: About Me

I was farm reared, and received a BS degree in Agriculture. After college graduation, I helped to test the Peace Corps concept as a volunteer who helped resettle refugees in Vietnam. My first full career was as a CIA Special Operations Officer specializing in counterterror and counterinsurgency operations, overseas. For a second career, I have undertaken agriculture and community development projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. In 1995, I started a charity focused on assisting the rural and tribal poor, worldwide. To support these efforts, I invented 63 self-help technologies and published self-help materials. My various honors are numerous, and include the Thomas Jefferson Award for Humaitarian Service. When I write an article, it is often to call attention to a problem damaging to those who have little ability to defend themselves.

My passion is ...

Service to others.

I know too much about ...

Government corruption.

My parents always told me ...

To be fair in all things.

My childhood ambition ...

To see the world.

My favorite memory ...

Hunting man-eating tigers.

Why I write ...

To create information that may help others.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Green energy subjects.

My first job ...

To develop a counterinsurgency model in Vietnam.

My best moment ...

Publication of my survival handbook -a handbook that has saved lives.

My inspiration ...

My father!

Politics, News & Issues > Food & Agriculture Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation claims 4,500 lives a day. What should we do about it?

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For a period of five decades, I engaged in assorted assistance and development activities in 42 developing nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as doing some work with the rural poor in the U.S.  Based on my personal observations, notes, and studies related to water issues, I can confirm that the United Nations' (UNICEF's) estimates of 4,000 to 5,000 deaths daily (an average of 4,500 lives per day) -due to inadequate access to safe water and sanitation - is probably very accurate.  Based upon study of this critical health hazard, for a period of ye...

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