I haven’t posted on my blog for a year and a half. I log in periodically to install updates, but I guess I haven’t had much to say. 2020 was a good and busy year. I completed my Master’s degree, my children live with me now, and we had to sell our little old house and buy a larger new one. We also had to upgrade one of our vehicles. My children are very active in the youth program at our church, and one started his first job (McDonald’s, where I started about 30 years ago.) This requires me to do a LOT of driving.
I used to write a lot of book reviews. Starting around 2008, I began tracking how much I read every year. My best year was over 70 books. My worst year was 22. For 2020, I read 35 books. Since I keep them in a table in Microsoft OneNote, I’ll just paste the table here, then going forward I’ll resume writing reviews for books and posting them. I’m going to adopt the star system Robert David Steele uses for his book reviews. I copied directly from his blog and left his links in place if you want to check out his book reviews. Steele also uses a 7th star for “Cosmic, life altering” books, which I included in my ratings.
Of course, rating books is relative. I might read my first book in a subject and give it 5 or 7 stars, but after reading more on the subject, I may come back and downgrade the first book when I understand it in context.
6 Star (top ten percent across 2000+ books)
5 Star (totally satisfactory recommended without reservation)
4 Star (important contribution with some flaws)
3 Star (fragmentary contributions in a poor contextual work)
2 Star (a fractional contribution in annoyingly flawed context)
1 Star (toxic ignorance)
It turns out my table doesn’t convert to the Internet very easily. This is the best I can do. I’ll go back to writing regular reviews of some books so I don’t have to do this again. I had to set fixed width to get my Notes column to show completely, so it is a long, narrow column.
For 2021, I’m planning to add some structure to my reading. I normally stumble across a book, or I choose from my vast backlog something I feel like reading at that moment. I’m planning a goal of 10-15 books that I will read, which should give me 20 or more open slots that I can get to spontaneously. I’m picking 10 books from Steele’s recommendations, and another 3 for professional development. I especially want to get my mind around a subject Steele talks about “True Cost Economics”.
Last note regarding my “Catholic Project” mentioned in several of my notes. During the summer of 2019, I woke up one day with a strange urge. For some reason, I had a burning urge to reinvestigate Catholicism by listening to what Catholics have to say about it. I listened to some of their podcasts and read several books; mostly from Catholic Answers apologists. It was an interesting project. I discovered some of what we are told about Catholics are lies that have been repeated for hundreds of years. Then there are a lot of misconceptions. I underwent a similar “Freemason Project” in 2016.
| Number | Author | Title | Date | Notes |
| 1 | Ghost Fleet | 3 Feb | Recommended by a Marine Col at an event I went to. I do not concur with his recommendation. Red Storm Rising was better. 3 Stars for a decent story in the context of a war with China with 2015 technology and a flawed (well, “Official Narrative”) understanding of geopolitics. I liked the privateer though. Very busy story with a LOT of threads to keep track of. It both jumped around too fast and not fast enough depending on the story. | |
| 2 | Trent Horn | Counterfeit Christs | 1 Mar | 4 stars. Read as part of my Catholic project. Easy read, not very memorable. |
| 3 | Tim Staples | Behold Your Mother | 6 Mar | 5 Stars. Part of my Catholic project; really did help me understand the Catholic perspective on Mary. Very comprehensive; covers topics like “the new Arc of the Covenant”, which I’d never heard before. |
| 4 | Michael S. Tyrrell | The Sound of Healing | 18 Apr | 5 stars. Bought with Wholetones. Comprehensive understanding of music and frequencies. Not the world’s best written book, but very good in its niche. The “Key of David” is tuning A to 444hz. |
| 5 | Jimmy Akin | The Fathers Know Best Part 1 | 30 May | Free from Catholic Answers |
| 6 | Fr. Hugh Barbour | Prayer 20 Answers | 2 June | Free from Catholic Answers |
| 7 | Roger Stone | Jeb! And The Bush Crime Family | 13 June | 5 Stars. Contains a LOT of information about the family going back to Samuel, the CIA, drugs, the Franklin Scandal, etc. |
| 8 | Roger Stone Robert Morrow | The Clintons’ War on Women | 17 June | 5 Stars. Overlaps with Jeb! And The Bush Crime Family a little bit. |
| 9 | Tony Dungy | Uncommon | 17 June | 4 stars. Read as part of men’s group. Good read on being an “uncommon” man i.e. living Christian virtues in a non-Christian world. Heavy football focus written by a retired coach. |
| 10 | Dr. Edward Sri | Praying the Rosary Like Never Before | 17 June | 4 stars. Part of my Catholic project. Good information. I got bogged down and came back to the book several months later. |
| 11 | Gary Michuta | Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger | 20 June | 5 stars. Comprehensive coverage of the history and issues surrounding the deuterocanonical or apocryphal books. Part of my Catholic project. I told a Catholic friend about it, and summarized it as “Catholics give you more Bible for your money”. She said she was going to use that. |
| 12 | Dr. William Davis | Undoctored | 25 June | 5 stars. Lots of rehash from Wheat Belly, but the program is good (if I could only get my wife on board…) |
| 13 | David Wilcock | The Synchronicity Key | 26 June | I’ll give Wilcock 5 stars for this. I bought the book because he said it explained “The Hero’s Journey”. He covers lots of other topics, such as reincarnation, which I’m trying to give a fair hearing to. Also gave some of his own story, at least, how he ended up in California. One comment about Wilcock is that he needs to respect his own ignorance of the Bible. I think he said in 2019, he read the Gospels for the first time. Yet throughout his career, he’s thrown out Bible verses badly misinterpreted. He needs to respect where his knowledge lies and be honest in areas where he’s ignorant, such as the Bible and Christianity. He pontificates here as if he’s studied it as well as the “Law of One” or the alternative science he writes about, and he does not know what he’s talking about. And if he’s going to claim Jesus taught reincarnation, he needs better references. He claims one of the Church Fathers taught it (I think he says Origen), but I’m willing to bet he’s as ignorant of them as he is of the Bible itself. He also claims Constantine held the counsel of Nicaea to lock up Christian teachings and create the Catholic church as a system of religious control, but gives no reference. I think he’s just passing on bullshit he read somewhere that he takes as true, but he is out of his area of expertise here. I’m not saying it couldn’t have happened, but it should be documented somewhere if it did. |
| 14 | Christopher Hitchens | The Missionary Position | 27 June | 5 stars. Acerbic wit, and a contrary position on “St. Theresa”, who had shitloads of money but operated her orphanages in poverty. She also associated with a LOT of unsavory people, including Robert Maxwell. Also took a lot of money from those people. She is NOT the saint everybody thinks she was. I also suspect she was involved in human trafficking, but can’t back that up yet. But she was in the perfect position and had contacts who were. |
| 15 | Devin Rose | The Protestant’s Dilemma | 29 June | 5 stars. Part of my Catholic project. |
| 16 | Michael Malice | Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il | 4 July | 5 stars. Very amusing and fascinating look into Kim Jong Il’s life. It actually humanized him. |
| 17 | Brian Godawa | Enoch Primordial | 18 Jul | 4 stars. Great fictional account of Enoch’s times. Gets a little repetitive from his Noah book though. |
| 18 | Philip Delves Broughton | Ahead of the Curve | 23 Jul | 5 stars. A journalist attends HBS |
| 19 | Peter Theil | Zero to One | 2 Aug | 4 stars. Bought it years ago through a recommendation. It gives a little insight into Theil’s career and a few things you can do and should consider in yours. |
| 20 | Fr. Gabriel Amorth | Memoirs of an Exorcist | 4 Aug | 4 stars. English translation of the Italian transcripts of an interview with the Vatican’s late Chief Exorcist. Good understanding of Exorcism in Catholicism. |
| 21 | Mark Dice | The True Story of Fake News | 9 Aug | 5 stars. Solid research by Mark Dice, as always. His recent books overlap somewhat, but so does the Fake News and Tech Tyranny, which Robert David Steele calls #GoogleGestapo |
| 22 | Mark Dice | The Liberal Media Industrial Complex | 15 Aug | 5 stars. Solid research by Mark Dice, as always. His recent books overlap somewhat, but so does the Fake News and Tech Tyranny, which Robert David Steele calls #GoogleGestapo |
| 23 | Mark Dice | Bilderberg: Facts and Fiction | 16 Aug | 4 stars. Great work as Mark always does, but I don’t actually remember reading it. I was trying to plan out reading for 2021, saw this, thought “I’ve had that for years; I better read it”, then found it on my record of books I’ve read. This was during one of my spurts where I read several books in a short time frame before going a month or more between finishing a book. |
| 24 | Brian Neimier | Don’t Give Money to People Who Hate You | 20 Aug | 5 stars. Short read. Summarizes the “Death Cult” and the “witches”, who they are, and how and why you should avoid them and their products. How to support independent creators who don’t want to destroy you. |
| 25 | Dr. Steve Turkey | The Return of Christendom | 22Aug | 4 stars; short read. Summarizes how Christendom is coming back worldwide. |
| 26 | Robert Kaplan | Asia’s Cauldron | 20 Sep | 2 stars. I bought it several years ago when I trusted Stratfor and finally got around to reading it this year. It is a decent high-level overview of the players, issues, and histories of Asian countries. I’ll recommend a better work when I come across one. |
| 27 | H.A. Ironside | The Four Hundred Silent Years | 26 Sep | 4 stars. Somewhat dry, but an attempt at a history of what happened during the so called 400 “silent years”, which Catholics don’t consider silent (see “Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger”). Having read that book first, I found this author’s discussion of the deuterocanonical/apocryphal books to be argumentative and somewhat uninformed. |
| 28 | Randolph Richards Brandon O’Brien | Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes | 9 Oct | 7 stars. Should be required reading for all Christians. Both authors have lived and been missionaries overseas. We tend to interpret the Bible through 21st century American eyes, and that is not how it was written or understood throughout history. The authors discuss this, discuss how the cultures they’ve lived in see things, discuss how the ancient Israelites saw things, and explain several passages and the differences between the ancient culture and how our culture sees them. |
| 29 | Anonymous Conservative | The Complete QAnon | 25 Oct | 5 stars. AC covers the mysterious backchannel Military Intelligence source “Q” from his own unique perspective. He starts with his story; how after he published his first book, two neighbors moved out and an entire surveillance network moved in. He explains what he’s seen of this surveillance network and how it operates. At the end of the book, AC covers Q’s first 400 posts and exposits on them from his unique viewpoint. AC himself is about as mysterious as Q. I’ve read everything he’s written since about 2013, and all I really know about him is I *think* he has a daughter named Amy, he loves guns, he’s a patriot, he’s trained in martial arts, and he lives within a two hour drive of Baltimore. And I think he accidentally dropped that point. I used to think he lived in the mid-west but I had nothing to base that on. He also was apparently some kind of scientist. I don’t even know how old he is. Sometimes I think he’s the same age I am; sometimes I think he’s in his 60’s. |
| 30 | Dr. Michael Heiser | The Unseen Realm | 20 Nov | 7 stars. The definitive work on the subject; best I’ve ever read. Dr. Heiser covers the supernatural understanding of the Bible we should all have, including God’s Divine Council, who all these other “gods” mentioned were, the Nephilim, angels, demons, and so on. I don’t read many books that are life and worldview altering, but this is one. |
| 31 | Joachim Hagopian | Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down | 3 Dec | http://www.redredsea.net/westpointhagopian/index.html Author successfully sued West Point and forced them to abide by Due Process. 5 stars. Free online at the link above. West Point may have once been a great institution, but now it turns out lying, treasonous scumbag Generals who lose wars. It keeps cadets busy on mickey mouse bullshit that has never been proven to produce good officers or leaders. It covers up scandals, such as the West Point childcare pedo scandal in the 1980’s (See Satanism & Pedophilia Book 4), which will be on my 2021 books.) For more on West Point, look up John T Reed, another West Point grad with a lot to say on the subject. |
| 32 | Joachim Hagopian | Book 1: A Quarter Million Millenia of Human Enslavement, Child Rape and Blood Sacrifice from Antiquity to the Modern Catholic Church | 6 Dec | Book 1 of 5 (four more coming) https://pedoempire.org/contents/ 7 stars. While this should be common knowledge, it is VERY dark material and not for the faint of heart. But if you don’t already know the world is run from the shadows by Satanic pedohiles who drink adrenochrome, you’re better off staying away. I can’t really send you to a 101 level material for this subject. Maybe there should be one. Look for “Fall of the Cabal” on YouTube. But this book series is an exhaustive documentation of people and organizations behind it all, and their methods of operation including blackmail, assassination, brainwashing, gaslighting, and so on. The series traces this network up to the UK as the center with Lord Rothschild as the head. I don’t know if there is anybody above Rothschild. This author did not document, but I suspect there are people or forces above him. The author was a therapist who has worked with children affected by pedophiles and has expertise in the subject. Book 1 introduces the subject, gives some background (Annunaki) and covers high level organizations. Book 2 covers the Royal Family and Jimmy Savile, also the BBC, Parliament, and so on. Book 3 covers Rothschilds and more pedo scandals from around the UK. Book 4 comes back to the US. Book 5 will be about Australia and the rest of the world. All books are available from Amazon or can be read free at the link above, which is how I read them. Book 4 should be out this month (physical) and Book 5 in March. I am currently reading book 4. |
| 33 | Joachim Hagopian | Book 2 The United Kingdom – The World’s Pedophilia Epicenter | 22 Dec | Book 2 of 5 (planned) |
| 34 | Joachim Hagopian | Book 3:The Rothschild Illuminati Bloodline and Ties to More British Scandals | 29 Dec | Book 3 of 5 (planned |
| 35 | Robert David Steele Dr. Cynthia McKinney | #Unrig Election Reform Act | 30 Dec | https://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-UNRIG-Guide-1.2.pdf 5 stars. More of a white paper than a book, but is a comprehensive reform badly needed in US laws. We need to destroy the bifactional ruling party tyranny. I disagree with the section on unions because I view them as corrupt as any other method of Cabal’s control over us. Nice theory; terrible implementation. Hitler had a proposal in Mein Kampf for state unions that in theory were supposed to bring businesses and employees together as citizens. I like that particular idea better than I do the Teamsters and the rest of the system we have. |
