In 2013, James Perloff published his landmark primer on the New World Order Truth Is a Lonely Warrior. In the years since, online, he has expanded on many details from that book, as well as filling in holes with new research. In Thirteen Pieces of the Jigsaw, he gathers some of his most unique, significant and popular online posts, available for the first time in paperback form: Why we fought the Spanish-American War-the deceptions that dragged America into World War I-a unique account of the Hindenburg's destruction-Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's 9/11-the Korean War's orchestration and agenda-why Nagasaki was targeted for the atomic bomb-a mysterious "Best Picture" Oscar explained-the real reason there was a "Golden Age of Television"-making sense of the supernatural (Aliens/UFOs . . .)-Christian Zionism's hidden history-what is really happening in Syria-the unpublicized health dangers of wireless technologies-who fired "The Shot Heard Round the World"?Thirteen Pieces of the Jigsaw is the ideal companion book to Truth Is a Lonely Warrior.
Dwarves, goblins, wizards and homicidal megalomaniacs - the normal run of the mill residents that should make Eppi Scopali a pretty ordinary city of the outlands. That is, except for three things - the great staircase, Queen Zegga, and the fabled bridge of Dromond.
A BROKEN MAN DOWN ON HIS LUCK... Michael Fox is a homeless man living in a garbage dumpster beneath the Carver Street Bridge in Buffalo, NY. He's bitterly depressed and ready to commit suicide; anything to put an end to his miserable existence. AN OFFER TOO GOOD TO REFUSE... When a mysterious billionaire surgeon offers Michael two million dollars for his right arm, he thinks his luck might be about to change. Little does he know that the surgeon has other plans for him. His arm is only the beginning. Bit by bit other pieces of Michael's body are surgically removed; his natural body stripped away and then reassembled using other harvested parts from thirteen different 'donors'. A MODERN DAY FRANKENSTEIN... Now Fox isn't sure if he's a man or a monster, or whether or not he'd be better off dead. One thing he is sure of though, he's not checking out of this world until he finds a way to make the people responsible pay for turning him into the experimental nightmare known as... The Jigsaw Man. Special Bonus Content: The short story A Simple Matter of Ethics by Gord Rollo
There is powerful scientific evidence against Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. And the implications are momentous, because ever since publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has been contesting man's traditional ideas about the meaning of life. Now, however, it's Darwin who's on the retreat, as facts from diverse branches of science challenge the theory's validity. Book jacket.
Twenty-five years after publication of The Shadows of Power, James Perloff returns to the venue of political history, and takes you where the mass media won't.- Who benefited from the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine?- Why did President Woodrow Wilson order the manifest of the torpedoed Lusitania hidden in the archives of the U.S. Treasury?- After the official inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack, why did Admiral Kimmel and General Short - the commanders at Pearl Harbor - want to be court-martialed?- Why was the Soviet Union given control of North Korea after World War II, when the Soviets did nothing to win the war in the Pacific?- What did Congressional Medal of Honor recipient James Stockdale reveal about Tonkin Gulf (the event used to justify intervention in Vietnam)?- How did "Operation Rockingham" lead America into the Iraq war?- Since its founding in 1921, what small organization has produced 21 Secretaries of Defense/War, 19 Treasury Secretaries, 18 Secretaries of State, and 16 CIA directors?- How did Jimmy Carter go from a generally unknown figure to Presidential nominee in just seven months?- Why has America had decades of destructive inflation (understated recently by the Consumer Price Index), when there was zero NET inflation from the days of the Pilgrims until the early 20th century?- Why did the Vietnam War last 14 years - and end in defeat - when it took us only 3 and 1/2 years to win World War II?- What did the head of the Ford Foundation tell Congressional investigator Norman Dodd that made him "nearly fall off the chair"?- Is it possible that many kings and other monarchs of past centuries were not as evil as they've been portrayed?- What American capitalists were given landing rights for their private jets in Moscow - at the height of the Cold War? - What KGB defector predicted glasnost five years in advance - yet was ignored by the major media?- Who is at the top of the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill?- Why was the USS Liberty attacked in 1967, and why was there no Congressional investigation?- The official explanation of 9-11 - where do we BEGIN to name the holes?- Were the Beatles a set-up?- Who financed ecumenism and the decline of Christian faith?- What are world elitists saying about population control?- What are courageous doctors revealing about vaccines that the major media won't report?- Does weather control go beyond seeding clouds? What is behind the recent spike in weather disasters?- How did the Establishment trick conservatives into supporting its "free trade" agenda, destroying millions of U.S. jobs?- Who's pouring billions of dollars into the "green" movement?- 1984 - the amazing ways in which Orwell got the future right.- And how does ALL this tie together?If you are one of those who senses that something just isn't right with the explanations we are given for wars, our dying economy, and other world events, this book may be just right for you. Countless lies have been planted in the corporate-controlled media to benefit the rich and the few; these lies have become "fact" through the mechanism of frequent repetition. Refuting such lies with credibility requires in-depth analysis. Therefore, beware of reviews of this book which attempt to debunk it by pulling a sentence or idea out of context. Read the book for yourself. Truth Is a Lonely Warrior is a ticket to de-brainwashing.341 Pages. Fully indexed. This book is also available for instant download in a Kindle edition with many hyperlinks that can be clicked to access supporting material. This book can be gifted directly from Amazon to anyone you think might benefit from it.Visit YouTube for Bill McNally's interview of James Perloff on Truth Is a Lonely Warrior.
This social and economic history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution organizes a multitude of details to paint a rich picture of everyday life.
Early Japanese Buddhism was patronized by the literate classes and remained a prerogative of the elite until the end of the twelfth century. With the fiscal and political decline of its aristocratic patrons, the Buddhist establishment turned increasingly to lay commoners for financial support, using paintings to accommodate its new, and often subliterate, audiences. One type of preaching, known as etoki (pictorial decipherment), helped bridge the worlds of esoteric Buddhism and lay practice and reveals much about the role of art in the context of didactic storytelling and proselytization. Beginning with the provocative claim that the popularization of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, Explaining Pictures reexamines the history (and historiography) of medieval Japanese Buddhism. With theoretical sophistication and a full appreciation of the power of imagery to convey and control religious meaning, it investigates a range of aspects of etoki, including the particularly active role of itinerant nuns, whose performances were especially edifying to female audiences, as well as the visual hagiography of the reputed founder of Japanese Buddhism, the pictorial projections of Buddhist paradise and hell, and the explanation, through visual imagery, of sacred mountains. Part One presents the social history of etoki as it appears in a broad variety of written sources from the tenth to fifteenth centuries and investigates how etoki helped establish the cult of Shotôku Taishi. Part Two covers the period between the late twelfth and fourteenth centuries with a focus on Pure Land Buddhist propaganda and its use in etoki practice. Etoki sermons on the Taima Mandala, the visual description of the Pure Land Buddhist canons, show how envisioning the land of bliss substitutes for meditative concentration to gain enlightenment. Ikumi Kaminishi next turns to the itinerant etoki proselytes and similar performing artists between the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. These individuals preached on the road and through their missionary work reached out to commoners, turning etoki into an effective method of imparting religious beliefs and soliciting alms. In the late medieval period, audiences regarded itinerant preachers much like traveling artists and vendors, which has led modern scholars to conclude that etoki priests desecrated religious rituals. Kaminishi reconsiders this historiographical problem in relation to the social meaning of itinerant performing artists of the period. Finally, the she examines etoki’s effect on the popularization of sacred mountain worship (in particular Kumano and Tateyama)during the seventeen through nineteenth centuries. Chapters focus on the Kumano propaganda image used by nuns, how Christian religious imagery was exploited in seventeenth-century Buddhist propaganda, and the ways in which etoki campaigns made the remote Tateyama a popular pilgrimage site in early modern times. Explaining Pictures is an important groundbreaking work, the first book-length study devoted to the phenomenon of Buddhist art as religious propaganda and pictorial storytelling as a form of popular culture in medieval Japan. A truly interdisciplinary study, it suggests fruitful avenues of discussion between art historians and historians of Japanese Buddhism. Scholars and students with an interest in Japanese Buddhism, art, and social and cultural history will find its examination of significant issues fresh and stimulating. It will also find an appreciative audience among those concerned with the relationship between art and religion, the mechanics of proselytization, and Asian visual culture.
Retired British prime minister Adam Lang sets out to write a tell-all memoir of his life and political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.
