I Love Atlas Shrugged and You Should Too

Ayn Rand a Prophet? Atlas Shrugged a Prophecy?

By: Peter Egan Jr.

God has a sense of humor, choosing a Jewish atheist woman to serve as one of the 20th century's premiere prophets

This blog will be short and sweet because if you've already read Atlas Shrugged, then you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you have not, all I can say is I wouldn't consider my life to have been lived to the fullest had I not stumbled across what once upon a time was the second-best selling book in the English-speaking world to only the Bible.

As the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy and KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn us, perhaps not so coincidentally in 1984 for the latter, American society was being infiltrated at all levels: the government, the media and the education system. This was dismissed as conspiracy theory. Well, that turned out to only be half-true. The half-false part is that it's no theory.

Here is the full-length interview with Bezmenov from 1984:

Besides the obvious in George Orwell whose works needn't be mentioned in this post because they're so self-explanatory that virtually anyone who has made it this far knows that Orwell was a prophet.

It's another 20th century prophet that I'd like to discuss for a moment. I'm sure some orthodox religious believers would call it utter blasphemy to suggest that God would make into a great prophet, a woman Jew who was Jewish in blood only as she is widely reported to have been an atheist (although this contention has been challenged, I am not interested in discussing that).

Atlas Shrugged was the most influential book I've ever read aside from the Bible, and I suggest anyone and everyone who hasn't read it yet do so and do so with an open mind. Think critically, and don't allow opinions other people manipulated you into thinking were your own fool you any longer. Start from scratch and see where you wind up. I'm betting it'll be somewhere near where most everyone else who has studied Rand has with respect to her work (agreement to one degree or another).

There are some affiliate links in this post to some of Rand's works for anyone new to her or anyone who is familiar but just hasn't developed the muster to tackle a book that long in either Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead. I recommend readers new to Rand start with Anthem. It's short, sweet, can be read in its entirety in just a couple of hours, and provides a simplified but nonetheless profound glimpse into Rand's philosophy, expounded upon in her later works.

If you're new to Rand, perhaps view check out the above links in this post and introduce yourself. Your mind will thank you later.

For a little sampling of what you can expect from Atlas Shrugged, here's an excerpt from Francisco's Money Speech, which to me ranks among the most profound, thought provoking soliloquies ever written, a mic drop moment hidden within one of the most profound works of philosophical literature ever written.

The following excerpt from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is borrowed from Capitalism Magazine. The full speech can be seen here: Francisco's Money Speech.

“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, ‘Account overdrawn.’

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are."

For anyone who hasn't yet introduced themselves to this work of art by Rand, consider this your formal introduction and please waste no time in becoming more acquainted.

Peter Egan Jr. is the founder and proprietor of Egan Store, a US-based purveyor of fine and exotic numismatic collectibles.

TwitterCensorship.com For Sale Amid Scandal of Twitter's Censorship of the President, Most Americans

TwitterCensorship.com and Twitter-Censorship.com Web Domain Names Listed For Sale Amid Twitter Censorship Scandal

In lieu of Twitter's totalitarian crackdown on free speech and free thought, CEO Jack Dorsey has only seen his resolve strengthen as he awaits trial from a cell at Guantanamo Bay. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, the entire leftist media and many smaller platforms and publications have attempted to disenfranchise the American electorate by censoring any and all truth, spreading lies and punishing with a fury anyone who dares question their monopoly of information. Twitter censorship and Google censorship have been at the forefront of internet censorship for more than a decade.

They determine what you're allowed to see, hear, read and think. You're not smart enough to do those things for yourself. At least that's what they actually believe.

At 10:03 PM on 11/03/2020, Twitter, in a profound embodiment of hypocrisy, censored a tweet by the President of the United States that isn't even controversial or debatable. It was a factual statement. Nothing about it was speculative, hyperbolic or controversial. And everyone who saw what he tweeted knows this to be true.

At the same time, a tweet by Joe Biden saying the same exact thing, albeit with slightly different wording, was of course left untouched. No disclaimer, no shadowban. No reply deboosting. Joe Biden's comment completely validated the President's Twitter-Censored remark yet one was censored and one was not.

It is because of this type of hypocrisy and Orwellian crackdowns on free speech and free thought that have brought the premium domain names TwitterCensorship.com and Twitter-Censorship.com to the forefront of the world of premium online real estate.

The domains have been made available for purchase by internet real estate mogul and social media savant Peter Egan (me). I've been censored for more than a decade, and watching what was done to me in 2009 be done to the entirety of the American population, I couldn't sit back and fail to take action any longer.

I am open to selling the properties to someone fully committed to developing them into a historical reference that will ensure future generations never forget that in 2020, America nearly entered a time machine back to 1984. I am also open to partnering in development, and/or even donating the domains to the right individual or organization. Please email me at peter.egan.81@gmail.com if you or someone you know may be interested in one or more of these propositions.

A few other semi-related domains are also being made available in lieu of the unprecedented corruption by the American political left, the great evil of our time. They are listed below.

Premium Anti-Orwellian Fascism Domain Names For Sale:

• TwitterCensorship.com
• Twitter-Censorship.com
• TwitterVictims.com
• TheClinton.Foundation
• Reform.College

*Inquiries: Please email peter.egan.81@gmail.com to discuss the transfer of rights of one or more of the above web properties, and/or to discuss partnering in development of one or more of the aforementioned.

One that is not for sale is Egan.News. There is no website there at present, but that domain will be the starting point for the media organization which through objective, unbiased reporting, will replace CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, WaPo, USA Today, LA Times, ABC, NBC, etc. Unlike the others mentioned, my news organization will not answer to anyone, be beholden to anyone or do anyone's bidding. It won't merge with a political party or become invovled in politics at all beyond objective reporting. It will not attempt to censor certain viewpoints, even if I personally disagree with them. It will help to preserve free speech, return integrity to journalism, and return journalism to "news." 

[The above paragraph is dedicated to @EntheosShines (he knows why)]

If you're not familiar with me, I'm Peter Egan. I am one of the world's foremost experts in news media, social media and search engine censorship. I will elaborate upon this statement in a follow-up post. For now, you'll have to take my word for it. I will replace the previous sentence and this one with a link to that subsequent post when I finish writing it.

Suffice it to say, I was among the first (maybe the first) to experience such draconian, targeted censorship online. I've been censored online since at least 2007, with Google going so far as to remove political blogs and news websites from search results in 2009 when my reporting became inconvenient to the Obama-Clinton domestic and foreign policy. Entire platforms were purchased to silence me when their founders refused to.

If Chris McGill had been willing to sell his soul the way Jack Dorsey did, Twitter never emerges as the global, non-localized, non-niche social platform. McGill and I disagree about politics. But I would fight to defend his right to speak his mind, and I'm more than sure he's fought many fights defending mine. More on that in the follow-up post to come sometime later this week or next.

Even today, I'm shadowbanned by Twitter (and every other form of censored besides account termination), no longer use Facebook and Google censors not only anything I publish online, but also my search results! It doesn't matter what I search for Google returns a set or arbitrary results completely unrelated to the search query. I've been compiling a slideshow of screenshots as I reckon I'll probably have to testify in court at some point so I'm trying to get a head start on preparation.

I will post a few when I update this post later this morning. If you come across this post on social media or email, please share with everyone you know as no Big Tech search engine is going to allow my dangerous thoughts to be found by the feeble-minded general public (their opinions of you, not mine).

To purchase TwitterCensorship.com or Twitter-Censorship.com outright without direct negotiations and at an inflated price, please see the below link, and please pardon the layout and design. The store is under construction.

http://ebay.com/str/Buy-Iraqi-Dinar-VND-and-Zim-Bonds

Robert Mann

Robert Mann Given One Final Chance to Defend His Defamatory Statements or Apologize for Knowingly Lying

By: Peter Egan

Robert Mann is the type of person who would assassinate the character of people he's never met and knows very little about, then go into hiding when confronted about the intellectually dishonest libel he published in a number of places in print (shame on the editor) and on his blog.

I came upon "Bob" Mann's attacks on my father and I while researching my own name. I issued a rebuttal, decimated all of his talking points, immediately notified him when my rebuttal was published and offered to publish any response he would like to offer, either defending his knowingly false narratives or apologizing for spinning innocuous words so that with all context removed, he could mislead readers into thinking that the context-free, selectively chosen quotes represented the narrative that he was trying aggressively to push --- notably that my father and I are bad people.

He went down the entire list of liberal stereotypes of others and called one or both of us racist, sexist, homophobic, insensitive and a variety of other names, none of which had even so much as a modicum of truth to them.

I responded to inform him that his plan to libel me without me finding out had failed, and that I would afford him an opportunity to apologize or defend his words, the latter being virtually impossible after I'd demonstrated that his conclusions did not follow his premises. His logic was laughably bad, and I took no mercy in pointing that out.

The issue is that true to form, the cowardice that defines him has kept him in hiding from me. He knows he cannot defend the indefensible, he knows he can't match wits with me and he knows that he knew at the time he wrote his original hit piece that there wasn't a word of truth to it. A real man would have apologized and accepted responsibility for a childish temper tantrum against people he doesn't even know and hasn't even met. If he had any character or fortitude he'd have asked for forgiveness, and it would have been granted so long as his apology was made public.

Robert Mann: Libelous loser still too cowardly to defend his intellectually dishonest character assassination of two good men; each of whom is 1,000 times the man he is.

Maybe that's why there's an extra "n" at the end of his name... Trying to compensate for being such a sad little excuse of a man.

Unfortunately, I cannot relate to such a pathetic individual. He is so far beneath being a beta male combined with my suspicion that he's almost certainly lacking in the "manliness" department (very low-T); and the fear that he'll have his absence of academic integrity exposed. I may leave him to remain cowering in fear inside whatever to rock you've been hiding under since I first confronted him should he fail to respond to this message.

Dictionary: Coward - See "Robert Mann"

Heed this warning that if I take a hiatus so you don't die of a panic attack, it does not mean that you're off the hook.

Before the end of the year (2017) Robert Mann will either need to write a letter of apology to myself and my father, with a copy of each going to the Times Picayune/NOLA as well as both the New Orleans and Baton Rouge Advocate. An additional copy must be published on his blog where his defining trait (cowardice) is still on full display.

Mr. Mann's deadline is December 31, 2017, to send the letters to my father and I. If you wait that long, you may not submit a copy of either letter to any newspaper until they've returned to a normal news cycle. Sending them when they could be published on a day nobody is reading news (New Year's, Christmas, college football bowl games and playoffs all must be out of the each paper's content lineup when the letters are sent.

The hard deadline for sending a copy to every major newspaper in the area is January 12.

Mr. Mann is welcome to submit them early so long as it's not during Thanksgiving or any other annual event that dominates news for at least a day.

At the end of each letter Robert Mann will thank me for being so benevolent towards him, and he must sincerely ask my forgiveness. If he puts in the effort, I will accept. Should he fail to take this most generous of offers lightly and not meet my demands to my satisfaction, he will look back on it as among the worst decisions he's ever made in life.

I think I've been pretty clear about what is expected of Mr. Robert Mann. It is NOT in his best interests to fail to do as I have instructed.

He's got plenty of time, so the letters better be good. One wrong word (suppose he wrote it in a sarcastic or cynical tone, for example), and I will metaphorically castrate him in all areas of life, and there will be no second chances.

I'll see to it that each of the first ten pages of search results (a number typically in the #neighborhood of 100 web pages) for searches of the name "Robert Mann" return pages I will have created and written and they will contain whatever I deem fit. To reiterate, that is whatever I see fit --- I and I alone will determine what Mr. Mann's eternal online legacy will be. I'm quite capable of making good on these threats, so he'd have to be a complete fool to pass on this most generous of opportunities.

And defining your eternal online legacy however I so choose may not be the only consequence he will face if he fails any portion of what he's been told to do.

The letters had better damn well be good and they better be sincere.

Mr. Mann made a very bad decision when he chose to libel my father and I, and now his path of least resistance involves a simple yet sincere apology. He will acknowledge that he knew he took statements out-of-context in an attempt to depict each of us in an unflattering manner. He will admit that he knew perfectly well what was said by each of us and chose to play semantics to try to discredit us, damage our names and our reputations.

Everything Mann have been instructed to do is consistent with what is known to be truthful and accurate regarding this situation. That's not even mentioning that it's the right thing to do on his behalf, and the only mature option in his possession.

This will be HIS one and only opportunity to issue an apology for his prior transgressions. Showing a modicum of humility and demonstrating that he can admit when he's wrong, and he knew at the time you wrote the initial hit piece that he were being deceptive in the way you attempted to discredit and belittle us; will save him from great suffering. I will do everything I can do that is not illegal to ensure his is the legacy of a coward, and that the eternal internet of things remembers and associates the name Robert Mann with terms like cowardly, intellectually dishonest, sinister and liar long after we're both gone from this earth.

If I were him, I would NOT reject this olive branch. I've already written the legacy of one person who crossed me, and if ever my written synopsis of Robert Mann's life and who he is as a person is how his eternal legacy is written, I will do far more damage to Mann's name than he did to mine, and it will be far worse than was the case for the last unrepentant piece of trash who behaved badly enough toward me that it merited a retaliation.

If Mr. Mann needs any more convincing that enduring a few days of feeling humbled is an extraordinarily generous offer, he should ask himself if he'd be okay with his great grandchildren learning everything they'll ever know about their grandfather from me, what I wrote about him and did what is necessary to ensure top position in organic search results for his name as the search term.

After all, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander." I can be very creative too, Mr. Mann.

Imagine the your unborn generations having to grow up knowing the founding patriarch of their family was best remembered for being a liar, a coward and all-around low-life.

This should be the single easiest decision you'll ever have to make.

All that I am asking of you is that you do what is right, acknowledge that you became carried away amid the heat of a white hot election, and knowingly lied, conveniently left out the ever-important context, spun what was said out of context to fit your narrative and attempted to convince a large group of people that my father and I said things we did not say (nor say anything remotely similar). You did this with malicious intent. Had you not libeled me I likely would have never have even heard your name.

Apologize to my father and I, or at the very least attempt to defend your remarks about us. If you do either of these (the latter has to be serious and since I already discredited every argument you made in the hit piece, you'll have to admit making a very poor case against us and one which was easily debunked.

Should you fail to do any of this, I will be left with no choice but to establish control of search results for queries involving your name, so as to ensure that the top 100 or so results are either hosted on sites I either own or control, or are social media pages that link to the pages on my sites.

I feel like I am being extremely generous by giving you an opportunity to repent. I will not be bullied by some effeminate leftist, so this is your one and only opportunity to prevent me from writing the version of your biography that will be remembered and will still be available 150 years from now.

You have until the end of the year to submit a draft to my father and I as a gesture of good faith. You have until January 12, 2018 to have published the letter to your blog and to the two newspapers which published the print version of your letter.

The fact that one of their contributors knowingly lied for the sake of character assassination is newsworthy in itself. Since I've already proven your claims false, there is no reason either publication wouldn't publish a letter from me exposing the intellectual dishonesty in the letters these entities published which you wrote, prior to my thorough debunking of them.

You have until January 12, Mr. Mann. If you were smart you'd make appeasing me and admitting your childish mistake among your top priorities until such time as I am satisfied with your efforts at repentance and show of remorse.

Should you continue hiding from me, I will male the consequences you will face far worse than if you stand by your statements and attempt to defend them. Wrong as you may e in doing so, it would at least demonstrate that you have some measure of fortitude and aren't so cowardly that your photograph belongs in the dictionary next to the word.

This is your final warning. Please do not make me destroy your reputation forever.

The original response which was shown to Mr. Mann within 10 minutes of being published can be found here: http://peteregan.net/robert-mann/.

311 Concert Rocks New Orleans (August 04, 2017)

27 Years as a band from Omaha, 311 can still put on a kick-ass show

By: Peter Egan

NEW ORLEANS, LA - Hi, my name is Peter Egan. On Friday, August 04, 2017, I was privileged to experience my tenth 311 concert. Of the ten, two were 311 Day (March 11) shows in New Orleans, and the two are easily the two best concerts I've ever had the pleasure of being in attendance.

311 Performs in New Orleans

I'm a huge 311 fan, as you might have guessed by the fact that I know every lyric to every song they've ever written as a band, and have seen them in concert ten - TEN - times. To put that into perspective, the next closest bands for whom I've seen live performances, are Pearl Jam with three and No Doubt with two. I've always wanted to see an Incubus show, but the logistics have never worked out.

Peter Egan and friends at 311 show in NOLA

The concert wasn't among the best 311 shows I've been to (having seen two 311 days, albeit I've yet to make the 311 Day cruise when the band opts for that instead of a mega-concert, typically involving them performing for 4-5 hours. The set list was a mere 24 songs, nine of which were from 311's most recent album (it debuted about a month ago), "Mosaic."

I found it a bit odd that 311 did not play a single song from any of their most recent studio albums prior to Mosaic. I just hope the set list was assembled to make the most members of the audience happy, and not a reflection of the band's perception of their four albums preceding Mosaic.

311 Symbol at start of concert when the band first took the stage.

It was a good show. All things considered I'd rate it an 8/10. I've been to better 311 shows and I've been to at least one that left me unsatisfied.

Choosing Champions Square near the Superdome for the venue was a great idea. The acoustics were spectacular, and I found there to be better sound quality than any of the shows I've attended next door at the Smoothie King Center.

Nick Hexum singing at 311 concert in New Orleans - 2017 Mosaic Tour

As long as these guys keep making new music and going on tour, performing live, I'll keep buying those digital downloads and concert tickets.

Peter Egan Bio and Web Presence

Peter Egan Saturday, July 1, 2017 Peter Egan is a 35 year old man who resides in Covington, Louisiana. Peter is both a student and healthcare professional.  He works for EGAN Home Health and EGAN Hospice, primarily from the company's Northshore location in Covington. That office location covers all of St. Tammany Parish, including Mandeville, Slidell, Lacombe, Goodbee, Madisonville, Abita Springs, Folsom and Bush.​  ​ Peter resides on the Tchefuncte River in Covington, LA. His hobbies include web development, weight lifting, fishing, running, writing, boating and playing with his dogs. Peter has three large dogs: an American Pit Bull, a Siberian Husky and a Chow mix, the last of which was a rescue dog and we're not entirely sure what breeds she has in her aside from Chow, given away by the discolored tongue.  Since Peter lives on the water, even though he owns a boat he doesn't necessarily need to use it in order to go fishing. One of the techniques Egan has mastered is the science of chumming for catfish.  In fact, Peter has assembled a four-part video series that is available for free on YouTube on how to chum for catfish in additional to the quite detailed article he wrote about the topic. Peter is currently (in addition to work and school) working on a business he plans to launch in late August or early September. The business relates to sports and sports handicapping but that's about all that can be said about the idea without legel forms being signed. Below, you'll find additional photos involving Peter Egan.  Here's Peter posing with esteemed political consultant Mary Matalin: ​ Peter with former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and former Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (both Tulane alums):  Peter Egan with U.S. Senator David Vitter:  Peter Egan in a recent photo: While the pictures might suggest Peter enjoys politics, quite the contrary is true. Peter does not follow politics at all, and rarely keeps up with news in general outside of sports. Peter does not presently identify with either of the two major political parties. The following are Peter Egan's official web properties, presences and profiles. If an online profile claims to be Peter Egan but isn't on this list, there's a good chance it's an impostor. The list is as follows: Website: PeterEgan.net  Tulane Profile: https://tulane.instructure.com/eportfolios/37944/Home  About.me: https://about.me/peter_egan  Minds: https://www.minds.com/PeterEgan  Kinja: http://peteregan.kinja.com/  Blogspot: http://peteregan.blogspot.com/  Totally Me: http://www.totally.me/PeterEgan  Tackk: https://tackk.com/@PeterEgan FC2: http://peteregan.blog.fc2.com/ PRLog: https://bio.prlog.org/eganhomehealth/50007961-peter-festus-egan-jr.html Author's Den: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=160981  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvu0hwovNpNIe2ltykCr2Q  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/petereganjr  Twitter: https://twitter.com/petereganjr  Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/peteregan/  Google+: https://plus.google.com/+PeterEganNOLA  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petereganjr/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petereganjr/  Scoop.it: http://www.scoop.it/u/peter-egan  Tumblr: https://petereganjr.tumblr.com/