Judy Beebe is the visionary founder of G.E.M. Technologies. She has a Ph.D in nutrition and has worked in area of medicine for over 40 years. Judy was looking for a connection between the microcosm and macrocosm and this took her through the world religions and texts. Her studies into the physical body and our spiritual connection to the cosmos have led her to this new energy source. Judy is a great grandmother, a spiritual author and healer.

Laura Derr is a clinical psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience, and 30 years of spiritual practice, 20 years in Buddhist mediation community, and 10 years with the new teachings of Jesus. She was ordained in June, 2016 as an Interfaith Minister. Her spiritual path has revealed a strong intuitive awareness, and the conviction that this awareness is available to everyone.

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Mike Whitney is a landscape contractor who veered into journalism following the attacks of September 11. He is a Project Censored award winner who writes on foreign policy, domestic politics and the economy. His articles can found at Counterpunch or the Unz Review. 

Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion

Jeffrey St. Clair (editor), Joshua Frank (editor)

The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism in even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an Obama revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration, as the president-in-waiting stocked his cabinet with corporate hacks, cut secret deals with Wall Street titans and plotted a bloody escalation of the senseless war in Afghanistan. Here is a scathing indictment of the Obama presidency from the best writers on the American Left. Hopeless is a view of Obama's policies from the trenches: the compromises, the backstabbing, the same old imperial ambitions. From Obama's sell-outs to big oil and the nuclear industry to his continuation of savage Bush-era policies in the CIA's global network of secret prisons, this fast-paced chronicle will outrage the politically naive, delight the critical and inspire those looking for an alternative to the dismal politics of lesser evilism. As Emma Goldman famously quipped, "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." Let this book stand as a painful reminder to those who think anything less than social struggle will net tangible gain.

Contributors include: Mike Whitney, Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeremy Scahill, Joe Bageant, Marjorie Cohn, Brian Tokar, Linn Washington, Jr., Ronnie Cummins, Kathy Kelly, Tariq Ali, Ralph Nader, and more.

Mark McCandlish is an internationally-recognized artist who has specialized in aviation and conceptual art within the defense and aerospace industries for the better part of the last thirty years.  Mark’s father was a twenty-five year veteran of the United States Air Force; as a consequence, Mark has had a life-long love of aircraft and aviation history. His first UFO sighting occurred at Westover Air Force Base in the State of Massachusetts, in the Winter of 1966 and he observed the craft through an 80 power telescope for about ten minutes before it accelerated out of sight at an extreme velocity. He later discovered that this craft had been hovering above a flight of nuclear-armed Boeing B-52′s sitting on the Alert Ramp of the flight line on base.



Mr. McCandlish has spent most of his life trying to discover the science that would make such incredible performance possible, and he believes there is a plausible answer to interstellar flight without violating the currently-accepted laws of physics. Having had literally dozens of sightings since 1966, he feels certain that this carefully protected technology has been co-opted by an as-yet-unknown group, and the sequestration of this technology has provided that organization tremendous leverage in world politics, finance and international conflicts over the past five decades.

Takao Yamada, a Seattle-based attorney and entrepreneur, is a co-founder of AirportLawyer.org (https://www.airportlawyer.org/).  This web app connects refugees, immigrants and other travelers affected by the recent presidential executive orders with volunteer lawyers on the ground.  After helping coordinate the emergency legal response at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Yamada developed the app AirportLawyer.org with immigration attorney Greg McLawsen and the legal technology companies Clio (https://www.clio.com/) and Neota Logic (https://www.neotalogic.com/).  Yamada is deeply committed to connecting technology entrepreneurship with activism to amplify the social justice impact of both. He has worked in public policy and politics for a number of years.  In addition to co-founding tech start-ups, Yamada has worked for the Washington State legislature and, as a clerk for Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court Mary Yu, helped facilitate the first same-sex marriage in Washington state. Yamada is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 2011) and Hobart and William Smith Colleges (B.A., Political Science &Government, 2002).

Airport Lawyer is currently live for Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Denver International Airport,  Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport.  The group behind the project plans to rollout coverage at all major U.S. international airports. Go to https://www.airportlawyer.org/updates/2017/2/7/press-release-feb-7-2017

BARBARA MORRISON

Originally from Detroit, Barbara Morrison’s twenty-year career as a performer and recording artist includes appearances worldwide with some of the greatest names in jazz:She has performed with artists such as; Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Collette, Joe Williams, Gerald Wiggins, Jimmy Witherspoon, Hank Crawford, Eddie Harris, Nancy Wilson, David T. Walker and Jimmy Smith. She has performed in such highly regarded venues as Carnegie Hall, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Bern Jazz Festival and the Playboy Jazz Festival.

MARINA MANUKIAN

At the age of 11, violinist Marina Manukian joined the Radio and Television Violin Ensemble of Armenia thus becoming the youngest professional musician in the former Soviet Union. She received her musical training from Georgi Ajemian, Alice Schoenfeld, Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Vegh, Edward Schmieder, and Sidney Weiss. Marina has studied at the prestigious Mozarteum School of Music in Salzburg, Austria and is also a USC graduate with Highest Honors.

Since childhood, Marina has performed radio and television broadcasts, recordings, solos with orchestras, chamber music concerts and recitals. Her passionate artistry has been heard and embraced throughout Europe, former U.S.S.R. and the United States.

She is the winner of numerous music awards and prizes including the 1st prize for National Young Artist Competition, in former U.S.S.R., Aspen International Music Festival and Herb Alpert Music Award from A & M Records.

Marina has performed with such renowned artists as Mstislav Rostropovich, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Valeri Giergiev, Kent Nagano, James Conlon, Lynn Harell, and others.

The Los Angeles Times identifies Marina Manukian as “a violinist extraordinaire…whose virtuosity is exceeded only by her calmness and confidence, working through the intricacies with masterful grace and strength.”

Since 2006 Marina has been the Music Director and Concertmaster of The Enlightenment Chamber Music Series which present concerts performed by the selection of expert chamber musicians, soloists and recording artists from around the world. In addition to her solo and chamber music performances Marina has recorded for over 600 television and motion picture scores working with numerous composers including John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton-Howard, James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, and Michael Giacchino.

Marina Manukian’s recordings together with pianist Bryan Pezzone of “Brahms Violin Sonatas” and  “Inspiration” have received critical acclaim and were chosen as the top classical CDs by several major radio stations worldwide.  AMG All Music Guide writes: “listen to the radiant warmth of their tone, to the timeless stillness of the tempo, to the evanescent inwardness of their playing, to the rapt ecstasy of their ensemble: this is the soul and spirit of Brahms’ music made manifest and, great as the competition is, Manukian and Pezzone express it with almost unbearable poignancy.”

BRYAN PEZZONE