Robert David STEELE Vivas
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Anniversary: August 15
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PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS: NO with one exception: IF your book is in hardcopy and you are prepared to mail me a copy; and IF your book is in one of the 98 non-fiction categories in which I read (see Phi Beta Iota / Books) THEN yes, I welcome your email to PROPOSE a book for review. I do not do PDF or Kindle reviews. Unsolicited books are donated directly to the Oakton Public Library without reading. I do not do fiction. I do not want to pay to attend any conference, buy any author's tips, etc.
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Tried to get Amazon interested in being the hub of the World Brain, despite standing room only interest at the developer conference, top management just did not want to hear it.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I started this book, having given a rave review to Cain at Gettysburg convinced that the sequel would disappoint, as most sequels do. Although I counted only five goosebump moments in this new book (Cain had six, The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War By Michael Shaara only had one), I have to rate it the equal of the earlier book, and also the linch pin book in what should be a series of at least four books, each - as the first two have been - a detailed study of men at war at all four levels (strategic, operational, tactical, technical). The concluding… Read more
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I am shocked that there are no reviews of this book. Brought to my attention by Berto Jongman, one of the top researchers in Europe with a special talent at the intersection of terrorism and related violence (e.g. genocide) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), he knew this is an area that is of very high interest to me. The book passed my very first test, with more than ample references to Dr. Patrick Meier, a pioneer in crisis mapping, SMS translations and plotting by diasporas, and humanitarian ICT generally. I strongly recommend his blog and expect him to produce a book of his own soon. The primary focus here is on social media via hand-held devices. It assumes… Read more
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Abraham Lincoln has now been revealed as a monstrous violator of the Constitution, creating a dictatorship, suspending habeas corpus, conscripting for the military, and waging war on member states of the union, all impeachable offenses. This is why Dick Cheney likes the Lincoln model, and make no&hellip Read more
There is now a robust literature on the means by which we can create infinite wealth that is stabilizing and that can over time eradicate the ten high-level threats to humanity while redirecting the trillion or more we spend on war toward the $250 billion a year we need to create peace and&hellip Read more
This is a short list, just to give you a flavor. I have complete lists on each of the high level threats defined in the second entry. We face two kinds of threats: domestic and foreign. Our senior generals and admirals and our senior civil servants all failed us, as did Congress. As Lou Dobbs&hellip Read more
I realized last week that the single best thing I could do as a citizen was to help all citizensconnect to public information about the ten high-level threats to humanity, the twelve policies that must be harmonized and taken away from corrupt stakeholders, and the eight challengers who will&hellip Read more
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