The Nine Nations of North America. The Nine Nations of North America is a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau.
In it, Garreau suggests that North America can be divided into nine nations, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society. Largest, oldest water mass in universe spotted - Technology & science - Space - Space.com. Experience Vaults: Drug War Interrogation - Surviving Law Enforcement Interrogations. As a former US Army Intelligence Interrogator (they call 'em HUMINT Collectors now...), I would like to provide a few tips for surviving a law enforcement interrogation, and relate one of my experiences on the 'wrong end' of a law enforcement interrogation.
First of all, nothing can prepare you for a military interrogation, and it is common knowledge, even expected, that well-trained soldiers may crack under the pressure of a fairly tame military interrogation. That said, law enforcement interrogations work under the same basic principals as military interrogations, but they are limited with regards to the level and intensity of physical interactions between police and suspects, and the fact that law enforcement must give you a lawyer eventually, and must at least appear superficially to be respecting a suspect's civil liberties. Anyway, it wasn't until I got to the local police station that the fun began. Me: You gentlemen are here to talk to me about my charges? 2. Drowning Beautiful.