Am I offering a book that costs ten dollars? "No," one dollar? "Naw."

It's FREE.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, makes a fortune by selling books. His company won’t send you a book that doesn’t make him richer. Though he may be a generous donor for good causes, to him selling books is for money.

Here is why he should want to help give away some Eliminating War books. If Jeff Bezos, or one of his assistants, reads the book and discovers how useful the book is to (1) peace organizations (a vast majority of Americans favor peace) and (2) those million plus people in the US military who collectively consume almost a trillion dollars a year and control the uniquely powerful Pentagon and its diverse agencies.

Both need to know the book that offers:

Come-on Jeff, give one away. Or better still give away as many as I will in a few months by the above terms when America will begin to catch on to the urgency of addressing "Eliminating War."

More Books,etc.

Militarist – Millionaire – Peacenik Memoir of a Serial Entrepreneur (Published by Cosimo) $15.95 available at amazon.com

About the Book  

More than any other issue, what worries Americans in the opening years of the 21st century is what to do about (1) spreading Middle East warfare, (2) increasing carnage of failed states and civil wars largely in Asia and Africa, and (3) fearsome terrorist attacks that strike anywhere in the world. This book covers an era, my pre-21st century lifetime, when such evils seemed far less pressing..

It didn't start that way. In the 1930s and 40s, Japan launched huge, emperor-worshiping military forces that encroached on China, and in WWII rampaged through Southeast Asia and the Pacific conquering territory and employing fearless suicide-bombers (kamikaze) that the US had not dealt with before. I served a year in the US infantry during WWII. When the war ended, my first hand military police experience in Tokyo as an interpreter in the Army of Occupation, played a small but close-to-the-action role that secured the peace, all brilliantly directed by Supreme Allied Commander General Douglas MacArthur. Within a single year the benevolence of the Occupation steered Japan into becoming a peace-loving, democratic US ally for over 60 years and made possible what has been called the Japanese miracle – the creation of a powerhouse economy, the world's second largest. Yes, a price was paid for that. MacArthur allowed hundreds of military leaders and the emperor himself to escape punishment for horrible war crimes.

Further employment by the US military came about six years later, after I had become a PhD mathematician, scientist, and engineer. I worked for military research and development companies in the US for 14 years while observing the sought or unsought growth of the military industrial complex.

This memoir reveals how ignorant of WWII lessons our political leaders have been, and how arrogant and incompetent they remain when presented with the facts.

Peace is more difficult and frustrating than waging war, with its built-in momentum, but waging peace can work better than waging war. The three "waging peace" chapters, #10 - #12, show the great success that we peace wagers had in Gorbachev's USSR and some success in the US – limited by Reagan's handlers' fight to keep nuclear war options alive.

Though war and peace are big themes in this book, my life experiences as a serial entrepreneur extended to other roles too. The unlikely but true story of why and how I obtained a PhD in mathematics from Harvard in 1952 is presented in Chapter 6, "Course Correction". The story of how my many years as a mathematician had a major beneficial effect on my life after 1965 (when my main activities no longer included mathematics) appears in "The Best of Math", Chapter 8. Though correctly labeled as "Military R&D", Chapter 7 spans my development from mathematician to scientist, engineer, manager, executive and business leader that covered many non-military subjects such as microwaves, antennas, information technology, and computers.

Chapter 9 tells the story of my company, AutEx, that well before the Internet, was the first to link competitive companies in various industries with their suppliers and customers for on-line transactions. Chapter 13 covers my most important, non-commercial activity (aside perhaps from waging peace), the missing link of democracy, a practical way to get the voice of the public accurately, fairly, and consistently, into the heads of our political leaders.

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The FUN Way to Keep

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Locating Consensus

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Are you an activist for a good cause? Fine! Few of us do as much as needed to really make the world a better place or to avoid it getting worse. For many, opting out of activism comes from lack of money, energy or time. As for "keeping democracy alive and elections honest," that strikes many as the hardest of all the do-good things to do.

This is the only book that tells you the fun way to keep democracy alive, keep elections honest and improve the world without becoming an activist, without making donations, without organizing events, without  volunteering your time and without relying on a beneficent act of divine intervention.

To read the book online where key words can be searched and chapters printed, visit The Polling Critic.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

The Washington Post called Kay "America's Patron of Polling."

Stanley B. Greenberg, Pollster for Democrats,  "In a period of frenzied and irrelevant politics, this is a breath of fresh air." 

The Vicious Circle Chart

The red arrows in the Vicious Circle Chart above track the flows of a huge amount of money. The range, suggested by the size of the several arrowheads, is even more mind-boggling. About half of the annual GDP is consumer buying goods and services from corporations adding up to $6 Trillion. That's 3000 times the expenditures by the political parties, now reaching a record $2 Billion that is spent for the quadrennial presidential election campaigns (including primaries). The green arrows track the flow of services. The service the public performs for the government is voting in the elections.

Limited to a brief mention on the Chart, the services that the government provides the corporations, is more fully described here. Corporations sponsor White House and Congressional lobbyists and others who obtain for their corporate benefactors about a 10% increase in annual revenues, much of which flows right to the corporate bottom line. The benefits are provided by government officials and go-betweens employing an astonishing variety of means:

1. cutting corporate and top-bracket income taxes,

2. offering opportunities to bid on huge contracts or obtain sole-source work,

3. legislating and regulating that allows companies
   i.  to add profitable new customer charges and raise old charges and
   ii. to reduce corporate costs
       by accepting or ignoring corner-cutting consumer values,
       by the consequence of improved technologies and
       by let-the-buyer-beware marketing strategies,

4. permitting growing external costs to society, to the environment, and to future generations by pollution and other means, and

5. presidential pardons of wealthy individuals, usually timed to occur at term end.

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