Guest Column
Stand for Doreen Hendrickson
Press Release by Pete Hendrickson

This hearing has been adjourned:

Doreen Hendrickson, wife of Pete Hendrickson, author of Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America has a court hearing set for December 10, 2014, 1:30 pm, 231 W. Lafayette, Detroit 48226, 2nd floor, Victoria Roberts presiding, for sentencing on a contempt of court charge.

The First and Fifth Amendment rights of all Americans are on the chopping block in the prosecution of Doreen Hendrickson, and the precedent it sets. What might YOU be ordered to say for the government’s convenience? [Full Column]

Stay tuned...

Brian's Column-Article
9/11 Truth Letter Template(s), Part 1
Hastening the inevitable via personal, written appeals to action

Last week I wrote a column entitled “After 9/11 Truth” with the intent to show how quickly the facts of reality are coming down the pike on the Big Lie of 9/11. The truth is manifest, simply ‘intuitively obvious to the casual observer,’ to use a phrase from my days in the  engineering world. By characterizing one’s ideas or statements as inevitable, one gets an edge over the resistance, especially if one’s ideas are consistent with reality. [I mentioned on my Facebook page how Leon Louw and Frances Kendall of South Africa accelerated the end of apartheid thru their 1987 book, After Apartheid.] [Full Column]

Book Review
The Celestine Prophecy (1993)
James Redfield

Redfield writes in that New Age tradition, say in the Carlos Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge) vein or even in a less cerebral Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) sense.  He doesn’t channel ancestral spirits, though he may invoke them.  What appeals to me about Celestine—aside from the fact it’s an example of a self-published novel that has sold more than 20 million copies—is its uncanny resonance. [Full Column]

Movie Review
They Shoot Horses Don’t They (1970)
Sickly Americana of Depression Era ___ 8/10

Horses is based on a 1935 book of the same name, that did not sell well in the States but acquired a following in the French existentialist community during and after WW2. The story is of a cultural phenomenon in America during the Depression years called dance marathons or walk marathons, in which contestants would basically stay moving continuously —in this movie, two hour segments followed by ten minutes of rest (but I think longer periods of rest at different times)—on their feet in an arena accompanied by music and other promotions… sometimes for more than a month. The last couple standing would receive a substantial cash prize (if the promoters hadn’t run off with the money), in this movie $1500. [Full Column]

Quote of the Week

"You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage."
— Maude (Ruth Gordon) from Harold and Maude