Valerie Bugault: Summary Legal Review of EU Budget

Summary Legal Review of the Draft 2021-2027 EU Budget Valérie Bugault 23 December 2020 Following a careful reading of the report prepared by Catherine Dez and presented by Jean-Pierre Eudier of LNPLV, I note a number of key debatable legal elements with respect to European treaties and, more generally, political ideology and the democratic transparency …

Review: Open Your Mind Change – A Guidebook to The Great Awakening

6 Stars – Mind-Altering Book for Good of Humanity I wrote the Foreword, which you can read at the book’s original post (it is also offered free online at the author’s website but I have ordered the hard copy as a collector’s item and recommend you do as well). Martin Geddes, whom I have interviewed …

Review: Farwell’s Rules of the Nautical Road Ninth Edition by Craig H. Allen Sr. & Craig H. Allen Jr.

5 Star Top Professional Book on the Subject This is a most extraordinary book intended for professional officers and petty officers, not your average day sailor.  Until I was offered this book as a gift, my personal D Skipper collection consisted of three items: Captain’s Quick Guides Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns …

Review: (Publisher) Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience through the New Biology

Radical resilience – not disease – is your body’s destiny Regenerate means to rejuvenate, revitalize, and renew. These words hold great promise, especially for so many of us who feel something is wrong, most often in our bodies but increasingly in our souls. I’m writing this book in the hopes that I can help others …

Review (Publisher): Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement

In the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn’t happened. Corporations have been permitted to enter into deferred prosecution agreements and avoid criminal convictions, in part due to a mistaken assumption that leniency would encourage cooperation and because …

Review (Publisher): Open Secrets – The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer by Maloy Krishna Dhar

5 Stars – Heartfelt Plea for Reform The #1 Indian bestseller now available to Kindle readers worldwideWhen it was published in paperback in India in 2005, Open Secrets became an instant sensation. It became the #1 Non-Fiction bestseller, a position it held for many months and generated a firestorm of controversy. There were court cases, …