Archive for the 'Books' Category
Council on Foreign Relations: Regional Monetary Integration
October 19th, 2007Regional Monetary Integration by Peter B. Kenen and Ellen Meade Bonus points for the coincidence value: The biggest front for the elite in the world publishes a book about monetary integration as the U.S. Dollar collapses. Priceless. Via: Council on Foreign Relations: This book surveys the prospects for regional monetary integration in various parts of […]
Pope Clement Cleared Templars of All Heresies in Secret Vatican Document
October 13th, 2007What other “misplaced” documents are entombed in that library? And why release this information now? Wow, what a mind boggler… Lots of people have made careers out of Templar lore, it will be interesting to see what the pros think about this incredible revelation. This is a worthless, reckless and wildass guess on my part, […]
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
October 8th, 2007Via: Salon: Children shouldn’t use cellphones. No one should drink diet sodas sweetened with aspartame. And think twice before getting X-rayed with a CAT scan except in a bona fide life-threatening emergency. That’s just some of the precautionary advice that epidemiologist Devra Davis, who runs the runs the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University […]
Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms
August 30th, 2007For me, comprehension of the way industrial scale (including “Organic”) food worked was the last straw. Many aspects of politics and society are disturbing, but toxic—and or long distance—food isn’t some theoretical, far out, future threat. The wolf is at the door. It’s right here, right now. The food issue, more than anything else, drove […]
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
August 25th, 2007Becky and I wash our hair with vinegar and baking soda. We brush our teeth with toothpaste made from baking soda, vegetable glycerin and salt. We use plant based bar soap for hand washing and bathing and plant based detergents for dishes and laundry. Becky makes a moisturizing lotion out of raw aloe vera. For […]
U.S. Family Tries Living Without China
June 29th, 2007I wrote a post about this several years ago, but Sara Bongiorni turned the exercise in to a book. Via: Reuters: Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China. […]
The Sack of Washington
May 31st, 2007Maybe the author covers this somewhere in the book, but the most important difference, in my opinion, is that Rome didn’t go down with a ready and deployed arsenal of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. Same primate consciousness as in Rome, but now with nuclear weapons. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed and yes, some number […]
The 4-Hour Workweek
April 26th, 2007This book seemed ridiculous, at first glance, but as I read more, uhh… My wife and I seem to have implemented at least some of this, more out necessity and common sense than anything else. So, how much of this is really useful? Or is it more of that frightening Kiyosaki/Robbins/”Secret” clap trap KoolAid? The […]
Edible Forest Gardens
April 22nd, 2007I don’t own these books, but they look VERY good, possibly strategic in nature. I thought that many of you would find them interesting as well. Based on my experience so far, edible forest gardens should be the ultimate goal for those of us who are striving to produce our own food while creating self […]
Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
April 12th, 2007Via: Seattle Post: Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died Wednesday. He was 84.
