Archive for May, 2013

Chicago Gangs and the “King Alfred Plan”

May 31, 2013
Chicago Gangs and the “King Alfred Plan”

Every now-and-then a dark seceret is leaked in a novel or movie that exposes a subject so controversial that people think that it surely must be fiction. Examples can be found in Tom Clancy books or movies such as Robert Redford’s “Three Days of the Condor” and George C. Scott’s “The Formula”. Here is where […]

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The Dumbest Person in Congress is Calling it “Quits”

May 29, 2013
The Dumbest Person in Congress is Calling it “Quits”

Woo-Hoo! One of the absolute stupidest people in the U.S. Congress is finally calling it quits. That’s right, Michele Bachmann – the wild-eyed zombie-crazed Christian freak of nature will not seek another term in Congress. Proving once again that many people fail upward, Michele-my-belle joins the ranks of Sarah Palin in failed radical right-wing Republitards. […]

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MMA Fighter Linked to Boston Bombing Shot by FBI (UPDATE #3)

May 22, 2013
MMA Fighter Linked to Boston Bombing Shot by FBI (UPDATE #3)

It looks like Federal agents are whittling away at more suspects linked to the Boston Marathon bombing. From Raw Story: Report: FBI shoots and kills man in Florida connected to Marathon bombing suspect Federal agents shot and killed a man linked to one of the suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing attack after […]

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The Utility of Tai Chi Chuan

May 12, 2013
The Utility of Tai Chi Chuan

Readers of the old “Dojo Rat” blog, which began in the fall of 2006, know that martial arts has been one of my passions for over thirty years. It began with wrestling in high school, progressed through Japanese and Korean Karate, some Aikido blended with Jujitsu, and landed in the soft Chinese arts of Bagua, […]

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Russian Report: Tsarnaev Trained at U.S.-Sponsered Seminar

May 2, 2013
Russian Report: Tsarnaev Trained at U.S.-Sponsered Seminar

Sources in Russia are reporting that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect, was trained at a seminar by a right-wing think-tank. First, here is the report, translated from the original Russian in “Izvestia”: “Tamer­lane Tsar­naeva recruited via the Geor­gian Foundation One of the orga­niz­ers of the ter­ror­ist attack in Boston, stud­ied at the work­shop held […]

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The Worst Possible Use of a Karate Dojo

May 1, 2013
The Worst Possible Use of a Karate Dojo

Recapping a week from hell recently; The Boston Marathon bombing, the Texas fertilizer plant explosion, Someone shot at a power plant in California, and another at a Tennessee Nuclear plant, and finally the delivery of toxic Ricin letters to President Obama and other public officials: From Raw Story Ricin found in dojo of man charged […]

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RSS Northwest Research & Covert Book Report

  • Review: Killers Of The Flower Moon
    Soon to be a major motion picture, this story has some real promise. Promise to help solve age-old crimes, promise to resolve inhuman atrocities, promise to help make things right. This is the promise of “Killers Of The Flower Moon – The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI”, by David Grann. Sadly, it […]
  • Review: Pandora’s Gamble, By Alison Young
    Review: Pandora’s Gamble Where do I begin with this startling and disturbing book? First, the author, Alison Young, worked as a reporter for USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and has won numerous awards for her investigative reporting. “Pandora’s Gamble” is subtitled “Lab Leaks, Pandemics, And A World At Risk”. Much […]
  • Review: Floating Stones – Great Pyramid Built With Water Power
    Now here is an interesting find, recommended by a good friend. This book is a very thought-provoking theory of how the Great Pyramid was built. Authors Samuel R. Sampson is an architect, and co-author Michael N. Read is an engineer. Together they have come up with a very plausible scenario on how the largest Egyptian […]
  • Review: “The Dawn Of Everything”
    In my recent study of ancient civilizations, I bought this huge book – “The Dawn Of Everything – A New History Of Humanity”, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. This was a completely different type of read for me; Graeber and Wengrow are anthropologists and archeologists, and write as such. I don’t know a lot […]
  • Review Of Two Books On Neanderthals
    After reading Hancock and Schoch describing the destruction and survival of the human population during the last Ice Age, I wanted to learn more about the development of primitive man. Mind you, Hancock believed the destruction was caused by a comet that broke apart and hit the earth, while Schoch has evidence that the destruction […]