Linked with Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events.
Richard Cook is a former federal government analyst who was one of the key figures in the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger disaster … One of his areas of interest has been the monetary system and he has written a series of articles about the current financial crisis including Financial Meltdown: U.S. Treasury Regulatory Reform Proposals: Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless, and: Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events? and An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform for the United States … (full text on indybay).
He says: « Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are, or should be, the fruits of democracy. But the political democracy defined by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution has not been achieved because economic democracy has not been achieved. The attainment of real economic democracy is the next task for the American people » … (full text, Nov. 25, 2007).
The Fed’s Bailout: Whose Money Is It? March 23, 2008.
The Basic Income Guarantee and Monetary Reform: A Tale of Two Ideas, April 2007.
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Richard C. Cook – USA
His Book: Challenger revealed, 2007.
He says also: » … I was the NASA analyst who testified before the Presidential Commission on the dangers of the solid rocket booster O-ring seals after the Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986. My new book, Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, was published in January 2007 by Thunder’s Mouth Press. I wrote the book as a first-person narrative based on my experiences at NASA. I retired recently from the federal government and am now a writer, speaker, and consultant on public policy issues, organizational change, and conflict resolution … « , (on his homepage).
Perilous Times, by Richard C. Cook, October 8, 2007.
He writes: … In my book « Challenger Revealed » I point out that an underlying cause of the 1986 disaster was the takeover of the Shuttle program by the leadership of Star Wars in order to use the shuttle as a testing platform for space weapons. My book also makes it clear that Star Wars was always intended to facilitate offensive warfare. The only « good » thing about the Challenger disaster was that it brought space weapons testing to a halt, since the Air Force had no alternative testing system. Today they have corrected that flaw by shifting back to unmanned launchers for testing and deployment … (full text).
Economic Crisis: The U.S. Political Leadership Has Failed, September 12, 2007.
He writes also: … Well, let me point out that the U.S. Constitution gives Congress authority over our monetary system. True, in 1913, Congress ceded its monetary authority to the private financial industry through the Federal Reserve Act. You will recall that this egregiously flawed legislation gives the president the authority to name the Fed’s chairman but grants its member banks actual ownership of the system. So let me suggest that it’s time for our elected representatives to take that authority back. The only truly effective course of action at the start of what is clearly the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression would be for the government to abolish the whole system of debt-based currency over which the Fed presides and which is today destroying our country. What should be done is that the president of the United States should act upon his authority to faithfully execute the laws by working with Congress to seize control of the U.S. monetary system and operate it on behalf of “We the People.” This is what Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Democratic leadership of Congress should be advocating. It’s what a new president should do immediately upon taking the oath of office on January 21, 2009. (full text, March 20, 2008).
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The blog: Dandelion Salad.
links:
The People’s Voice.org/Voices (and the homepage);
Les dessous de l’information mondiale /Downside World News, its article: Air Force officer disciplined for saying Bush allowed September 11 attacks, April 3, 2008, and its article: Experts Predict Imminent Oil Squeeze, April 3, 2008;
the blog: Questioning War – Organizing Resistance;
Enhancing internal capacity: leadership for learning, 10 pages;
Leadership in professional learning communities;
Deep leadership and personalised learning, 13 pages;
Responses to the PricewaterhouseCoopers review of school leadership: school leadership policy, 3 pages, STRB review of leaders´ pay and conditions, 10 pages;
The blog: Reading, Writing re: Management.