A frightening read, Dobrien, and very important to understanding just what has been going on right under our noses for so long.

You have some of Atlas Shrugged plot occurring due to the Biden administration's strangulation of the energy industry, in the novel, it's the slow strangulation and government takeover of all major industries. The methodology is slightly different through a presidential order and insurmountable government regulation.
I have seen many more Teslas on the road, tourists and locals who maybe be good little Democrats.

I have read the book maybe 15 times over the past 50 years. But I was not very enthused by the movie. I thought it did not begin to do justice to the book. If another version is eventually done (for instance, after it passes into public domain), I hope it will express more the ideas of the book. (Of course, the idea of its going into public domain is kind of horrifying, considering the travesties that might be made of the book.)

The first movie was great. They deteriorated as I got to #2 and #3 unfortunately. The cast changed and it was obvious budgets were cut. I do my part to be like dagny and hank rearden, but its getting harder and I wish Galt woudl take me to Galts Gulth....

They are "more enjoyable" now...if that makes sense. Haha...

No honor among thieves is true , but through their groups and secret societies they do coordinate the efforts to enslave US and empower themselves. Groups like the CFR, bilderberg , the round table , the Atlantic council . The UN , the WEF, The WHO , skull and bones , the Illuminati, The Bohemian club, the Rosicrucians , the Vatican , the CIA , the Alpha club, phi beta kappa, ordo templi orientis, trilateral Group, to name a few.
They are Quite organized at the top imo.

The hidden truth is that most seem to believe it’s a united cabal conspiring against us. It’s actually very disjointed. These same globalists will fuck each other over for a higher percentage. There is no honor amongst thieves. What ever Henry Ford’s big ball of money is attempting to do it is only coincidence when it’s goals align with Rockefeller’s or Rothschild’s or Soro’s. If I had ALL those resources under my singular control it’d be over by now. And you’d all eat bugs and be happy.
It’s a huge chess game. And we are like pawns. Actually we may not even be pawns. We are the felt on the bottom of the pawns to them. Of no consequence except when we don’t allow the pawns to slide as freely.
Our “elected” politicians are merely shadows on Plato’s cave wall. I suspected as much with Baby Bush. But, Brandon is the empirical evidence that proves the assertion.

I'm not young (55) and never was sexy, but I have always been capable. Part of the problem I have had before reading Atlas Shrugged in 2008/2009 was that my then business provided a product to assuage environmentalist guilt by converting hydrocarbon wastes into chemicals at a tidy profit. Now I know that the world is corrupt, broken, soulless, and clueless. The looter leaders are not clueless, however; the Floyd Ferrises of the world know exactly what they are doing. Dagny used to refer to John Galt as the destroyer, but it is the looters and the Floyd Ferrises who are the real destroyers.

Being competent in a world that is corrupt, broken, soulless, and clueless is tragic. The world needs inventors like me to disappear.

I knew about the Ford Foundation's efforts in that area, but I had no idea of the magnitude or just how sinister their efforts were.

So glad you have the background of the unAmerican activities of the Tax-exempt Foundations. To be clear the banking cartels are the managers of these foundations. It’s a small club and we are not in it. Quite frankly it’s not a club you would want to be in either.

You feel competent, young, sexy, capable in a world that is corrupt, broken, soulless, and clueless?

Good for you! :-)

Quite an interview with Norman Dodd!

+1 for the excellent book reference. I first learned about it here in the Gulch and I couldn't put it down when started reading it.

Thanks, DOBrien. I do inform students about G. Edward Griffin, but I didn't know about Norman Dodd.

If you have not seen the interview or the transcript of G Edward Griffin
interviewing the great Patriot Norman Dodd, here is the transcript ..http://http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/dod...
Here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RgRG...
If I was a professor, all of my students would be required to understand Dodd’s revelations.

You've got that right!

Excellent book. Very detailed evidence and analysis of probably one of the biggest globalist takeover plots in history.

Good point.

I'm not done yet, but I really want my university to be The Patrick Henry University,. Right now I feel more like Quentin Daniels of Utah Institute of Technology.

She escaped before that stage and it wasn't really known about until the Gulag Archipelago came out in the 70's

I thank you very much! I've downloaded the files and started looking through them. An enormous, but necessary work! I'm grateful there are still Americans like you! Reading through makes me really wish I was 20 again and was part of FIT and what you do. It's going to take a lot of hours to get through, but well worth it.

A great book on this is by Edward Griffin called The Creature from Jekyll Island.

We are already dealing with the Defense Production Act.

I put us 5 years from Directive 10-289.
I intend to be self employed by that time so.....not sure how they’re going to handle that in my case.

I have this fear you may be right, evlwhtguy. I'm still hoping the Patriots, whomever they may be, can get this ship turned around before it hits the proverbial iceberg. Ayn Rand never addressed the Gulag phase of socialist government - at least that I know of.