Category: Reviews (Books & DVD)

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Review: Data Politics – Worlds, Subjects, Rights edited by Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, and Evelyn Ruppert

6 Star Top 10%, Information Operations, Information Society, Information Technology

Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert (eds._

6 Star — A pioneeering panorama

Take the time to look at the Table of Contents using Amazon's Look Inside! feature. This is a remarkable book, both comprehensible at the undergraduate or citizen lay level, and a foundation for advanced studies.

I find this book absorbing in every respect. Part I covers the pernicious impact of algorithms and surveillance capitalism, and touches on the reality that “knowledge” is under siege, which is to say, data integrity at the micro and macro levels has vanished, while personal privacy at the micro and macro levels has also vanished.

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Review: A Very Stable Genius by Washington Post “Authors” Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig Clear Defamation with Malice and a Whiff of Plagarism?

2 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform)
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SHORT URL:
http://tinyurl.com/media-hit-job

2 Stars — Defamatory with Malice — Authors Appear to Have Started with List of “Crazy” and Built Book Around Their Maliciously-Contrived Outline

Reviewed by Robert David Steele

This is in my view a defamatory work, and President Donald Trump, despite being the most public of figures, can and should sue the authors and the publishers for defamation because I am sure that discovery (the emails, calls, sworn testimony) will document malice — this book was designed to defame the President with a  total disregard for the truth. Indeed, as best I can tell, this book STARTED with a checklist for “crazy” and was built from the ground up to document — with selective materials and the deliberate exclusion of all countervailing materials — that the President is “crazy.”

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Review: The Declaration of Independence – A Betrayal of the American Dream by Sal Martingano

5 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Democracy

Sal Martingano

5 Stars — A Superb Citizen Prime Ends with Indictment of Barack Obama

Amazon Description:

In Book One of The Declaration of Dependence, Media and the Government, Dr. Sal Martingano goes over his years of research in government, the deception of the media, how social media has taken control of public opinion, the rise of fake news, and the lasting impacts of the Obama administration. He walks the reader through how the United States became The Divided States of America with solutions on how to stay united and gain back our independence!

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Review: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation – The Bible, Justice, and the Palestine-Israel Conflict by Naim Stifan Ateek

06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 5 Star, Consciousness & Social IQ, Country/Regional, Crime (Government), Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Justice (Failure, Reform), Misinformation & Propaganda, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Religion & Politics of Religion, Survival & Sustainment, Truth & Reconciliation, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)
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Naim Stifan Ateek

5 Star — The Bible As Jesus Intended — for All, Not Some

From the Foreword by Walter Brueggemann:

QUOTE (xv): Thus, almost all of the information (misinformation that we receive in the West is filtered through Zionist ideologicial interest that holds in thrall much of the Christian community in the United States and consequently that holds in thrall US policy as well. In that articulation the current plight of Palestinians is kept invisible and the legitmate claims of Palestinians, ground in historical and social reality, are left without articulation.

QUOTE (xvii): Ateek's reading of the Christian gospel is a move from “some” to “all,” a rejection of privileged tribalism, and a prospect for a just peace in which all parties may participate.

QUOTE (xix): This book is a venture in truth-telling advocacy.

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Review: The Shadow War – Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America by Jim Sciutto

2 Star, Misinformation & Propaganda
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Jim Sciutto

2 Star Crap Book, Deep State Party Line

Some books just make me want to puke. This is such a book.  It is a “made for TV” party line crap book that spins the very tired and very false narrative that China and Russia (and Iran and North Korea and Cuba, armed with beaches) are our enemy. This book is explicitly designed to perpetuate the lies that cover up the real enemy: the  Deep State 1% and their agents including the Zionists, the Satanic side of the Vatican, the City of London and Wall Street, Central Banks, and secret societies. This book is disinformation.  It will engage those who have not learned (as my myself have only learned after the age of 60 and after reading over 2,000 non-fiction books reviewed on this blog) that everything we are being told by the government and the media is a lie. This book is a lie.

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Review: The New Rules of War – Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder by Sean McFate

3 Star, Asymmetric, Cyber, Hacking, Odd War, Military & Pentagon Power, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Threats (Emerging & Perennial), War & Face of Battle
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Sean McFate

3 Stars — Company Grade Officer Dabbles as Mercenary, Earns PhD, Pens a Sophmoric Best Seller Catering to Deep State Interests

Reviewed by Robert David Steele

This book is at best a ten page article with ten cute “rules” half of which are wrong. There are some useful observations in the book but it loses a second star and drops to three because it is completely lacking on multiple fronts. There are two kinds of “strategic” authors: opportunists, and visionaries. The author falls into the first category.  He has no interest in — and no idea about — making things better (nor does he have a holistic analytic model), he is simply seeking to profit from “durable disorder” and advance his career within the Deep State / Shadow Government system that promotes people like him instead of people like Col Dr. Doug Macgregor.

The ten rules:

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Review: Hate Inc. Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi

5 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Censorship & Denial of Access, Consciousness & Social IQ, Media, Misinformation & Propaganda, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)
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Matt Taibbi

5 Stars — Totally Brilliant

Let me begin with my 7-Star regard for Matt Taibbi — he is one of just three authors who have TWO books in my top 50 cosmic life-changing books lecture, the others are Will Durant and Edgar Morin and that is Nobel-level company. His two are Griftopia and The Divide.

There are three take-aways:

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