Note: The Coffee Coaster Beaniegram contains synopses of writings—columns and book/movie reviews—of the week. It normally is posted and emailed on Sunday mid day. Toward the end of each week, a more journalistic newsletter, "Percolations," is emailed commenting on news and issues of the week. Last week's issue of Percolations is located here. — bw

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My Column-Article
The Insufferable Acts—What to do?
Vote, educate, nullify, boycott, or sever?
by Brian Wright

Note I did not include 'flee' or 'submit,' as reasonable options. In either case, whether you leave the country—not really an alternative for most of us—or crouch down to lick the hand that feeds you, the Insufferable Acts[1] do not go away. The question is truly what is the best strategy/tactic for eliminating these violations of human liberty? Okay, enough suspense. My choice, as of this five minutes, of the best single tactic is 'nullify,' and I shall tell you why in a moment. Having spilt the beans, let me state, as well, that all of the responses listed are vital implements in the liberty toolbox, and each individual must decide which is the best and most effective for his/her own situation. My personal order of preference now: [Full Column]

Excerpt of Review

Hereafter (2010):
Humanitarian exploration of afterlife ___ 9/10

On the surface, Hereafter is a fairly straightforward story of two individuals—George Lonegan (Matt Damon) and Marie LeLay (Cécile De France)—who have near-death experiences that result in special understanding that seemingly drives them toward each other across the continents. But their internal struggles with having a unique ability to 'see in the world of the dead,' the characters with whom they pass through their lives, and strangers who are drawn to them—particularly to Lonegan, who has reluctantly spent some time in the psychic market—make the film a complex tapestry of, usually benign, behavior. [Full Review]

Book Review
The Terror Conspiracy:
Deception, 9/11, and the loss of liberty
by Jim Marrs

A highly informative book but as with all such exposés, you need to be prepared for your 'Tory' friends to pooh pooh the central argument and the mountainous evidence adduced for it. [Which to those of us in the Truth and Freedom Movement is grist to the mill of our demonstration of mind control by those in power.] What distinguishes The Terror Conspiracy from other tracts concerned about 9/11 and the crimes of the Ownership Class is the more general theme that 9/11 was a key part of a broader conspiracy of false-flag terror designed to put the world, and Americans, in particular, under the heel of that would-be tyrannical global financial oligarchy.. [Full Review]

Guest Column

Media Plays the Marching Tune
Republican primary just a circus for the non-Pauls
Ron Burcham

"If indeed a [non-Paul] Republican is elected to replace the Obama administration in 2012, we can only assume that the status quo will remain intact. Spending will hit record highs, the deficit will increase, the debt ceiling will be raised, the Government will expand further into our lives taking away more rights and freedoms in the name of 'protecting' the population, more regulation will be embraced further crippling an already diminished manufacturing and production sector etc." [Full Column]

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