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A suggestion that Al Qaeda was created in the West “to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy” has sparked a timely debate in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on Goodreads. Timely given current events in Iraq and Syria involving ISIS, IS, ISIL et al.

Al-Shabab: The Somalian terrorist group with Al Qaeda links, has seen four San Diego residents been arrested in the past month

The debate was prompted by the airing of a contentious article originally published by Global Research, shedding light on the nature of Al Qaeda.

Here’s an excerpt from that article:

The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the ‘TV watcher’ to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money.

To read the full article, and members’ responses to it, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2028159-evidence-to-suggest-al-qaeda-was-created-in-the-west

Judging by the comments received in our group’s ‘False Flag Operations’ discussion thread, many if not most members believe Al Qaeda is a creation of the West, or, as one American contributor points out, “Another fabricated enemy we built in the US for sinister purposes.”

 

Here’s some more random comments (names redacted) on the subject of Al Qaeda:

ISIS, ISIL, IS… Al Qaeda… The ‘enemy’ keeps changing. The ‘enemy’s’ name and location keeps changing. We’re getting more and more used to a war that doesn’t really bother a lot of the West, when the video of someone’s cat on YouTube is more important. You have all read 1984, right?

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It seems like once the media repeats the names and evil intentions of these often-fabricated organizations enough times, the masses believe it and nobody (not even investigative journalists) researches the true origins of these groups.

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Al Qaeda weren’t even ever mentioned in mainstream news (hardly) before 9/11, just as other groups that now spring up weren’t known about- but it’s a complex subject.

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Yes it’s all BS. Believe exactly 0% of what the main stream media and the government says…0%

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This story is just one of numerous pieces of evidence pointing toward Al Qaeda being created in the West (specifically in New York, actually). And when all those evidences are added up, it equates to an absolute fact that Al Qaeda was yet another fabricated enemy we built in the US for sinister purposes. And yet now there’s a new enemy in ISIS and still people never study history before reacting to the exact things in the present that the globalists want us to react to.

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On a related note to this thread, RT have reported on the FBI inventing terrorists. Apparently, since 9/11, only 11 cases of ‘terrorist arrests’ posed a “potentially significant” threat to the United States. The rest of ’em are pretty much FBI entrapments to make the threat of terrorism on home ground look more worrying that it is. http://rt.com/usa/166060-usa-fbi-terr…

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Bin Laden’s death highly suspicious in my opinion. Check out this post here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

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What the truth is about Bin Laden’s alive or dead status is anyone’s guess, but there’s not a shadow of doubt in my mind that the official raid and quick burial was just utter bollocks. A classic example of where one country just feeds something to the news (their little cabaret act in Pakistan on video and mention of some undisclosed intelligence) and lo and behold, the press and subsequently the people take it as being true.

 

Our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group is open to everyone! All you need is an enquiring mind, an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.

This group is also for like-minded people to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Underground Knowledge series – of which the first book in that series is The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy. This non-fiction title was written by James Morcan & Lance Morcan with a foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha and an afterword by renowned historian Professor Richard Spence.

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

To visit our Underground Knowledge group go to: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

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Goodreads.com, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations, has announced its nominees for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards — the only major book awards decided by readers.

Categories

Fiction

Big Little LiesThe Bone ClocksLandline

Mystery & Thriller

I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1)The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5)

Historical Fiction

Some LuckThe Invention of WingsThe Miniaturist

Fantasy

Up From the Grave (Night Huntress #7)The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3)Prince of Fools (The Red Queen’s War, #1)

Romance

The Will (Magdalene, #1)Maybe SomedayCrashed (Driven, #3)

Science Fiction

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)The Flight of the Silvers (Silvers, #1)Lock In

Horror

Bird BoxThe Girl with All the GiftsThe Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5)

Humor

Shame on You (Fool Me Once, #1)William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #5)Yes Please

Nonfiction

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndNo Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance StateWhat If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Memoir & Autobiography

My Salinger YearRedefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much MoreSmoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

History & Biography

Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive ArtAstoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and SurvivalKilling Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

Business Books

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersThe Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary ChangeHooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Food & Cookbooks

The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside OutThe 21-Day Sugar Detox Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes for any Program LevelNom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans

Graphic Novels & Comics

Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega (Locke & Key #6)Seconds: A Graphic NovelManga Classics: Pride & Prejudice

Poetry

Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter SeriesI Wrote This For You: Just the WordsYou Can Make Anything Sad

Debut Goodreads Author

The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #1)Sweet Addiction (Sweet Addiction, #1)The Good Girl

Young Adult Fiction

Love Letters to the DeadI'll Give You the SunDon't Look Back

Young Adult Fantasy

White Hot Kiss (The Dark Elements, #1)Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1)

Middle Grade & Children’s

The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)A Snicker of MagicThe Crossover

Picture Books

The Scraps BookThe Girl and the BicycleThe Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

The organizers settled on 15 different nominees in 20 categories ranging from Fiction to Fantasy to Food & Cookbooks to Young Adult Fiction? Instead of relying on experts or judges, Goodreads analyzed statistics from the 275 million books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads in 2014.

A message from the organizers:

“We’re so excited to congratulate all of the nominees! There are some epic match-ups in this year’s list. In Best Memoir, the riveting true stories range from Esther Earl, the inspiration for teen bestseller The Fault in Our Stars, to North Korean defector Jang Jin-Sung. Mystery & Thriller has heavy hitters, with Stephen King going against “Robert Galbraith” (a.k.a J.K. Rowling). In History & Biography, it’s basketball god Michael Jordan versus an unlikely opponent, President Calvin Coolidge. Best Fiction, one of our most-watched categories, is anyone’s game, with debut authors like Nadia Hashimi and Mira Jacob ready to take on established masters like Marilynne Robinson, Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, and Margaret Atwood. And double props to our double nominees, who include Roxane Gay, Gene Luen Yang, and B.J. Novak!

“Of course, with hundreds of thousands of books published in 2014, no nominee list could cover everything. We also accept write-in votes during the Opening Round to ensure that you can vote for exactly the book you want!

“You have three chances to vote. The Opening Round lasts until November 8. Vote now to make sure your favorite books make it into the Semifinals (November 10 – 15) and Finals (November 17 – 24).

“To read more go to: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/470-announcing-the-nominees-of-the-2014-goodreads-choice-awards

 

Happy reading! –Lance & James

 

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Provisional results of our latest (continuing) poll show that 58% of those polled to date believe 9/11 was an ‘inside job’.

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The poll, which ends October 24 PST, asks one simple but contentious question: Do you believe 9/11 was an inside job? The question refers of course to those persistent conspiracy theories that the September 11 attacks should be attributed to the US Government (or agencies of) and not to terrorists.

This interim result would seem to reflect the belief of many (Americans especially) that the September 11 attacks – including the “controlled collapse” of New York’s Twin Towers and 7 World trade Center – were orchestrated by US officialdom to provide a ‘false flag’ justification for invading Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Predictably, the poll, which is running in our Goodreads.com discussion group 29 Conspiracy Theories, is generating some heated discussion.

Your opinion is welcome…so feel free to register your opinion and contribute to the discussion in the Poll thread in our Goodreads discussion group at: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/109642-do-you-believe-9-11-was-an-inside-job

 

Meanwhile, here’s some of the comments received to date (names redacted):

I’m totally shocked there are still people out here who actually still believe the government’s story!

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Inside job as someone in our own Government did this? If that is what this quiz is about then hell no.

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Charlie Sheen has by his own admission fried his brain with more drugs than he can probably recall and even he knows the official 9/11 story wouldn’t pass for a bad B-movie script: “It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box-cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory.” -Charlie Sheen

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I think yes….only because it was an anniversary to something…and they were using that as justification for this attack. Very sad that people have been reduced to this type of behavior.

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The official story is a joke and has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese. Now does that mean it was an Inside Job? Not necessarily. But it sure doesn’t bode well. Anyone who researches 9/11 soon realizes that while there’s no smoking gun, there’s a plethora of anomalies like building 7 and Dick Cheney’s “stand down” orders to his minions which is on-the-record to name only two.

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My personal un-provable belief is that, at some level, the US knew this was coming. They calculated the benefits that could be extracted by the rulers under every scenario they could imagine, and this was the result; a perennial war feeding the war machine; a law to strike fear in the heart of every free man; a depleted US Treasury contributing to the economic demise of the population; a logical attempt at a total takeover.

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It seems so convenient for those who wanted a “Patriot Act” and provide the excuse to fund the war machine for this to have happened. The tapes of the firefighters indicated that they were hearing continued explosions. These tapes are now “confidential.”

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If you simply have faith in your country and government and media that they tell you the truth, then of course you’ll believe 9/11 was the whole known Bin Laden/Al Queada story.

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Man, there’s just SO much evidence out there, I don’t know where to begin: the Bin Laden families being flown out of no-go air space the day after. The U.S/Saudi connection. The fact that Building Seven came down without reason, and is most definitely a demolition job, as was the towers themselves- supported by well over two thousand actual architects (see link). The fact that Bin Laden was trained by the CIA. The false excuse for invading Iraq which had nothing to do with Al Queada at that time. The video footage of Bush being told America was under attack, whilst he just nodded and carried on reading a nursery story about a goat…

 

Reminder: Our poll “Do you believe 9/11 was an inside job?” closes October 24 PST. Your opinion is welcome. Go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/109642-do-you-believe-9-11-was-an-inside-job

 

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The top rating conspiracy thriller THE NINTH ORPHAN (The Orphan Trilogy, #1) is amongst five of our critically acclaimed ebooks reduced to sell at 99cents on Kindle this week only.

The Ninth Orphan, a controversial, high-octane thriller that merges fact with fiction, currently dominates several Kindle bestseller lists on Amazon.

Our other books currently on special are The Orphan Factory and The Orphan Uprising (books two and three in The Orphan Trilogy), World Odyssey and Fiji: A Novel (books one and two in our historical adventure series The World Duology), and our non-fiction book THE ORPHAN CONSPIRACIES: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy.

All these books have been extremely well reviewed and several have been regular visitors to Amazon’s bestseller lists in their respective categories.

 

Book covers and Kindle links to each book follow:

 

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Happy reading! -Lance & James

 

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★★★★★ BOOK REVIEW:

DIABLO NIGHTS

by Carmen Amato

Diablo Nights is a novel that takes you inside Mexico’s drug wars and introduces you to Detective Emilia Cruz, a conniving, fast-thinking, fearless crime-fighter who isn’t afraid to kick some ass. In short – a woman you are unlikely to forget in a hurry.

This is an international mystery and crime thriller that’s truly worthy of that description. One of the best novels I’ve read in some time.

Set in and around Acapulco, it’s fast-moving, intriguing and always surprising. The writing flows, drawing the reader in.

There’s a bonus for readers, too, in that even if you’ve never been to Acapulco, you’ll know it better than most tourists by the time you finish this book. The writer takes you beneath city’s postcard exterior to the mean streets – the side that tourists seldom see – where the drug lords rule.

So, pour yourself a margarita and settle in for an engrossing read! -Lance Morcan

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BOOK REVIEW:  Orange Town: FIFO 3-2-1 – by Paul Rhoden

★★★★★

In a message to the reader, author Paul Rhoden says, “Orange Town: FIFO 3-2-1 is a book I have always wanted to write.” Well, in a message to the author, this reviewer says this is a book I have always wanted to read!

From one Down Under bloke to another…It’s fair dinkum brilliant mate!

  

Firstly, the title intrigued me. Even though, in another time, I worked in the mining industry in Outback Australia, and mixed with many of the (types of) colourful characters who feature in this must-read novel, I wasn’t familiar with the term FIFO. Now I know: it’s the description given those hard-nosed, hard-working, hard-drinking, hard-living individuals who ‘Fly In Fly Out’ to earn a living in Aussie’s unforgiving earthmoving, construction and mining industries.

Rhoden focusses on hard case Brent Williams – better known as ‘Rooster’ – who morphs from a cattle ranch roustabout and bareknuckle fighter to a charismatic, smooth, lady’s man who scales the corporate ladder during Aussie’s mining boom of the early Nineties. In the process, he manages the biggest FIFO contract around.

Unfortunately for Rooster, he carries a dark secret around with him. Though this may be unfortunate for him, it’s very fortunate for the reader as it adds another beguiling dimension to this breathtaking novel.

Love the humour, too. It’s humour Colonials will relate to, but this is a novel deserving of a much wider audience.

Summary: This is one you have to read, mate! (The ladies will enjoy it, too). -Reviewer Lance Morcan

Paul Rhoden…author of Orange Town: FIFO 3-2-1.

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Membership of our new Goodreads group, 29 Conspiracy Theories – A Discussion Group, continues to grow, attracting commentary on subjects ranging from the Fed and international banksters, to Big Pharma and the Medical Industrial Complex, to mind control and Project Monarch, to aliens and Area 51 and many more.

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The group was originally titled The Orphan Conspiracies (after our non-fiction book of the same name). We changed the name to encourage wider debate and to get across to prospective members that they don’t need to have read the book to participate in the group.

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Book the inspiration for group.

In little more than a month, group membership has topped 150.

As we say in our Introduction to the group:

This group is for like-minded people to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy. This non-fiction book was written by James Morcan & Lance Morcan with Foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha and Afterword by renowned historian Professor Richard Spence.

The group is open to everyone! You don’t have to have read The Orphan Conspiracies to participate. All you need is an enquiring mind, an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover the truth.

 

To join 29 Conspiracy Theories – A Discussion Group or to check out what Goodreads members are saying about it, go to:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-29-conspiracy-theories—a-discussion-group

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Everyone’s welcome!Lance & James

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Our new Goodreads group aimed at those who seek global change, international peace and an end to poverty and discrimination goes from strength to strength with membership already topping 150.

Diana, Princess of Wales, and companion Dodi Al Fayed in the French resort of St Tropez in August 1997

Princess Diana & Dodi Al Fayed feature in popular discussion thread.

Popular discussion threads include Mysterious Deaths, The US Military’s Proposal to Kill Americans, MK-Ultra, Manchurian Candidates in Popular Culture, Obama & the Bush/Clinton Clans, JFK vs. the Fed, Genius Techniques of the Elite, The Multi-trillion dollar WW2 Cover-up, Weather Modification & HAARP, The Queen’s Invisible Riches, Media Manipulation and more.

Our group, ‘The Orphan Conspiracies’, is named after our non-fiction book of the same name. However, you don’t have to have read the book to join the group. All you need is an enquiring mind, an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or uncover the truth.

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Book the inspiration for our Goodreads group.

The discussion thread ‘Mysterious Deaths’ is one of the group’s most popular to date – in particular the thread on Princess Diana. Here’s some excerpts from that thread. (Names other than group moderators redacted):

James – Aug. 16, 2014

Regarding political assassinations – could the long list of victims even include the mother of an heir to the British Royal throne?

In 1997, in a dark tunnel in Paris, France, Princess Diana along with her partner Dodi Fayed were killed in a horrific car crash. Numerous inquiries and investigations all determined the crash was an accident and not a murder, but conspiracy theories stick to Diana’s death as much as they do to JFK’s assassination.

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And much like JFK’s death, alternative theories are not just believed by conspiracy theorists or those on the fringes of society. In fact, various polls conducted by the likes of the BBC, CNN and CBS have consistently shown that a quarter to one third of Britons and Americans believe the princess’s death was no accident.

Dodi Fayed’s father, Egyptian business magnate Mohamed Al Fayed, also believes Diana, as well as his son, were murdered in that tunnel in Paris.

In an article in The Guardian dated February 19, 2008 and headlined Nazi Philip wanted Diana dead, Fayed tells inquest, the article begins, “Mohamed Al Fayed branded Prince Philip a “Nazi” and a “racist” in the high court today as he detailed his belief that his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales, were “murdered” in a conspiracy initiated by the royal family and carried out with the involvement of Tony Blair, the security services and others”.

The Harrods store-owner informed the inquest Diana had told him she was pregnant and had agreed to marry his son, according to the same article.

Mohamed Al Fayed’s comments lend weight to what is probably the most widely believed conspiracy theory on Diana’s death: that the British royal family had Diana murdered to avoid a marriage between the mother of the future King of England and an Egyptian Muslim, not to mention the arrival of a Muslim-British Royal baby.

It was never confirmed if Diana was pregnant or not as, strangely, no autopsy was conducted.

As mentioned in the section in this group on The Queen, Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell stated the Queen had once warned him, “There are powers at work in this country of which we have no knowledge”. Burrell also told an inquest in 1998 that an unnamed British royal had once warned Diana, “You need to be discreet, even in your own home, because they are listening to you all of the time”.

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                                      Diana and butler Paul Burrell.

And then in 2003, Burrell published one of Diana’s letters in the Daily Mirror newspaper, revealing that she wrote, “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. Xxxxxxx (name redacted) is planning an accident in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry.”

And those words proved to be eerily prophetic in terms of the way she died, if not the reasons why.

The Daily Mirror reported that Diana had actually named the person (Xxxxxxx) she believed was plotting against her, but that the newspaper decided not to publish the individual’s identity for fear of a lawsuit.

Piers Morgan, then editor of the Daily Mirror, said of Diana’s predictive letter, “I think everybody who thought it was accident will think to themselves, well hang on a second, could it be that these wild allegations have any substance?”

Also in the section of this group on The Queen we refer to rumored dirty businesses the House of Windsor engages in, such as the arms trade and landmine sales. The latter, in particular, has been a focal point for conspiracy theorists; the fact that Princess Diana fought tirelessly against landmines through her charitable work for the anti-landmine organization the Halo Trust put her at risk and may explain why she was murdered, according to these theories.

However, there’s no proof that the Windsors profit or profited from landmines or other criminal enterprises, so this conspiracy theory seems much more speculative than some others surrounding Diana’s death.

One of the other more out there conspiracy theories is that Osama bin Laden was responsible for killing Diana. This theory suggests the terrorist leader had gotten wind of the Princess’ pregnancy and upcoming marriage to Dodi and was concerned she’d be a bad influence on Muslim women.

There appear to be seemingly infinite plot holes in this particular theory. Plot holes such as how did Bin Laden know Diana was pregnant and why would he even care given he was reportedly so busy blowing up the West.

Besides these questions, the most important question relating to Bin Laden is: Was the terrorist leader still alive in 1997?

Hxxxxxx – Sept. 3, 2014

Keith Allen’s banned film Unlawful Killing is a great documentary about this subject. It can sometimes still be found lurking in the depths of the internet, for people who want to make up their own minds.

Lance – Sept. 4, 2014

“How many more political murders disguised as heart attacks, suicides, cancers, drug overdoses? How many plane and car crashes will occur before they are exposed for what they are?” –Monologue delivered by Kevin Costner and written by Oliver Stone in JFK (1991).

Hxxxxxx – Sept. 4, 2014

It was financed by Mohammed Al-Fayed (who, it’s worth noting, Keith Allen had no prior relationship to- he just needed funding for the project!) and Associated Rediffusion. It was shown at Cannes in 2011 when it was a work in progress.
Lawyers said it needed 87 cuts before being allowed to be shown in the U.K- the cuts required left the film without any backbone, and was therefore ‘banned’ in its current state.
It had a short-lived, non-publicised release in the U.S where it failed miserably. I don’t know about its current ‘banned’ status in the rest of the world, but interestingly Al Fayed became disinterested in trying to fight to get the film out, after his years of battling the establishment to get his views about Diana and Dodi out to the public.

James – Sept. 5, 2014

Here’s an excerpt from Unlawful Killing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmaN…

Hxxxxxx – Sept. 6, 2014

For the more esoteric conspiracy believers, David Icke has some excellent facts and theories about Diana’s death in The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World
As well as the hardened facts about things like the driver not being drunk, he also makes a good case for her death being a ritual sacrifice.

To join ‘The Orphan Conspiracies’ group, or to check out what Goodreads members are saying about it, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-the-orphan-conspiracies-discussion-group

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Everyone’s welcome!Lance & James

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Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing team has advised authors participating in its new Kindle Unlimited (KU) ebook borrowing initiative it is adding a bonus of US$2.7 million in August – and that’s on top of the regular base fund amount of US$2 million. Apparently the bonus has been prompted by a “significant early trial response from customers” to KU.

The top 10 most-read KDP Select authors will each receive US$25,000.

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Healthy bonus in store for Kindle Unlimited authors.

Here’s the balance of KDP’s announcement (unabridged):

To further highlight the KDP Select (KDPS) books and authors that are most popular with customers, we are introducing a new element to the program: “KDP Select All-Stars”. Based on what KDPS titles are being read the most during the month, we will identify each All-Star author and title on each applicable KDPS title’s detail page. In addition, KDP Select All-Stars will earn financial bonuses paid separately from the $2.7M bonus. Anyone with titles in KDPS — even a debut author with a single title — can qualify if their work becomes a customer favorite.

For August, we will pay out All-Star bonuses to the top 100 most-read authors and, separately, the top 100 most-read titles. We will calculate ‘most-read’ by combining books sold plus qualified borrows from KU and the Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL) during the month. Calculations only include sales and qualified borrows for titles enrolled in KDPS. Recipients will be contacted in the next few days.

The top 100 most-read KDPS authors will each be awarded the following amounts:
• Authors 1 through 10 will receive $25,000
• Authors 11 through 20 will receive $10,000
• Authors 21 through 30 will receive $5,000
• Authors 31 through 50 will receive $2,500
• Authors 51 through 100 will receive $1,000

Authors of the top 100 KDPS titles will each earn the following amounts:
• Titles 1 through 10 will receive $2,500
• Titles 11 through 50 will receive $1,000
• Titles 51 through 100 will receive $500

Denoting All-Stars on detail pages is a new element of KDP Select and we expect our approach to this will evolve over time. We hope it adds a little fun and adventure to the program!

Finally, many authors outside the US derive most of their qualified borrows from KOLL and have not been able to benefit from the growth of KU. This has meaningfully altered their ability to compete within the wider pool of KDPS loans. To adjust for this, we are adding an additional bonus of $80,000 to be paid out on all KOLL loans outside of the US.

★★★★★ INVITATION: We’d love to hear from our followers, fellow authors, publishers/indie publishers and readers what you think about Kindle Unlimited. Let us know if you feel as positive about Amazon’s latest initiative as we do…and if not why not. Thanks!

Lance & James

 

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Here’s a list of Listopia-sponsored must-read books sourced on Goodreads.com – the world’s biggest online forum for authors and readers. The lists (based on reader popularity) include Favorite World Fiction & Literature, Top Books for Kindle Unlimited, Historical Romance from Around the World, Best Trilogies/Book Series Ever… and many, many more! 

Fishing Into Potato Salad by Othen Donald Dale CummingsAn Elephant Is On My House by Othen Donald Dale CummingsDreams Come True by Bridgitte LesleyThe Ninth Orphan by James MorcanThe Orphan Factory by James Morcan
Top Books for Kindle Unlimited

World Odyssey by Lance MorcanAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneThe World Duology by Lance MorcanThe Ninth Orphan by James MorcanThe Orphan Uprising by James Morcan                                  Multi Country Setting

The Wayward Gifted by Donna K. ChildreeStill Life With Crows by Douglas PrestonThe Orphan Trilogy by James MorcanThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanBeautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia                                  Author Collaborations (Dynamic Duos)

Wild Hearted by Lea BronsenAgency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office by Khalid MuhammadThe Infidel Soldiers by Jams N. RosesThe Orphan Uprising by James MorcanStorm Front by Jim Butcher                                     Best violent action novels

Harry Potter Boxset by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienDivergent by Veronica RothThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis                                   Best Trilogies/Book Series EVER!

Fiji by Lance MorcanAngel Evolution by David EstesDark Passage by M.L. WoolleyA Demon Made Me Do It by Penelope KingSpare Change by Bette Lee Crosby                                   Books at Making Connections Group

My First Travel Angelic Airline Adventures by Anna OthitisEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertKilingiri by Janna GraySleeping People Lie by Jae De WyldeRiptide by Amber Lea Easton                                   Best Location-Based and History-Based Books to Read While Traveling

Fiji by Lance MorcanAshen Winter by Mike MullinRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas HarrisPlaying with Food by K.A. Merikan                                    Cannibal Books

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenOutlander by Diana GabaldonSultry with a Twist by Macy BeckettBinding Arbitration by Elizabeth MarxJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë                                   Great Romance Novels

 

For the full Listopia list go to: https://www.goodreads.com/list/book/20410937

 

Happy reading! Lance & James

 

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