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Our guest, Anise Jenkins, is the Executive Director of Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC). Since its inception, Stand Up! / Free DC was the only grassroots organization in the District of Columbia focused primarily on the pursuit of statehood. Recognizing that only through being admitted to the Union as a state, will DC residents be able to rise above the ongoing oppression by members of Congress. This year, Stand Up! is celebrating two decades of agitating, educating, organizing and mobilizing for DC statehood. Let's get a current update about DC Statehood from our guest!
Please join Internet radio host Dr. James Avington Miller, Jr. for a deeper look at education and educators and how they are or are not a force to change the world. Is it too late or do we still have a chance to make a difference? Or, is education's role to be the anti-change - the maintenance of the status quo? If we examine the contours in the history of American schooling, you will be surprised at the answers. Please join us on Sunday and learn how, when, and how education and educators can change the world or keep it stagnant.
Listen To LIVE FROM PNM Sunday November 19, 2017, where there is always informative, and interesting conversation about Cultural Economic Development, i.e., TOURISM. This week’s guest, Maria Madison PhD, Associate Dean Brandeis University, and Founder of “The Robbins House” Concord’s African American History site in Concord Massachusetts.
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS joins John Barbour and JP Sottile.
Advanced Consciousness Series:
Quantum Field Physics
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Spirit Consultant, Artist, Energy Healer
Angelic healer and spirit release
Medium and Author Rise’ (Resa) Harrington has developed shared teachings from her own life experiences. Rise' receives higher metaphysical instruction and guidance from her Angels, Spirit Guides and the Ascended Masters. Rise' has practiced mediumship with the focus on understanding and assisting the Lost Soul population in the astral realms surrounding the earth since 1999. She went public in her Mediumship Practice in 2013 offering Diagnostic Readings for Lost Soul Entity and Demonic Hauntings, Attachment and Possession with recommended treatment. She also offers Angel and Spirit Guide readings.
Contact: riseguidelights@gmail.com
Rise’s spiritual life path has been greatly influenced by her 20 years of mostly career related world travels to the Far East, Europe and Egypt.
She has been channeling Adameus (St Germain) privately for more than15 years and most recently has begun publicly channeling his higher self Spirit name Adameus.
The purpose of this book article is to offer the public a new understanding on the subject of reincarnation based on the authors' personal experience and the teachings of the Ascended Masters. It is being published in article format as part of the Soul Freedom series of book articles on how the dark forces perpetuate misinformation to control and manipulate humanity.
Part Two
Reincarnation - New Discoveries
My Past Life Therapist, Bryan Jameison died in the year 2002 after having written four books on the subject of Reincarnation.
In the spring of 2013 I was rereading Guide Lights – Attune to Your Angels and Spirit Guides will to re-familiarize myself with it. As I reached the chapter on Reincarnation I felt a strong presence accompanied by a flash of light to indicate a Spirit visitor was with me. Bryan announced his presence and expressed his pleasure at being included in the book. In this first visit it was established that he was to be my new guide on the subject of Earthbound Spirit Entity Attachments and their troubled involvement with humans that would develop over the next few years. I was thrilled and honored to have his presence guiding me.
Bryan's, Spirit name is Dorgeck meaning 'Thunderstorm of Healing'. Before he passed from earth he accomplished Ascension and is now an Ascended Master, a very wise and charismatic teacher. He had learned much in the Universities of the Spirit realms since his death. His specialty of study was reincarnation and lost soul entity attachments. He had developed further expertise in these areas and had some jolting revelations that would unfold over the next two years as I became ready to learn deeper truths. It was during this period that I began working on development of my second book that Dorgeck co-authored: Soul Freedom Vol 1 - Healing from Earthbound Spirit Attachment and Haunting - Causes Symptoms and Solution.
Waterologist, Inventor
Jeff Louis is a Husband, Father, Waterologist, and Inventor of the BiophotonLight, Founder of PlanetOneSolutions.org comes from a background in electrical engineering, also joins us with Gary Voss as they discuss their latest Emerging Technology Venture.
Founder, Planet One Solutions. PlanetOneSolutions
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creator of the BioPhoton LS . BioPhotonLight
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Lakota Historian and Activist
Ladonna Brave Bull Allard is a Lakota historian and activist. In April 2016, she founded the first resistance camp of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Sacred Stones, aimed at halting the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
Allard is an enrolled member of, and former historical preservation officer for, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Her people are Inhunktonwan from the Jamestown Valley, Hunkpapa and Blackfoot.
While there are now multiple water protector camps at the Standing Rock, Sacred Stone, the first camp, is on Allard's private property. Out of this grew the global Dakota Access Pipeline protests. By December 2016, more than 10,000 indigenous people and environmental activists were camping in the area. This movement has become the largest intertribal alliance on the American continent in centuries, and possibly ever, with over 200 tribal nations represented.
Sacred Stone Camp founder Ladonna Bravebull Allard addressed the UN on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to request assistance in the struggle to protect Indigenous water and sacred sites from the Dakota Access Pipeline...
Ladonna Bravebull Allard:
Greetings distinguished representatives,
I greet you with a good heart today. I am Ta Maka Waste Win, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe I am speaking regarding the participation of the over 300 million Indigenous Peoples of Unci Maka Mother Earth. Within the United Nations system, we the Indigenous peoples request that our participation be granted at the highest possible level and that our representatives be legitimate and elected by Indigenous Nations and organizations in each region. This will secure that our participation and contributions on issues that affect us are addressed in a legitimate manner. Lack of this legitimate representation and contributions on issues that affect us are resulting in violations of our equal and inalienable rights as members of the human family. As such is the current and urgent situation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, my home, where the Dakota Access Pipeline has blatantly violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, ILO 169, the Laramie Treaty of 1868, unresolved Ihunktonwana Land Claim Docket 74A and most importantly our Mother Earth.
The organization hereby invokes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, ILO 169 to be enforced and brought to life to put an immediate stop to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We request that an observer and media team be sent immediately and permanently to Standing Rock until this issue is resolved to protect the water. This situation with Dakota Access has been going on for 6 months now. It has endured Spring, Summer, Fall and heads into Winter as we protect and defend our right to water. We demand immediate assistance and protection for our Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota sisters and brothers. Today we are here to formally denounce terrorism from transnationals agaisnt Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth, as such is our situation in Standing Rock and also the urgent situation of our Indigenous sisters and brothers in the Amazon and many other parts of the world.
The organization remains committed to solving the challenges faced by our generation which is to protect life and clean water for the future generations and so that all that exists can continue to exist. The Indigenous Traditional Knowledge is the only path remaining to heal the unsustainable pattern of production and consumption that is destroying our lives and the world around us. Agenda 2030, without our legitimate representatives and inclusion of Indigenous Peoples Traditional Knowledge will fail. Our knowledge can help heal Mother Earth. Without it, great and irreparable damage will lead us to destruction. We must unite to protect the Water and our Mother Earth. We, the Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth walk to the future in the footprints of our ancestors
Cannonball, SD – On April 1st, 2016, tribal citizens of the Standing Rock Lakota Nation and ally Lakota, Nakota, & Dakota citizens, under the group name “Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po” founded a Spirit Camp along the proposed route of the bakken oil pipeline, Dakota Access.
This Spirit Camp is called Iŋyaŋ Wakháŋagapi Othí, translated as Sacred Rock, the original name of the Cannonball area. The Spirit Camp is dedicated to stopping and raising awareness the Dakota Access pipeline, the dangers associated with pipeline spills and the necessity to protect the water resources of the Missouri river. We reject the appropriation of the name “Dakota” in a project that is in violation of aboriginal and treaty lands. The word Dakota means “the People” in the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota language and was never intended to be used in a project which violates traditional ceremonial areas.
Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po is a grassroots group with the following mission statement: “They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.” – Chief Sitting Bull. His way of life is our way of life–standing in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline is our duty. Group: Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po translates as People, Stand with a Strong Heart!
The Dakota Access threatens everything from farming and drinking water to entire ecosystems, wildlife and food sources surrounding the Missouri. The nesting of bald eagles and piping plovers as well as the quality of wild rice and medicinal plants like sweet grass are just a few of the species at stake here. We ask that everyone stands with us against this threat to our health, our culture, and our sovereignty. We ask that everyone who live on or near the Missouri River and its tributaries, everyone who farms or ranches in the local area, and everyone who cares about clean air and clean drinking water stand with us against the Dakota Access Pipeline!
We will not allow Dakota Access to trespass on our treaty territory and destroy our medicines and our culture. From the horse ride that established the Camp of the Sacred Stones, to the 500-mile Run for Our Lives relay that delivered our recommendations to the Army Corps of Engineers, with the hundreds of community members who met with Army Corps Colonel Henderson on April 29, and the ongoing vigilance of our prayers, we are committed to stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Actor, singer, playwright and director
JACK BETTS AKA HUNT POWERS
Jack Betts is an actor, known for “Spider-Man,” “Falling Down,” and “Gods and Monsters,” “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light”.
He plays dashing, debonair, suave and refined gentlemen. They are often wealthy, well-to-do doctors or CEOs.
Actor, singer, playwright and director Jack Betts has been working in the theatre, film and television for over 5 decades. He has appeared on Broadway and in Los Angeles many times, and has starred in dozens of film and television projects.
Early in his career he got a chance to go to Italy for a film, and ended up staying there for over 7 years! He changed his stage name to Hunt Powers and starred in 21 of the legendary Spaghetti Westerns. He and friend Clint Eastwood often stayed in the same hotel and would pass each other in the lobby, smile, wave goodbye and then go shoot on their respective “mountains” for the day. We have a few of his 21 Spaghetti Westerns here below, as well as films like Spiderman, Falling Down with Michael Douglas and Gods and Monster, with Sir Ian McKellan.
His love for the theatre has brought him to many stages in his career, and we have a few examples of that here as well. And there will also be shots if him from his television career. On top of that, he has also had a long love affair with song. He has performed singing cabarets and one man show all over the World. We will have examples of that here as well very soon.
Over the years Jack has never lost his love for live theatre. Not only has he acted “on the boards” many times, he has also written and directed a number of plays. His latest production, It Goes Like This, is Jack’s most personal work to date and was 31 years in the making. It had it’s World Premiere April 5, 2013 at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center in Hollywood and had a great run with strong approval and support from it”s audiences.
Music Artist, Singer and Songwriter
SMOKEY MILES
Smokey Miles was born Robert Miles NYC. He began playing music and writing songs at an early age, accompanying himself on guitar, harmonica, zither, and accordion, inspired by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Roy Rogers, lots of blues and any kind of music he came across.
In 1968 Miles entered Princeton University with plans of going into medicine. However, the summer before he had the fortune of meeting his idol Dylan who encouraged him to keep writing and performing. He houses at Dylan’s house in Woodstock, NY during the first Woodstock Festival and was a guest of the Dylans many times over the next few years.
Upon graduating from Princeton with a degree in painting, art, and archeology, Bob Miles hitchhiked west with his guitar performing wherever he could in coffeehouses and nightclubs. He opened up for the legendary bluesman Freddie King in Boulder, Colorado and then hitched a ride out California where he performed on the streets in San Francisco.
Miles returned to New York City where he performed and headlined at such legendary Greenwich Village haunts as Gerde’s Folk City, the Lone Star Cafe, the Bitter End, Richie Havens’ Cafe Wha, and The Speakeasy, and also uptown at The Upstairs at the Downstairs and composed music for several plays, children’s theater and industrial films.
Miles traveled around North America and Europe writing and performing his roots-based folk/blues/country/rock material, as soloist and bandleader. He fronted the bands Olduvai Gorge, Bob Miles and the Otters and The Bob Miles Band and was featured with Vassar Clements’ Band. Miles performed with Louisiana Red, Odetta, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and emerging singers such as Susanne Vega and Shawn Colvin.
Miles spent four years as musical director of The Cottage Marionette Theater, writing and producing scores for puppet shows – “The Peter Pan Game”, “The Reluctant Dragon” and “The Colorado Kid” for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Cultural Affairs. A highlight of that experience was when John Lennon, Yoko Ono and their son Sean came to a performance and then visited backstage raving about the show.
He recorded in Nashville with Randy, Gary and legendary banjo player Earl Scruggs and got signed to Warner/Atlantic custom label Emerald City Records by Charlie Greene who had discovered and produced The Buffalo Springfield, Sonny and Cher, Iron Butterfly and The Troggs, but the record company disappeared one night under mysterious circumstances. baseball Around that time Miles met a then unknown singer/actress named Madonna and read Tennessee Williams scenes with her in Manhattan’s famed Music Building.
During this time, Miles attended sessions at The Actor’s Studio, HB Studio and the Gene Frankel Television Workshop. He was musical director and featured performer in “Terrible Jim Fitch” and “The Village Wooing” in Rip Torn and Geraldine Page’s Sanctuary Theater, and appeared in such films as “Crocodile Dundee” and “When the Mountains Tremble”.
In 1986, Miles won the lead role in “Dylan: Words and Music”, which brought him to back San Francisco. Billed as the world’s only authorized rock multimedia stage bio of Bob Dylan, it rocked the Zephyr Theater and received standing ovations.newspaper Special guests who joined Miles on stage for duets included The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and Maria Muldaur.
Miles migrated to Los Angeles in August, 1987, and became widely known as Smokey Miles, again performing in many venues including the Breakaway, where he produced and hosted “Smokey ‘s Living Room Hoot”, a weekly series of jam sessions with new and established talent, and appeared on “The Breakaway First Year CD” which was put out by Mountain Railroad (Capitol Records).
He also created, produced and hosted a weekly live one-hour acoustic music and comedy local origination program on cable access tv”The Smokey Miles Music Hour” which won an ACSSE Award, and hosted “Inside Tracks” and “Sutton Place Presents” These programs featured local and well-known artists.
In 1990 Miles teamed up with legendary songwriter Otis Blackwell (writer of the biggest hits for Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Peggy Lee and James Taylor> Otis produced Miles’ album “Waiting for the Hurricane.”.
The next few years kept Miles playing the blues and original music as leader of The Smokey Miles Band regularly performing in Hollywood, Lake Hughes and Lake Arrowhead. He also wrote songs for films (“The Edge of Seventeen”, “Return to Two Moon Junction”), tv shows (HBO’s “First and Ten”, “Calamity Jayne’s Asylum”) various records and comedy songs for The Premiere Radio Network (top producers of comedy material in the U.S.) He has recently been performing regularly on Academy Awards Nominee/Golden Globe Award winner “Sally Kirkland and Friends” cable tv show in Los Angeles, and wrote her a show theme song. He is also currently working on some original material for Karen Black’s musical stage show.
Smokey Miles composed the score and two original songs for Todd Felderstein’s multi-award winning documentary “Magic(s)” and won Best Soundtrack Award 2006 from the Los Angeles Independent Film Awards. He also composed main songs for and appeared in “The Black Cat Cabaret” which ran for a year and a half at The Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica which won The Los Angeles Music Awards Best Stage Musical of the Year (2005). An actor, Miles also played the role of Moses in “Rock and Roll Heaven” at Theater 68 in Hollywood which won Los Angeles Music Awards Best Stage Musical of the Year (2006).
Smokey Miles continues to write fresh material and audiences of all ages still enjoy hearing his poetically infused story songs and authentic blues stemming from his wide range of experiences.
Writer/Journalist
CHRIS HEDGES spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges' original columns in Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009, and granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his Truthdig essay "One Day We'll All Be Terrorists."
Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. He currently teaches inmates at a correctional facility in New Jersey.
Hedges began his career reporting the war in El Salvador. Following six years in Latin America, he took time off to study Arabic and then went to Jerusalem and later Cairo. He spent seven years in the Middle East, most of them as the bureau chief there for The New York Times. He left the Middle East in 1995 for Sarajevo to cover the war in Bosnia and later reported the war in Kosovo. Afterward, he joined the Times' investigative team and was based in Paris to cover al-Qaida. He left the Times after being issued a formal reprimand for denouncing the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq.
He has written nine books, including "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2009), "I Don't Believe in Atheists" (2008) and the best-selling "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" (2008). His book "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. His latest book is "Death of the Liberal Class" (2010)
Hedges holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif. Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and knows ancient Greek and Latin. In addition to writing a weekly original column for Truthdig, he has written for Harper's Magazine, The New Statesman, The New York Review of Books, Adbusters, Granta, Foreign Affairs and other publications.
Unspeakable
by Chris Hedges, David Talbot (With)
Hedges here speaks up about the most pressing issues that currently face our nation. He tackles the rise of a fascist right in support of Donald Trump, which advocates xenophobia and violence in a push for American totalitarianism. He rails against the posturing of inclusivity from establishment elites on both sides of the aisle, who post-Occupy-Wall-Street continue to advocate for policies that make America uninhabitable for all but the ultra-rich and, as lackeys for corporate interests, continue to expand income inequality in all directions. He tears into the contemporary glamorization of the military and the unchecked, unchallenged hawkishness that defines contemporary American foreign policy. Moreover, he shows his support for contemporary revolts against this twisted order—such as Black Lives Matter—that represent Americans refusing to take the destruction of their country lying down. And that’s just the start.
He possesses a clear understanding of the challenges that lie before us, and has proven to be ahead of the curve time and again. All of which is to say, Chris Hedges is unafraid to say what is necessary and true—and has always been. If we are to combat the intellectual and moral decay that have come to grip American life, we must listen to him and the urgent message he brings in this book.
American musician, songwriter, politician, environmentalist, community activist, member and founder of classic rock legends Orleans
John Hall has written songs for Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and James Taylor. He’s played guitar on tours and records for Little Feat, Taj Mahal, Jackson Browne, and Seals and Crofts. His music and environmental activism led him to 10 years in elective office, and co-founding MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy). Now, back to music full time, he writes songs and performs solo and with Orleans, the group he co-founded in the 1970s. Their biggest hits “Still the One” and "Dance With Me" continue to garner hundreds of thousands of streams per week, and to appear in mass media from commercials to movies and even political campaigns. The former is also in the title of John’s memoir, “Still The One: A Rock’n’Roll Journey To Congress and Back.” “Reclaiming My Time” is John Hall’s sixth solo record, in addition to the 18 albums he recorded with his band Orleans. The title is a phrase used in Congress (where Hall spent 4 years) after being interrupted. It’s also an allusion to the music he might have written and played during ten years in elective office. Reclaiming My Time is available to purchase now at amazon.com.
"RECLAIMING MY TIME" the new album by Artist, Songwriter, Congressman and Slide Guitar legend JOHN HALL. Co-founder of the rock band Orleans ("Still The One," "Dance With Me," "Dancing In The Moonlight" and more), Hall has enjoyed songwriting success on the Pop and Country charts; his songs have been covered by Janis Joplin, Taj Mahal, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and more. Co-Founder of the movement "No Nukes," he is the only Platinum selling artist to serve 2 terms in Congress. "Reclaiming My Time' is a phrase used on the floor of Congress to resume what one was saying before being interrupted. These are songs written since John's return to 'normal life,' along with a few remixed and remastered tunes from previously recorded but privately distributed projects. Hall will be back on the road in '21 & '22 solo and with Orleans.
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