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Mix the following: A Voodoo Priestess A Pirate of sorts A Golden-hearted Whore - or three A Drug Dealer and his friends A Bad-Ass Irish thug A few Lawyers – Some good, some bad, and a short fat Judge to make life difficult. Airboats, drunks and drum circles at sunset. Sex? Just enough. Violence? Only when necessary. And a parrot who has timely, witty offerings at odd moments. And of course, it’s all in Florida, where crazy is normal. A story has to follow... The Eloquent Parrot (Book #1 Blackbeard & Hibiscus Series) is a standalone novel that will take you on a Florida adventure! If you...

Sean Patrick O'Connell was the son of Donald and Mary Pat O'Connell. His was a middle-class upbringing in a middle-class neighborhood. Though he went off to college after high school graduation his performance was less than stellar. When he left college he volunteered to serve during the Vietnam War. His was an exemplary, though short, military career. At the war?s end he returned to school and did well. In his senior year he submitted a Fulbright Scholarship proposal which was approved. What distressed his family, classmates, school and the Fulbright committee was that his studies would ...

No sooner had the aerial reconnaissance photographs of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea been analyzed than the evidence of China's island-building activities was forwarded to the Pentagon and the White House. Those satellite images revealed that the Chinese military was turning reefs and atolls into solid ground supporting airfields, ports, helipads and barracks. The discovery of new Chinese military staging areas adjacent to the earth's busiest shipping lanes for oil and natural gas was followed within weeks by China's announcement that they would purchase all of Russia's surplus...

Since 1979, the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had offices in Chinatown in New York City and elsewhere across the United States. Its purported purpose is to assist American residents of Chinese ancestry deal with such mundane issues as obtaining driver’s licenses and filling out work papers. But its more significant purpose is the suppression of anti-Chinese Communist activities. It works in collaboration with the CCP in recruiting those of Chinese ancestry such as graduate students working in classified American military projects. They are ...

Pope Francis was elected in 2013. As the first Jesuit pope, Francis brought to the papacy the agenda of social justice observed in Jesuit works across the globe. Pope Francis inherited scandals from the reassignment of pedophile priests in Boston to the abuse and neglect of unwed mothers, children and orphans at the Church-run Magdalene laundries in Ireland. But the one institution which no pope had ever been able to reign in was the Vatican Bank. Today Pope Francis is revered as an enlightened patriarch with an interest in climate change. When American company Solyndra, marketing "green" ...

Beth Edelman was the first woman Director of Central Intelligence, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was the first foreign-born individual to head the Central Intelligence Agency, having been born in Israel in 1960. And she was the first Director of Central Intelligence to be kidnapped. Abducted from the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by captors unknown, she was whisked away to a location where she would be secure but out of touch with the outside world. The collective resources of the nation's law enforcement and intelligence communities were enlisted to determine her ...

Thomas Moore and John Anderson were Masonic brothers of Georgetown Lodge in Washington, DC during the period leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Commander Moore worked in naval intelligence at the National Photographic Interpretation Center at the Washington Navy Yard. His responsibilities included the analysis of reconnaissance photography taken by U-2 spy planes overflying Cuba 90 miles off the Florida coast. John Anderson was a translator on the staff of the Soviet Embassy in Washington blocks north of the White House. His responsibility was to turn the ideologically ...

For the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, more commonly known as ISIS, the two week period from October 31st through November 13th, 2015, had been extraordinarily successful from a public relations point of view. It had both made an explicit ideological statement and would serve as a recruiting tool for faithful Muslims around the world. Not only had 396 people lost their lives in terrorist attacks, but those attacks had taken place both in the Middle East and in Western Europe. The message those attacks sent was unmistakable. We know who our enemies are, we can find them, and we can kill ...

The story begins in 1860 on a sheep farm in the foothills outside of Aberdeen, Scotland, with the birth of Angus, a new generation of the MacLeish clan. Thirty-five years later, the next generation would awaken in a small farm shack at the base of Castlerock Mountain in northern Vermont. The only child of his generation, Timothy had two sons, Ian and Allyn, who served with valor in the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, received graduate degrees from Ivy League colleges, and returned to the family farmstead. But one returned with a view to improving practices of farming; the other,...

In the Summer of 2021, the economy of the Russian Federation was teetering on the brink. The proceeds from the export sales of fossil fuels by Rosneft and Gazprom, the two state-owned crude oil and natural gas companies, was all that was propping it up. Then word reached Moscow that Saudi Arabia was going to release large new volumes of crude oil on the commodities markets sending the price plummeting and capturing a greater percentage of the export market. Russia’s economy could not withstand this. In order to diminish the Saudi supply of crude oil, Russia decided to launch an attack ...

Ever since the Vietnam War, if not World War II, the acquisition process for new goods or services used by the U.S. Armed Forces has been the same. It has involved as much paperwork, and taken as long, to acquire a new software program as it takes to acquire a new aircraft carrier. A service's needs were more likely than not to change between the time the bids were let and the date upon which the product was delivered. This process may not have drastically changed the configuration of the aircraft carrier, but in the realm of software the specifications and need for output can change by the...

Behind the Meat Curtains is a tell all podcast about the behind the scenes workings of the strip club industry.

Hannah Hopkins is on the journey of a lifetime. As part of a small wagon train heading to California in 1897, she and her father know that their new life will be filled with adventure, new horizons, and hardship. When Hannah is the victim of unwanted advances, she is callously shunned by their traveling companions. Worse, her beloved father, a respected physician, dies along the trail after a brief illness. Heartbroken and afraid, the grieving daughter is forced off the wagon train and abandoned to a nightmare. She finds herself the prisoner of an old couple who rob and abuse her. But one...

This is a must listen audiobook for anyone who finds themselves at the beginning of their breast cancer journey. Full of realism, hope, practical help, and humor, it will be a companion to see you through it all.

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The podcast for awakening and conscious, heart-led female entrepreneurs who are ready to start their shift into the best version of themselves. Featuring fascinating deep chats with other female spiritual entrepreneurs, solo casts on mind, body + soul. Victoria Knowles-Lacks is a twice certified coach, a 1/3 generator, a trailblazing, 10 x award winning entrepreneur, who has been in business for over a decade, she's a #1 bestselling author, a warrior + a Mama.

For breast cancer curious fam, this is a *fun cancer* podcast about two sisters. Kat was diagnosed at 39 with Grade 2, Stage 2 HR/PR+ HER2- IDC breast cancer in 2021, and her sister, Babs, was diagnosed at 33 with Grade 3, Stage 2a HR/PR+ HER2- IDC breast cancer months later. Both AYA and now survivors, they rely on humor with breastie bestie Aimee as they share openly about their experience, which is definitely not the same. This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as medical advice. Always seek the guidance of qualified professionals.

An iTunes number-one best seller when it quietly appeared in 2014, The PA—a true story—charts the journey of the protagonist, Vicki, as a personal assistant through the world of commerce in the City of London, but portrays the minefield of the megalomaniac, narcissistic (and slightly deranged) senior executives and minor celebrities she meets along the way.

I AM A SPARTAN! OCR PODCAST is a podcast that is going to be about Spartan racing and OCR lifestyle and the people that are living it! My name is Scott and I enjoy talking about Spartan an OCR's on any level . This is going to be very laid back an chill podcast that I am hoping will be fun for everyone that enjoys the sport.

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