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This is the true story of a naive hippie caught up in the Montreal-Jamaica drug scene of the 1970s. He seeks help from sketchy locals when a contract killer shows up to take him out. The Montreal underworld in the 70s and 80s was shared between the West End Gang, the Dubois brothers, the Italian mafia and biker gangs. This lucky Irish-Canadian kid miraculously survived to tell his story, while most of the people he knew are dead or locked up for life.The reader can enjoy a romp through the scary and life-altering experiences of the author (including time in a Jamaican prison) as he navigates the ‘wild west’ days of the drug trafficking scene between Montreal and Jamaica in the 1970s. One man’s miracle of survival illuminates the history behind the drug and gang exploits we read about in the news today.

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In the following we examine the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives, as it becomes ubiquitous to our society, from the perspective of security and failure.  What happens when the glammed up marketing claims of AI companies encounter the true colors of reality of how AI systems really work, what the outcomes really will be?  This is an inquiry into how engineering can go catastrophically wrong in pursuit of profits, but not just in economic terms but in even graver terms to the extreme of even driving all of humanity into a collective insanity of what is known as epistemic instability, when beliefs become uncoupled from true interpretations and become mere fantasies pushed into truth by pure peer pressure of machines operating at a speed and scale no human institutions can keep up with to dispel the falsehoods, the age of autonomous influence operations.  Then understand that those falsehoods are not someone’s desire to control or rule the world, but can be simply emergent out of the technology itself, rather than human driven desires for property, power and prestige, for conspiracy theorists: that perhaps the deep state is nothing more then an emergent process of technology, an emergent AI.  On the one hand we have ways to undermine our existence through planned means and on the other hand we have ways to destroy ourselves through emergent means of the technology itself, that catastrophe is endogenous to the systems we have created to avert catastrophe, a systems design issue, not an issue of malice, greed, or conquest. Yet, it is also a story about cyber criminal gangs and the greater existential threat they pose through this new magnitude of AI technology and what it can do, from social engineering for phishing to trading manipulation, not to mention the occasional job for authoritarian regimes. 

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In this comprehensive biography of Hitler, dozens of well-known and lesser-known jews come to the fore – individuals who played a role in the dictator’s private life. Many of them were protected by him from the threat of ending up in a concentration camp. Hitler not only had Jewish staff members, but even Jewish friends and mistresses. This book contains no fiction; it is the result of a large-scale, rigorously sourced investigation based on hundreds of historical references. The author is an expert in the history of the Third Reich. 

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Totalitarianism has never been radically examined from the perspective of a disease of civilization, a collective delusional pathology in the realm of psychopathology, with the ramifications that follow. This is what Ariane Bilheran proposes in this psychological and philosophical essay on total power in politics. She demonstrates that totalitarianism is a paranoiac system in which perverse, sadistic, transgressive, and psychopathic pathologies are glorified. Survival of such a system depends onfoundational lie maintained in secrecy, the indoctrination of the masses into ideology, and the deliberate disorientation of individuals and groups — leading to traumatic shock, pleasure for some, and horror for others. The book emphasizes the pathological alliance between paranoia and perversion, used to sever human bonds and destroy subjectivity, as well as the bodies of individuals, reduced to the status of instruments, objects, inert and interchangeable commodities, or worse, waste to be eliminated. Anyone is susceptible to being swept up in the delusional contagion, the mechanisms of which are explained here in detail.  Through this profound journey into the madness of power that contaminates the masses, the author also delves into genuine spiritual experiences that arose from within the inferno, as manifestations of a human cry that encounters freedom at the very heart of despair.

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For thirty-four years, Benjamin Cummings carried a promise in his heart — a solemn vow made to his dying friend, Willie Nelson Jr., to tell the truth about what really happened. I Always Had to Live Up to Being Willie’s Boy is that truth.Told by the Lakota man who tried to save him, this remarkable memoir unveils the rarely seen world behind the legend — a place where fame, addiction, and heritage collide. Cummings and “Billie” Nelson, both born of mixed Native blood, were bound by music, pain, and the shared struggle to walk the Red Road of sobriety. Their friendship began through a benefit concert for the first Native-owned public radio station, KILI, and deepened as Cummings became the older brother Billie never had — witnessing his turbulent life on the margins of stardom and the circumstances that led to his tragic end.Spanning decades of Native activism, the Nashville music scene, and the quiet heartbreak of a family divided by fame, Willie’s Boy is a raw, deeply human story about loyalty, loss, and the redemptive power of truth. Online Description: For thirty-four years, Benjamin Cummings carried a promise in his heart — a solemn vow made to his dying friend, Willie Nelson Jr., to tell the truth about what really happened. Told by the Lakota man who tried to save him, this remarkable memoir unveils the rarely seen world behind the legend — a place where fame, addiction, and heritage collide. Cummings and “Billie” Nelson, both born of mixed Native blood, were bound by music, pain, and the shared struggle to walk the Red Road of sobriety. Their friendship began through a benefit concert for the first Native-owned public radio station, KILI, and deepened as Cummings became the older brother Billie never had — witnessing his turbulent life on the margins of stardom and the circumstances that led to his tragic end.Spanning decades of Native activism, the Nashville music scene, and the quiet heartbreak of a family divided by fame, Willie’s Boy is a raw, deeply human story about loyalty, loss, and the redemptive power of truth.

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What drives us to save, sort, and treasure the things we cannot bear to lose? In Collectors: The Guardians of the Physical and Virtual Worlds, D. J. O. Callahan explores one of the most universal—yet least understood—human behaviors: the impulse to collect. From ancient seeds and stone tools to rare artifacts, fine art, and the vast, invisible archives of digital data, collecting is revealed as far more than a hobby—it is a force that shapes civilization itself. Blending storytelling, history, psychology, and sharp cultural insight, Callahan traces how collectors have preserved knowledge, influenced economies, and even altered the course of human progress. Along the way, he uncovers the passions, rivalries, and responsibilities that define those who gather and guard the world’s most meaningful objects—and ideas. But in an age dominated by smartphones, cloud storage, and endless streams of information, the nature of collecting is undergoing a profound transformation. What happens when the boundaries of time, space, and scarcity disappear? And what does it mean to “own” anything in a world where everything can be copied, stored, and shared instantly? Provocative and wide-ranging, Collectors is a journey into the heart of human desire—revealing how what we choose to save ultimately defines who we are, what we value, and what we leave behind.  

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