Barbara Frank, Holistic Health Practitioner, Internationally Certified Lymphologist uses Folk Medicine, Homeopathy, Chinese Medicine, herbs and unique natural detoxing. Serving the community for 37 years. Author of ”How To Take 10 Years Off Your Face And Add 10 Years To Your Life Naturally.”

Ted Winslow is a producer, audio engineer, musician, singer, songwriter and vocal coach. Ted holds a BS in Music & Audio Engineering from the University of Colorado and has over 25 years in the music business starting his career in an 80's rock band. Ted runs Big Country Productions where he produces commercials, music, builds custom internet tv stations, records & produces audio books, live streams events around the world and conducts research on sound healing frequencies through music. In addition to his internationally acclaimed "Vocalist Scales & Intervals" voice coaching CD series, he has released "Solfeggio Sound Healing from Earthly Frequencies" and "Armonia, Sound Healing from Divine Frequencies" available on iTunes, amazon, Tower Records and worldwide distribution. 

DR NAFEEZ AHMED is a bestselling author, investigative journalist, international security scholar, policy expert, film maker, strategy & communications consultant, and change activist. This year he is also becoming a novelist with his debut science fiction thriller ZERO POINT.

The focus of Nafeez's work is to catalyse social change in the public interest by harnessing radical, systemic approaches to understanding the interconnections between the world's biggest problems, while developing and highlighting holistic strategies for social transformation. Whether it be foreign policy and terrorism, climate change and energy, or food and the economy, Nafeez deploys the techniques of critical, rigorous and interdisciplinary analysis to join the dots and challenge power, with a view to bring forth constructive change.
 
From April 2013 to July 2014, Nafeez was an environment writer for The Guardian, the world's third most popular newspaper website, where he reported, commented and analysed the geopolitics of interconnected environmental, energy and economic crises at his Guardian hosted blog, Earth Insight. During that period, Nafeez's blog was by far the most popular on the environment site, garnering around 3 million unique views, posting exclusive news reports, and triggering global headlines.

As a journalist, Nafeez has also written features, commentary and analysis for various publications including the Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, Le Monde diplomatique, The New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, the Gulf Times, Daily News Egypt, Daily Star (Beirut), Pakistan Observer, Tehran Times, Bangkok Post, the Georgian Times, the Prague Post, Open Democracy, Raw Story and New Internationalist. His work has also appeared in policy periodicals such as International Affairs (Chatham House), Survival (International Institute of Strategic Studies), Foreign Policy In Focus (Institute for Policy Studies), and Europe's World (Friends of Europe).

Nafeez's journalistic work combines insider information from senior government, intelligence, industry and other sources with interdisciplinary analysis of specialist literature. Over the last decade, he has broken exclusives on FBI whistleblowers and pre-9/11 intelligence warnings; the role of energy in the 2003 Iraq War; pre-7/7 intelligence failures; the 2006 liquid bomb plot; the link between the 'Arab Spring' and ecological, economic and energy crises in the Middle East and North Africa; the depletion of strategic mineral energy resources; cutting-edge climate science; counter-terrorism strategy in the AfPak region; sustainable rural development in Pakistan; the role of energy crisis in the Israel-Palestine conflict; among many others.

Nafeez is co-producer, writer and presenter of the critically-acclaimed documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011), adapted by director and producer Dean Puckett from Nafeez's latest book, A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (Pluto, Macmillan, 2010). The film was endorsed by BAFTA Lifetime award-winning filmmaker Nick Broomfield, and was selected as a Festival Favourite at the Leeds International Film Festival, as well as winning several other film festival awards. It has been broadcast nationally on Link TV in the United States, and in parts of Western and Eastern Europe.

Nafeez's other books include The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (Duckworth, 2006); The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (Interlink, 2005); Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (New Society, 2003) and The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 (Progressive, 2002). The latter is archived in the '9/11 Commission Materials' Special Collection at theUS National Archives in Washington DC - it was among 99 books made available to each 9/11 Commissioner of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States to use during their investigations. The book was also a finalist for the 2003 Naples Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award.

Since 2001, Nafeez is founding Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent nonprofit digital transmedia think tank for the public interest. Currently, he is also Co-Director of The Concordia Forum, an independent nonprofit think tank and leadership network working to strengthen trans-Atlantic civil society partnerships.

Nafeez's academic work revolves around the historical sociology and political ecology of mass violence in the context of civilizational systems, and focuses on bridging disciplinary divides across the natural and social sciences. He has taught international politics, contemporary history, empire and globalisation at the University of Sussex's School of Global Studies (from where he obtained his PhD in International Relations and MA in Contemporary War & Peace Studies) and Brunel University's Politics & History Unit, where in 2012 he was Visiting Lecturer in Globalisation & Current Affairs. He won the 2010 Routledge-GCP&S Essay Prize for his seminal paper in the journal Global Change, Peace & Security, The International Relations of Crisis and the Crisis of International Relations.

Nafeez's writings have been translated into French, German, Italian, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese. His books have been reviewed positively in the Journal of Peace Research (Sage); Development and Change (Wiley-Blackwell); Middle East Journal (Middle East Institute), Socialism and Democracy (Routledge); Library Journal (Reed Elsevier); among others - and his work is widely cited in high-quality peer-reviewed social science literature. His work has been used by the Coroner's Inquiry into 7/7; the US Army Air University's 'Causes of War' collection (2007); the UK Ministry of Defence's Joint Services Command & Staff College Research Guide on Counter-Terrorism and the GWOT (2008); Chatham House's Middle East Programme; the International Labour Organization's (ILO) 'World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization' social science bibliography on impacts of globalization (2003); the Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (2010), among others.

Nafeez is a regular media commentator and has appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC News 24, BBC World Today, BBC World News with George Alagiah, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Asian Network, Channel 4, Sky News, C-SPAN Book TV, CNN, FOX News with Sean Hannity, Bloomberg, PBS Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, Al-Jazeera English, Press TV, Islam Channel, US National Public Radio, the US Progressive Radio Network, David Barsamian's Alternative Radio, TUC Radio, and hundreds of other radio and TV shows in the USA, UK, and Europe.

He is also cited and reviewed in the New York Times (Thomas Friedman), Sunday Times (Bryan Appleyard), Times Higher Educational Supplement, The Guardian (Steven Poole), The Independent (Yasmin Alibhai Brown), The Observer (Gore Vidal), Big Issue Magazine, and Vanity Fair (Christopher Hitchens), among other publications.

Nafeez has advised the British Foreign Office, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the UK Defence Academy, the Metropolitan Police Service on delivery of the Home Office's Channel Project, and the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into UK counter-terrorism strategy. He has also consulted for projects funded by the US State Department and the UK Department for Communities and Local Government. In 2005, he testified in US Congress on Western security policy toward al-Qaeda.

About Zero Point - Science Fiction Novel by Nafeez Ahmed

Near future Great Britain is on the brink of collapse. Mass riots. Economic meltdown. Blackouts. And a new oil war in Iraq to keep the world economy afloat.

Iraq War veteran and war crimes whistleblower David Ariel is sick of violence, and trying to make ends meet working for Specialist Protection. But after Prime Minister Carson is brutally assassinated by extremists on Ariel's watch, he is covertly targeted by a compromised police investigation.

When forensics discover that Carson's assassination inexplicably defied the very laws of physics, bodies drop like flies as key witnesses are murdered in impossible circumstances.

Fleeing for his life while London is locked-down under martial law, Ariel gets a phone call from Iraq he will never forget. His estranged girlfriend, journalist Julia Stephenson, warns that the Carson killing is just the beginning of a wider plot to bring the West to its knees. Then she disappears.

Ariel's blood-soaked race against time to track the terror cells behind Carson's death tumbles into the cross-fire of a hidden battle between mysterious rogue intelligence agencies. The goal: to monopolise black budget technologies which could unlock the universe's darkest, arcane secrets.

As the world he thought he knew unravels, Ariel faces off against bent coppers, double-crossing agents, psychic killers and super soldiers to complete a black ops mission like no other: stop Quantum Apocalypse.

DR. PETER O'LALOR is the author of The Never Realized Republic: Political Economy and Republican Virtue, Shrouded in Mist: Physics and the Archaic Symbology of Metaphysics, and an upcoming book, American Robbers on the King's Highway: Federalists and the New Prince.

Dr. O'Lalor graduated with honors, in History and Psychology. He later earned a Ph.D. in Early American and European history. He began teaching Liberal Studies, and was soon praised for his Socratic Method. Curricula included: Western Civilization, Philosophy, (from ancient Greek to modern philosophy), Ethics, (a Roman Translation of the Greek Moral Philosophy), Humanities, American History, Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Native American Studies, (First Peoples Nation), and Twentieth Century History. He was recognized for developing an abridged critical thinking mini-course, as an introduction to all classes, which provided tangible
results for measuring learning.

Prior to Academia, Dr. O'Lalor worked with, and was a strong advocate for, persons with Mental Retardation, as well as in other areas of Mental Health, hospice, and

court appointed youth. He also served as a Consultant for private families, providing teaching resources, and intervention techniques. 

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ABOUT Shrouded in Mist: Physics and the Archaic Symbology of Metaphysics by Peter O'Lalor

To demystify millennia of science, philosophy, and religion is no easy task. During archaic times and the thousands of years of wisdom; acquired by the priests of Egypt for example, there was no reference to science or philosophy--it wasn't even religion, per se.The nature of existence or of truth and knowledge was not merely the true belief, of ancient Greek philosophy.

As civilization moved westward, through the Mediterranean, Europe, and across the Atlantic; the nature of existence or of truth and knowledge, was and still remains in constant and often volatile conflict. It seems the world has settled on believing but understanding where it all came from, remains shrouded in the mists of time.Presented in Shrouded in Mist is one poet's attempt to reconcile the faith and wisdom, between science and religion.

DWAIN DEETS, MS Physics, MS Eng – Former Director, Aerospace Projects, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.  Before this appointment, he served as Director, Research Engineering Division at Dryden.  Dwain serves as a Panel Member of Consensus911.org.

Recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Award and the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award in the Senior Executive Service (1988).  Selected presenter of the Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics, a distinguished speaking engagement sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (1986).  Included in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering" 1993 - 2000.  

Former Chairman of the Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee of the Society of Automotive Engineers.  Former Member, AIAA Committee on Society and Aerospace Technology.  37 year NASA career.
 

Faith in science: Retired NASA engineer explains why he doesn’t believe the official 9/11 report By Shane Cohn (originally published in VCReporter 09/09/2010)

It has been said that it requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. But is it unusual to want peace? Truth? Dwain Deets doesn’t think so, and the retired NASA director is determined to demonstrate that the official version of the events of 9/11 defies science. His lectures have been gaining popularity, and Deets will be speaking in Ventura to address some troubling questions about 9/11, from the perspective of science.

Deets, a physicist and engineer, was the former director of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center’s Aerospace project and is currently a member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Having retired from a 37-year career, Deets has set out to show that the American public has been duped into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His goal is simple. Faith alone cannot end the wars abroad. But perhaps science can.

VCReporter: Of all the indications that the official 9/11 explanation is insufficient, what is the most glaring?

Deets: Building 7 is the most glaring. I think people can realize, after what happened at Building 7, that the public was not told anything close to what went on. I think you actually get kind of the same thing in all three buildings at the World Trade Center. So when I talk about them and the major problems presented, it will be with all buildings in mind.

There are four main points: One, there is no historical precedent with steel-frame, high-rise buildings to have been totally destroyed due to fire. So you got a situation with no precedent, but it happened three times in the same day. These buildings supposedly came down due to fire, officially. Second, there is indisputable evidence that there were extraordinarily high temperatures, in the ground and it persisted for weeks. When I say indisputable evidence, I mean things like satellite imaging photos from NASA. They can measure the temperatures showing how it’s persisting weeks after the event. And there are eyewitnesses of molten metal and things that would require extremely high temperatures. There are a number of different elements that have been analyzed chemically afterwards, and it can only be explained due to extremely high temperature. There are a lot of tiny spheres. We refer to them as microspheres, and they are iron-rich. To be a sphere, they had to have been liquid, even to the point of maybe vaporizing because that is the way it would form into a sphere. The surface tension, as it cooled down, it would do so in a spherical shape. So that’s hard evidence that there had to be extremely high temperatures.

VCReporter: When you refer to high temperature, are you suggesting there were explosives involved?

Deets: What I’m saying is, the temperatures are so high that the ordinary office fires and aviation fuel fires can’t come close to explaining those high temperatures. The third point is, there has been evidence of high-tech, and I can’t say they’re explosives, but they are nano-thermite. Nano meaning they’re extremely small and had to be manufactured with very sophisticated equipment and knowledge, which we only know about in government laboratories. But it was highly sophisticated, and how exactly it is designed, it could be very explosive, or something used in a different way. We use the term pyrotechnic to describe that category. So it was used as an explosive or pyrotechnic. But either way, the key thing is it provides an explanation why the temperatures were so high and persisted for so long afterwards. So it fits together with that set of findings in a very consistent way. The fourth major thing is, all three buildings came down at freefall, gravitational freefall, or very close to it.

The only way that can happen is if the lower structure was abruptly removed to allow the top part to fall into freefall. This fits into the other things I talk about.  There were several varieties of explosives. And the ones that we found are just one of those, and not necessarily the one that did most of the damage. We just don’t know that kind of thing. When I say we, there was an international team of scientists and chemists that studied the dust from the WTC and reported in the open literature, so it’s there and there has not been any counterpublication to say this is not true.

VCReporter: In regard to Building 7, is it not possible that the debris from the previously collapsed main towers had initiated the fires that damaged the bottom eight floors to the point of collapse causing the free-fall?

Deets: There is no evidence that there were fires for the initial time period. There could be that there were. But there have not been any photographs released to the public. About 100 minutes is the first indication that there were any fires, and even then it was not on the floors where supposedly the fire damage caused the buildings to come down. That would be several hours later. Let’s say you were taking this to [a] court of law; you wouldn’t have a chain of evidence that led from the debris to the fires.

The other piece of evidence is whether the fires, especially that kind of office fire, can lead to compromising the steel structure and causing the whole thing to come crashing down. So you go back to saying there is no precedent in the history of high-rise steel structures that fires lead to the building coming down. Some of those fires have historically lasted up to 18 hours and still didn’t compromise the structure. So it’s unreasonable to think that if the fires did start from the debris it would lead to the buildings coming down. The other part is that it came down in pure free fall for what is equivalent to eight stories’ worth of free fall

VCReporter: Why do you think the government has never officially addressed the collapse of Building 7?

Deets: I think it causes a severe problem for them in explaining what happened. At first you have to talk about the great length of time that the government agency that was supposed to investigate Building 7, which was NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology.) They stalled up until November 2008 before they issued their final report. That is seven years to come up with a final report. Clearly, it was a problem to them. Either they couldn’t explain it or they could, but didn’t want to. They didn’t want to give the explanation that the evidence pointed to, which I think is the case.

VCReporter: Didn’t they also deny a request from engineers into the report about how Building 7 came down, citing a “concern for public safety”?

Deets: They did. In this case, this is a freedom-of-information request asking for details of their computer model. They said they had a very sophisticated computer model that modeled the structure, the fires, and based on that, they said this is the explanation, that fires caused the whole thing. For professional engineers to request that information through the law of the Freedom of Information Act, to provide that information, they have resisted it to this day. So anyway they are using this argument that revealing this sophisticated model could or might endanger public safety is very hard to justify, particularly when it’s professional engineers wanting to understand what caused the building to come down.

That in itself should be an effort in the interest of safety. In each of these four cases I brought up, if you look at what NIST has done, they have basically denied that these issues exist. Regarding hot temperatures, they come out and say we have no evidence of either high temperatures or that anybody saw it, even though there are testimonies from responders. They are just stonewalling all the way.

VCReporter: But they did admit, however, that the building collapsed at free fall.  Shouldn’t that be evidence in itself?

Deets: Yes, they did admit that. But the thing is, they didn’t change any of their conclusions.

VCReporter: Why? Do you believe this is some sort of plan to engage our country into wars with Iraq and Afghanistan?

Deets: Well, I certainly think that we, as prudent members of the public, should consider it was highly likely, and it’s based on a record that our government has done that in a number of cases. Most recently, it did it to escalate the war in Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin incident turned out to not be an incident, and that has become publicly known because documents concerning that have been declassified but not publicized by the media. There is certainly a pattern. If you just put together the fact that all this happened on 9/11 and then we go to war. It fits a pattern and you have to wonder about that.

VCReporter: Let’s assume you are right. What is your political agenda? What do you want the public to do?

Deets: I want the public to demand of their representatives to investigate this, to stop stonewalling and investigate this to wherever it leads. I think that will be healthy for the country. It will be difficult to go through that, but it will force politicians to be more careful about doing things, because they will realize they won’t be able to get away with it. I think it will be good for the country. I think it will end the war. A large segment of the population believes we should be in Iraq and Afghanistan because of 9/11, but I think that would change.

VCReporter: Why do you think the vast majority of the public has accepted the findings?

Deets: The big media plays such a big role. The mainstream media, and I don’t know how this works, but they haven’t allowed any questioning of 9/11. A lot of the questions about what went on get marginalized and called conspiracies.

Change Your Life by Changing Your Home with Celebrity Guest, Krista Watterworth Alterman, Host of  HGTV’s highly acclaimed shows “Save My Bath” and “Splurge & Save.”

Krista Watterworth Alterman received her Master in Fine Art from the famous New School in Manhattan, ranked as one of the best fine art programs in America. She furthered her studies at Parsons School of Design, also at The New School and ranked one of the top five design schools in the world . As if her education wasn’t impressive enough, in 2007 as a virtual unknown, Krista went on to star in her own show on HGTV, and the rest is history.

The press has always been drawn to her education but captivated by her on-camera persona – the confident expert who can sell an idea with her assertive charm. New York Daily News writer and friend, Jason Sheftell, calls Krista “a designer who gives a room soul”.

Her marriage to serial entrepreneur Eric Alterman was published in the New York Times Wedding Section (only Carrie Bradshaw knows the importance of such a coup). Although they went on to have two children and re-locate from New York City to South Florida, Krista found time to continue the dream.

The opening of Krista Watterworth Design Studio has set her on the map in Palm Beach County. She was the cover girl for Floridian View magazine, the “Insider” for Luxe Interiors + Design, and the featured artist with a six page showcase of her Florida home in Good Housekeeping. Most recently she had her first international feature in Kitchen Trends.

Krista’s television work continues as she teamed up with Robert Irvine designing restaurants around the country on the Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible. She joins Rob Van Winkle for the fourth consecutive season on DIY Network’s The Vanilla Ice Project. But she’s most known for her highly acclaimed HGTV shows Save My Bath and Splurge & Save.

Even though Krista’s early career in television began with appearances in multiple national advertising campaigns for brands including Nestle, Mars Inc., and Procter & Gamble, she never imagined she would be a successful designer and on camera personality.

Dr. Carrol McLaughlin is an award-winning professor, heading one of the largest and most respected harp departments in the world. She is a renowned concert harpist who performs internationally as a soloist and with orchestras. Carrol has given workshops and lectures in more than 30 countries, teaching performers to overcome fear and achieve at their highest potential. An expert in Neuro Linguistic Programming, a Kundalini yoga teacher, an author, and a composer, Carrol is also a gifted healer. She has recently conducted a study at the University of Arizona Medical Center, researching the power of harp music to heal patients in the intensive care unit following heart surgery. She is co-author of Manifesting Moment to Moment published by Hay House in June, 2014.