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1 Advisors Edwin Meese III, Former U.S. Attorney General, Moran Report Advisor J. William Middendorf II, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, the European Union and the Organization of American States, and Former Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Moran Report Advisor Grover Norquist, President, Americans For Tax Reform, Moran Report Advisor Chuck Floyd, Former U.S. Embassy Security /Construction Manager - U.S. Embassies and State Department Liaison to Congress - Advisor Ron Hoering, Security Technology and Systems Specialist - Advisor Tom Clines, Intelligence Expert - Advisor Lawrence Kogan, CEO and President, ITSSD, International Intellectual Private Property Rights Lead Expert and Lecturer - Advisor Gordon O. F. Johnson, Adjunct Scholar, Acton Institute, Business Consultant Author & Expert Iraq Oil Set Aside - Advisor Major General Jack Mier [Rtd.], Military Expert - Advisor Armando Ribas Esq., Former IMF Executive, Former Congressman Argentina, Specialty: South America - Advisor Gabriel Roth, World Bank Executive & Lecturer [retired] - Author 1987 World Bank book "The Private Provision of Public Services in Developing Countries - Advisor Major General Jim Shane [Rtd.], Executive Military Director - State of Kentucky Military Operations JMCO - Advisor Ann Stone, International Business and Women s Rights Consultant to the State Department - Advisor Michael W. Thompson, President, Thomas Jefferson Institute For Public Policy - Advisor Professor Donald York, University of Chicago, Education - Advisor 290

2 God Bless Protect and Guide our troops and veterans, their dear families, our military and intelligence community, our fine members of the Senate and House, those fine people serving in the Executive Branch and those untiring individuals supporting our military at home and abroad! Bruce J. Moran Strategic Planning Initiatives (SPI) Chicago / D.C. Founder / Co-Chair Property Rights Alliance [ATR] Recommended Reading: The Other Path - The Economic Answer To Terrorism (1989) - Hernando De Soto. The Mystery of Capital (2003) - Hernando De Soto. The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (1979) - Lord Kinross Fragile Latin American Democracies (2008) - Fernando Ruiz, et. al. See: info@cadal.org The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (2004) C. K. Prahalad. Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo 500 Years of State Oppression (2005) - Alvara Vargas Llosa. Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development (2008) - Benjamin Powell. The Marshall Plan From Those Who Made It Succeed (1999) - Constantine C. Menges. Down To Earth: Agriculture And Poverty Reduction In Africa (2007) Luc Christiaenson and Lionel Demery 291

3 Recommended Reading Con t: A History of Wealth and Poverty: Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor (1994) - John P. Powelson. Review of Powelson's book-- John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Private Enterprise. Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability (2008) - Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel and Sean O Siochru with Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy. Guidelines, tools, and real world examples to help assess and reform the enabling environment for media development that serves public interest goals. It builds on a growing awareness of the role of media and voice in the promotion of transparent and accountable governance, in the empowerment of people to better exercise their rights and hold leaders to account; and in support of equitable development including improved livelihoods, health, and access to education. For more information visit: Published Reports & Articles For Briefing: State Of Decay, Helle Dale, The Washington Times, 12/19/07. Managing Natural Resource Wealth - Jill Shankleman Special Report August United States Institute Of Peace. Background Research: The HELP Commission: United States on Enhancing the Livelihood of People. The Oil Peril to Democracy and Development in Muslim Nations - Gordon O. F. Johnson. GordonJohnson.pdf 292

4 American Revolutionaries Constitutional Wisdom Formation of the Constitution Society 1784 WE, the underwritten, having associated for the purpose of preserving and handing down to posterity, those pure and sacred principles of liberty, which have been derived to us, from the happy event of the late glorious revolution, and being convinced, that the surest mode to secure republican systems of government from lapsing into tyranny, is by giving free and frequent information to the mass of people, both of the nature of them, and of the measures which may be adopted by their several component parts, have determined, and do hereby most solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, by every holy tie and obligation, which freemen ought to hold inestimably dear, that every one in his respective station, will keep a watchful eye over the great fundamental rights of the people. That we will without reserve, communicate our thoughts to each other, and to the people, on every subject which may either tend to amend our government, or to preserve it from the innovations of ambition, and the designs of faction. To accomplish this desirable object, we do agree to commit to paper our sentiments, in plain and intelligible language, on every subject which concerns the general weal, and transmit the same to the Honorable John Blair, Esq; whom we hereby constitute President of the said Society, with powers to congregate the members thereof, either at Richmond, or Williamsburg, whenever he may suppose that he has a sufficient quantity of materials collected for publication. It is farther agreed, that it shall be a rule of the said Society, that no publications shall be made till after mature deliberation in the convocation, it shall have been so 293

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