(Part 3) Best true crime biographies according to redditors
We found 4,248 Reddit comments discussing the best true crime biographies. We ranked the 1,473 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
Point of order: I'm an investigative journalist who has written a book on organ trafficking and done extensive research on the Falun Gong claims. The Chinese openly admit that they use the organs of executed prisoners for transplants, and there have been numerous independent investigations that have shown that those bodies have ended up in a variety of products--from the Bodies exhibits, to tendon and bone transplants to living organs. When I interviewed former Falun Gong prisoners back in 2010, several of them admitted to me that they were blood typed by a team of doctors--presumably to test them for organ compatibility.
I wrote about this, and other sorts of organ trading networks in my book "The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers"
Hijacking top comment here to have everyone see the actual reference to Watergate: Exposed
There are plenty of books on the matter.
Putin has been the gatekeeper of oligarch wealth since he took power. They're all obscenely wealthy, and he's backed up closely by the FSB. It'd take a lot for any of them to turn on him, and a lot more for them to survive the aftermath.
Russia is what happens when the secret police allies with organized crimed and takes over. They're not corrupt politicians, they're criminals who stole a country.
They absolutely played a major role. Read up on the subject. Pardue Pharma was moving MILLIONS of pills through backwater West Virginia pill mill towns with populations of 5,000. The lines were so long people would have pizza delivered while waiting. The town of Kermit, WV pop. 392 had their pill mills sell 9,000,000 opiate pills. This is 433 pills for every man. woman and baby in WVA.
Fuck these wholesalers, pill mills and manufacturers. Fuck their greed. Fuck their profits. They have imprisoned countless people in lifelong addictions for a better stock price. They have killed people to get their bonuses. They have destroyed towns, communities and families so they could get their BMW's. They have shifted BILLIONS onto the taxpayers to clean up this mess as much as it ever can be cleaned up. They should be sued to oblivion.
Just like the average Nazi guard didn't feel responsible for 6 million dead Jews, none of these corporate evildoers feel responsibility for this massive body count. But they participated and kept the profits. Stop defending them with "may have". They DID.
https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic/dp/1620402505/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Also the book about the watergate burglars is called Watergate Exposed just like in the screenshot.
According to modern books on art theft e.g. FBI agent Robert K. Wittman's memoir and journalistic research into famous modern art heists, the answer is probably not, at least as far as art crime goes. While there appears to be evidence that there are criminal gangs who specialize in dealing with stolen art, it's extremely unlikely that their operations are being bankrolled by a secretive, wealthy benefactor who hides away his stolen treasures for private use. There is one book called Stolen Masterpiece Tracker by a retired FBI agent named Thomas McShane which claims that almost every art theft ever is absolutely ordered by some rich person who hires a team of criminals, however he offers absolutely no evidence to support this and quite frankly the rest of the book makes him sound like a bit of a loony old man so I can't say I trust what he says (not a terrible read if you're really interested in the topic though).
The boring truth is that, as far as we can tell, most art is stolen as a type of black market collateral or bearer bond. Valuable paintings and other artworks are often bartered for drugs, held as collateral on loans between groups, and sometimes used like retirement funds for career criminals. I can't recall which exact painting it was, but a few years ago I was reading a news article, and one of the works listed in Museum of the Missing was found practically by accident when police raided an apartment looking for a suitcase of drugs, only to find that the case had already been exchanged for the stolen painting.
The laws in various countries for the statute of limitations and ownership also make using pieces as long term investments reasonably practical. If a thief can steal a painting and successfully hide it from law enforcement for the period outlined by the law, they can legally claim themselves as the rightful owners of that piece, even if they were convicted and served time for its theft. This often ends up being a few decades but nonetheless, for someone who has no legal money to invest it's a tempting prospect, especially when the punishments for such crimes are relatively lenient.
Other times it's the thieves themselves who want to keep the artwork for their personal collections. A recent example is a French man (sorry for the wiki link but I can't remember which books he was listed in) who simply liked the art so much that he wanted it for himself. There was a similar case investigated by the FBI of a man in New York a few years back who liked to use his stolen art to help him seduce the young men he brought home.
tl;dr As far as art crime goes, there are several motives for thefts, but as far as we can tell none of them involve a greedy billionaire hiring a gang to provide him with his own secret room of treasures. It's certainly possible that statistically there are one or two people like that in the world, but even if this were the case it would only account for a very tiny percentage of art thefts. In reality it's mostly just regular people being greedy.
If you're interested in learning about art crime I highly suggest starting with The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick. He's a good writer and is very thorough in his research. Other books I've enjoyed in addition to the ones I already linked are Provenance, The Forger's Spell, and The Gardener Heist. There are plenty of other great books on thefts throughout the more modern era, such as The Napoleon of Crime and Flawless that aren't strictly art related but still good reads.
*Sorry I don't list more specific citations, but it's been a while since I've read most of these and it's hard to remember which information came from which books or was shared among several books.
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>Doesn't mean they aren't the most violent and hated syndicate in Japan, though.
This. The yakuza gumi and their "acts of kindness." These groups are very good at maintaining the image of public-conscious servants, all the while running extortion rackets, keeping a hand in human trafficking, loan sharking, and all manner of embezzlement, not to mention strongarm and intergang violence.
Recommended reading: Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld
I just hate to read articles like this where people view them through such rose-colored lenses. It's naive and plays right into their purpose.
Mind you, they do keep control of petty crime. Some of the most "crime free" areas are yakuza districts, but then this is often the case with any organized crime group.
OP, I recommend The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas. He digs into a lot of the cases already mentioned here: Jack the Ripper, JonBenet Ramsey, Zodiac, Lizzie Borden... it's a very good read.
The comment I was going to reply to has magically vanished before I got a chance to reply (it had +3 at the time so I don't know if the user deleted it or a mod) so now I guess I'm doing a top level comment now.
Obviously what happened / is still happening to ZQ is messed up and if this is in fact about her that would be very distasteful, but at the moment I'm a bit skeptical it's a GG reference for a couple reasons.
From the deleted comment (and I've seen this floating around in other places a well):
> Five Fun Guys = Five Fungi = Five Mushrooms.
Also Shufflegate: Exposed could be based on the book Watergate Exposed.
In addition to this someone posted more screens that supposedly further hint at it being a Watergate reference but I don't know enough about it to know what it's referencing exactly other than the whole "let's keep it a secret" sentiment. Anyone more knowledgeable able to shine a light on this?
Looking for more opinions on this from a non-GG perspective since many of the rebuttals are from gators but the statements themselves seem to make sense upon looking into them. Anyone have more info?
Two book recommendations:
Killing Hope - explores the United States' covert and overt operations globally, including crimes like Colombia and Guatemala.
Kill Anything That Moves - focuses specifically on Vietnam.
You may as well take it as a given because it is true, but this book is quite good in explaining the relationship between the right wing and the Yakuza and how the US encouraged both as a measure to suppress communism.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0520274903/
There are also a suspicious amount of 5 star reviews for this one:
Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620872129/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_XD1Oub1FQR37Y
Hi there. I'm older than you. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Nationalism wasn't a thing then because of the war in Viet Nam. My relatives lived in communist countries. I have studied Russian and Russian history and visited the USSR.
You can google Aleksandr Dugin. He is most famous for writing a book on how to destroy America from within. I firmly believe that this has been happening and is not "fake news." You would have to be familiar with the history of Russia to understand why this is going on. A good (but slow) book to read is Putin's Kleptocracy by Karen Dawisha.
I've gone through some hardships. I know I'm not going to retire as well as my parents have. This weekend I was watching the McCain funeral (on TV and online) and was stunned at some of the online comments, but then I remembered Dugin, who I believe has inspired Putin to attack the United States from within to bring out the worst in people.
Yes, the United States has problems. I've come to believe that old saying where the man lives his life wanting to change the world and comes to realize he needs to change his area of the world first. I suggest reading Brene Brown's Braving the Wilderness. Yes, this period in America's history is disheartening. Yes, it's bringing out the worst in people. There have always been problems with bias in the news (even though it's probably worse now). There are definitely things I wish were in the U.S. that are available in other countries. I am also glad to be here.
I remember when people wanted to move out when Obama was elected. I'm trying to understand where they are coming from. Some people have told me that they think we're living in a socialist country. As a student of Russian history and as someone who has an British ex, I find that opinion laughable, but I listen to them and talk with them. I have friends whose families were involved in the political arena (read: DC) in the 1970s and who have remembrances of the past where politics was politics and our elected representatives would go the parties and hang out when the day was done, no matter what their political affiliation.
Do your research. Spend some time in the country you think you want to live in. Every country has their faults. In the meantime, don't forget to vote in every election.
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>They won hundreds of citations and medals, including the Congressional Medal of Honor.
 
>Now, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance is fighting to recognize these brave veterans and preserve their memories.
 
Let me understand this correctly. A bunch of Asians were treated like shit by "all men are created equal" white people yet they still fought to defend THIS country that was part of the 8 Nation Alliance that drugged China, stole Asia's gold holdings http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Warriors-Americas-Recovery-Yamashitas/dp/1844675319, and profited off of China's suffering http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Cruise-Secret-History-Empire/dp/0316014001/] and back stabbed them at the conclusion of the war. But, "honorable white man" won't preserve even their memories properly. Meanwhile, psychopathic white serial rapists and mass murderers are turned into heroes by Western media eg Miss Saigon.
 
While honoring Asian heroes is important, there's a more important question to ask.
How does this help Asians?
I don't say this to be flippant. The Japanese 442nd battalion are the most decorated group of soldiers in USA history. They have names. Has that changed anything? Have American GIs stopped gang raping Japanese girls? Have they stopped treating Japanese people like shit? Have they respected Japanese sovereignty? No. In fact, they're using Japan to create tensions in the region to contain China.
 
I think the bigger lesson here is...
Asians must Inflict consequences instead of begging for inclusion
Now, we can't inflict violent consequences, but we can stop helping people who hate you, me - us - and then begging these same "benevolent white people" to witness me senpai. When will Asians learn that being nice to those who hate you is suicide? Our time would be better spent educating Asians to stop playing a game that was rigged against us with white racist hate from the start, where at best, we get a single pat on the head for sacrificing our lives. Show them the truth about these hypocritical, back stabbing "honorable white men", who use and abuse us. Some examples below...
 
Japanese internment --> The most highly decorated Purple Heart 442nd battalion --> no recognition ---> we are called girly zipperheads
 
Chinese coolies build rail roads, tunnels, misc infrastructure ---> Chinese exclusion Act ---> we are called tiny dick chinks stealing jobs, technology, etc
 
Dr. Qian made ICBM possible for USA and co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ---> racist witch hunt, assassination attempts ---> China and North Korea threatened with ICBMs carrying nukes.
 
Dr. Wu unlocked the key uranium enrichment so USA could make nuclear bombs ---> Japanese civilians got nuked twice and China and North Korea are threatened with nuclear tipped ICBMs
 
Robin Li made Rankdex which got a facefift lift later and became, "white invention", Google ---> no credit ---> Google is in bed with NSA to spy on the world --> we are called uncreative chink copycats
 
http://i.imgur.com/SUipstJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9MnS6ic.jpg
 
etc
its a paradox where these communities are over policed and under policed at the same time. they want the cops to catch the thieves and the murderers, but the police focus on drug arrests.
if you have time i recommend the following (great non fiction book about black detectives innocent son wrongly targeted by gang - with a larger look at policing in general, and a podcast where a former marine and baltimore cop discusses his mindset and incentives when policing the high crime areas we are talking about)
https://www.amazon.com/Ghettoside-True-Story-Murder-America-ebook/dp/B0062OCN4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndg-JGmYryA&feature=share
Twitter's @klara_sjo just posted these.
https://archive.is/sLPng
> The next panels that Zoe Quinn didn't show that prove it's a Watergate reference. Gotta love drama out of nothing
Pics:
https://sli.mg/a/gJlpnM
and the book, Watergate Exposed
https://www.amazon.com/Watergate-Exposed-President-Burglars-Original/dp/193629611X
Well, there are reasons for that too. Systemic racism is a real thing.
Unfortunately, most people only want to blame someone else for the problem instead of addressing its roots.
If you were ever looking for a good book that touches on the subject without being preachy, you should read Ghettocide. It revolves around South Central LA and a particular murder investigation in the mid-2000s.
We really do not have the same severity of racism in Canada as America does, but it's still a good read.
That, too, comes out of the MiniTru handbook. "Conspiracy theory" is a pejorative was proliferated by the CIA via its press contacts in the wake of JFK's killing in order to lump anyone doubting the official position in with complete crackpots. Thus implying the murder of Seth Rich is just as a ridiculous idea as a flying saucer hiding behind Halley's Comet, for example.
Have you ever heard of a book called "The Cases That Haunt Us" by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker? It has the most compelling explanation for who Jack the Ripper was that I've ever come across and I've read a good bit on him.
Use social media to essentially rip the mask of these racist war criminals.
 
Second, show them UNTIL white christians showed up, the majority of East Asia was at peace the majority of the time. Once these psychopaths showed up, every East and South East Asian endured some of the worst blood baths in their history.
The facts are irrelevant, what was necessary for the narrative was what mattered.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Matt-Hidden-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146
Yeah, its pretty untold, except for this book which goes into great detail about the events of it. Quite a good read!
The case is covered in this book by John Douglas. I had to read it for a 3000 level Criminalistics course.
He covered the Ramsey case from it's beginning. According to the book (Chapter Six), here are facts:
The body (DOA) was found in the basement (hereafter referred to as F0).
The note was found on the bottom steps of a staircase that lead from the top floor (F2) to the ground floor (F1). It was written on three sheets of white lined legal paper, in all capitals, with a black felt tip pen.
The note was found around 6 A.M. local time.
The police were called around then, and arrived shortly thereafter.
A little after 8 A.M. VISA allowed a credit line of $118, 000 to be approved- the money could be wired to any local bank in order to pay the ransom.
The parent state that the night prior, they left the White's house around 8:30 P.M. local time. They made two stops before returiong home. Jon fell asleep in the car and had to be carried to her bed.
Due to short staff, after the window of communication with the kidnapper (8-10:00 A.M. local time) had closed, there was only one officer left to watch seven civilians.
A around 1:00 P.M. local time, John and Fleet White requested to search the house.
Dective Ardnt gave them permission.
They (John and Fleet) entered the basement (F0) around 1:10 local time. A window leading into the basement was found opened, and a suitcase was underneath.
Sometime between 1:15 and 1:35 local time, the body was discovered in a wine cellar (F0.2)
It is important to note that the detective thought John was responsible for his daughter's death due to personal conjecture.
Here are documents from the case:
Handwriting analysis of P. Ramsey by Tom Miller
Handwriting analysis of P. Ramsey by Cina L. Wong
Handwriting analysis of P. Ramsey by David Liebman
The case was looked at again in 2010
There has been speculation in the legality of the case for years.
Docs from the FBI Vault, p.181-185, search: Jon
Collection of documents from JBR case, '97+
Complete collection of documents in JBR case, '97-'01
EDIT: grammar
http://www.amazon.com/Solitary-Fitness-Charles-Bronson/dp/1902578120
Written by the most dangerous man in Britain.
If you want a deep dive into the life and work of homicide detectives in particular I can’t recommend enoughJill Leovy’s “Ghettoside” which draws on close to 10 years embedded with the LAPD homicide detectives working South Central.
Literally what the "black lives matter" movement was started over.
I'd recommend reading Ghettoside. The "just another black male" attitude became horrifyingly prevalent even among their own communities. BLM, despite what people critical of it want you to believe, was just trying to make a point that no, those are people who matter and not just statistics to be dismissed.
From the wiki article on Watergate:
>The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex on Saturday, June 17, 1972.
Also, this is a thing, as someone else pointed out. No one has ever said "Gamergate: Exposed!" in a headline.
I'd say it could still go either way, but I wouldn't say it's obvious.
There's a book called Behind Bars: Surviving Prison. It has a lot of good pointers about culture and manners.
Non-mobile: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0520274903/
^That's ^why ^I'm ^here, ^I ^don't ^judge ^you. ^PM ^/u/xl0 ^if ^I'm ^causing ^any ^trouble. ^WUT?
>we can guarantee there won't be rioting in the streets, coups, and massacres as a result of it.
Oh you can, can you? Where's your proof?
Oh btw, your country does that to other people, preferably to non-white "savages" who apparently, "don't value life like honorable mass murdering white Christians do" - that's when you're not even going through a recession.
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/
 
>can't guarantee that for china because it is governed by hypersensitive adult babies
like this these responsible winners right here?? http://i.imgur.com/o9R36fI.png
 
>piles of stolen gold they have every incentive to defend with their military
You mean like the billions stolen by the Americans
http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Warriors-Americas-Recovery-Yamashitas/dp/1844675319
after a war they helped to create? http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Cruise-Secret-History-Empire/dp/0316014001/
Or were you referring to this? Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/ ?
Or perhaps you meant this? http://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Change/dp/0805082409/ ?
Go on and edumicate us.
Am going to take a 30 minute break to load tonights Open Source Everything Highlights (twitter hash #openall short URL to the stack is http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL
I would be very grateful if folks would go to Amazon and buy the book that inspired this AMA, I propose to return around 2230 eastern and to be on this all day tomorrow. Here is the book link at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583944435/ossnet-20
Buy Amazon out (less than 190 books) and I will ask Evolver Editions to load the book free online, not sure if we can make it a free Kindle but I can certainly post it at Phi Beta Iota and publisher will post it on their site.
I can't claim complete merit for the idea; I first came across the term in this book
There's a really good weekly show called The HighWire with Del Bigtree that is presented by one of the producers of Vaxxed. It is quite well produced and I can't think of a better way to get familiarized with the anti-vaccination side than to watch some of the shows.
For example:
Del Bigtree interview with Al Jazeera
interview with Andy Wakefield
It's also important to realize that the reason so many people - especially parents - have come to question the safety of vaccines is because they have seen first hand one of their children get injured after receiving a vaccine. Most of them will freely admit that until that point, they had no reason to question things and were quite happily following the CDC vaccine schedule. So to understand why this is such a large movement, it's really useful to read or watch some of the testimonials of these parents.
written parent's testimonials
video interviews
2 particularly heart wrenching interviews:
The McDowell triplets in Michigan
Gardasil (HPV vaccine) injury
If you want a couple of book recommendations:
How to End the Autism Epidemic by J.B. Handley
Unvaccinated: Why growing numbers of parents are choosing natural immunity for their children by Forrest Maready
Vaccine Epidemic
Some articles:
No, the Safety of the CDC’s Routine Childhood Vaccine Schedule Has NOT Been Scientifically Demonstrated
RFK, Jr article
Confessions of the Vaccine-Educated
The US let the Japanese go with such minimal sanctions to minimize international condemnation for its inhumane use of the atomic bombs and for secret deals involving tributary payments of the loot of the Japanese Empire supposedly lost in the war that have come out gradually over the years.
Read this book if you want to know more about how the US got the gold Japan stole from other Asian countries and used it to support their overseas empire.
See also (The title comes from a Comey quote btw.)
Since you mention Japan, I recall a brief chapter on David Kaplan and Alec Dubro's Yakuza (it's not a history book, but it was used in "Organized Crime and Crime Organizations" class I took) regarding bakuto, the assumed precursor of the modern yakuza.
Bakuto were gamblers in Edo period who would travel from town to town. They were hired by government officials to gamble with laborers and earn back the money for the government from the laborers' wage (and they get some percentage as a payment). As the amount of bakuto increased during the Edo period, they organized themselves into larger groups and work in cohort with the tekiya (black market peddlers).
They are not "Thieves Guilds" as imagined in popular depiction per se, though.
Dude there is no way it's a coincidence. It absolutely is related to watergate...
http://i0.wp.com/c1.staticflickr.com/8/7134/27086893144_60e9a4be08_z.jpg?resize=585%2C323&ssl=1
https://www.amazon.com/Watergate-Exposed-President-Burglars-Original/dp/193629611X
are ............................ are you joking ? i genuinely cant tell.
anyway if you're trapped in a cave or something heres a few hardcovers for ya:
https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129/ref=pd_sbs_14_5/146-0257224-1951842?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1620872129&pd_rd_r=9838b0d3-3a4e-4bf2-8777-f4803be5981f&pd_rd_w=ZzsgR&pd_rd_wg=5wS8w&pf_rd_p=5873ae95-9063-4a23-9b7e-eafa738c2269&pf_rd_r=QH648NC47FG6YRQT1803&psc=1&refRID=QH648NC47FG6YRQT1803
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https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Vaccine-Medicines-Greatest-Tragedy/dp/1090448201
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https://www.amazon.com/Unvaccinated-growing-choosing-immunity-children/dp/1722908696/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/146-0257224-1951842?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1722908696&pd_rd_r=094744a6-9af9-476a-a742-8f10f03cd7de&pd_rd_w=we4uu&pd_rd_wg=c5j4B&pf_rd_p=5873ae95-9063-4a23-9b7e-eafa738c2269&pf_rd_r=4YCKDRM0V30Y41Q6XNWR&psc=1&refRID=4YCKDRM0V30Y41Q6XNWR
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1479874833/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExVVU4S1JYT0Y5R0VJJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMDQzMDY4MVJYTUVTTVFUV0VOWSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMjk2NjcxM05YQTJOOTA3UDg3MiZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbCZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=
State sponsored drug trafficking is a well documented fact.
Google:
Air Opium/ Air Laos Commerciale/ Air America/ Mena Airport/ Opium Wars/ Gary Webb/ rising opium production in Afghanistan
Documentaries Online
Books:
Evidence for continuity:
'Conspiracy Theory' is a weaponized term. It's designed to shut off critical thinking so that people dismiss ideas out of hand without consideration.
https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theory-America-Discovering/dp/0292757697
The phrase that keeps reoccurring in my mind when dealing with Hillary is: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
Hillary being full of shit on clown-ish levels and people's willingness to still defending her on a knee-jerk level is one of the very few more amusing things about this election cycle.
Yes I agree. Ive been reading a book called The Open-Source Everything Manifesto by Robert David Steele whos trying to lay the groundwork for a new type of governance. Its a radically different approach and idea but it covers the bases well on whats actually happening (clear definitions of why and how corruption happens and solutions to it in governance). You might like it:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Open-Source-Everything-Manifesto-Transparency/dp/1583944435
Would you have sought the book out if I had just sent you the Amazon link? It is a real book written by scholar of Russian studies. You asked for concrete evidence. Now you have it. You can read it or not but you can't ever claim that nobody ever gave you evidence. I made it extremely easy for you to find out what Putin and his history are about.
https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia/dp/1476795207
A couple I've enjoyed lately:
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers -
They're both enjoyable reads, not especially boring or academic.
I also second /u/Createx's Freakonomics recommendation. That book was great. Along the same cause and effect theme is The Tipping Point.
You might like The Cases That Haunt Us, by John Douglas. I read it a while ago and found it interesting, especially the section on JBR--he's one of the only experts I've found who honestly believes the parents didn't kill her.
I'd be interested to hear why the people downvoting you are choosing to do so.
If people are interested in a source for stories like yours, I'd recommend Dreamland by Sam Quinones.
Not a documentary but a book that I can't recommend enough. I've probably read it about four times at this point. Masters of Deception.
You're right that alcohol consumption rates went down a lot initially, but they picked back up within a couple of years when organized crime got into it:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w3675
>We find that alcohol consumption fell sharply at the beginning of Prohibition, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level. During the next several years, however, alcohol consumption increased sharply, to about 60-70 percent of its pre-prohibition level.
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa157.pdf
But then we need to talk about the impact of Prohibition on the creation of major crime organizations in the US:
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2012/01/17/prohibition-and-the-rise-of-the-american-gangster/
https://www.history.com/news/prohibition-organized-crime-al-capone
And the other unintended consequences:
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences/
So you offset one public health issue, which honestly could have been 'solved' by the Swedish solution, that is tax alcohol at 100% rate to reduce consumption rather than try to outlaw it and create a huge unregulated, underground market run by criminals.
>(...) cirrhosis death rates for men were 29.5 per 100,000 in 1911 and 10.7 in 1929. Admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis declined from 10.1 per 100,000 in 1919 to 4.7 in 1928. Arrests for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct declined 50 percent between 1916 and 1922.
This is from an unsourced Op-Ed from the 1980s, where are these numbers coming from and do they stand up to modern scholarship?
>By the way, I wonder how much more drinking would be reduced if Feds of early 20th century had resources available to them today, instead of being comically poor.
Given the abuse of opiods and other illegal drugs and triumph of Marijuana over major efforts to shut down it's use...probably no better. Especially since the CIA is involved in the international drug trade and has been for decades:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking#Afghanistan
https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockburn/dp/1859842585
Someone had suggested that a while back.
https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-Executives/dp/1501121367/ref=nodl_
Not always.
There's a really good book that covers all this and more (infidelity, suicide, etc) and how we are still limited as to freedom to choose things that affect only ourselves. It's called Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do and up until very recently you could legally find the whole text online. You probably still can if you hunt around but even still you can get it on Amazon cheap ($9.99).
I found this book great for a solution that could replace our current economic and political systems:
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Source-Everything-Manifesto-Transparency-Truth/dp/1583944435/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406124471&sr=1-1&keywords=steele+open+source
This book is great as well. It is, Ray Kurzweil, explaining how the human brainn function as he attempts to reverse engineer it for Google in order to create an AI.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/0143124048/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406124597&sr=1-1&keywords=kurzweil
John Douglas's The Cases that Haunt Us has a chapter devoted to it.
I read once that you should eat spicy food. The poor sanitation in prisons can cause all sorts of infections. Spicy food will help keep your sinuses clean and reduce the chance of respiratory infection.
Having never been to jail, let me recommend this book anyway:
http://www.amazon.com/BEHIND-BARS-Jeffrey-Ian-Ross/dp/0028643518/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314078131&sr=1-1
Good hacker/IT/short stories:
The association between what became the modern conception of "Yakuza" and gambling is as old if not older than at least the Edo/Tokugawa period of Japan. What we think of as Yakuza or modern crime was the combination of two samurai era gangs/social groups (depending on how you look at them) called Tekiya (peddlers) and Bakuto (gamblers). It is true that there was a huge focus on gambling in the wake of the war, but that's really only the tip of the iceberg. Organized crime essentially ran all of the black markets (essentially the only markets) in major cities in the wake of WWII, creating a monopoly on all goods bought or sold. This was often in the form of protection money paid to crime syndicates, nominally to protect market vendors from danger but in reality a tax on both their goods and a right to be in the market. But even this pales in comparison to the links between organized crime and politics in the wake of the switch in American policy. Initially, the focus of the occupation was to punish those authoritarians who had committed crimes against the world and in Japan during the war, but as the spectre of communism rose on the world stage this was quickly reversed. Those criminals who had been locked up in places like Sugamo Prison (reserved for many of the worst war criminals, those class as Class A) were not only released but helped back into political office. Often the enforcers they would rely on to keep the peace and break up strikes were a newly reinvigorated Yakuza, who suffered during the interwar years by diminishing numbers. TO be honest this is a hastily done post that doesn't do the subject near enough justice, but a fantastic book on the history and origins of the Yakuza is
http://www.amazon.com/Yakuza-Criminal-Underworld-David-Kaplan/dp/0520274903
which if you have any interest in the subject you should definitely look into.
Also, that book is the source for my post.
They only admit what had already been evidenced by the way of declassified government documents. There are about 50 of such cases since WW2.
At this rate it's going to take a while until people realize that the US government overthrowing democracies in favor of dictatorships is the rule rather than the exception. In spite of rhetoric of "spreading freedom and democracy" what matters to tptb is whether a nation wants to play economic ball with the US on terms set by the US. (the same is true to a lesser degree for "the west" in general)
Killing Hope - U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II
http://www.amazon.com/KILLING-HOPE-William-Blum/dp/B007K517VE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Hope
Friendly Dictators
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html
> It doesn't matter whether Mary Lacy believed him or not.
Team Ramsey hired him.
I recently read the JBR chapter in his book
https://www.amazon.com/Cases-That-Haunt-Us/dp/0671017063
The Cases that Haunt Us.
I like John Douglas a lot, but this was written in about 2000 or so, and he makes some "deductions" based on his experience that turn out to be erroneous in retrospect.
As I recall, one was "strangulation before head injury", and I am pretty sure forensic scientists have determined it was head injury, then strangulation as coupe de gras. He made some assumptions based on his presumed sequence that I do not think fit.
>Edit: It was mentioned they put up a reward,
I think the reward kind of faded away many years ago?
Not about Obama specifically, but this book gives a good overview:
https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute-Executives/dp/1501121367
A book was written about this not too long ago. Pretty good read.
Ha, I was writing a book on that. Or was at least, until stupid Sam Quiznos beat me to it with his stupid book Dreamland that's actually really good and I'm just jealous he beat me to the punch.
I'll have to pick this up. zjwo, If you haven't read it, I highly suggest Masters of Deception http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Gang-Ruled-Cyberspace/dp/0060926945 A really good read on a war in the 90s hacking/phreaking scene on the east coast.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146
For whatever reason Robert's reply isn't showing. For those interested this is his [unedited] reply:
[robert_steele]
The subtitle of my new book, please buy it at Amazon, is: Transparency, Truth, & Trust. Below are five links, first four graphics and then the book link:
Graphic: Epoch B Swarm Leadership
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/07/2010/09/2008/08/graphic-epoch-b-swarm-leadership/
Graphic: Strategy for a Prosperous World at Peace
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/07/2010/09/2009/07/graphic-strategy-for-a-prosperous-world-at-peace/
Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/07/2010/09/2010/01/graphic-intelligence-maturity-scale/
Graphic: Open Source Agency Broad Concept
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/08/graphic-open-source-agency-broad-concept/
You know what I really want to do, until such time as the public is ready to fund the Open Source Agency and put me in charge of it? I want to go around the country doing talks and encouraging people to demand electoral reform and open source everything. Now that Togather exists, people can self-organize to invite me, here is the URL for my Togather page:
http://www.togather.com/robert-steele
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583944435/ossnet-20
[/robert_steele]
One of the few places where Trump's wall might actually do soem good. Most likely, that heroin was produced in Mexico and sold by illegal immigrants who are here for, perhaps, 6 months at a time.
See https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic/dp/1620402505
Hey quantumcipher,
I just want to thank you again for this deluxe info, in particular about Lance deHaven-Smith's interview with Abby Martin.
I've since found Smith's book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0292757697/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER) and I'm about to order it.
I work with John Barbour who created The Last Word on the Assassination (about JFK and Jim Garrison: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Word-Assassination-John-Barbour/dp/B00IXQV34U/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1468962626&sr=8-3&keywords=john+barbour).
He's working on the sequel documentary "The Garrison Tapes: Part Two: The American Media And The Second Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy." It's about the CIA takeover of the media and the onslaught of propaganda, with particular focus on the 1963 coup and Garrison's attempt to bring the perps to justice. So this material is ideal and John is using it, probably in the conclusion or the epilogue.
He also booked Smith on his online BBS radio show for August 22: http://bbsradio.com/highlight/featured-guest-lance-dehaven-smith-guest-jp-sottile-august-22-2016
All thanks to you! (Thank you.)
I prefer Comey's highlights in The Chickenshit Club
A good read - http://www.amazon.com/BEHIND-BARS-Jeffrey-Ian-Ross/dp/0028643518/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321231423&sr=8-2
Anyone read this book?
>You could probably even publish something like that, you know.
You mean like these:
Behind Bars: Surviving Prison
How To Survive Prison for the First Time Inmate
Prison Stories
Looks like prison literature is already a pretty well-established genre.
I own two that I think are really good in the sense that they're really useful in examining the case, but I'm not sure if that's the 'good' you're looking for in terms of vacation reading!
If you want something entertaining, but isn't overly long and dry, you might pick up a book called 'The Cases That Haunt Us' by the "real life" Jack Crawford, John Douglas. That book has overviews of several different famous, unsolved cases, including an interesting section about The Ripper (link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Cases-That-Haunt-Us/dp/0671017063). This one is probably the best vacation reading sort of book.
If you don't mind something dry & academic, I like 'The Ultimate Jack The Ripper Companion' by Stuart Evans & Keith Skinner (link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-Jack-Ripper-Companion/dp/0786707682). It's the only contemporary source material encyclopedia that I know of.
Finally, there's a book that sort of marries these two types called 'Complete History of Jack the Ripper', but Philip Sugden (link: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-History-Ripper-Philip-Sugden/dp/1841193976). Like the one above, this one is pretty long, but is written in a more accessible way.
If you have a tablet or other mobile device that you're bringing with you, you can always enjoy my favorite Ripper website, http://casebook.org/
Related, if you want to read a good book about a caper, check out Flawless.
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https://www.amazon.com/Red-Market-Brokers-Theives-Traffickers/dp/0061936464
They keep you "alive" as long as they can and literally start "harvesting" non-essential organs one at a time till they finally get to the part where they have to stop vital stuff to take it. It's a fucking sadistic process and I think in China it was used more like "This General drank his liver out and this political prisoner is going to be shot in the morning so why not?" At that point it becomes a science project to see how many organs you can take before the guy dies.
Charles Bronson - Solitary Fitness
An English criminal who is quoted as being the "most violent prisoner in Britain"
From Wikipedia:
"A self-declared fitness fanatic, Bronson has also written a book on working out in small places."
I started reading this book about how Japan pillaged and systematically stole from various Asian countries, Korea included, from the late 1800s/early 1900s to during World War 2 and hid their loot throughout the Phillipines
https://www.amazon.ca/Gold-Warriors-Americas-Recovery-Yamashitas/dp/1844675319
It's just one example, but there are countless others.
It's important to keep in mind that the definition of "criminality" isn't absolute. Laws are created by people with agendas. People in Nixon's administration straight up admitted that the point of the war on drugs was to specifically target black people (and hippies). It's why drug sentences and mandatory minimums are harsher for drugs typically used by minorities while jail sentences for powder cocaine are shorter. It's why the crack epidemic in the 90s was treated as a crime problem and the heroin epidemic going on now is treated as a health problem.
But I'm not gonna convince you on reddit. I don't have all the data at my finger tips. Seriously just go read and try to keep an open mind. I think Ghettoside is a good start.
That is a great question, and something I have wanted to look into. I have time constraints. I wish I could just read and study this stuff.
Anyways, I read up on Sheehan, and he is the real deal. I just wish he did not have videos about UFO's, too. LOL. That is just my personal bias.
I need to order some books and read:
https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Warriors-Americas-Recovery-Yamashitas/dp/1844675319
https://www.sce.cornell.edu/sce/altschuler/pdf/altschuler_review_20151016_936.pdf
I have a list of others I can send to you later.
It is interesting because the center box lists people like the DuPont's and Rockefellers, and the Bush family is just to the right (recall the last Super Bowl coin toss). The Rockefellers created the Council on Foreign Relations, and most President's are members of it. It is a private think tank, but it decides US government policy. You would think that the American voters would have a say in this matter, but we don't.
Trump is not a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, so Trump does not know or understand what policy he is expected to implement. I see this as being the conflict so far. Trump became President thinking he would set policy, but, instead, he is being told what policy to set. It must be a huge eye opener for him.
Also, I remember about a year ago, some very hard core Republicans were saying that they would support Hillary if Trump was the Republican nominee. The reason for this is because these hard core Republicans are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, and the Trilateral Commission, and so is Hillary. Trump is not. So, they will support their own independently of the political party affiliation.
The whole Democrat-Republican thing is a facade to give us, the voters, the illusion of choice. Normally, no matter what candidate gets elected, they will implement the policy of these organizations. Do you see what I mean? Trump unexpectedly broke this trend, though, and they have been scrambling ever since. They expected Hillary to win, not Trump.
This book also looks good, Alexander Cockburn is an excellent journalist. Jeffery St Clair I believe edits counterpunch, which is a must read.
https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockburn/dp/1859842585
> While obama was ruining the country,
With all the billions of free taxpayer cash he gave the bankers the bankers were able to build far better homes for themselves than what Jimmy Carter could have done.
Personally, I think they belonged in jail making shivs for themselves.
The heist is the subject of the book Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell.
Flawless
Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to create a film about the heist. It will be produced by J.J. Abrams.
Taken from wikipedia
How fucking lazy are you??
Paul Craig Roberts - The Term “Conspiracy Theory” Was Invented by the CIA In Order To Prevent Disbelief of Official Government Stories
https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theory-America-Discovering/dp/0292757697
Here's an article by The Guardian, and a book written on the subject.
Wikipedia has this to say about the book:
> Many commentators have criticized Jimenez's views on the attack as being sensational and misleading; those views were shared by gay advocacy organizations and cultural critics.[43][44][45][46][39] Some commentators, however, have spoken up to defend it.[47] Some police who were involved in the investigation have criticized Jimenez' conclusions,[48][49] while other police said that there was evidence that drugs were at least one factor that led to the murder.[10]
There's arguments both ways.
This guy is really confused. He is a devout anti-climate-change conspiracy theorist decrying the abuse of powers of scientists (97% of those pesky, bought-out scientists), but wants more money for a closed intelligence society that builds consensus without any oversight, and has been caught dead-to-rights for selling drugs to earn money for blackops projects for decades. The CIA is in fact the worlds biggest drug dealer (NSA/FBI/DEA being enablers-local distributers). Cognitive dissonance of neocons is so astounding that we should give grants to extract alternative energy from it.
global warming is real.
the moon landing is real.
9/11 conspiracy invovles external cooperation, a false flag terrorist group, and a massive government cover up.
the earth is a solid sphere.
methane release already started, with declines not expected for a thousand years or so. and subsea permafrost is only refreezable by putting the earth into another ice age.
and the derogatory nature of the term 'conspiracy theory' was crafted by the cia to discredit those who questioned the official kennedy investigation ^(source) ... so i'm leaning towards conspiracy on that one.
but i'm sure that i can't know how deep the rabbit hole gets, as of right now ...
r/conspiracy is like hunting for memetic gold in sea of shit, lies, delusions, and false flags. but truth, when you find it, really does set you free. ^(u/mr_dong)
more things that came after the original phreakers
some history
war
wwiv
zModem, Kermit
bbs logins
analog version
shit my user name is taken from one of the early great hackers
Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace.
By far my favorite book, it touches on a lot of old school stuff. I still read it from time to time.
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Gang-Ruled-Cyberspace/dp/0060926945
Not fiction, but a story of true events - Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace is an absolutely awesome read.
Just finished up reading Dreamland, which I highly recommend. It's an incredibly well-researched look into the rise of opiate painkiller prescriptions and the parallel rise of black tar heroin in the United States. It covers the nation-wide effects of an drug epidemic, as well as individual stories from people affected personally. In the state of Ohio alone, between the years of 2003-2008, 50% more people died of heroin overdose than US soldiers in the entire Iraq war. That's in ONE state. The book is full of shit like that. Again, highly recommend.
Now I'm rereading What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Last time I read it was in high school and I loved it. But something about it this time around just isn't clicking with me - I'm not finding it as relatable. Sort of how when you first read Catcher in the Rye, you relate with Holden, then when you reread it as an adult you find him insufferable. It's still good, just a bit strange.
The Vaccine Rabbithole
Skip to the (Important) document if you’re in a hurry.
https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Vaccinations--Know-the-risks-and-failures-.aspx
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/4-billion-and-growing-u-s-payouts-for-vaccine-injuries-and-deaths-keep-climbing/
http://vaccinepapers.org/vaccine-revenue/
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/adjuvants.html (vaccine aluminum adjuvants)
The 1 CDC and FDA study cited (Mitkus) Debunked Here: http://vaccinepapers.org/debunking-aluminum-adjuvant-part-2/
Autistic Brains Have High Aluminum Levels
Vaccine Aluminum Travels Into The Brain
Al Adjuvant Causes Brain Inflammation and Behavioral Abnormalities; Low Dose Is More Harmful
Brochure 1
Brochure 2
https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/March-2011/No-Pharma-Liability--No-Vaccine-Mandates-.aspx
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N5ePF6XPR5LmLGTjiBMpD5JfFJAm6JYJ68OyV5GJySw/mobilebasic (Important)*
https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/doctors-good-actors-and-spokesmodels-for-very-bad-drugs-and-vaccines/
https://youtu.be/mDb0ZS3vB9g
https://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/institutemedicine.aspx
Scroll down to “The Testimony”
https://youtu.be/DFTsd042M3o (9 hour long deposition)
http://www.robertscottbell.com/government/exposed-world-renowned-vaccine-scientists-shocking-legal-deposition-now-public-by-jefferey-jaxen/
One Conversation Part 1, Part 2
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ay0flr/a_response_to_the_latest_big_pharmafunded_study/
https://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions/inadequate-vaccine-safety-research-and-conflicts-of-interest
http://vaccinesafetycommission.org/cdc-conflicts.html
http://vaccinesafetycommission.org
https://vaccinepapers.org
https://www.drpaulapproved.com
https://youtu.be/6oEtF8FdqpA (Butthurt Doctor)
https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2018/4/1/international2018
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/aw1dqm/assumptions_i_had_when_i_was_a_provaxxer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/af839i/vaccines_do_cause_autism_according_to_provaccine/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VaxTalk/comments/bjeb2w/treacherous_deceit_and_fraud/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
http://vaccinepapers.org/dr-paul-offits-aluminum-deceptions-academic-misconduct/
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vRU93kGmbI0
https://youtu.be/3GAmHscgtEs
More vaccine debates:
https://youtu.be/6y09WNx4njY
http://vaxxedthemovie.com/about/ (Stream Vaxxed)
https://youtu.be/uEkbXGAfMyY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQKglol4OLE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eU32Ojf8-rA
https://youtu.be/zt-CZN48rR8
HHS is involved with vaccine safety. This ICAN report documents the failure of vaccine placebo trials.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/167223
Suzanne Humpries
http://drsuzanne.net/dr-suzanne-humphries-vaccines-vaccination/
http://drsuzanne.net/2015/10/why-dr-suzanne-humphries-an-anti-vaccine-activist-is-lying-to-you-about-measles/
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/gmi-blogs/suzannemd
https://youtu.be/BpC0Tbb3diI
https://youtu.be/SFQQOv-Oi6U
https://youtu.be/pYUj26bRNoo
https://youtu.be/aNKcaWp3Sf4
https://youtu.be/AkyjgY70yPA
http://drsuzanne.net/videos/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCqmzJIoo52a7bqxCuuZSIw
Books
10.The Vaccine Court: The Dark Truth of America's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
I am sorry I was apparently not precise enough in my original comment regarding "conspiracy theories". I just meant that it became vastly popularized to describe precisely what this entire REDDIT thread etc. IS. That was all I meant. I was referencing a U.T. Austin prof's book that traces this precise topic and he includes the docs. Here is the amazon link book link. http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theory-America-Discovering/dp/0292757697
And here is a bit of the description.
Conspiracy Theory in America investigates how the Founders’ hard-nosed realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct—articulated in the Declaration of Independence—has been replaced by today’s blanket condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as ludicrous by definition. Lance deHaven-Smith reveals that the term “conspiracy theory” entered the American lexicon of political speech to deflect criticism of the Warren Commission and traces it back to a CIA propaganda campaign to discredit doubters of the commission’s report. He asks tough questions and connects the dots among five decades’ worth of suspicious events, including the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, the attempted assassinations of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, the crimes of Watergate, the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal, the disputed presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the major defense failure of 9/11, and the subsequent anthrax letter attacks.
I hope this adds to the discussion.
I read this a while backb great book
https://www.amazon.com/Aint-Nobodys-Business-You-Consensual/dp/192976717X
"They aren't Yakuza" that's not what the book "Yakuza" says; it has a whole chapter devoted to this practice. https://www.amazon.com/Yakuza-Criminal-Underworld-David-Kaplan/dp/0520274903/
Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a
Globalizing Society (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
It may be a little outdated, but it gives a great look into modern Chinese cultural trends.
Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook by Patricia Ebrey has great primary sources if you want to learn about Chinese culture that way, and it stretches all the way back to ancient times.
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David Kaplan and Alex Dubro is a great book to read if you want to learn about the Yakuza and how they have effected Japanese political history.
Would you be able to reveal whether you'll be in a state or federal prison, and if a state prison in what state?
With your savings, you will be in a better position than most of the people you will meet in prison.
Be aware that if you are released on probation, there will be fees to pay. If you have a choice between being released on probation and serving serving a bit more time but being released with no probation, I suggest serving the time. Probation is difficult and expensive.
Before you go in, look into books to prisoner programs that serve your facility.
In some facilities you can buy an ipod from commissary and load it up with prison approved music. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-ipod-of-prison
Make sure you or someone else puts money into commissary account regularly. You will need it for basics like shampoo, lotion, and treats like ramen noodles, candy, notebook paper, pencils, and stamps.
I recommend reading this book before going in: https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Bars-Jeffrey-Ian-Ross/dp/0028643518
trusting or kowtowing to drug pushers has never been an option
Hey, congratulations on the husband's new job! And welcome to RAoA, very cool that you're doing your first contest. :)
16 bucks an hour!!
I love both mysteries and true crime, so I'm going to link [this book] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671017063/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=WF8NZ0PKFW15&coliid=I2F7D4AGX4CCJQ) about unsolved mysteries. I've read other stuff by the author, Mark Olshaker, and really liked his work, so I'm eager to read this one.
Thanks for the contest!
Currently reading a great book on the subject: Dreamland. It details the rise of Oxy epidemic with the concurrent introduction of Mexican black tar heroin. Terrifically written, too. Reads like a novel. Highly recommended.
I checked out Charles Bronson's wiki after watching Bronson....the guy is insanely awesome. One of the books he wrote fitness book called Solitary Fitness, it's priceless.
On a side note, Tom Hardy, who plays Bronson, will be in the new batman movie as Bane.
Suggested reading for anyone who else who also agrees with this point:
"Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" - Peter McWilliams
Matthew Shepard was a meth dealer and was having a sexual relationship with one of the men who killed him. I would refer you to the book, The Book of Matt by Steve Jiminez (a gay author) where his investigation into the hate crime yielded startling revelations that the crime was not really motivated by hate for homosexuals but by the motivation of greed. The book chronicles how Matt came into a large quantity of meth and was unwilling to share with his boyfriend/dealer.
There are, in fact, many, many facts to support my position. Just because class (which happens to be closely tied to race) also plays into the equation doesn't mean that racism isn't at the heart of the problem. Educate yourself, my friend:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431
https://www.amazon.com/Ghettoside-True-Story-Murder-America-ebook/dp/B0062OCN4E
https://www.amazon.com/Just-Mercy-Story-Justice-Redemption/dp/081298496X
[The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Market-Brokers-Traffickers/dp/0061936464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411113211&sr=8-1&keywords=red+market)
The game of telephone that powers gamergate is already spinning up, I see. Watergate Exposed (not Watergate: Exposed) is a book, not a documentary.
A book from 2011 that is not especially important. And if they are deliberately referencing it, it's probably the most obscure reference Nintendo has ever made.
Also, note how the subtitle refers to the "Watergate Seven", but that little tidbit doesn't reinforce your gaslighting, so it goes ignored.
EDIT: How could I forget?
You want to know what is exhausting? The history of US imperialism.
You know what is exhaustive? A book like Killing Hope,
https://www.amazon.com/KILLING-HOPE/dp/B007K517VE
Which should be required reading before somebody makes a comment regarding the military and justifying what it does.
Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams
An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human by Richard Zacks
Relevant: Solitary Fitness
Just saw the movie, kind of want to get the book now. Dude is crazy ripped and also has written like 7 books (that one's on fitness while in solitary confinement). Not saying that he should be a role model, though - he seems just plain crazy on top of crazy ripped.
I'm pretty sure the movie Hackers was loosely based on Masters of Deception -- a hacker classic. I still have my copy from being a dumbass teenager and using a red box to use payphones for free. I remember it as being a great book but I haven't read it for almost 20 years.
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Gang-Ruled-Cyberspace/dp/0060926945
I rarely re-read... but you have tempted me.
I'm going to recommend this one.
After you've read that, go with East of Eden, my favorite book.
For your situation I would suggest aerobic exersize that you can do in front of the tele; plenty of DVDs out there. Followed by sit ups. You should be doing this already, but if you're not drink plenty of water.
I'd also check out some prison workout books if you're interested in building muscle mass. Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson is a great book.
Read Flawless. It's a great read and addresses some of the issues with the wired article
i dont know if this would fit under gangs and drugs but it would fit under criminal underworld. The book is about the trade of organs,children,skeletons and much much more. The Red Market
.I'm reading this right now and i'm enjoying it.
The Yakusa is a fascinating entity where the truth is far stranger than the fictional stuff. I highly recommend Yakuza by David E Caplan. An in depth academic history of the Yakuza from the Edo to the modern era.
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia/dp/1476795207
Yeah, if you read the history, it was a lot about suppressing brown people. I like this book.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Market-Brokers-Traffickers/dp/0061936464
Read Killing Hope and get back to me on the history of the CIA's role in neutering leftist movements in the 20th century.
sigh
I don't have time to educate clueless redditors again at the moment.
Do yourself a favor and crack open a book or two.
And if that's too hard it can be broken down in simple video form.
If reading books is too advanced for you.
Whiteout by alexander Cockburn https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockburn/dp/1859842585NARCO-COLONIALISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY - EX DEA AGENTS SPEAK
https://web.archive.org/web/20120208083401/http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/How a Dogged L.A. DEA Agent Unraveled the CIA's Alleged Role in the Murder of Kiki Camarena By Jason McGahan Wednesday, July 1, 2015
http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-a-dogged-la-dea-agent-unraveled-the-cias-alleged-role-in-the-murder-of-kiki-camarena-5750278
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Blood On The Corn
In 1985, a murky alliance of drug lords and government officials tortured and killed a DEA agent named Enrique Camarena. In a three-part series, legendary journalist Charles Bowden finally digs into the terrible mystery behind a hero’s murder. By Charles Bowden and Molly Molloy https://medium.com/matter/blood-on-the-corn-52ac13f7e643
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THE CRIMES OF PATRIOTS -- A TRUE TALE OF DOPE, DIRTY MONEY, AND THE CIA BY JOHNATHAN KWITNY 1987
COMPLETE BOOK--
"There is a secret government in America. It operates with the explicit and implied authority of the highest officials, and in the name of America's interests it has inflicted great damage on the unsuspecting peoples of other countries and on our own fundamental principles.... I wish everyone would read The Crimes of Patriots. Perhaps then the current hearings on the Iran-Contra affair -- for Ronald Reagan is the latest to wield this secret weapon and to perish by it -- will be the last. An informed people might become an outraged people and finally put a stop to our own self-destruction. If so, we will owe much to Jonathan Kwitny's reporting."
-- Bill Moyers
Well, the government even invented the phrase, 'conspiracy theory' https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Theory-America-Discovering/dp/0292757697/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471971025&sr=1-1&keywords=Conspiracy+Theory+in+America
Well, here are some government assurances about vaccines from the CDC.
>>A Polio-Free U.S. Thanks to Vaccine Efforts: Thanks to effective vaccine, the United States has been polio-free since 1979. But poliovirus is still a threat in some countries. Be part of the success story and get your child vaccinated on schedule. http://www.cdc.gov/features/poliofacts/
With a cute picture of a lady getting her baby vaccinated. Exactly like what we saw out of Flint. http://i.imgur.com/EV1tC9j.png
All of that was taken from the CDC's website, yet from a different page of their website...
Currently the only cause of Polio cases in American since 1979 was OPV, the Oral Polio Vaccine. The last cases of naturally occurring paralytic polio in the United States were in 1979. From 1980 through 1999, there were 154 cases of paralytic polio that were vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) caused by live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). In 2009, an immunoncompromised adult developed vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) and died of polio-associated complications. Vaccine-derived poliovirus was isolated, and the infection likely occurred where her child received OPV 12 years prior. source: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/polio/dis-faqs.htm
So..which is it CDC? They're hiding their own numbers and flat lying to people and if those people don't just trust them then they're stupid? Not only have we not been polio free for 30 years, the cause of those cases of polio were the Vaccine! But they won't put that little fact next to the picture of the lady with her baby...
>There's a slight difference between distrusting just the local government, and distrusting the entire scientific community, though, isn't there?
Not really. The "entire scientific community" has lost just as much trust as the government. Scientists have proven again and again that their science is for sale and that they're as corruptible as anyone else. And there is plenty of fearmongering material, don't pretend that it's only "stupid people listening to Jenny McCarthy". Just look at all the best selling books about it
Science for Sale: How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
>The government hires scientists to support its policies; industry hires them to support its business; and universities hire them to bring in grants that are handed out to support government policies and industry practices. Organizations dealing with scientific integrity are designed only to weed out those who commit fraud behind the backs of the institutions where they work. The greatest threat of all is the purposeful corruption of the scientific enterprise by the institutions themselves. The science they create is often only an illusion, designed to deceive; and the scientists they destroy to protect that illusion are often our best.
Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
>In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained a little-known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury.
Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children
>Habakus, Holland, and Rosenberg edit and introduce a diverse array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy, including the ethics of vaccination mandates, corrupting conflicts of interest in the national vaccine program, and personal narratives of parents, children, and soldiers who have suffered vaccine injury.
>Newly updated with additional chapters focusing on institutional scientific misconduct, mandates for healthcare workers, concerns about HPV vaccine development, and the story behind the Supreme Court’s recent vaccine decision, Vaccine Epidemic remains the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children.
There are actually a lot of diamonds, but just 20-30 % of raw-diamonds are usable as gemstones...70-80%, as mentioned, are used in other industries. Paths in underground mines or tunnels get drilled with tools, which have diamonds attached to them. Because of there density, they can cut through tones of hard rock.
There are two factors that determines the price of diamonds.
1. Quality
In the diamond industry they talk about "the 4 C's"
Color - pretty self-explaining
Clarity - how many (if any) impurities are visible? How pure is the stone?
Carat - how dense, big and heavy is the stone?
Cut - in which way was the rough diamond processed?
So, the "perfect stone" has to be in an orthodox color with no impurities, as big as an Orange and perfectly cut (preferably the "Heart and Arrows"-cut , which was invented in Antwerp...diamond capital of the world). To give you an idea, -0,1 Carat can mean 100-200 Bucks of lost value. Finding diamonds out of those 20-30 % where all C's are on the highest level isn't easy because they are rare...maybe not as rare as the diamond industry wants use to believe, but rare enough.
which brings me to the next point
2. Monopolization
All diamond mines on this planet are owned by just a few companies that have complete control over the market price. They can regulate the sale price by holding back these rough-diamonds, even though the demand for them are as high as ever ( supply DOWN + demand UP = price UP).
The rest of the industry (cutter, salesman etc.) doesn't mind neither, because they get rich as well. If the market would by flooded with rough-diamonds the price would decrease.
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If you want to lean more about the diamond industry I can recommend the Book "Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History" by Greg Campbell (author of "Blood Diamond"). It's manly about the biggest diamond heist in history made in Antwerp on February 15, 2003 (Loot: $108 million worth of diamonds). But besides that, it explores the diamond industry, gives insight into the Turin diamond Mafia ("School of Turin") and explains diamond trade in general. It is one of the most interesting books I red in recent memory.
Eat more, start working out again, whatever amount. Check out this glorious lunatic's book.
If this is something you're interested in, you should check out The Red Market by Scott Carney. It's about all aspects of the trade in human flesh, including organs, blood, hair, eggs, etc. It's really fascinating, and I love the analysis the author provides.
Also, to remain on topic...refute this book
For anyone interested in the subject but too lazy to read a book (Dreamland is excellent), listen to the 2-part Dollop series on Opium in the US (1 and 2). This issue represents the prototypical intersection of capitalist greed and human frailty. It was not an accident.
Theft of art and antiquities if the 3rd or 4th largest black market industry in the world (it's difficult for experts to gauge...if memory serves, drugs and weapons are #'s 1 and 2 respectively; this type of theft is very close in $ amount to human trafficking).
Theft of this size is rare, but less rare with jewels than, say, paintings. A famous painting worth many millions of dollars is difficult to fence. Jewels, which can be removed from settings and cut, are easier to traffic.
You'd be amazed at how easy it is to steal extremely high value items like this. If interested, a couple great books to read are Hot Art, Flawless, or just about anything here.
So You're Going To Prison
Quickly buy the book Behind Bars: Surviving Prison, skim through it or ask to take it to jail with you. It contains numerous tips and explanations (and it's an interesting read even for those not going to jail).
I seem to remember that this was a good book: Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn https://www.amazon.com/dp/1859842585/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_y-6cBb7G9GPYD
If anyone wants to see into the future, I recommend Putin's Kleptocracy.
"The Chickenshit Club" by Jesse Eisinger and "The Hellhound of Wall Street" by Michael Perino are two of my favorites.
Here is the mobile version of your link
Look into the Open Source Intelligence community and the ideas of Robert David Steele, a former CIA agent who says that "spying doesn't work".
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583944435/ossnet-20
http://www.phibetaiota.net/
If the Panopticon is coming anyway, I'd rather it go both ways, so that The People can watch The State watching The People.
take it easy chief, I assume your degradation into a keyboard mashing internet troll is because you realize your argument is floored? hang on to this: your latest reply is all referring to a point I had conceded. reiterating; I don't have access to Channel Islands historical population data. Also, here are some books you may enjoy:
Vaccine Free: 111 Stories of Unvaccinated Children
Don't Vaccinate! Before You Educate
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations
Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children
I haven't read them all, but they all have great ratings, hope u like them! and thanks for motivating me to spend a few minutes researching!
Jesus dude, you really are a retard.
Here ya go....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Russia
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results
http://www.business-anti-corruption.com/country-profiles/russia
https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia/dp/1476795207
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wet8Tfh3as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yZ_52w60w
Took me less than 5 minutes to find these, why don't you educate yourself?
Pay particular attention to the "CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX 2014: RESULTS"
I could on and on and on.....
Ain't nobody's business if you do.
There's the official narrative, and then there's the shit they aren't telling you, there are covert wars and destabilization behind the scenes.
I couldn't possibly convince you in a line of text, I'd point you to the covert actions behind the scenes of the official narratives being presented.
http://www.amazon.com/KILLING-HOPE-William-Blum/dp/B007K517VE
On Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJsauYlLi4&feature=youtu.be
Read this book. It explains this much better than I ever could.
Or just believe whatever you seen on msnbc, or fox, if that is your preference, or the first hit of Google. Everything is just fine...
[EN] Historical Novel based off the first 2 hacker groups... and the electronic war they had between them... Masters of Deception and Lords of Destruction. It is written in a way that is understandable by non-computer people. https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Gang-Ruled-Cyberspace/dp/0060926945 For those who are interested.
>You can certainly argue that accountability should have been higher and I would agree, but the Obama administration was an objective step up from Bush.
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
I'm not for handing out participation awards for next to last place.
The Red Market
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061936464/
Interview with author:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/136931615/blood-bones-and-organs-the-gruesome-red-market
Excerpt from Book:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/red-market-excerpt/
Currently in Europe:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kosovo-organ-trafficking-scandal-widens-8604567.html
Organ Trafficking In The US
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/nyregion/30organs.html?pagewanted=all
http://mobile.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2009/07/organ_failure.html
Etc etc.
You should consider reading Gold Warrior. This was the Gold taken from Korea, China, Southeast Asia, hidden in the Philippines. " In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This ‘Black Gold’ gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America’s allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years. " If people really understood the financial implications to this loot, we would be rioting.
Yeah I read the wiki link. Did you? Not only does the top summary avoid stating that it is only a strain within socialism ("e.g." does not mean the same thing as "i.e.", pro-tip, and "left-wing" in the US does not mean "Socialist") but they link this group in "see also":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Freedom_Caucus
who are Democratic politicians.
I don't care who invented the term "libertarian" since I am talking about the US libertarian movement in the 1990s.
You are trying to shift a conversation about how American citizens see themselves and others in the political spectrum to a discussion of word usage among academic political theorists.
You like academic theory so try this 1975 publication on for size. Seminal work in what later became known as "left libertarian" thought, which is less an appropriation directly from socialist terminology and more a statement of affiliation with libertarian ideas about "victimless crimes" while repudiating libertarian ideas about taxes, property, race, etc.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=15304
It's available as an Amazon e-book. Cited 84 times.
On a more popular level, there were a lot of books like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Aint-Nobodys-Business-You-Consensual/dp/192976717X
Well unfortunately they don't have a very good track record, each time someone does lie and manufacture outrage for the LGBT movement it derides any credibility the movement was gaining.
Did you hear that an investigation in Matt Shepard's murder shows that it wasn't about him being gay at all. It sounds more like he was killed in a robbery for drugs and money gone bad, and that he had previously slept with his attacker. MSM is largely killing the story, but the Gay media isn't ignoring it and the author himself is gay as well.
Edit: I should have been more clear. There is a book about it, the author who is gay did not set out to disprove anything but this the story he found when he investigated.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Matt-Matthew-Shepard/dp/1586422146
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/06/226438148/book-of-matt-the-real-motive-behind-an-infamous-murder
Washington, in essence, declared war on Russia by facilitating "regime change" in Ukraine.
This formal declaration of US involvement in an active coup is more than enough to put the Russian Military on alert.
The chapters of "Killing Hope" by William Blum point to a certain "pattern" of US behavior in this regard;
China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Zedong just paranoid?
Italy - 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
Greece - 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state
The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony
Korea - 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
Albania - 1949-1953: The proper English spy
Eastern Europe - 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
Germany - 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
Iran - 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
Guatemala - 1953-1954: While the world watched
Costa Rica - Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1
Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
Middle East - 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
Indonesia - 1957-1958: War and pornography
Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
British Guiana - 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia
Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
Italy - 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno- fascism
Vietnam - 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
Cambodia - 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
Laos - 1957-1973: L'Armée Clandestine
Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another
France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA
Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
The Congo - 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
Brazil - 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads
Peru - 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
Dominican Republic - 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy
Cuba - 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution
Indonesia - 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno … and 500,000 others
East Timor - 1975: And 200,000 more
Ghana - 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
Uruguay - 1964-1970: Torture—as American as apple pie
Chile - 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead
Greece - 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said the President of the United States
Bolivia - 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'état
Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"
Costa Rica - 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally—Part 2
Iraq - 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work
Australia - 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
Angola - 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
Zaire - 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
Jamaica - 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum
Seychelles - 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
Grenada - 1979-1984: Lying—one of the few growth industries in Washington
Morocco - 1983: A video nasty
Suriname - 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
Libya - 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
Nicaragua - 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
Panama - 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about
Iraq - 1990-1991: Desert holocaust
Afghanistan - 1979-1992: America's Jihad
El Salvador - 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
Haiti - 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?
Home schooling it its! Sucks I still have to pay school taxes though.
For all you jellyfish vaccine pushing tardtards I recommend you read some of the following informative materials: