The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The APT Tax Instead of personal income tax, corporate income tax, state tax, fuel tax, capital gains tax, gift tax. estate tax, excise tax, sales tax One very low universal tax Automatically and Immediately Collected No Tax Returns, No Lobbying for Special Interests, No Special Deductions Is it possible to have a system of taxation …
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Two articles, one each from Wash Post and NYT follow. Both focus on finance as it relates to national security. IMHO, both are probably more true than not. Also IMHO, the two parties principally responsible are Donald Rumsfeld and L. Paul Bremer. Had those two, particularly Rumsfeld, not filled the Coalition Provisional Authority with ideologues, …
In a class by itself, more to be done August 29, 2010 Steven Solomon This book is in a class by itself, and for the US audience, I would recommend The Atlas of Water, Second Edition: Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource, this book, and Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America’s Fresh …
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Spectacular–An Original Priceless Contribution August 29, 2010 Ken Conca I’ve been reading for a week to clear twelve water books for shipping before I leave Guatemala, this is next to last and perhaps the most valuable of the lot in terms for actually doing something useful in the future. The last, The Evolution of the …
Superb Overview and Update As of 2007 August 27, 2010 Maude Barlow I now realize that this book is a sequel to Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water and I will read and review that book next. First off, am really starting to pay attention to Right Livelihood, …
Original, Grounded, a Foundation Book August 27, 2010 Vandana Shiva Published in 2002, this is a foundation book within the twelve books on Water that I am reading, with all reviews both here and at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog where you can easily use Reviews/Water to see all my reviews of books …
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6 STAR Wake Up Call for All Educators August 19, 2010 Curtis J. Bonk UPDATE 21 Aug 2010 to add two graphics. I’ve seen educators struggle to herd their faculty cats, hire staff under industrial-era rules, and strive to accommodate students that know more than their professors about anything outside the “teach to test” topic. …
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