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Over the past several years, since the mid-2010s, America and Americans have gone through astonishing, unprecedented political, geopolitical, societal, and cultural changes. BLM, Antifa, transgenders, diversity equity inclusion, Trump derangement syndrome, rigged elections, an "insurrection," COVID crackdowns, vaccine mandates, assaults on free speech, political persecutions and prosecutions, mainstream media propaganda, the merger of state and corporate power, and reckless involvement in foreign wars that threaten to launch World War III.These events raise serious doubts about the sanity of the U.S. and Western elites who are driving the changes, and they point to the precipitous decline of America and its "Empire of Lies," as Vladimir Putin has labeled it.Chicago-based freelance educational writer and political commentator A.J. Smuskiewicz has carefully observed it all. He has evaluated, re-evaluated, and documented his evolving perspectives on the national and international chaos in this collection of essays, compiled from his published works during the momentous period of 2014 to 2024. The essays offer his unique, distinctly personal insights on the profound issues of the day (and some not-so-profound issues), with an unusual, highly individualistic mix of Right and Left ideas, of conservative, libertarian, and revolutionary radical views.Smuskiewicz compiled this collection as America was in the midst of another wild and weird election season-with one candidate facing possible imprisonment, a second candidate apparently struggling with dementia, and a third candidate posing a threat to both. Where could America and the world be headed? These essays will help to give you the background knowledge and frame of reference you need to understand and deal with whatever the hell is going to happen in this Empire of Lies.

Suzanne, a young lady in her 20s, is a vicious serial killer out to doom and gloom any man who crosses her path. She justifies her actions by telling herself she will no longer tolerate the pain in which these men cause her. She buys them certificates that are stars named after them, then after she kills them, she keeps the certificates in her scrapbook as a trophy. She sees it as less bad men for good women to deal with.Malone and Clark are detectives who are partners assigned to the case. They've discovered she's female, but they have no idea who she is. As they chase after her they get a little closer each day. Every time they start to lose hope in catching her a new lead comes in.Whom do the three of them meet along their journeys? Some leading to new places! Malone even dips his toes in the dating scene after he was cheated out of his first relationship twelve years before, he thought would be a forever one.As the story unfolds there's an attachable reality to reading Suzanne and her story. It makes this tale of twists of a different type. Dare to journey your eyes across the pages to see if Malone and Clark catch Suzanne? Where they try? How they'll do it?

Discover the transformative power of resilience, diversity, and unconditional love. Join the central character on a quest for authenticity and belonging, as she navigates the complexities of identity and forges her own path to greatness.

ONE NIGHT AT A METAL scrap company Wes and Dirk killed a Mafioso, by accident they would say. That event will haunt their lives for more than thirty years.Wes and Dirk, both born in August 1945, were like many in their generation affected by the radiocaesium from the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that month. The bombs' radioactive contamination turned them and hundreds of thousands of others into the idealist activists of the 1960s and 1970s who fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War.Dirk, who tells the story of their lives, takes the reader on a decades-long, coast-to-coast trip, through protests, riots, and strikes. He and Wes become truckdrivers and help to organize a rebellion in the Teamsters, dealing with trucking company bosses, corrupt union officials, the FBI, and the Mafia. We learn of their love affairs, their marriages, and their infidelities. The country changes, the old movements die, age, yet the fight still goes on. What, Dirk asks, has been the meaning of it all?

"Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10, NASB

The Tomato Patch fills the gap between Roadkill and Jenny Cay and completes the six-book Dan Warden Series.Dan Warden has been promoted to Lieutenant and leads the Creek County, Tennessee, Sheriff's Department's Crime Scene Investigation Unit. After being divorced for several years, he has met a woman who astounds him with her brazen attitude toward life and her willingness to face any problem without flinching. Life is good for Dan until a paroled convict shows up with vengeance on his mind for the man responsible for putting him in prison.

Pooches and Kiddies is both the sequel to Good With Dogs and Cats and a stand-alone novel chronicling a momentous year in the life of Healing Weintraub and his colorful family and friends: human, canine, and feline.Assisting Healing in helping dogs and cats resolve their difficulties with humans are Healing's wife Jahera and her mother Maahiah, Healing's daughter Tova, Healing's mother Naomi, Healing's sister Jean, and Tova's children, Raaz and Oz, delightful four-year-old twins.Comedy and drama abound in the little town of Mercy on the far north coast of California where Healing and the other members of the Weintraub clan explore the mysteries of life, love, music, poetry, friendship, death, and rebirth.

In 1879 Marcus Irons is the young deputy marshal of the small town of Madera Verde in Arizona Territory. He is deadly with a gun, expert with his fists, likes whiskey, poker, and women, and exudes a physically intimidating air of authority.Earlier, during the Civil War, an attack by Apaches forced a party of the subversive Knights of the Golden Circle to bury a strongbox of gold coins in the ruins of an ancient pueblo in northeast Arizona Territory. Beautiful Ophelia Grayson has just learned of the treasure, and she hires Irons to help her and her crew try to find it.Archibald Hardwick, the erudite editor of the local newspaper, joins the search, eager for a good story.It's a three-day ride up the long, steep escarpment leading from the Verde Valley to the Colorado Plateau and its scattered ruins of pueblos, and they must traverse the challenging Mogollon [MO-gee-yon] Rim to get there. The journey and the search for the gold are beset by deadly threats and startling revelations. For that matter, can Charlie Number Two, the Navajo scouting for buffalo soldiers, even find the desired pueblo?Marcus Irons will be lucky to simply survive the quest!

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a critical figure in Western history. Without his accomplishments in the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, it is likely that Rome would never have become the dynamic power center that it did. The languages most Europeans speak and the religions most of us practice would be entirely different today.In 218 B.C. the Carthaginian General Hannibal brought an army of Mercenaries across the Alps and into Italy. His goal was to subdue Rome, the most powerful city in Italy. He won battle after battle until the Romans, under the leadership of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator stopped meeting him in battle on his terms. The war became one of attrition, which Hannibal could not win. The war would have ended on very different terms, however, terms much more favorable to Carthage, if not for the accomplishments of one man: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.Scipio was only seventeen when Hannibal invaded Italy. His father was the Roman Consul at that time. In the first conflict between Hannibal and the Romans, the Battle of Ticinus, the Romans were badly defeated. Young Scipio, however, showed his prowess by leading a cavalry charge from a hill and rescuing his wounded father who was about to be captured or killed.Two years later Scipio was a military tribune at the Battle of Cannae. This battle was an utter disaster for Rome, with fifty-five thousand Roman and allied soldiers killed. Scipio survived and afterwards rallied the survivors, forcing those who wanted to abandon Rome and take service with foreign kings to swear loyalty to Rome.After the Battle of Cannae, Scipio was determined to defeat Hannibal. To gain authority he ran for Aedile at the age of twenty-three. This made him eligible for the Roman Senate. After his father and uncle were killed at the Battles of the Upper Baetis in Spain, Scipio got himself assigned to lead the Roman legions in Spain. In four years he drove all of the Carthaginian forces from Spain, having conquered New Carthage, and having won battles at Baecula and Ilipa.Scipio then returned to Rome and ran for Consul at the age of 29. He planned an invasion of Africa despite the opposition of Fabius. His plan was that when the Roman army brought the war to Africa, the Carthaginians would summon Hannibal home to defend their city.Scipio and Hannibal met at the Battle of Zama in 202 B.C., and it was a decisive Roman victory, forcing Carthage into a treaty on Roman terms.Rome was now poised to conquer the civilized world.This book is an account of Scipio's life told in the first person. Despite his monumental accomplishments on behalf of Rome, Scipio is eventually brought down by one of his rivals, a man named Marcus Porcius Cato, or Cato the Elder. Cato accused Scipio's brother of financial malfeasance, and Scipio himself of bribery, charges that were totally unfounded. Scipio, enraged at this treatment, decided to leave Rome for Liternum one of the colonies he founded for his soldiers. He was in ill health and died two years later. When asked if he wanted to be buried in Rome, he replied "Ungrateful fatherland, you won't even have my bones."

Is MER (The Mystical Experience of Reality) What Humans Are All About?The Mystical Experience of Reality book and blog series by Keith Michael Hancock is a uniquely serious case history of newly emerging facts about the mystical experience of Reality (MER). It is presented here to add to the growing scientific and academic literature being produced around the world today-what human existence is really all about.Does God exist, or is much more revealing itself in our evolutionary progress? Many scientists and scholars are experiencing the answer-Yes!Mystical Experience of Reality Volume I, and now Volume II, are compiled of posts from Keith's Blog, Mystic Experiences. Volume II was thought necessary because Keith's latest revelations have brought these historically important messages to a concluding realisation of what the human condition is all about. See Summing Up at the end of the book.Scholars, scientists and spiritual Seekers around the world who visit and follow his blog will appreciate Summing Up as a uniquely new, complete understanding of why we're here.In this book Keith has aimed to keep each topic shorter and on point, always leaving you with a new thought to ponder, always encouraging you to dig deeper and recall your own experiences thus far.WHY KEITH?He doesn't know! He says he is not aware of any qualification he had or has for receiving the mystical experiences of Reality (MER), the truth of Reality's existence. He says he wasn't religious or spiritual and didn't even know the word 'mystic' when they started.The Mystical Experience of Reality, as Keith calls it, is a well-known, historical, non-biological, non-human historical phenomena that engulfed him as a 14-year-old several times every year until his late thirties, filling him with the experience of a Reality in which all things known and unknown exist at Its behest, guarding, guiding, accepting everything that exists, separately, personally, individually. It is benign and uninterested in human wants or constructs such as religions, politics, ideologies. It only deals with individuals. The experiences bring profound joy and love, with a knowledge beyond all human experience.Keith insists the experience of Reality is caught, not taught.The books are filled with posts from Keith's blog, mysticexperiences.net, for the author to examine himself and his existence in accordance with the way of Reality. Accordingly, he says he found by comparison that there is nothing in humanity worth studying.The first book, Mystic Experiences of Reality Volume I, and this one, Volume II, are summations of years of using writing to explore the awareness given Keith by his mystical experiences, in the hope it will add to the literature on the subject, which is now being more seriously studied around the world than it has ever been.Keith's writing also seeks to pass on Reality's personal message to him-All Is Well.

Virtues are the foundation of Western civilization. They are ancient. Their value and significance cannot be overstated. Virtues afford incredible beauty to the lives of all who practice them, and the society that honors, respects, and teaches virtue to each generation is a society that flourishes. Sadly in our rush into 21st Century modernism, America has overlaid our foundation of sturdy virtues with high sounding principles, seemingly noble but empty values, and an anemic Christianity. These are flimsy substitutes for wisdom, courage, hope, love, and all the other virtues that are the true foundation of America. In One Nation Under God, The Virtues That Made America, we will meet virtuous men and women, and hear how their stories contributed to the making of America. Certainly, we will meet some of America's Founding Fathers, but we will also hear the stories of common everyday folks, whose virtue is the mortar that binds together the nation's foundation. It's time for a new generation of Americans to hear these true stories and know that the virtues made America.

'8 Building Block' or '8BB' is a book about opportunity and achieving success. '8BB' Second Edition provides motivation, guidance, management tools and a vision helping readers navigate from a business idea to create a new venture.

By day, C-suite executives hire Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter to convert ambiguity into clarity - to cultivate their personal brands.Out of this day-in, day-out writing rigor has emerged a fervency for poetic expression - to express emotions in the moment. This urge to wax poetic has liberated her feelings into rhythmic clarity across thousands of poems.Most of Jacqui's poetry is imbued with water-related images from her husband, Rob's, and her lifestyle on North Padre Island as well as their years at Lake Texoma, Texas.Further exhilarating this poetic journey has been the generous and uplifting feedback from friends, family, clients and even people she never met. They share how she helped put their thoughts and feelings into words, expressing their emotion through visual content that not only validates their feelings, but also imbues them with hope and optimism.Traversing the soliloquies of the pelican to the wafting warm waves of the ocean, and beyond, this carefully curated collection of more than 100 of Jacqui's favorite poems offers soul-steadying verses of confidence and joy, amid the struggles of your every day.

Defying an impossible fate, destiny's abruptly rewritten by unimaginable paths. Eerie synchronicity directs a miraculous escape from grips of WWII Europe to America, as skilled artistry quiets chaos in a quest for truth and self-peace.