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Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Unveiling America’s Financial System By Don Kilam Did you know that the beloved tale of The Wizard of Oz serves as a powerful symbolic meaning for the complexities of America’s financial system? In Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Don Kilam takes readers on an enlightening journey that reinterprets this classic story as a revealing commentary on the hidden forces shaping our economic landscape. Meet the Straw Man, a figure encumbered by the weight of a Certificate—our birth certificate—representing the legal fiction that governs our identities. Discover ...

From The Very Beginning, the student is taken on an enlightening journey through the complex world of Political Status, Standing, and Agency. This course will enlighten the student over the often intimidating aspects of Political Status and its implications within the legal system, emphasizing the importance of understanding one's own position in the public and private sectors of trade. Don Kilam University goes over the history of money and the trust banking system that has dominated for over a millennia, revealing insights into the U.S. bankruptcy system and how it can be leveraged to ...

This is an essential work for understanding the dilemmas and possibilities of contemporary urbanism in the face of the environmental, social, and economic transformations shaping cities in the 21st century. With a critical, interdisciplinary, and current approach, the book investigates two of the main vectors of urban change: the growing adoption of sustainable practices in the real estate sector and the advancement of gentrification in large urban centers.

Desde el principio, el estudiante emprende un viaje esclarecedor a través del complejo mundo del estatus, la posición y la agencia políticos. Este curso ilustrará al estudiante sobre los aspectos a menudo intimidantes del estatus político y sus implicaciones dentro del sistema legal, enfatizando la importancia de comprender la propia posición en los sectores público y privado del comercio. La Universidad Don Kilam repasa la historia del dinero y el sistema bancario fiduciario que ha dominado durante más de un milenio, revelando ideas sobre el sistema de quiebras de Estados Unidos y ...

What if the person you think you are isn’t all there is? In The Strawman: If I Only Had a Brain, by bestselling author Don Kilam invites you to peel back the layers of your very existence and meet your most enigmatic counterpart: your Strawman—the invisible fictitious twin you never knew you had! From the moment your birth certificate was filed, a legal phantom was born alongside you—a fictitious identity crafted through the intricacies of law, existing solely in the realm of paper and bureaucracy. With a name hauntingly similar to your own but written in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, this ...

THE FAMILY LEGACY BLUEPRINT by Don Kilam Unlock the full potential of your family business and private family foundation with "The Family Legacy Blueprint," a comprehensive guide by expert Don Kilam. This essential resource is designed for family business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to create a lasting legacy that combines effective business practices with philanthropic efforts. Inside, you'll discover: - Family Businesses and Foundations: Understand the unique dynamics of family-owned enterprises and how private family foundations can enhance business operations while ...

LEGAL ARMOR: The Asset Protection Playbook by Don Kilam Safeguard your wealth and secure your future with "Legal Armor: The Asset Protection Playbook," an essential guide by expert Don Kilam that dives deep into the world of asset protection through Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). This comprehensive manual equips you with the knowledge and tools necessary to shield your personal assets from potential threats while maximizing your financial security. In this book, you will explore: - The Basics of LLCs: Understand the dual nature of liability in LLCs, how they protect your personal ...

At the heart of countless crimes lie the mysteries of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology, and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career. Her riveting, sometimes shocking stories reveal the crucial and often surprising role forensic psychology plays in the pursuit of justice - in which the accused may truly believe their own bizarre lies, creating a world that pushes them into committing horrific, violent crimes.

In Where Tyranny Begins, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde investigates the strategies Trump systematically used to turn the country's two most powerful law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons. Rohde also reveals how, during the Biden years, Justice Department non-partisan 1970s norms that Attorney General Merrick Garland reinforced inadvertently helped Trump, and could fail to deliver a trial and legal accountability by Election Day 2024.

Learn how to effectively raise kids with a narcissistic ex and ensure your kids are emotionally secure, mentally strong, confident, and happy. It can be done, but you need to utilize specific strategies.

Internationally renowned privacy expert Daniel J. Solove draws from a range of fields, from law to philosophy to the humanities, to illustrate the profound changes technology is wreaking upon our privacy, why they matter, and what can be done about them. Solove provides incisive examinations of key concepts in the digital sphere, including control, manipulation, harm, automation, reputation, consent, prediction, inference, and many others.

Aziz Z. Huq shows how the rule of law can still be used as an important tool for framing and evaluating the goals and functions of a legal system. He traces the idea's historical origins from ancient Greece to the constitutional theorist Albert Venn Dicey to the economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek. And he explores how that value is coming under pressure from terrorist threats, macroeconomic crisis, pandemics, autocratic populism, and climate change.

The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senate majority leader, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against "Big Tobacco" and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter-day Robin Hood and portrayed in the movie The Insider as a dapper aviator-lawyer.

In this intimate legal and historical detective story, the world-renowned lawyer and acclaimed author of East West Street traces the footsteps of two of the twentieth century’s most merciless criminals—accused of genocide and crimes against humanity—testing the limits of immunity and impunity after Nuremberg.

This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting. Drawing on numerous commonsense examples, in addition to his extensive knowledge of Chicago-school economics, David D. Friedman offers a spirited defense of the economic view of law. He clarifies the relationship between law and economics in clear prose that is friendly to students, lawyers, and lay listeners without sacrificing the intellectual heft of the ideas presented.

Two days after Christmas, 2011, Russel Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home to find his wife, Betsy, dead, a knife still lodged in her neck. She had been stabbed 55 times in a brutal murder that would set off a chain of events leading to one man's wrongful conviction and imprisonment, another man's death, the revelation of a diabolical scheme, and an astounding miscarriage of justice left unresolved for another 10 years.

In this fascinating, in-depth account of the hunt for serial killers, Colin Wilson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, examines the ways they can be tracked down and caught, from the tried-and-true methods of the early 20th century to the high-tech processes in use today. Wilson examines such areas as psychological profiling, genetic fingerprinting, and the launch of the Behavioral Science Unit. He delves into the importance of fantasy to serial killers, the urge to keep on killing, the desire to become notorious, and murder as an addictive drug.

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. But is this common-law mindset, which is appropriate in its place, suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretation? In a witty and trenchant essay, Justice Scalia answers this question with a resounding negative.

Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in harrowing cases between 1920 and 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system of the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the line from slavery to the legal structures of this period—and through to today.

Since the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, this judicial review has been highly deferential: courts must uphold agency interpretations of unclear laws as long as these interpretations are "reasonable." But the Chevron doctrine faces backlash from constitutional scholars and, now, from Supreme Court justices who insist that courts, not administrative agencies, have the authority to say what the law is. Recognizing that Congress cannot help relying on agencies to carry out laws, Merrill rejects the notion of discarding the administrative state.