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Beware the Demagogue!

Rogue or Savior?

By: Edward John Mastronardi

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Beware the Demagogue!

Rogue or Savior?

By: Edward John Mastronardi

The primary purpose of the three-part fictional story in this book is to graphically illustrate, on the one hand, the dangerous impact that can occur in their lives should the old and the young allow themselves to be politically seduced by the plaudits, promises , and entreaties of those power-hungry individuals demanding their support for their own selfish, self-serving reasons. In this book, an explanation is given on how one originally well-meaning, extremely wealthy individual evolved into becoming such a personality and what happened to him and others around him as a result. On the other hand, it outlines how such wealth in the right hands can effectively benefit both the unemployed and underemployed members of North Americas increasingly multicultural society. This has been effectively illustrated in the United States by the unbelievably generous gifts of incredibly wealthy individuals, such as the world-famous founding guru of the Microsoft computer empire, William Bill Gates. Past examples of the destructive impact of the first type of demagogue are legendary, as amply demonstrated by Huey Long, the governor of Louisiana in the dirty thirties, whose power-hungry march to the United States White House dramatically ended with his assassination. His appeal to the numerous underprivileged voters in his state was effectively created by his repetitively preaching catchy phrases like Youre a hick, Im a hick who will look out for you! Also in the world depression thirties, theres Adolph Hitler promising Germans a return to world power of a world war one reparation paying bankrupt Germany and Benito Mussolini promising Italians a return to the glory days of Rome. Today we have a prime example of the use of vast sums of money as an economic weapon by a money rich but natural resource limited recently established economic giant. Its granting of huge loans seemingly established it as an instrument of its foreign policy, providing governments in need with incredible-sized debt repayment obligations. In one classic case, it helped raise its national debt to a staggering level of trillions of dollars. Added to this is, its buying up vast amounts of other countries natural resources, property, even entire industries.

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1524513601

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9781524513603

Stories of Life

By: Edward John Mastronardi

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Stories of Life

By: Edward John Mastronardi

Stories of Life in four parts are a variety of tales of men, women, and youth experiences in a broad array of situations, some ending in a surprising manner, a few tragically, illustrating the challenges faced in their lives. For the most part, they are based on real-life situations, many observed, some experienced, a few imaginatively created. The author believes, based on the favourable reviews of the stories from the book read thus far by a variety of individuals, virtually every reader will discover tales they can relate to based on their own life experience, finding others of more than just of a passing interest. The first part emphasises trials and triumphs in their working lives. The second part describes a number of sometimes shocking experiences occurring in their lives in youth and adulthood. The third and fourth parts are self-explanatory. Seduction, a timeless, astonishingly effective instrument of Lucifer, is not confined to sex; it is also a lust for power, wealth, authority, recognition, and domination, manifesting itself ruthlessly on all levels of society. It's not restricted to a repetition of the biblical historical confrontation of Eve with the evil one in the guise of a snake, seducing her, subsequently Adam, into eating the forbidden apple, a blame appellation over the ages many women found unacceptable. The former archangel Lucifer's apparent ability engaging in the thought processes of unwary humans asleep or awake, the nature of his appearances unlimited, has made him mankind's most formidable lifetime enemy. Despite this, although frightening to most, strangely appealing to some. The tales following are not related to religious Bible punching only to the human experience of women and men in a variety of times and situations. Some tragic, a few amusing, using the speech patterns of today not emulating those of the period being covered. While they change over time, human nature does not. Following are a collection of tales about a severely wounded Canadian Korean war hero, Michael Reardon, a major figure in the novel Mock the Haggard Face: A Canadian War Story, starting with Two Nights to Remember, his experience following a short trip to Seoul after the Royals' successful capture of a major Chinese winter line position hill 187 bordering the Samichon Valley in North Korea. Also noted Reardon's remaining impact on his former command, The Deuce, in The Royals Second Battalion, particularly on his successor, Craig Sparling, finding Reardon a hard act to follow. Also described are some incidents in his working life after Korea as well earlier in his boyhood, finally, an indication on several occasions in his life, of the impact, in the poet Robert Frost's words of The Road Not Taken.

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239

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514439735

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9781514439739

Justice Not Denied

By: Edward John Mastronardi

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Justice Not Denied

By: Edward John Mastronardi

This book tells the story of the impact of a program humanely disposing a massive inherited fortune of criminally generated wealth on both those trying to honourably accomplish this and others determined using every criminal means in their power violently preventing it. Carole Masters, a major protagonist in the novel Dancing around the Hill, now in her midthirties, still disarmingly attractive, once cruelly labelled by the press as the Black Widow, was in a disturbing quandary while in the process of launching a major program to charitably dispose her vast, completely unexpected inherited wealth. The huge fortune, unknowingly by her, had been accumulated by her late murdered lover she only knew as David Rosanoff, a successful, very wealthy businessman. In reality, he was Boris Aristine, the notorious head of a major European controlled drug syndicate and responsible for ordering the deaths of her husband, Scott Beaumont, and her Florentine lover, Niccolo Gregorian. Aristines responsibility for their shocking deaths was also not known by her until told of it by a Royal Canadian Mounted Polices chief inspector, Ronald Guthrie. Julius Silverberg, capo of the New York criminal Syndicate, now the head of its North American operation in Canada and the United States, was warned that a major attempt to close down the Syndicates operations in Canada was being financed by Carole Masterss inherited illegally generated Syndicate wealth. He decided taking action, enlisting the help of Francesco Gianni, the Montreal Syndicate capo, getting rid of the threat. It was a potential death warrant for Carole Masters and those helping her. The book relates how this transpired, was ultimately dealt with, and what happened to some of the storys main characters at the end.

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1514481537

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9781514481530

Dancing Around the Hill

Part 1 the Gregorian Affair Part 2 the Syndicate

By: Edward Mastronardi

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Dancing Around the Hill

Part 1 the Gregorian Affair Part 2 the Syndicate

By: Edward Mastronardi

In the 1970s, Canadas cities are rife with political turmoil. Journalist Tony Muldoon capitalizes on the copious scandals and underhanded election games in his column, Dancing around the Hill, featured in the Ottawa Tribune. His career is on the fast track, complete with a promotion and bigger paycheck, but living the high life isnt as great as he hoped. His marriage is a faade of jealousy and anger, and soon, all the scandalous dirt hes been digging up might bury him. Its true: Ottawa is a place of power, but some politicians and senior bureaucrats that walk her fine streets are anything but pure of heart. These men and women are hungry for control, and they will do anything to keep ahead in the polls. Cheating, scandal, and secrets: nothing is off the table. The sometimes-tragic impact of these politicians and senior bureaucrats desires for recognition and promotion results in the sacrifice of friendships, principles, and even violent death. Loved ones are betrayed with no consideration of cost, and sexual liaisons lead to broken homes. Even organized crime has a thumb in the pie, but no matter the consequences, Tony and people like him will not stop in their upward climb for greatness, even if the ladder is about to break.

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1491779136

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9781491779132

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