The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Bob Woodward
3 Stars — A Great Deal of Disinformation, Some Useful Bits
I was not planning to spend time or money on Bob Woodward's new book — he is a known agent of the Deep State — but I was trapped in an airport for several hours, and relented.
Let's start with the obvious disinformation — Woodward can simply not be trusted to tell the truth about the world we live in:
George Gilder
3 Stars Fad Book Limited Value
I gave up on this book after 100 pages (it is 320 pages long). I normally do not waste time writing negative reviews but in this instance think it appropriate to mention that I found it wanting.
The first third, on Google, is so far-fetched in its effusive praise and its articulation of the Google this and Google that I could not get the image out of my head: George Gilder kissing Eric Schmidt's ass. Over and over and over again.
Grand Theft, Mass Murder, & Legalized Lies – Book Review as Epitaph
Robert David Steele
American Herald Tribune, 19 June 2018
3 stars – Errors, Lies, and Omissions
Niall Ferguson
3 Stars – Half-Assed History from a Courtesan
Niall Ferguson is neither Will Durant nor John Lewis Gaddis. He is far removed from Howard Zinn. He is, in effect, an intelligent idiot, a courtesan historian. While the book’s intent may remind one of Eric S. Raymond’s classic essay on “The Cathedral or the Bazaar,” or the book by Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, the author – while spectacularly qualified in conventional, which is to say, “approved thinking,” – offers so many false notes in this book in relation to what I know to be true, that I consider this book largely worthless.
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Over-Sold, Dated, Shallow, Not At All InspiringDo not trust jacket blurbs from celebrities — most of these blurbs are written without ever reading the book, a form of corruption.
See Instead (a 6 Star Book): Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
Ramo's intent is to sensitize us to changes we are living through as highly connected networks come to dominate nearly every aspect of society. He does not presume to tell us how it will all turn out, only that institutions will be thoroughly reshaped under relentless pressures. He offers hints of the posture one might develop to make the most of the situation we are in, but there are no guarantees. So while the reader might enjoy the reassurance of a conclusive diagnosis and a sure-fire strategy for success, as so many business books offer, Ramos feels that it would be unwise to offer that sort of satisfaction. His premise is correct, but the alternative satisfaction — of wisdom — sets a high bar. Does he deliver?
Continue reading “Review: The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks”
Judith Miller
3.0 out of 5 stars From the Person Who Helped Cheney Lie Us Into a $4 Trillion War, April 7, 2015
I certainly recommend the book, at the very low price that is consistent with this book's lack of depth — like looking insider the mind of a worm, everyone should do this at least once.
Ralph Nader
This is Both an Accurate and a Useful Treatise, But …?, October 25, 2014
By Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal”
… the accurate part is not very useful and the useful part is not very accurate. Allow me to explain by beginning with the accurate part of the book first.
Using his considerable experiences and his legal skills as an activist, the reader will discover here that Mr. Nader is a walking encyclopedia of details on the activist ways of organizing. Here, to our great benefit, he has shared with us his invaluable multi-talented and multilayered experiences, which arguably, as useful as they may be to a properly constructed theory, in practice, were largely failures during his generation (and spectacularly so in the case of his presidential runs).
