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
Sound Wall When?!--Part 1
“the quiet enjoyment of one’s property”
by Brian Wright

Joan Barber has been living on the edge for 30 years—the edge of a good share of the issues of suburban sprawl (or should we call it suburban maul?): eminent domain, transportation autocracies, congestion, and noise. Especially, noise!! (70-75 decibels continuous depending on the time of day.)

In 1959 she and her husband, Bob, moved into the historic farm property passed down to him from his mother, descended from one of the region’s founding families. The area—on the far northwest boundary of Detroit—was all farmland then. But progress was on the march: the Eisenhower-era Interstate-Highway Juggernaut, (certainly one of the largest corporate-welfare projects in history) had come to Michigan: the state that made the automobile mandatory. [Full Column]

Excerpt of Review

Dr. Strangelove (1964):
Harbinger of 2012 October? ___ 10/10

The subtitle for Dr. Strangelove is ‘How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.’ The form of which I find comes in handy for any number of acts of state excess: e.g. “how I learned to stop worrying and love drone surveillance,” “how I learned to stop worrying and love my RFID biochip,” “how I learned to stop worrying and love my FEMA internment camp”… you get the picture. In the 1950s and 1960s the threat of ‘nukuler war toe to toe with the Rooskies’ was a constant anxiety among all segments of American society, and no doubt other countries in the line of fire. It sure the hell scared the hell out of me. [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

Whackjobs for War vs. Iran
America Gone Stupid Over Iran [1] – An Analysis
by Lawrence Davidson

An excellent column sent my way via Gerhard Fuerst, occasional contributor to these pages. The alert liberals are usually on top of the threats to peace; I only wish more than a handful would come out and admit they were wrong about Obama. Not so much for voting for him in 2008, but for thinking he hasn’t brutally betrayed every shred of support he showed for peace, civil liberties, and even a semblance of economic sanity. Again, due to the urgency of the message, this column is an excerpt without asking for direct approval from the author. He of course retains all rights to the piece. [Full Column]

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We American libertarians live in a time when the U.S. is at perpetual war, the airports have become dystopian, the prison system is the most populated on earth, the president claims the authority to kill anyone, torture persists, surveillance is unrestrained by the Fourth Amendment, Keynesianism has its grip on the entire establishment, and both political parties push an agenda worse than the one pushed last election cycle. People are jailed for selling milk. Nothing is off limits. — Anthony Gregory (http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory244.html)

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