Royal R. Rife: Humanitarian, Betrayed and Persecuted

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Royal R. Rife: Humanitarian, Betrayed and Presecuted

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Royal R. Rife: Humanitarian, Betrayed and Persecuted

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Royal R. Rife: Humanitarian, Betrayed and Persecuted
Gerald F. Foye
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Royal Raymond Rife, (6/16/1888 - 8/5/1971), inventor, innovator, researcher, optical technician, microbiologist. A true genius, a man of phenomenal capabilities. Rife was not satisfied with the limited capabilities of microscopes of the era due to insufficient magnification and inability to view microorganisms in their live, natural state. In order to solve these troublesome issues Rife spent years in optical research before he was able to design and construct a microscope to meet his requirements.

On completion of his Rife Prismatic Virus Microscope, Rife was able to view a previously hidden microscopic realm never before seen by man. A new understanding of microorganisms allowed Rife to identify, isolate and manipulate disease causing organisms including cancer. He thus was able to cure major diseases including cancer. This was done with a system of radiant frequency energy emission - a simple, non-invasive procedure.

Although Rife proved over-and-over that diseases could be controlled with his simple concept, the world of medical science was not ready for such technology and refused to accept it.

The material in this book covers the historical background of Rife and his concepts of radiant frequency energy healing.

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Royal R. Rife: Humanitarian, Betrayed and Presecuted.......2007-09-01

This book is a historically accurate view of Royal R. Rife, the inventor of the Frequency Machine used to treat cancer. He discovered a way to study microorganisms in their live state leading to the invention of a specialized prismatic virus microscope by which to study them. These discoveries led to electronically induced frequency generation. Although the machine was proven to work, the man was discredited by his colleagues and he died a penniless alcoholic. It gives an accurate portrait of how organized medicine and pharmaceuticals works together to prevent anything from coming in between them and their money, no matter how effective and safe a technique may be.

Not a Fool.......2007-08-24

Do you homework sheeple! Don't be a retard, Dr. Rife was destroyed by evil minions for using electrical current to cure cancer and many other diseases. It is a freakin' fact so deal with it! Go watch the Google video on Rife and YOU decide. Sound logic you can see working under a miroscope and has NO side effects (unlike the radioactive poison used in the AMA death camps). It worked for me and thousands of others.

Royal R. Rife: Humanitarian, Betrayed and Persecuted.......2007-04-06

This is well written & factual. It should be mandatory reading for all members of Congress. Perhaps then the FDA would be dissolved.

Since his wife has terminal cancer, I have suggested to Senator Edwards that he read about Royal R. Rife.

John Simmons

Great starter book.......2007-01-22

Using Rife devices for experimentation? This is an interested book on the Rife story; including history, controversy, theories, testimonials, basic frequencies, construction basics, and much more. Interesting read for basic background.

medicine suppressed.......2006-03-10

On the website Educate-Yourself the Rife therapy is on the list forbidden cures. This book tels you why!

Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
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what a biased book!!!!!!!!!

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Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
H. W. Crocker III
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For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. But until now, Catholics interested in their faith have been hard-pressed to find an accessible, affirmative, and exciting history of the Church.
Triumph is that history. Inside, you'll discover the spectacular story of the Church from Biblical times and the early days of St. Peter—the first pope—to the twilight years of John Paul II. It is a sweeping drama of Roman legions, great crusades, epic battles, toppled empires, heroic saints, and enduring faith. And, there are stormy controversies: Dark Age skullduggery, the Inquistition, the Renaissance popes, the Reformation, the Church's refusal to accept sexual liberation and contemporary allegations like those made in Hitler's Pope and Papal Sin.
A brawling, colorful history full of inspiring pageantry and spirited polemic, Triumph will exhilarate, amuse, and infuriate as it extols the glories of Catholic history and the gripping stories of its greatest men and women.

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A very good popular history!.......2007-07-26

John Henry Cardinal Newman (a convert to Catholicism) said, "to be steeped in history is to cease to be Protestant".

Well, start here...it's a smart, engaging read!

Fun read.......2007-04-11

As a faithful, orthodox, Catholic this book was a fun read for me. It presents an entirely factual and pro-Catholic view of the history of the Church. It is unapologetically triumphalist (just see the title!) and well footnoted.

It is, however, not a serious work of academic history. It is more of a "'History of Christendom' for Dummies." (more on the History of Christendom later) In its defense, it doesn't pretend to be anything else. However, I wish the book had more academic heft. Writing a book like this will engage people. When they are engaged, it is nice to prevent them from having ready and easy criticisms.

Several reviews here (all protestant and/or secularist and stinging with righteous indignation) point out the books flaws. Crocker uses secondary sources too much. He engages in too much polemic. He doesn't tell both sides of the story. These criticisms, while they contain some validity, are overblown.

Writing an unbiased history was not Crocker's purpose. Pick up the dust jacket, look at the design, and read the flaps and the book itself tells you that. Unlike several anti-Catholic "history" books regarding the reformation I have picked up, this book does not pretend to be unbiased. Peruse the reviews of Crocker's book and one sees that many Protestants still have the gall to claim that only fellow Protestants can write unbiased histories of the reformation.

Writing a pro-Catholic history of the Catholic Church was Crocker's purpose. If one can't deduce that from looking at the jacket, then one has poor deductive reasoning skills! Interestingly enough, despite the books flaws, his case is relatively strong. Even critics of Crocker point out that he doesn't share any false information in this book.

The use of secondary sources is not as inappropriate as one reviewer claims. MANY, MANY modern histories of ancient times rely on secondary sources. There just isn't that much primary source material out there for some events. Historiography would not exist as a discipline if everyone just went to the primary documents and told the limited tale they could find there.

So why just 3 stars? Despite the fact that I will defend Crocker's right to make a case regarding the history of the Church to anyone, I simply don't like the book's approach. It is fun and funny; yet it is supposed to be history. Crocker can write, but he is no historian. He writing style is flip, irreverent, and arrogant. I often feel that books written in this manner are insulting my intelligence. For instance, I don't care much for Ann Coulter either. She and Crocker have a similar writing style, and a similar taste for polemics.

Furthermore, Crocker has his culturally protestant leanings which are left over from before his conversion. Too often I have seen him in interviews criticizing the Magesterium he proclaims to defend. The grounds of his seemingly constant criticism of the last two popes? They failed to support the US invasion of Iraq. Just read his sections on the Crusades in this book to see Crocker's pro-war bias. Crocker is so pro-war that it makes my eyes hurt to read his stuff.

Because of these flaws, I am forced to give Crocker's book 3 stars out of five; I would recommend alternate readings to get one started on Catholic history that do not suffer from Crocker's weaknesses.

Warren H. Carroll for instance is a scholar of serious weight. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is the founder and past president of Christendom College.

His EXCELLENT multi volume series on the History of Christendom (each volume roughly 500 pages or so) is the real deal. It tells much the same history Crocker tells, but he tells it with SERIOUS scholarly ammunition: the best sources, the best argumentation, and the best writing. He has counterarguments against other scholars at the ready and engages his colleagues in his copious footnotes. Even though Carroll's books are LONG, they are engaging and read easily. He stays away from using too much academic jargon; any reasonably educated person could read them.

I found the Cleaving Of Christendom: History Of Christendom Vol 4, which is the volume that deals with the reformation, most engaging and informative. If one finds Crocker too simplistic, too flippant, too over the top, I would check out Dr. Carroll's work.

The "Readers Digest" Version of a Lush History.......2006-12-07

Overall, I really like this book. It is not, however, without its shortcomings. Despite other reviewers complaints that the author takes a conservative and overly positive view of Church history, that wasn't my principle compaint. I felt the book covered too much history in too cursory a fashion. I think that if the book was going to be an overview and not a scholarly treatise, some better editing could have been done so that some sections did not feel like a wham-bam cursory overview of much of Church history.

The criticism of the author's lack of objectivity is misplaced. He certainly has a point of view, but he makes no effort to conceal that view unlike many other historical appraisals of the Catholic Church which focus on only the bad stuff, and downplay or neglect to ackowlege the contribution of Catholicism to history. You always knoe where he stands and I have no problem with that even in the couple of instances where he seems perhaps too much of an apologist.

what a biased book!!!!!!!!!.......2006-11-20

The book is good but completely bent toward the conservative end. I believe that to be truly 'Catholic' you must be represent all sides and be truly in the middle. This book shows only one side - and totally a conservative side - which is not really 'Catholic' according to canon law (I have a master's in theology and pastoral studies from a seminary) I am sorry but it is not 'in the middle' of Catholcism but an extreme! Read it with care!

A history of the Catholic Church from our generation's Hillaire Belloc.......2006-11-06

Mr. Crocker is our generation's Hillaire Belloc. I've given this book to converts and cradle-Catholics alike and have received overwhelmingly positive feedback.

This is a very entertaining and compelling history of the Church that highlights the accomplishments, victories, defeats, and human foibles that have shaped it (and Western Civilization) for the past two millenia.

Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History

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Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History
H. W. Crocker III
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Catholics who tire of histories critical of their church will find much to love in Triumph, by the journalist and novelist H.W. Crocker III. With the enthusiasm of a convert, Crocker (formerly an Anglican) tells a story spanning 2,000 years, concentrating on the most heroic and adventurous chapters of church history. Crocker writes clear, crisp sentences ("Origen severed his genitals," begins one chapter; "A little looting goes a long way," opens another), and his version of Catholic history is one amazing scene after another. Triumph reads more like a historical novel than most other church histories, and that quality makes the book one of the most accessible historical surveys for younger readers. Theologically, however, Crocker is so eager to depict the church in a positive light that he's all but blind to its flaws. There's a lot of catechism here, but not much probing into the complexities of the church's involvement in the Inquisition or in World War II, or contemporary controversies such as the ordination of women. --Michael Joseph Gross

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Fun book.......2007-04-11

Makes more sense than what my teacher taught!.......2006-04-20

Mr. Crocker has managed to create a work that is both readable and credible. This is not a scholarly work, it is meant to be read. And you will have fun reading it! Just reading some of his commentaries such as the section about Martin Luther is both entertaining and informative. It is great fun.

One aspect of Crocker's writing that I do appreciate is that you can easily tell when he is editorializing and when he is not. This is certainly NOT true with many other writers of popular history!

Some may call this propaganda. I would contend that all history is propaganda to some degree or another. I believe it would be a mortal sin to knowingly lie or misrepresent history in a book such as this, and Crocker does seem to believe in mortal sin. I find him more credible many of the other authors I have read because of this.

Catholic Propaganda At Its Worst.......2006-02-16

I will start by admitting that I am not a Catholic, and not a Chrisitan. I was raised Protestant, and thus a lot of energy that I've put into studying Christianity was focused on Protestantism. A Catholic friend of mine recommended me this book, as I was looking for some factual history on the church.

That background being given, this book is dangerous. It is extremely conservatively biased, almost completely one sided. However, it is presented as God's Gospel Truth and many people will read it that way.

Crocker's book does not lie (at least not much) persay- his bias is not in reinventing the truth, but rather in re-framing it in a way that makes his case sound convincing. This makes it very seductive to logical people who haven't heard the other side of the story. One of the continuing trends in this book is the outright demonization of non-catholics. Any catholic can be forgiven his downfalls, which are mentioned offhandedly, if at all, while non Catholics are almost always incapable of being decent people.

Here are some of the beliefs that Crocker (an amusingly ironic name, I might note) has steeped into his history:
-In the opening quotation, he advocates the abandoning of reason and a return to faith. Reason has been the spark for all of the developments of the modern world. At the same time, he pushes Catholicism as the sole source of reason, without really showing how the religion is rational. When reason disagrees with him, he sees it as evil; when Catholics forge their own reasons, he lauds them as the only ideas that make sense. Near the end of the book (p. 413), he states (almost explicitly) that non-catholics are incapable of reasonable, intelligent discussion.
-He advocates monarchy over democracy. "Monarchy and monotheism go together," he writes. He basically blames democracy and nationalism for everything that went wrong in the twentieth century- as if his beloved Christian kings didn't start wars for power or land. He glorifies the crusades, and it actually sounds like he wants more of them. He lauds the dark ages as a high point for Christianity. He applauds Napoleon. While he is always ready with the number of deaths caused by things like the Reformation, he never ever gives a death toll for the wars he supports.
-He supports a very conservative view of women, lauding Paul and Napoleon's views- in Napoleon's words, the "weakness of women's brains, the instability of their ideas... their need for perpetual resignation... all this can only be met by religion." Crocker says that in this Napoleon "Sounds like a father of the church."
-He is against the rule of secular law: "Every recourse to the law and courts is a calamity."
-He justifies the inquisition, which I'll admit makes some sense in terms of putting the inquisition into context. But he steps over the line when he says on page 392 that if the inquisition had not been stopped, the Holocaust would have never happened.
-He barely mentions other Church sponsored sins, like the selling of indulgences.

These are but a few of the serious issues that I had with this book. I truly hope that most Catholics do not believe in Crocker's history, because it is not a history. A history needs to be objective. Crocker denies any progress made in modern times and prefers a return to the injustices of monarchy. Ultimately, the hisotry of the Catholic church is worth studying. There is no doubt that it has had a profound impact on the world. But the history of the Catholic church is really just like the rest of the world- a history of politics and power- gaining power, extending it, and not letting any other religious groups have any access to it. There have been very good catholics, there have been very bad catholics, just as can be said for every other gorup of people. Don't believe the propaganda.

If you must read this book, please, please read it with a large grain of salt.

Don't Waste Your Precious Time With This One!.......2005-10-29

A few years ago I saw Crocker on the C-Span program called `Booknotes.' He was discussing his book in a Q&A setting. The presentation on this show presented the book as if it was a new solidly researched work of Church History. Boy was that book ever misrepresented.

Crocker's work is not the `rock solid' history text that Sean Hannity claims it is in a blurb on the back cover of the book. In fact, if this is what Hannity calls `rock solid' history I would really hate to see pathetic history. This work is solid at certain points, but overall it is very poorly researched and documented.

There are so many problems with this work it is difficult to decide where to begin criticism of it. First, the research Crocker performed and documents in the book is terrible. When dealing with certain individuals and their thought, he hardly ever uses primary sources to support his claims. Rather, Crocker customarily uses secondary sources which often times do not themselves quote from primary sources. If I did this kind of research in my Graduate classes I would be laughed out of the classroom by my professors.

Second, Crocker describes certain people (mainly Protestants) in such a heinous fashion that he ends up being very uncharitable. He does the very thing that he complains about in this work. He treats certain thinkers in a very polemical fashion while at the same time demeans these same thinkers for being polemical in their approach, and then faults them for this action.

His sections on the Reformation are so erroneous I was embarrassed for him. For example, he declares things about Martin Luther and never sites a reference supporting the claims (see page 236-237). When Crocker makes a claim, for instance about Luther (e.g. on page 237) doing or claiming to have said a certain thing, Crocker quotes from a secondary source, not from Luther himself. Like most other pathetic historical texts (written by non-historians) Crocker tries to psycho-analyze Luther. If Crocker would have simply taken the time to do better more efficient research he would have had a better grasp of Luther and what actually occurred at the Reformation. Instead, Crocker reduces himself to poor scholarship, name calling, abusive speech, and scant factual details with no references, and this is `rock solid history.' However, this occurs not just in his section on the reformation, but in other sections as well. This is a trend throughout the book.

If Crocker thinks that by being 'funny' and acting like a silly ninth grade history student who is bored in class by making snide remarks about historical figures is good history, then why should I take this work seriously (like so many other reviewers claim I should)?

There are so many other works available from so many other reputable Church History scholars that are so much better than this bilge. Don't waste your precious time on this nonsense.

The Party Line.......2005-06-23

There are two ways you could read this book. Way #1 is as a factual, truthful history of the Catholic Church. Way #2 is as an accounting of what the Church believes and promulgates as its own history. Being that the book is endorsed by Sean Hannity and Pat Buchanan, I'm guessing the author would prefer Way #1, but you, the discriminating reader, are better advised to go with Way #2. Essentially it's a strictly orthodox recounting of the evolution of Church doctrine. That can be an interesting read, as long as you balance it out with more objective and less agenda-bound books on the same subject. This one is definitely not written from a neutral perspective, so you need to keep that in mind. But it will show you the view from Rightist Rome.

With that in mind, it's hard to give it a rating. The writing isn't bad, and if you allow for the bias, it's fairly cogent too. But it does tend to overreact and blitz everything that's not strictly orthodox or that has any hint of change in it, which is unfortunate because it makes the writer look reactionary. So three stars kind of sums it up. Not bad, but not good, either.

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We are surrounded by the hardware of the modern world, but how much of it do we even notice, much less understand? This unique and fascinating book covers the parts of the landscape that are often overlooked despite their ubiquity--objects such as utility poles, power lines, cell phone towers, highway overpasses, railroad tracks, factories, and other man-made mechanical marvels. And they are not just in urban areas, but include out of the way "ecosystems" such as mines, dams, wind farms, power plants, grain operators, steel mills, and oil refineries. In Infrastructure, Brian Hayes offers clear explanations of the systems that keep the modern world running, including agriculture, energy supplies, shipping, air transportation, and the various ingenious methods of recycling and managing the waste we generate.

Subtitled "A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape," the book is laid out like a nature guide, with comprehensive details and photographs on every page. "There can be just as much of interest happening on a factory rooftop as there is in the forest canopy, just as much to marvel at in the operation of a strip-mining dragline as in the geological carving of a river canyon," writes Hayes. A mine may not be as scenic as a mountain peak, but he argues it can hold as much fascination. His "chief aim is simply to describe and explain the technological fabric of society, not to judge whether it is good or bad, beautiful or ugly." In this he does an impressive job. He tells us how things work and why they are located where they are, and answers dozens of practical questions in the process. He also walks us through how raw materials such as coal, timber, petroleum, and water are converted and transported for use in our homes and businesses. Readers won't view the industrial landscape that same way after poring over this remarkable book. --Shawn Carkonen

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"Original, highly readable….An extraordinary book."—Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American

A companion to the man-made landscape that reveals how our industrial environment can be as dazzling as the natural world. Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they're there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places—awakening and fulfilling a curiosity you didn't know you had. Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing, and waste, this is the "Book of Everything" for the industrial landscape.

The objects that fill our everyday environment are streetlights, railroad tracks, antenna towers, highway overpasses, power lines, satellite dishes, and thousands of other manufactured items, many of them so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, grain elevators, oil refineries, and steel mills, to name a few. Infrastructure is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world we've made for ourselves. A Science magazine Best Science Book of the Year. 500 color illustrations.

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Phenomenal book, interesting, detailed, a surprisingly great pleasure to read.......2007-07-08

Going into this book, I would have never expected that it would become one of my five or so favorite books of all time. Taking what could be the most mundane, everyday objects and sites and providing an incredibly rich explanation of their purpose, their reason for being, sounds like an incredibly difficult task. Making it interesting enough to actually turn into a page-turner sounds impossible.

It is clear that the author has poured his heart into this book, and one emerges post-reading it as excited and almost as passionate as the author himself. The prose is remarkably well written, chapters commencing of the form "The social life of dairy cows is endlessly fascinating.." -- and it remarkably is, as he goes on to explain!

There are very few books that are such a labor of love. If I were trying to get a child interested in the world around them, I would buy this book for them immediately. It provides the richness to really begin to appreciate the world in its full complexity, with a framework that really makes a lot of sense. As an investor & member of the business community, I instead respect this book based on the fascinating topological overview that the book gives of the lesser-seen aspects of the industrial economy and its key value chains.

Fascinating. Fantastic. One of my favorites ever - a surely unrecognized marvel of a book. I wish the author well.

Get the hard cover edition.......2007-06-06

Great book but the paperback edition is unwieldy. The book is very wide and printed on high quality, glossy paper which is very heavy. It's almost impossible to read the paperback edition when holding it in your hands because it won't lie flat.

I'm returning it and ordering the hard cover edition.

First Class.......2007-03-13

This is a terrific overview of infrastructure, very clear and accessible to anyone who is willing to read a bit carefully. I plan to use it as a text in an undergraduate course for social science undergraduates next academic year.

The answers to so many questions.......2007-02-19

As an engineer myself, I have been repeatedly astonished at how much this book has to offer. So many things I have wondered about and speculated on are addressed here. It's a long read (at least for me) but worth every minute. I wish I'd had this book 25 years ago as I probably could have skipped the first year or two of engineering school. It does get a bit geeky in places, with a few more detailed descriptions, but overall, it's written for someone with a curious mind. I feel like I can travel around our landscape with a new layer of understanding about how and why things are the way they are. An invaluable resource.

Highly recommended.

The greatest coffee book ever.......2007-01-04

If you have any interest in seeing how industry works (mining, the electrical grid, etc), you can get lost for hours in this book. The information is deep and very accessible. I've given it as a gift and it went over VERY well.

Industrial structures.(Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape)(Book review): An article from: Architectural Science Review

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Industrial structures.(Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape)(Book review): An article from: Architectural Science Review
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Date: September 1, 2006
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