This book talks about two forms of government, one that emphasizes the pursuit of happiness and the other property rights. Venice is the origin of the modern version of the latter and it moved to the Netherlands and England. Gottfried Leibniz was an outstanding advocate of government for the people. He influenced Ben Franklin and thereby the founding of the US.
I learned much from the books on my shelves about how to live, about the world, about health, and more. My posts will highlight the wisdom I found and the insights I gained.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Perfidy by Ben Hecht
A journalist in Israel accused, in the early 1950s, Rudolf Kastner of collaborating with the Nazis in the killing of 1 million Hungarian Jews and the Israeli government sued him for libel. This book is the story of that case. Hecht portrays many of Israel's leaders as placating the British. American Jews incorrectly called an offer by Eichmann to trade Hungarian Jews for Trucks and other material as false causing the American help to flounder.
Friday, December 04, 2020
Listen, Liberal - or whatever happened to the party of the people.
Bill Clinton became a "New" Democrat. He cut welfare, kept the high penalties for crack compared to powdered cocaine, and was going to cut social security until Monica intervened. He enabled the bankers by removing Gram-Schmidt controls. Because of globalization labor had less clout so he needed a more reliable source of funding. Democrats since Clinton have followed his lead. Republicans have old business corporations, and Democrats the new technocrat billionaires and some Wall St hedge funds. The working class traditional Democrat constituency have no representation. Liberals tout innovation and talk frequently about innovators as if that a path that workers whose jobs have vanished can take. Instead of jobs liberals promise inclusiveness for minorities and sexes which is nice but avoids the real economic issues.
Thursday, December 03, 2020
How Vaccines Wreck Human Immunity by Jack Stockwell
This short ebook is very clearly written making the essentials understandable. Our acquired immunity or humoral immunity has two types, T cells that aggressively fight the invaders and B cells that make antibodies to protect against this invader, giving lifetime immunity The T cells make you sick in the process of fighting the invaders. Those that succumb to a virus show weak nutrition and bad environmental poisons or even damaging medicines.
So in a natural infection first come the T cells and the the B cells. Vaccines attemp to stimulate B cells to provide antibodies with the causing virus to get the T cells to reach and activate the B cells. Using dead virus does not stimulate the B cells so vaccine makers add poisons such as mercury or aluminum to get the immune system to react. All these antibodies with no virus to fight cause the autoimmune diseases which plague modern society. And they do not create lifelong immunity as did those naturally created. Polio and other diseases were on the decline before their vaccines were introduced. He asks if you would inject a neurotoxic substance that will get through the blood brain barrier and into the brain itself in exchange for not getting the chicken pox.
Vaccine Safety Manual by Neil Z. Miller
This is a very thorough coverage of vaccines by disease condition. Mostly vaccines are ineffective and many, many examples are given of bad side effects and death. Autism is linked to the MMR vaccine. I would never get a vaccine after reading this and am sorry that my daughter had some and probably side effects like asthma and diabetes.
The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods that Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry MD
He explains that when animals came along plants developed defenses, poisons to kill them. They don't kill us but they do some damage. He shows the foods that are safe to eat and those that aren't and has recipes in the back of the book created by a chef. They are mostly vegetarian because meat has a different variant of a sugar than humans and so our autoimmune system attacks it causing disease.
Conjuring HItler: How Britain and America made the Third Reich by Guido Giacona Preparata
Britain and the US are not part of the Eurasian land mass. Britain's aim was to prevent Eurasia from uniting which would endanger Britain's empire. They worked to provoke Germany into WWI to weaken them. Britain pretended to support the Whites (the rich) in the Russian revolution but in reality were afraid that they would be natural allies of the German nobility and so covertly supported the Reds. They wanted to weaken Germany and Russia. To do that they had to build up someone (Hitler) to fight Russia and damage them both. This they did in the 30s. They even had some such as the Duke of Windsor be friendly to Hitler so that he wouldn't attack Britain. Hitler tried to ransom the Jews but neither Britain or the US would pay. Fascinating book with lots of insights.
The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
This is a thorough economic study of Germany in relation to the world wars. Just to mention a few points: He shows how the cycle of finance worked after WWI. The Germans paid reparations to the French and British who paid their loans to the US who made loans to Germany. In the early 30s Germany stopped paying reparations which broke the cycle and allowed their economy to prepare for another war. But they were deficient in many areas. Hitler hoped to defeat the Russians getting access to the food and mineral rich Ukraine. They planned to let the Slavs die. When that didn't work they weren't going to feed the Jews who was the least favored accessible victims. The economic analysis is fascinating.