Lies of the Powerful is a small experiment in uncovering the truth of oppression.

This site is inspired by the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen. Loewen surveyed 12 leading high school American history texts and concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past.

Use rsync over SSH to efficiently transfer files from a remote server. Original inspiration is from the Apress book, Pro PHP Security, by Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell. This also explains why the script is written in PHP.

Don Knuth, one of the Godfathers of computing, publishing, and general common sense has weighed in on the question of how the word 'email' should be written. To finally settle this once and for all, I hope this blatant appeal to his substantial authority will suffice. The good Knuth has written:

Planting the seeds of a better world. Online.

On February 15, 2013, CommunityGrove merged with LiliO to become one of the smallest international conglomerates in history. With this, Ron Liskey of CommunityGrove has joined the team of Jesse D. Osmer and Mathias Bolt Lesniack at LiliO. 

For over a decade, LiliO has served the organizations who make our world a better place by providing high-quality design, development, training and support for both online and print media.