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Headlined Show, The War Report on Public Education November 12, 2017

Please join Internet radio host Dr. James Avington Miller Jr. for at look at how we label our children in our schools and in society. Does this labeling help our children or does it hurt them? Does it help teachers and administrators or does it backfire on them? Is labeling our children as "at-risk" analogous to the "pre-cogging" process in the 2002 Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. Watch this clip and you will get a better idea of the dangers involved.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZ4k2fbK2Q&feature=youtu.be



Dr. Miller will explain how and why the AT-RISK category and label creates problems for students and teachers. The use and misuse of this category and label has the potential to redress issues of social justice. It can also stigmatized and put students in harm's way - shaping and defining their life chances and opportunities in destructive ways. Everyone is at risk for something - now - including teachers and administrators.



The Minority Report displaces this paradox perfectly.



The system for ID-ing at-risk STUDENTS is prefect until it comes after the ones in charge of enforcing the system - placing them at risk - the at-risk definers and enforcers become the at-riskers.



Please join us on Sunday and learn how the way we are sorting and labeling our children is backfiring on us all.

Headlined Show, Insight Out...the Naked Truth November 12, 2017

"Insight Out--the Naked Truth" coming up Sunday (tomorrow morning) 8 AM (PT) "That's what I thought."

 Really?  Because that's what we thought, too.  Which is why "That's What I Thought" is our featured phrase of the week.

Lots to think about--too much probably.  So Rochelle and I try and focus our thoughts on what really matters and how we would know.

You can say, "That's What I Thought" meaning, "I used to think that, but now I think otherwise, (and I'll continue to think "otherwise" until a new and improved "otherwise" comes along.)
 
Or you might say, "That's What I Thought" meaning "Oh, I thought that, too......as in great minds think alike, or more often than not, ignorant minds, etc...."
 
Or "That's What I Thought" can just be a general statement that references some thought that has stayed with you regardless of its truth or accuracy, and stubbornly holds on because it's wedded to your suppositions.
 
Please join us on our program  Sunday morning (tomorrow) and let's see if we can come up with some "That's What I Thought's" that really advance our understanding and facilitate our capacity to think "the best" (of each other at least--a good place to begin.)
 
Our conversation will include humor, stories, music, characters and insights...oh...and invariably some surprises, even to the point of realizing upon hearing a new great thought that you thought that all along, but didn't realize it....... as in "That's What I Thought. Wow! I didn't know I was so smart."  (Don't let it go to your head...even great thoughts that go un-examined start to atrophy and even stink.
 
Until tomorrow, we continue to be
Rochelle A. & Errol Strider.
"That's What I Thought."

 

 
Headlined Show, Spouting Off November 11, 2017

Tonight: A special edition of Spouting Off:

Primal Screaming;

NAACP wants to get rid of Anthem? But prefer a statue of Marion Barry?

Who is squelching free expression? My exchange with Columbia U. School of Social Work Alums

PLUS: Judge Roy Moore, Donna Brazile

Hollywood Hypocrisy and your phone calls: 

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Headlined Show, Why Life Is... November 10, 2017

Advanced Consciousness Series:

Effective Treatments for People

Possessed by Evil 

Headlined Show, Meta Mondays November 13, 2017

Adena will be answering free readings in this episode. Many of her email questions have been different in specifics, but incredibly the same in the sense that for the last 3 to four years, so many people seem to have been experiencing breakdowns in many areas of their lives.

Adena has also been experiencing many of the exact same things, and of course has a theory of why this is happening. Adena will address that, do some readings and speak of upcoming shows that will focus on more of those topics and more free readings for the next month! 

John Barbours World Guest, Wayne Madsen December 12, 2016
Investigative Journalist, Author, Columnist

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and columnist. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, Counterpunch, Online Journal, CorpWatch, Multinational Monitor, News Insider, In These Times, and The American Conservative. His columns have appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.

Madsen is the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law; Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999); co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II (Dandelion, 2003); author of Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates; Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day; The Manufacturing of a President: the CIA's Insertion of Barack H. Obama, Jr. into the White House; L'Affaire Petraeus; and National Security Agency Surveillance: Reflections and Revelations.

Madsen has been a regular contributor on RT and PressTV. He has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. Madsen has taken on Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television shows.  He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and a terrorism investigation judicial inquiry of the French government.

Madsen has some thirty-five years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. Madsen was a Senior Fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy public advocacy organization.

Madsen is a member of the National Press Club.

Early WMR Alerts On Trump, Epstein, Pedophiles, 'Fake News'

Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen (shown at left) is a widely published journalist and author. He edits the Wayne Madsen Report, appears frequently as a broadcast commentator, and has published 15 books. Previously, he worked 14 years as a Navy Intelligence officer, including a year as an NSA analyst. He later worked as chief scientist with a major defense contractor and as a privacy expert at a think tank. When Madsen was in the Navy, the FBI named him to be a temporary special FBI agent to help follow up his tip that a fellow officer, later imprisoned, was sexually assaulting underage victims.

In 2006, he published a three-part series on the WMR website revealing for the first time that then-U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, shown at right, was a gay pedophile who had assaulted students as a high school wrestling coach before being forced out and campaigning in Illinois as a Republican advocate of family values. A decade later, Hastert, the longest-serving GOP speaker in U.S. history, was federally indicted and then imprisoned on federal charges arising from cover-up money that he was paying to hide those assaults.

Madsen has written many such reports on the WMR site naming names to document how powerful entities use pedophilia and other hidden sex scandals to install, blackmail or otherwise influence high-ranking government officials.

2018

Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Welcome to Waterbury: The city that holds secrets that could bring down Trump, Wayne Madsen and Andrew Kreig, Jan. 9, 2018 (Subscription required; reprinted above with permission). A woman who was allegedly sodomized and raped at the age of 12 along with at least one other underage girl by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Epstein’s midtown Manhattan townhouse in 1993 is alive and trying to maintain obscurity from alt-right operatives who have identified her and her current residence.

2017

Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Trump has the real "Pizzagate" scandal on his tiny hands, Wayne Madsen (shown lecturing in New York City in a 2015 JIP photo), Dec. 18, 2017. (Subscription required; excerpted with permission.)

On December 15, Donald Trump, Jr. raised eyebrows when he "liked" a tweet sent by far-right conspiracy monger Mike Cernovich citing a New York Times op-ed calling pedophilia a mental illness and not a crime. The 2014 article was written by Rutgers University Assistant Law Professor Margo Kaplan.

Kaplan argued in her op-ed that "about half of all child molesters are not sexually attracted to their victims." That argument might have some merit if half of the children assaulted by pedophiles did not experience some form of sexual abuse. However, that is far from the case. Pedophiles attracted to children are not merely taking them to baseball games, county fairs, or the movies.

Cernovich's and Trump Jr.'s endorsement of pedophilia as a mental disorder rather than criminal predation by adults on children came after the revelations that Alabama GOP failed Senate candidate Roy Moore had been charged by several women claiming the disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice had sexually harassed them when they were in their teens.

Cernovich's defense of pedophilia is all the more ironic since it was Cernovich who helped concoct and disseminate a libelous false story about Hillary Clinton, two pizza restaurants in Washington, DC, and former White House chief of staff John Podesta being involved in a child trafficking ring involving pizzerias, pizza-oriented code words, and child torture chambers. After the fake story was amplified by the lunatic rantings of nutrition supplement salesman Alex Jones, Edgar Welch, a 28-year old man from North Carolina, shot up Comet Ping Pong in northwest Washington with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Welch believed that children were being held and tortured in the basement of the pizza restaurant, even though there is no basement. The accusations against Comet Pizza and another nearby pizzeria were groundless and they resulted in an on-air and written retraction by Jones.

It appears that Cernovich's idea for the pizza story was derived, in part, from his cousin's Cerno's 1898 pizza restaurant in Kewanee, Illinois. However, the phony story about pizzerias and pedophilia has another, much more sinister, beginning....

April 24

Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), It's Trump that has the real "Pizzagate" problem, Wayne Madsen, April 24, 2017. During the 2016 presidential campaign, disreputable websites attempted to tie Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff to a fantasy tale about a network of pedophiles who trafficked in child sex slaves using, of all things, pizzerias. Members of Donald Trump's inner circle trafficked in the "Pizzagate" myth using such social media networks as Twitter.

Although there was absolutely nothing to the tale of pizzerias and pedophiles, an actual network of pedophiles in the Trump campaign has emerged.

The Trump campaign pedophile story begins on March 9, 2017, with Oklahoma Republican state senator Ralph Shortey checking into a Super 8 Motel in Moore,

Oklahoma. Shortey was not alone. Entering the room with him at 12:30 am was a 17-year old teenage boy. Shortey was arrested and charged with three felonies: engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1000 feet of a church, and transporting a minor for prostitution.

Shortey, a six-year veteran of the state senate, resigned after his arrest. Shortey was the chairman of the Trump campaign in Oklahoma and was chief among Trump's campaign officials in the state to organize Trump's appearance at the Oklahoma State Fair. Police were tipped off about Shortey and the boy by a relative requesting a "welfare check" on the minor.

After the police "got Shortey," the Republican Party tried to remove the photographs and postings from Facebook and Twitter, but to no avail. The Internet never forgets.

Feb. 17

Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Labor pick Acosta part of Epstein-Trump underage sex crime cover-up, Feb. 17, 2017. Alexander Acosta, President Trump's pick to replace failed nominee Andrew Puzder as Labor Secretary, has his own political baggage stemming from his actions as U.S. Attorney for Southern Florida in the sweetheart plea deal involving billionaire pederast Jeffrey Epstein.

Feb. 8

Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Trump's Jane, Tiffany, and Joan Doe problem, Wayne Madsen (shown in a screeshot from a TV appearance), Feb. 8, 2017. President Trump has a problem hanging over his head. During the presidential campaign, Trump and his phalanx of attorneys pressured a California woman to drop her lawsuit against Trump and convicted Palm Beach, Florida pederast Jeffrey Epstein for sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.

Interviewing The Legends Guest, Rick Roberts December 12, 2016
Musician/Singer/Songwriter

RICK ROBERTS

LEGENDARY SINGER-SONGWRITER-MUSICIAN-FOR 'FIREFALL'

 IS THE SPECIAL GUEST ON THE RAY SHASHO SHOW 

Singer-songwriter Rick Roberts and guitarist Jock Bartley founded Firefall in the summer of 1974. Roberts had served as a spark for the Flying Burrito Brothers from 1970 to 1972, after Gram Parsons left the band. He contributed several compositions to the repertoire—the best-known being “Colorado”—before launching his own career as a solo artist. Bartley had started as a student of jazz guitar great Johnny Smith, a Colorado Springs resident. With a few band stints around the Denver/Boulder area under his belt, Bartley took over the lead guitar post of Tommy Bolin in Zephyr in 1971. The following year, he switched over to Gram Parsons’ band, the Fallen Angels (which also featured Emmylou Harris) and met Roberts, whose touring schedule with the Burritos often overlapped that of Parsons. Mark Andes, the founding bassist of the bands Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne, joined with Bartley and Roberts, who began an informal series of jam sessions at his home in Boulder. Roberts thought of a fourth participant he’d met in Washington, D.C., singer-songwriter Larry Burnett. At Chris Hillman’s suggestion, they added drummer Michael Clarke, an original member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers.

The break came when Roberts, Bartley and Andes toured as Hillman’s backup band. Hillman fell ill during a date at the Other End in New York, and the club owner accepted a proposal to bring Burnett and Clarke into town. Firefall finished out the engagement, and Atlantic Records was sold on the band. By January 1976, the group had completed recording a debut album with producer Jim Mason, who blended the group’s acoustic guitars, mellow pop melodies and vocal harmonies. A sixth member, David Muse, joined the ranks on keyboards, synthesizers, flute, tenor sax and harmonica.

Firefall reached platinum status, and the singles ”You Are the Woman,” “Livin’ Ain’t Livin’” and “Cinderella” together sold in excess of one million copies. Firefall notched more hits—”Just Remember I Love You” and “Strange Way”—and two more best-selling albums in the late 1970s, Luna Sea and Elan. The band’s heady time culminated in an opening slot for Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” tour in 1977, including a hometown Folsom Stadium gig before 61,500 Coloradans. Lineup changes followed, and the band ran out of chart momentum.

Lets Find Out Guest, David Cowan December 11, 2016
Spiritual Coach, Nutritional Consultant, Quantim health Coach

 From early in his life, David’s interest has been in understanding the breadth and depth of the human experience, with all its variance and extremes. His interests led him to the study of Psychology, as David felt that in order to best understand this world and the human condition; he needed to understand the mind. It was clear to him that any positive change for people or society must begin on the level of each person's experience within the mind; what he now recognizes as the primary 'level of causation.'

In David’s work as a youth and employment counselor, he noticed that many people did not understand how to 'run' their physical and emotional bodies very well. This led him to the study of nutrition, and eventually into the realm of Quantum Biofeedback. Working with energetic technology taught David much about the nature and workings of the mind, and eventually, along with his wife, Erina, they developed a method of direct intuitive  interaction with the deep unconscious mind along with a means to correct the mistakes at the root of suffering. This method is called 'Mind Field Repatterning.' David is very happy to be extending his work out to the world of relationships, as this seems to be the 'next level' in the healing of society, our institutions, and our relationships with each other and with this beautiful home on planet Earth.

David is the author of three published books, Navigating The Collapse of Time, Seeing Beyond Illusions, and Dowsing Beyond Duality, available on Amazon.com and the website, bluesunenergetics.net. He enjoys making music and living in the beautiful surroundings of Boulder, Colorado

The War Report on Public Education Guest, Nancy E Bailey December 11, 2016
Author, education activist and a former special education teacher

I taught special education for many years. I left teaching due to the current reforms that are taking over the nation’s classrooms. I am now committed to writing about the profession that I hold dear and the public schools that are critically important to the future of America and its children.

Along with my book, Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, I have been published in Phi Delta Kappan and Education Week. I am an activist on the issue of safe school facilities. In 2012, I was invited to speak about school building safety at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s annual meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.

I have a B.S. degree in special education from Central Michigan University, a M.Ed in special education from the University of North Florida, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Florida State University. I earned credentials in teaching students with emotional disabilities, learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, and school administration. I also obtained post-doc credentials in teaching gifted and talented from the University of South Florida. My student teaching involved working under wonderfully talented veteran teachers who I still hold in high regard.

Spiritually Naked Guest, Dr David Low December 10, 2016
Author, former Adjunct Professor of Religion, Drug counselor

David Low, MS PhD is an author, former Adjunct Professor of Religion, drug counselor, and entertainer (juggler) who today maintains a counseling practice in which he does dreamwork, teaches meditation, and speaks on topics in popular spirituality and religion. After some powerful meditation experiences, Dr. Low travelled extensively to visit various Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Sufi, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim locales. Soon after getting initiation from his major teacher, he began have dreams involving spiritual guides which directed major decisions in his life. An epiphany in 2014 led him to write his first book, Universal Spiritual Philosophy and Practice: in Informal Textbook for Discerning Seekers. His greatest passions are dreamwork, and otherwise getting people to tune into more profound dimensions of spirituality, at both the personal and political levels. His website is davidlowmsphd.com

A Fireside Chat Guest, Carla J Fox December 10, 2016
*** SPECIAL NEW YEAR SHOW for 2020!!! *** Energy Healer, Quantum Sphere Healing Practitioner

*** SPECIAL SHOW FOR THE NEW YEAR 2020!!! ***

Carla Fox has been seeking the answers to life's most important questions all her life.  Through shamanic journey work and the use of altered states of consciousness, she has traveled far and wide in the cosmos gaining a unique understanding of the realms in which we exist.  Her mission on Earth at this time is to be a way shower for others who can benefit from what she has learned and where she has gone.

Her evolution of service to others started with her Shamanic Healership training at the Four Winds Society.  Her studies at the Monroe Institute led to the creation of Quantum Sphere Healing, the process she currently uses.  Her passionate interest in the whole death process helped her create her latest workshop entitled, "Journeys Beyond the Physical".  And, of course, there is her timeless book, "Traversing the Infinite Now", which is only available on her website.

Through her workshops, blog, and energy healing practice, Carla's mission is to assist others in attaining clarity, healing, wholeness and self-empowerment in order to take full advantage of the evolutionary opportunities that are being presented to each and every human being at this time. You can find out more on her website, and check out her blog at the links below:

http://www.quantumstargate.com

http://thecarlafoxblog.blogspot.com

Cosmic LOVE Guest, Bruce BecVar December 10, 2016
Multi-instrumentalist and composer.

BRUCE BECVAR

Bruce BecVar is a gifted multi-instrumentalist and composer. Having produced and recorded 14 CDʼs since 1986 on his label Shining Star Productions, BecVar is considered a veteran in the world of acoustic guitar. His Forever Blue Sky was on the top ten New Age Billboard charts during the 1990’s.


The World Music label Narada featured one of his Nuevo Flamenco pieces on their highly successful flamenco guitar sampler called Gypsy Passion.

BecVar was also featured on the first Windham Hill Guitar Sampler. One of BecVar’s most successful musical projects is his immensely popular three-album series The Magic of Healing Music commissioned by Deepak Chopra. The series, based on ancient Ayurvedic principles, consists of music for Vata, Pitta and Kapha, each intended to balance the particular body “Dosha” for which it was named.



Some of the world class musicians that have appeared on BecVar’s recordings include, Alex Acuna Of Weather Report), younger brother Brian BecVar (Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Kitaro,), Paul McCandless (Windham Hill) and Steve Reid (The Rippingtons).



BecVar also spent many years as a guitar builder. His art and skill in the making and embellishing of instruments, along with growing recognition for his guitar compositions, brought him to Northern California in the early 70’s. He set up shop in Sonoma where he became well- known as a luthier, making one-of-a-kind electric guitars for such world-class rock h’ roll bands as The Who, The Peter Frampton Band, Led Zeppeiin, The Jackson Five, Earth, Wind & Fire and Carlos Santana. One of his guitars, ornate with exotic inlay and carving, now resides in the permanent collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A seeker and healer as well as an artist, BecVar makes music for its effect on people’s lives. Listeners report feeling uplifted, soothed and joyful on hearing his music. “Composing and recording is for me a very spiritual practice,” says BecVar. “it’s an exacting process listening to the creative impulses of Spirit and being diligent about translating what I hear into a finished recording that captures

that original essence in its most undiluted form.”



DISCOGRAPHY

Floating Home (2016)

Tibetana (Produced for Tsering Lodoe (2013)

Mystic Love (2009)

River of Gold (1999)

Windham Hill Guitar Sampler (1997)

The Magic of Healing Music Series – 3 Disc Set (1995) Time Dreams (1994)

Jiva Mukti (1994)

Rhythms or Life (1992)

Arriba 1992)

Samadhi (1990)

Forever Blue Sky (1990)

The Nature of Things (1989)

Take it to Heart (1986)

Why Am I So Happy Guest, Marci Kosich December 08, 2016
Energy Healer

I was brought up emotionally, mentally and psychically abused in a upper class neighber hood in the Bay Area. I gave up mentally by age 8 years old. I saw my first spirit when I was 17. The room tempurature changed. My great Aunt died when I was 18. I went to visit my uncle I heard her speak to me twice. When I was 22 I got a job as a au pair in which she took me to a channelor. I asked the channeler what I do . He said Psycho Kenisis (moving/clearing energies). Someone did tonal healing on me when I was 25. In 2008 I worked on a telephone psychic line for 3 years. In 2011 I worked on a Psychic skype websight for 3 year. I did my Binuaral Tonal Sound Reiki healing''s people could feel the healings and some got addicted to the tones. I have been a guest and co host on several internet radio shows. I have written a trilogy of my Autobiographies on Amazon called “Were off to be the Wizards” “I'm off the free the Wizard” and “I'm off to be the Wizard. I have on you tube my tones on You tube under the name “kosmaks cosmos.” You can contact me on my email marci.kosich@.com. Marci Kosich on face book and on linkedln.