Cuba was run as an American protectorate by The US President and The US Mafia was there ever a connection? The ruling families of Cuba, The Batista's traditionally ruled the island of Cuba as their private fiefdom. There was no law and order for poor Cubans, just daily exploitation, murder, rape and slavery whilst the stars and stripes flew from the American embassy in Havana.The poor of Cuba banded together as freedom fighters and were led by Fidel Castro And Che Guevara to fight ...

The invitation to participate in the financial system exists. But few people are ever taught how to accept it strategically. In The Invitation, James Phillips IV draws on over fourteen years of experience in banking and financial services to explain how banks, credit, and capital really work-and how individuals and entrepreneurs can position themselves to access opportunity and build lasting wealth. This book breaks down the invisible systems that determine who gets approved, who gets fund...

Our lives move along with ups and downs, and we cope with them the best we can. But underneath there is a hunger for something more. There are times of stress such as when a loved one dies, a job is lost, a child is on a dangerous path, a difficult situation goes on and on. There are many other stressors that we all encounter. This book offers quotations from ancient and modern authors and poems and reflections that give a thought or image that seeps through the cracks that the stresses ha...

What if Roswell was actually a cover up not for aliens but for a government plan to enter an alternate dimension? Furthermore, what if this dimension was technologically superior to our own and the government was planning to try again? This is the information that a mysterious businessman has just learned and seeks to obtain an item from within that dimension. Meanwhile, several friends are about to be roped into an adventure that explores the alternate dimension where their very lives are...

The poor council-projects estate boy gets a first class degree in Criminology from University.Once the Government and The Chief of police see they have a genius on their hands he is heading for the top.He is posted from his Police station after a successful drugs arrests to anti-police corruption division, a potential graveyard of police people. If you arrest a corrupt Police person then his bosses in management will not employ you as you have shown them to be corrupt too f...

A poor boy from the Projects poor housing estate does well at grammar-high school and is selected to join the air force as an office-gentleman- jet pilot.There is a big reduction in defence budgets and pilot training is severely hit; so he is transferred into the Police.He is very concerned at joining this allegedly endemic corrupt to core non performing organisation; and soon discovers it is a minefield of corruption black-holes, where some policemen disappeared from the p...

Bombay in India; now called through politics Mumbai; was a wonderful place in 1930's. A busy commercial and bustling housing area for millions of people, where anything including policemen and the judiciary could be bought and sold daily in India; just like today.Superintendent Grant was an honest guy who refused to join the endemically corrupt and criminal to the core British Police; so he joined The Indian Police Force to be useful in being an honest figurehead to a corrupt polic...

A young boy the son of a poor builder in Bremen has to join the Wermacht (Army) to gain an education. He becomes an artillery officer and is transferred into the new Luftwaffe. In Spain he gains an Iron cross with The Condors and meets The Fuhrer.As war starts he is transferred by The Fuhrer to a Field Marshall as his aide-de-camp, and helps his boss fight the war to great victories for The Third Reich. He produces an escape plan for senior people as a personal folly exercise....

John Cabot — builder of canals and bridges, devoted husband, and father of three — dreams of wealth and status for his family. But his aspirations leave him overextended, pursued by merciless creditors, and forced to flee Venice with his family.Attempts to restore his family’s fortunes in Milan and Valencia end in repeated disappointment. But in Seville, John finds work as a maritime engineer for the king of Spain. Inspired by the daring exploits of Cristóbal Colón, he sets his sig...

Among all of history’s greatest musicians, few have been as admired or influential as ludwig van beethoven, whose name remains synonymous with composing. Works like his fifth and ninth symphonies remain instantly recognizable over 200 years after they were composed, and their sweeping and grandiose nature are made all the more amazing by the fact that their author was gradually going deaf and couldn’t hear music very well by the time he was composing them. Similarly, the “moonlight sonata”...

Busby Berkeley's big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory.Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in which Berkeley created spectacles that are both critical and complacent in relation to the society that produced and received them.Berkeley carried into his images of utopia the assembly plant, the misogyny, the fascism and racism of his day, but hi...

Surrogacy: Our Family’s Journey chronicles the ups and downs of surrogacy as experienced by James Phillip: from making the decision to use a surrogate, each step along the way, presenting both sides of the process and on to the creation of a family and the support needed through the first months after bringing his twin babies home.This unique memoir follows James on his incredible, and sometimes exasperating, journey through the ‘hurry up and wait’ path of the surrogacy pr...