Magical Disinformation

Magical Disinformation
Author: Lachlan Page
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648966913

Discover Lachlan Page's Magical Disinformation: a spy action-thriller with a satirical edge set amongst the Colombian peace process. Described by one reviewer as "Our Man in Havana meets A Clear and Present Danger." Oliver Jardine is a spy in Colombia, enamoured with local woman Veronica Velasco. As the Colombian government signs a peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas, Her Majesty's government decides a transfer is in order to focus on more pertinent theatres of operation. In a desperate attempt to remain in Colombia, Jardine begins to fabricate his intelligence reports. But the consequences soon take on a life of their own. In the era of 'fake news' in the land of magical realism, fiction can be just as dangerous as the truth.

Book of Lies

Book of Lies
Author: Metzger, Richard
Publisher: Disinformation Books
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1938875109

New package for a cult classic. First published in 2003, The Book of Lies was hailed as a 21st grimoire and instantly became a cult classic. Now reformatted for the next generation of magicians and all counterculture devotees, it gathers an unprecedented cabal of occultists, esoteric scholars, and forward thinkers, all curated by Disinformation's former "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger. This compendium of the occult includes entries on topics as diverse and dangerous as Aleister Crowley, Secret Societies, Psychedelics, and Magick in theory and practice. The result is an alchemical formula that may well rip a hole in the fabric of your reality: Terence McKenna asks if we contact "aliens" with the smokable drug DMT Daniel Pinchbeck recounts his psychedelic and magical experiences Techgnosis author Eric Davis writes about H.P. Lovecraft Robert Anton Wilson writes about the similarities between Aleister Crowley and Timothy Leary Donald Tyson's "The Enochian Apocalypse Working" ask if the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era. Other contributors or subjects written about include Brian Barritt, Vere Chappell, Ida Craddock, Joe Coleman, Nevill Drury, Stephen Edred Flowers, T. Allen Greenfield, Gary Lachman, Anton Lavey, Peter Levenda, Grant Morrison, Michael Moynihan, Rosaleen Norton, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Tracy Twyman. It's all here and more!

Magic for Liars

Magic for Liars
Author: Sarah Gailey
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250174600

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey. Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life – or at least, she’s perfectly fine. She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister. Ivy Gamble is a liar. When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister—without losing herself. “An unmissable debut.”—Adrienne Celt, author of Invitation to a Bonfire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Abuse Your Illusions

Abuse Your Illusions
Author: Russ Kick
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1609258789

The third of Russ Kick’s bestselling Disinformation Guides gathers another all-star line-up of exposés: Juries have ruled in recent trials that Watergate was really about a Democratic Party prostitution ring. Ignored in the U.S. and distorted elsewhere, the Milosevic tribunal hasn’t gone the way authorities were anticipating. (We present exclusive first-hand reporting from the trial). Most theologians don’t believe in the physical Resurrection of Jesus. In 2001, the U.S. uncovered the biggest spy ring in the country since WWII, yet most people never heard about it. The U.S. is engaging in bioweapons research that violates international treaties and federal law. (The New York Times knows about this but refuses to report it). Teddy Roosevelt and Wall Street created Panama for profit. Gandhi wasn’t so wonderful, after all. These are just some of the revelations in the third of our all-star anthologies. Following up on bestsellers You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, editor Russ Kick has again assembled a line-up of leading investigative journalists, academics, activists, commentators, and independent researchers, covering CIA assassinations, the anthrax attacks, fluoride, TWA 800, Abraham Lincoln, child protective services, the tobacco industry, forgotten uprisings, the government's missing trillions, even more revelations about 9/11 and much more. Contributors include Gary Webb, Greg Palast, Noreena Hertz, Howard Zinn, Douglas Valentine, Jim Hougan, Kristina Borjesson, Arianna Huffington and many more well-known writers—some of whom you’ll be extremely surprised to see in these pages!

Magical Imaginations

Magical Imaginations
Author: Genevieve Guenther
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442642416

In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration, ' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of the period - including Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare - negotiated this troubling link between poetry and magic in their attempts to transform readers and audiences with the power of art. Through analyses of texts ranging from sermons and theological treatises to medical tracts and legal documents, Genevieve Guenther sheds new light on magic as a cultural practice in early modern England. She demonstrates that magic was a highly pragmatic, even cynical endeavor infiltrating unexpected spheres - including Elizabethan taxation policy and Jacobean political philosophy. With this new understanding of early modern magic, and a fresh context for compelling readings of classic literary works, Magical Imaginations reveals the central importance of magic to English literary history.

Transhumanism

Transhumanism
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: David Livingstone
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2015-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1515232573

Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man’s right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance human physical and intellectual potential. While the name is new, the idea has long been a popular theme of science fiction, featured in such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, the Terminator series, and more recently, The Matrix, Limitless, Her and Transcendence. However, as its adherents hint at in their own publications, transhumanism is an occult project, rooted in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and derived from the Kabbalah, which asserts that humanity is evolving intellectually, towards a point in time when man will become God. Modeled on the medieval legend of the Golem and Frankenstein, they believe man will be able to create life itself, in the form of living machines, or artificial intelligence. Spearheaded by the Cybernetics Group, the project resulted in both the development of the modern computer and MK-Ultra, the CIA’s “mind-control” program. MK-Ultra promoted the “mind-expanding” potential of psychedelic drugs, to shape the counterculture of the 1960s, based on the notion that the shamans of ancient times used psychoactive substances, equated with the “apple” of the Tree of Knowledge. And, as revealed in the movie Lucy, through the use of “smart drugs,” and what transhumanists call “mind uploading,” man will be able to merge with the Internet, which is envisioned as the end-point of Kabbalistic evolution, the formation of a collective consciousness, or Global Brain. That awaited moment is what Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, refers to as The Singularly. By accumulating the total of human knowledge, and providing access to every aspect of human activity, the Internet will supposedly achieve omniscience, becoming the “God” of occultism, or the Masonic All-Seeing Eye of the reverse side of the American dollar bill.

The Politics of the Empire

The Politics of the Empire
Author: Ronnie Lee
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 1294
Release:
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This is my 15th philosophy and poetry book. It delves into the political truths of the modern era that covers different ideologies and enters the realms of the spiritual and magical that opens up new insights into the strategies of the grandmasters of politics. This book will explain the history of politics of the elites and their plans of their New World Order. With other topics included in this book from religion, existentialism, business and science, there is a fountain of knowledge for people who want to understand a universal and coherent philosophy of politics.

The Smuggler's Apprentice of Guatemala

The Smuggler's Apprentice of Guatemala
Author: Lachlan Page
Publisher: WJ Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2023-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648966968

From the author of Magical Disinformation and The General of Caracas comes a quirky, addictive spy novella about a backpacker who is recruited by MI6 to uncover a smuggling network. In London, the clandestine digital corridors of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) are thrown open as a list of intelligence officers is leaked online. With the identities of intelligence officers blown, and a secretive smuggling network developing in Guatemala, MI6 decides to recruit a British national already on the ground. Someone young, someone with street smarts, someone who already knows the language, and the lie of the land. Enter: Oliver Jardine, a backpacker currently working for an NGO in the highlands of central Guatemala. What happens next sets in motion a series of events that sees Jardine propelled into the world of international espionage as he is drawn deep into a web of contraband, secrets, and danger in the jungles of Guatemala. Only he has no idea what he’s doing. Based on a true story, a spy novella that’ll leave you wanting more. For fans of Mick Herron, Ross Thomas, and Ian Fleming. A perfect 2-hour short read in the spy genre. Praise for THE SMUGGLER'S APPRENTICE OF GUATEMALA "Compelling and immersive, THE SMUGGLER'S APPRENTICE OF GUATEMALA is a novella that proceeds at breakneck speed, not allowing the reader to draw breath until the final page has been devoured. Lachlan Page is a master storyteller!"—Awais Khan, award-winning author of NO HONOUR and SOMEONE LIKE HER “Lachlan Page’s trademark light satire and phenomenal sense of place have never been more front-and-center than in this fast-paced romp. The Smuggler’s Apprentice of Guatemala is a splendid, bite-sized riff on the spy genre.” —Stephen England, Author of the Shadow Warriors series "An intriguing, comical spy novella."—ARC Reviewer

COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective

COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective
Author: Ritu Gill
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030948250

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and preparing to face adversaries willing to exploit the public health crisis for nefarious purposes. The current pandemic is a breeding ground for the propagation of disinformation, as it represents the first major global health event in which large social media platforms have become the main distributor of information. This multi-national edited volume consists of contributions from Defence Science, academia and industry, including NATO Headquarters, United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and Norway. The content is aimed at a diverse audience, including NATO members, researchers from defence and security organizations, academics, and militaries including analysts and practitioners, as well as policy makers. This volume focuses on various aspects of COVID-19 disinformation, including identifying global dominant disinformation narratives and the methods used to spread disinformation, examining COVID-19 disinformation within the broader context of the cognitive domain, examining the psychological effects of COVID-19 disinformation and COVID-19 disinformation on instant messaging platforms, along with examining various countermeasures to disinformation.