Now to actually address the article's request for my impactful 2024 reading, I felt like I read too much on Substack and not enough physical books. That said, there were three standouts from my 2024 booklist:
1. The Real Anthony Fauci, by R.F.K. Jr.
Love him or hate him for his politics, R.F.K. (and his team) really knows how to dig into the facts behind medical propaganda. I think the book is less about Fauci and more about the overarching corruption inherent in the modern allopathic industrial complex, from cancer to COVID. He details deliberate pandemic mismanagement, profit over health, fake pandemic 'templates', using killer drugs to emulate the diseases they 'treat', and he even wades into the "no virus" debate championed in the HIV era by the Perth Group. His chapter on Burning the HIV Heretics was also the model used by Fauci & co. to censor dissenters of the COVID era propaganda. The end of the book details specifically Fauci's medical trial atrocities in America, Africa, India and other places of the world; hyping fake pandemics and 'Germ Games'.
It is a must read for those who want a detailed, fact-packed peek behind Fauci's career as chief medical regulator, and how that man single-handedly gave the world's most influential nation some of the worst health outcomes of all nations.
2. Own Your Self by Kelly Brogan
Intially turned off by her opening dedication to 'alchemy', I persevered through Brogan's detailing of false diagnoses in the psych industry and discussing mechanisms of self-healing. A summary might be, "Your body has everything in it already to heal you; let it work!" The most important chapter (for which I took detailed notes) was chapter 5, Five Psychiatric Pretenders, where she detailed thyroid disfunction, gluten and casein sensitivity, blood sugar instability, vit B12 deficiency, and prescription medications as the major causes of common psychiatric conditions for which useless psychiatric medicines may be prescribed to the very unfortunate.
This book aligned surprisingly closely with what I was to learn at Dr. Sanggu Lee's NEWSTART healing camp in Mt. Seorak, South Korea, namely, that your body can heal anything you set your mind on. Modern allopathic medicine only understands this fact as a byproduct of the placebo effect.
3. Muscle Control by Maxick (1912)
This short book, out of print but freely available out of copyright on archive.org, was introducee to me by Jonathan Charles over at Nerve & Muscle here on Substack, set me on my current path to health and fitness using Maxick's century-old muscle building method he and his business partner, Monte Saldo, called Maxalding. By performing specifically posed, consciouslly controlled muscle flexing AND muscle relaxation, one can freely tone and bulk the body using mental effort alone. As such, Maxick's exercise regime is largely non-apparatus, and seeks to coax specific, isolated muscle contractions and relaxations to enable full flexibility and power of individual muscles and groups of muscles. Maxick stresses that exhaustion is antithetical to muscle growth; nourishment is what builds muscle, and the focused mind is what fully directs the nourishment of the body.
I thought this method of exercise surely would not work, but having performed it exclusively for some 6 months now I can not only personally confirm, through my own increase in tone and muscle mass, Eugen Sandow's declaration that "It is the brain which develops the muscles" (Sandow [1897], Strength and How to Obtain it, p.13), but that this energising form of exercise should be learned by everyone at childhood, and carried through the entire life. It feels like cheating, to exercise so gently and yet see the fat fly away and muscles I never had (like serratus magnus and intercostals) develop before my own eyes. And not only that, my mental health has improved remarkably with the constant, daily exercise of my nerves and body-electric system. No wonder Maxalding has sat lost and forgotten by the world for more than a century.
Great list JP. The Real Anthony Fauci has been on my shelf for a year, but like you, I spent more time on Substack last year. It's on my list to pick up this year. Interesting to see Kelly Brogan on there. I used to follow her quite closely and then I remember around the time of early Covid her newsletters became increasingly tangential in ways I didn't fully understand at the time, and I disengaged.
One of my workmates (an avid reader, he has not owned a TV for his entire adult life and his house is filled from one end to the other with books) lent Brogan's book to me for my wife to read (she didn't read it, sigh). It was a lot of stuff I'd been encountering in the alt health literature, except this time coming from a shrink who basically agrees that the world needs to get off its addiction to allopathic medicine. Chapter 5 was probably the most engaging chapter for me for the reasons given above.
Mary is an astonishingly talented writer, and in some respects it's surprising that she chose to wade into this topic, but I've heard her talk about the book in interviews and it seems like she genuinely has a very interesting, new take, so I want to read that this year.
2. The End of Everything — Victor Davis Hanson
VDH's latest book, just came out last year. The Dying Citizen is truly an outstanding book that everyone should read (imo), so I really look forward to reading this next one.
I would also like to read The Second World Wars this year, if I have time, which is co-authored by VDH. That one is back in his other mode as a military historian. Reviews of it are excellent, might try to squeeze it in on audiobook.
3. A Revolution Betrayed — Peter Hitchens
Bit of a nice topic, the British education system, but Peter (like his brother) is an excellent writer who always has something interesting to say. I really enjoyed Abolition of Britain an Unconventional Wisdom, so I plan to read this one, but maybe I'll do it on audiobook. After finishing this one I want to read the new book by Matt Goodwin (due to come out this year) which will touch on the same topic.
4. The Queering of the American Child — Logan Lancing & James Lindsay
Came out last year, very highly reviewed so I expect it to be as compelling as Cynical Theories.
5. On Democracies and Death Cults — the new Douglas Murray one that comes out in April
6. Letters to a Young Contrarian — Christopher Hitchens
Not a recent book, but one of the few Hitchens books that slipped through the net and I still haven't read it. It seems very appropriate to read in our current time, being that it's a book about exploring contrarian views and how to debate and dissent peacefully yet effectively.
...And there are a couple of books I've already read that I want to revisit this year, including:
— America Alone, and After America, both by Mark Steyn. Man was he was prescient!
— Arguably, by Christopher Hitchens (the book of essays)
Thanks for sharing Rebekah. I'm keen read 'When McKinsey Comes to Town'. I'm enjoying non-fiction these days. I've had a big reading year. Along with discovering Substack I just got through Tom O'Neill's 'Chaos'...incredible. A few others have been Matt Kennard's The Racket, Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Bitten by Kris Newby, A Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan (thanks for the tip), A Century of War by William Engdahl. Have just started Anthony Beevor's The Battle For Spain...a real gap in my historical knowledge. Also read How to End The Autism Epidemic by J.B. Handley...I gave it to my 23 yo daughter afterwards who I'm sure thinks I'm nuts now...but couldn't live with myself if I didn't try and keep her abreast of the issues around vaccines. Sorry for the ramble, but get excited by books these days and feel they are more important than ever.
Bitten is another one on my 'must read' list. I forgot I read A Tough Crowd last year, I need to note that one down. I agree, books feel important - digital could all go offline or phase out, but books have a forever quality about them (assuming no book burnings).
I probably spent an unhealthy amount of time reading Substack and also re-visted some of the Dystopian classics such as The Handmaid's Tale, however the most memorable book for me last year was "Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsh. I have also read (and shared) - Apocalypse Never (Michael Shellenberger) and Unsettled - What Climate Science Tells Us, What it doesn't, and why it matters.
Conversations with God was one of the books I half listened to last year - my partner (who prefers audio over reading pages) listened to it several times and recommended it to me.
As a former agnostic and someone who continues to reject institutionalised 'religion', the past 4 years initiated an uncomfortable spiritual awakening for me. I have been forced to contemplate the nature of good and evil, our internal moral code and the fabric of consciousness. I also don't believe in 'coincidence' - this book appeared when i needed it and has helped refine my thoughts around many philosophical issues.
I hear similar things from a lot of people post-Covid…. Definitely seems to have triggered a shift towards a more spiritual way of living for a lot of people.
A fascinating true story of her (Judth Vary) involvement in Cancer research and a 6 month relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald until his murder. The New Orleans Mob, CIA & FBI all intertwined. Plenty of mentions of SV40 and cancer causing ingredients in the Polio vaccine. Maybe they used the cover of using cancer to kill Fidel Castro to develop a super cancer they were working on? All this happened 60 years ago. Judyth & Lee worked for / with Dr Mary Sherman, whose murder is solved in the book below.
2. Dr Mary's Monkey, Edward Haslam
This book's story involves the 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher that both Lee Oswald and Judyth Vary (from the book above) worked for / with. It covers how the murder of a Doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Oswald, the JFK assassination, Fidel Castro assassination plot, a (black money funded) Linear Partial Accelerator and Lab ops in residential buildings. It has original police murder photos and autopsy report that will surprise anyone.
3. Truth is a Lonely Warrior (Unmasking the forces behind global destruction), James Perloff
Covers the real story behind events such as: the sinking of USS Maine, Vietnam War, Beatles setup, American false flags to enter war (Pearl Harbor, The Lusitania (sinking) and others), the secret war on life (Vaccines), the war on faith, 911, Zionism, Media and much more. James has several good books.
Yes after also reading The Real Anthony Fauci and several other books, I'm in the Germ Theory is wrong, camp, although books one and two above tell the story of the Monkey Virus causing cancer, I suspect the Monkey Virus & SV40 is just a story to cover the poison & toxins they have developed for the Vaccines.
While over on the East Coast, Made By Cow offers Australia's only unpasteurised, unhomogenised raw milk product. It is very expensive, $8.95 for 1.5L Jersey A2 raw milk, but by God is it good stuff! They use a cold pressure method (no heat) to satisfy asinine, germ-loathing regulators.
Now to actually address the article's request for my impactful 2024 reading, I felt like I read too much on Substack and not enough physical books. That said, there were three standouts from my 2024 booklist:
1. The Real Anthony Fauci, by R.F.K. Jr.
Love him or hate him for his politics, R.F.K. (and his team) really knows how to dig into the facts behind medical propaganda. I think the book is less about Fauci and more about the overarching corruption inherent in the modern allopathic industrial complex, from cancer to COVID. He details deliberate pandemic mismanagement, profit over health, fake pandemic 'templates', using killer drugs to emulate the diseases they 'treat', and he even wades into the "no virus" debate championed in the HIV era by the Perth Group. His chapter on Burning the HIV Heretics was also the model used by Fauci & co. to censor dissenters of the COVID era propaganda. The end of the book details specifically Fauci's medical trial atrocities in America, Africa, India and other places of the world; hyping fake pandemics and 'Germ Games'.
It is a must read for those who want a detailed, fact-packed peek behind Fauci's career as chief medical regulator, and how that man single-handedly gave the world's most influential nation some of the worst health outcomes of all nations.
2. Own Your Self by Kelly Brogan
Intially turned off by her opening dedication to 'alchemy', I persevered through Brogan's detailing of false diagnoses in the psych industry and discussing mechanisms of self-healing. A summary might be, "Your body has everything in it already to heal you; let it work!" The most important chapter (for which I took detailed notes) was chapter 5, Five Psychiatric Pretenders, where she detailed thyroid disfunction, gluten and casein sensitivity, blood sugar instability, vit B12 deficiency, and prescription medications as the major causes of common psychiatric conditions for which useless psychiatric medicines may be prescribed to the very unfortunate.
This book aligned surprisingly closely with what I was to learn at Dr. Sanggu Lee's NEWSTART healing camp in Mt. Seorak, South Korea, namely, that your body can heal anything you set your mind on. Modern allopathic medicine only understands this fact as a byproduct of the placebo effect.
3. Muscle Control by Maxick (1912)
This short book, out of print but freely available out of copyright on archive.org, was introducee to me by Jonathan Charles over at Nerve & Muscle here on Substack, set me on my current path to health and fitness using Maxick's century-old muscle building method he and his business partner, Monte Saldo, called Maxalding. By performing specifically posed, consciouslly controlled muscle flexing AND muscle relaxation, one can freely tone and bulk the body using mental effort alone. As such, Maxick's exercise regime is largely non-apparatus, and seeks to coax specific, isolated muscle contractions and relaxations to enable full flexibility and power of individual muscles and groups of muscles. Maxick stresses that exhaustion is antithetical to muscle growth; nourishment is what builds muscle, and the focused mind is what fully directs the nourishment of the body.
I thought this method of exercise surely would not work, but having performed it exclusively for some 6 months now I can not only personally confirm, through my own increase in tone and muscle mass, Eugen Sandow's declaration that "It is the brain which develops the muscles" (Sandow [1897], Strength and How to Obtain it, p.13), but that this energising form of exercise should be learned by everyone at childhood, and carried through the entire life. It feels like cheating, to exercise so gently and yet see the fat fly away and muscles I never had (like serratus magnus and intercostals) develop before my own eyes. And not only that, my mental health has improved remarkably with the constant, daily exercise of my nerves and body-electric system. No wonder Maxalding has sat lost and forgotten by the world for more than a century.
Happy and healthy 2025, Rebekah!
Great list JP. The Real Anthony Fauci has been on my shelf for a year, but like you, I spent more time on Substack last year. It's on my list to pick up this year. Interesting to see Kelly Brogan on there. I used to follow her quite closely and then I remember around the time of early Covid her newsletters became increasingly tangential in ways I didn't fully understand at the time, and I disengaged.
Real Anthony Fauci is very chunky, but super easy to get through on audiobook.
One of my workmates (an avid reader, he has not owned a TV for his entire adult life and his house is filled from one end to the other with books) lent Brogan's book to me for my wife to read (she didn't read it, sigh). It was a lot of stuff I'd been encountering in the alt health literature, except this time coming from a shrink who basically agrees that the world needs to get off its addiction to allopathic medicine. Chapter 5 was probably the most engaging chapter for me for the reasons given above.
I actually haven't owned a TV in 20 years either. I much prefer reading to watching.
On my 2024 reading list:
1. Feminism Against Progress — Mary Harrington
Mary is an astonishingly talented writer, and in some respects it's surprising that she chose to wade into this topic, but I've heard her talk about the book in interviews and it seems like she genuinely has a very interesting, new take, so I want to read that this year.
2. The End of Everything — Victor Davis Hanson
VDH's latest book, just came out last year. The Dying Citizen is truly an outstanding book that everyone should read (imo), so I really look forward to reading this next one.
I would also like to read The Second World Wars this year, if I have time, which is co-authored by VDH. That one is back in his other mode as a military historian. Reviews of it are excellent, might try to squeeze it in on audiobook.
3. A Revolution Betrayed — Peter Hitchens
Bit of a nice topic, the British education system, but Peter (like his brother) is an excellent writer who always has something interesting to say. I really enjoyed Abolition of Britain an Unconventional Wisdom, so I plan to read this one, but maybe I'll do it on audiobook. After finishing this one I want to read the new book by Matt Goodwin (due to come out this year) which will touch on the same topic.
4. The Queering of the American Child — Logan Lancing & James Lindsay
Came out last year, very highly reviewed so I expect it to be as compelling as Cynical Theories.
5. On Democracies and Death Cults — the new Douglas Murray one that comes out in April
6. Letters to a Young Contrarian — Christopher Hitchens
Not a recent book, but one of the few Hitchens books that slipped through the net and I still haven't read it. It seems very appropriate to read in our current time, being that it's a book about exploring contrarian views and how to debate and dissent peacefully yet effectively.
...And there are a couple of books I've already read that I want to revisit this year, including:
— America Alone, and After America, both by Mark Steyn. Man was he was prescient!
— Arguably, by Christopher Hitchens (the book of essays)
I really like Mary Harrington too, think I’ll add that one to this year’s list.
Thanks for sharing Rebekah. I'm keen read 'When McKinsey Comes to Town'. I'm enjoying non-fiction these days. I've had a big reading year. Along with discovering Substack I just got through Tom O'Neill's 'Chaos'...incredible. A few others have been Matt Kennard's The Racket, Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Bitten by Kris Newby, A Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan (thanks for the tip), A Century of War by William Engdahl. Have just started Anthony Beevor's The Battle For Spain...a real gap in my historical knowledge. Also read How to End The Autism Epidemic by J.B. Handley...I gave it to my 23 yo daughter afterwards who I'm sure thinks I'm nuts now...but couldn't live with myself if I didn't try and keep her abreast of the issues around vaccines. Sorry for the ramble, but get excited by books these days and feel they are more important than ever.
Bitten is another one on my 'must read' list. I forgot I read A Tough Crowd last year, I need to note that one down. I agree, books feel important - digital could all go offline or phase out, but books have a forever quality about them (assuming no book burnings).
I probably spent an unhealthy amount of time reading Substack and also re-visted some of the Dystopian classics such as The Handmaid's Tale, however the most memorable book for me last year was "Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsh. I have also read (and shared) - Apocalypse Never (Michael Shellenberger) and Unsettled - What Climate Science Tells Us, What it doesn't, and why it matters.
Conversations with God was one of the books I half listened to last year - my partner (who prefers audio over reading pages) listened to it several times and recommended it to me.
As a former agnostic and someone who continues to reject institutionalised 'religion', the past 4 years initiated an uncomfortable spiritual awakening for me. I have been forced to contemplate the nature of good and evil, our internal moral code and the fabric of consciousness. I also don't believe in 'coincidence' - this book appeared when i needed it and has helped refine my thoughts around many philosophical issues.
I hear similar things from a lot of people post-Covid…. Definitely seems to have triggered a shift towards a more spiritual way of living for a lot of people.
The highlights of my reading list included:
1. Me & Lee, Judyth Vary Baker
A fascinating true story of her (Judth Vary) involvement in Cancer research and a 6 month relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald until his murder. The New Orleans Mob, CIA & FBI all intertwined. Plenty of mentions of SV40 and cancer causing ingredients in the Polio vaccine. Maybe they used the cover of using cancer to kill Fidel Castro to develop a super cancer they were working on? All this happened 60 years ago. Judyth & Lee worked for / with Dr Mary Sherman, whose murder is solved in the book below.
2. Dr Mary's Monkey, Edward Haslam
This book's story involves the 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher that both Lee Oswald and Judyth Vary (from the book above) worked for / with. It covers how the murder of a Doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Oswald, the JFK assassination, Fidel Castro assassination plot, a (black money funded) Linear Partial Accelerator and Lab ops in residential buildings. It has original police murder photos and autopsy report that will surprise anyone.
3. Truth is a Lonely Warrior (Unmasking the forces behind global destruction), James Perloff
Covers the real story behind events such as: the sinking of USS Maine, Vietnam War, Beatles setup, American false flags to enter war (Pearl Harbor, The Lusitania (sinking) and others), the secret war on life (Vaccines), the war on faith, 911, Zionism, Media and much more. James has several good books.
Yes after also reading The Real Anthony Fauci and several other books, I'm in the Germ Theory is wrong, camp, although books one and two above tell the story of the Monkey Virus causing cancer, I suspect the Monkey Virus & SV40 is just a story to cover the poison & toxins they have developed for the Vaccines.
A fascinating line up!
While over on the East Coast, Made By Cow offers Australia's only unpasteurised, unhomogenised raw milk product. It is very expensive, $8.95 for 1.5L Jersey A2 raw milk, but by God is it good stuff! They use a cold pressure method (no heat) to satisfy asinine, germ-loathing regulators.
https://www.madebycow.com.au/our-story
Turns out they even ship to WA! https://www.madebycow.com.au/made-by-cow-stockists?
Cold pressure that’s interesting, will have a read.
The Made By Cow milk sounds great. For those in WA I received this reply from Brownes today:
Hi John,
Thank you for your enquiry.
I can confirm our farmers are not using Boaver.
Kind Regards
Tiffany Poduti
Customer Service Manager
Wow what a line up of good solid reading
Let me know if you read any of them Pat! Sharing books is one of my favourite things 🤗