They say the number one way to get you to read or hear something is to be recommended it by someone whom you trust. A dear reader (and hearer) recommended the True Anon broadcast to me with gumption, and I gave it a try. I like it in the way that you smell something you do not like but it is so unique that it keeps beckoning you back to smell it again, an olfactorial siren. Some experience this feeling with smelling salts. I have experienced it with Newcastle Brown Ale, black drip coffee, and now True Anon.

The episode that lured me in was about Ethiopia’s neighbor and newest African nation-state South Sudan (2011 A.D.), and Ethiopia (800 B.C.) herself was mentioned. Including, the infamous Polish communist journo Ryszard Kapuściński’s fever dream fiction-nonfiction hybrid The Emperor, about Ethiopia’s last king of kings and the world’s last functional Orthodox Christian emperor. It is not surprising that unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky swim in the same circles as Kapuściński, because they too are outright communists (I commend them for this, many are hidden, but they are manifest), but it is noteworthy that American monarchist blogger and computer programmer Curtis Yarvin has on more than one occasion made the same recommendation. And, dear reader, he is not a communist, but perhaps up there with Michael Moynihan as one of the leading anti-communist voices in the media today.

As an American anti-communist, and monarchist, of Ethiopian descent, I did a video review of this book a couple of years ago, which had been sitting in my dad’s library in North Los Angeles for decades.

I am sharing it here with you to encourage you to take under consideration more recommendations from your friends, strangers, and enemies. And to further demonstrate that when it comes to literature, the horse-shoe theory of political science is correct. I especially find this to be the case when it comes to antiwar or non-interventionist voices from Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald to Dr. Ron Paul and Tucker Carlson. And to remind you that the formation of nation-states are accidental and not necessary happenings in our timeline. Nothing but the individual action of human beings perpetuates them into the future…

Cheers.

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Notes:

-If you stare closely at Emperor Haile Selassie, and recall the visual below which was in my Race in Greater Ethiopia article, you can begin to visualize him (as an amhara/oromo hybrid) as part Peter Biar Ajak (or Luol Deng or Manute Bol or Bol Bol or Oballa Oballa or Barack Obama Sr.) and part Mota Man and part New Stone Age Levantine (Palestinian) and part Bronze Age Mesopotamian.

-It is very interesting that True Anon, multiple times, deride and disparage the Juba International Airport of South Sudan and the entire humanitarian-industrial-complex. The way horseshoe theory works is that the critique is usually the same, but the solutions are different. I saw this when I worked in Congress for the Honorable Dennis J. Kucinich who would often agree with the Honorable Ron Paul on what the government should stop doing, but they would disagree on what the government should start doing.

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