Hanania, Caplan, Razib in TX, January 19
Hanania, Caplan, Razib in TX, January 19
I’ll be at Dreamland in Dripping Springs, TX, on Wednesday, January 19th at 6:30 PM to talk about my book Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy. It’s about half an hour outside Austin. My friends Bryan Caplan and Razib Khan will be there. Schedule is as follows.
6:30-7:00 – Hanania presents his new book
7:00-7:30 – Caplan interviews Hanania about the book
7:30-8:30 – Ask Me Anything with Hanania, Razib, and Caplan
More details here.
I think there will be a video and audio made available afterwards, we’re just working out the details. It’s outdoors, in case you’re scared of Omicron.
This will be my first flesh and blood public appearance since becoming nerd internet famous, and therefore the first time I get to meet “fans,” which I’m just getting used to having. So come say hi. I’ll probably stay and chat for a while afterwards.
Speaking of my book, I was on Rising recently to talk about it.
I’ve also recorded a few more podcasts on the book and they’ll be released in the coming weeks.
The Hanania prediction markets are going well. In case it wasn’t clear from the last post, I am not playing the markets about things I may do over the next year, so you don’t have to worry about me tricking you into something and running off with your Manifold Dollars. Below is the current state of the markets. People seem to be very confident in my likelihood of getting published in important newspapers.
I’m in talks with the people at Manifold Markets about perhaps doing something to test my forecasting skills again other prominent people on the site, and will of course keep everyone posted if that happens.
I just subscribed because I have heard and enjoyed you on podcasts. I am also a Razib fan and subscriber. Sounds like fun. I will try to persuade my book club to make the hike out to the hinterlands.
Bravo !!! And -- a bit more on St. Obama and his CIA, FBI and NSA executives: Barack Obama was/is a spook (i.e., CIA operative/spy ), from a spook family, and his political campaigns were financed by spooks… ). Snowden disclosed the all-encompassing surveillance of US population under St. Obama after Clapper directly lied about it in Senate and to all of us.
In 1965 CIA organized a coup against Indonesia founding president Sukarno by CIA-trained generals. The US considered Sukarno too progressive (he implemented land-reform – same reason for CIA coup in Guatemala which resulted with a genocide of high-land Mayas). CIA installed one of the most murderous military regime (under Suharto dictatorship) on Earth which killed more than two millions ( 2M ) civilians – the massacres are known as “The Jakarta Method” (see book by Vincent Bevins) used subsequently in Africa (Angola, Mozambique) and throughout Latin and Central America.
What is important here is that Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, worked for U.S. government agencies and allied NGOs—the Ford Foundation, Asia Foundation, Development Alternatives Inc., and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—in Indonesia in the 1960s and 1970s as well as later in Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.
Obama’s mother married Indonesian Lt. Col. Lolo Soetoro; they had a daughter Maya Soetoro when Barack Obama was four. The colonel was from an aristocratic family which lost out in Sukarno’s land reform; the marriage was likely arranged, Obama’s mother may have acted as a female “honeypot” for the CIA whose job was to recruit assets
Obama always lied and claimed that his mother did not know about the countless atrocities that were committed by the Suharto government, which is implausible given her CIA background and the fact that they were much reported on by mainstream newspapers at the time (although mostly favorably by right-wing media). Of significance, Obama underplayed his stepfather Lolo’s army rank in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope.
Soetoro went on to become an executive at Mobil Oil and its liaison to Suharto, whose policies Obama’s mother praised. And – Obama became a labor and community “organizer” – while he actually worked for a large corporate foundation.
A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - October 1, 2021 ( Note: Photos themselves are truly fascinating )
A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA - CovertAction Magazine
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/10/01/a-company-family-the-untold-history-of-obama-and-the-cia/