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Check out the video for the recent radio interview I did on Boston’s Philosophic Perspectives Radio Show with Arthur D. Schwartz.
The controversial subjects I discuss in this interview include false flag terrorism sponsored by Western governments, the Americanized Nazis involved in the CIA’s Operation Paperclip, suppressed technologies, and the world’s hidden system of finance involving undeclared fortunes.
Thanks guys n gals! James Morcan
It’s worth noting that not all who are opposed to the vaccine law reforms being considered in California, the US and elsewhere in the world are against child immunizations. As we point out in our new book MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures, some (anti) campaigners have either had their own children vaccinated or have advised other parents to vaccinate, but also argue that making immunizations mandatory is unconstitutional and against citizens’ medical freedom.
Further to our recent blog on this very subject, here’s another excerpt from Medical Industrial Complex:
Are those who do not vaccinate their own children putting other children, and society as a whole, at risk?
We cannot confidently answer that. Nor, it appears, can anyone. Not with any degree of certainty.
Added to the difficulty of sourcing accurate research and reliable statistics is the problem of widespread corruption highlighted in earlier chapters. Sad but unsurprising in any industry as profitable as Big Pharma.
A February 15, 2015 article about vaccines, published on the Collective Evolution website and written by Arjun Walia, nicely summarizes a global trend. Headlined ‘The Top 6 Reasons Why Parents Are Choosing Not To Vaccinate Their Kids’, the article quotes Walia as saying, “More and more parents around the globe are choosing to opt out of vaccinating themselves and their children”.
The article continues, “As a result of this trend that’s been gaining more and more momentum, a harsh response has come from the ‘pro-vaccine’ community-criticizing parents for their decision to not vaccinate. At the end of the day it’s not really about ‘pro-vaccination’ or ‘anti-vaccination,’ it’s not one ‘against’ the other or about pointing fingers and judgement, it’s simply about looking at all of the information from a neutral standpoint. It’s about asking questions and communicating so people can make the best possible decisions for themselves and their children.
“Parents love their kids and the vaccine ‘controversy’ has made it difficult for many parents to know what to do”.
Walia says, “Parents who are choosing not to vaccinate their children are not just doing it based on belief, they are doing it based on science and information. This science and information is nowhere near emphasized to the point where the science and information on the other side of the coin is (‘pro vaccine’).
“Parents who choose not to vaccinate themselves or their children are clearly intelligent, and they should not be made to look like fools. On the other hand, parents who are choosing to vaccinate their children are also intelligent.
“Those who choose to vaccinate should not be made out to be the ones who have made the ‘right’ decision when there is evidence on both sides of the coin that clearly shows parents who are not vaccinating their children could also be making the ‘right’ decision”.
The article lists (as follows) the top six reasons parents choose not to vaccinate their kids:
In his conclusion, Walia presents a fairly balanced argument that suggests it’s time to open up the debate as currently the pro-vaccination lobby is the only one that’s being given airtime in the mainstream media.
Besides the fact that pharmaceutical companies cannot be trusted, the other aspect in the equation is that virtually all vaccines are loaded with chemicals and other poisons.
Here’s a rundown on some of the damaging ingredients in vaccines on the market today, as listed on the Healthy Home Economist website in a 2015 article:
“MSG, antifreeze, phenol (used as a disinfectant), formaldehyde (cancer causing and used to embalm), aluminum (associated with alzheimer’s disease and seizures), glycerin (toxic to the kidney, liver, can cause lung damage, gastrointestinal damage and death), lead, cadmium, sulfates, yeast proteins, antibiotics, acetone (used in nail polish remover), neomycin and streptomycin. And the ingredient making the press is thimerosol (more toxic than mercury, a preservative still used in many vaccines, not easily eliminated, can cause severe neurological damage as well as other life threatening autoimmune disease). These vaccines are grown and strained through animal or human tissue, like monkey and dog kidney tissue, chick embryo, calf serum, human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted fetuses), pig blood, horse blood and rabbit brain.”
The article also states that other countries are waking up to the dangers of vaccines. “In 1975, Japan raised its minimum vaccination age to two years. The country’s infant mortality subsequently plummeted to such low levels that Japan now enjoys one of the lowest levels in the Western world (#3 at last look). In comparison, the United States’ infant mortality rate is #33.
(It should be mentioned the Japanese ruling has since been amended. According to the Vaccination Liberation-Information site, Japan’s health authorities now recommend six vaccinations via injection in the first year of life, and three more in the second year. That, according to the same source, compares to 20 vaccinations in the first two years of life of most American children).
The Healthy Home Economist article continues, “In Australia, the flu vaccine was recently suspended (April 2010) for children under 5 because an alarming number of children were showing up in the emergency rooms with febrile convulsions or other vaccine reactions within hours of getting this shot”.
After researching the pros and cons of immunizations, and listening to all sides of the debate, we still have NO IDEA what the best decision is for parents to make regarding that most tricky of questions – to vaccinate or not to vaccinate.
However, we do agree there needs to be a wider public debate as this issue ain’t necessarily as cut and dried as Big Pharma and others in the Medical Industrial Complex would have us believe.
As with many cases involving extreme or polarizing points of view, we suspect the truth regarding child immunizations is probably somewhere in the middle ground. We also disregard (and recommend you do, too) the “evil mega conspiracy” implications some anti-vaccine campaigners trot out just as we disregard the “science is already 100% proven and safe” claims the pro-vaccine lobby loudly trumpets.
We also think that, at the very least, those adults who are happy to vaccinate their children should be demanding en masse that pharmaceutical companies remove all the toxic chemicals and other poisons that are loaded in these vaccines. When you scan the ingredients, which read like they belong in a can of household paint, it’s obvious these things just cannot be good for the health and wellbeing of a child’s brain or body!
For all we know it may be better for a child to be subjected to all these doses of chemicals and poisons than risk contracting serious diseases like polio, but does that make it right? And is everything that can be done, being done, to make vaccines’ ingredients less toxic and safer?
It’s unfortunate that only a small percentage of the public are aware of what exactly is in vaccines. If more people were made aware, and if enough demanded less poisonous vaccines, then Big Pharma would be forced to change.
Boycotting products and putting public pressure on corporations and governments can be a very effective way to enforce change. Ultimately, the power rests with the people – the 99 percent.
If enough demand change, it will happen. And it does seem at least some changes are needed in this most vexing of issues – the vaccination of our children.
You have been reading an excerpt from Medical Industrial Complex. To view the book on Amazon go to: http://www.amazon.com/MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX-Suppressed-Underground-ebook/dp/B00Y8Y3TUM/
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Do you believe the likes of Bill Gates & Warren Buffett are the richest people in the world as per the annual Forbes Rich Lists? Or do you believe there is a hidden world of ‘black money’ involving elite individuals with undeclared fortunes that would dwarf those earned by the likes of Gates & Buffett?
That’s the question we’ve put to members of our Underground Knowledge discussion group in our latest poll on Goodreads.com – and so far 79% say they believe there are individuals with fortunes greater than those listed at the top of Forbes Rich Lists.
Only 9% of poll respondents indicate they believe the estimates on the Forbes Rich Lists are roughly correct while 12% are unsure.
A random sample of respondents’ comments follow:
We are living in an illusion after the Riemann shock. The paper money has no meaning now except for our common life in the world. In fact, the present world economy is in the bankrupt state and this evidence has been concealed from our public eyes. Hence Forbes rich list has no meaning but most of us believe that it is true. Maybe great catastrophe of economy will be happened in the near future. How can we survive in this great catastophe?
Not a case of “i believe there are people more wealthy””, i know there are people far more wealthy!!
I suspect Putin may be the richest person in the world. Yet he is not on any list.
The wealth of the Rothschild family is beyond comprehension or valuation!!
In our modern society, scientists invented a monster called financial engineering. It makes the total debt of our society to reach to an unimaginable level. No one in the world knows what is its total amount. Now we are living on the verge of money crisis. Even the wealth of Rothchild family or Royal family cannnot stop this catastrophe.
Lets put it this way, if they all donated just 1% of their money to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease around the world, there would not be children dying every few minutes of malnutrition, water borne diseases, malaria and multiple other reasons. One has only to wonder, “do they want them to die, or are they just so insular and ignorant, that they just don’t care?”
There are others, more secretive, whose financial empires are bigger than the Rothschilds (in my humble opinion). The world of ‘black money’ is like an onion or a Russian doll where you keep peeling back the layers of wealth and each layer is more and more hidden with greater and greater wealth…
Poll ends August 8. To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group
While you’re at it, check out the results of our other polls, too.
These include:
Do you believe World Trade Center 7 (aka Building 7), which no plane hit on 9/11, collapsed solely due to fires as per the official story?
Do you believe A.I. (artificial intelligence) will ever be more advanced/sophisticated than human intelligence?
Do you believe Princess Diana was murdered?
Do you believe Capitalism should be restructured, replaced by another economic system or left exactly as is?
Do you believe classified mind control technologies are being used by governments on innocent citizens?
Do you believe time travel is possible?
Do you believe genius-level intelligence is primarily the result of nature (genes) or nurture (education, environment, parenting etc)?
Do you believe Jesus Christ was a real historical person?
Do you believe Robert (Bobby) F. Kennedy (RFK) was solely killed by the “lone gunman” Sirhan Sirhan?
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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.
Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to learn. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, former military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, journalists, readers and many more.
Visit the Underground Knowledge discussion group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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Do you believe the War on Drugs is mostly being conducted to reduce the illegal drug trade or make drugs more profitable? We ask that question of members of our Underground Knowledge group in our latest poll on Goodreads.com – and so far 41% of respondents say it’s to make drugs more profitable.
US soldiers on patrol in the poppy fields of Afghanistan.
Some 25% say it (the war) is to reduce the illegal drug trade; 27% are unsure; and 7% cannot say “as I’m high right now and can’t think!”
As in all our polls, some of the respondents’ comments make for interesting reading.
A random selection of comments (abridged) follows:
It goes so much deeper than these four simple response choices. The war on drugs is about control. It has bred such evil corruption within government. The drug forfeiture laws that allow police to basically steal and rob from innocent citizens their property, all in the name of “potential” drug activity, is unconscionable!
I think even if the War on Drugs started out as per the official story (which is a very big IF in my view) these days I agree it’s mostly a cover for one of the biggest money-making operations on the planet. By making them illegal it drives the price way up and by invading drug-producing nations it allows certain superpowers to gain most of the worldwide drug revenue. CIA involvement in decades long large-scale drug operations is all on-the-record.
I believe governments genuinely have got themselves into the war on drugs to reduce the illegal drugs industry. But the reason why they have, is in itself sinister – a mindset that sees force and discipline as the only way to tackle a problem. It’s an error of judgement that has fundamentally increased crime, not reduced it. In Latin America it has had disastrous results.
During the Taliban’s reign of Afghanistan (before 9/11) they had decimated heroin production in the country that traditionally produces the most heroin in the world. After 9/11 once the Taliban were ousted, the heroin trade immediately flourished once more.
The War on Drugs!!! The war is to control distribution, illegal narcotics are as in the words of Colonel Ollie North, “Black Money for Black Ops”. Heroin and Cocaine have been flooded into the USA by government agencies, Read “Dark Alliance” author Gary Webb, who “committed Suicide” after it was published, also Whiteout CIA Drugs and the Press, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey Sinclair, two very well researched and accurate books.
Currently, Afghanistan’s heroin production is at a record high even though there are US forces, UN troops and soldiers from various other Western nations supposedly patrolling the fields…Go figure how that’s possible!!
The War on Drugs probably interrelates to various other corrupt systems (such as the highly lucrative private prison system).
The world must wake up, US forces in 174 countries now,with “Black ops personnel” in more countries. Narcotics are flooding the streets of Europe/UK/USA/CAN/AUS/ and other places courtesy of government agencies. The amount of Narcotics that is coming in with very little interdiction is ridiculous. It is a massive game for the governments, for the ordinary people it is a massive nightmare about to become real.
To view more comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group
Poll ends July 30.
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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.
Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to learn. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, former military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, journalists, readers and many more.
Visit the Underground Knowledge discussion group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies? is “A thought-provoking read,” according to one Amazon book reviewer. “Stunning!” says another.
Former NASA manager/engineer Marcha Fox describes the book as “An unbiased and objective view of the origin of technology.”
In her review Ms Fox, an author herself, says:
“I was particularly impressed by the unbiased, objective, journalistic views presented in this interesting book. The authors look at all angles and possibilities, allowing the reader to digest them on his or her own merits versus being nudged or sometimes shoved to the conclusions desired, as is the case of many such books.
“The authors assume that UFOs do indeed exist, a fact which is gradually being accepted as more evidence is released and credible witnesses continue to come forward. However, rather than assuming these strange vehicles are of extraterrestrial origin, the possibility is presented that perhaps not all of them are.
“All possibilities are covered, including connections between Japan and the Nazis of which I was previously unaware. The authors do an excellent job of staying on-topic.”
Here’s what other Amazon reviewers have to say about Antigravity Propulsion:
“This book includes never before mentioned accounts of popular UFO topics.”–Sheri Wilkinson
“The Morcans give the reader a clear discussion of this vital area of research.” -J.R Barrow
“A book that readers everwhere should read from cover to cover.” –Alice M. Dinizo
“Who’s to say what’s around the corner in other Solar Systems.”- Pennie M. Cartawick
To see all the reviews of Antigravity Propulsion go to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ANTIGRAVITY-PROPULSION-Technologies-Underground-Knowledge-ebook/dp/B00RSF22SI/
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Membership of our contentious Underground Knowledge discussion group on Goodreads.com has topped 1000, making it one of the liveliest and fastest growing groups on the popular Amazon-owned literary site for readers and authors.
There’s no doubt the group’s growth and activity are testament to its freedom of speech policy. Anything goes…and members aren’t slow to exploit that! No subject is off limits. The fact that this group has no rules may also have something to do with its popularity.
A small sample of some of the group’s more controversial discussion threads follows:
Was 9/11 a false flag attack and ‘Inside Job’? 54% of you voted YES
Satanic Elite Child Hunting Parties
Are aliens visiting Earth or not????
Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West?
Conspiring to quash alternative medicines
Mozart & shattering the inborn genius myth
Evidence for scientifically advanced Ancient civilizations?
November 22, 1963. Dallas, Texas.
The overpopulation myth (part 1)
Extensive biblical revisions made by the Romans
And last but not least…
Our polls are also popular. Some of the results make for interesting reading – including our latest poll, which asks: Do you believe the official story of Osama Bin Laden’s death was real or staged? (So far, 49% of poll respondents say it was staged)…
To visit our poll thread go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group
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The 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, which includes the non-fiction books Genius Intelligence, Antigravity Propulsion, Medical Industrial Complex and The Catcher in the Rye Enigma.
Our members include scientists, journalists, moms and dads, historians, doctors, whistleblowers, authors, bankers, teachers, intelligence personnel, housewives, students, Army vets, pacifists, conspiracy theorists, the odd redneck and the Average Joe. All viewpoints welcome!
To visit the group, or better still to join the group and have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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The latest poll in our Underground Knowledge discussion group on Goodreads.com asks: Do you believe the official story of Osama Bin Laden’s death was real or staged? To date, 48% of poll respondents say it was staged, 31% say it was real and 21% are unsure.
Bin Laden…dead or alive?
A random selection of poll respondents’ comments follow. (Names withheld):
I tend not to believe the story of Osama Bin Laden’s death simply because upon further research there appears to be too many holes, inconsistencies and flat-out contradictions in the reports.
I believe Bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs as reported by the government. Are there inconsistencies in the reporting on his death? Yes. But consider this: As a former investigative journalist, I know reporters rarely get things 100% correct, nor does their reporting jive with each other’s. Second, as someone with nearly 26 years of military experience, I know operations rarely go as planned and getting all the details often takes months or years no matter how much debriefing or after action reports are produced. A lot of details are left out because personnel simply don’t want to own up to their own actions.
It is known that Osama Bin Laden was a CIA agent. He was controlled by US intelligent corps. Maybe he was dead by suffering illness and the murder by the US marine corps was a fiction.
I’m unsure if what was told to us concerning his death was accurate or not. Our Government has not been the pinnacle of truth through our history as a country. My own Native American People can vouch for this. Who knows what truly happened. I doubt we will really ever know.
Have you ever watched “The Hunting Party” starring Richard Gere? To me the whole thing is staged but I don’t know the details of what is really going on because it hasn’t stopped. I don’t know if Osama Bin Laden was who he says he is or not. But his death was SO fabricated it was almost funny! Sometimes I think he isn’t even dead yet. Where is the body?
To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group
Poll ends July 20.
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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.
Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, journalists, readers and many more.
Visit the Underground Knowledge discussion group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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If that classic novel The Catcher in the Rye is a triggering device for criminals – as suggested in the sub-title of our new release book THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA: J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals? – it would likely set off mind-controlled subjects by having carefully phrased words in strategic parts of the book. Nobody outside of the sleeper assassins and their intelligence agency handlers would be able to recognize such phrases as being abnormal, especially if crafted by such a skillful writer as Salinger.
Catcher novel a trigger?
Richard Condon’s 1959 classic novel The Manchurian Candidate uses only one card, the Queen of Hearts, out of an entire deck of cards as a triggering device for activating the mind control programs in the story’s main characters. If the mind controlled subjects are shown a deck of cards, card by card, they’re hypnotized simply because the Queen of Hearts happens to be in the deck. Keep in mind there are 52 cards in a deck, so about 98% of cards in the deck aren’t related to the mind control program at all.
Similarly, 98% of Salinger’s book would simply be literature and probably have nothing to do with nefarious intelligence agency programs like MK-Ultra, that insidious (acknowledged and on-the-record) mind control program of the CIA. It wouldn’t have upset the flow of the novel if Salinger, or perhaps his publishing house editor, had inserted a few brief triggering devices, or phrases, at the behest of the CIA or FBI or other such agency.
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“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” –J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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If the novel contains mind control triggers there are two obvious possibilities regarding exactly who inserted them.
One is that Salinger didn’t deliberately insert such triggers in Catcher and had no knowledge his novel would be used for mind control. Instead, the book was simply used by intelligence agencies, without his permission, as a triggering device to prompt chosen subjects to kill. This would likely have been achieved during the brainwashing process of subjects by repeating certain sentences from the book over and over. It may also be true that the likes of the CIA simply selected the novel as the perfect story to brainwash lone gunmen given its themes of alienation and angst.
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“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” –J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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The second possibility is that Salinger knowingly inserted mind control phrases into the novel and worked in collusion with high ranking officials in the US intelligence community. Following this theme Salinger along with his advisors, or controllers perhaps, planted excerpts of neurolinguistic writing designed to speak to an assassin’s brain.
How could any ordinary writer achieve that? Such a question assumes Salinger was an ordinary writer…
You have been reading an excerpt from our new release book The Catcher in the Rye Enigma: J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals? – Available now via Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-Enigma-Coincidental-Underground-ebook/dp/B00YVROKZ4/
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Do you believe the world as a whole is overpopulated and therefore at or close to the absolute limit of what it can support? That’s the question we put to our Underground Knowledge group members in our latest poll on Goodreads.com.
Interim poll results show that 57% of respondents believe planet Earth is not overpopulated, some 37% insist it is, and the balance (6%) are unsure.
Poll respondents’ comments make for interesting reading. Sample abridged comments (names withheld) follow:
I do not believe the world is overpopulated and believe the problem is actually a lack of fair distribution of resources, lack of priority given toward environmentalism and various other issues I’ve outlined in these two discussion threads: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/… and https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…
If you enjoy living in a world with no wild animals, no wild spaces, not open frontiers but enjoy snuggling up in cramped conditions with billions of people like you eating mass produced food and if you do not care that we are facing a massive decline in variety of specis of flora and fauna, the big species extinction wave, then with all those “if”s accepted, the world is not overpopulated for you.
The world is not overpopulated, the problem is such a wretched distribution of food, of wealth, of the basic necessities of life. Much too much is concentrated in the hands of the few, of the horridly corrupt. What if we stopped these insane endless wars and used that money to put in a well, a roof over the heads of families, food on their tables, medical care? Would we not all sleep better?
The world is not Close to the Limit, it has past it.
If the world had past its limit to support life you and every other human being on the planet would already be dead…
The population of the planet has more than doubled in my lifetime. Clearly this is not sustainable. Already there are many signs of strain, in species extinctions, widespread homelessness and hunger, pollution, climate change, wars over resources, etc. There are other factors involved but overpopulation fuels them all. By any standard the planet is grossly overpopulated now. It is not just a matter of space.
There’s loads of space. That’s not a problem. We could build islands, extend coastlines, utilize currently uninhabitable spaces…We’re not overpopulated but we sure as hell need to sort out our distribution and use of resources.
To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group
Poll ends June 30 PST.
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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.
Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, journalists, readers and many more.
Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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Most people old enough remember exactly where they were when they heard the news that John Lennon was shot dead in New York City on December 8, 1980. The murderer was Mark David Chapman – yet another lone gunman who stood glassy-eyed at the crime scene waiting for the police to arrive. A witness to the shooting asked him if he was aware what he’d just done. “I just shot John Lennon,” Chapman calmly replied.
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The scene of Lennon’s assassination.
To add yet another curiosity to the mix, while Chapman patiently waited for the police to arrive and arrest him, he stood at the scene of the crime reading a copy of The Catcher in the Rye.
Many conspiracy theorists believe that finding this particular book in the hands of an assassin is no mere coincidence. Regardless, it must have been a macabre sight to see Lennon lying dead on the ground with his murderer standing over him happily reading J.D. Salinger’s classic novel.
Lennon in rehearsal.
Chapman’s assassination of John Lennon was probably the mother of all Catcher incidents. Not long before the murder, Chapman had wanted to change his name to the novel’s narrator and anti-hero Holden Caulfield – so enamored was he with this fictitious character; inside the very copy of the book Chapman had purchased on the day of the murder, police found he’d written, “To Holden Caulfield, From Holden Caulfield, This is my statement”; and during the court case that followed, Chapman read a passage from the novel when addressing the judge and jury during his sentencing.
You have been reading an excerpt from our new release book The Catcher in the Rye Enigma: J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals? – Available now via Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-Enigma-Coincidental-Underground-ebook/dp/B00YVROKZ4/
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