Lance Morcan
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Fiji
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Into the Americas
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White Spirit
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Silent Fear
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World Odyssey (The World Duology, #1)
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High Country Contract
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added a status update: This month (Dec.), in 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand from his flagship the Heemskerck – a momentous event that features in my historical adventure ‘New Zealand: A Novel’.
Tasman would soon learn that the land he’d discovered was occupied by warlike peoples who called themselves Maoris. However, he would go to his deathbed mistakenly believing the new land was the Great Southern Continent. |
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“Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.”
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
“If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.”
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
“To understand the Dreamtime, you must understand that we do not own the land. The land is our mother and she owns and nurtures us.”
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― White Spirit
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| Kindle Lending: Campbell | 28 | 85 | Feb 11, 2013 09:32AM | |
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“Contrary to the media circus which portrayed politicians as all-powerful figures, Kentbridge knew from experience the vast majority of US Government officials – elected or otherwise – were puppets who only had the illusion of power.”
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― The Ninth Orphan
“Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.”
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― The Ninth Orphan
“Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.”
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― The Ninth Orphan
“The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.”
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― The Ninth Orphan
“So how can we determine what’s real and what’s not? We can’t. We can just pick and choose what we want to believe and rationalize it as best we can. Reality, after all, is basically a movie projected inside our heads. It’s based on the colors our senses permit us to see, the sounds they permit us to hear and whatever else our brains let slip through the gates. But outside our limited senses, surrounding us, there is, unquestionably, a much greater reality, a universe we live in but cannot see. Well, most of us, anyway. Out there, in the dark, All Things Are Possible.”
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
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Hi Lance :o)How delightful to become reading friends with you! thank you :o)
As for my question.. hmm, I was not aware that I've asked one- but your answer is correct, of that I have no doubt :)
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