Thoughts on Portugal and Spain
Hola muchachos! We are home after our trip to Portugal and Spain and at this point, well-rested! Jet lag was rough for a couple days, but this wasn’t our first rodeo, so we pushed through it. By the way, we…
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Marijuana Strain Review: Super Silver Haze
Pot Shop: Kaleafa, Beaverton Hybrid: A very balanced Sativa-Indica hybrid. Grower: THC Strength: 20.66% # of hits: 4 Onset time: <1 minute to lift-off; after 20 minutes I’m still climbing. Fade: TBD Aroma Profile: It smells like the forest…
Some Thoughts on “The Big Picture”
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…
An Introduction to the US Propaganda System
[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…
A Brief History of the CIA: Part 3 (The CIA in Guatemala)
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…
A Brief History of the CIA: Part 2
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…
A Brief History of the CIA: Part 1
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…
All Aboard Jeff’s Wayback Machine!
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…
Hello 2018!
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…
The Ghost of Christmas Past
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…