Book Review: Mother’s Stone (2013)

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Brian Wright

The end times and extraordinary life of Phyllis Joy
by Brian Wright (reviewed by the author)

The idea of this book stems from a series of columns I wrote as a diary of my mother’s ‘end times.’ She was victim to a genetic illness known as polycystic kidney disease (PKD). As a patient she traversed the modern medical bloodletting system, availing herself of the best technology health insurance covers… and survived it in style for three-plus glorious years. Moreover, the universal meaning of her life ‘as a whole’ transcends the short period of her end times and is what I have aimed to capture as a message from the sages: health lessons learned and freedom lessons shared.

I originally speculated that Mother’s Stone might serve as a focal point of national and international (and non-national) discussion on how to achieve ‘better outcomes’ in medicine—at least kidney surrogate technology. I feel the diaries of Part I do a fair job of showing how the system works (and doesn’t work) today. It’s not all bad and we can do a whole lot better. But in “Part II: The Life” I take off the gloves: the restoration/reconstruction of such a marvelous life as my mom’s offers not only inspiration but a healing balm. Continue reading →

Book Review: Nullification (2010)

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Brian Wright

How to resist federal tyranny in the 21st century
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

One of the main points of view from my dear ol’ mom, before she left us, was: “We need to take power out of the hands of the federal government and put it back to the states and the people.” A lifelong teacher—and sadly a holdout for government action to provide basic education—she nonetheless saw the transfer of wealth and control of the system to the Leviathan of the federal government as the source of all its main problems. So, too, with virtually every public issue: crime, civil liberties, war, economics, urban deterioration, the whole enchilada.

Further, she was talking like this probably a decade before the modern Nullification movement came into prevalence. Mainly via the Tenth Amendment Center, and scholars such as Tom Woods. Woods, a fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has a number of books to his credit, including a treatise on how the Catholic Church built Western civilization (! sic). But I remember his incisive point and counterpoint in favor of Dr. Ron Paul during the 2012 presidential bid. Good stuff for sure. And I’m glad he’s on our side in this stellar movement to tell the federal government where it can stick its unconstitutional edicts. Continue reading →

Book Review: The Motor City Witchcraft Trial(s) (2014)

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Brian Wright

by Brian Wright
Book on kangaroo trial of Doreen Hendrickson sheds light on our truth…

… and liberation. [Reviewed by the author.]

Reposting from original date. For an update on Doreen with links to all the important sites and pages to help, please visit this page. — Proprietor

Since 2007, when I read Pete Hendrickson’s Cracking the Code, I, Brian Wright, have acknowledged and asserted my non-federally privileged status with respect to the federal ‘income’ tax. And believe all Americans to whom the ‘national excise tax’ does not apply should stop paying it (as a patriotic duty)… libertarians especially! Further, libertarians must learn and spread the immediately liberating and healing truths that Pete Hendrickson has unearthed… to hardstop the DC gangster state NOW.

As a personal friend of the Hendrickson family, I was caught up in the struggle to help Pete’s wife Doreen resist the vicious, arbitrary aggression by the court upon her for refusing a federal judge’s order to commit the felony crime of perjury. I attended her sham contempt trial in Detroit, for five days at the end of July 2014, and was moved to write this book—a journal of her ordeal and primer of the ideas for which she was persecuted—for her liberty… and ours. Continue reading →

Book Review: Astaxanthin (2013)

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Brian Wright

Seafood’s Ultimate Supernutrient
by William Sears, M.D.

As TV’s Dr. Oz says, Astaxanthin (pronounced asta-ZAN-thin) is “… the number one supplement that you’ve never heard of that you should be taking.”

It’s the most powerful antioxidant on the market, according to the standard tests for free-radical scavenging ability. [Why? Because of its unique molecular structure, which contains a strong anti-oxidizing hydroxyl group on both ends—thus enabling it, as fat-soluble and water-soluble, to penetrate into nearly all the body’s tissues.] The chart below gives the central strong comparison of Astaxanthin vs. other leading antioxidants.

Dr. Sears is an extremely well-known celebrity doctor who has appeared on several national TV shows. He’s also a ‘show-me-the-science’ professional who advocates processes that enable the natural healing capacity of the human body, whenever possible. Astaxanthin fits in to this sane and sober approach to enhancing human health… by mitigating the damage caused by oxidation of human cells that occurs on a massive scale thru normal aging as well as the large number of toxins we are exposed to in the modern world. [Many by sinister intention.] Continue reading →

Book Review: After 9/11 Truth

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Brian Wright

The Death Star in ashes, humanity rises
by Brian Wright
reviewed by the author

I want to hold a place and point to the book both with the intent to encourage sales and to promote the cause-oriented, 9/11 Truth movement activities that the book After 9/11 Truth founds. These activities are a “new model” for achieving success for the truth—’truth’ defined simply as debunking the official story (OS) of 9/11 and beginning to empanel fully empowered grand juries to investigate and bring indictments of legitimate suspects in the case.

My primary aim is to break the logjam in the movement of incessant back and forth chatter (and, with few exceptions, actions that yet produce no real prospect of a tipping point to a sea change of public opinion)… that we require to obtain ‘healing justice’ for the Crime of the Century.

From the book cover back: Continue reading →

Book Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Brian Wright

Public discourse in the age of show business
by Neil Postman

If humanity makes the grade in the next few years, a good share of the credit will be due to Professor Neil Postman and his timely insights into the decline of language (esp. with respect to reading and writing), logic, conceptual development, and common sense. In other words, thanks to his framework of astute observations, others may be able to (re)construct the building of our reasoning minds… without which we shall surely go the way of the dodo bird. Amusing Ourselves to Death is arguably the magnum opus of this cultural critic, writer, and communications theorist who was chair of the New York University department of communication arts.

Two of his other better known books I have reviewed are Technopoly (1991) and Building a Bridge to the 18th Century (1999)—which was his final, comprehensive, and most heartfelt appeal to the ‘better angels of our nature’… particularly the angels who want liberty and literate, benevolent civilization. [A deeply personal note, Building a Bridge was the prize of all the books my dear mother, the accomplished Phyllis Anderson-Barlow-Wright, referred to me—the first to knock me off the ledge of ego where I liked to think “how could Mom know anything really important?”] Continue reading →

Book Review: Fantastic Voyage (2004)

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Brian Wright

Live long enough to live forever (the science behind radical life extension)
by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman M.D.
2004, Rodale Publishing, 378 pages

Editor’s Note: Still ‘cleaning out the closet,’ transferring older book reviews that were posted via the old nuts and bolts Dreamweaver formatted Website. I’m getting toward the bottom of the barrel, and most of the remaining books—such as the previous week’s book review of The Audacity of Hope that someone ghostwrote for criminal in chief Barry Soweto—I wonder what hallucinigenics I was ingesting for looking at them favorably back when I wrote the reviews. My reservations likewise exist with anything Ray Kurzweil has done… mainly because I have this perception that he has now gone over to the Dark Side by hiring on as a head honcho at ‘always do what’s evil and creepy’ Google.

That may be. But reality is always more complex that what it appears at first, or even second, glance. Who knows what he’s doing over there in the bowels of global mind control, plotting the end of humankind as we know it? Well, most of the stuff he wrote about when he first took an interest in radical life extension was sans central government coordinated or approved. Legitimate ideas and discoveries by a man who seemed genuinely human—even though hopeful of an enhanced or transhumanist future. Politically, I can’t vouch for anything he’s doing today, but back when he wrote this book, I liked what he was advocating.

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A review of Fantastic Voyage appeared in my Oakland (Oakland County, Michigan) Press early in 2005. As a longtime enthusiastic advocate—though not necessarily the most ardent practitioner—of life extension technology, I was ecstatic! Continue reading →