Greetings! I’m reading my second book by cosmologist and physicist Sean Carroll. It is titled, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, written in 2010. The first book I read of his a while back…
[The following was compiled and written by me in 1995, thus I include it here categorized under “Jeff’s Wayback Machine”. I originally wrote this as part of an ongoing newsletter I published called, “The New Sentry”, for a small group…
Compiled by Jeff Drake 1991 In the last two articles I discussed the origin of the CIA; the cloud of controversy surrounding the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency i.e. who was going to run the CIA, what was its…
Compiled by Jeff Drake 1991 In my first article on the history of the CIA, we saw how the CIA was born amid a “cloud of controversy.” The late 40’s was a period of growing paranoia about the so-called “communist…
Compiled by Jeff Drake 1991 NOTE: Where referenced – “Covert Action Information Bulletin” (CAIB) is a publication by former Central Intelligence Officers and people who have been studying the activities of our Intelligence Community for many years. They focus on…
I’ve created a new WordPress category for my use: “Jeff’s Wayback machine”. Under this category, I will post some articles previously written by me some years ago. I’ve only recently revisited some of my early writings from the 1990’s and…
A New Year consciousness stream… 2017 is quickly receding into the past and we are already into our second week of 2018. I think I can safely say that, presidential politics aside, overall it was a good year for me…
It’s Christmas time, so I’m feeling rather reflective right now and faced with an urge to share my thoughts. Consider yourself warned. LOL! Recently I’ve been reminiscing about some of my Christmas memories as a young boy growing up in…
It seems silly now to repeat the refrain about how much I love Italy, but I can’t seem to help it. I really do… love Italy, that is. I could find reasons not to love Italy, if I looked hard…
Our last full-day in Sestri Levante! Thanks to the advice of our hotel manager, Santos, we adjusted our plans today to take a boat ride from the southernmost Cinque Terre town, Riomaggiore, to Portovenere. This spot is only reachable from…