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This guidebook provides practical direction to California water utility professionals for setting water rates in compliance with California Constitution Article XIII D, section 6 (commonly “Proposition 218”). The intent of this guidebook is to complement the American Water Works Association manual, "Principles of Water Rates, Fees, and Charges" by providing greater focus on Proposition 218 in the California public agency rate setting process. This compact guidebook avoids complex legal language and jargon. Rather, it aims to provide clear-cut guidance by laying out the legal issues as they apply to water rate setting in California and addressing practical applications of the law. Several ...

With the approach of an expert jurist in international law as well as in security and defense, this book reveals the model of oppression designed by the dictatorship that devastates Venezuela, addressing in detail each of the lines of the malevolent master plan cruelly and systematically applied against of the population, to break their libertarian spirit. The analysis of the five scourges used by the regime clinging to power in Venezuela to subdue and humiliate 80% of Venezuelan citizens who oppose the dictatorship, Desolating Persecution, Social Precarization, Structured Violence, Criminal Integration, and Unrestrained Expatriation, leaves no doubt of the existence of a widespread and ...

Past and present economic crises have called into questions mainstream economic policies & theories upon which they are based. This book explores, through readings on critical thinking, mainstream economics & various shades of heterodox or radical political economy, how various theories stand up against each other, side-by-side. How do "mainstream" economics & economists compare with radical or "heterodox" political economy & paradigm adherents? What do they admit as facts?; What do they disagree upon & why? What are some basic principles of critical thinking & epistemology to add to debates? What is the state of economics & economists today? What are markets, free or otherwise? What do ...

Tatum, a former U.S. Intelligence officer brings a stark reality to the forefront with this startling new revelation. Wuhan China - An experiment gone awry released a deadly virus on the inhabitants of Wuhan China. Two test subjects injected with the modified Sars 2 virus were released from the Wuhan University Hospital with no symptoms 10 days following the introduction of this virus into their bodies. Three days later both subjects returned to the Wuhan University Hospital (a Duke University Affiliate) symptomatic. An immediate cover-up by Chinese officials allowed the virus to spread worldwide. Government officials around the world, realizing the impact of such a release, mapped ou ...

The Zeitgeist Movement Defined is the official, representative text of the global, non-profit sustainability advocacy organization known as The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM). This tediously sourced and highly detailed work argues for a large-scale change in human culture, specifically in the context of economic practice. The dominant theme is that the current socioeconomic system governing the world at this time has severe structural flaws, born out of primitive economic and sociological assumptions originating in our early history, where the inherent severity of these flaws went largely unnoticed. However, in the early 21st century, these problems have risen prominently, taking the conseq ...