Book Review: The Shape Shifter (2006)

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Brian Wright

by Tony Hillerman
2006, Harper Collins, 276 pages

Tony Hillerman started writing his series about Navajo tribal policeman-detective Lt. Joe Leaphorn with The Blessing Way in 1970. Later Leaphorn, the “Legendary Lieutenant,” retires and Hillerman replaces him with an equally deeply refreshing character, Officer Jim Chee.

The principal setting for the Leaphorn/Chee crime novels is the Four Corners, a large area of high plains and mountainous terrain encompassing NE Arizona, SE Utah, SW Colorado, and NW N. Mexico. This area is home to the Navajo reservation, the Hopis, and other American Indian nations.

Over the years, Mr. Hillerman, winner of several awards for mystery writing, has attracted a dedicated following; each new novel appears regularly on the New York Times bestseller list. The Shape Shifter is no exception. Continue reading →

Movie Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Brian Wright

Light sci-fi yarn with fine actors all around
but parsecs away from quality of the original _ 5/10

Professor Barnhardt: There must be alternatives. You must have some technology that could solve our problem.
Klaatu: Your problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change.
Professor Barnhardt: Then help us change.
Klaatu: I cannot change your nature. You treat the world as you treat each other.
Professor Barnhardt: But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually.
Klaatu: Most of them don’t make it.
Professor Barnhardt: Yours did. How?
Klaatu: Our sun was dying. We had to evolve in order to survive.
Professor Barnhardt: So it was only when your world was threatened with destruction that you became what you are now.
Klaatu: Yes.
Professor Barnhardt: Well that’s where we are. You say we’re on the brink of destruction and you’re right. But it’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. This is our moment. Don’t take it from us, we are close to an answer. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Stand for Doreen

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Brian Wright

Notice from David Lonier

Per Doreen, 12/9/14:
This hearing has been adjourned without further information.
Stay tuned for further updates.
For background, ref. Brian Wright’s booklet:
The Motor City Witchcraft Trial(s)

Doreen Hendrickson’s
Sentencing Hearing
On a Contempt of Court Charge

Set for Wednesday, December 10, 2014
1:30 PM
Federal Court Building
231 W. Lafayette
Detroit, MI 48226

2^nd Floor, Victoria Roberts Courtroom

If you value your freedom, there is no valid excuse
for not attending this hearing to support Doreen
who is fighting for one of our most sacred rights…

Our Right to Speak, not only Freely, But Truthfully!

Can a Judge order anyone to commit perjury
under penalty for not doing so?
That’s what this case is all about.
Our Freedom hangs in the Balance!

Press Release Here

For a detailed summary of the ordeal of Doreen Hendrickson:
http://losthorizons.com/Newsletter/DoreenAssault/RegardingTheAssaultOnDoreen.htm#AllThatMattersNow

Per Doreen, 12/9/14:
This hearing has been adjourned without further information.
Stay tuned for further updates.
For background, ref. Brian Wright’s booklet:
The Motor City Witchcraft Trial(s)

Brian’s Column: 9/11 Truth-Letter Closure Campaign, Part 2 of 3

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Brian Wright

More on setting up the personal message

Continued from Part 1.

Before we go into the steps for writing and sending our personal letter of appeal to action that we’ll be writing, we need to give some thought to our audience. Aside from the categories, what distinguishes the majority of the people we’ll be sending to—of the 353 names on my own personal lists, I’m estimating that more than half are deniers—is they are ‘respectable,’ generally established middle and upper-middle-class people who desperately do not want to face the facts about 9/11:

If the Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT) is not true, then the alternative idea that insiders in and around the highest levels of their US government authority conspired to commit a false-flag act of state terror killing thousands of Americans, resulting in illegal US wars of aggression to murder hundreds of thousands of non-Americans, finally unleashing a global militaristic police state to destroy the last vestiges of liberty—serving the conspirators’ agenda of world domination and depopulation—… is far too LARGE to wrap their minds around: Continue reading →

Movie Review: They Shoot Horses Don’t They (1970)

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Brian Wright

Sickly Americana of Depression Era ___ 8/10

Gloria Beatty: Maybe it’s just the whole world is like central casting. They got it all rigged before you ever show up.

Funny the movies one doesn’t see when they’re primetime, and perhaps when you’re primetime. Why I never made a point of watching They Shoot Horses Don’t They I don’t know. But in 1969 I was in my Randian era and I suspected this one did not have a happy ending—Ayn Rand was a stickler for happy endings… notwithstanding the fate of Kira in her novel, We the Living. Anyway, I placed it in the Netflix queue and watched it the other night. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Stand for Doreen Hendrickson, Dec. 10

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Brian Wright

Press Release by Pete Hendrickson

Per Doreen, 12/9/14, this hearing has been adjourned without further information. Stay tuned for further updates.

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.

Per Doreen, 12/9/14, this hearing has been adjourned without further information. Stay tuned for further updates.

This is a case of retaliation against Doreen’s husband for his book, which clearly defines the difference between taxable income and earnings that are not taxable under the IRS Code. Though numerous attempts have been made to discredit and suppress the book, especially through deliberate misrepresentation of its contents by government officials, nothing actually revealed in the book has ever been disputed. Continue reading →