International Mergers and Acquisitions: A Country-by-Country Tax Guide (International Mergers and Acquisitions)

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Expert tax guidance for international mergers and acquisitions
As international mergers become increasingly common, corporate financial managers find themselves facing ever more complex tax issues. The process of determining the tax ramifications of international mergers and acquisitions can often make or break the deal. International Mergers and Acquisitions: A Country by Country Tax Guide provides all the information international accountants and lawyers need to strategize global mergers and acquisitions and make good choices based on their company's tax needs. Authors Feinshcreiber and Kent provide up-to-date technical information for the finance or tax expert looking to assess the benefits of a merger or acquisition in a particular location. The book includes coverage of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, Korea, Mexico, Russia, and others. Organized by country for quick reference, each section is written by an industry expert from the country under discussion. This book is the ultimate handy reference for CFOs, controllers, consultants, treasurers, tax directors, and international accountants seeking guidance on tax-efficient approaches to international M&A.

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Over 50 Years of American Comic Books
Ron Goulart
Manufacturer: Ashley Books
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Over 50 Years Of American Comic Books
Ron GOULART
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Over 50 Years Of American Comic Books
Ron GOULART
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Over 50 Years on American Comic Books
Ron Goulart
Manufacturer: Mallard Press, 1991
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Over 50 Years of American Comic Books

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Over 50 Years of American Comic Books
Ron Goulart
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For the first time in history, man and dogs can now talk to each! Dr. Victor D. Canineorkian, Phdog, used a $200 million six-year grant from the U.S. government to develop a top secret communications device known as a "Caninebarkoenceffleeohgraph". The miracle device made it possible for him to talk to dogs and he interviewed hundreds of dogs, many in their own back yards, all over the U.S. and Canada! The interviews then provided the "DOGisms," DOGoems," and other wit and wisdom of dogs that are now included in the Handbook.

The Handbook answers many of the questions that man has had about dogs for thousands of years. Questions like: How do dogs feel about things they experience in their daily lives? What do they have on their minds during the day? What is really important to them? What would they like to say to their owners and to others if they could speak? Can dogs compose poetry?

Readers will be deeply touched by the "DOGisms" in this Handbook, such as: . . . Water always taste better out of a toilet! . . . Cats shouldn't have 8 more lives than dogs . . . Anyone who rolls on dead birds is a friend of mine . . .I'd walk a mile for a pig ear . . . A bitch in heat is music to the nose . . . Don't wait for your bone to come in. Go out and dig it up.

Readers will also discover that dogs can compose poetry or "DOGoems". For example, this "DOGoem" on CHEW STICKS: You must be sick, to give me a chewstick. What I need at my age, is something easy to chew, like a pound of prime sirloin, or a nice T-bone will do!

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This Book is Off The Wall Funny!!.......1997-02-27

If you own a dog or love dogs, you need to have this book. It's off the wall and very funny. It's full of "actual interviews with dogs from all over the U.S. and Canada!" One of the dogs said...."Anyone who rolls on dead birds is a friend of mine"....another comments...."Never criticize anyone for chasing their tail"...get it!! You'll love it!

This is the only book in the world written by dogs!!.......1997-02-14

This is a hilarious book and in it you'll discover that dogs of all breeds offer wisdom and bits of humor.A section of "DOGisms" will keep you chuckling. For example, this one...."Cats shouldn't have 8 more lives than dogs."....and...."When you age 7 times faster than people, you deserve more respect.&quot

Only book in world that includes interviews with dogs!.......1997-02-07

This book is filled with proverbs by and for dogs as well as doggy poetry and is the only book in the world that includes actual interviews with dogs. I guess you could say that this book has been written by dogs or has gone to the dogs!! Anyone who owns a dog or lives with a dog will get many laughs from this book. And, be sure to read Appendix 5 at the end "What Dogs Tell Their Owners" to find out what your dog would like to tell you on a variety of subjects. This book is a Gem!! Thank you, Dr. Canin

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"Went to the movies. Wept. Matchless entertainment." So wrote Franz Kafka in one of his diaries, giving us but one hint of his little-known passion for the cinema. Until now, Kafka aficionados have been left to speculate about which films moved Kafka so powerfully and how those films might have influenced his writing. With Kafka Goes to the Movies, German actor and film director Hanns Zischler draws on years of detective work to provide the first account of Kafka's moviegoing life.

Since many of Kafka's visits to the cinema occurred during bachelor trips with Max Brod, Zischler's research took him not only to Kafka's native Prague but to film archives in Munich, Milan, and Paris. Matching Kafka's cinematic references to reviews and stills from daily papers, Zischler hunted down rare films in collections all across Europe. A labor of love, then, by a true man of the cinema, Kafka Goes to the Movies brims with discoveries about the pioneering years of European film. With a wealth of illustrations, including reproductions of movie posters and other rare materials, Zischler opens a fascinating window onto movies that have been long forgotten or assumed lost.

But the real highlights of the book are those about Kafka himself. Long considered one of the most enigmatic figures in literature, the Kafka that emerges in this work is strikingly human. Kafka Goes to the Movies offers an absorbing look at a witty, passionate, and indulgently curious writer, one who discovered and used the cinema as a place of enjoyment and escape, as a medium for the ambivalent encounter with modern life, and as a filter for the changing world around him.

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Put on your chinos, comb back your hair, hop in your deuce coupe, crank up the radio, and prepare to cruise! This light-hearted look back at the social and cultural activity spawned by the automobile is filled with historical photographs, new color photos and specially commissioned artwork by artist Kent Bash. A lively text examines all aspects of this popular pasttime, including classic cruising venues like Detroits Woodward Avenue, street racing, cruisers versus the law, popular music, cinema and television.

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Cruisin' is time trip back to yesterday's two-lane strip!.......2000-05-26

If remember the days when you used to hang out at the drive-in and spend most of your free time at the wheel of your convertible (and some nights in the back seat), Cruisin' is definitely the book for you. This book has it all--it's a real flashback to a time that had no equal, an era of cars and freedom that will never be again. The Bash images and Witzel photos are way cool and really send you back in time. Whether it's hot rods, muscle cars, and the many places and pastimes we indulged ourselves with, this book is the definitive scrapbook of America's car culture heyday! If you love cars and enjoy the trip more than the place you are goin' to, you 'gotta get this book!

I LOVE THIS BOOK.......1998-06-16

FOR ALL HOT ROD AND CRUSIN ENTHUSIASTS, THIS BOOK IS A MUST. GREAT MEMORIES!!!!

I LOVE THIS BOOK.......1998-06-16

FOR ALL HOT ROD AND CRUSIN ENTHUSIASTS, THIS BOOK IS A MUST. GREAT MEMORIES!!!!

Cruisin' America (The culture of cars and cruising)

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Cruisin' America (The culture of cars and cruising)
Kent Bash Michael Karl Witzel
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1581593228

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Walter Penn Shipley was crucial to the development of chess in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His contributions were very great. He organized correspondence chess in the United States in the 1890s, became a talented player and dangerous opponent, and a friend and supporter of world champions and contenders. He served as the treasurer of the Franklin Chess Club in Philadelphia and later as the club's president at the height of its power and prestige.

This work is a complete biography and games collection of Walter Penn Shipley. It draws from such original documents as personal correspondence with great chess players of his era (Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Pillsbury and others), detailed Shipley family records, and extensive research conducted in contemporary newspapers, journals and magazines. The book contains approximately 250 games (most of them annotated), with 246 positional diagrams.

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Great book for Cisco router admins

cisco ios cook book its great book

Cover most of the topics

Wish I had this months ago

Cisco IOS Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
Kevin Dooley , and Ian Brown
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ASIN: 0596527225

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Never has something cried out for a cookbook quite as much as Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS). IOS is powerful and flexible, but also confusing and daunting. Most tasks can be accomplished in several different ways. And you don't want to spend precious time figuring out which way is best when you're trying to solve a problem quickly.

That's what this cookbook is for. Fortunately, most router configuration tasks can be broken down into several more or less independent steps: you configure an interface, you configure a routing protocol, you set up backup links, you implement packet filters and other access control mechanisms. What you really need is a set of recipes that show you how to perform the most common tasks, so you can quickly come up with a good configuration for your site. And you need to know that these solutions work: you don't want to find yourself implementing a backup link at 2 A.M. because your main link is down and the backup link you set up when you installed the router wasn't quite right.

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition, adds sections on MPLS, Security, IPv6, and IP Mobility, and presents solutions to the most common configuration problems, including:

Configuring interfaces of many types, from serial to ATM and Frame Relay
Configuring all of the common IP routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP)
Configuring authentication
Configuring other services, including DHCP and NTP
Setting up backup links, and using HSRP to configure backup routers
Managing the router, including SNMP and other solutions
Using access lists to control the traffic through the router

If you work with Cisco routers, you need a book like this to help you solve problems quickly and effectively. Even if you're experienced, the solutions and extensive explanations will give you new ideas and insights into router configuration. And if you're not experienced--if you've just been given responsibility for managing a network with Cisco routers--this book could be a job-saver.

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Great book for Cisco router admins.......2007-05-08

This book should be on every Cisco & network admin's shelf! If you manage several Cisco routers, this book is packed with loads of time-saving tips, tricks, scripts, and real world solutions to make router management easy and take the pain out of repetitive daily processes. Some Perl & Unix knowledge is helpful as well as some basic "CCNA level" understanding of Cisco IOS. Troubleshooting and configuration commands are taken to the next level beyond most boring and dry CCNA and Cisco Intro books.

cisco ios cook book its great book.......2007-05-06

always when i forget some of command i find in book, this is cool book..

Cover most of the topics.......2007-03-07

This book is indeed the best book for day to day management of Cisco networks. Although it covers most of the topics. However, there are some topics such as DMVPN, IPSEC VTI etc. are missing from the configuration examples.

The "CISCO IOS in a nutshell" covers DMVPN but misses on IPsec VTI. However, I still feel this is the best book written for cisco router configuration.

Wish I had this months ago.......2007-01-12

The first thing I noticed when I got this book was how much larger it was than the first edition. Next was that it covered quite a bit more. HSRP, Security, IPv6, MPLS just to name a few. It's straight forward, too the point. Not a ton of explanation so if you want to know WHY something works, this isn't for you. If you want to MAKE it work then pick this one.

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Amazon, Please add more stars for this book.
Covers the essentials better than anything else I've seen
Great Book that is Ready for an Update
Complete Reference guide - a must have
All is in there !!

Cisco Cookbook
Kevin Dooley , and Ian Brown
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ASIN: 0596003676

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While several publishers (including O'Reilly) supply excellent documentation of router features, the trick is knowing when, why, and how to use these features There are often many different ways to solve any given networking problem using Cisco devices, and some solutions are clearly more effective than others. The pressing question for a network engineer is which of the many potential solutions is the most appropriate for a particular situation. Once you have decided to use a particular feature, how should you implement it? Unfortunately, the documentation describing a particular command or feature frequently does very little to answer either of these questions. Everybody who has worked with Cisco routers for any length of time has had to ask their friends and co-workers for example router configuration files that show how to solve a common problem. A good working configuration example can often save huge amounts of time and frustration when implementing a feature that you've never used before. The Cisco Cookbook gathers hundreds of example router configurations all in one place. As the name suggests, Cisco Cookbook is organized as a series of recipes. Each recipe begins with a problem statement that describes a common situation that you might face. After each problem statement is a brief solution that shows a sample router configuration or script that you can use to resolve this particular problem. A discussion section then describes the solution, how it works, and when you should or should not use it. The chapters are organized by the feature or protocol discussed. If you are looking for information on a particular feature such as NAT, NTP or SNMP, you can turn to that chapter and find a variety of related recipes. Most chapters list basic problems first, and any unusual or complicated situations last. The Cisco Cookbook will quickly become your "go to" resource for researching and solving complex router configuration issues, saving you time and making your network more efficient. It covers:

Router Configuration and File Management
Router Management
User Access and Privilege Levels
TACACS+
IP Routing
RIP
EIGRP
OSPF
BGP
Frame Relay
Queueing and Congestion
Tunnels and VPNs
Dial Backup
NTP and Time
DLSw
Router Interfaces and Media
Simple Network Management Protocol
Logging
Access Lists
DHCP
NAT
Hot Standby Router Protocol
IP Multicast

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Amazon, Please add more stars for this book........2007-08-13

I don't write many reviews, but I had to say something for this title. Within 48 hours of receiving this book (along with "Hardening Cisco Routers" also from O'Reilly) I had put some of these recipes into production.

I even find that I can read each chapter like a study or reference guide due to its excellent structure. The first few recipes of each chapter are very basic and explain the concept of what you are trying to achieve. However the author clearly states that the basic solution is either full of pitfalls or security holes. The following recipes cover each pitfall or hole until the last recipe, usually titled 'Putting it All Together', is a full fledged, practical solution with no theory.

The theory and study guides should take some cues from this book, and begin really teaching real-world networking.

ONE WARNING - This book covers working with routers primarily. "Cisco Router Cookbook" would be a more apt title. However I have applied some of the VPN router concepts to Pix firewall configurations.

Mr. Dooley, where is the Cisco Switching Cookbook!!??

Covers the essentials better than anything else I've seen.......2007-03-05

As a telecommunications engineer I've read a lot of Cisco books and this is by far one of my favorites. The format: (problem - solution - discussion) really helps tie in the theory with the reality. It is well indexed and I found the discussion sections to be particularly well written and illuminating. I go back to this book time and time again and I am looking forward to purchasing the latest edition. Although not really intended as a study guide for certification I nevertheless found it helpful in clarifying concepts that other books could not. When you're ready to get your hands dirty in a Cisco router this is the book to take with you.

Great Book that is Ready for an Update.......2006-02-11

This is a great reference for anyone who supports Cisco routers, BUT... some of the sections are out of date, for example, the section on QOS. Also, a section that needs to be added is MPLS. I would buy a new version just for these two enhancements! Hopefully it is being updated right now and we'll see a new printing this year!

Complete Reference guide - a must have.......2005-09-20

Cisco Cookbook is a a complete reference guide for field engineers and Network Administrators. The book has practically everything you need to know to competently configure cisco routers for a production environment. However, if you do not already have a working knowledge of Cisco networking technologies this book maybe over your head. For experienced Engineers and Administrators, the book is a must have for your desk reference.

Thomas Villarubia
CCNA CCNP

All is in there !!.......2005-05-26

If you are an administrator and you have forgotten details about a router configuration, that you need. this book will be the real lifesaver.
Basic and advanced router config have been included and all the topics are grouped and explained in a clear way.
I found Chapter 9:BGP very useful, showing a hard topic by using a easy to understand solutions.

Si eres un administrador y se te olvido detalles de una configuración, este libro realmente te ayudará.
Se han incluido configuraciones básicas y avanzadas y los temas están agrupados y se explican brevemente, pero muy claro.
Me intereso el capitulo 9 sobre BGP, en que muestra un tema difícil de entender, en una forma sencilla con ejemplos claros.

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No boring parts, HONEST!.......1998-08-24

20 bucks for a book?! Well, this one's worth it and much more! The hundreds of articles and illustrations will satisfy every interest under the sun. I swear, once you start reading this book you won't be able to put it down! I've learned so much about 20th century history from this one book than in my five months of Modern History at college. Entertaining AND informative!

Great bathroom reading!.......1996-12-27

At last a history book that you can browse through.

As expected, you can learn about wars, presidents, and genocide. But you can also find the unexpected, with fascinating tidbits everywhere. For example: read about great practical jokers (page781), great thefts (page 190), entertainment scandals (page 434), the invention of silly putty (p 581), hoaxes (769). Well written, fun, and interesting -- what more could you want

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David Wallechinskys 20th Century: History With the Boring Parts Left Out
David Wallechinsky
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The People's Almanac Presents the 20th Century: History With Boring Parts Left Out
David Wallechinsky
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Mistitled- the fiasco was in pre-war planning

Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco

Enormous Incompetence!

An honest man speaks out, duty bound

This is an important book

Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco
David L. Phillips
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ASIN: B000EBCP3K

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A disenchanted government insider's take on the planning that did go on for postwar Iraq-planning that the Bush administration willfully ignored

According to conventional wisdom, Iraq has suffered because the Bush administration had no plan for reconstruction. That's not the case; the State Department's Future of Iraq group planned out the situation carefully and extensively, and Middle East expert David Phillips was part of this group. White House ideologues and imprudent Pentagon officials decided simply to ignore those plans. The administration only listened to what it wanted to hear.

Losing Iraq doesn't just criticize the policies of unilateralism, preemption, and possible deception that launched the war; it documents the process of returning sovereignty to an occupied Iraq. Unique, as well, are Phillips's personal accounts of dissension within the administration.

The problems encountered in Iraq are troubling not only in themselves but also because they bode ill for other nation-building efforts in which the U.S. may become mired through this administration's doctrine of unilateral, preemptive war. Losing Iraq looks into the future of America's foreign policy with a clear-eyed critique of the problems that loom ahead.

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Mistitled- the fiasco was in pre-war planning.......2007-08-21

This book has some insight on the early stages of pre-war planning, particularly as it pertained to the Kurds. The Kurds considered the years after the first gulf war to have been a "golden age". They enjoyed the implicit military guaranty of the U.S., and an economic boom from controlling border crossings used by smugglers evading the embargo. The Kurds were at first ambivalent about the invasion, but became supporters in the hope that Iraq would follow them in secular politics and economic development.

There is also some material on the Democratic Principles Working Group (AKA The Mother of All Working Groups). That was a committee of Iraqi opposition groups that sought to develop a plan of the postwar Iraqi government. The committee suffered from infighting and distrust, and was dominated by groups with limited constituencies in Iraq (i.e. Kurds and exiles). The group also suffered from an academic focus- developing a theory of an Iraqi government when they needed to BE the Iraqi government. As dysfunctional as it was, the administration discarded its work and transferred the responsibility for postwar government to an even more unqualified and incompetent group: the Defense Department's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance under Doug Feith. And things went downhill from there...

The rest of the book is a readable but generic account of the occupation and the failure to confront the insurgency.

Recommended primarily for the Kurdish material.

Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco.......2006-03-08

Losing Iraq illustrates what went wrong with planning for post-liberation Iraq although not for the reasons its author, a Council on Foreign Relations staffer, intends. In the run-up to the Iraq war, the State Department hired Phillips to moderate seminar discussions among Iraqis. He uses this limited experience to conclude that the cause for difficulty in post-liberation Iraq was not lack of planning but rather a failure to listen. "How could such noble intentions [Iraq's freedom] go so wrong?" he asks. "The White House and Pentagon political appointees thought they could liberate a county without talking to those they were liberating," he replies.

Phillips appears unaware that every Iraqi who met with him also visited the Pentagon, National Security Council, and Central Intelligence Agency. U.S. officials would meet almost daily at the National Security Council, chaired by officials such as Zalmay Khalilzad, then the president's special assistant for Iraq, and Stephen Hadley, then-deputy national security advisor.

Rather than researching and analyzing prewar planning, Losing Iraq becomes a testament to the author's ego and pettiness, features that caused Iraqis and U.S. officials alike to push Phillips aside. He describes Kanan Makiya, with whom he clashed on issues including de-Baathification, as poisoned by neoconservatives who transformed him from an academic to a polemicist. Most Iraqis and Americans differed and questioned whether Phillips's hostility was due to jealousy of Makiya's prominence in fields in which Phillips sought to compete. Phillips also writes that he initiated ideas like a Kirkuk commission to adjudicate competing property claims but was ignored. Actually, such a commission was up and running weeks before his epiphany.

Phillips revises events liberally, saying, for example, that he and Ryan Crocker, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, opposed the establishment of the Coalition Provisional Authority because it did not empower Iraqis. Actually, Crocker opposed the transfer of sovereignty.

The irony of Phillips's argument is hubris. He chides Bush administration officials for not listening to Iraqis, but he himself did not bother to travel to Baghdad in the wake of Iraq's liberation. Rather, as revealed in a Wall Street Journal review by Rob Pollock, he lifted descriptions from newspapers. His experience in Iraq was limited to a few brief trips to Iraqi Kurdistan before the war, the sheltered guest of a Kurdish politician.

Losing Iraq may try to castigate the White House but instead becomes an example of the arrogance about which so many Iraqis complain. Phillips treats Iraq as a template upon which to lay down his theories. The Iraqi voice is subsumed to his own. If the White House really lost Iraq-the success of the Iraqi elections suggests otherwise-it was because it subordinated the voice of Iraqis to outside advisors like Phillips, more interested in pumping up their own importance than in the welfare of Iraq.

Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2006

Enormous Incompetence!.......2006-01-02

To foster partnership and enhance legitimacy, the Future of Iraq Project (FOIP) tried to engage Iraqis representing the country's diverse ethnic and religious groups. However, it was clear from the beginning that empowering Iraqis was antithetical to the Pentagon's goal of pushing Chalabi into power (faster?). Advocates of military action grew increasingly concerned that further planning would reveal difficulties and weaken the case for war. Defense believed that after a brief transition period, authority could be handed to an interim government dominated by Iraqi exiles (subsequently strongly resented by Iraqis). After dismantling the Ba'ath party, Iraq's technocrats would transfer their loyalties for a new administration and function like before. The cost of reconstruction would be paid almost entirely from oil revenues.

Iraqis could not believe that the formidable U.S. military was able to vanquish Saddam's Republican Guard yet lacked the capabilities to prevent looting and control civil strife. More than any other factor, the coalition's inability to curtail the escalating violence poisoned Iraqis against the U.S. and turned the "liberation" into an "occupation."

General Garner was sent into Iraq prior to Bremer and just after the invasion for humanitarian assistance. Garner did not even learn about the FOIP until just before he left the U.S. He also desperately needed qualified staff. Though wanting to incorporate parts of the FOIP into his planning, he was prohibited from using many of those involved in its construction and leadership.

Then, in came Ambassador Bremer, with his own inexperienced team. Of the 1,147 Americans employed by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), only 34 were Foreign Service Officers. Bremer then made a series of catastrophic decisions that compounded problems. While the Future of Iraq Project anticipated that war criminals in the Iraqi armed forces and intelligence services would be prosecuted, it envisioned untainted elements working in partnership with coalition. When Bremer disbanded the army and then failed to pay the salaries and pensions of army personnel, he transformed 400,000 Iraqis and their families from potential partners into antagonists. Then, instead of targeting individuals (many/most had simply joined because it was a requirement for a job), Bremer's de-Ba'athification simply made the civilian government unmannable. Still another major error was Bremer's ignoring Ayatollah Sistani (this was going to be a secular government) - and subsequently being backed down regarding forming the Constitution without representatives elected by the Iraqis.

So writes David Phillips in his Introduction to "Losing Iraq." Phillips involvement had been in the Future of Iraq Project - upon realizing that it was to be ignored, he resigned. At the end of his book he declares that "Iraq's future is uncertain." It still is.

An honest man speaks out, duty bound.......2005-10-11

"Losing Iraq" is a work of great value to all Americans, and will find its place in history after the dust settles and historians have at their leisure decided whether America's dignity was more offended by what was incurred or by what was avoided in our so-called "war on terror."

A passage from Sir Winston Churchill seems to speak to the point more directly than do the words of today's leaders. Beware the well-intentioned mistakes of our ancestors. The following is from "The River War," Churchill's first hand account of the military campaign to "retake" the Sudan from Islamic extremists --

What enterprise that an enlightened community may attempt is more noble and more profitable than the reclamation from barbarism of fertile regions and large populations? To give peace to warring tribes, to administer justice where all was violence, to strike the chains off the slave, to draw the richness from the soil, to plant the earliest seeds of commerce and learning, to increase in whole peoples their capacities for pleasure and diminish their chances of pain --- what more beautiful ideal or more valuable reward can inspire human effort? The act is virtuous, the exercise invigorating, and the result often extremely profitable. Yet as the mind turns from the wonderful cloudland of aspiration to the ugly scaffolding of attempt and achievement, a succession of opposite ideas arise. Industrious races are displayed stinted and starved for the sake of an expensive Imperialism that they can only enjoy if they are well fed. Wild peoples, ignorant of their barbarism, callous of suffering, careless of life but tenacious of liberty, are seen to resist with fury the philanthropic invaders, and to perish in thousands before they are convinced of their mistake. The inevitable gap between conquest and dominion becomes filled with the figures of the greedy trader, the inopportune missionary, the ambitious soldier, the lying speculator, who disquiet the minds of the conquered and excite the sordid appetites of the conquerors. And as the eye of thought rests on these sinister features, it hardly seems possible for us to believe that any fair prospect is approached by so foul a path.

This is an important book.......2005-08-19

A nagging question hovers in the air over this volume, regarding Bush and the Pentagon - "How On Earth Did They Get Away With It?". Phillips gives us a seasoned expert's analysis of the complexities and hard work of nation-building, and documents the blunders and missed opportunities of an American Administration long on faith and need for control but short on fact-based analysis and thinking-in-depth. Phillips was one of the talented nation-doctors shunted to the sidelines while the barbershop crowd busied themselves with leeches and bleeding. This book will figure prominently when We The People finally do a "lessons learned" study of the Iraq adventure and what went wrong.

Coming to terms with Iraq.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar ... article from: Ethics & International Affairs

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Omar G. Encarnacion
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Title: Coming to terms with Iraq.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco)(Book review)
Author: Omar G. Encarnacion
Publication: Ethics & International Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
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Volume: 19 Issue: 3 Page: 91(7)

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Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco.(Book review): An article from: Parameters

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Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco.(Book review): An article from: Parameters
Keith W. Mines
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Title: Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco.(Book review)
Author: Keith W. Mines
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Understanding Iraq.(Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco)(Book Review) : An article from: Middle East Policy

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Understanding Iraq.(Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco)(Book Review) : An article from: Middle East Policy
Robert Dreyfuss
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Title: Understanding Iraq.(Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco)(Book Review)
Author: Robert Dreyfuss
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Date: September 22, 2005
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Fun To Read.......2007-04-23

I think to enjoy this book you will need some imagination. As the author says most physicists "have a degree of the metaphysician in him...".

This book definitely crosses the line from conventional science into metaphysics and philosophy in some places.

The author is a physicist but he is also familiar with many ancient legends and myths as well as scientific work which is not part of the mainstream base of scientific knowledge at the present time.

Or at least not part of what is being taught in universities. Whether or not secret government organizations are aware of these alternate technologies is open to question. I think they are and there is some discussion in the book about this possibility.

For me the best part of the book is not the theory that the Great Pyramid was specifically designed to be used for destructive purposes and that the maser beam that the pyramid produced was used to blow up a planet to create the asteroid belt. I think there are advanced races monitoring our planet at all times and they probably wouldn't want people trying to do this.

Rather it is the discussion of how various governments going back to Nazi Germany have been in a race to rediscover lost knowledge that goes all the way back to Atlantis.

He proposes that conventional physics chose to disregard certain theories around the time of Einstein related to the nature of the 'aether'. This disregard for possibly valid ideas has had a dramatic effect on the development of physics and science ever since.

He mentions mysterious figures such as Nikola Tesla and mysterious scientific projects such as The Philadelphia Experiment.

He even includes some technical information such as mathematical formulas for those who can understand them. I'm not one of these people however so I can't comment on that part.

The Great Pyramid as well as other pyramids and monuments in Egypt and around the world stand as silent witnesses to our misunderstood ancient past. I agree with the author that the views of standard Egyptology about the true purpose and nature of these monuments are outmoded and irrelevant.

I view this subject from a more spiritual perspective which is based mainly on the Edgar Cayce psychic material.

Cayce said that the priest Ra Ta (Cayce himself) worked with the gods Horus and Thoth to create this wonder of the world in 10,500 BC after Atlantis went down for the final time. He said the pyramid was constructed for these purposes:

1) it was a religious temple of some sort

2) it tells the destiny of our human race in the markings on the walls inside the pyramid. and in fact the 'pyramid inch' unit of measure was carved into the wall inside the pyramid to tell people how to interpret these markings. notice one pathway goes up to the top of the pyramid and the other goes down into a bottomless pit under the pyramid. the 'chamber of chaos'.

3) it was intended to be a mystery that people would wonder about

Part of the unravelling of this mystery was Christopher Dunn's discovery that the Great Pyramid was a machine. Farrell has now expanded on this idea.

When people first went into the pyramid in modern times they found the sarchophagus broken. Cayce said it was Christ Himself (Thoth) who broke it to symbolize His victory over death.

The number 27 comes up in a few places.

There were 27 pairs of resonators in the pyramid at one time.

The nineteenth century inventor John Worrell Keely claimed to have discovered twenty-seven particulate structures underlying the proton.

Notice 27 = 3 * 3 * 3.

The number 3 is the most mysterious number in the universe. Thus the great god Poseidon carries the trident at all times and the god is always associated with the number 3.

The mathematical value 'pi' is 3 plus a fractional number that never ends. Infinity.

People who are interested in these types of subjects will probably enjoy hearing Al Bielek talk about The Philadelphia Experiment. Bielek claims he was transported 40 years into the future during the 1940s along with his brother Duncan. When they observed their brother Jimmy embedded in the hull of the ship when it started to re-materialize Duncan jumped overboard and got left in the future.

Eventually the CIA transferred their souls into other bodies and they had to grow up all over again.

Jeff Marzano

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Buy it super cheap with free shipping.......2006-03-24

In the first half of the book, the author, Joseph Farrell, jams in extensive quotes from hundreds of "sources" as he attempts to build his case (or to refute non-believers) that the Great Pyramid at Giza was a military weapon. You have to pay really good attention when you read the book as the author bounces around quite a bit and takes many questionable leaps.

Typical of the sources that the author quoted is a 2-page article written by a Ukrainian UFO expert, Vladimir Rubtsov, that appeared in an issue of Fate magazine during 2002. The article was basically an interview with a person (known only as "Anatoliy") who apparently was the only eyewitness of a "scalar" explosion that completely wiped out an entire German "regiment" in 1943-44. Even though the only eyewitness to this event must be at least in his 80's and there are no other records (German or Russian) to support his recollection, Farrell treats this account as absolute fact. ("Scalar" physics postulates, as the author points out, that a time-reversed superluminal form of energy of great power that can be engineered through harmonic interferometry and can be made into a weapon.)

Many of us have seen the NASA photos of a section of the Cydonia region of Mars that show several mountains appear (at least from 200,000 feet) to be pyramids or have at least one side that looks to be relatively flat. However, Farrell (as well as several other authors) assume they are man-made pyramids. Farrell takes a leap as he suggests they were, at one time, military hardened structures.

In the middle of the book, for some unknown reason, Farrell presents a three-page summary of the importance of reading Tarot Cards as related to science. Obviously, I missed something. (Gotta learn to pay attention.)

In order to comprehend the second half of the book, it is essential for the reader to have an advanced degree in Physics. Not having an advanced degree in Quantum Mechanics, I gave up and never finished the book. Wanna buy it? Super cheap and I'll pay for shipping.

Undoubtedly the best researched book on the Pyramid........2004-07-24

Giza Death Star Deployed is possibly the most thought provoking and brilliantly researched book ever written about the physics behind the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Joseph Farrell's presentation of the scalar physics evident in the Pyramid's construction leaves the reader spellbound, and suggests the weapon's hypothesis advanced by Sitchin's research of the archeological texts of antiquity. Whether it was built by extraterrestrials, or a previous race of humans with an advanced military technology remains to be seen, but based on Farrell's hypothesis, the builders of the world's most famous monument appears to have had access to a technology that allowed them to "play god" in the lives of men. In particular, this is a book that should be a "must read" for all Christians, for ultimately, if Farrell's hypothesis is accurate then he has undoubtedly identified the "synagogue of Satan" spoken of in Revelations 3:9.

Brilliant.......2003-11-11

"The Giza Death Star Deployed" will completely change the way you think about ancient (pre-flood?) history. Though Mr. Farrell failed to convince of the fact that the Great Pyramid of Giza was necessarily a weapon, I am completely convinced that it was not built as a tomb. Joseph Farrell examines all the evidence, archaeological, historical, literary, and scientific, leaving no stone unturned. When I first picked up the book, I thought, as anyone would, "is he serious?". But even scanning through the book, I could tell that he was. Suffice it to say that you will never think of the pyramids of Giza the same. For a fresh look at ancient history (along with much, much more) read this book.

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Where We Live is a practical workbook to help citizens find information concerning their local environment and to use that information in furthering environmental goals. The book includes general information on human impact on the environment and instructions for citizens to use in creating a community environmental map. In addition, it guides the user through various environmental programs and available documentation of community environmental hazards.

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Where We Live is a valuable resource for community development practitioners, local government officials and citizen activists concerned with the impact of environmental decisions on local communities, as well as teachers at both the college and secondary-school levels.

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