Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Official Stories Counter-Arguments for a Culture in Need by Liam Scheff “Official stories exist to protect officials.” With the opening line as our guide, we’re going to pry open the vault of “official-dom” and see what lies beneath. Drawing information from 10 years of investigative journalism, Liam invites you to join the hunt for the [...]
Continue Reading...
Previous post
by Liam Scheff It’s been said that if a lie is told often enough, it begins to sound true. And so, you can bet that a fib that has been repeated for four hundred years may be hard to shake off. On Thursday’s Robert Scott Bell Show (10/20/11), RSB and Liam Scheff speak with Mark [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
It takes remarkable personal courage to come out against the mean, to write about unpopular ideas, to talk about probable conspiracies – and so it can’t be said that Jesse Ventura doesn’t have guts. But let it be known that he’s got a very good head on his shoulders too. American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Endless Darwinism, Most Flexible; A non-Darwinian philosopher’s review of “Endless Forms, Most Beautiful,” by Sean B. Carroll. by Liam Scheff published by W.W. Norton and Co. 2006 Amazon link. Dr. Carroll likes his rock and roll, and he’ll give you an unwanted lyric from time to time, to let you know that he’s cool, as [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
– Collagen Molecule I want to share with you excerpts from several items I’m reading, more or less unfiltered. It goes like this: We’re all connected, right? Everybody says so – somewhere beneath the surface, we’re ‘one,’ part of a single organism, being, entity. Everybody’s had an experience – touching, sensing, feeling, knowing – transmitting [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Books / Comics / History / Pixelmator and Photoshop / Shakespeare / Top 20
Tags: cartoon art, comics, drawing, edward de vere, graphic novel, liam scheff, mark anderson, oxfordian, painting, shakespeare, shakespeare by another name, sketching
February 12, 2010
Shakespeare, Not Shakespeare Part One: His Second Best Bed Interview with Mark Anderson by Liam Scheff “Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out; And take upon us the mystery of things, As if we were God’s spies…” —King Lear, Act V, Scene iii [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
I am just reading this: Debating Darwin – Adventures of a Scholar, by John C. Greene. A wonderful mind. I regret that I didn’t look him up in 2007, when I first picked up the book… Of all the writing in this book, his correspondence zings loudest and clearest, (as it does with many of [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Please find below my mini-graphic novel “Collapse or Explosion?” An exploration in images and words of the most troubling political event of our new century. You can download the complete 29-page book as a PDF Here (3.5MB). Yes, it’s a free download.
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
The most disturbing and bravest book I’ve seen in a long, long time is this one: I can’t believe the candor, or the excess, and the lack of pride or self-aggrandizement in the telling. It’s the American Dream, the California Dream, the dream of “liberation,” but it’s no fantasy. It’s a plain horror, lived in [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Why Macrobiotics is my Favorite Big Word – A children’s book by Emma Holister Originally published in 1998 in black and white by the Kushi Institute. Now available here online, in colour and free! Hello, my name is Lucy and I like big words. Sometimes people don’t understand what I’m saying . . .
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
I present for your edification and enjoyment, two chapters from Mark Twain’s short biography of one “Will Shaksper”, or William Shakespeare, the man from Stratford. Twain, nee Clemens, had some singular and small doubts about some of the more popular claims about this great writer (for example, that he was who he was claimed to [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Fear of The Invisible by Janine Roberts – a Review by Liam Scheff. “AIDS is a sex disease, and has one cause. SARS is the terror itself, unmasked. Bird flu will sweep human existence off the seven continents. Polio was conquered by vaccination, and without more vaccination, we will all succumb to a new plague, [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Are accidental genome shifts the engine of change in evolution? Is species evolution a process of tiny steps? “No,” says Dr. Lynn Margulis (Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst), in her stellar book Acquiring Genomes (written with Dorian Sagan), from their catalog of excellent work, which includes [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
From The Art of War, translation by Samuel B. Griffith . In respect to the employment of troops, ground may be classified as dispersive, frontier, key, communicating, focal, serious, difficult, encircled, and death. 1) When a feudal lord fights in his own territory, he is in dispersive ground. Here officers and men long to return [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
From The Art of War, translation by Samuel B. Griffith . Dust spurting upward in high straight columns indicates the approach of chariots. When in hangs low and is widespread infantry is approaching. When dust rises in scattered areas the enemy is bringing in firewood; when there are numerous small patches which seem to come [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Excerpts from Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 5, The Renaissance. Read more WillDurant.com The most fascinating figure of the Renaissance was born on April 15, 1452, near the village of Vinci, some sixty miles from Florence. His mother was a peasant girl, Caterina, who had not bothered to [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
From The Art of War, this translation and introduction by Samuel B. Griffith (a wonderful version, available Here). Biography of Sun Tzu (as it appears in the Shih Chi, Sun Tzu Wu Chi’s Lieh Chuan). Sun Tzu [?circa 453-221 B.C. - The Warring States Period ] was a native of Ch’i who by means of [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
From Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 3, Caesar and Christ. Read more WillDurant.com The Philosopher Kings of Rome – Nerva to Hadrian Hear Gibbon’s judgment: “If a man were to be called upon to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
From Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 3, Caesar and Christ. Read more WillDurant.com The Philosopher Kings of Rome pt. 2: Antoninus Pius to Marcus Aurelius Titus Aurelius Antoninus was named Pius by the Senate because he excelled in the virtues honored by the old Roman Republic: filial devotion, [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
There, on the wall directly facing the apotheosis of theology in the Disputa, is the glorification of philosophy: Plato of the Jovelike brow, deep eyes, flowing white hair and beard, with a finger pointing upward to his perfect state; Aristotle walking quietly beside him, thirty years younger, handsome and cheerful, holding out his hand with a downward palm, as if to bring his master’s soaring idealism back to earth and the possible;
Socrates counting off his arguments on his fingers, with armed Alcibiades listening to him lovingly; Pythagoras trying to imprison in harmonic tables the music of the spheres; a fair lady who might be Aspasia; Heracleitus writing Ephesian riddles; Diogenes lying carelessly disrobed on the marble steps;
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
By Liam Scheff GNN December 2004 – Thinking of a master plan Bush’s Brain, the 2003 book and film by veteran journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater, and directors Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob, lays out, with compelling bi-partisan evidence, the wake of destruction left by Bush’s long-time campaign and political director, Karl Rove. Rove [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Racism, Theft and Fraud in Florida by Liam Scheff Weekly Dig, March, 2003 When future historians want to know what happened to America in 2000, they’ll read Greg Palast’s The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. The book follows the paper trail of perjury, deception and incompetence left by the Bush family, and the billionaires who [...]
Continue Reading...
Next post
Previous post
Radio: Join me on "The Robert Scott Bell Show" Mon-Fri 12-2
