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Summer Reading II: Confidence Men

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It is a fascination to steal a glimpse into the inner working of the most powerful elites in democracy which at times proves hazardous: the spontaneity the American people propelled a smart community organizer, who is a complete outsider of the Belt Way, to the presidency is symbolically powerful but tragically comical. The President is at the mercy of his staff, the perpetual party machine, which in turn falls prey to heavy lobbyists of the Big money. Officials generally have a weakness yearning for lifestyle, and officialdom / elected status is a ticket to wealth depending on how hard one's worked for special interest, as they are reincarnated over and again, rotating between government/Capitol Hill offices and Wall Street law firms and financial corner offices. A case in point: intimacy between Treasury & Goldman Sach , SEC and Justice and the corporate law firms.(per Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone ) Obama selected the best mind from mostly the academia and believed
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Summer Reading Series I The Pagan Christ: Recovering the lost Light, Tom Harpur, 2004, Thomas Allen Publisher, Toronto. When Christianity is abandoned with disdain and the church desperate in juggling a place of relevance in the modern world, Tom Harpur chooses to shake it from the bottom and provide interpretations that may give religion in general a new lease of life. Harpur comes from a deeply religious Judeo-Christian background, with ten years of Anglican priesthood training, and for about another ten years, teaching as a professor of the New Testament and Greek at the Toronto School of Theology's Wycliffe College. Influenced by Northrop Frye, and drawing on findings and resources of Orientalists & Egyptologist Godfrey Higgins(1771-1834), Gerald Massey(1828-1908), and Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880-1963), Harpur develops a profound new understanding of religion. Sigmund Freud determined that the Bible was a total plagiarism of the Sumerian and Egyptian mythologies. Ha