Keith Haring Postcard Book

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30 removable color postcards. Powerful paintings by renowned New York artist and activist Keith Haring.

Keith Haring: Postcard Book (Prestel Postcard Books)

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Keith Haring: Postcard Book (Prestel Postcard Books)
Pestel
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
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ASIN: 3791313592

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American artist Keith Haring developed a unique visual language of elaborately entwined patterns and symbols that has come to epitomize the energy and popular culture of New York in the 1980s. Usually characterized by its thick black outlines, Haring's graphic, graffiti-like style draws from realms as diverse as cartoon and calligraphy. His lexicon of popular icons includes everything from babies to pyramids, flying saucers to TV screens, hearts and crosses to robots. Yet what emerges from Haring's colorful and upbeat images is often an expression of serious and poignantly expressed concerns: racial conflict, homophobia, and AIDS (of which Haring died in 1990 at the age of 32). This pocket-sized booklet of 18 detachable postcards includes an eye-catching array of humorous, colorful images that are representative of his entire body of work. --A.C. Smith

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Interviews and photographs of more than sixty women (and men) with their handbags gives insight into these universal objects.

Purse Universe Portraits of Women and Their Purses From the Purse Project

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Purse Universe Portraits of Women and Their Purses From the Purse Project
BARBARA G. S. HAGERTY
Manufacturer: BARNES & NOBLE
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KNRAVE

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This book features the first American printing of "Somewhere in Nowhere," the final Disney story that the legendary Carl Barks had a hand in. John Lustig wrote the story based on Carl's notes and Pat Block drew it based on many of Carls art notes. The back-up story is a reprint of Barks' classic Uncle Scrooge tale, "North of the Yukon," upon which "Somewhere in Nowhere" is loosely based.

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Pushing the limits of silliness.......2007-07-03

I didn't think the book was all that funny. It's humor is outdated and pushes the limits of silliness sometimes. There was some entertainment, but all in all I would pass next time.

An Irreverent Guide to the Complete Sport of Cycling.......2002-09-25

If you liked Kung Pow, you'll love this book. Or if you like this book, you'll love Kung Pow! This book is absolutely hilarious. It's great bathroom reading material. I've read it through three times now, and I'm still laughing out loud, literally. People wonder what I'm doing in there! I just tell them I'm with Mike Keefe. You should get this book, if not for what's in it, get it for the funny picture of Mike Keefe on the back. If not for that, use it for toilet paper.

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In Passport to Hollywood, James Morrison examines a series of Hollywood films by directors from European art-cinemas. Drawing widely on current research in film theory, film history, and cultural studies, he traces the influence of European filmmakers in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1980s and illuminates the relation between modernism and mass-culture in American movies. By interpreting important American films, Morrison also shows how these films illustrate key issues of cultural hierarchy and national culture over fifty years of American cinema. In addition, he explores the complex and often contradictory ways that these Hollywood movies conceptualize ideas about "foreignness." Using insightful close viewings, Morrison demonstrates new connections among modernism, postmodernism, and American movies.

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In the present volume 23 specialists investigate a number of significant aspects of Italian music history during the Fascist period. Included are also unpublished documents and fresh information on composers like Ferruccio Busoni, Alfredo Casella, Aldo Finzi, Adriano Lualdi, Gian Francesco Malipiero and Ottorino Respighi.The last section of the book commemorates the centenary of the birth of Luigi Dallapiccola (Pisino d'Istria 1904 - Firenze 1975) by collecting the most recent research on his music.The authors featured are:Vincenzo Alaimo, Chiara Bianchi, Eleonora Carapella, Ermanno Comuzio, Mila De Santis, Benjamin Earle, Christoph Flamm, Roberto Illiano, Erik Levi, Charles Maier, Fiamma Nicolodi, Carlo Piccardi, Luca Sala, Massimiliano Sala, Michela Niccolai, Giovanella Pacini, Karen Painter, Gemma Perez-Zalduondo, Luigi Pestalozza, Graham Phipps, Laureto Rodoni, Michael Walter and Martina Weindel.

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Music in Fascist Italy
Harvey Sachs
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0P092

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MUSIC IN FASCIST ITALY
HARVEY SACHS
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSEZAY

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Dale Power leads you step-by-step through the process of carving a robust and realistic polar bear. Complete, concise instruction and detailed color photographs make the carving of this bear an enjoyable task for the novice and advanced carver alike. Dale approaches the carving with a combination of hand and power tools, giving good advice in both techniques. Once carved, Dale illustrates techniques to burn and paint the details that give your bear a very natural look. Four original patterns for polar bears, grizzlies and brown bears are included as well. The gallery photographs provide detailed and instructive perspective on these bears from different regions of the world. The character and personality of each bear comes through in these photos., 225+ color photos, patterns, 8 1/2" x 11"

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helpful for a carver.......2006-03-22

I got the book to gain access to some of the features to the polar bear and grizzly. More on the polar bear than the grizzly but still helpful to me and one of my carving projects.

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A usefulmethodology

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A Guidebook for a Successful Business Strategy

Diversify your views of diversity

Full of Great Ideas!!

The Inclusion Breakthrough
Frederick A. Miller , and Judith H. Katz
Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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ASIN: 1576751392

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The Inclusion Breakthrough explains how to make diversity a central and profitable part of an organization's strategy for long-term success rather than merely a peripheral program. The authors present proven strategies for stimulating the creativity and productivity of any business's greatest resource -- its people. Benefits to companies that have implemented these inclusion strategies are also described.

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A usefulmethodology.......2005-02-23

The methodology offered is based on the fairly simple precept that, to gain the benefits of diversity, you must believe in it, offer real inclusion for minorities and recognize that they provide value in the form of diverse perspectives, talents and links across the whole range of the organization's activities, not merely as links to their own community.

The authors offer three frameworks as the basis for their methodology. The first has to do with leveling and then raising the playing field. Leveling involves removing the negatives of barriers, 'isms', and biases in appointment, assignment and promotion, while raising the playing field involves proactive practices to build cross-difference partnership, ensure continuous individual and team development and create systems to enable all people to do their best work (i.e. to allow for individual and cultural differences in approaches).

The second is based on an 'Inclusion Breakthrough Cycle', the elements of which are developed in the five chapters of Part 2 of the book.

The third - Creating an Inclusion Breakthrough - is based on development of a methodology incorporating 4 phases:

* Building the Platform for Change
* Creating Momentum
* Making Diversity and Inclusion a Way of Life
* Leveraging learning and Challenging the New Status Quo

Each phase contains specified actions, which are detailed in the four chapters of the part.

None of the material is 'rocket science', but the authors do take a systemic approach to the issue and they set out a sound and useful process, which is clearly explained. It is, of course, fundamentally a particular application of wider approaches to organizational learning, focused on the specific issue of diversity.

Crude Writing and Concepts.......2004-08-06

Don't waste your money on this title. The concepts are common sense and the text reads like an rambling under-grad term paper. There is nothing original here, or if there is, it faded away long ago.

A Guidebook for a Successful Business Strategy.......2002-06-24

What I like most about this book is that it gives so many examples of what different companies are actually doing - how they are being more successful using their diversity. Though much of the book is theoretical, it also includes practical things that you can do in your company to change and improve the way you do business.

Diversify your views of diversity.......2002-06-22

To be honest, I am not well-read on the subject of diversity. I have much to learn, and this was just the book for me! What I love about the book is how it helps me (and my clients) imagine what could be done and how to do it. Given the opportunity, I doubt I'd do it exactly as Miller and Katz write about it, but their practical model (coming out of long experience) is a valuable backboard for my own ideas.

This book does not get stuck in an affirmative action box or strategy. It reaches beyond to a larger organizational perspective, serving everyone in the process. This book's ideas create more complete, productive and human organizations; it is not just about neglected or mistreated workers. With its larger scope, it serves everyone.

The real power of the book can be found in the dynamics of its title and subtitle: It's inclusion AND diversity, not OR, not VS. The creative pairing of these two words produces new possibilities--and that's what the authors help you learn about.

The book is readable, built around a central model. The authors do a good job of leading you through their thinking. And, their long experience shows in every chapter.

Full of Great Ideas!!.......2002-06-20

I really enjoyed the connections that The Inclusion Breakthrough made between the importance of social responsibility and the partnership between businesses to improve the overall quality of life. It was simply written so that every business leader can connect the pieces to form their own socially responsible strategy. It has really give me some great ideas and how to implement them in my organization.

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Inspirational!

A Swimmer's Autobiography

Way more than Swimming tales. Helps The World

eww

Great Book

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox
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Just about every other person in the world seems like an unfocused dilettante compared to long-distance swimming legend Lynne Cox. Soon At the age of 14, after several years of training hard in pools and the open sea, she was swimming the 26 mile stretch from Catalina Island to the coast of California. A year after that, she surpassed a lifelong goal by not only swimming the English Channel but setting a new men's and women's record in the process. Rather than be satisfied, Cox aimed still higher, conquering the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the Strait of Magellan and, the Cape of Good Hope, none of which had been swum before. Being the first to swim the Bering Sea from Alaska to what was then the Soviet Union is perhaps Cox's most impressive achievement, requiring a phenomenal amount of physical strength and endurance to withstand the chilly waters and diplomatic persistence to gain permission from Gorbachev during the Cold War. Swimming to Antarctica is Cox's remarkably detailed account of her major swims and all that went right and wrong with them. While there are plenty of highs, as one might expect in a memoir by so impressive an athlete, all is not sunshine and roses for Cox. She overcomes extreme physical hardship, predatory sharks, and a swim through a sewage-soaked Nile while suffering from dysentery. There is plenty in Swimming to Antarctica to encourage even non-swimmers to work hard to achieve the seemingly impossible, but Cox, a skilled and highly readable writer, sticks to the swimming, leading the reader by example. For thrills and inspiration, it's hard to find anyone better than Lynne Cox. --John Moe

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Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches.

Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming the English Channel. Her daring eventually led her to the Bering Strait, where she swam five miles in thirty-eight-degree water in just a swimsuit, cap, and goggles. In between those accomplishments, she became the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, narrowly escaped a shark attack off the Cape of Good Hope, and was cheered across the twenty-mile Cook Strait of New Zealand by dolphins. She even swam a mile in the Antarctic.

Lynne writes the same way she swims, with indefatigable spirit and joy, and shares the beauty of her time in the water with a poet's eye for detail. She has accomplished yet another feat--writing a new classic of sports memoir.

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Inspirational!.......2007-09-09

This is not the type of book that I would normally read, but my book club was reading it. It was incredibly inspirational-- Lynne Cox is really amazing. It is a quick read, very enjoyable.

A Swimmer's Autobiography.......2007-04-12

Celebrate your passion for whatever it is in life you hold most dear. This tale of one woman's quest to swim various natural obstacles will captivate and inspire you.

Way more than Swimming tales. Helps The World.......2007-01-21

I note a couple of negative reviews. Perhaps those should read again. Sure seems like a wonderful woman and wonderful story. I have bought 11 copies so far and given it to close friends. I then saw Lynne Cox on 60 minutes "swimming to Antarctcica" just this Christmas. It and this book and she was the best Christmas present I have ever had. Good Work Lynne, keep it up.

eww.......2006-12-07

This is a story of dangerous swimming and umm more swimming in fact all there is is pretty much swimming.
I found the book sort of interesting but when LYNNE COX has to swim in Egypt, well lets just say its not a good book for squeemish readers. In all, the book's ok. The swimmer has to swim through many obsticles including icebergs. So in all I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

P.S. For readers who do want to buy this book I would suggest that you borrow it from the library.

Great Book.......2006-03-05

Lynne Cox is very brave and her determination to succeed in every aspect of her life was very inspiring. She proves that when you have a passion for something and are willing to work for it, then nothing is out of reach. I really enjoyed this book not just because of that, but also because Lynn proves that she is just as skilled of a writer as she is a swimmer! She captures and holds your attention right to the end, describing in detail her life as a long-distance swimmer. The best way that I can explain it is that it was so good it was almost like reading fiction, if that makes sense.

I loved this book and I recommend it to anyone looking for a good read. You definitely don't have to love swimming to love this book, that's for sure. But I actually do love swimming and it inspires me to try my best at that when summer rolls around.

My only problem with the book is that I wish she hadn't wrote an autobiography so soon! I'm dying to read more!

Swimming To Antarctica - Tales Of A Long-distance Swimmer

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Swimming To Antarctica - Tales Of A Long-distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox
Manufacturer: Harcourt, Inc.
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Swimming To Antarctica: Tales Of A Long-distance Swimmer

Manufacturer: Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Swimming to Antarctica : Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox
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War Secrets in the Ether (Cryptographic Series, Vol 1)
Wilhelm F. Flicke
Manufacturer: Aegean Park Press
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ASIN: 0894120212

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Shortly after World War II, the U.S. Government commissioned Wilhelm F. Flicke, because of his "inside" knowledge of German radio-espionage and "code-breaking" efforts, to write War Secrets in the Ether. Translated from German, the contents of this book are so startling that the book remained classified until the late 1970s. Now unclassified, this book tells the story of German successes in reading the secret codes of both enemies and friends. Historians have long pondered how General Rommel knew in advance the moves of the British army in North Africa. This book now reveals the reason: the Germans had "broken" the U.S. SECRET code between Cairo and Washington. This is a fascinating and revealing book.

War Secrets in the Ether: The Exciting True Story of Success in Reading the Codes of Foreign Governments

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War Secrets in the Ether: The Exciting True Story of Success in Reading the Codes of Foreign Governments
Wilhelm F. Flicke
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The State Of Our Gavernment

Dated leftist delusions.

Fascist America?

Prophetic Book Considers Effects Of Rise Of The Power Elite!

Reality is worse, much worse!

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Bertram Gross
Manufacturer: South End Press
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Illuminates the increasing collusion between Big Government and Big Business to "manage" our society in the interests of the elite.

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The State Of Our Gavernment.......2007-04-11

How much freedom do you think you have? Very little. Did you know some 90% of what the government robs us of each pay day finds its way into the hands of the rich, and Giant Corporations? You know the weapons we buy for the event of war, which do not function as advertised. Then we the Taxpayers spend billions more to make these weapons function as sold. Not just weapons, but computers, and just about everything else the government purchases.

The Federal Reserve is not a government bank, but a private bank, and they print, and value our money. Shockingly they are now writing laws designed to protect these bankers aganist the everyday citizen's attempts at filing bankruptcy. With Government being so impotent in the face of the Bankers, it is no wonder all of our jobs are going over seas, and soon we will be in the grips of a new depression. Thank you Woodrow Wilson. No wonder we can do nothing to prevent all the illegal aliens from flooding into our country. It is called economic control. A sure sign of "Fascism." Something we fought World War II to put an end to.

Taxes are scattered to prevent you the taxpayer from understanding just how much we are robbed each payday. You know income tax, gas tax, sales tax, property tax, exise tax, etc.,etc. And you know what, we pay taxes on the taxes we pay. Our bad, we do nothing to change these tax laws. We sit back and take the screwing, all done without lube. Imagine that.

It is all here, but the fact is, some of this should have changed long ago, because this book was written in 1982. Things have only gotten worse. This means we the people are not reading, or trying to change things. We continue to elect, and elect the same old "Brainless, Spineless Twits", and refuse to look past our noses, meaning we get what we deserve.

Read America, please read. Become informed, only by learning can we hope to restore our government.

Dated leftist delusions. .......2006-10-16

I read this book many years ago and reviewed it yet again at the prompting of yet another Leftist dolt, I found it illogically constructed, breathlessly conspiratorial and vacuous. It is the favored deceit of Leftists that there is some distinction between "Fascism" or National Socialism and International Socialism. There is none. National Socialism in Germany, Fascism in Italy and other state worshiping monopolistic governmental construct has no distinguishing characteristics from states based upon Lenin/Stalin/Mao/Castro's Socialism.

It is a lie that the Comintern invented after the collapse of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact for the division of Eastern Europe between the National Socialist state and the Soviet Union. This cooperation terminated by the opening of hostilities between the two socialist entities. Germany's attack was predicated upon competition over the east's wealth not ideology.

Reagan and Bush are the defenders of the democratic institutions of the west in line with the founders of the United State while the Left is the heir of a foreign born, degenerate and alien ideology that has produced nothing but slaughter and despair wherever and whenever it overthrows the established order.

Fascist America?.......2006-03-04

In a land where the cops have to run away from gun toting street gangs because the so-called law won't let them do anything about the problem, how can you consider the government anything but extraordinarily liberal (read socialist)?

If our nation's government today, or in the 1980s, had any hint of fascism in it, why does it, and why did it, encourage immigration from third world nations en masse?

And, of course, one must wonder how a nation whose foreign policy is so often determined...err...influenced by the State of Israel can be anything like a fascist dictatorship. Surely AIPAC, not to mention the SPLC/ADL/ACLU, haven't allowed us to stray from their chosen (socialist) path?

Prophetic Book Considers Effects Of Rise Of The Power Elite!.......2003-07-28

I lost my trusty old `dogged-eared' copy of this wonderful classic in a house fire a couple of years ago, and only recently found a used hardcover copy at the wonderful independent bookstore in Peterborough; The Toadstool Bookstore. Considering how relevant the book is to events transpiring in this country now, it was a fortuitous discovery. This is a relatively short but extremely cogent and well-argued treatise on the rise of a form of fascistic thought and social politics in late 20th century America. Author Bertram Gross' thesis is quite straightforward; the power elite that comprises the corporate, governmental and military superstructure of the country is increasingly inclined to employ every element in their formidable arsenal of `friendly persuasion' to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Americans through what Gross refers to as "friendly fascism".

For anyone familiar with modern social theory, it is apparent that the author's thesis is a quite clever and accurate extension of sociologist C. Wright Mills' well known notions of what came to be known as the `mass society' theory. This was an essential aspect of Mills' famous theory of the power elite as forwarded in a book with the same title. Like social theorist G. William Domhoff ("The Higher Circles"), Professor Gross shows how the deceptively friendly and engaging style of the powers that be actually constitute an increasingly dangerous threat to the democratic process and to the long-term survival of our precious civil liberties. Of course, for Americans used to the association between the term `fascism' and the image of angry totalitarian states such as Nazi Germany and the Italy of the same period of time, it is perhaps difficult to associate with the notion that clever and systematic manipulation of the general population through use of the mass media is a form of fascistic influence. Yet, as Gross argues so persuasively, that is exactly what it is.

The term that pops to mind is that process that M.I.T. scholar Noam Chomsky would refer to as "manufacturing consent", a dangerous propensity which dangerously influences the perceptions of individual citizens by continually immersing the populace in an electronic stream of messages, both blatant and subliminal, that serves to condition them to a particular way of experiencing, participating, and perceiving the world around them. We find ourselves constantly bombarded by powerful and suggestive images, message-laden icons which deliver consistent themes regarding the nature of the environment we are living in, one we come to employ more and more exclusively as our preferred method of interacting in both the civil and legal aspects of contemporary society. As Professor Gross so prophetically forecasted, the mergers of all commercial news sources, both electronic and other, have come under the ownership and control of corporate America, one of the leading edges of the power elite. Amazingly, all of this also rings a responsive chord with the single most prophetic work of fiction in the 20th century, Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". Lost in our petty diversions and self-absorbed in a pool of trivial pursuits, we become increasingly more vulnerable to the solid wall of subliminal and other messages all conveying a message regarding he nature of the world and our social, economic, and political place in it.

As our experience with the several successful Presidents ranging from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, the artful use of personal charisma to cover a mean-spirited political agenda has worked amazingly well. In the twenty years since the book was originally published, many aspects of our collective socioeconomic well-being have been profoundly changed, almost exclusively to the favor of the rich and well placed and to the increasing detriment of the average man and woman on the street. The statistics available are overwhelming in detailing the levels to which ordinary citizens have been stripped of most of the socioeconomic gains of the last century. In every area of contemporary life, from the cost and extent of health coverage to the responsibility for a variety of aspects such as providing for individual retirements, the vastly expanding future tax liability, and the use of the federal treasury to provide for subsidies to corporate America, the story is the same. Increasingly we are being manipulated into surrendering our voice in the democratic process and to playing a more limited role as consumers, which the elite evidently sees as our only crucial civic responsibility. As George W. Bush said with a booming voice and a congenial charismatic smile, post 911 Americans just had to get out to do their patriotic duty by once again buying things, to get the economy going once more. Indeed, it is becoming a brave new world. This is a wonderful book, and one that is a great, thought-provoking read. Enjoy!

Reality is worse, much worse!.......2003-06-22

Bertram Gross, while writing this book some 20 years ago, predicted a lot, but far from all. The fascism is here allright, but the "friendly" part is missing, and missing badly! Today's America is the land of the unfree, enslaved people, the land of presently the largest in the world and still growing at an enormous rate Gulag for the poor and disadvantaged. We now hold more of our people in cages than any other country in the world, both in real numbers and per capita. We punish our people and punish them harshly, frequently for totally victimless crimes, or for the crime of wanting to feel better in a hostile world called America. We hold in cages more mentally ill people than any other dictatorship in the world and many of them have been denied their freedom because of their actions triggered by their illnesses. We grant due process of law selectively only to those, who are rich enough to afford to buy it, while processing others through the legal grinder of the human souls, with the grotesque and bizzarre figure called "public defender" assuring near 100%, or frequently exactly 100% rate of conviction. And yes, torture of prisoners in America is quite well-documented fact. So, where's that "friendly" fascism?

Our government kills its people for the crime of murdering another, most of the time, only one human being, but then it sends our army into other countries, kills many thousands of totally innocent people, including entire families and small children, injures, disfigures thousands more, and never admits any wrongdoing and is never punished in any way.

Our Constitution has been raped and destroyed. We now have the largest police force in the world, also both in real numbers and per capita of population. Federal Government is involved in activities forbidden by the Consitution and it doesn't even feel the need to explain, justify the fact. Police breakins into people's homes, searches without warrants take pleace in massive numbers everyday (just watch any TV show Cops - they don't even hide it, they want you to get used to it). They no longer must justify any traffic stop - now they can stop you only because they ar the police, and you are not!

Still, Bertram Gross saw more than what 99.99% of Americans did. This book is well-documented, scholarly written and definitely interesting to read. But do yourself, your country and the humanity a favor. Read also, listen to Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, go to any search engine on the Internet and enter "American Gulag", "fascism in America", "prison nation USA", visit at least a few of those sites, study, read, learn, understand. Check www.amnestyusa.org, www.lp.org, www.aclu.org, www.hrw.org, www.cato.org. Until you can, until everything is not yet shut down and destroyed. And never, ever say you didn't know...

"...Huey Long once said, 'Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism'. I'm afraid, based on my own long experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."

Nafeez Moseaddeq Ahmed, Preface
and quote from Jim Garrison, New Orleans
District Attorney, 1967, from the Conclusion
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Bertram Gross
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Bertram Gross
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