 AM
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He may have made up his story.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Breakfall on May 09, 2022, 06:55:13 AM
Post by: Breakfall on May 09, 2022, 06:55:13 AM
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He may have made up his story.
A bit of embellishment I'm sure...but a good read nevertheless.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Breakfall on May 21, 2022, 12:13:52 AM
Post by: Breakfall on May 21, 2022, 12:13:52 AM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 21, 2022, 12:28:56 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 21, 2022, 12:28:56 AM
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He may have made up his story.
A bit of embellishment I'm sure...but a good read nevertheless.
Did you see the remake of the movie?
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Breakfall on May 21, 2022, 12:32:06 AM
Post by: Breakfall on May 21, 2022, 12:32:06 AM
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He may have made up his story.
A bit of embellishment I'm sure...but a good read nevertheless.
Did you see the remake of the movie?
Yeah...not too bad. I actually preferred the original with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 21, 2022, 12:40:06 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 21, 2022, 12:40:06 AM
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He may have made up his story.
A bit of embellishment I'm sure...but a good read nevertheless.
Did you see the remake of the movie?
Yeah...not too bad. I actually preferred the original with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
Ditto. I preferred the original too.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Breakfall on May 22, 2022, 08:00:07 AM
Post by: Breakfall on May 22, 2022, 08:00:07 AM
Overview:
All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties–the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and murders.
When a gang of skinheads bash Davo's old school- friend to death simply because he was gay, and leave Davo almost dead in an intensive care unit, they unleash a crazed killer onto the city streets. Before the summer had ended, over thirty corpses had turned up in the morgue, leaving two bewildered detectives to find out where they were coming from.
Davo's Little Something is not for the squeamish. Although written with lashings of black humour the action is chillingly brutal–a story of a serial killer bent on avenging himself on the street tribes of Sydney...
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 22, 2022, 11:36:02 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 22, 2022, 11:36:02 AM
The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy
For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world's poorest people.
And contrary to what we hear from media "experts" about today's "renewable revolution" and "climate emergency," reality has proven Epstein right:
• Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts.
• Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.
• Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development.
What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive "human flourishing framework" to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at "climate mastery," and establishing "energy freedom" policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.
Today's pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the "anti-impact framework"—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media's designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Breakfall on May 23, 2022, 01:43:05 AM
Post by: Breakfall on May 23, 2022, 01:43:05 AM
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy
For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world's poorest people.
And contrary to what we hear from media "experts" about today's "renewable revolution" and "climate emergency," reality has proven Epstein right:
• Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts.
• Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.
• Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development.
What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive "human flourishing framework" to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at "climate mastery," and establishing "energy freedom" policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.
Today's pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the "anti-impact framework"—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media's designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
One needs to understand that we don't need anymore "human flourishing" as such. The world is overpopulated as it is. We are choking the entire planet.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 23, 2022, 03:59:01 PM
Post by: Anonymous on May 23, 2022, 03:59:01 PM
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy
For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world's poorest people.
And contrary to what we hear from media "experts" about today's "renewable revolution" and "climate emergency," reality has proven Epstein right:
• Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts.
• Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.
• Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development.
What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive "human flourishing framework" to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at "climate mastery," and establishing "energy freedom" policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.
Today's pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the "anti-impact framework"—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media's designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
One needs to understand that we don't need anymore "human flourishing" as such. The world is overpopulated as it is. We are choking the entire planet.
You tell black and brown folks that they can't have babies.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Breakfall on May 24, 2022, 02:13:39 AM
Post by: Breakfall on May 24, 2022, 02:13:39 AM
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy
For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world's poorest people.
And contrary to what we hear from media "experts" about today's "renewable revolution" and "climate emergency," reality has proven Epstein right:
• Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts.
• Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.
• Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development.
What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive "human flourishing framework" to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at "climate mastery," and establishing "energy freedom" policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.
Today's pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the "anti-impact framework"—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media's designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
One needs to understand that we don't need anymore "human flourishing" as such. The world is overpopulated as it is. We are choking the entire planet.
You tell black and brown folks that they can't have babies.
Back in the 80's the blacks thought a condom was white man's ploy to minimise their numbers so they wouldn't have majority rule. I know...it's like flogging a dead horse!
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on May 24, 2022, 12:36:11 PM
Post by: Anonymous on May 24, 2022, 12:36:11 PM
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy
For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world's poorest people.
And contrary to what we hear from media "experts" about today's "renewable revolution" and "climate emergency," reality has proven Epstein right:
• Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts.
• Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.
• Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development.
What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive "human flourishing framework" to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at "climate mastery," and establishing "energy freedom" policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.
Today's pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the "anti-impact framework"—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media's designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
One needs to understand that we don't need anymore "human flourishing" as such. The world is overpopulated as it is. We are choking the entire planet.
You tell black and brown folks that they can't have babies.
Back in the 80's the blacks thought a condom was white man's ploy to minimise their numbers so they wouldn't have majority rule. I know...it's like flogging a dead horse!
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on June 15, 2022, 10:33:28 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 15, 2022, 10:33:28 PM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on June 15, 2022, 10:47:53 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 15, 2022, 10:47:53 PM
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Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on June 30, 2022, 07:46:42 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 30, 2022, 07:46:42 PM
George Soros' web of influence is documented and exposed.
No one else in modern politics has anywhere near the power and influence of George Soros, both domestically and internationally. Backed by the tens of billions of dollars he's accumulated throughout his career, Soros has his hand in influencing the media, activist groups, colleges, presidential elections, global elections, local U.S. politics, and much more. Soros has earned himself a reputation as a "boogeyman" character on the right, and nowhere else will you read such an extensive documentation of his influence as in this book.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 01, 2022, 10:45:49 AM
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 01, 2022, 10:45:49 AM
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on July 01, 2022, 10:49:56 AM
Post by: Anonymous on July 01, 2022, 10:49:56 AM
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Is it an older book Oliver?
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 01, 2022, 02:44:52 PM
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 01, 2022, 02:44:52 PM
Is it an older book Oliver?
Yeah from 1967 back in the hippie days. Here's a quick summary -
Agent of Chaos posits a naive revolutionary group sometime in the distant future; they fight the Hegemony to bring democracy to the solar system. But the rebels and rulers contend with a third force, the unpredictable Brotherhood of Assassins—aka the Agents of Chaos. Fearless, cultish followers of the philosopher Gregor Markowitz, the Agents are guided by his Theory of Social Entropy. "Every Social Conflict," according to Markowitz, "is the arena for three mutually antagonistic forces": the Establishment, the anti-Establishment, and Chaos—the pervasive tendency for everything to screw up.
After reading Agent Of Chaos in 1973 Rex Weiner was inspired to create the group Agents of Pie-Kill which recruited agents to throw pies in the faces of famous people such as Gordon Liddy, Daniel Moynihan, William Shatner, David Frost and others. It became so big Time magazine called it "the biggest fad since streaking." -
I also find it interesting that The Joker refers to himself as "An agent of chaos" but I don't know if the book had anything to do with it.
If nothing else it's a fun little science fiction story. Give it a read if you get a chance.
Title: Re: Must Buy Books
Post by: Anonymous on July 01, 2022, 03:03:38 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 01, 2022, 03:03:38 PM