May 9, 2005
Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!
The papers that occupy supermarket checkout stands are no longer the object of derision; they're the mainstay of American media. How do they work? How did they start? Who's behind them, and why? Former tab writer Jim Hogshire turns the tables on the papers that shape how and what America thinks with an important and entertaining book.
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May 5, 2005
Great God Pan: Salt Desert Tales
Erik Bluhm and Mark Sundeen navigate the vast, unpopulated and far-removed expanses of Utah, emerging with book-length stories of a time and space otherwise unknown to the human race in written literature.
Visit the Great God Pan website: greatgodpan.com/blog/
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Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?
Barry Chamish's important exposé of the official fairy tale about the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is backed by too much material to regard it as "conspiracy theory."
Although officially denied by Israeli officials, Mr. Chamish's research was used in a recent story by NBC Extra and is currently under documentary production for an hour-long program for the BBC.
According to many witnesses, a secret service agent was busy, prior to the assassination, coaching the supposed right-wing assassin, Yigal Amir, to shoot Prime Minster Rabin. The shooting of Rabin took place during big peace rally. Although secret service agents were aware of patsy Amir's intent to harm Rabin, he was able to get close to the Prime Minister, shoot a couple bullets, after which secret service agents yelled out the bullets were "dummies." Following the shooting, a startled but seemingly unhurt Prime Minister walked on his own strength to his limousine (a feat improbable or impossible if he was shot in the spine, as claimed by hospital surgeons).
Bodyguards and other insiders claimed under oath that no one was inside the official limousine before Rabin's entrance after patsy Amir's shots took place, but a "home made video" released by the government to the public, proves that a back door to the limousine was shut by someone inside the vehicle prior to Rabin's entrance. Then the limo took nearly ten minutes to arrive at the hospital, which would have taken any other limo less than a simple minute. Rabin's wife, Leah, was not allowed in the limo, and was detained at a secret service office before allowed to attend her husband at the hospital.
Notes written by doctors (and provided in Chamish's book) who examined Rabin at the hospital reveal that he was shot at point-blank range -- though the supposed assassin never got closer than six feet away. The doctor's note also notes that Rabin was hit in the spine by a third bullet (evidence contradicted by Rabin's physical behavior) at the time of the peace rally shooting.
All evidence points to Prime Minister Rabin being shot within the limousine that took him to the hospital.
Barry Chamish's thorough investigation should be considered as primary to Yitzhak Rabin's assassination as Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment was to JFK's: the first book to bring up serious doubts regarding the official story of the horrifying event.
Barry Chamish is also the author of The Fall of Israel (Canongate) and Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land: A Journal of Israel's Betrayal (Hearthstone Publishing). Chamish immigrated to Israel in 1975 from Toronto, and received his MA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He spent eighteen months in a combat unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Among Chamish's credits are articles for The Atlantic, New York Newsday and The National Review.
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Snitch Culture
Post-9/11 Edition with New Introduction
You can't trust anyone these days -- and it's no accident. Children turn their parents into the police on two-bit drug charges. Classmates tattle on one another to school officials. Friends rat each other out to the authorities. Political advocacy groups report suspected dissidents to the FBI. Employers hire undercover agents to spy on workers. Lawyers are forced to report clients who pay with cash to law enforcement agencies.
Welcome to Snitch Culture, a surveillance society far more insidious and pervasive than anything George Orwell ever imagined. Elected officials from both political parties have spent decades building a vast domestic intelligence network to track every man, woman and child.
* The government's new high-tech surveillance systems, including the FBI's Carnivore Internet monitoring computer and the National Security Agency's spy- in-the-sky, ECHELON.
* The government's efforts to turn America's children into informants with sophisticated snitch programs in the public schools, including the coming national WAVE American tip line.
* How informants are fueling the growing assets forfeiture scandal.
* How the War on Drugs uses informants to oppress inner city blacks.
* The government's successful infiltration of the growing Anti-Globalization Movement.
* The role of private informant networks through history, from the early prohibition movements to the anti-Communist superpatriot groups of the 1950s to the so-called civil rights watchdog organizations of today.
Download the Snitch Culture Appendices. (100K, .zip archive including (4) MS Word Docs)
"No one is safe in Snitch Culture. Investigative reporter Jim Redden has written a scary, fascinating, and important examination of the pervasive use and abuse of informants and snitches in the United States. Detailing the many forms and techniques used by governmental and private sectors, Snitch Culture traces the history and the massive modern proliferation of this most despised and feared tool of power."
--- Katherine Dunn, author, Geek Love.
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Inside the Shadow Government
The Washington Post has reported that a parallel "shadow government" was activated in response to the September 11th attacks. Inside the Shadow Government is the first in-depth exploration of these standby plans. Among its revelations are details of plans for arrest - without probable cause or warrant - of American citizens by presidential order and government control of all media outlets. Special attention is given to the rise of "executive orders," a device that lets a president bypass Congress to create new laws. This book makes a powerful case that the "shadow government" is more concerned with restricting American civil liberties and constitutional government than it is with fighting international terrorism. Included are photos, illustrations, maps, charts and appendices that contain the complete text of government and military documents outlining plans for implementing the shadow government in future emergencies.
"...(S)hould give pause to anyone interested in promoting democracy and civil liberties... The book is well documented... recommended for all libraries. It is essential reading for all civil libertarians."
--- Counterpoise
"Far from being the mad ramblings of a conspiracy theorist, INSIDE THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT is a careful, concise documentation of the dangers inherent in the U.S. having a secret government with unlimited, unspecified power, whose full scope and details of action and spending is hidden even from key members of Congress for 'security purposes'...a sobering, educational, and eye-opening read."
--- Slug Magazine
"...A work that is shocking in a quieter, yet even more disturbing way... This is a work of history, not wild speculation, for facts, after all, are more shocking, and frightening, than fiction. (A) coherent narrative, with both the possibilities and the balanced truths laid out... Harry Helms, an electronics expert who has published widely on both civilian and covert radio, comes across neither as a conspiracy theorist nor as a militia member holed up inside a Montana bunker, but as a serious thinker who has done his homework."
--- Ken Mondschein, corporatemofo.com
"Harry Helms' book is a tremendous resource work that will have enormous appeal both to clandestine DXers and the general public...He meticulously outlines the procedures by which the government could morph into a dictatorship, where civilians could be rounded up and detained while normal constitutional protections could be suspended by executive orders... (and) reveals the location of many secret facilities operated by the government, originally designed for the operation of the government in the event of a nuclear attack….This book is now essential reading for everybody in the United States... You should go buy one at once, while you still have the chance."
--- Monitoring Times
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Guy Debord
Guy Debord, the major force behind the Situationist International, wrote Society of the Spectacle, considered the best expression of revolutionary thought in the 20th century. The influence of Guy Debord ranges from the Paris riots of 1968 to contemporary cinema, even to ideas appropriated by punk rock.
Guy Debord—Revolutionary, the first biography in any language, examines Debord's life, writings, film and ideas. The book includes Debord's previously untranslated board game, "The Game of War." Guy Debord died in 1994 after shooting himself in the heart.
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Fifty Reasons Not To Vote For Bush
The shady-dealing, election-stealing, terror-exploiting, nation-bankrupting squatter and his cronies must be ousted from the White House. This checklist of high crimes and misdemeanors provides 50 meticulously documented reasons why.
"(V)ery provocative... very informative tell-all book... laid out in a nice,neat and easily referenced format... After reading only a few pages, I transitioned straight to screaming mad."
--- gaywired.com
"Robert Sterling is bracingly rude."
--- The Guardian (UK)
"Sterling's concise handbook of facts, figures and felonies (is) enlivened by his sardonic (some would say "demented") wit..."
--- New York Press
"Read this book. Vote accordingly. Our country is in the midst of a civil war between the alarmingly stupid and the just plain alarmed. Feral House boldly and unapologetically asks questions the media/propaganda machine purposefully leaves behind."
--- Margaret Cho
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