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The Way The Music Died

Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring

July 23, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR11 Bingo: Beach Read I view conspiracy theories the same way agnostics view God: if a conspiracy existed, it would have to be quite large and involve an incredible amount of competent people who are both good and lucky and have incentives to keep their mouths shut. Thus, that makes conspiracies unlikely…but not impossible. I don’t submit to 9/11 conspiracy theories but even now, I still can’t fully accept that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman. I don’t know. Anyway, […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Chaos, charles manson, conspiracy theory, Dan Piepenbring, Manson murders, Tom O'Neill

Jake's CBR11 Review No:62 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Chaos, charles manson, conspiracy theory, Dan Piepenbring, Manson murders, Tom O'Neill ·
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Going in, I expected truth. Coming out the other side, I think I just found a conspiracy theory.

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb

April 22, 2018 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I came into this book, after having read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and a few other things that I can’t immediately recall, thinking that the basic premise of this book was an historical fact agreed upon by all knowledgeable people. The CIA helped funnel cocaine into American cities as a way of helping to fund the Contra’s in the 1980s. Whether this was all a concerted effort on the part of the white establishment to intentionally suppress African American agency is an issue […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: conspiracy theory, crime reporting, Dark Alliance, drugs, Gary Webb, Iran-Contra, Michelle Alexander, Ronald Reagan, The New Jim Crow

ingres77's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: conspiracy theory, crime reporting, Dark Alliance, drugs, Gary Webb, Iran-Contra, Michelle Alexander, Ronald Reagan, The New Jim Crow ·
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Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left….

JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren

April 13, 2018 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

So, much of my reading for CBR has come via audiobooks. Sadly, my work schedule has changed recently, thus depriving me of much of the time I have to listen to books, so I expect there’s no way I’m going to achieve my goal this year. But I’m still here, though, so I guess all is still well. I’m going to get this out of the way up front: I’m not a conspiracy theorist. 9/11 was the result of fundamentalist Islamic terrorists hijacking airliners. Chemtrails […]

Filed Under: History, Mystery, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Colin McLaren, conspiracy theory, George Hickey, Howard Donahue, JFK assassination, Kennedy, lee harvey oswald

ingres77's CBR10 Review No:7 · Genres: History, Mystery, Non-Fiction · Tags: Colin McLaren, conspiracy theory, George Hickey, Howard Donahue, JFK assassination, Kennedy, lee harvey oswald ·
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And from this seed grew a tree of discontent

(R)evolution by PJ Manney

February 18, 2017 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

At a convention in Las Vegas, 70,000 people are murdered in a brutal terrorist attack using stolen nanotechnology.  As a result, a concerted effort is made by political activists to destroy the nanotech industry. The man who invented the stolen technology is the only person standing in between a government witch hunt and the forward progress of scientific development. Ok. That, I think, is an interesting premise for a book. That’s the premise that led me to pick this book up. The belief that this […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: conspiracy theory, nanotechnology, PJ Manney, revolution, secret society, terrorism

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: conspiracy theory, nanotechnology, PJ Manney, revolution, secret society, terrorism ·
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