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Review: Vital Signs–A Complete Guide to the Crop Circle Mystery and Why It is Not a Hoax (Paperback)

5 Star, Intelligence (Extra-Terrestrial)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Photographs, Light on the Text,

March 15, 2006
Andy Thomas
This is one of two first-rate books on crop circles and their implications for mankind that I recommend. This one is the “coffee table” book, with an absolutely sensational collection of clear color photographs that provide what I believe may be the single best collection of distinct crop circles at distinct times and places on the planet.

This book is however light on the text and the thinking. It should be read in conjunction with “Open Minds: A Journal of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance,” by Simeon Hein, Ph.D.

I am persuaded of three things by these books taken together and my various other readings:

1) The Earth is alive and everything on it is a web of life that has a global consciousness–the butterfly effect and the mind over matter effects are real.

2) There exist other forms of intelligence at least equal if not vastly superior to ours elsewhere, and I speculate from some of this reading that we are a “diversity enhancer” for a larger constellation of planets, and that we may also be failing a longer-term test to determine if we are ready for inter-planetary interaction.

3) There are, between books like this and the many very intelligent people that tend NOT to go into politics, clear possibilities for our rising to the challenge. We simply have not focused as a Collective Intelligence or World Brain, and we need to do so before we destroy our planet and our species.

Both books are almost mesmerizing.

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Review: Opening Minds–A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance (Paperback)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strong on Thinking and Cross-Fertilization, Weak on Photographs and Illustrations,

March 15, 2006
Simeon Hein
Do yourself a favor and buy “Vital Signs: A Complete Guide to the Crop Circle Mystery and Why It is NOT a Hoax” by Andy Thomas. The superb collection of color photographs from many times and places there will peak your interest and inoculate you from losing interest in this book, “Opening Minds,” which you should read AFTER enjoying “Vital Signs.” See also my review of “Vital Signs” for points I will not repeat here.

This book, while weak on photographs and illustrations, is stronger on thinking and cross fertilization. I drew three points out of it:

1) Humans are barely scratching the surface of what they can do with their full conscious and sub-conscious powers. Our culture has literally destroyed much of our inherent talent for thinking and intuiting and remote viewing and sub-conscious communications.

2) There is, according to this author, and I for one believe him, clear evidence that remote viewing, when focused on extra-terrestrial targets (e.g. Martian Scientists), appears to open channels for receiving from those extra-terrestrial targets, direct sub-conscious inputs and assistance.

3) Finally, that crop formations, both those that humans make and those that seem to appear as gigantic beacons to some form of intelligence viewing the Earth from afar, are a focal point where a blending of different energies take place–magnetic fields, light fields, thought fields.

I put both these books down in a pensive mood. There is so much that is going wrong with the world, and yet there is so much that could be gotten right if we just harnessed the distributed intelligence of everyone, including the five billion poor at the bottom of the pyramid. We are–despite our millions of years of so-called development as a species–evidently at the 2nd grade level, still pooping in our crib, throwing tantrums, spilling food and breaking things. One can only gasp at the potential of the human species if it ever “grew up.”

These are both serious and very worthwhile books to buy and read.

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Review: The 86 Percent Solution–How to Succeed in the Biggest Market Opportunity of the 21st Century (Hardcover)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tactical/Neighborhood Implementation for Ethical Profit from the Poor,

March 15, 2006
Vijay Mahajan
This book is best appreciated if you have first read C.K. Prahalad's “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” William Grieder's “The Soul of Capitalism,” and Stuart Hart's “Capitalism at the Crossroads.” It is a tactical or foreign neighborhood (both in the Third World and in the immigrant sections of the First World) implementation manual for profiting from sales to the poor.

It makes many obvious points as well as many not so obvious points, and I will not list them here. This is a book that requires patience and careful reading. The author has brought forward a great deal of detail in a very easy to read way.

I will end with thought that the Wharton School's publishing arm has really catalyzed for me with these varied book. The five billion at the bottom of the pyramid are the last remaining super-power on this planet. The good news is that we can profit from enriching them. The bad news is that we still have morons in power that think we can keep them down by using guns. Newsflash: there are not enough guns on the planet to keep the five billion and their off-spring from over-running us. Capitalism, and the rapid nurturing of indigenous self-sustaining wealth that includes the rapid education of women (which leads to saner men, less disease, limited growth) is our only salvation.

This book is one of a handful that could be said to be truly revolutionary in terms of transforming the planet from one beset by poverty, to one inspired by entrepreneurship at the neighborhood level.

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2006 Simmons (US) Policy Preface to Information Operations (IO) Book

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Congressman Rob Simmons got into the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) arena in 1995, and grew to understand vastly more than those serving in the U.S. Government, then or now.Ā  He was among the first if not the only Member to recognize that Information Operations (IO) was the totality of the information and intelligence spectrum, encompassing not just “intelligence” but also logistics, friendly force information, and all other information.Ā  He understood the Special Operations Command point of view: “Secret intelligence is 10% of All-Source Intelligence; and All-Source Intelligence is 10% of Information Operations.”Ā  Below is his Foreword to the first book on IO to be written from an intelligence foundation but with a World Brain perspective.

Simmons IO

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Review DVD: Lord of War (Widescreen) (2005)

5 Star, Asymmetric, Cyber, Hacking, Odd War, Atrocities & Genocide, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Reviews (DVD Only)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful in National Soul Searching and Confronting Reality,

February 10, 2006
Nicolas Cage
Many of the reviews of this movie are unusually naive and stupid.

My review of this movie is based on a lifetime overseas as the son of an oilman, as a Marine Corps infantry officer, as a clandestine case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, and as the foremost trainer of governments interested in getting a grip on reality by focusing on open source of information in all languages.

This is a first rate movie with some truly extraordinary visuals and some truly extraordinary lines. It is an intelligence movie for intelligent people, and it should certainly give anyone both a couple of hours of enjoyment, and a couple of hours of reflection.

Among the highlights:

1) AK-47 as the real weapon of mass destruction

2) Africans stripping a plane overnight, literally pulling every piece of it off and making it “disappear”

3) There is one gun for every 12 people, the arms dealers goal is to arm the other 11 as quickly as possible

4) The top arms dealers (“merchants of death”) are the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

I read more than I watch movies, and will end with two comments: a) all of my reading bears out the importance and relevance of this movie; and b) it is easily one of the more serious and appreciable movies I have seen in some time. The intellect in the devising and presentation of this movie is absolutely first rate.

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