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Revisado: 07-30-23

Convincing theory. The results of American foreign policy are obvious, especially on the countries we have attacked, the millions killed, the displaced, the destruction.
It is destroying the American economy, pushing us into debt, destroying the dollar. It is also destroying our own institutions, the justice system, the bureaucracy, education system and making the press a propaganda tool.
The alternative opportunity costs are trillions of dollars.
I don’t think it is just a misplaced value judgement, a desire for utopia.
It is actually a base desire for power, control and wealth by manipulating the government for the benefit of the few by cloaking it all in lies.
Now, we have global warming. The total programming of minds, a new call to war that will funnel money into the hands of the rich.
As good as this book is, it will make no difference. Ukraine is destroyed and many more will die.
China is the wild card, the US has bankrupted itself. The US production has dwindled, the world economy fostered by these people has made it dependent. The US has neither the productive capacity or money to fight a major war against China. We have debt of 32 trillion and 2 trillion in deficits each year, Americans owe 2 to 3 trillion individually and society is collapsing.
That is the true cost of this crazed warmongering, the destruction of America.

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Tragedy

Revisado: 07-13-23

Can never look at government leaders the same.
The actions are abominable.
These people should be prosecuted.

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I never read the Five Minute Rule.

Revisado: 07-02-23

Reminded me of Tony Robbins describing his early quick change sessions. Mel is entertaining, very smart. She has a good thing going.
I am a sucker for self help, ever since I went to a Zig Ziggler conference forty years ago. It’s never too late to change.
Mel reminded me, like Tony, that empowerment is in action and goals. Maybe at 81 I am slowing down.
I guess I used to have these problems 60 years ago when I was young; I guess we all are, early on, more what was done to us than what we do for ourselves and others.
Tony and Zig helped me, and Mel kicked my ass a little.
It was really Jesus that saved me and led me to the tools of truth, still does. The Great philosophers have a lot of truth.
Life is abundant and good and I try to keep reaching for more while being happy with less.
Now, sometimes, I think nothing is wrong with me, but I know that is an illusion. Perfection and happiness are never stationery or complacent.
I don’t remember why I downloaded Mel’s book but it made me aware I have a way to go.

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History

Revisado: 06-23-23

One of the best history books I have encountered.
This books covers the war but also economic, political and social aspects.
The book enhances my knowledge, understanding and appreciation of a gigantic part in the American pageant while leaving question my mind about the implications of mindsets that have persisted.
It is especially poignant because of the present movement that is tearing down that which is part of the American soul.
It hauntingly brings to life, “Can a nation so conceived long endure.” That, maybe, the national government created has gone a bridge too far. Maybe, we are all enslaved.

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Captivated

Revisado: 05-21-23

I never heard of John Jakes; I read an article, in the Sarasota paper, that he died; I looked him up and ordered the first book, read one after another.
I have read masters of literature; don’t know where he stands, but, he captured my attention.

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Life changing

Revisado: 01-04-23

The secret of success, the history of it, the values.
Quite a book that revolutionizes the concept of education and success.

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A change in thinking

Revisado: 07-03-22

Ambrose was accused of plagiarism. I found this book original in the extreme.
The juxtaposition between Custer and Crazy Horse makes me question the very values of Western civilization.
Maybe, that is why they attacked Ambrose.
Something is fundamentally wrong with us and it can not end well.
What we were given, we have eroded.
Our concept of God must be erroneous, a terrible reflection of ourselves.
This is more than a book; it is a cry for sanity.

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One tough Jew

Revisado: 07-13-21

I was a PCV in 1969, near Tela. Honduras. I walked the Tela road between Toyos and Tela. It was the down slide of United Fruit but I didn’t, know it. I marveled at all I saw. Most of my contemporaries hated it. I could see the effort that went into it the triumph. I heard many stories about the origins, now I know the story. To bad I never could have met Sam. He was a genius, a remarkable individual.
I went back to Honduras in 1975 and what was once a marvel was dilapidated and gone. Lost to relentless jungle and listlessness.
There will never be anything like it again.
Funny, now, America is a Banana Republican. I guess that is what you get when you disparage greatness.
Cohen is a great writer thinker, one tough Jew that recognizes value.

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Best analysis of America I ever read

Revisado: 05-11-21

When you combine this book with CS Lewis’s Abolition of Man and Hayak’s On the Road to Serfdom, you get a strong knowledge of the progression of technology and the economies of scale that hat led to the dominance of the few and the destruction of the individual and with that destruction of all morality.

Mills was right the only God on the world is money.

We are well down the road to destruction. Man is incapable of saving himself; we are led by idiot savants that have no conception of common good.

It would be better if we blew ourselves up and started over. We have destroyed the environment that allows people to be happy.

It is all very interesting and we are at the crest of a crashing wave.

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The culture that created America is dead; the free self reliant individual formed in the travail of life,is gone.

Revisado: 11-28-19

America had a culture. You can read of its formation in “Washington” written by Justice Marshall. The individual was king, free, self-reliant filled with values forged by necessity and Christian principles.

The individual can be wayward and create horrible injustices, mostly fueled by greed. America has always had its share.

In America, the dead Democracy, the yeast and salt, amidst terrible agitation created something great.

The corporates culture took away from the individual the means of production. He is a slave to a salary and values imposed by a few.

Benioff says 27 men control half the world’s wealth.

Corporations have created the culture we have and the social problems seem insurmountable. A Chile paper, amidst popular unrest among a peaceful people, admonishes a correlation between economic growth and suicide. In the United States drug deaths are decreasing life span.

More and more jobs will be lost, refugees displaced from the land by technology and world markets,are streaming across America’s borders exponentially increasing social problems, homelessness, dislocation, depravity and costs.

On “Primier Impacto” they filmed two Guatemala men beating to death a Honduran immigrant.

I always believed business was an importantly honorable profession: McCormack, Rockefeller, Ford, Edison from farm families changed the world.

America changed in the twenties; changed by technology. The demise of the individual written in “The Grapes of Wrath.” We all work for a dollar a day; forced to do horrible things to our neighbors for a dollar a day.

Benioff is right we are deluged with unintended consequences.

Benioff makes policy because of something written by 5 people and signed by 800, .02% of his workforce, millennials raised on internet chatter.

It is still the individual deciding his values that moves the world and those individuals have the power of God, they have usurped God.

“Unless the lord build the city, the city will not stand.”

The righteous
individual creates good and we all have that responsibility. “You can only serve one master, God or mammon.

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