Tag: Reading

Dancing with Snowflakes: The Personification of Death in The Rainbow

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Note: This is a crosspost from my personal blog.

The following are a few quotes that stood out to me in Chapter Four of The Rainbow.

Yes, to see the last German on the gallows, to see them working until they dropped.

But what good would that do her? Others might be satisfied, but her heart would never know peace. No amount of blood, no length of time, no revenge could wash away her memories. They would remain festering at her heart forever.

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Barack Obama’s Literature List for 2025 —Connecting the Dots

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As senior OWI officials saw it, “Books do not have their impact upon the mass mind but upon the minds of those who mould the mass mind—upon leaders of thought and formulators of public opinion. The impact of a book may last six months or several decades. Books are the most enduring propaganda of all.”

John B. Hench, Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), 70

Barack Obama

Barack Obama’s Literature List for 2025 —Connecting the Dots

Related:

Books differ from all other propaganda media, primarily because one single book can significantly change the reader’s attitude and action to an extent unmatched by the impact of any other single medium… this is, of course, not true of all books at all times and with all readers – but it is true significantly often enough to make books the most important weapon of strategic (long-range) propaganda.

Liberated Texts: The power of books as propaganda

How Good Books Can Change a Person

How Good Books Can Change You

CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Anti-Communism)

From Clausewitz to Caracas: What Book Am I Reading Right Now?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What book are you reading right now?

I was supposed to be reading Clausewitz and the People’s War. Instead, I got completely derailed when I discovered Joseph Stalin’s opinion that Clausewitz was outdated—and promptly lost hours investigating that controversial claim.

Reading will have to wait for another day, as I’m too exhausted. My real focus right now is finishing the Venezuela article I started before this detour. I need to get it done fast; before the infamous Kegseth (whose ego needs $2B to stoke) orders the U.S. Military to launch a decapitation strike on the country.

So, while Clausewitz and the People’s War waits on the shelf, the focus is purely on Caracas. Wish me luck in beating Kegseth to the punch. Once that article is finally filed, maybe I’ll finally have the mental space to get back to my reading.

[Crosspost] Maximum Blowback

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Originally written on July 5, 2025.

Seduction, Spillover, and the Systems That Turn on Us

“We made you,” she screams—not just at the machines, but at the consequence. Rage hurled at a system of our own design, now running on autopilot. It isn’t just a breakdown—it’s blowback. Almost like the war machine coming home.

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