Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, seeking to create a strategic outpost for New France, built Fort Toulouse in Creek territory. This area would eventually become Wetumpka, located on the banks of the Coosa River and standing at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains. The fort became the headquarters for Gen. Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, and later it was where Creek Indians ceded their lands to the federal government. Wetumpka's presence was also large outside of military endeavors. During the cotton boom, two years after the city's incorporation in 1834, a New York newspaper declared it and Chicago, Illinois, the "two most promising cities in the West." Although fire, floods, and the Civil War hindered growth, infrastructural transformations and cultural additions have helped mold modern Wetumpka into the "City of Natural Beauty" and propel it to occasional roles on the big screen.

First published in 1919, this book traces the growth of War Debt during the First World War, examines the real meaning of the Debt and discusses the proposals for clearing it. As the chief contemporary proposal put forward for meeting the interest and repaying the principal of the Debt was the "Conscription of Wealth", or the "Capital Levy", this provides a main focus for the analysis. The author also examines whether the methods of financing war - by borrowing the required money - is sound and whether it should be replaced by taxation. A plan for the reform of income tax is put forward, designed to yield two-thirds of the revenue needed for a Peace Budget that also addresses the War Debt.

First published in 1919, this book traces the growth of War Debt during the First World War, examines the real meaning of the Debt and discusses the proposals for clearing it. As the chief contemporary proposal put forward for meeting the interest and repaying the principal of the Debt was the "Conscription of Wealth", or the "Capital Levy", this provides a main focus for the analysis. The author also examines whether the methods of financing war - by borrowing the required money - is sound and whether it should be replaced by taxation. A plan for the reform of income tax is put forward, designed to yield two-thirds of the revenue needed for a Peace Budget that also addresses the War Debt.

Humanity is consumed by relentless transformation   Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice. As Joe Allen writes in this groundbreaking book, “Transhumanism is the great merger of humankind with the Machine. At this stage in history, it consists of billions using smartphones. Going forward, we’ll be hardwiring our brains to artificial intelligence systems.�  The world-famous robot, Sophia, symbolizes a rising techno-religion. She takes her name from the goddess—or Aeon—whose fall from grace is described in the Gnostic Gospels.   With an academic background in both science and theology, Allen confronts the paradox of what he calls “good people constructing a digital abomination.� Dark Aeon is nothing less than a cri de coeur for humanity itself. He takes us on a roller coaster ride through history and the emergence of Scientism, and from government-mandated mRNA vaccines to the weird visions of cyborg billionaires like Elon Musk.    From Silicon Valley to China, these globalists’ visions of humanity’s future, exposed and described in Dark Aeon, are dire and terrifying. But Joe Allen argues that humanity’s salvation is within our grasp. Only if we refuse to avert our eyes from the impending twilight before us.   

If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King tears down the Brown Wall surrounding one of America's most admired companies-United Parcel Service (UPS). The company that we see everyday but know so little about. How did a company that began as a bicycle messenger service in Seattle, Washington become a global behemoth? How did it displace General Motors, the very symbol of American capitalism, to become the largest, private sector, unionized employer in the United States? And, at what cost to its workers and surrounding communities? Will it remain the Package King in the 21st Century or will be dethroned by Amazon?

If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King tears down the Brown Wall surrounding one of America's most admired companies-United Parcel Service (UPS). The company that we see everyday but know so little about. How did a company that began as a bicycle messenger service in Seattle, Washington become a global behemoth? How did it displace General Motors, the very symbol of American capitalism, to become the largest, private sector, unionized employer in the United States? And, at what cost to its workers and surrounding communities? Will it remain the Package King in the 21st Century or will be dethroned by Amazon?

As the United States now faces a major defeat in its occupation of Iraq, the history of the Vietnam War, as a historic blunder for US military forces abroad, and the true story of how it was stopped, take on a fresh importance. Unlike most books on the topic, constructed as specialized academic studies, "The (Last) War the United States Lost" examines the lessons of the Vietnam era with Joe Allen's eye of both a dedicated historian and an engaged participant in today's antiwar movement.

Many damaging myths about the Vietnam era persist, including the accusations that antiwar activists routinely jeered and spat at returning soldiers or that the war finally ended because Congress cut off its funding. Writing in a clear and accessible style, Allen reclaims the stories of the courageous GI revolt; its dynamic relationship with the civil rights movement and the peace movement; the development of coffee houses where these groups came to speak out, debate, and organize; and the struggles waged throughout barracks, bases, and military prisons to challenge the rule of military command.

Allen's analysis of the US failure in Vietnam is also the story of the hubris of US imperial overreach, a new chapter of which is unfolding in the Middle East today.

Joe Allen is a regular contributor to the "International Socialist Review" and a longstanding social justice fighter, involved in the ongoing struggles for labor, the abolition of the death penalty, and to free the political prisoner Gary Tyler.

A poetic journey through years marked by pain, loss, and drug abuse into recovery and spiritual promise.

"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life." - Alan Lakein Don't want to spend too much time reading a "Time Management Book"? Well if you want to save time and know how to use it wisely, the "Time Management Simple Book: A Guidebook to Help You Manage Your Time and Get Things Done," is a comprehensive book on the subject of improving your time management and helping you to get more things done. This book also mentions several key ideas and tools that can be applied in order to improve productivity and efficiency. These topics include goal setting, prioritizing, scheduling, and avoiding procrastination. The end of the report provides the reader with several resources to explore in order to further improve his or her skills in this area. In this book, you'll discover: - The essentials of time management - Benefits of good time management and - How to analyze your time to better help you get organized - Right decision making tips to save your time - Top tips on goal setting to help you get things done - Prioritizing and methods of better time management - Scheduling on your priorities - How to reduce interruptions and other distractions and improve concentration - What and how to delegate to save your time so to focus on more important things - How to stop procrastination and tips on getting more things done - Tips and ideas on eliminating time wasters - Quick tips on using technology to your advantage - Motivations to manage your time - Quick and Easy tools for time management ...And much more... Go get this simple time management book and start to get more things done today

"Resolution" is the fourth and last of a series of adventure stories that represent one potential path of human transformation. It's a path that few people would select for themselves. In the next few hundred years human survivors will have faced a variety of scenarios with a wide range of lethal conditions. "The Red Clay Desert" series is but one possibility.

Jane could see that the young Chinese girl was being violated by five pairs of persistent hands vigorously squeezing and prodding her.

Where is the man with those eyes? Jane thought.

When Jane could stand no more she screamed at the top of her voice. In the desert darkness Jane's violent outcry was so startling that three desert men jumped to their feet pulling large knives from hiding places in raggedy desert garb.

Jane heard a popping sound and two of the men slumped to the ground. The escape of the other men was almost a cartoon-like reflex. She saw three bandits in an immediate simultaneous crouching sprint toward the protection of darkness at the edge of the fi relight circle. The popping sound came once more and two runners dropped face down on the clay. One runner continued, then two, then none.

The saga of the Haze family, which began in "The Red Clay Desert," continues. When religious zealots burned the Haze family's new farm in the north, Kyle Haze is forced to return to the old fallout shelter in his desert home. With an enemy behind and an enemy ahead Kyle often finds it necessary to use deadly force.

"When are we gonna fight back?" Cousin Bony had demanded.
"Now ain't the time, Bony," Kyle had answered. "we're out in the open with fires burnin' behind us and we got no targets If we shoot back now and kill one of 'em, they got a reason to just go and kill all of us They don't get to say when the real fight is gonna take place. That decision belongs to you and me "

During the travels of the Haze clan Kyle finds that he must deal with strange things that happened during the early riotous years. Law and order struggled, survival replaced education, destruction became a hobby and polite society was replaced by barbarism. The one desert constant that Kyle understands is a killer sun. The sun eliminates those that are weak and those that don't understand.

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When conditions crashed and people had to fight to survive, the Haze family chose to fight in the desert. East of the Mississippi isolated wall cities protected crowds of people wanting to be left alone. A few migrant workers kept on the move hoping to avoid ruffians looking for trouble.

The Blacktowers made a place for themselves by planting and harvesting in widely separated eastern farms of close knit communities. Chester Blacktower moved his extensive family in steam powered trucks, but eventually the fight came to Chester's family.

Jane's heart was pounding as never before, and she had to force herself to take a quivering breath of air. Someone was outside the back door.

She could hear whispering but she couldn't tell how many were there. A hand came in through the open window and the door was pushed open. Four heads were silhouetted in the doorway, and she could make out rifles pointed her way.

After the fight Jane, Chester's daughter, along with with other family members, met the last of the Haze Clan as they attempted to cross the Red Clay Desert.

Questions and topics that come to mind for: First-time teachers preparing to teach their first class First-time teachers related to student contact First-time teachers related to administrative and faculty interaction

In the twenty-fifth century, what used to be called the Midwestern section of the United States of America, all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, has become desert. The remains of Midwest City, Oklahoma, now known as Haze Territory, is a barren red clay desert populated by only a few family councils. Fourteen-year-old Kyle Haze must help his family defend the area, just as his ancestors did over many previous generations.

Means of monetary exchange, transportation, community, and industry are long gone since the only active government is that of local communities. Fighting among area clans is common when survival is at stake and resources are scarce. Those remaining in the harsh environment must migrate, mutate, adapt, or die. After the Chastain clan attacks his father, Kyle and his kin are driven from the only home they've ever known. They set out to renew their lives up north, a land foreign to them, while attempting to keep their family intact.

Kyle must constantly lead them in and out of life-threatening circumstances, bringing out the best and worst of humanity in order to survive another day in their primitive world and avenge the damage done to his family by other clans.