Archive for the 'Books' Category
Gever Tulley on Radio New Zealand
February 6th, 2010Via: Radio New Zealand:
Our guest author is American computer scientist, Gever Tulley – founder of the Tinkering School, a summer camp that encourages kids to play with fire, throw spears and take risks. He has now released a new book called “Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)” which he co-wrote with his [...]
U.S. Special Forces Tracking and Countertracking Manual TC 31-34-4
November 17th, 2009I thought I’d just take a quick look, out of curiosity, because it’s a restricted manual…
Don’t click through unless you have at least an hour to blow.
Can you tell the difference between male and female footprints? Want to know what footprints left by someone walking backward over vegetation look like? Wonder how weather affects the [...]
“To Inhabit the Solar System”
November 16th, 2009Via: Register:
The best mad scientist autobiography this year, perhaps the only one, is Tony Zuppero’s To Inhabit the Solar System. Better still, it’s free and in time for holiday reading. It’s a long but definitely not windy 391 pages.
In it, Zuppero confirms everything – bad, weird, insane, amusing or simply astonishing – you might have [...]
The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted
July 18th, 2009Full text backup below.
Via: ComputerWorld:
The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted
Whistleblower Mark Klein tells in his new book of how he was ignored. He spoke with IDG News.
By Robert McMillan
July 17, 2009 07:35 PM ET
They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead.
The cliché doesn’t seem far off the [...]
“Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough”: The U.S. Eugenics Legacy
June 25th, 2009Via: USA Today:
Paul Lombardo hadn’t planned on a three-decade detour when he stopped at a greasy-spoon restaurant for breakfast in February 1980. Lombardo, then a graduate student at the University of Virginia, picked up a newspaper to read as he ate his bacon and eggs.
And the rest is history, literally and figuratively. For almost 30 [...]
Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
June 25th, 2009Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order by F. William Engdahl:
For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer space and cyberspace. Continuing ‘below the [...]
Dick Cheney Working on Grimoire
June 24th, 2009Working title: “It Rubs the Lotion on Its Skin or Else It Gets the Hose Again.”
Via: AP:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested in his story. The memoir by Cheney, widely considered the [...]
The James Leininger Reincarnation Story
June 13th, 2009Related: Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Andrea Leininger and Bruce Leininger
Related: Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives by Dr. Jim Tucker
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World
June 6th, 2009The Ralph Nader Library has placed the full text and images of Trevor Paglen’s I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me online.
Secret Power by Nicky Hager Available as Free eBook
May 26th, 2009Nicky Hager’s Secret Power should be on every Cryptogon reader’s list. Doubly so if you’re a Kiwi Cryptogon reader.
Secret Power gives us a heretofore unprecedented look at how the UKUSA surveillance machine is really run. This was published in 1996, and when I read it back then I couldn’t believe what I was holding in [...]
