Born Again

   My friend sent me that clip about the strange story of James Leininger which may be was born with the skill of connecting souls with the American WW2 Pilot James Huston who was killed at 1945, do you believe in reincarnation?. We heard some evidences like that
I recommend reading his story  Soul Survivor written by his parents Bruce and Andrea Leininger. The parents of James Leininger were first puzzled and then disturbed when their two-year-old son began screaming out chilling phrases during recurrent nightmares, such as, "Plane on fire!  Little man can't get out!" The centerpiece of a loving family of three, James was a happy, playful toddler who had only just begun stringing together sentences.  Determined to understand what was happening to their son, Bruce and Andrea set off on a journey of discovery that was to rock them to their core.  For the more they researched the arcane comments and fragmented details little James revealed, the more they were drawn inescapably to a shocking conclusion:  that James was reliving the life of James Huston, a World War II fighter pilot who was killed in the battle for Iwo Jima--over 60 years ago!  - Source

Readers Corner - The Jungle

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

   About thirty years passed since I read some of Upton Sinclair great novels The Jungle, Oil, King Coal and The Flivver King. My Aunt had passed away and her son told me to come over and pick all her books. Going through them I came across two books: The Jungle and Oil, which were directed to my to read tasks. I started reading The Jungle Upton Sinclair looks to be a socialist fighting for the workers rights. Nowadays we are again in a need for leaders like him, cause once again the middle class people start to smell the shit those big shots are spreading around us. Remember, our savings are within the big robbers which are always hungry and greedy.    
    The story tells us about the daily struggles in surviving in America.  Every day, workers have to fight to keep their jobs. If a strong worker falls, another wage-slave will take over his place. Jurvis and his family immigrated from Lithuania, and are now working for the meat industry of Chicago. He was young and strong and when the union man asked him to join the socialist movement he laughed. But very soon he himself slip down the hill. and then he became very fast part of the socialism party of the states. His story and the details of the work condition of the food industry brought a very huge change at the first decade of the twenty century.

So all of you hear the Sixteen Ton song which summarized the faith of the wage slaves, which work hard for the company, but they must spent all their income in the company stores.
   The Jungle was the first of many other novels fighting for the workers rights. John Steinbeck in his great novel The Grapes of Wrath used also that narrative. The companies were greedy and were treating the workers like slaves without any rights, they were fighting the workers strikes by brutal methods. So don't fell asleep or they will push us back to those dark days.
Now a days you may read The Jungle for free here 

Readers Corner - The House Of God

The House of God - by Samuel Shem

    Last month I was pretty busy around the clock visiting the hospitals in an out. My mother complained of difficulty to breath, we picked an ambulance and came to the emergency department at about 8:00 a.m. and after less than two minutes the whole medical staff started acting very professionally. They hooked her to the monitoring equipment, an oxygen supply, and then it was the young doctor who examined her and then stuck the needle in her vein to draw a little blood for lab tests. Of course he wasn't skilled enough so after several trials he called another doctor. Okay I will stop describing it at the end my Mom was lucky cause they succeeded drawing the required amount of blood. Now we went for some X rays and so on.

    At 10:00 a.m. the chief of the emergency department with his staff walked around checking the patients. The chief asked the junior about my Mom's problem and he muttered some Latin terminology. After the visit was over I asked the doctor what's next and he told him we need to wait for the lung specialist. Now I told him that last time she had the same problem and the doctor ordered to suck her lungs. The doctor looked at me and asked me about my occupation at that moment I remembered the same episode which appeared in the hilarious book I read almost thirty years ago. I asked the young doctor did you read the novel "The House of God"? "yep" he replied, "it's one of the recommended books at the university.

   The House of God is a satirical novel about the relationship between young and Inexperienced doctors and their elderly patients which were called GOMERS Get Out of My Emergency Room.
which means the doctor must do the best to get rid of the patient as soon as possible. 
    I wish you good health but next time you arrive to the emergency department, you better know how to behave with the staff so they are not going to give you a run around the hospital departments (you are a GOMER even if you are a wealthy patient, in a private hospital).
   The Storyline Dr. Roy Basch is an intelligent, naive intern working in a hospital called the House of God after completing his medical studies. He is poorly prepared for the grueling hours and the sudden responsibilities without good guidance from senior attending physicians. He commences the year on a rotation supervised by an enigmatic, iconoclastic and wise senior resident who goes by the name The Fat Man. The Fat Man teaches him that the only way to keep the patients in good health and to survive psychologically is to break the official rules. The Fat Man provides his interns with wisdom such as his own "Laws of the House of God" (which amount to 13 by the end of the book). One of his teachings is that in the House of God, most of the diagnostic procedures, treatments, and medications that are received by the patients known as "gomers" (see Glossary, below) actually harm these patients instead of helping them. Basch becomes convinced of the accuracy of the Fat Man's advice and begins to follow it. Because he follows the Fat Man's advice and does nothing to the gomers, they remain in good health. Therefore, ironically his team is recognized as one of the best in the hospital, and he is recognized as an excellent intern by everyone, even though he is breaking the rules.
Source   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_God 

Hospital Funny clips

Readers Corner

Fight Club  by Chuck Palahniuk

    The riots which burst out in the Arab Countries Libya, Egypt, actually started in Greece, moved to France and then to Tunisia. The main incentive that leads the crowd is rage. That's the reason for my recommendation for reading this novel. The Crowd really does not care, about their regime, they understand that the next regime may be worse (I like calling it replacing a mule by a donkey). The young people which participate the demonstrations are eager to fight against the Police and the Army, the insight of most teenager is desire for chaos. Non violent demonstrations, are not for young people, their parents maybe will participate non violent resist, the young people nature is resisting the world order. I believe that anarchist elements are lighting the riots, just to resist the authorities. Most of the crowd is not going to gain anything after wards, they crowded the streets because of the herd phenomenon. The crowd will continue struggling the raising prices, unemployment and boring life. According to my opinion the core message (rage and frustration) of the novel Fight Club is similar of what the crowd feels.

    I read the book first and then I saw the film Fight Club (starring Brad Pitt), the film began as a financial failure but right after Sep11,2001 it became a cult Film. With the first news at that awful morning Sep11,2001 at first I thought "here are the results of the Anarchists hidden cells". And I thought about Fight Club motifs. Maybe we are lucky Al-Qa`eda was responsible for these attacks and not the Anarchists!!!. I recommend to watch first the Film, and after to read the book.

p.s If you are under 29 years old, buy also a Punching Bag, and release  your revolutionary spirit and or Anarchist ideas into energy punching the bag. Riots are not made for geeks.

Fight Club Trailer

 

Readers Corner

Johnny Got His Gun- Dalton Trumbo  
    My first book recommendation will be "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. This book
belongs to a list of a few anti-war books, about a soldier of the Great War (WW I) mortally wounded, laying in a military hospital revealing his life story. For me the core idea of the book is based on the American Civil War, Johnny the hero, which returned home as a cripple. The famous ballad "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1863) was the first anti-war protests.  The original ballad "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" was tailored to the nice ballad "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".

   This book has been with me since 1972. I read it once in a while, so this morning during rearranging my library I found this book. I began reading and the memories of the Vietnam War set me back to those days. Which the American people had protested many years till that bloodshed bath stopped.
    
   For the readers convenience I set the trailer for the movie based on that novel.
That movie failed Financially but can be found now on DVD format.

   The band Metallica performed one of the first video songs "ONE" in 1989 which uses scenes from the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" and this push again this book to the readers.

   After you either read this book or watch the movie, you are gonna scream
"No More War - No More Bloodshed", so then all your friends will join and the people all over the
world will scream too "No More War - No More Bloodshed".
I believe that the protest of the crowd now moves from the streets to the web. The leaders should be forced stop sending their troops fighting for honor and treasures!!!