Interesting Free Books in PDF

[Ewan]

Posted by uzn (here)
How about 4,71 GB of new UFO sightings (mainly 2015-2016) and a whole Collection of UFO books? Of course as always dont forget your little bag with the grain of salt in it.
It´s a Torrentlink so you need a Client like µTorrent (utorrent.com).
https://concen.org/sites/default/fil...ack%5D.torrent

Just checked it. If you are using Tixati you can select items within the torrent individually, so it is possible to d/l just the .PDF files without the over 4Gb of video.

[Innocent Warrior]

http://solucaoperfeita.com/wp-conten...r-of-HABIT.pdf

[Ewan]

http://bookzz.org/book/1201916/98f275

[Magnus]

Reveille for Radicals (1946) by Saul D. Alinsky [.PDF]





Rules for Radicals (1971) by Saul D. Alinsky [.PDF]





Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution (2009) by David Horowitz [.PDF]

[Ewan]

Crisis of Character (PDF) Gary J. Byrne

Audio book posted in Avalon Library here

Had to jump through hoops to get this.

https://mega.nz/#!MZ5XnZYS!HWAWJXMb3...7XynK-gSm9oax8

Important? Is it worth considering trying to implement a policy of copying the link into a new browser tab/window so all download traffic does not appear from Project Avalon?

[Bill Ryan]

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Thanks For The Memories, by Brice Taylor

http://files.meetup.com/562554/Brice...20memories.pdf

[Hazelfern]

Posted by Ewan (here)
Crisis of Character (PDF) Gary J. Byrne

Audio book posted in Avalon Library here

Had to jump through hoops to get this.

https://mega.nz/#!MZ5XnZYS!HWAWJXMb3...7XynK-gSm9oax8

Important? Is it worth considering trying to implement a policy of copying the link into a new browser tab/window so all download traffic does not appear from Project Avalon?

Thank you! Needed something juicy to sink my teeth into- and for the link back to the mp3.

[Innocent Warrior]

Books by Philip K. Dick, a writer of fiction but his Metz speech below adds an intriguing dimension to his stories -

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRAllViVdzw

The Man In The High Castle
The web series by the same title is an adaptation of this book.

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The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Vol. 4: The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories

Stories included in this volume -
SERVICE CALL
CAPTIVE MARKET
THE MOLD OF YANCY
THE MINORITY REPORT - The movie "Minority Report" is an adaptation of this story.
RECALL MECHANISM
THE UNRECONSTRUCTED M EXPLORERS WE
WAR GAME
IF THERE WERE No BENNY CEMOLI NOVELTY ACT
WATERSPIDER
WHAT THE DEAD MEN SAY
ORPHEUS WITH CLAY FEET
THE DAYS OF PERKY PAT
STAND-BY
WHAT'LL WE Do WITH RAGLAND PARK?
OH, TO BE A BLOBEL!

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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
The movie "Blade Runner" is an adaptation of this book.

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Adjustment Team
"The Adjustment Bureau" movie is an adaptation of this book.

[Ewan]

Would anyone less concerned with Google and their pervasive scripts than I am care to get THIS me and share elsewhere. Apologies for my stubborness tinged with paranoia.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.

[EFO]

Posted by Ewan (here)
Would anyone less concerned with Google and their pervasive scripts than I am care to get THIS me and share elsewhere. Apologies for my stubborness tinged with paranoia.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.

Movie would be ok?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qKvfM7eMRXU

[Johnny]

Posted by Ewan (here)
Would anyone less concerned with Google and their pervasive scripts than I am care to get THIS me and share elsewhere. Apologies for my stubborness tinged with paranoia.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.

http://l-adam-mekler.com/angelou_i-know-why.pdf

Johnny

[Ewan]

Thanks to both of you, much appreciated.

[ponda]

Don't know if this has already been posted but here it is anyway.

THE ARTILECT WAR - Cosmists vs. Terrans

A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines

by Hugo de GARIS, Ph.D.

https://profhugodegaris.files.wordpr...rtilectwar.pdf






This book's main idea is that this century's global politics will be dominated by the "species dominance" issue. 21st century technologies will enable the building of artilects (artificial intellects, artificial intelligences, massively intelligent machines) with 1040 components, using reversible, heatless, 3D, molecular scale, self assembling, one bit per atom, nano-teched, quantum computers, which may dwarf human intelligence levels by a factor of trillions of trillions and more.
The question that will dominate global politics this century will be whether humanity should or should not build these artilects. Those in favor of building them are called "Cosmists" in this book, due to their "cosmic" perspective. Those opposed to building them are called "Terrans," as in "terra," the Earth, which is their perspective. The Cosmists will want to build artilects, amongst other reasons, because to them it will be a religion, a scientist's religion that is compatible with modern scientific knowledge.

The Cosmists will feel that humanity has a duty to serve as the stepping-stone towards building the next dominant rung of the evolutionary ladder. Not to do so would be a tragedy on a cosmic scale to them. The Cosmists will claim that stopping such an advance will be counter to human nature, since human beings have always striven to extend their boundaries. Another Cosmist argument is that once the artificial brain based computer market dominates the world economy, economic and political forces in favor of building advanced artilects will be almost unstoppable. The Cosmists will include some of the most powerful, the richest, and the most brilliant of the Earth's citizens, who will devote their enormous abilities to seeing that the artilects get built. A similar argument applies to the military and its use of intelligent weaponry. Neither the commercial nor the military sectors will be willing to give up artilect research unless they are subjected to extreme Terran pressure.

To the Terrans, building artilects will mean taking the risk that the latter may one day decide to exterminate human beings, either deliberately or through indifference. The only certain way to avoid such a risk is not to build them in the first place. The Terrans will argue that human beings will fear the rise of increasingly intelligent machines and their alien differences. To build artilects will require an "evolutionary engineering" approach. The resulting complexities of the evolved structures that underlie the artilects will be too great for human beings to be able to predict the behaviors and attitudes of the artilects towards human beings. The Terrans will be prepared to destroy the Cosmists, even on a distant Cosmist colony, if the Cosmists go ahead with an advanced artilect building program.

In the short to middle term, say the next 50 years or so, the artificial brain based industries will flourish, providing products that are very useful and very popular with the public, such as teacher robots, conversation robots, household cleaner robots, etc. In time, the world economy will be based on such products. Any attempt to stop the development of increasingly intelligent artilects will be very difficult, because the economic and political motivation to continue building them will be very strong in certain circles. If the brain-based computer industries were to stop their research and development into artilects, then many powerful individuals, including the artilect company presidents and certain politicians will lose big money and political influence. They will not give up their status without a fight.

However, as the intelligence levels of the early artilects increases, it will become obvious to everyone that the intelligence gap between these artificial-brain-based products and human beings is narrowing. This will create a growing public anxiety. Eventually, some nasty incident or series of incidents will galvanize most of society against further increase of artificial intelligence in the artilects, leading to the establishment of a global ban on artilect research.

The Cosmists however, will oppose a ban on the development of more intelligent artilects, and will probably go underground. If the incidents continue and are negative enough, the anger and hatred of the Terrans towards the Cosmists will increase to the point where the Cosmists may decide that their fate is to leave the Earth, an option that is quite realistic with 21st century technology.

Since the Cosmists will include some of the most brilliant and economically powerful people on the planet, they will probably create an elite conspiratorial organization whose aim is to build artilects secretly.

The book presents a scenario in which the Cosmists create an asteroid-based colony, masked by some innocuous activity. In reality, this secret society devises a weapon system superior to the best on the Earth. With their wealth and the best human brains, this may be achievable. They will also start making advanced artilects. If the Terrans on the Earth discover the true intentions of the Cosmists, they will probably want to destroy them, but not dare to because of the counter threat of the Cosmists with their more advanced weapons. The stage is thus set for a major 21st century war in which billions of people die - "gigadeath."

This horrific number is derived from an extrapolation up the graph of the number of deaths in major wars from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the 21st century. Approximately 200 million people died in the 20th century, for political reasons -- wars, purges, genocides, etc.

The profound schizophrenia that the author feels on the Cosmist/Terran species dominance issue will be felt by millions of people within a few years he expects. There is probably Cosmist and Terran in nearly all of us, which may explain why this issue is so divisive. The author is simply one of the first to feel this schizophrenia. Within a decade it may be all over the planet.

The last chapter of the book closes with a repetition of a pithy slogan that summarizes the two main viewpoints in the artilect debate in a nutshell; a debate that the author believes will be raging in the coming decades.

"Do we build gods, or do we build our potential exterminators?"

[CaptnNemo]

Hi,

Anybody has this one ?

Anonymous: A Former CIA Agent Comes Out of the Shadows



Thank you & happy new year all!!

[neil]

Heya all,
Im looking for Convoluted Universe Book V if anyone has it and would like to share

[noprophet]

Victor Pelevin - Buddha's Little Finger (aka Clay Machine-Gun)
http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader...tle_Finger.pdf

The novel is written as a first-person narrative of Pyotr Pustota (English: Pyotr Voyd) and in the introduction to this book it is claimed that unlike Dmitriy Furmanov's book Chapayev, this book is the truth.

The book is set in two different times — after the October Revolution and in modern Russia. In the post-revolutionary period, Pyotr Pustota is a poet who has fled from Saint Petersburg to Moscow and who takes up the identity of a Soviet political commissar and meets a strange man named Vasily Chapayev who is some sort of an army commander. He spends his days drinking samogon, taking drugs and talking about the meaning of life with Chapayev.

Every night (according to his post-revolutionary life) Pustota has nightmares about him being locked up in a psychiatric hospital because of his beliefs of being a poet from the beginning of the century. He shares the room in the hospital with three other men, each with his very individual form of fake identity.

Until the end of the book it isn't perfectly clear, which of Pyotr's identities is the real one and whether there is such a thing as a real identity at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_and_Void

[Ewan]

Posted by neil (here)
Heya all,
Im looking for Convoluted Universe Book V if anyone has it and would like to share

There have been several requests for this book previously, to date no-one seems to have found a copy. (That I'm aware of).

[RunningDeer]

"Propaganda", Edward Bernays - "...became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education."

"To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses."

• pdf - “Propaganda,” Edward Bernays
• Propaganda quotes
• audio book

Summary:

“Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.

Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.

This is the first reprint of Propaganda in over 30 years and features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.

[RunningDeer]

free eBook from January 15th -19th

“The Common Sense Revolution: Creating Common Ground and Genuine Common Sense,”
by Endall Beall & The Psoyca Crew

Summary:

The Common Sense Revolution is a call for reclaiming our common sense as a species. This book highlights some of the more relevant issues that face humanity as a species and the book's authors are providing some common sense solutions to these issues, first and foremost being a call to develop a sense of species common sense which has been eroded almost into non-existence.

We face a multitude of problems as a species and this book is by no means exhaustive in bringing all of these problems to light, but instead focuses on issues that are prevalent worldwide, most particularly in Western technological societies.

Humanity has been systematically divided into so many opposing camps that our very survival as a species is threatened in the midst of a very contrived destruction of our cultures. The destruction of any real common sense based on finding common ground between the Earth's inhabitants poses the greatest threat humanity have ever faced.

This book not only focuses on certain problems that face the world as a whole, but also points out who is behind the destruction of world cultures and what their ultimate agenda is. These entities are not all-powerful and the authors feel that a major infusion of common sense to the population at large can offer the solutions to the hidden tyranny that is revealed in this book. You are not powerless and this book provides a way out of the tyrannical quagmire provided people can and will find the self-motivation to turn it all around.

Doug Michael YouTube

The Common Sense Revolution: Independence with Responsibility

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CGm9nidzScg

Published on Jan 1, 2017

In this segment, Doug discusses the idea of a Common sense revolution through cognitive advancement. He introduces concepts for creating a new paradigm free from tyranny, based on civility, mutual respect and personal responsibility.

[uzn]

Thanks Innocent Warrior, have always been a great fan of Phillip K. Dick.

Here some Bookcandy for ya all.

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The Secret of the Temple Earth Energies, Sacred Geometry, and the Lost Keys of Freemasonry by John Michael Greer
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