Disinformation Book of Lists
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Authors: Russ Kick
BOOK OF LISTS
SUBVERSIVE FACTS AND HIDDEN INFORMATION IN RAPID-FIRE FORMAT
RUSS KICK
© 2004 Russ Kick
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CONTENTS
39 Famous People Who Used Drugs
42 Famous Drinkers of Vin Mariani
20 Famous Drinkers of Absinthe
A Dozen US Politicians Who Have Smoked Pot
31 Products Containing Hard Drugs
9 US Companies Allowed to Manufacture Illegal Drugs
6 Illegal Substances That Occur Naturally in Our Bodies
16 Legal Substances That Can Cause False Positives on Drug Tests
42+ Things That Have Been Made Out of Hemp
12 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs
13 Innocent People Who Went to Prison
36 Botched Executions by Michael L. Radelet, Ph.D.
13 Last Meals Requested by Executed Texas Prisoners
3 States Where Cockfighting Is Legal
14 Criminal Cops and Their “Punishments”
25 Tips for Interrogating a Prisoner, From the CIA
5 Designations of Importance Used by the CIA
111 People Who Are the Subjects of FBI Files
6 Bands That Are the Subjects of FBI Files
9 Things That Will Disqualify You From Employment with the FBI
17 Questions You'll be Asked When Applying to Become an FBI Agent
10 Oldest Still-Classified Documents at the National Archives
23 Quotes Regarding the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
12 Arguments Against the Police State at Guantanamo Bay
11 Materials That Have Been Made Into Guns
20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Nuclear War by Alan F. Philips, M.D.
13 Nuclear Tests That Spread Radiation into Civilian Areas
33 Names of Defense Department Internal Investigations
13 Programs From DARPA's Defunct Information Awareness Office
40 US Interventions in Latin America in the 1800s by Nick Mamatas
36 Corporations That Ripped off the US Government
9 Visitors Who Died at Disneyland by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
55 Companies Reportedly Doing Business With Enemy Nations
Top 100 Corporations Laying off US Workers Due to NAFTA
12 Erotic Works by Well-Known Writers
52 Items from the Delta Collection of the Library of Congress
32 Famous People Involved in Triads
23 Strange Genres of Porn Movie
153 Bizarre and Revealing Spam Subject Lines Leading to Sexually Oriented Messages by Paul Krassner
8 Books That Didn't Make It Into the Bible
18 Celebrities Involved With the Church of Scientology
6 Celebrities Involved with the Church of Satan
87+ People Mormons Have Baptized by Proxy
815 People Killed by Religious Rituals and Objects
Movies, Music, and Pulp Fiction +
10 Unusual Forms and Genres of Music
15 Things That Cause or Mimic “Mental Illnesses”
11 Super Cures Your Doctor Won't Tell You About by Diane Petryk-Bloom
23 Early Cases of Involuntary Human Experimentation
12 Amazon Reviews of Senator Bill Frist's Family History
11 Quotes About Politics and Government
10 Reasons Why Cars Suck by Mickey Z.
12 Things to do With Your Body After You're Dead
10 Top Magicians of the Twentieth Century by Richard Metzger
44 Substances That Soup up Your Brain
24 Toxic Chemicals in Bill Moyers
INTRODUCTION
A book of lists? Maybe some of you whippersnappers out there are scratching your heads in puzzlement. Those of us who are a tad older fondly recall the original
Book of Lists
series from the mid-1970s to early 1980s (with a fourth volume in 1994). I was only a lad then, but I devoured them.
David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wallace were ahead of their time when they first put together these compendiums of rapid-fire facts. We had yet to enter the era of the short attention spanâMTV-style hyperediting,
USA Today
, Headline News Network, soundbites, blogs, Nintendo and Xbox, fast food domination, and microwave everything (not to mention the resulting Attention Deficit Disorder)âbut they and their many, many contributors, researchers, and editors gave us a mountain of knowledge in an easily digestible format. We could read about “12 Famous People Who Changed Their Birthdays,” “8 Generals Who Never Won a Battle,” “18 Words Worth Reviving,” “6 UFO Encounters of a Sexual Kind,” “18 Health Experts and How They Died,” and “9 Famous Hemorrhoid Sufferers.”
The format caught on like wildfire. Amazon currently returns 267 hits for the title search “book of lists.” This mini-library includes
The Art Teacher's Book of Lists, The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists, The Marine Corps Book of Lists, The Gay Book of Lists, The Bride's Book of Lists, Civil War Book of Lists
, and
The Celebrity Sex Book of Lists.
Could there be a more versatile format for presenting facts? I doubt it, which is why I'm surprised that it took me this long to think of doing a book of lists for subversive and unusual informationâpot-smoking politicians, criminal cops, corporate crooks, CIA cryptonyms, gay animals, biblical contradictions, banned movies, and health problems that cause or mimic so-called mental illnesses. In the tradition of the original
Books of Lists
, I asked some contributors to join in, and they gave me rosters of botched executions, Disneyland deaths, sex spam, modern magicians, and more.
So jump right in anywhereâno need to worry about whether you can devote a long stretch to your reading. The disparate info has been condensed into a super-concentrated form. Simply apply to your brain.
âRuss Kick
Tucson, Arizona
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Besides the books below, Russ has written articles and a column for the
Village Voice.
The Memory Hole [
www.thememoryhole.org
], a website devoted to rescuing knowledge and freeing information, is his labor of love. Russ made the front page of the
New York Times
when he digitally uncensored a heavily redacted Justice Department report.
9 BOOKS BY RUSS
1.
Outposts: A Catalogue of Rare and Disturbing Alternative Information
(author)
2.
Psychotropedia: Publications from the Periphery
(author)
3.
Hot Off the Net: Erotica and Other Sex Writings From the Internet
(editor)
4.
You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths
(editor)
5.
Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies
(editor)
6.
Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies
(editor)
7.
50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
(author)
8.
The Disinformation Book of Lists
(author)
9.
50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, Volume 2
(author) [forthcoming]
