Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
Jackie Lapin
Leading The Way in Practical Conscious Creation for Personal and Global Transformation
Author of Practical Conscious Creation and The Art of Conscious Creation; How You Can Transform the World;
Founder and Creator of LifeWisdomNetwork®
Founder of United World Healing
Jackie Lapin is the world leader in educating, mentoring and coaching people on Practical Conscious Creation. Her newest book, Practical Conscious Creation: Daily Techniques for Manifest Your Desires (Findhorn Press) follows on the heals of her Amazon.com No. 1 bestseller The Art of Conscious Creation, How You Can Transform the World, which received unqualified endorsements from such personal growth leaders as Joe Vitale and Mark Victor Hansen.
Since that book, Jackie has become a noted speaker, coach and transformational business consultant. Her mission is to turn millions of people into Conscious Creators, so that they consciously create their lives, rather than let life happen to them.
Jackie also founded United World Healing, a non-profit organization designed to bring people together for shared visions to change the world.
Jackie has proved herself a pioneering spirit who has succeeded at the highest levels of multiple careers. She was one of the national’s first women sportswriters, and then became a nationally recognized media relations expert with a world-class client list for more than 30 years. The publicity she generated has sold millions of dollars worth of products and services and launched multi-million-dollar companies.
Jackie is also the co-founder an innovator behind LifeWisdomNetwork, the Virtual Village that is the marketplace, directory and information resource of the fast-growing Consciousness and Transformational World. Life Wisdom Network is designed to support the abundance and prosperity of all leaders, practitioners, retailers, product suppliers, service companies, organizations, social networks, information resources, spiritual centers and events that serve the growth of consciousness and personal transformation around the globe.
The Law of Attraction has fascinated Dr. David Che since he was a child. He has studied this theory that goes back more than a hundred years and has read all the major books on the subject.
While teaching the Law of Attraction to others, Dr. Che developed a simple, easy to understand, step-by-step approach. After realizing that none of the books written on The Law of Attraction, including recent best-sellers, make the theory understandable or make it easy to apply, Dr. Che decided to do exactly that in his new book.
The author has personally applied The Law of Attraction in his own life to achieve goals he otherwise would not have reached, such as selling his oceanfront condo at a gain in a badly-depressed real estate market and being admitted to dental school directly from a community college. Dr. Che has lectured on the Law of Attraction at Cape Canaveral for space aeronautic workers and at other locations.
An avid reader, Dr. Che also enjoys working out in the gym and spending time with his wife who is currently pursuing an MBA degree. He earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery in 2001 from the University of Illinois--Chicago and has a private practice in Cocoa Beach, Florida. He lives in Viera, Florida. Dr. Che was born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in the United States.
Suzanne Ward was born in Youngstown (Ohio, USA) in 1933. She moved to Miami, where she married and her four children were born. They lived in Panama from 1965 to 1972, when she divorced and she moved with the children to Washington, DC. She worked as an editor for several journals and manager of communications for a multinational corporation. With her family of adopted dogs, Suzy now lives in a rural area near Vancouver, Washington. Her other three children live in Latin America.
In 1980 her son Matthew died in a car crash. Shortly after that, she was guided to three different mediums, who all said that Matthew would be in contact with her again. This happened in 1994, and it was the beginning of an enormous amount of information about Nirvana, ET civilizations, souls, 2012 and many other subjects, not only coming from Matthew but from many galactic beings and even God himself. She learned that it was her life's mission to put this information in books to enlighten the world, which she did.
Dr. Bosiljevac, a third generation Croatian, was born in Omaha in 1951, and lived in Nebraska for fourteen years. His parents moved to Emporia, Kansas, where he attended Roosevelt High School and graduated from Emporia State University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He attended the University of Kansas School of Medicine and was among the first class that spent clinical years at the Wichita branch. Graduating in the top ten percent of his class with his MD in 1975, he was selected for membership in the honorary society Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Joe spent one year at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in a rotating internship, then returned to Kansas and trained for five years in general, thoracic, and vascular surgery at Wesley Medical Center.
Dr. Bosiljevac is board certified in general surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He has been in solo practice in Emporia, Kansas, since 1981 with Flint Hills Surgical Associates, PA. A PhD in Natural Medicine was achieved December 2009, and he subsequently started a wellness practice and founded Flint Hills Natural Medicine with an emphasis on prolonging health and longevity. Dr. Bosiljevac has been certified in age-management medicine and worked with Cenegenics Medical and Research Institute. He is also a member of the American College of Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) and certified in chelation medicine. Married to a Colombian princess and with four grown children, he speaks fluent Spanish and is conversant in French.
Author, director, journalist, film photographer. Knights Templar Researcher, Medieval Church Researcher!
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One of the most enigmatic islands of Europe is Bornholm, located off the coast of Denmark, that is covered with homes and churches built by the early Knights Templar. Erling Haagensen, a native of Bornholm and co-author with Henry Lincoln of The Templars Secret Island, will present the secret history of Bornholm and why the Templars chose it as their northern headquarters.
Dr Peter Glidden is an outspoken advocate of Wholistic Health, Dr. Glidden has lectured to thousands of people over the last 2 decades. He delivers over 60 Free Lectures each year, and is a regular speaker at Health Freedom Expo & Youngevity Regional Meetings. He has appeared on TV, is a regular guest host of the "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" Health Talk radio program, and gives free weekly seminars all over Chicagoland. His new book, The MD Emperor Has No Clothes, is an eye-opening, groundbreaking, jaw dropping exposition on the shortcomings of conventional MD directed medicine and the unrivaled excellence of Wholistic medical treatments.
For over 2 decades, Dr. Glidden has been treating people around the world with Naturopathic therapeutics including Homeopathy, Medical Nutrition, Heavy Metal Chelation, Detoxification, Herbal Medicine and Bio-identical Hormone Supplementation. Dr. Glidden's current treatment protocols, perfected over 2 decades of clinical work, are unique in the field of Naturopathic medicine. He is the only physician in the world to combine Classical Homeopathy, Medical Nutrition, and Comprehensive Clinical Diet protocols.
All of Dr. Glidden's treatments are science-based and clinically verified. He does not use any "black box" unproven diagnostic techniques, nor any therapeutics that are experimental. He relies on time-tested, science based, clinically verified, safe and effective treatment protocols to help his patients/clients to recover their health.
Dr. Glidden's work is "results oriented," and his patients/clients are always given a time-frame inside of which they will work to secure noticeable and measurable results. None of Dr. Glidden's treatment protocols are "open-ended."
If you become a patient/client of Dr. Glidden, you will be given a homeopathic treatment, a nutritional supplement program, and be asked to alter your diet according to specific guidelines. Most programs for chronic illness initially take 4 months, and involve 7 office visits. Prices vary depending on too many variables to predict. In the Initial Office Visit Dr. Glidden will take a look at your health history and then determine the approximate cost (and time frame) of your health-recovery program. You can then decide if you want to engage his services and move forward.
Peter has been actively researching the world of metaphysics for most of his life. His teenage years were spent studying alternative science, eastern mysticism, and anything remotely esoteric. Later his focus turned to understanding the nature of reality and our place in it.
After graduating from university with a degree in commerce, he worked in the health and wellness field and later went into the family business. His father owned a manufacturing business, where Peter learned all about working with resins. Synchronistically this prepared him for his future work making Orgone products.
Currently his passion lies in applying his knowledge and understanding of orgone technology to help humanity in the creation of the new earth.
Bill Chastain was born in 1941 in a coal camp in Harlan County, Kentucky, but was raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Bill then joined the US Air Force, an environment in which he thrived, and was promoted right out of basic training to become the youngest Drill Instructor in the Air Force.
After the military he took a job in an electronics factory, soon progressing into the research lab, then field project engineer designing and building steel mills and power plants. His company offered him a full scholarship to Pittsburgh University for engineering, but he turned it down.
Bill left Pittsburgh for Olympia, Washington where he managed very large pulp and paper mill construction projects. After forest products he entered aerospace, taking a job as a facilities worker in a Boeing Plant near Seattle. Soon he was managing projects, including the largest aircraft production facility in the world and the Boeing Japan Offices in Tokyo. After 13 years, Bill retired from Boeing as a self-taught Senior Strategic Analyst.
After Boeing, Bill traveled the world as an international trouble-shooter until 2006 when he returned to aerospace as a consultant with the Boeing Company. While at Boeing Bill began working with a medical discovery, later known as APeX. The first person exposed to APeX resolved their Stage IIIC Lung cancer in three months and word spread. Soon there were many cancer victims wanting to try this new discovery. Bill and his wife Emi decided to give up aerospace consulting and devote full time to APeX. That was almost five years ago.
Dr. Hoffman is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Medical University of South Carolina. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1983 and completed her Gastroenterology Fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1989. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. Hoffman is the chief of endoscopic ultrasound, Section Leader of GI Malignancy for the DDC, and head of the GI Focus Group for the Hollings Cancer Center.
Dr. Hoffman is a member of several organizations, including the American Gastroenterological Association; American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; American College of Gastroenterology; American College of Physicians; American Endosonography Club; Charleston Medical Society; Southern Medical Association; and the South Carolina Gastroenterology Association. Additionally, Dr. Hoffman has received numerous honors, including Faculty Excellence Award; Top 20 Female Physicians-Southern Woman to Woman; Who’s Who/Physicians of the Southeast; American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Audio/Visual Award; America’s Top Doctors; and Best Doctors.
Dr. Hoffman’s clinical interests are endoscopic ultrasound, capsule endoscopy, laser therapy and therapeutic endoscopy. Her clinical research interests are in tumor-host interactions and prevention and control.
George has had a lifetime of strange and wonderful experiences beyond the ordinary, encountering both benevolent and malevolent inter-dimensional and extra- terrestrial beings. As a consequence he went through a process of reconciling the knowledge and wisdom gained form these experiences and came to realise a natural responsibility to share what he has learnt with our global community.
As a result, George now embodies a limitless passion in answering life’s primordial questions: “Who are we? Where do we come from? and What are we doing here?”
All that George shares stems from direct experience. Some find his work challenging, yet for others it is incredibly liberating.
The knowledge and wisdom George shares, along with his values and philosophy have helped thousands of people the world over to feel, to BE and to live in a more peaceful, centred, and empowered state in a most natural way.
George knows his life path includes a focus to expose all levels of deception, no matter how far they go. He carries a deep seeded responsibility to help liberate our Humanity from all forms of imposing doctrine and dogma, without exception.
I Am Infinite is an expression of George’s work that provides people with a supportive learning environment. As George says, “It’s really a remembering process to revitalise and resurrect the Sovereign and Infinite Being you truly are.”
On the path of the truth seeker false beliefs are torn down, but in their stead the naked truth rises in its simple beauty.
Frank Huguenard received a BS/CS from Purdue University in Computer Science in 1982 and has spent decades in silicon valley as a software engineer. About ten years ago, he was escorted out the door of the company he was working at by an armed guard when he was fired for inventing a product that not only contained most of the functionality of Skype, but which had features Skype still doesn't have!! All of this happened while his best friend and soul mate was losing her battle with breast cancer. Several years later, Skype was purchased for $3 Billion by EBay and Frank was still unemployed and broke. In a quest to make sense of his bewilderment, he set out on a spiritual journey to understand the nature of reality. The end result of this search has been his desire to share with the world his own new found happiness and how he went about achieving it.
Apart from being founder and Executive Director of a non-profit humanitarian relief organization, The Bountiful Garden Foundation, Frank is also progenitor of Dischoops, the greatest team sport ever.
Franks Websites:
Films:Beyond Me & Beyond Belief
The Most Exciting New Team Sport of the Past Century: Dischoops
Ambidextrous Frisbee Throwing
Dischoops Promo Video
Adam Carolla is a comedian, carpenter, author, father, husband, and all around genius. Known primarily for being Dr. Drew's better half on Loveline, Adam has also starred in The Man Show, Family Guy, Dancing with the Stars, and his independent boxing film, The Hammer. Download his totally hilarious and totally free daily rants on The Adam Carolla Show, the Guinness Book of World Records winning #1 Most Downloaded Podcast in the World.
Neil Kramer is an English writer, philosopher, and teacher, specializing in the fields of consciousness, metaphysics, and mysticism.
Kramer has made a lifelong independent study of philosophy, mystical traditions, religion, and esoteric world history. He shares his path of transformation and empowerment in writings, interviews, and lectures, as well as giving one-on-one teachings and group workshops.
He is a frequent guest on leading alternative radio and internet shows, enjoying international audiences and enthusiastic support. His work regularly appears on cutting-edge media portals and has featured on television networks in the US, UK, Canada and Europe.
Kramer has spoken at numerous international conferences and events, including The Beyond Knowledge Conference 2009, The Alternative Research Community Convention 2010, The Transitional Alchemy Tour 2009/10, The Awakening & Transformation Conference 2011, The New Living Expo 2012, and The 2012 Global Transformation Conference.
Kramer speaks on many fascinating subjects and is renowned for his unique blend of lucidity, empowerment, and authenticity. He travels widely with his writing and teaching work. He lives in Oregon, USA.
Neil Kramer’s new book “The Unfoldment” is in bookstores now.
Neil Kramer was born Nolan Salmon, in 1972, in Greater Manchester, England. He attended high school and then art college in the neighboring county of Cheshire. He went on to spend many years working in graphics and software, before finally devoting himself full-time to his enduring passion for mysticism and philosophy.
Kramer’s work focuses chiefly on consciousness, metaphysics, spiritual philosophy, and inner development. His material also encompasses more esoteric elements such as ancient mystery school knowledge, European medieval & early modern period mysticism, emanationism, and theories of divine ascendance.
Kramer is a self-proclaimed autodidact, almost entirely self-taught and self-directed, with a broad knowledge of philosophy, spiritual traditions, mysticism, psychology, and esoteric world history – all of which he uses to formulate his cosmology and practice. He has studied with several organizations focused on the wisdom of the ancient world, though is not formally affiliated with any specific groups. Kramer consistently highlights the importance of applying any abstract theory into the actual felt experience of everyday life before it can accrue any real value as true wisdom. He is known for frequently juxtaposing high-level intellectual metaphysics alongside hands-on, integrated life practices.
From 2006 to 2011, Kramer published essays, writings, audio interviews, and videos on his blog “The Cleaver”. The Cleaver became widely respected and referenced within free-thinking and alternative communities, attracting interest from various spiritual, metaphysical, political, religious, new age, conspiracy, and countercultural audiences. Kramer’s synthesis of spiritual insight, social comment, anti-authoritarianism, deep knowledge-base, inventive language, and no-nonsense approach, gradually built him a large international audience. An audiobook of his essays from 2006 to 2009 was released under the title of the Audio Cleaver in 2009, read by Kramer himself. In February 2011, much of The Cleaver content was moved to his new web site neilkramer.com, where there was additional emphasis on spoken word interviews. In May 2012, his book “The Unfoldment” was published.
John Matarazzo
Soothe the Mind, Body and Soul with a blend of Ambient, New Age, Spa and World Music from new project Logical Drift
New York, NY (PRWeb) May 31dit, 2011 - Music veteran writer, composer, producer and performer, John Matarazzo, has been accompanied by legendary engineer and producer Logan Strand to form LOGICAL DRIFT; a new project with a whole lot of history. Over the years, Matarazzo has worked on major records, and performed with popular acts (Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Ike & Tina Turner, Sly & The Family Stone, etc.) where he was then led to work on more conscious and spiritually driven projects helping to create pioneering recordings of ambient and electronica music (John Zorn, Jah Wobble, Mick Harris and Buckethead).
Reaching success in these genres, Matarazzo then began to invite more established world artists to work with him on a variety of projects (Ravi Shankar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Herbie Hancock, Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Gamelan Of Bali, Lata Mangeshcar, The Monks Of Notre Dame, and Buddhist Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery Tibet). With an established world music catalog that expanded Matarazzo's existing discography, he then journeyed off to field recording and performance projects taking him to places as far away as Bali, Indonesia, Sumatra, Tibet, North Africa and Morocco, Mali and Thailand. Continuing his spiritual path, Matarazzo's interests grew into experimenting with psychological compositions and electronic music elements instituted by Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez; adapting them to create psychological dreamscapes and aural environments designed to evoke spiritual responses from the listener that may heighten the listener's overall growth in spirituality. Synthesizing sounds in acoustic laboratories, Matarazzo was able to develop a palette of unique and emotionally resonant sounds from simple sine wave generators overlaying harmonic spectrums and resonating filters that infused evocative and sensual aural landscapes and alternative worlds.
Combining his knowledge of ancient spiritual systems, psychoacoustics and aural imaging, he composed soundscapes that heighten the listeners' sense of wellness and tranquility; stimulating the Chakra portals, thereby carrying the listener on a journey toward greater awareness and aliveness. His aim is to author music that will provide an important map for our wholeness and transformation, both personally and globally by opening the Chakra paths to enlightenment and integration.
Comprised of six thought provoking tracks, the first LOGICAL DRIFT project represents the most recent incantation of the musical concepts and explorations of Matarazzo's career in a community of ambient, world and new age music. Better said, the album notes tell us "From the ancient port of Joffa on the Mediterranean traveling east, across the windswept Judean Desert the weary caravan traveler comes to the legendary Oasis of En Gedi. Set on the banks of the Dead Sea; Covered in lush, hanging gardens, sparkling waterfalls and murmuring fountains, it is a place of relaxation and refreshment for body and spirit". Just listening to inviting track titles as 'Judean Desert' and 'Shenandoah Pslam', you'll be able to hear a soothing, yet almost healing ailment that can move listeners on a psychological and spiritual journey of pure bliss.
LOGICAL DRIFT has also created a New Age Definitions page to initiate an educational outlet. Understanding that likeminded projects within the alternative medicine, metaphysics, music therapy, musical healing, naturopathy and spa communities continue to support each other's overall initiatives in order to increase awareness within the ever growing alternative education and new age community, the LOGICAL DRIFT project will be developing a research network to aid in this effort. LOGICAL DRIFT is inviting all walks of life within the alternative education and new age communities to bring forth their projects for networking opportunities.
PMH Atwater An international authority on near-death states, Dr. Atwater uses the culmination of her research to establish that the near-death phenomenon is not some kind of anomaly, but is rather part of the larger genre of transformations of consciousness. She combines her 33 years of near-death research with what she was doing in the 60s and 70s, experiencing, experimenting with, and researching altered states of consciousness, mysticism, psychic phenomena, and the transformational process, to reveal what transformations of consciousness really are, why we have them, and where they lead us. This lifetime endeavor covers over 43 years of work, involving nearly 7,000 people.
Her meticulous and unique protocol gives validity to what she has discovered and verified, and to the link that can be made between what is happening in the Middle East and the percentage worldwide of people who have undergone near-death experiences. A tipping point has been reached, a shared reality has emerged. . . for a leaderless, global, revolution in consciousness!
Her groundbreaking contributions continue with Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of The Story, examining the phenomena of:
Group experiences
"Heaven" and "Hell"
"Light" encounters
Aftereffects including unusual or amplified sensitivities
Spiritual transformations and societal implications
Basing her findings on extensive first person interviews as well as scientific studies of the deeper structures of the brain, Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of The Story is a rational examination of an experience that defies ordinary reason the first book to tackle this difficult and controversial subject from both the scientific and spiritual perspectives.
World renown researcher of near death experiences, Bruce Greyson M.D., is one of the first to gather empirical data on the subject using accepted scientific methods. His vast amount of data taken from patient and medical professionals strongly suggests that our minds not only continue to function after physical death, but do so in a clear and lucid fashion. Dr. Greyson also directs the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia Health System, where many other experiences are studied. Research of children who remember past lives, out of body experiences, deathbed visions, apparitions and after-death communications all suggest that our consciousness is not something that is extinguished upon physical death.
Bruce Greyson, M.D., is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. He was a founder and Past President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, and for the past 26 years has edited the Journal of Near-Death Studies. Dr. Greyson graduated from Cornell University with a major in psychology in 1968, received his medical degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical College in 1973, and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Virginia in 1976. He held faculty appointments in psychiatry at the University of Michigan (1978-1984) and the University of Connecticut (1984-1995), where he was Clinical Chief of Psychiatry, before returning to the University of Virginia, where he has practiced and taught psychiatry and carried out research since 1995. His research for the past three decades has focused on near-death experiences and has resulted in more than 70 presentations to national scientific conferences, more than 100 publications in academic medical and psychological journals, 3 edited books, and several research grants and awards.
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BIO BELOW FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Greyson
Bruce Greyson is a researcher in the field of near-death studies and has been called the father of research in near-death experiences.[2][3] Greyson, along with Kenneth Ring, Michael Sabom, and others, built on the research of Raymond Moody, Russell Noyes Jr and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Greyson's scale to measure the aspects of near-death experiences[4] has been widely used, being cited 95 times as of early 2010.[5] He also devised a 19-item scale to assess experience of kundalini, the Physio-Kundalini Scale.[6]
Greyson wrote the overview of Near Death Experiences for the Encyclopædia Britannica and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Near-Death Studies (formerly Anabiosis) from 1982 through 2007. Greyson has been interviewed or consulted many times in the press on the subject of near-death experiences.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Stephen Bassett is a leading advocate for ending the 65-year government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He is a political activist, lobbyist, commentator, the executive director of Paradigm Research Group and the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC) and executive producer of the X-Conference. His work has been covered extensively by national and international media.
Since 1996 Bassett has assisted numerous organizations and initiatives working to 1) raise public awareness of the both the extraterrestrial presence and the truth embargo, 2) convene open congressional hearings to take government and agency witness testimony, and 3) incite the political media to appropriately cover the attendant issues. He has appeared in over 1,000 radio and television talk shows and in numerous documentaries speaking to millions of people about the implications and likelihood of "Disclosure" - the formal acknowledgement of the extraterrestrial presence by world governments
Jimbo Simmons is a member of the Choctaw nation and of the Leadership Council of the American Indian Movement West (AIM-WEST), which resists colonization, respects traditional knowledge and self-determination, and raises awareness on issues that concern Indians of the Americas, from racism to protection of sacred sites, the rights of the child, treaties, political prisoners, police brutality, immigration and militarization, climate change and the United Nations General Assembly Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He is in solidarity with Palestinians and all indigenous peoples that are subjected to expulsion and ethnic cleansing.
Joe Meadors was a U.S. Navy signalman on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 when Israel attacked and tried to sink the ship. He was on the bridge throughout the attack and has described seeing Israeli forces machine-gunning life rafts. He is past president and current director of operations of the USS Liberty Veterans Association, which is calling for a full investigation on the attack and subsequent cover-up by Israel and the U.S. government. In 2010 he participated in a flotilla of boats that tried to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza by taking humanitarian goods directly to Gaza. Joe was taken prisoner with the other passengers when Israeli forces hijacked the boat at sea, in violation of international law.
On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their story under oath to the American public. The USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.
The Attack
After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine hours with almost hourly aircraft overflights and radar tracking, the air and naval forces of Israel attacked our ship in international waters without warning. USS Liberty was identified as a US naval ship by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft nine hours before the attack and continuously tracked by Israeli radar and aircraft thereafter. Sailing in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone.
The Israeli forces attacked without warning and without attempting to contact us. Thirty four Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40-million dollar state-of-the-art signals intelligence platform, was later declared unsalvageable and sold for scrap.
The Cover Up
Despite a near-universal consensus that the Israeli attack was made with full knowledge that USS Liberty was a US Navy ship, the Johnson administration began an immediate cover-up of this fact. Though administration officers continued individually to characterize the attack as deliberate, the Johnson administration never sought the prosecution of the guilty parties or otherwise attempted to seek justice for the victims. They concealed and altered evidence in their effort to downplay the attack. Though they never formally accepted the Israeli explanation that it was an accident, they never pressed for a full investigation either. They simply allowed those responsible literally to get away with murder.
In an ongoing effort to reveal the truth about the attack, the USS Liberty Veterans Association has filed with the Secretary of the Army in the manner prescribed by law a detailed, fully documented Report of War Crimes describing the circumstances of the attack on our ship and evidence that it was a crime under international law. In accordance with international law and treaties, the United States is obligated to investigate the allegations. So far, the United States has declined even to acknowledge that the report has been filed. The full text of the report can be found at http://www.gtr5.com/evidence/warcrimes.pdf
Anti-Semitism and the Anti-American Apologists
The USS Liberty Memorial web site abhors the racist and extreme positions taken by antiSemitic, Holocaust denial, conspiracy theorist and other such groups which often seek to identify with us and to usurp our story as their own. We have no connection with and do not support or encourage support from any of these groups including National Alliance, National Vanguard, The New Order, National Socialists, The French Connection, Liberty Lobby, American Free Press, Republic Broadcasting, USS Liberty Radio Hour, Storm Front or other such groups. We wish harm to no one and encourage social justice and equality for everyone; we seek only accountability for the criminal acts perpetrated against us and can do that without help from hate-mongers.
On the Israeli side, the group of pro-Israel, anti-American critics of our story, while small, persists in launching loud, vicious ad hominem attacks on anyone who attempts to discuss the deliberateness of the attack. These anti-American apologists refuse to discuss the facts of the case. Instead, they rely on propaganda and charge anyone who questions the Israeli position with being antiSemitic.
For detailed and authoritative accounts of the power and influence of the pro-Israel lobby, please see The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by Mearsheimer and Walt and The Pro-Israel Lobby by Edward Herman.
The Betrayal of American Veterans
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Americans who volunteer for military service effectively write a blank check, payable to the United States of America for an amount "up to and including my life." The United States, in turn, promises to spend these checks responsibly. That bargain implicitly includes a promise by the United States to protect them and to seek retribution against anyone who harms them. In the case of USS Liberty, the United States has failed to keep its end of the bargain.
Pat Chaffee is a Dominican Sister. She has been active in human rights advocacy for thirty years. She visited the West Bank in 2006 and Gaza in 2009. In 2010 she participated in the aborted Gaza Freedom March, marooned in Cairo. Her motive for joining the flotilla is to tell the people of Gaza that she is opposed to her country's oppression. She is committed to nonviolence, under any circumstances.
27 Years of International Activism
Her portfolio is comprised of impressive 27-years of activism, starting in Nicaragua in 1984. Her most recent mission was intended to be sailing with the Second Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. All participants in this human rights mission however, were prevented from leaving Athens, Greece, their planned city of departure. S. Pat had first become familiar with the Palestinian situation in 2007 when she took the first of three trips to the region as a member of a Christian peace-making team. She met and spoke with Palestinians and experienced first-hand “what it meant to be occupied.”
