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Guest Occupation: Music Composer, Musician, Formula Race Car Driver
Guest Biography:

Stefano Tomaselli is an Italian composer based in Los Angeles, California.  He started his music career at the age of nine, when he began studying piano with Professor Antonio Ranalli, student of Ferruccio Busoni.  His journey as a student culminated with a Master’s Degree in Composition under the guidance of Maestro Alessandro Cusatelli.  He also studied Organ with Professor Biondi, Violin with Professor Alessandro Albo and Drums and Percussion with Professor Messina.

Since he relocated to the US with the assistance of Academy Award winning composer Bill Conti, he has been collaborating on several projects with world-renowned tenor Placido Domingo.  His collaboration with the Maestro brought him to the attention of the Butler Opera Center in Austin (Texas), who commissioned him an Opera.

Stefano also writes music for the silver screen; he scored “Boy in the Void,” directed by Miroslav Macala (2012), “L’Homme Sans Musique,” directed by Stefano Arduino (2013) and “Amalia,” directed by Biagio Fersini (“Best Original Score” at the “Sonora Soundtrack Film Festival,” 2014), “Road to Juarez,” directed by David De Leon (2015) and he is currently scoring “Lyudmila,” directed by Biagio Fersini.

In addition to creating music, Stefano is also an avid Formula race car driver.  He has participated in race events across Europe.

Guest Category: Arts, Performing Arts, Music
Guest Occupation: Brand Consultant
Guest Biography:

GUEST: STACEY WHITMORE

As a brand consultant for some of the most iconic celebrity clients at her husband’s company, CMG Worldwide, Stacey often browsed through thousands of archived images of legends like Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and Ava Gardner.

She was inspired by their pictures, especially the jewelry that adorned them.

In 2011, Stacey’s vision led her to develop her first collection, Jewelry of Legends™, a unique jewelry line inspired by the fabulous baubles of icons like Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana (Princess Collection™). Soon after, Stacey successfully sold her pieces, from this collection, on HSN. Recently, Stacey has expanded the Jewelry of Legends™ collection to include jewelry inspired by Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Tierney, Ginger Rogers, and Natalie Wood.

And, that’s not all. Stacey has an exclusive agreement with Heritage Auctions to recreate some of their most sought after heirloom pieces to hit the auction block. All of these timeless pieces are made of superb craftsmanship and radiate in color and cut. The coveted “Heritage Collection” jewelry is available exclusively from The Danbury Mint.

Stacey’s collaborations with The Danbury Mint has expanded to include a collection of “Simply Glamorous by Stacey Whitmore” handbags. This unique collection of handbags reflects the same incomparable elegance, timeless design elements and hallmark details that have made Stacey’s creations sought by women everywhere. “The Heritage Collection” and “Simply Glamorous by Stacey Whitmore” can be purchased by mail order or online at the Danburymint.com.

One of Stacey’s most exciting brand developments includes being the owner and brand creator behind Princess of Beverly Hills™. This real-life maltipoo, known best for her pink hair and accessories, has become a viral sensation on the Internet among young girls and women. Princess of Beverly Hills™ has a widespread appeal teaching a valuable lesson: treat others the way you would want to be treated. Her unique looks, coupled with her sweet personality, pulls fans in.

Stacey has partnered with DEMDACO to produce, market and distribute Princess of Beverly Hills™ merchandise that includes plush toys and accessories to be sold worldwide in 2015. And, soon audiences will be able to watch Princess of Beverly Hills™ show off her acting chops in the in the underdevelopment feature film “Heavenly Stars.”

With her passion for outstanding products, Stacey hopes to continue to help women find ways to treat themselves to the finer things without breaking the bank and inspire women of all ages to achieve their dreams and ambitions.

Guest Category: Business, Marketing, Philosophy
Guest Occupation: Human Rights Activist/Politician/Comissioner
Guest Biography:

CYNTHIA MCKINNEY bio

After serving in the Georgia Legislature, in 1992, McKinney won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first African-American woman from Georgia in the U.S. Congress. She was the first Member of Congress to demand an investigation of the events of 9/11/2001. McKinney was criticized and as a result, she was defeated in 2002; however, she ran again and was re-elected in 2004.



In 2005, McKinney was a vocal critic of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Cynthia introduced legislation to release documents related to the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tupac Shakur. She was the first Member of Congress to file articles of impeachment against George W. Bush; and she voted against every war-funding bill put before her. In 2008, Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party nomination and ran for U.S. President.



In December 2008, Cynthia made international headlines when her boat was rammed by the Israeli military as she was attempting to deliver medical supplies to Gaza. In 2009, Cynthia attempted to reach Gaza again, this time armed with crayons, coloring books, and school supplies. Her boat was overtaken in international waters by the Israeli military and she was kidnapped to Israel. Cynthia spent 7 days in an Israeli prison. Finally, Cynthia entered Gaza by land in July 2009 with George Galloway's Viva Palestina.



Cynthia completed a cross-country bicycle ride with Bike4Peace 2010. In August 2011, Cynthia visited 21 cities to end the bombing of Libya. More recently, Cynthia participated in Malaysia’s Perdana Peace Organization and served as a Juror on the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Palestine.



In 2015, Cynthia completed her dissertation on the transformational leadership of Hugo Chavez and was awarded a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change.



Cynthia currently possesses technical proficiency in the French language, but because Cynthia’s current research interest centers on Asia, Eurasia, and the U.S., she is now learning Chinese.



Cynthia is a member of the Working Group for the Great Caribbean Studies, Latin America Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), The Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and The International Leadership Association (ILA).



Cynthia has two books to her credit and several Chapters that she has authored in the books of others.
Mahathir Mohamad’s efforts to “criminalize war.” She has appeared in Kuala Lumpur several times, declaring that city the Peace Capital of the World. She recently reported on her experience in Libya in the “Arab Uprising” Conference organized by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation and served as an official observer at the historic Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal that, on 22 November 2011, found former President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of the crime of aggression and other crimes against the state and people of Iraq.

ABOUT 'Ain't Nothing Like Freedom'

Elected six times to the House from the state of Georgia, Cynthia McKinney cut a trail through Congressional deceit like a hot ember through ash. She discovered legislators who passed laws without reading them. Party leaders who colluded across party lines against their constituents' interests. Black-skinned individuals shilling for the white status quo. She excoriated government lassitude over Hurricane Katrina, uncovering dark secrets. She held the only critical Congressional briefing on 9/11, introducing counter-testimony of scholars, investigators, former intelligence agents.

As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, she held Rumsfeld to account for malfeasance by military contractors and missing billions in the Pentagon's budget. Then she hammered him on the reasons for the failure of NORAD air defenses on 9/11. She read truth into the Congressional Record, held town halls and hearings, led protests, showed up while others played along to get along, took the side of the people against the will of the Party. And when she got too truth seeking and speaking, the Republicans rigged the Democratic primaries to boot her out, leaving behind a trail of achievements mostly won singlehandedly. But McKinney rose again like a Phoenix, answering the call to run as 2008 Green Party candidate for President, challenging the corrupt two-party stranglehold on American democracy.

Then it was on to the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, to be seized on the high seas and imprisoned in Israel. On to Tripoli, to serve as witness to the NATO terror bombing of Libya. On to Malaysia to serve on the War Crimes Commission... Often introduced as the Sojourner Truth, the Harriet Tubman of our age, McKinney reflects here on the Biblical figures of Esther, Deborah and Naomi. This is the Cynthia McKinney saga as it stands to date--what she saw, what she learned, and how she fought for change.

Guest Category: Education, History, News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Medical Intuitive and Healer
Guest Biography:

Marilyn Cramer, is internationally known for her alternative and complementary healing techniques.  She helps adults and children make permanent, healing changes on all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and is founder/owner of LightHealer, LLC  in Woodstock, Georgia. She has certifications in Reiki Master, Somatic Healer, Thought Field Therapist, Clinical & Alchemical Hypnotherapist, BioGenesis Practitioner and Mental Coach and is a Medical Intuitive, Clairvoyant and Telepathic.

As a natural Medical Intuitive, Marilyn can “see” inside the human body and help her clients find the root cause of their ailments.  There have been numerous times when Marilyn would see an enlarged or diseased organ, tumors, ulcers, clogged arteries, bacteria or viruses in the cells, parasites, fungus, etc., and she would strongly advise her clients to see a doctor/specialist.  With diagnostic testing, the doctor would discover the same thing – and Marilyn’s client did not know he or she had this illness/disease.

Over the years, Marilyn has worked with clients who had cancer, ulcerative colitis, PNH (a rare form of bone marrow cancer), Lyme Disease, Crohn’s Disease, liver failure, Multiple Sclerosis, Sensory Integrative Dysfunction (children), Tourette Syndrome, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), terminal illnesses, Fibromyalgia, extreme fears and phobias, extreme childhood traumas, and numerous other emotional traumas, diseases and disorders.  Marilyn uses a combination of methods with Reiki to facilitate healing. She also works closely with the Chief of Surgery at Northside Cherokee Hospital in Georgia, and with surgeons, Naturopaths (ND’s), MD’s and Chiropractors.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Physician, OB and gynocologist, fusion medicine physician
Guest Biography:

Dr James Pilc,  a Physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology and currently the CEO of James D Pilc LLC.  This corporation includes a complimentary practice of Meditative Healing and Fusion Medicine.  In this practice, as a Personal Meditative Guide, healer and awakening coach Dr Pilc teach self-awareness and healing techniques for any illness, chronic or acute.  Healing through Fusion Medicine includes Western and Eastern Medicine approaches as well as Meditative Self-Healing.

Through the above corporation, Dr Pilc has become an author of  Unstuck:  The Enlightenment of Medicine and Introduction to Meditation:  A Path to Ourselves.  He created meditative CDs/digital downloads for adults and children including Guided Meditation:  A Path to Peace,  Children’s Meditation:  A Beautiful and Magical Relaxation and Deep Mindful Exploration. He also created a meditation buddy for children to snuggle with during their relaxation.

After being diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in 2005, Dr Pilc came to meditation as a complementary therapy to help with healing.  His hope is to help those in need of physical, emotional and energetic or spiritual healing and to further investigate the connection between Western Medicine, Eastern Medicine and Meditative Self-Healing. He teaches group guided meditation classes and hold individual Meditative Self-Healing sessions to guide people to find the Core causative Agent of their disease and heal themselves.  He has offered meditation sailing aboard the Spirit of Buffalo, bringing it to WNY for the first time and lectured to national and international groups and organizations and interviewed on national radio shows in an effort to raise the global consciousness, help people reach complete healing, and create a new and improved connection with spirit.

Dr Pilc graduated from the University of Buffalo with a Bachelor’s in Science and Medical Doctorate and was privileged to practice Obstetrics and Gynecology in Western New York for more than 25 years. He managed and cared for a private practice of greater than 5000 wonderful people and currently live in Buffalo, New York with his husband and 2 sons.

His favorite quote is from Mother Teresa “Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love”.  This is where healing begins.

Presently working with a group of highly motivated individuals, he is creating a Sciatu Fusion Center to serve Western New York.

Guest Category: Earth & Space, Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Sex, Technology
Guest Occupation: Expert on Egyptology, Archaeology, Professor at Calgary U, Author, Global Research, Television Host
Guest Biography:

Dr. Carmen Boulter hails from Calgary, Canada, where she taught at the University for many years.  She is best known for her groundbreaking internationally renowned DVD series, The Pyramid Code.  With 25+ trips and tours to Egypt, sacred sites and places unknown, she is a female counterpart to Indiana Jones.  Often called in to appear on television as an expert on the Pyramids and ancient sites, she will soon be hosting her own television show!

Carmen is changing the landscape of higher education by painstakingly creating a venue for anyone to learn about their favorite subjects, via Interactive-U.  It is a revolutionary concept, which she designed and participates in with passion.

In addition to the DVD Series, The Pyramid Code, she is the author of Angels and Archetypes, a deep look into archetypes, mythologies, goddesses throughout time, up to the present.

Each year she hosts an incredible tour of the Pyramids, with access to many places that are off limits to most.  It's a great opportunity to learn, experience and expand consciousness!  Check out her website, for more information on the many-faceted aspects of Carmen Boulter's ground breaking work!

Guest Category: Cosmology, Education Technology, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Access Consciousness, Angel Communication, Clairvoyant & Telepathic, Mystic & Seer, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Representative District of Columbia
Guest Biography:

Franklin Garcia was elected US Representative (Shadow) for the District of Columbia on November 4, 2014. He is working to bring full democracy to more than 650,000 people in our nation’s capital by helping make the District of Columbia the 51st State in the union. He is part of a Statehood Congressional Delegation that includes two Senators and one US Representative.

Representative Garcia is the former President and founder of the DC Latino Caucus, and current President of the non-profit DC Latino Leadership Council. He has held key positions in the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, former DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, and other politicians. Representative Garcia serves on a number of Boards and Committees and served on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Host Committee.

Representative Garcia came to live in Washington, DC with his parents and sister at the age of 10. He attended public school in Montgomery County, Maryland where he graduated from Montgomery Blair High School. He holds an undergraduate degree in Finance from the George Washington University and a Master of Arts degree in Financial Economics for Public Policy from the American University. He is the founder of the DCiReporter TV Show, writes for a Spanish language newspaper and is a Huffington Post and Examiner blogger. He is an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and lives in the Woodrige neighborhood in Ward 5

Guest Category: Business, Education, History, News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Larry is a Shamanic Makah Wisdom Keeper and Fisherman Inelia is an Ascension Worker and Author
Guest Biography:

I, Larry Buzzell, was born in July 1968 - one of millions of incarnations here.  I grew up in Alaska, spent 4 years exploring "jobs", until re-discovering the sea.  Finding ocean work, did 4 years in the Coast Guard and was happy to return to my anscestral home in Neah Bay, Washington, an Indian reservation for the Makah Tribe, to which I belong.  The ocean here provides sustenance, adventure, riches, unending challenge and opportunity.  It can also become a trap of comfort, familiarity and fear of loss which often accompanies the struggles of reservation poverty, abuse and addictions.  Neah Bay offers the entirety of worldy experiences condensed into a micro nation.  Or so I thought...

Until I woke up one day, more so than any other day, and met Inelia Benz.

This is Inelia's first incarnation on any planet, so she was born without self-importance, attachments, personal agendas, or the desire for evolution and soul advancement.  Yet she knew upon arrival that the planet needed to vibrate at a higher level in order to undergo a global ascension.  She didn't know how to assist or communicate this need to others.  In 2010 she received a request from Source to go public and become the voice of empowerment; since then, she has been fulfilling that request full time.

Now together as a couple...we find ourselves doing the things we had mainly dreamt of. The daydreams, the dream dreams...now becoming reality.  Manifestations become instantly present in the moment we become clear to each other.  This is what creates our shared reality.  We have begun to gather; like tribes re-uniting, regaining lost clarity, and sharing our "stories"...getting clear.  

Meet us, and all who are ready to gather, at https://walkwithmenow.com.  Or, meet us physically at Neah Bay, where we are presently manifesting our center, our physical location; a place from which to create with clarity.

* Note from Lance White, the "Zany Mystic"...

I've been blessed to know both Larry and Inelia for a while now, and am gifted with their friendship, wisdom and humor.  In addition to raising the vibration of the planet, Inelia has written two books; the first one is "Interview With an Alien", and her recent book just out is titled "Interview With a Psychic Assassin".  It's an exciting and thinly veiled true story, with twists and turns to thrill.  Its true gift is in its transformative power.  Read it and find out why!

Guest Category: Literature, Cosmology, UFOs, Access Consciousness, Animal & Plant Communications, Clairvoyant & Telepathic, Mystic & Seer, Shamanism, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Peace Activist
Guest Biography:

MICHAEL R. WALLI is a member of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Washington, D.C. Roman Catholic layman currently residing in the belly of the beast, Washington D.C.

From TRANSFORM NOW PLOWSHARES

https://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/about/story-of-the-action/

Michael Walli(63), Megan Rice shcj (82), Greg Boertje-Obed, (57), succeeded in a disarmament action at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Nuclear facility before dawn on July 28, 2012.

Calling themselves Transform Now Plowshares, they hammered on the cornerstone of the newly built Highly-Enriched Uranium Manufacturing Facility (HEUMF), splashed human blood and left four spray painted tags on the recent construction which read: Woe to the empire of blood; The fruit of justice is peace; Work for peace not for war; and Plowshares please Isaiah.

Under the cover of darkness they intermittently passed beyond four fences in a walk for over two hours through the fatal force zone. “We feel it was a miracle; we were led directly to where we wanted to go,” said Greg.

After navigating through the complex they came to a long, white, windowless building marked HEUMF. “It was built like a fortress,” Greg said describing the four guard towers.

Unimpeded by security, they attached two banners to pillars of the building. “Transform Now Plowshares,” read the first with a green and black icon showing part bomb part flower. A second stated, “Swords into Plowshares Spears into Pruning Hooks–Isaiah”. In addition, between the pillars they strung red crime tape.

When confronted by a guard they read aloud their statement. “He was on his walkie-talkie but he heard it,” Megan confirmed. Before receiving orders to halt they had opportunity to offer guards bread, and display a bible, candles and white roses. Though initially forced to endure a kneeling posture for an extended period, guards responded to complaint and allowed the activists to stand off and on. Meanwhile they continued singing.

At this time they have been interviewed by the DOE investigative unit and have conditional charges of two felony counts for vandalism and trespass.  They spoke to supporters from Blount County Jail at 12:30 pm saying they had not been processed yet. All four are scheduled for arraignment in Blount County Court on Monday.

“We’re still opposing the filthy rotten system,” Michael said.  “Jesus has no nukes in heaven and no torture in heaven.”

Guest Category: Education, History, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Peace Activist
Guest Biography:

SR. MEGAN RICE - Born in N.Y.C., a member of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus since 1950. Serving as a teacher in the US until 1962 and until 2003 in West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana). In 2005 joined the staff of Nevada Desert Experience, an interfaith Peace movement for non-violent resistance to nuclear weapons and war.

Sister Megan Rice, Freed From Prison, Looks Ahead to More Anti-Nuclear Activism

By WILLIAM J. BROAD MAY 26, 2015

From The New York Times nytimes.com/2015/05/27/science/sister-megan-rice-anti-nuclear-weapons-activist-freed-from-prison.html

For more than a year, Sister Megan Rice, 85, a Roman Catholic nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, had caught occasional glimpses of the glittering World Trade Center from her living quarters: the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison on the Brooklyn waterfront.

So when the Volvo she was riding in one morning last week crested the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and the skyscraper came into full view, it made a strong impression.

“Oh, my gosh,” Sister Rice exclaimed. Drinking in the scenery and the panorama of New York Harbor, she added, “We’re well on our way.”

It was her fifth day of freedom after two years behind bars for a crime for which she is boldly unapologetic. In 2012, she joined two other peace activists in splattering blood and antiwar slogans on a nuclear plant in Tennessee that holds enough highly enriched uranium to make thousands of nuclear warheads. All three were convicted and sent to prison. But on May 8, an appellate court ruled that the government had overreached in charging them with sabotage, and ordered them set free.

Sister Rice and two other activists broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., which holds highly enriched uranium. The government charged them with sabotage after they splattered the building with blood and antiwar slogans. Credit U.S. Government, via Getty Images

Since her release on May 16, Sister Rice, a Manhattan native, had been reconnecting with family and friends, as well as seeing doctors, lawyers and reporters. She took time to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and she made her first purchase: peanut butter frozen yogurt topped with hot fudge.

Now, dressed in a sweatsuit that fellow inmates had given her, the nun was traveling to the American headquarters of her order in Rosemont, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. The agenda was to confer with her superiors about her future — one in which she plans to continue her antinuclear activism. One threat was that the federal government might challenge the recent ruling and try to have her thrown back in prison.

“It would be an honor,” Sister Rice said during the ride. “Good Lord, what would be better than to die in prison for the antinuclear cause?”

Her family and friends seemed slightly agog at her fiery commitment and rabble-rousing energy after so much time in jail.

“It’s unbelievable,” said a cousin with whom the nun is staying, who asked that her name be withheld to avoid unwanted attention. “I would be semicomatose.”

At the wheel of the Volvo on the drive to Rosemont was Roberta Pyzel, a New York filmmaker, who joked and bantered with her friend Sister Rice and a reporter, at one point extolling the merits of road food. She urged the nun to expand her palate: “You can’t live on peanut butter yogurt for the rest of your life.”

Sister Rice, thin but seemingly healthy, was in high spirits and voluble as she talked about her religious order, her atomic radicalization, her life in prison and what may come next.

Even before she broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Sister Rice had been arrested dozens of times for acts of civil disobedience. She and other peace activists once blocked a truck rumbling across a nuclear test site in the Nevada desert. Twice, she served six-month jail sentences.

The pacifists belong to the Plowshares movement, a loose, mostly Christian group that seeks the global elimination of nuclear arms.

The Tennessee action took place on a Saturday night in July 2012. Sister Rice, then 82, Michael Walli, 63, and Gregory Boertje-Obed, 57, cut through barbed-wire fences at the Oak Ridge complex. Making their way to the inner sanctum, full of uranium, they splashed human blood on the windowless building, spray-painted its walls with peace slogans, hammered at its concrete base and draped it in crime-scene tape.

After being convicted in May 2013, Sister Rice was sentenced to three years and the two men to five years. She was imprisoned in Tennessee, then Georgia, and in March 2014 was sent to Brooklyn, just off the Gowanus Expressway.

The nun told how a single large room at the Brooklyn prison had housed more than 100 women. Early this year, The Daily News published an article calling the prison a “hellhole.” After that, some inmates were moved. “The language bothered me,” Sister Rice recalled. “But people wouldn’t have listened otherwise.”

She said a gifted legal team, working pro bono, had seemingly materialized out of thin air to fight the government’s sabotage charge. The court’s overturning of the antinuclear conviction this month was hailed as a legal first.

“This action was meant to be,” Sister Rice said of the Tennessee protest. “Things fell into place — unplanned. That’s the unbelievable part of it.”

She said she had lost her access to email at the prison and learned the specifics of her release not from her lawyers or her family, but from a BBC News radio broadcast at 3 in the morning. Disbelieving, she listened again at 4 a.m.

“I started packing,” she recalled, “just in case it was true.”

A security image taken at the Y-12 National Security Complex after the break-in. Credit via Getty Images

Sister Rice occasionally paused her recounting to make or take calls on borrowed cellphones, including an old flip model.

“All is well,” she said into the phone as the Volvo neared Philadelphia. “I have too many funny stories to tell. And we’ll get together and I’ll tell them all. O.K., much love, dearie, and three cheers.”

Asked if she missed anything from prison, she spoke of the friends she had made — especially a younger woman who had tutored her on prison survival. “She was my guru,” Sister Rice said.

As the Volvo sped through Pennsylvania, she explained the purpose of her meeting at Rosemont. After Sister Rice’s conviction, Sister Mary Ann Buckley, the leader of the religious order’s American arm, had issued a statement saying the order intended to “stand behind Sister Megan” and the Catholic Church’s “clear teaching” against the proliferation of nuclear arms.

The meeting, Sister Rice said, was “to figure out what we can look forward to this year.” The order, she added, was founded on the philosophy that the nuns would meet the wants of their time.

“If you can show that,” she added, “there’s no problem. That’s why I had no qualms. I had a mission.”

Much later, on the way back to New York, Sister Rice said the meeting at Rosemont had gone well. But she was now hours behind schedule and had a television appearance set for that evening on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

Asked about critics who advocate peace through strength, Sister Rice conceded that nuclear arms did have a certain power of intimidation. But she insisted that the United States, by keeping a vast arsenal, was violating its global disarmament pledges and ultimately courting disaster.

“It’s making other countries feel compelled to have nuclear weapons,” she said, going on to mimic the me, too logic: “If you have them, we have to have them.”

Ms. Pyzel, the driver, heartily agreed. “It’s madness,” she said.

Sister Rice added: “We don’t want to end the industry. We want to transform it into something that’s useful. What could be better than making something that’s life-enhancing rather than life-destroying?”

As the Volvo sped along the New Jersey Turnpike, Sister Rice joined in a conference call with the Plowshares team. A group of what seemed to be six or seven people talked for a half-hour about the opportunities that the release of Sister Rice and her two accomplices had presented and about the possibility of public activities in August marking the 70th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

“To me,” Sister Rice said, “what needs to be done is to firm up the fervor and awareness that has grown, to maximize the message around this particular action.”

As it turned out, that same day brought good news. In Cincinnati, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit gave federal prosecutors more time to decide whether to challenge the overturning of the three protesters’ sabotage convictions. Their new deadline is June 22.

For now, at least, Sister Rice is a free woman.

After a long day, the skyscraper known as the Freedom Tower returned to view. Sister Rice and Ms. Pyzel breathed a sigh of relief when approaching the Holland Tunnel, certain they would have sufficient time to get to MSNBC’s studios at Rockefeller Center.

“We’re still being led,” the nun said, referring to the way things always seemed to fall into place. “It’s the universe at work.”

Guest Category: Education, History, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Human Rights Activist
Guest Biography:

Why I Am On Gaza Freedom Flotilla 3 | By Ann Wright

I served 29 years in the U.S. Army and retired as a Colonel. I was also a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and served in U.S. Embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia.

In my 2003 letter of resignation from the U.S. government in opposition to U.S. President Bush’s war on Iraq, I cited the “continuing unbalanced policies of the United States in Israeli-Palestinian issues” as one of my major concerns on U.S. foreign policy.

I had had an assignment in the Middle East. My first experience in Palestine was in January 2009 when I travelled to Gaza and saw the brutal destruction of much of Gaza by the Israeli attack and the deaths of over 1400 persons. Afterwards, I helped organize 5 delegations to Gaza in 2009, including the Gaza Freedom March with 1300 participants from 30 countries. I returned to Gaza in 2011 as a part of an international parliamentary delegation and again in 2012 after the Israeli attack on Gaza. I was a passenger on the Challenger 1 boat in the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla in which the Israeli commandos executed 9 persons on the Mavi Marmara (a 10th person has now died from his injuries) and wounded over 50 and beat up passengers on each of the six boats in the flotilla. I was an organizer for the U.S. Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, in the 2011 Gaza Freedom Flotilla and an initial organizer for Gaza’s Ark.

I am horrified by the brutal 55 day Israeli attack on Gaza in 2014 that left over 2,200 dead and 10,000 wounded and much of the country in ruins. I am equally horrified by the lack of international assistance for the people of Gaza during this past year and by the impunity that Israel has in the international community for the criminal acts it has committed on the people of Gaza and the West Ban.

I am participating again in another Gaza Freedom Flotilla because I am totally and completely opposed to the continuous Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and the U.S. complicity in the frequent massive Israeli attacks on the people of Gaza. Without the approval of the United States and the military weaponry from the United States, Israel would be unable to continue its military destruction of Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank. As a concerned citizen of this planet, the least I can do is challenge Israel and my country, the United States, by this flotilla.

October 05, 2016

Zaytouna-Oliva taken in International Waters: Whereabouts of Participants Unknown

For the most up-to-date information, follow Women's Boat to Gaza on Twitter or check their website for ongoing updates.

Update: Women to be "deported"/Details Emerge About Capture.

This afternoon, the Women's Boat to Gaza was making good progress to the shores and the women were emotional about meeting all the people in Gaza who were waiting for them. Some of the Palestinians had spent the night at the beach to greet them.

At 9:58 (EST) organizers lost total contact with the Zaytouna-Oliva. The US embassy confirmed that the boat was intercepted. At this time organizers do not know where occupants of the boat are being held.

It is important to know that this happened in international waters and it is not only illegal but sets a bad precedent in giving a greenlight for other nations to attack civilian ships in international waters. The Zaytouna-Oliva was carrying no material aid. This was by design because Israel, as a premise for their attacks, would claim that weapons and contraband were on board. The owner of Zaytouna-Oliva is Israeli.

Ann Wright is a decorated former US diplomat, a member of Veterans For Peace and on our Advisory Board. On board with her were three parliamentarians, an Olympic athlete and Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire. They were committed to nonviolence as much as they were committed to breaking the blockade.

Ann has traveled thousands of miles and made a great sacrifice for human rights.

Unlike other nations that have women on the boat, we Americans provide military equipment to Israel that may very well have been used against Ann and our international friends. The blockade on Gaza must end!

Guest Category: Education, History, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Author, Channel and Spiritual Counselor
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Karen Doonan is an author, channel and spiritual counselor who works to reveal TRUTH to the human race through her channeled messages and expansive information channeled through GOD.  ALL JUST IS and WE ARE and the human race are now moving from Ascension into Evolution and Karen works to translate this process into everyday human language in order to help the human race understand what this evolution involves.  Karen is here to help birth the New Earth which has always existed but was hidden from the human race by the lower dimensional frequencies which Karen refers to as the old 3D earth.  We now move into a new way of living and being and we do this through validation of personal physical experience. Karen has walked this process and shares this process in order to physically show TRUTH at a human physical waking mind level. "LOVE is the answer, no matter the question" - (c) Karen Doonan.

Karen Doonan

Author, Channel and Spiritual Counselor

"LOVE is the answer, no matter the question" (c) Karen Doonan

2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight

Guest Category: UFOs, Access Consciousness, Akashic Records, Angel Communication, Medium & Channeling, Astrology, Clairvoyant & Telepathic, Mystic & Seer, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Author
Guest Biography:

HARI MENON was born in Kuwait, the third and youngest of three children, where his father was working as an expatriate, initial schooling was carried out there and then returned to India, where he further did his Secondary Schooling in a Convent school and, his undergraduation in Science, switched channels and took a Baccalaureate in Commerce and so became a second generation accountant (his father being one himself). Higher professional education was pursued and qualified as a Chartered Accountant .

Work and career began at at an early age of 18 and the bulk of working life was in the middle east in various countries – UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and a short stint in Nigeria. Over two or three stints abroad. Given to the liking for the psychical at a very early age, at the age of 32 decided that the world had nothing more to offer, gave up the idea of hearth and home parents and wealth and, moved on in a very determined manner to the soul and spirituality side of life Took initiation from a lesser known person, practised for a year and then took up sannyasa as per vedic rites  having been given the name of “ Swami Dhyananada Saraswati”– living in ashrams and a short sojourn in the Himalayas (really short – the winter was upsetting) returned to ashram and continued  practices.



Disillusioned by the various malpractices and wrong information within this sphere of human studies, left for home as a sannyasi but resident at home – The Mahabharata prescribes this method quite strongly. I was laso lucky in that both my parents were full fledged yogis unknown to others but who lived fully knowing themselves and others. It has had its effects on me also  quite naturally .



Having been single and travelled extensively to various ancient civilizations much of the esoteric was instilled during his childhood and youth. Given to deep thinking on events occurring to oneself and having keenly felt the “need to know” as to “why” and “what”. Has travelled  and  imbibed the air and sun of Ancient Greece, Persepolis, Heliopolis, Egypt, the Mediterranean islands, Constantinople, Levant and middle east and India and the raw natural energy emanating  from Africa. The excerpt (from my book) tells everything  -



All these meditations may be said to have been written as a person recovering from an unwanted illness. It has been arduous not to say the least; it has taken me the better part of 20 long years of convalescence if I may be permitted to say so. Mostly written in pain and deep thought, they may seem abstruse to a reader .But these were necessary where at times the hyper use of blocked judgement and reason were involved. Someone who has not gone through a similar period of extreme agony would not have any reason to even go through these meditations. At times they have been helpful in nursing me back to my health, and at times quite surprising in themselves as to their content. Each one of these meditations has been written more in a therapeutic vein than for any open public readership. They follow a common thread, viz one of recovery which no doctor can help but one reaches into one’s own depths and reserves and pulls one out.  The ideas may be familiar to readers of philosophy, but then it is understandably so as to some extent philosophy has been relied upon. It is surprising to me that I am alive at all, the intrusions have taken its toll and, sometimes I wonder at the very use of it all. The saddest part is in that, of what took place in my life or a majority of the incidents of the last 20 years have been totally unnecessary and point to a supreme lack of regard for life and its continuance within the ethos of  this one country and world .



Whatever good may ultimately emerge from all these exercises , one thing is certain , one has forever lost regard for the country and world and  places  in which these incidents took place and nothing will ever wipe away  either the pain or meaninglessness of the very violence inherent in whatever was extended as teachings of a higher nature .  



                 “Arjuna, everything exists as an idea within me, but really speaking,

                                              Neither am I in them nor they in me “.      – Bhagavad Gita



“................and that, when I had an inclination to philosophy, I did not fall into the hands of any sophist , and that I did not waste my time on writers of histories, or in the resolution of syllogisms, or occupy myself about the investigation of appearances in the heavens , for all these things require the help of the gods and fortune...........................”                  - Marcus Aurelius



Having been my “own doctor” and as the Upanishads proclaim - ......if so done , he cannot be set right by any doctor .........



Having started out as a youth aged 28 brimming with hope and now 53 wiser and fuller as a human being – my travails, travels, and background helped me – with help from people I know in distant lands yet unconnected physically , but only by understanding and understanding alone.



Presently I work to earn a living , do not save , at heart I am a sannyasi , I have had only one guru (myself ) and one excellent teacher and his demonstrations (which count for  nothing in the light of ignorance). I have lost nothing but all my youth and productive years- the result is gratifying so one does not complain .



Most of all I am myself and know myself through and through – which is really what we all crave for . My credo “The impossibility of One Being another” . No question is too hard anymore , no answer too soft .

Guest Category: Arts, Philosophy, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Holyoke Teachers
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As the President of the Holyoke Teachers Association I plan on using this page to keep everyone informed about everything going on with Holyoke Teachers.

Guest Category: Education, Kids & Family, News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Author, Astrologer, Numerologist, Spiritual Reader
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Timothy J Glenn is an astrologer, numerologist, spiritual reader and teacher, pianist, vocalist, sound healer, channel for the Proterreans, lecturer, and past life regression therapist.  Tim says, "I've thrown myself into the world of Metaphysics with a grand passion."  This is beautifully demonstrated through his personal Soul Purpose Readings.  

A Soul Purpose Reading has a primary focus:  why did you (as a Divine Soul) come into this particular life?  Sessions last about an hour and a half and can be done in person or over the phone.

We can add one more item to the list of professions...author!  Check out my new eBook: "The Zephyrus Archives - Volume One - Mission of Eternity".  A narrative biography of Pontious Pilate's right hand man.  The Zephyrus Archives paint an intimate portrait of the most misrepresented human in history:  the Spiritual Master called Jesus, who Zephyrus knew as Yeshua.

Guest Category: Literature, Cosmology, Access Consciousness, Numerology, Astrology, Clairvoyant & Telepathic, Mystic & Seer, Psychic & Intuitive, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: Soul Singer
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Whitney Myer is a soul singer gone rogue. Teasing the lines of RnB and Rock n Roll, her electrifying live performances mesmerize audiences and have earned her featured appearances at Lightning in a Bottle, The Bounce Festival, and SXSW. Drawing inspiration from musicians like Prince, Little Dragon, and Bjork; Whitney Myer has shared the stage with the likes of Allen Stone, DEV, and Fitz And The Tantrums.

Whitney Myer jetted on to the scene after wowing Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green, and Blake Shelton on NBC’s singing competition “The Voice” in 2012, after her show stopping rendition of Alicia Keys “No One” turned the chairs of all four judges in a frenzy to claim her for their teams. Later that year Whitney released her first solo EP “The Articles of Luminous Nature” which highlights not only her soulful voice but also her focused musical prowess as a songwriter and instrumentalist, experimenting for the first time with electronic elements that could be recreated for live performances.

Guest Category: Arts, Performing Arts, Music
Guest Occupation: Internationally known film Maker and author, Co-Writer, Director and Producer of What The Bleep Do We Know?
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GUEST: BETSY CHASSE

Betsy Chasse is an internationally known film Maker and author, most notable as the Co-Writer, Director and Producer of What The Bleep Do We Know?! In 2014 she produced the acclaimed Song of the New Earth which premiered at The Seattle International Film Festival. She has authored 4 books including What The Bleep Do We Know; Discovering the Endless Possibilities to Altering Your Everyday Reality and in 2014 Tipping Sacred Cows. She writes often for Huffington Post, Modern Mom and other blogs and is currently in production on a new feature documentary about the Coaching industry featuring Jack Canfiel, John Gray and Marci Shimmoff

“What The Bleep Do We Know?!”, which broke industry box office records and screened in over 300 theaters in the US and has been distributed world wide.

After spending her youth in front of the camera as a commercial talent, Chasse moved into film production, working on Robert Altman’s film The Player. Her first gig as a Production Manager on the independent film, Public Access, directed by Bryan Singer, won the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.

After working as Production Manager and Line Producer on over 30 feature films, she started her own production company, Rampant Feline Films in 1986, producing cable specials and music videos. As Senior Vice President of Production for Prosperity Pictures, from 1997 to1999 she supervised physical production on thirteen films. She also produced and co-produced eight films including: Labor Pains with Kyra Sedgwick, Rob Morrow and Mary Tyler Moore; Love and Action in Chicago, with Courtney Vance, Regina King, Jason Alexander and Kathleen Turner; The Spanish Judges with Vincent Di’ Onofrio and Matthew Lillard; Just one Night, with Timothy Hutton and Maria Grazi Cucinotta; and, produced in association with her company Rampant Feline Films, Chasing Destiny with Casper Van Dien, Roger Daltry and Christopher Lloyd.

She recently produced the acclaimed “Song of the New Earth” which had its debut at the Seattle International Film Festival and played theatrically in the summer of 2014.

Guest Category: Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Mental Health, Personal Development, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Author, Musician, and motivational Speaker
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Since Day 1, Deiadora has provided psychic guidance to all she encounters. With an uncanny ability to tap into the infinite ‘sixth sense’ of the unseen, Deiadora is far beyond the veil. Being called a transmission, Deiadora “The Essence” defies labels, knowing that it is grace that moves through her to allow her to offer the proper guidance to those requesting it. From a space of transpersonal innocence, her aura sings of cosmic universal love and ecstasy. All who encounter her works (recordings and books) or have the opportunity to be in her presence, know that she is out-of-this-world inspiring. To be with Deiadora is to awaken to one’s highest frequency and activate an awakening so powerful, life thereafter is never the same.



Latest Release: I Am Awakening Ecstasy, Available on Amazon, Kindle, Lulu, and Payhip.
Guest Category: Music, Paranormal, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Politics & Government, Psychology, Self Help, Sex, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Public Health Physician; Director, Institute of Health and Environment, U of Albany
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Dr David O. Carpenter is a public health physician whose current position is Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, as well as Professor of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University at Albany.  After receiving his MD degree from Harvard Medical School he chose a career of research and public health.  After research positions at the National Institute of Mental Health and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, he came to Albany in 1980 as the Director of the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health, the third largest public health laboratory in the US after NIH and CDC.  In an effort to build ties to an academic program, he initiated efforts to create a partnership between the New York State Department of Health and the University at Albany, resulting in the creation of the School of Public Health in 1985.  He was then appointed as the founding Dean of the School of Public Health, a position he held until 1998 when he became the Director of the Institute of Health and the Environment.

Dr. Carpenter’s research initially was basic neurobiology, and more recently has primarily been the study of human disease resulting from exposure to environmental contaminants.  He has focused on the relationship between exposures to a variety of chemicals and ionizing radiation on incidence of several human diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and diseases of the nervous system.  He has extensive international scientific collaborations in Japan, China, Uganda, Pakistan, Turkey and Russia.  The Institute which he directs has recently been identified as a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization.  Dr. Carpenter is also a member of the Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, an organization that advises the governments of the US and Canada on issues related to the Great Lakes.  He has more than 350 peer reviewed publications and has edited five books.

When he arrived in Albany in 1980 as the Director of the Wadsworth Laboratories of the New York State Department of Health, he was given the responsibility of administering a program to determine whether there were adverse human health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs), initiated because of concern of hazards from high voltage power lines.  A 5 million dollar research program was begun, and when finished in 1987 the program concluded that while there were effects of EMFs on many organ systems, a particular concern was an increased incidence of leukemia in children living in home with elevated magnetic fields.  After that time Dr. Carpenter became  the spokesperson for New York State on issues related to EMFs.  He has continued to evaluate research in this area, and has edited two books and written several review articles on the subject.  He testified before the President’s Cancer Panel in 2009 on human health effects of both power line and radio frequency EMFs from a variety of sources, particularly from cell phones.  He is the Co-Editor of the Bioinitiative Report, published first in 2007 and revised in 2012.  This is a comprehensive review of the effects of EMFs.

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Science, Technology
Guest Occupation: First-elected U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia
Guest Biography:

Representative Moreland earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in International Affairs in 1974 from Antioch University. In his senior year, he participated in Antioch's highly acclaimed "Education Abroad Program," which required him to study in Europe and West Africa, attached to the University of Lagos, where he conducted field research in Nigeria, visiting villages and cities from Badagary in the south to Nguru north of Kanu.
He earned his Juris Doctor Degree from Antioch School of Law in 1979. Honors awarded in Law School include the prestigious Lyndon Bains Johnson Congressional Internship. Representative Moreland was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in June 1980.
In 1990 the voters of Washington, D.C. elected Charles J. Moreland to the position of United States Representative. U.S. Senators Jesse L. Jackson and Florence Pendleton were elected at the same time to lobby the U.S. Senate for D.C. Statehood.
Representative Moreland was re-elected to a second term in November 1992, receiving more than 140,000 votes--one of the highest vote-totals in Washington, D.C. history. He chose not to seek re-election in 1994. From 1991 to 1994 Rep. Moreland taught Business Law at Southeastern University in Washington, D.C. Charles J. Moreland is a skilled and experienced lobbyist who has worked on Capitol Hill as a political professional since 1978. He served as the chief National Lobbyist for The D.C. Voting Rights Amendment, and traveled to 15 states to introduce the bill before state legislatures.
Representative Moreland is Founder and Chairman of The New Columbia Publishing Company, Inc. He is The Publisher of the New Columbia Times Newspaper, and Author of “The Way To Freedom From Life’s Many Addictions,” a faith-based healing guide

Guest Category: History, Kids & Family, News, Politics & Government, Self Help, Variety