Serfs and Kings and Demystifying Political Economy are two separate polemics that take a philosophical approach to the conspiracy behind world domination by the global elite. Serfs and Kings is a thought provoking essay on the arcane historical evolution of political and economic power and how this evolution has taken place largely behind the scenes. It explores our own beliefs as "serfs" as well as trying to understand the beliefs of the elite who have risen to the top as the social engineers of the New World Order. It explores how the masses are manipulated by as Plato called them "the Philosopher Kings" from early on in our education, through the control of history and reinforcement by the media. It provides insight into the true economic causes of war and terrorism and explores the depths of media mind control used to create a fearful public increasingly willing to give up their liberties. Demystifying Political Economy follows along the same lines as Serfs and Kings but provides a more in depth focus on the evolution of political economy both in the U.S. and globally. It explores economic development from local agrarian based trade to the globally intertwined high tech system in which we find ourselves today. Not designed to be an overview of macro economics, this essay focuses on the impact to the human condition in connection with economic development. It takes a philosophical look at socialism and capitalism and the gradual evolution to the hybrid system that will likely become the new global model. It provides analysis of the domination by the captains of enterprise, central banks, and the governments they control to keep the system moving forward. In these two polemics, author Steven Conrad deftly explores the evolution of this powerful elite and the deception of the masses by this esoteric group. His alternate views of history, the evolution of political economies and social engineering are both fascinating and startling. The exploration of these arcane theories will leave readers staring into the great abyss, while creating some practical insights into our basic freedoms. While readers will gain invaluable insight into the one World global synthesis that is currently taking place, they should be forewarned: Once you see the truth, there is no turning away from it.

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In 1728, William Byrd, the wealthy, English-educated master of Westover plantation, undertook a journey with a troop of commissioners, surveyors, and woodsmen to determine the exact boundary between North Carolina and Virginia. Byrd was not only an indefatigable explorer but also an amateur naturalist and diarist of considerable skill. He recorded the journey in two classics of colonial literature-- "The History of the Dividing Line" and "The Secret History of the Line"--which showcase in varying measure his keen observations of natural phenomena, his erudition, his predilection for exercise and sexual conquest, and his witty and elegant prose.

William Byrd and Stephen Ausband are separated by almost three hundred years, but they share a similar literary inclination complemented by an amateur interest in nature. Like Byrd, Ausband has tramped the dividing line and returned with a lively, informative book.

"Byrd's Line" is Ausband's dialogue with Byrd across the years. It still requires a hike or a four-wheel-drive vehicle to reach the remote beach where Byrd began his survey. As Ausband slogs through the Great Dismal Swamp and the thickets and forests that Byrd wrote about, he interlaces his own adventure with quotations from Byrd. These range from descriptions of chestnut trees and passenger pigeons, both gone now, to accounts of the local inhabitants, both native and European.

Byrd often mused about what would happen to the land in the future. While some of the dividing line still feels like wilderness, it is crisscrossed today by bridges and roads, its forests felled and paved over for parking lots and subdivisions, its waters diverted or drained. Ausband's story, therefore, is a natural history of a changed region. It is also an accessible introduction to the mind and words of an extraordinary early American.