Custom Maid Knowledge

Uncorrected Galley review copies sent to reviewers early November 2007.

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Publication date: pushed back to February 28, 2008 to accommodate reviewers who have asked for more time to review the book.

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About the Book

A fast-paced historical, geopolitical journey on planes and trains across America, China, the Middle East, Africa, Australasia, Oceania and Europe, taking the reader to early China and Egypt, and back through the Roman, Arab-Ottoman, Mongol, Dutch, British and American empires and their achievements, academic shortcomings and religious failures, which led to globalization and its demise. Globalism died in the last decade of the 20th century. It was a 19th-century model of economics based on scarcity, but the whole world was in surplus.

Interlocalism is the successor to globalization. Interlocalism is the proposed interaction between different local communities promoting their collective well-being with minimum government participation. The concentric circles start with the local village, town or city and expand over the county, country, and compatible global communities. It is the fusion of local strengths spread widely over similar-minded and compatible people.

The ongoing failures of career politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., and at the U.N., are graphically described with the painful expressions of their victims, our children and future generations. The abolition of the U.N. is advocated and its proposed successor interlocal body discussed.

The role the crusades of Christian and Muslim fundamentalists, insistent on imposing their beliefs at the expense of We the People, who lose while we snooze and are taken to war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Sri Lanka and many other countries, is examined. It is the ignorance of We the Apathetic Maids that compounds the mess, because political and religious leaders mislead us to fund and clean up their mess and then also insist that we pick up the tab for the repair jobs that follow.

The failure of No Child Left Behind and the drastic educational reforms needed in a knowledge-hungry America craving to know history, geography, international relations and civics, is graphically and concisely summarized and includes frank conversations with strongly opinionated and vocal American teachers, humorously, with anecdotes, analysing and integrating relevant geopolitical current events, supported with research.

America and China must lead the world through the 21st century from globalization to interlocalism as true political partners to avoid Armageddon.