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Book Review: Zen Driving (1988)

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Be a Buddha behind the wheel of your automobile
by K.T. Burger

ZenDrivingFor many of us in America, sadly so I must admit, the act of driving a motor vehicle occupies our time almost as thoroughly as breathing. Eckhart Tolle, in his book The Power of Now, speaks of being content standing in line by becoming attuned to our inner bodies, to simply ‘Be’ in time without any other need. Tolle advocates to look at normal frustrations of being held up from immediate, reactive ‘goals’ as opportunities for spiritual connection. Perhaps in a subsequent edition Tolle will offer a similar cultivation practice for being held up in traffic.

Interestingly, I have taken a part time job as a medical technician driver for a firm doing XRay swallow tests for patients at rehab centers. We drive all over the bottom half of the lower peninsula of Michigan with a Ford 350 van, with which I am still unfamiliar. Thus it’s timely that I have once again picked up Mr. Burger’s[1] book for a third read, now. (The first was in the mid 1990s, then again maybe three or four years ago.) In addition to the act of driving, my new coach job carries an MD and a speech pathologist as passengers. Becoming ‘Zen’ (at one in  pure awareness) with it amounts to a new level of accomplishment for what K and T refer to as experiencing the natural self. Continue reading →

Book Review: Other Losses (1991)

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The shocking truth behind the mass deaths of disarmed German soldiers and civilians under General Eisenhower’s command
By James Bacque
Reviewed by Brian R. Wright

Reviewer’s note: I first became interested in this subject by some revisionist history in connection with WW2 where one of the respondents pointed to a column in Rense.com [“Eisenhower’s Holocaust – His Slaughter of 1.7 Million Germans” (6-22-2008)] describing the systematic murdering by policy, —though conducted at the instigation of United States General Dwight David Eisenhower, head of SHAEF,[1]—of disarmed German soldiers, not to mention civilians… that persisted months after the end of the war.

“…it is hard to escape the conclusion that Dwight Eisenhower was a war criminal of epic proportions. His (DEF) policy killed more Germans in peace than were killed in the European Theater.”

“For years we have blamed the 1.7 million missing German POW’s on the Russians. Until now, no one dug too deeply … Witnesses and survivors have been interviewed by the author; one Allied officer compared the American camps to Buchenwald.”
— Canadian news reporter, Peter Worthington, of the Ottawa Sun, from his column on September 12,1989. [Worthington had read the Canadian release of Other Losses, 1989.]

Yes, as disturbing as the BIG facts are, they’re undeniable. Mr. Bacque’s book is a thoroughgoing account of Eisenhower’s holocaust[2], which documents his directive of ‘confinement, torture, and death by bureaucracy’ of hundreds of thousands—the author’s own numbers are: at least 900,000 documented, with very likely a million more murdered in the camps, uncounted—helpless individuals, authorized by a sadistic hater of all things German. It’s an account of life’s necessities deliberately not supplied—thru contrived bungling, devious wording of policy, and pathetic acquiescence of subordinates—over a period of months from spring 1945 into winter 1946. Continue reading →

Book Review: Truth Jihad (2007)

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My epic struggle against the 9/11 Big Lie
by Kevin Barrett, PhD.
2007, Progressive Press, 211 pages

JihadThis is a book I picked up (purchased) from the 2007 Porcupine Festival courtesy of the peripatetic communicator of 9/11 truth and ruling-class treachery, Mr. Steve Goodale.   He also provided some DVDs that I aim to get around to eventually.

The still diffuse 9/11 Truth Movement has been making quite an impact on public awareness over the past several years, with many significant works emerging.  Dr. Barrett, as a writer and an organizer of seminars, ranks right up there in the pantheon of intellectually and physically courageous leaders devoting their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to bringing the lies down and bringing the liars to justice.

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Book Review: The Truman Prophecy (2016)

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Rise of the Independents
by Brian R. Wright (spring 2016 release notes and review by the author)

Truman_Front_NewYup, it’s finally done and dusted, the original full-fledged release of my first novel, The Truman Prophecy—a story about fulfilling “the Prophet’s” vision of truth, justice, and liberty in our time. More specifically, the action takes place in 2014, 2015, and 2016, culminating with the celebration of Independents’ Day on what is otherwise known as Election Day 2016 (November 8). The Prophecy kicks off—in the heart and mind of one Hiram T. Chance (Chance)—as a visceral response to the legal horror and atrocity committed by unconscionably corrupt and criminal actors in the modern American illegal system against Doreen Hendrickson [for refusal to commit perjury on a tax form… ref. my The Motor City Witchcraft Trial(s) (2014)].

Plot Summary

Chance—my literary avatar and alter ego, encouraged by the Thrive movement and the Thrive video—gathers some people together to conduct structured truth salients, called Toto projects… after the little dog in the classic morality movie, The Wizard of Oz, who pulls back the curtain on the illusion-generating Wizard. These truth salients or Totos each address a high-crime assault in the Threat Matrix—perpetrated by the globalist control Mob (the 0.001%). Threats include geoengineering-bred toxic skies, GMO foods, ‘smart’ utility meters, vast corporate-state medical crimes, the War on Drugs, false-flag acts of state terror, staged massacres, and so on.  Continue reading →

Book Review: Building a Bridge to the 18th Century (1999)

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How the past can improve our future
by Neil Postman
1999, First Vintage Books, 193 pages

Building_a_BridgeNeil Postman, longtime professor and eventual chair of the department of culture and communication at New York University, sadly died in 2003 at the age of 72.  Bridge is his final book, and it deals with the same universal themes found in his earlier 20-odd works: language, reason, education, childhood, and the idea of progress. [I also want to state that this book, as so many others, I decided to read and review thanks to reference from my dear mother, who was always in her own orbit politically and managed, eventually, with works such as these, to liberate my literal cause-orientation from its familiar strait jackets.]

Despairing over post-modernists who claim words don’t stand for anything real, he makes a case for reading and writing. Indeed, he feels if we don’t come up with a meaningful narrative for our world, we’re toast.

It is no accident, Postman is a huge fan of the two Thomases: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, particularly Paine.

Note: Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense and The Crisis.  Common Sense sold as many as 600,000 copies, which would be equivalent to a run of 60 million copies in the United States today. Continue reading →

Book Review: Incident at Sakhalin (1995)

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The true mission of KAL Flight 007
by Michel Brun
Reviewed by Brian R. Wright

The KAL 007 tragedy, September 1, 1983, was one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes toward the end of the Cold War. Despite two official investigations, myriad television reports, newspaper and magazine articles, and books, the startling truth of the incident—in which 269 civilian passengers and crew lost their lives, and the world came closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis—has been covered up by the American state-security apparatus… in cooperation with USSR, Russian, Japanese, and dozens of other governments.

Michel Brun’s, Incident at Sakhalin, is a masterpiece of discovery and persistence in the face of official discouragement. He proves to rational certainty that the Korean Airlines Boeing 747 was destroyed not at Sakhalin by Soviet military fighters, rather it was destroyed an hour later and 400 miles farther south, off Honshu, the main Japanese island, by means still not established. Despite Brun’s clear and convincing evidence, found in this book, and years of presentation in various forums—private and government—the official series of lies—single-intrusion, single-shootdown near Sakhalin Island—has never been abandoned by the US government. As reflected here in the Wikipedia entry (Wikipedia is a notorious suckass for any official story—government or corporate): Continue reading →

Book Review: Choosing Civility (2003)

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The 25 rules of considerate conduct
by P.M. Forni

Ode to ‘better angels of our nature’

This one was recommended persistently by my mom until I eventually caved; she swore mastering the rules of civil behavior would stand me in good stead with Coffee Coaster Website readership. I would realize that instead of being a mean and angry SOB and screaming at everyone, if I made nice, people would come around to my way of thinking. Well, Choosing Civility is not (forgiving the mixed metaphor) your Emily Post’s sort of Oldsmobile. Rather, it is, but it’s the muscular 442 or the sleek and fast Cutlass Supreme, not the big-ol’-heap-o’-iron Delta 88.

Forni points out the ethical component of civility, making distinctions with respect to etiquette, politeness, tolerance, kindness, and so on. He starts by explaining that civility’s “…defining characteristic is its tie to city and society. The word derives from the Latin civitas, which means ‘city,’ especially in the sense of civic community.” Then: “Although we can describe the civil as courteous, polite, and well mannered, etymology reminds us that the civil [people] are also supposed to be good citizens and good neighbors.”

Lately, I’m always seeing the SNaP angle…

Good citizens, practicing the nonaggression principle? Well, it’s certainly implied isn’t it? From my presentation (on the Sacred Nonaggression Principle), a significant-other contributed the following key thought: Continue reading →