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| Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! | 
 enlarge | Author: Jesse Ventura
Creator: Dick Russell
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 3305
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1602392730
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.6053092
EAN: 9781602392731
ASIN: 1602392730
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 Excellent . You Need to Know That --- May 3, 2008
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
Jesse was unable to find a major publisher who would publish this book despite his previous 2 best-sellers. The reason should be obvious: the publishing industry (similar to all corporate-controlled media in America) has a political agenda. They either don't want or are not allowed to publicize people who are calling for real change in America.
As Jesse points out, the radio and TV talking heads get their orders from the top. Perhaps that is why Americans are constantly bombarded with Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Hannah Montana. It distracts voters from the real problems, allowing Washington to continue its raid on American living conditions.
Jesse makes the case that both parties are one in the same and he is absolutely right. And neither party will allow a third party any viable access to voters because they want to preserve their status quo BS; the same BS that has handed the reins of government over to corporations. This is precisely why most Americans are suffering while jobs continue to go overseas and America's wealthy get richer.
The one thing the book neglects is an explanation of the economic transition that is taking place, as well as the insourmountable challanges faced by America. In fairness, such detail would have clouded his passionate and inspirational message to Americans.
To fill in this gap, I would highly recommend America's Financial Apocalypse. It is by no means a light read, but it is equally relevant, if not more (given the current economic situation). And it certainly serves to reinforce the fundamental changes expressed in Jesse's book.
America's Financial Apocalypse: How to Profit from the Next Great Depression (Condensed Edition)
Also recommended is Lee Iococa's book. It is similar only in spirit to Jesse's and well worth the read.
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Jesse Has Touched the Live Wire of 9/11 as an Inside Job. Thank You, Jesse!! April 13, 2008
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
In this book and in Jesse's corporate media interviews he has said openly what most Americans are now realizing. The official story of 9/11 does not make sense, and defies the laws of physics. We have been lied to about 9/11, Ventura courageously states.
He says he was first awoken by a documentary called "Loose Change - Final Cut" when his daughter insisted he watch it.
Another author, a New York Times best selling novelist, Steve Alten, has recently come to much the same conclusion. You can google "Week of Truth" to learn more about Alten's media statements.
Steve Alten was also joined recently by country Icon Willie Nelson and comedian Margaret Cho who also agree we as a nation have been lied to about 9/11. The evidence is against the government and corporate media version, and what Ventura points out about the WTC collapses is being researched by professional architects and engineers (Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth), who over 300 now all are convinced we've been lied to about what happened on 9/11.
Thank you Jesse for speaking out.
rEVOLution April 8, 2008
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
Lets do CONs first:
What bugged me straight off the bat was the number of spelling and grammatical errors, it really annoyed me, I thought Mr. V would have edited better!
I think Jesse is a bit naive, part of it being the soldier side of him. How could he have liked McCain or the Clinton's?! Those folks are evil. I don't take well to his bashing Christianity but again, I suppose the organized Christianity out there no longer is Christianity. His beliefs are strong and they tower over you, some of which I could contest with, but...
...with that said, this is an insightful book and worth the admission. He has great stories to tell. Even with the disagreements, I think he'd clean up shop nice given the chance. Overall, you get the sense that Jesse is truly an honest and humble man. You gotta love that and his sense of humor. Finally, toward the end his analysis gets tougher and his warnings all too true of the state we are in. He got out in time, I hope some of us can.
 Some great points raised, but very hypocritical at times. July 10, 2008
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
There are several things that you can take away from Jesse Ventura and find honorable, not just from this book, but from his life. He was active duty in the navy during Vietnam, he became governor of a state as third party, (something that is near impossible) and he has always been a true independent which is truly rare at this current point in history. He brings up some great points in this book on where the country is, and where it is headed. Civil liberties are being erased, we are in a massive debt, and the expansion of the federal government is getting out of control. However he loses credibility when he writes of his meeting with Castro, and how he admires Castro and Che. If you don't like where America is headed, you only need to look at Cuba to see a country with no civil liberties, no economic freedom, and a nation who has tortured critics of the government, and forced thousands to flee. Even if you are in the dark, and don't believe Castro is a tyrant, there is no way, you can argue he is for less government, something that Ventura claims to support himself. This government is full of liars, as we have definitely seen, but when you put all this trust in a lying murderer as Ventura does with Castro, it waters down and hurts the good points, and real criticism of our country that should be addressed.
Jesse "The Mind" Ventura's Best Book Yet April 10, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
Is it possible large corporate publishers would turn down a best selling author and deny themselves big time profit? You bet they would, especially if the author calls for a non-violent revolution and ditching the One Party System, also known as the Republicans and Democrats.
On the Alex Jones Show today, former professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host Jesse Ventura revealed this is precisely what happened when he shopped his latest book, "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me," written with co-author Dick Russell. He was turned down by large corporate publishers and eventually went with a small publisher, Skyhorse Publishing. It helped that Skyhorse's consulting editor Herman Graf has a relationship with Ventura's partner, Russell. Otherwise this important book may have never realized the light of day.
In addition to calling for non-violent revolution and ditching the Demopublicans in the book, Jesse recalls a post-inaugural meeting with CIA agents. As Ventura told Alex Jones, he was less than cooperative with the CIA because the agents, 23 in all gathered at the Minnesota capitol, would not reveal their names, not even their code names. As Tim Pugmire wrote on the Minnesota Public Radio website last January, "CIA Spokesman George Little confirmed the event ... in a written statement, but he offered few details." Little said that "on occasion CIA officers meet with senior state government officials, as they did in this case, to discuss issues of mutual interest."
Moreover, the CIA wanted to know "how had the independent wrestler candidate" managed to win the election. In other words, the CIA was concerned about the fact an outsider had managed to circumvent the entrenched political establishment and capture the governorship. "In our country, there is a certain ruling class that won't give up the power," Ventura writes. "I know I had to be destroyed because of what I represented and how I got elected. There was a ripple of fright that what happened in Minnesota could be a trend."
Jesse writes that he soon discovered "there is a CIA operative inside every state government.... In Minnesota, this person was at a deputy commissioner level, fairly high up." On Alex's show, Jesse twice made mention of the fact the CIA's charter explicitly prohibits domestic operations.
Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, we were told the "Central Intelligence Agency is poised to get involved in domestic surveillance and investigations in ways that are unprecedented in its history," according to the Christian Science Monitor. "But as the nation girds itself against global terrorism carried out on American soil, the barriers between covert, stealthy intelligence and by-the-book domestic law enforcement investigations are beginning to melt."
In fact, the CIA has carried out domestic operations since its inception, most notably Operation CHAOS, a massive illegal domestic covert operation. "The CIA considered this a normal extension of its authorized infiltration of dissident groups abroad even though the activity was taking place within the U.S.," writes Verne Lyon. "This activity led the CIA to establish proprietary companies, fronts, and covers for its domestic operations. So widespread did they become that President Johnson allowed the then CIA Director, John McCone, to create in 1964 a new super-secret branch called the Domestic Operations Division (DOD), the very title of which mocked the explicit intent of Congress to prohibit CIA operations inside the U.S."
As the CIA's favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, reported in 2005, the CIA had planned "to relocate the headquarters of its [supposedly illegal] domestic division, which is responsible for operations and recruitment in the United States, from the CIA's Langley headquarters to Denver, a move designed to promote innovation." In short, the CIA and the corporate media are admitting the CIA's purported charter is in fact a dead letter.
It makes perfect sense Jesse Ventura would have a difficult time getting his book published after a less than welcoming meeting with the CIA and his subsequent call for a non-violent revolution. It is now common knowledge that back in the late 1940s the CIA established Operation Mockingbird "with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success," as Mary Louise writes for Prison Planet. In addition to controlling newspapers, the CIA exercises control over book publishing.
"The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets," according to the Church Committee and the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities back in 1976.
So it does not come as a revelation that Jesse Ventura had numerous publishing venues denied, even though he is a best-selling author and should be a hotly sought after commodity. For now, there are a large number of smaller publishing companies willing to publish books revealing what the CIA and the ruling elite do not want the benighted masses to know. However, if the elite have their way smaller publishers will either eventually be closed down or brought into the fold. In the meantime, it is the job of high profile people such as Jesse Ventura to fearlessly tell the truth and small, fiercely independent publishers to print and distribute their books.
From: http://www.infowars.com/?p=1233
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