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“Official Stories,” the ground-breaking book by ‘investigative comedian’ Liam Scheff, is now available on Amazon’s worldwide Kindle platform for $9.99 US. 

Please share this brain-stretching, mind-popping book which gracefully and wittily dismantles the great lies of our time – from U.S. history and Smedley Butler, to CIA, JFK and 9/11, to Vaccination and HIV, to Shakespeare, Darwin and the Big Bang – “Official Stories” leaves no stone unturned and no side un-pinched. 

The book is optimized for Kindle and your computer with a hyper-lined Table of Contents and Chapter Notes section, and a revised copy-edit to make reading on the go a pleasure. 

Thank you for your kind support and fantastic reviews over the last 10 months since publication.  I’m happy to be making this excellent and unique book available to more people, more easily, and I hope you’ll spread the word. 

The Conspiracy Realist versus Conspiracy Theorists!  It’s a hot time on the PsoNick Aitchison show (Type 1 Radio Lounge) out of sunny Brighton, England battling out the Judy Woods concept of 9/11.  Liam Scheff isn’t buying it – he’s detailed the 9/11 story in “Official Stories” Ch 4.  But the crowd battles back with their arguments of energy devises and unknown Tesla machines.  It’s a hot, hot, HOT conversation! 

The talk then shifts gears to an exploration of the various conspiracy ideas of HIV and AIDS, and Liam weighs in with his 10 years of front-line research into the topic, featured in his book “Official Stories” (Ch 6).  Then to Shakespeare, and finally Big Bang (MYTH!)  and the Electric Universe (REALITY!) 

Liam Scheff and Robert Scott Bell present “HPV, The Virus that Doesn’t Cause Cancer” at the Health Freedom Expo in March 2012.  Liam Scheff, author of Official Stories, presents the history of bad cancer ‘virology’ that led to the rotten ideas infesting science today; a lousy science that gave us “HPV, the virus that does (but doesn’t) cause cancer,” and the idea that every disease of poverty and immune deficiency in poor people is caused by a single particle.  And we laugh a bit along the way…. 

RTB: A review of Liam’s new book “Official Stories” by one of the best in the business. 

“Liam Scheff writes with filmic energy.  His quick cuts, graphic images and verbal agility are all delivered with the speed and deadly accuracy of a seasoned comedian’s one liners.  We have long needed this approach to the telling of a story that has been almost impossible to tell – that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS and that big science and big pharma have got it wrong for the past 30 years.  It’s is difficult to explain that something doesn’t do something, but Scheff tells the very complicated story behind the official story in a completely understandable way with simple and incisive sentences like: ‘In the beginning there was an idea and it was stupefyingly incorrect.  But no one could ever say so because they were getting paid to put it right.’  Bottom line, Liam Scheff is brilliantly funny.  But his genuine concern and compassion is never absent.  His description of how unlimited gay sex and life in the fast lane led to the loss of a “functional immune system” is an important social document, and his anger in the stark description of the poisoning with AZT of 100,000 young gay men will be remembered forever.  Don’t miss this book.” 

A preview of “Official Stories,” from Ch.  8 “Darwin is Dead.”  What is Darwinism?  What does it actually offer?  Is it a science, or a philosophy?  We’ll explore the question – and get some hard answers in the book. 

Survival of the Fittest

by Liam Scheff, from “Official Stories.” 

We have grown up with the expression.  We use it when we see someone fail at something so miserably, so spectacularly, that we can only acknowledge the triumph of disaster.  It is the phrase that college boys use to mock a fraternity brother who falls down the stairs drunk, or leaps off a hotel balcony into a pool below, hitting the diving board on the way down, breaking some number of bones in the process, having consumed more alcohol than is almost physically possible. 

“Survival of the fittest!”  The phrase is now commonplace.  It has been employed in schoolyards, by scientists and leaders of nations, alike.  Its philosophy has been embraced by the likes of Mao Tse Tung, Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler.  Which should bother people, but doesn’t.  So, what does it mean? 

Darwin saw that the island finches were different, slightly.  Some had longer beaks, some shorter.  Some birds were a little taller, larger or smaller, with a little more or less of a wingspan.  Some really hated “Sex and the City” while some found it tolerable, though it really described the lives of the gay men who wrote the show more than actual women in New York.  I mean, come on, a new guy every week?  That’s boy’s town. 

Because Darwin had to exclude the idea that things had always been this way and that these changes had been made by magic, or a god or spirit, he had to come up with a naturalistic explanation.  And he tried.  He called it “natural selection,” which is pretty tricky.  Because it turns the old Christian God into “nature,” and makes you think that it didn’t.  But almost no one noticed, because they so wanted to get rid of the damned Church, meddling in everybody’s bloody business. 

I mean, really.  Burnings at the stake, witch-huntings, endless taxation.  Scandal after scandal with the clergy.  Some of the monasteries were more like jelly-making whorehouses than places of reflection and worship. “ Screw them,” said the new scientific elite. “ We’ll support the best contender, even if it is a dog.” 

Official Stories

by Liam Scheff

“Official stories exist to protect officials.”  With the opening line as our guide, we pry open the vault of “official-dom” and see what lies beneath.  Drawing information from 10 years of investigative journalism, Liam invites you to join the hunt for the details that lie just beneath the surface. 

In this heavily-researched but irreverent book, we’ll look under the rocks and stones of our culture: From CIA and JFK, to 9/11 and Shakespeare; from Vaccination to HIV to Big Bang theory, and more. 

We’re going to find out what’s real, what’s true, and what’s just an “official story.” 

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Table of Contents:

Official Stories
Counter-Arguments for a Culture in Need
by Liam Scheff

“Official stories exist to protect officials.”  With the opening line as our guide, we’re going to pry open the vault of “official-dom” and see what lies beneath.  Drawing information from 10 years of investigative journalism, Liam invites you to join the hunt for the details that lie just beneath the surface. 

In this heavily-researched but irreverent book, we’ll look under the rocks and stones of our culture: From CIA and JFK, to 9/11 and Shakespeare; from Vaccination to HIV to Big Bang theory, and more. 

We’re going to find out what’s real, what’s true, and what’s just an “official story.” 

About the author:
Liam Scheff is an investigative journalist, radio host and stand-up lecturer on the contemporary myths of science, politics and culture. 

He has broken national stories of pharmaceutical badness, been published widely in print and on the web, and has worked on and been featured in films that have not yet been banned by the state censors.  To his credit, he’s also been libeled on the front page of the New York Times. ( See Ch.6)

Find him on the web in print, on radio and in performance at liamscheff.com, reducetheburden.org, the FBI social network (facebook), and on the Robert Scott Bell show. 

RTB: A letter from the legendary Cal Crilly, turned into an article; quoting heavily from sources, including Mike Baillie, author of “New Light on the Black Death,” Cal weaves together an argument that should attract the interest of those working to eradicate the war against biology, currently being waged by the pharmaceutical juggernaut. 

Take it as a counter-argument to the fictions we receive in school, and on PBS. 

Did Arsenic or other poisonous gases cause the Plague? 

by Cal Crilly

Did arsenic cause the plague,was it rats at all, when comets and meteors hit they leave earthquakes and severe earthquakes will release gases and poisons like arsenic. 

If there were meteors in the sky they could have hit an area like Kamchatka in Russia so eyewitnesses were few or even volcanoes like Katla exploded in Jan 1311, what else exploded? 

I love that bananas in 1633 came to the UK, it was the first happy thing in 400 years. 

Arsenic causes all the symptoms of Bubonic plaque, add things like possibly Uranium and Lead from the sky at the most pessimistic and we get exposed to these chemicals via breathing and ultimately end up drinking it and eating animals dying from Arsenic too. 

Product Description
This is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa.  Ranging broadly across disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and humanities, it charts the rise of scientific racism during the late nineteenth century and the subsequent decline of biological determinism from the mid-twentieth century, and considers the complex relationship between theories of essential racial difference and the political rise of segregation and apartheid.  Continue reading Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa→

Review
“Troesken’s definitive history of the fight against water-borne disease in large American cities shows how the public’s fear of contagion made them willing to build expensive water and sewer systems that sharply reduced the disparity in black and white death rates.  This book will be required reading for anyone interested in public health, political economy, demography, and the history of race relations.” 
—Dora Costa, Professor of Economics, MITContinue reading Water, Race and Disease→

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review.  Passionate and troubling, this study by Columbia University historian Connelly (A Diplomatic Revolution) tells the story of the 20th-century international movement to control population, which he sees as an oppressive movement that failed to deliver the promised economic and environmental results. 

According to Connelly, some proponents of the movement thought it was the key to women’s health and well-being; others saw it as a way to eliminate the poor population; still others believed it would protect the environment.  But Connelly also shows how larger economic and social contexts shaped the movement.  For example, during the 1930s international Depression, ordinary people increasingly felt that couples planning families should focus on financial considerations; at the same time, as the state offered increased economic aid, it became acceptable to believe the state should also have a role in regulating reproduction. 

In the year following South Africa’s first democratic elections, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate human rights abuses committed under the apartheid regime.  Presided over by God’s own diplomat, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the first hearings of the commission were held in April 1996.  During the following two years of hearings, South Africans were daily exposed to revelations and public testimony about their traumatic past, and–like the world that looked on–continued to discover that the relationship between truth and reconciliation is far more complex than they had ever imagined. Continue reading Country of My Skull→

When we speak of race, we tend to categorize nonwhite people into rigid classifications–but how is whiteness itself determined?  Yale American Studies professor Matthew Frye Jacobson looks at the American construction of whiteness out of its polyglot European immigrant population.  In 1790, United States naturalization law granted citizenship to “free white persons”–which meant, mostly, those of Anglo-Saxon descent.  Thus, Celtic-descended Irish immigrants were discriminated against.  As the U.S. population became more culturally mixed beginning in the 1820s, with an increase in immigration from non-Anglo Europe, the nation experienced “a fracturing of whiteness into a hierarchy of plural and scientifically determined white races. ”Continue reading Whiteness of a Different Color→