Ray's X-Blog

Illuminati?  Prove it. I don't buy into the Mega–Conspiracy theory that states one organization at the top controls almost every little detail below; everything is planned, there is no "accidental" history. There is what I call the free marketplace of conspiracies, large and small ones that can overlap, work with or against each other depending upon circumstances. The book, Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (2012) , is based upon secret material investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld pried lose from the FBI through FOIA (Freedom of Information Act).  He documents what was really going on behind the scenes in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. At that time Governor Ronald Reagan was working with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to suppress the student protests.  They didn't like university president Clark Kerr who they perceived wasn't standing up to the studen...

Some zine creators who still work mainly with dead trees call their medium the papernet, a response to the popularity of the internet. I have no problem switching between mediums, using either paper or photons. There are those who in paperzinedom who see the internet as a threat.  I don't. And there are a few who see the internet as the only way to communicate.  I don't. But the world of hardcopy isn't as important as it was in the past.  Digital offers benefits that paper can't match. I managed to save up enough money to finally buy a computer tablet (an Android, not Apple; I'm not a yuppie or have yuppie funds).   It's a seven inch tablet, portable and lightweight enough that I can easily take it with me to a wi-fi spot to download articles and posts from the Web.  Later I can lie in bed and read all the stuff as if it was contained in a large but thin paperback book. Now I have less print-outs adding to the mass of material that is taking over ...