Current rankings at Amazon:

* #12 in All Books
* #2 in Nonfiction
* #1 in Economics, and
* #1 in Government!

Here is the description, direct from the Publisher’s Website:

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn’t quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together.

a few choice paragraphs:

His mama, white as whipped cream; his daddy, black as ink…

He was there in Chicago because he cared about these people. They were his family. People in Kenya were his family. Indonesians were his family. And no matter where he was, the world was his home. And who he was could be summed up in one word: loveable.

and

When Barack wasn’t studying he liked to jog along the Hudson River. He couldn’t help but notice the river of hurt and hate and history that separated blacks and whites. Being both, he could not take sides. Don’t worry, said Hope. I will be your bridge. In time you will be the bridge for others.

but that’s not all, there’s more:

When his classes came to an end, he raced to Chicago to join hands with the church, to learn new lessons: Not how to be black or white, but how to be a healer, how to change things, how to make a difference in the world.

of course, no book about Vladimir Lenin would be complete without talking about his days in the trenches as a community organizer:

The work was grueling, with stretches of failure, and puny patches of success. Door-to-door Barack went, early mornings, late nights, pleading and preaching, coaxing strangers to march together, to make life better for everyone. He worked hard as a farmer, planting the words “Yes, we can!” like seeds in spring.

but that’s not all, there’s still more good stuff:

Before Barack chased his future, he visited his past, traveling to Kenya to find his family, his father’s bones, and his own place in the circle of Africa…Finally, Barack knelt in the soil at his father’s grave, listening to the still, small voice that spoke to his heart: Go now. Fly free. Become the man you were meant to be. Live in hope.

Having gotten the blessings of his father’s spirit, Barack set forth…

Hope may be slim and beautiful, but she is no weak thing…[Barack] proved it again when all of Washington, D.C., wondered what this skinny kid with the funny name could offer a nation in need. But the hope that lived in Barack burned bright, and on the night he became a senator, everybody felt the flame.

but that’s not all! He had a date with destiny, and:

One sun-drenched day, as his wife Michelle stood by, Barack smiled on a sea of faces from Wichita to Waikiki. He saw whites and blacks, rich and poor, Christians and Muslims and Jews; he saw the ghosts of his parents, of Gramps and Toot, of Martin Luther King, Jr. and JFK. And on that special day Barack was the bridge that held them all together. “I want to be your president,” he said. “Can we make America better? Can we work together, as one?” With a single voice the crowd called out, “Yes! We can!”

And that’s just one book. I personally think we need to change the calender to BB (Before Barack) and AB (After Barack). I mean it is undeniable that the man is the second coming. But, that’s not all, let’s look at the other tome on Barack Obama for children:

(Read more from aipnews.com)

This excellent about our new administration was written by Yuri Maltsev.

Check out his excellent book, Requiem for Marx. Another excellent essay which serves as the book’s introduction is excerpted here.

Sooner Than We Thought
by Yuri N. Maltsev

The new Obama regime is taking shape in Washington and provinces eager to take power and secure the “change you can believe in” using humungous propaganda machine of both government radio and television and still privately owned, so-called “mainstream media.” These private networks are competing with National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in praising Obama’s first choices from his new dog to his new chief of staff.

The thought scene in the US today resembles that of Russia in 1917, Cuba in 1959 or China in 1948. Incessant calls for “unity” and “fairness,” attacks on “divisive,” “toxic” and “hateful” language are nothing new – they resemble Germany of 1932 and Venezuela of 1996, today’s Putin’s Russia and Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. . . .

In the old Marxist tradition, the new great Leader’s calls for “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, had openly shared this vision of the civilian national security force (CNSF) in his book:

It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.

. . . .

A phone call from Moscow woke me up in the middle of the night. My friend Vladimir, former Soviet Army general turned reformer under Yeltsin and businessman under Putin, sounded slightly drunk and very agitated. “I am watching televised interrogation of Alan Greenspan and another guy by some Jewish investigator and it looks exactly like the “Great terror” is back, but not here, for a change. What is going on? Would they shoot all these economic subversives and saboteurs at the end of the day? ”

“I am not sure about that, definitely not at the end of the day. Maybe after elections,” I mumbled in response and went back to bed. My sleep was ruined however, and in a desperate attempt to get it back I opened Greenspan’s “Gold and Economic Freedom” chapter in Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

Yes, Comrade Waxman (D-CA) definitely has a case against former capitalist sympathizer Greenspan. This now repentant agent of the world capitalism wrote back in 1966 about Waxmans of the time:

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense – perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire – that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other.

Make no mistake about it – Greenspan was attacked by Waxman and the new socialist establishment because of his libertarian past and free-market rhetoric and not because of his job as chief inflationist and central planner. The show trial over Greenspan’s pro-capitalist past was turned by Waxman and his committee comrades into the trial against capitalism itself.

(Read the whole thing at lewrockwell.com)

“If you know your history, you know that in 1934 there was an attempted coup in the United States that was thwarted largely due to the efforts of U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler (ret.)

Look it up.

Among other things, Butler was only one of 19 people ever awarded the Medal of Honor twice and the only person to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor for two different actions.

After it dawned on him how his heroism and the heroism of the troops under his command had been misused, he wrote a book called “War is a Racket” which I can virtually guarantee you never heard about in school.

Butler concluded there are only two reasons to ever take up arms:

1. To defend the country against real – not manufactured – attacks
2. To defend the Bill of Rights

Sounds good to me.”

(Read more from brasschecktv.com)

Most Americans don’t know our country’s dark history and love affair with Eugenics – the forcible castration or sterilization of citizens deemed undesirable, made possible, of course, by the power of the state.

William Faulkner obliquely railed against these monstrous policies in many of his novels.

“Eugenics attracted the support of prominent Americans. Progressive Theodore Roosevelt summed up eugenicist theory: ‘Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce.’ Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the famous opinion upholding Virginia’s decision to sterilize a woman named Carrie Buck: ‘Three generations of imbeciles,’ he averred, ‘are enough.’

Other supporters were Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and in Britain, Winston Churchill and Major Leonard Darwin, son of Charles, postulator of evolution. Britain originated the idea of ‘lethal chambers’ for its ‘unfit.’ . . .

Thanks to the Nazis, highly praised by eugenicists here, the movement eventually collapsed. But not before nearly 50,000 Americans were sterilized. . . .

An irony of this book is that its publisher hails itself as ‘progressive.’ As the late economist and historian Murray Rothbard wrote, ‘Progressivism’ was a movement in New England born of Yankee Pietism in the early 19th century. By the early 20th, it had matured into a Messianic ideology of pervasive social controls to better the world: prohibition of alcohol, statist government regulation of business, even the ‘war to end all wars,’ World War I. And, of course, eugenics was there, too.” (Read more from waragainsttheweak.com)

I’m wary of the over-educated. They’re the ones, when they seize the reins of power, who think the rest of us need to be saved from ourselves, who think they can socially engineer a better world through the power of the state. Freedom works best.

I see eugenics in the same light as obsession with world over-population in the 80’s, or global warming today. Politicians lead very empty lives and need problems to solve, real or imagined. Pseudo science provides an endless source of pseudo crises for which politicians can take money and power and pretend to save the world.

An excerpt from the book, What Has Government Done to Our Money?, by the great Austrian Economist Murray Rothbard (1926-1995).

“Government imposes price controls largely in order to divert public attention from governmental inflation to the alleged evils of the free market. As we have seen, ‘Gresham’s Law’–that an artificially overvalued money tends to drive an artificially undervalued money out of circulation–is an example of the general consequences of price control. Government places, in effect, a maximum price on one type of money in terms of the other.”

Me: Think of how, when the our government began debasing silver quarters in the 1960s, all the true silver quarters disappeared almost instantly.

“. . . With the name of the country’s currency now prominent in accounting instead its actual weight, contracts began to pledge payment in certain amounts of ‘money.’ Legal tender laws dictated what that ‘money’ could be. When only the original gold or silver was designated ‘legal tender,’ people considered it harmless, but they should have realized that a dangerous precedent had been set for government control of money. If the government sticks to the original money, its legal tender law is superfluous and unnecessary. On the other hand, the government may declare as legal tender a lower-quality currency side-by-side with the original. Thus, the government may decree worn coins as good as new ones in paying off debt, of silver and gold equivalent to each other in the fixed ratio.The legal tender laws then bring Gresham’s Law into being. . . .

Governmental control of money could only become absolute, and its counterfeiting unchallenged, as money-substitutes came into prominence in recent centuries. The advent of paper money and bank deposits, an economic boon when backed fully by gold or silver, provided the open sesame for government’s road to power over money, and thereby over the entire economic system.” (Read more from Mises.org)

This is another great Lew Rockwell podcast. Find more here.

Charles Adams, author of For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, speaks about taxes and tax resistance, from the Bible, the Greeks, and through present day.

This brief lecture by the Mises Institute’s director of editorial affairs offers a fantastic glimpse at the long struggle for truth by economists of the Austrian School.

Of all the issues I cover here on LostRepublic.us, voicing doubts about human-induced climate change earns me by far the most consternation from friends and readers.

From the website realclimate.org:

“RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.”

Sorry, they do not take a stand on the issue. They only critique various news stories and individual studies.

Here is a book review of three climate change books: Winds of Change, Catastrophe, and The Weather Makers.

“In the wake of the accusation by Chas Freeman that his nomination to lead the National Intelligence Council was derailed by an “Israeli lobby,” a forthcoming memoir by another distinguished ambassador adds stunning new charges to the debate. The ambassador, John Gunther Dean, writes that over the years he not only came under pressure from pro-Israeli groups and officials in Washington but also was the target of an Israeli-inspired assassination attempt in 1980 in Lebanon, where he had opened links to the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Dean’s suspicions that Israeli agents may have also been involved in the mysterious plane crash in 1988 that killed Pakistan’s president, General Mohammed Zia ul Haq, led finally to a decision in Washington to declare him mentally unfit, which forced his resignation from the foreign service after a thirty-year career. After he left public service, he was rehabilitated by the State Department, given a distinguished service medal and eventually encouraged to write his memoirs. Now 82, Dean sees the subsequent positive attention he has received as proof that the insanity charge (he calls it Stalinist) was phony, a supposition later confirmed by a former head of the department’s medical service.

Dean, whose memoir is titled Danger Zones: A Diplomat’s Fight for America’s Interests, was American ambassador in Lebanon in August 1980 when a three-car convoy carrying him and his family was attacked near Beirut.” (Read more from the nation.com)

“Every year, thousands of law-abiding Americans submit to polygraphic interrogation. And every year, hundreds – if not thousands – are falsely accused based on polygraph chart readings and are routinely denied due process.”

“We wrote this short book to call public attention to the dangers of polygraphy and to protect the innocent from polygraph abuse. Because of our government’s reliance on this pseudoscientific procedure, thousands of truthful persons have been falsely accused of deception and suffered serious adverse consequences. On the other hand, deceptive persons can easily defeat polygraph ‘tests’ through countermeasures, as did convicted spy Aldrich H. Ames.

In this book, you will learn the little-known truth about polygraphy. You will learn:
- that polygraphy is not science (p. 18 ff.);
- that polygraphy, like phrenology and graphology, is without scientific validity (p. 18 ff.);
- that our Government’s reliance on unreliable polygraphy serves to protect spies, undermining – not enhancing – our national security (p. 35 ff.);
- that polygraph “tests” are actually interrogations (pp. 20, 129 ff.);
- that polygraphy depends on your polygrapher lying to and deceiving you (p. 86 ff.);
- the simplistic method by which your polygrapher decides whether you are truthful or deceptive (p. 98 ff.);
- that polygraphy is biased against the truthful (p. 99);
- that polygraph “testing” can be (and has been) easily defeated through countermeasures (p. 22);
- how to protect yourself against a false positive outcome (p. 121 ff);
- how to recognize interrogation tactics and not be fooled by them (p. 112 and p. 129 ff.);
- what to do if you have been falsely accused (p. 164 ff.);
- how you can help put an end to polygraph abuse (p. 171 ff.);
- where to learn more about polygraphy (p. 200 ff.).

If you face an upcoming polygraph “test” and need to learn what to expect as quickly as possible, you may wish to proceed directly to Chapters 3 and 4 (p. 86 ff.) and come back to Chapters 1, 2 and 5 later.”

Get the FREE book here: The Lie Behind the Lie Detector 4th ed. (.pdf), or visit antipolygraph.org.

See his book: Why Drug Laws Have Failed

I planned to write a comprehensive post summarizing the 9/11 truth movement after finishing the book 9/11 and American Empire, Intellectuals Speak Out, but there are already so many great organizations and websites dedicated to this cause (here’s one), my doing so seemed redundant. I will say this: if you’re looking for something immediately damning, study building 7, or study the presence of molten steel at the wreckage site.

Here is an example of the mainstream media ignoring and ridiculing the truth movement. Rather than exploring the most significant single political event of our time and the woefully inadequate investigation that followed, they talk about cookies and scantily dressed women. A sign of the times. Their determination to ignore the shouting masses is comical. They can’t win. The truth has a certain ring to it.