Brian’s Column: Breakthru on the General Satyagraha Front

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Brian Wright

Upcoming book on GMO menace may cascade for truth and justice

Here’s a column from last week in Mike Adams’ NaturalNews.com outlet that will make anyone concerned with the species’ health and freedom stand up and cheer. I sure did. It’s called Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, by Steven M. Druker. It promises to be a thorough expose and indictment of the corrupt, death-and-disease-causing Big Agri technology known as genetically modified organism (GMO) applied to crops and foods. Here’s the kicker: the book and its message—the knockout subtitle: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public—is wholeheartedly endorsed by one of the premier scientists of our time: Jane Goodall. From her foreword:
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Movie Review: A Better Life (2011), Cherry (2010)

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Brian Wright

This week finds me having watched two notable films, the first, A Better Life, dealing with an important sociological/political issue that all the political candidates (that I’ve seen anyway) try to deal with without considering that immigrants are, actually, you know, people. The second movie is a ‘coming of age’ movie in which a brilliant (and virginal) boy goes to Ivy League super college and learns about women, sex, and friendship… even family. Cherry is low budget, yet has good writing and a couple of good performances.

A Better Life ___________ 8.5

Story by Roger L. Simon
Screenplay by Eric Eason
Directed by Chris Weitz

Demián Bichir … Carlos Galindo
José Julián … Luis Galindo
Eddie ‘Piolin’ Sotelo … Himself
Joaquín Cosio … Blasco Martinez
Nancy Lenehan … Mrs. Donnely
Gabriel Chavarria … Ramon
Bobby Soto … Facundo
Dolores Heredia … Anita

Too early for quotes to be listed on the IMDb page, and many of them are in Spanish in subtitles. But the mix of humorous and poignant dialog is especially remarkable and immediate. Continue reading →

Guest Column: 10 Things America Must Do to Stop Ruining the World

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Brian Wright

My letter to an unknown American patriot (excerpt)
by Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch

Full column at this location.

I wish I knew your name. I’ve been thinking about you, about all of us actually and our country, and meaning to write for a while to explain myself. Let me start this way: you should feel free to call me an American nationalist. It may sound ugly as hell, but it’s one way I do think of myself. True, we Americans usually reserve the more kindly word “patriot” for ourselves and use “nationalist” to diss other people who exhibit special feeling for their country. In the extreme, it’s “superpatriot” for us and “ultranationalist” for them. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: After 9/11 Truth, Ch. 12

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Brian Wright

Leveraging the TLC campaign to other causes

“Walkin’ in the sunshine, sing a little sunshine song…” — Roger Miller

This is the ultimate and very important step for all who take up the 911TLC cause.

As a Campaign for Liberty activist strongly urged to me in the days leading up to completion of the book, we need to think of our rather low-effort 911TLC work, really—after all, we’re sending out letters and telling one another how great we are in Master Mind meetings (!)—in the context of the broader liberty movement.

In other words, each of us in the TLC program needs to lend a hand to those out there organizing and fighting for freedom on all the other issues.

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Movie Review: Bonneville (2006)

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Brian Wright

Small movie showcasing realistic Golden Girl roles

Carol: I can’t leave Arlo alone that long!
Margene: Well how would you know?
You haven’t left his side since highschool.
Carol: I have so!
Margene: Trips to the ladies’ room don’t count.

Written by Daniel D. Davis
Directed by Christopher N. Rowley

Jessica Lange … Arvilla
Kathy Bates … Margene
Joan Allen … Carol
Tom Skerritt … Emmett
Christine Baranski … Francine
Victor Rasuk … Bo Douglas

Charming, real buddy movie for 50-something women…

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Guest Column: Vaccination as Old-Time Religion

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Brian Wright

The worship of vaccination in the Holy Temple
by Jon Rappoport full column: February 23, 2015

In past articles, I’ve covered all major aspects of the fake science of vaccination…so-called herd immunity, “safe and effective,” etc.

Here I want to look at the overall pattern that successful organized religions have been following for centuries—because vaccination occupies the same platform, deploying the same basic strategies.

This is no accident.

If it works in the religious realm, it can work in the secular venue, by stimulating the urges and fears of programmed humans.

First, there is ceremony of anointing— vaccination—which confers privileged status on the recipient. Privileged status, and most importantly, protection. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: A Citizen Libertarian in King MIGOP’s Court

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Brian Wright

Big Doin’s in Lansing, Michigan, State Republican Convention 2015

Someone recently rediscovered[1] that as public parties, both the Democrats and Republicans, are actually susceptible to grassroots influence—through the precinct delegate elective process. Thus, yours truly, a bona fide secular libertarian, to help out his liberty-oriented[2] friends in the Republican Party:

put my name on the August 5 ballot
won as one of two persons running for three spots
attended the (Oakland) county state-delegate selection convention August 14…
… where I was selected as a delegate to the state candidate-nominating convention on August 23
then as a delegate to the county convention on February 5, 2015 (charged with selecting delegates to the state-party organizing convention) I was selected as an alternate delegate to the state-party organizing convention[3]
and now as an alternate delegate to the state-party organizing convention held February 20, 21, 2015, in Lansing I may have a chance to be elevated to delegate status

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