Archive for the 'Books' Category
Race Against the Machine
October 26th, 2011A few weeks ago, a reader sent me a gift, an ebook from Amazon. I don’t have a physical Kindle reader, so I downloaded the Kindle application for Windows and, in a few seconds, I was able to read the book. I went to look at the Amazon page for the book, A Zombie Prescription […]
State Department Shakes Down Employee of 23 Years Over Book Describing Absurd “Reconstruction” Antics in Iraq
October 19th, 2011We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People by Peter Van Buren Via: Tom’s Dispatch: On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables hemorrhaged out onto the Internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department career […]
Navigating NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
September 29th, 2011Very, very cool. Via: SF Signal: Over the summer, NPR solicited the input of its listeners to rank the top science fiction and fantasy books of all time. Over 60,000 people voted for the top picks which were then compiled into a list by their panel of experts. The result? This list of 100 books […]
Writer Urges Internet Junkies to ‘Switch Off’ and Think
May 30th, 2011The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Via: AFP: Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist — until he noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate. He set out his concerns in a […]
Bill Clinton Calls for Internet Ministry of Truth
May 19th, 2011Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed Via: Politico: Bill Clinton doesn’t like all the misinformation and rumors floating on the Internet. And he thinks the United Nations or the U.S. government should create an agency to do something about it. “It would be a legitimate thing to do,” Clinton said in an […]
Brave New World Among Top 10 Books Americans Most Want Banned
April 12th, 2011Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Via: Guardian: Banned in Ireland when it first appeared in 1932, and removed from shelves and objected to ever since, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is still making waves today. The novel of a dystopian future was one of the most complained about books in America last year, with […]
FAA Warns of Ongoing GPS Issues in Southeastern U.S. Due to Defense Department ‘Tests’
January 21st, 2011Interestingly (instinctively?), Cryptogon readers have been buying Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass by Harold Gatty for years. This one gets a tick in the Social Engineering box because of how the machine gets people to internalize and rely on whiz bang technology that can then be withdrawn with the flip of a switch. […]
CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Blows the Whistle on 9/11, Iraq
January 10th, 2011Via: Truth Jihad: Susan Lindauer, author of Extreme Prejudice, is the first CIA asset to have spoken out, under her own name and for the record, on Israeli complicity in 9/11, the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and the specific, detailed foreknowledge of the time, target, and means of the 9/11 attacks held […]
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S.
November 15th, 2010Not news, but… Via: New York Times: A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and […]
Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD
October 27th, 2010Via: Permaculture Research Institute of Australia: Based on the 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course as devised by Bill Mollison, join Geoff Lawton as he takes you into the world of Permaculture Design and introduces you to a new way of looking at the world. Learn how to apply your design skills by observing, analyzing and […]
