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Brendan Everingham

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Salient but a little inaccurate with regard to real-world politics.

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 19-12-2023

The book has some great points, it is highlighting some very real issues. As a child I owned my own car washing business at 10, and every weekend my brother and I would ride around town washing cars until our list was completed. Aching legs and sore arms we would then hunt rabbits and sell them to the butcher. we would also collect young pigeons from their nest and sell them to some guy who liked to eat pigeons. We didn't get pocket money, we didn't get youth allowance, we had to work for money if we wanted anything at all.

In our spare time we would go fishing by the river, all we needed to do was say we were going to the creek and we'd be expected to be back before dark, get out of the house in fact, don't come back until dark. It was encouraged at times.

Now imagine a 10 year old today being allowed to go to the park by themselves let alone run a business. The world has changed, and not for the better. The complaints of this generation wouldn't have been taken seriously 30 years ago.

The only problem I find with this book is his account of political events and the fact that he has taken the side of the activists of the far Left. He doesn't even attempt to portrey the reality of the grievances as unfounded. He also believes in this mythical creature called the Far Right, which in all accounts is a bogeyman created by the far Left to justify terrorising whole neighbourhoods. An example of this is the woman killed by a car by some "far right" individual who's actually just a victim of having her car swamped by violent thugs who meant that person real harm. Any person in panic would do the same.

Since this book was written there has been further terrific incidents created by these activist groups, they make grievance out of whole cloth. Anyone can be a martyr, including a guy who died of self harm, a fentonyl overdose. We all know who that is.

So, apart from this guys rather inept stance on major issues that invalidate his critical thinking capacity in certain ideological blind spots, he has a point with coddling. No child can develop adequately in todays environment, which is why we have so many dummy spitting, little cry babies who want to ruin your life instead of facing the cognitive dissonance, and realisation that they have been wrong. They take it as a stab at their identity, and those individuals who shout down faculty members and stir trouble need to be expelled for their behaviour, or like we have seen, we embolden misbehaviour, and will see a proliferation of it. They have your job if they go after you anyway, take a stand and make it mean something. Make the case that they are being abusive and disruptive, because what we are seeing are the nuts taking over the asylum. These kids are there to learn, not to instruct.

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Absolutely salient

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 18-12-2023

In 2020 the world went absolutely insane. Facebook decided to ban people and threaten them with banishment for merely pointing out the obvious to insane, hate fueled ideologues. The same was happening all over the internet on sites like Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. These giants of the internet were taking a side, and it was a crazed authoritarian cult they had chosen to back.

It is a strange world where these sites have become redundant. Where in the past these sites had people addicted, scrolling through what was becoming more and more irrelevant to our immediate circle or our own social or ethical reality. These giants assumed to own the minds of the public and they believed that they could now dictate reality to us, dispite the fact that we were able to see the true reality in real time.

Facts are all that matters, and objective reality matters. Refusal to let us see what is happening in the world by scrubbing the internet of video evidence, and removing the dislike button will fail. We can determine what is false, and we can determine what is propaganda.

This book is refreshing, because it allows us to see that we are not alone in our indignation. That when we walk outside and see the flags of some authoritarian cult being flown in the streets by a council that more and more resembles a dictator, we understand that everyone else around us is also rolling their eyes in the same way. That these displays are bringing about their end in time. To defeat a bad idea, it first needs to make itself a real threat.

It has the attention of some quite intelligent people with the power to articulate the tyrants actions and their absurdities.

This book is a must read to help understand the times we are living in. As this isn't just a small cult in Salem, but an ideology which is quickly making itself a global dictatorship, the likes of which we have never seen. If enough people say no to these puritanical bigots, they will lose their foothold, and hopefully become a brief footnote in the history books.

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Absolutely salient

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 26-11-2023

If you work hard, save, scrape by, and put all your hard earned money towards taxes, wondering why retirement feels like a pipe dream as the government seemingly blocks every avenue of wealth creation as you live pay cheque to pay cheque in a dwelling you cannot afford, this book may help to explain why your parents could do it, but you find it nauseatingly fruitless.

Being attacked on such a large scale is unfathomable for most, we only see the hours we work in the job we could achieve and the seemingly fruitless endeavour to try keep some of what we earn. The more people who know about this stuff the better. We may see a shift eventually, as the public gets fed up with fake representation, and malevolent actors doing whatever they can to keep us scraping out a living in despair and desperation, instead of enjoying a comfortable retirement after a fruitful life of wealth generation.

with no wealth or resources, we can not have a family or a future. What they are doing is pure evil.

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An absolutely salient work.

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Reviewed: 15-11-2023

For anyone living through this age of fraudulent elections, virulent racism, economic assault, cultural destruction and the complete abolition of a factual and objective base for our collective reality, this book offers a sense of sanity in a world gone mad.

Why should we watch everything our ancestors built get burned to the ground in a generation? what are we leaving for our children?

We are living in a time where corruption has the upper hand. We are watching the house fall down around us as it becomes clear how far the termites have spread. A world where domestic terror groups are respected as peaceful protesters as they sack whole cities, literally tearing our infrastructure and sense of cohesion.

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Pure fiction from a hate peddler

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Reviewed: 02-08-2023

I am disappointed that Audible would spread the claims of this race pedalling victim merchant around like this. The book is a little under four hours of hate and delusion.

Spreading identity politics works for the peddler, I get it. These people can claim a whole people for themselves and lay themselves out on a cross to bear the load for them all. Inventing all sorts of fictional narratives that will be taken as fact by unsuspecting readers or listeners.

pedalling hate is a horrible thing to do. To call this the voice of reason is a joke. This woman, and this movement are everything but reasonable. It's a very racist movement, and it will never be happy, because the movement isn't about satisfying a need, it's about power for a few. those pedalling the hate get special attention and privilege, as they claim to speak for people they don't really intend on helping. These people don't care about welfare or successful integration.

The woman who wrote this book doesn't speak for indigenous Australians, she speaks for herself. This book shouldn't be pushed by Audible, it's dangerous disinformation. The kind of disinformation that breeds useful idiots.

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Con man

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Reviewed: 21-05-2023

I wish I had paid more attention. The author of this book was a con man in 2013 and he's a con man today.

I wasted hours of my life listening to this moron rattle on about how he is 3.0 and modern medicine is 2.0, only to find that he is still pedalling the same low carb garbage he was pedalling back in 2013.

This book is just a cash grab designed to make people think they are getting some useful information. It's old repackaged lies. He doesn't even try to change a lot of it,

He's still claiming the argument from authority falacy too. He's a big shot, he's so smart, probably smarter than you. So when he tells you an endless stream of lies and half truths, you best listen, because his perspective is simply better.

refund!

I'm not paying for this crap.

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meat, egg and dairy industry marketing.

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Reviewed: 03-05-2023

When your book is free, you are the product it would seem.

This woman is well credentialed, so you'd think she knows what she is talking about.

Chapter one begins with her talking about all the things we all agree with.

The second chapter on makes the argument that all the things that cause heart disease do not really cause heart disease. The industry funded studies the last decade have trumped the real science of the past, new is better.

Profits over lives, this woman is the worst kind of evil. A person who will give you deadly advice with a fluffy tone in her voice.

Dietary cholesterol, it's good for you. Eat all the meats and the cheeses, they are ok, in facr essential.

The advice this woman gives is a Gish Gallop. Any good lobbyist will use the Gish Gallop. It's a long run of outright lies and disinformation peppered with half truths and a dash of facts to tie it all together and retai credibility. Plant foods are indeed healthy. Unprocessed food is healthier. Processed food is bad for you.

It is a fact that eating dietary cholesterol is not good for you in any quantity. Saturated fat is not good for you. There is no su h thing as lean meat, all meat is high in fat. It doesn't matter if it's lot fed or wild, it's still going to cause disease. These facts aren't confusing or controversial.

Arguments from authority are assinine. She spends the whole book reminding you of how much she loves science so that she can lie about the science and outright mislead you.

When your book is free, you are the product it would seem.

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Minimalist Budget: Simple and Practical Budgeting Strategies to Save Money, Avoid Compulsive Spending, Pay off Debt and Simpl
  • Minimalist Budget: Simple and Practical Budgeting Strategies to Save Money, Avoid Compulsive Spending, Pay off Debt and Simplify Your Life
  • By: Marie S. Davenport
  • Narrated by: Leigh Serling

Good starter book. Dave Ramsay does it better.

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-04-2023

If you don't know anything about budgeting, this book may be suitable.

I am fairly adept at complex budgeting and saving at this point, and this book was so basic it was almost irritating that I spent a credit on it.

If you know nothing at all about where to start, this book is for you.

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Definitely thought provoking, no nonsense.

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Reviewed: 18-09-2022

Definitely worth listening to for anyone who likes money. I already do all the things he suggests, so I think I might just keep doing it. It's not fun at times, but in the last 6 years I have got 1 million dollars in assets and it wasn't by accident. I ate a lot of sardines and rice, drove a shit box.

I wish I would have listened to this 25 years ago. Before the hard lessons got me.

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Don't wast your money. Poorly researched, Disinfo

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Reviewed: 13-05-2021

Bland old pseudoscientific jargon formulated by a food industry trying to confuse consumers. This one, packaged as always as a voice speaking on down, an argument from presumed authority.

Look at what actual doctors are doing with food and they steer you clearly onto the path of health and yes, food is a major determining factor with your health. One of the main tools people have.

I will crush this idea that poor people and the socioeconomically disenfranchised can't choose to eat healthy also. To live on rice, beans, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables and so on doesn't cost more than living on pre packaged garbage, it costs less. So you'll actually see in many low income areas where people know how to cook real food, nutrition is not an issue. Food deserts where access to real food is an issue are the places where you see health issues, and yes, being obese and unhealthy does mean that you are clocking up some diet related issues.

This author is clearly cashing in on a disinformation campaign.

There are real doctors such as Dr Caldwell Esselstyn, Collin Campbell, Neil Barnard and Gregor who have real bodies of work which contradict with these half baked lies and misdirections.

If you are sick and want to get information on how to use diet to assist your recovery go to Nutrition Facts.org, not some industry shill with a line about how he is so smart and authoritative. The real science disagrees with his BS and you'd do yourself a favor having real experts discuss what the studies about food are saying. Nobody is saying keto is good or food cures diseases, but it sure as hell has a good track record of reversing many diet related diseases so if you are concerned about your health and want a healthier body it is a good start to know what your body runs well on and why.

And for gods sake, if you have advanced atherosclerosis and you don't have much time to live, buy the book "How to prevent and reverse heart disease". by Caldwell Esselstyn, the efficacy is extremely well established.

FOOD IS MEDICINE

Don't let big business convince you otherwise.

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