“The only two books you need to read are “Confessions Of An Economic Hitman ” and Smedley Butler’s book ” War Is A Racket ” to understand why ” Countries hate us ” .”
——– BUCKHED in the “Evil Empires” thread
Agreed! Specifically, “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” was one of the most eye-opening books concerning how-the-world-works that I have ever read.
I love to read, as do most others here. I’m always looking for something really new, really interesting, really awesome. Something jaw-dropping. A “wow!!” moment. And a woody would be nice, also.
Question: Which books have you actually read which fit the bill above?
Note: Let’s try to keep it to three, or less. Also, let’s leave out the Bible (I’ve already read it multiple times cover-to-cover).
The New Economic Hit Man …
Buy all the F**KING books through my Amazon button for Christ sakes.
What Orwell feared was the banning of books. What Huxley feared was there would be no reason to ban books cause no one would want to read them. Sorry Stuckman, I can’t keep it 2 three. I love books, I love to read, I married a librarian for crying out loud.
The Amazon link doesn’t load properly, dumped giving me a blue screen. Messed with?
I just got, Nine presidents who screwed up America, and four that tried to save her.
Have not started reading it yet.
I just clicked them and they worked. Must be all that porn you’ve been downloading.
Have a nice life, Admin, I’m gone.
What a thin skinned pussy. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
“The End of All Evil”. Wish I had read this 30 years ago. I would have saved so much time trying to understand why our world is so screwed up.
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey
All three analyze the phenomenon of Western Civilization; it’s creation and flowering as well as it’s terminal decline. Each work has been heavily censored and or reviled by establishment academia giving my the imprimatur I always seek. Semi-heavy, but each one so chock full of “I’VE KNOWN THAT MY ENTIRE LIFE BUT NO ONE HAS EVER PUT IT IN WORDS BEFORE” passages they are must reads for anyone who claims to be literate.
I read the book “Sperm Wars” a few years ago, as I was a young man still struggling with the traditional relationship paradigm and wondering why I kept feeling like a chump.
Among many things, it explains, from an evolutionary perspective, why women continue to bang cretins, criminals, bikers, gangsters, felons, druggies, et. al, sometimes when they have a perfectly provider husband or boyfriend at home. It explains why 90% of sperm is meant to fight off other sperm, not to seek out the precious egg, and how women’s brains can justify any sexual behavior even when their conscious mind is at a loss as to why. It explains why so many men are naive dupes who are bankrupting themselves through divorce.
This has always been the case, but with the rise of no fault feminism and the unleashing of male female society norms through technological shortcuts, the information in the book grows in importance each year. Especially for younger men who are dealing with a completely amoral generation of women.
“Family of Secrets” Russ Baker
“Crossing the Rubicon” Michael Ruppert
“Unintended Consequences” John Ross
“Classified Woman” Sibel Edmonds
Two good reads, though not necessarily new from a copyright standpoint
Treasure Islands (Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World) – Nicholas Shaxson
Legacy of Ashes (The History of the CIA) – Tim Weiner
The Ugly American
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
The Next Million Years by Charles Galton Darwin
The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell
The NWO explained by the people who are/were building it.
Confessions and the 4th turning.
After confessions, I spent – no shit – a whole week in a mental fog like I’ve never experienced. It’s one thing to dump your normalcy bias but another altogether to bite down on a bottle of red pills at the same time. Then the 4th, which I only read because Jim’s writings and words struck a cord with me, and I had to learn more about what he kept referring to, put my macro picture back together in the right order.
Phaedrus has no sense of humor what a dipshit.
HOW TO THINK and NOT BECOME A PROPAGANDA VICTIM:
Read B. H. Liddell Hart’s “Why Don’t We Learn From History.” It’s 125 pages and 99 cents from Kindle.
Read Dorothy Sayers “The Lost Tools of Learning.” It’s short and trenchant. Type in the title on your search line to read the article for free.online
UNDERSTAND BASIC POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES:
Read Tom Mullen’s “Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From.” The book’s 185 pages, focused, and readable. It’s a most understandable analysis and comparison of conservatism, liberalism, and the American Creed. It’s $3.99 from Kindle.
HEALTH:
Read Luigi Cornaro’s “Discourses on the Sober Life: How to Live to Be 100.” It’s short and you can read it for free at The Online Books page.
Read “Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine” for what to eat. It’s a penny plus postage from Amazon.
Read “Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks But People Do,” which is a penny plus postage from Amazon.
For me, all of the above have been, at some time in my life, eye opening, awesome, and most helpful.
Recently finished “The Age of Deception” (subtitle “Decoding the Truths About the U.S Economy) by James Dale Davidson. Very current (2015) and he blasts Obama and the false climate change narrative throughout the book. Highly recommend this book!
Currently reading “Collapse” by Jared Diamond (author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel”), and “Endgame” by John Mauldin.
Also ordering “One Year After”–the sequel to “One Second After” soon (and yes, Admin, I’ve been using your Amazon link for several purchases lately).
So many books. So many genres. So many authors.
Anyway, here are three “out of the mainstream” choices that are all “page turners”, beautifully written, with deep and fascinating perspectives on the human condition regarding actual events from history. Since I tend to lean a little more “literary” than some, these all blew my hair back. But, they may not be to everyone’s taste?
The first two would be classified as extensively researched, award winning historical fiction.
The third is an a non-fictional 1817 memoir by a ship captain who was taken prisoner by “African Mohammedans” after a shipwreck in 1815 and WAS formally required reading in the U.S. military academies.
Here they are with links through TBP’s Amazon button:
1.) “Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West” by Cormac McCarthy. (this link is to the 25th Anniversary Edition because the “forward” is very interesting and illuminating to the book):
2.) “Loving Frank” by Nancy Horan:
3.) “Sufferings in Africa” by James Riley:
“Il Principe” (= The Prince) from Niccolò Machiavelli
is a good old classic
“the grand chessboard” from Zbigniew Brzezinski
tells you that nothing changed in the last hundreds of years
“Family of Secrets” Russ Baker
“The Shock Doctrine” Naomi Klein
“Killing the Host” Michael Hudson
hey, and I want to say, that the world dont hate americans,
I have really good friends in AMERICA!
It is about the rich against the middle class
all over the world
and the rich tells the middle class: come on, hate the poor
@ Olga – “Family of Secrets” Russ Baker. I second that. Definitely a must read.
In understanding how we got here and where we’re going Tragedy and Hope by Carrol Quigley is must read as well.
Hope of the Wicked by Ted Flynn is also “jaw dropping” read.
Truly all very great books; please consider also the humble Gospel and the Founder of the Faith. PS: Save Paul for last because even Peter said: His letters contain some things that are hard to understand (2Pet3:16).
Lately my reading habits have gotten a lot more eclectic. I haven’t read anything that would be considered earth shattering although I’ve enjoyed most of it.
The last four books I’ve read:
“Assholes *A Theory” – Aaron James (Meh…)
“Meditations” – Marcus Aurellius
“Discourses and Selected Writing” – Epictetus
“The French Revolution” – Christopher Hibert (well written book BTW)
and currently reading
“The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking
Like I said – eclectic.
None of them are earth shattering in any sense but I can only read so much about how great the west once was and why/how it’s going to shit. Besides – with regard to the latter we appear to be living it – all I need to do to experience this is get up each morning…
With regards to “Assholes *A Theory” – I could have skipped that as I get my fill here each day. 🙂
Two more must reads
Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World Pat Buchanan
Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal Ralph Raico
And Jerry Pournelle’s There Will be War series while interspersed with Fiction has some really eye opening accounts of how national defense has been mismanaged by incompetent boy wonders and what to do about it.
Anything written by A.S. Olsoune (my teenage daughter’s pen name)
David Friedman .. Machinery of Freedom
William shier’s
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, including Berlin Diary (published in 1941);
The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969),
Will TBP survive without Phaedrus?
@Flash Tragedy & Hope was one of the first books I bought and read after the 2008 financial crisis.
I have made my leftist, liberal 55-65 year old ladies book club [together now over 20+ years] read both “Family of Secrets” and “Creature From Jekyll Island” and I am looking for another “educational” selection for this summer.
Does anyone have some suggestions for a group of left-leaning, highly educated and mildly awake women – and they are far more awake than most just for me being in the group.
“Secrets” went over much better than “Jekyll” – and I saw where someone [Westcoaster?] suggested “Classified Woman” by Sibel Edmonds and I have been meaning to get that.
FYI Admin – I also find the Amazon link generally broken or missing. For me it is broken right now. I suspect it’s an OS or browser compatibility issue – I use Foxfire at home.
Olga – “I have made my leftist, liberal 55-65 year old ladies book club [together now over 20+ years] read both “Family of Secrets” and “Creature From Jekyll Island”…Secrets” went over much better than “Jekyll”
Of course it did…good on you for risking you sanity for the greater good.
anon was I
Propaganda, Edward Bernays.
My Life and Work, Henry Ford.
Man versus the State, Herbert Spencer.
And for a bonus point:
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay
Atlas Shrugged — Helps one see that dipshits in control of a fascist government are perfectly capable of fucking up and making the wrong decision over and over and over and . . .
Brave New World — Brilliant show of how a soft tyranny might work. “Better a gramme than a damn!”
The Creature from Jekyll Island
Read the LOOK INSIDE : After Armageddon:New Beginnings
Along the same line as Admins, No Way Out. A completes reset may be the only way back..
There Will Be War Volume IX
Just for fun:
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
“a book dealing with the evolution of monogamy in humans and human mating systems.”
Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond
The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal
“argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within.”
Highly recommend “Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf”(Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network)
Extremely well researched book which exposes the centuries old cabal of global oligarchs that run the world.
Sorry- Left out the author ……..by Dean Henderson.
Awesome contributions!
Many books here I was unaware of …. and it’s been fun for me googling them. Some terrific possibilities to purchase here.
Thanks.
“Faust” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Iliad” Homer
“Atlas Shrugged” Ayn Rand
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At Day’s Close – Night In Times past… by A. Roger Ekirch – a look at society before the advent of electric illumination.
The Fatal Shore – The epic of Australia’s founding…by Robert Hughes
The Great Influenza – by John M. Barry.
Classified Woman, by Sibel Edmunds
The Creature From Jeckyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin
Against The State, Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
All of Ron Paul’s books
Alas, poor Phaedrus, I hope he comes back and buys a shit-ton of books.
If only it had been that easy to dismiss my buddy jFish. Thick skin, don’t log on without it.
Also, I know it’s not a book, but Aaron Russo’s documentary, America, Freedom to Fascism is a classic and a must watch.
Jeff Copper- Principals of Self Defense, The Art of the Rifle, the grandfather of modern gunfighting, both are short.
Phaedrus is the epitome of the Snowflake meme, we all know what happens to snowflakes when it gets hot, they melt and evaporate.
Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations”
Victor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”
Dis Nigga’s “Ultimate Compilation of TheBurningPlatform.com Comments (to be published soon)
Alex Haley’s “Roots’
Alex Haley’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”
James Clavell’s “Shogun”
Whoever said ‘the human race didn’t come with an instruction manual’ did not read The Urantia Book.
The story began with a startling revelation in the early part of the last century… then years of back and forth and finally permission was granted to publish in 1955. Once you become familiar with it you’ll never look at anything the same way again.
It will require effort on your part, and perseverance but you’ll finally know what it’s all about.
Stucky, yer uh gawd dammed 8 foot tall tiny dicked OCD weiner puller so I hardly think the Bible would be on yer list. How kin somebody built like sasquatch end up with uh Hitler sized dingus I have no idea. Possibly somebody bit it off when you was uh baby, it definitely happens, anyways I’m glad fer yer persistence in pulling that little chub bait and tryin ter git uh spooge ever now and then. Goodness gracious yer poor wife must go through hundreds of butternut squash.
Stucky, you’ve read the bible cover to cover more than once? Why? All the begats and everything? Skip ahead to the smiting.