Archive for the 'Books' Category
Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support”
February 14th, 2009Blackwater has probably been used for U.S. Government narcotics trafficking operations before, but it looks like that is going to be a major component of their business going forward. Note the phrase “aviation support” in the story below. Aviation support is synonymous with narcotics trafficking. If you read, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, this […]
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
February 12th, 2009UPDATE: Contest Results The target was a picture of my ancient, tattered Audio Technica headphones sitting on the concrete floor. There were no direct hits, but 9 of 13 submissions had something to do with round things. For days, it looked like Evil Chopsticks was going to be the closest one, since he or she […]
The Globalisation of Addiction
February 2nd, 2009Every once in a while, Reddit redeems itself. Via: Nthposition: Bruce Alexander is best known – though deserves to be much better known – for the ‘Rat Park’ experiments he conducted in 1981. As an addiction psychologist, much of the data with which he worked was drawn from laboratory trials with rats and monkeys: the […]
Book Claims General George S. Patton Was Assassinated to Silence His Criticism of Allied War Leaders
December 23rd, 2008Reader JT reminds us that Patton carried ivory handled revolvers, not pearl handled, as the Telegraph article below states in error. We know that when asked about those “pearl handles” on a later occasion, General Patton angrily corrected the reporter who asked the question and sharply explained that they were ivory. “Only a New Orleans […]
‘The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History’
December 22nd, 2008The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray Ponzi schemes? Check. Aircraft leasing? Check. Questionable activities with young boys? Check. Florida? Check. It’s an unfortunate choice for a title, with the Madoff situation just coming into view… Via: Orlando Sentinel: Credit for the biggest American […]
Book Says White House Ordered Forgery of Letter Linking Mohammad Atta to Iraq
August 5th, 2008Via: Politico: A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White […]
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
June 11th, 2008Via: ieet.org: Connelly decisively confronts the historical baggage of reproductive rights by detailing the confluence of social Darwinists, Malthusians, racist eugenicists, public health advocates and feminists who coalesced around the century-long effort to control world population. Like Betsy Hartman’s pioneering critique Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control, Connelly’s principal narrative is […]
Lindbergh’s Deranged Quest for Immortality
May 28th, 2008Life extension technology is a standard obsession with the elite. There has been an attempt to mainstream the nonsense through the activities of lunatics like Ray Kurzweil, who hopes to download his consciousness into a computer at some stage. Need I say more? Well, there’s a lot more. And, no, this isn’t a character analysis […]
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq
May 28th, 2008No jokes about the great revelations on Cryptogon today. I’m sorry for posting this. Maybe I need to tag the title with [Seriously Worth Skipping] so that all you feed surfers can simply skim over the headline and skip it with confidence. Via: Washington Post: Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a […]
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
March 31st, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Be it ever so devalued, $1 trillion is a lot of dough. That’s roughly on a par with the Russian economy. More than double the market value of Exxon Mobil Corp. About nine times the combined wealth of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Yet $1 trillion is the amount of defaults and writedowns […]
