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I am very honored to have Shadow Senator Michael D. Brown, from the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., on the show! The Senator has his own talk radio show for the last 3 years here on BBS Radio with co-host Maria Sanchez called 'SHADOW POLITICS' airing every Sunday at 4pm Pacific. He's spent many years working as an advocate for statehood and equal rights for the people of the District of Columbia and hopes this will come about in the near future. Our world is in so much turmoil today and we are divided as a nation - I'd like the Senator to speak on these issues, to get his perspective and get 'On The Level' and start a conversation with all of us. Join me in learning who Michael Brown is, what a Shadow Senator does and find out what Washington REALLY thinks!
How can we even talk about the horrible massacre in Las Vegas? While many have been more personally affected than others, it affects us all. What are your thoughts? How does our National Anthem figure into all of that? Talk about it live at 10:00AM Pacific Time, 1:00PM Eastern on Spouting Off with Karen Kataline.
What IS True Freedom?
True Freedom is often misunderstood, because it can stimulate fear!
Reversely, sometimes the energy of Entrapment actually feels reassuring to the inner child, thus igniting a limited sense of "freedom". Navigating our emotions from an ascended perspective ignites self-trust; an essential part of the Journey.
Sri and Kira will explore the dynamics of personal evolution and how understanding true Freedom can be a gateway to your personal evolution. You will want a pen and paper handy to record the insights that will support your freedom and empowerment!
This show is LIVE and the phone lines are open! Your questions and mini soul reading requests are welcome!
We speak with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. about his new book Little Book of Wisdom. Miguel shares with us many amazing insights simplifying the complexities of life’s experiences. Miguel is a master of transformation and shares with us many principals that lead us to living the self-empowerment that we seek.
Solomon speaks to Miguel about the infinite expression of who and what we are. Solomon talks with Miguel about the expression of laughter and how it liberates us from limitation and transforms our perspective of potentially painful experiences. Solomon talks to Miguel about coming to the middle ground of all experiences to enable you to tap into that part of you that is connected to all of creation.
Our co-host, Maria Sanchez, has been gone due to her Father's death. But, she's back with us today to cover current and national events going on in the world! She will also honor her Father - reflecting on her loss and letting us know who her Father was and how he influenced her life. We'll also be talking to Kriston Capps, a staff writer for CityLab, covering housing, architecture and politics, who wrote an article about 'Why Puerto Rico Needs Statehood' in the wake of hurricane Maria. Join us!
Educational Psychologist in Artificial Intelligence, Co-Founder of The Product Development and Manufacturing Center, and Author
DR CHRISTIAN PETER WAGNER
For survival initially, and then by interest, Chris has always been focused on understanding what it means to be human AND how to improve the human condition by the use of technology.
This focus has kept him with a bit of a split personality for most of his life – as he struggled to figure out how to integrate the mathematics and precision of being a professor of Engineering for 35 years, AND the spiritual transformative experiences of visits from Divine Energies.
His research area as a professor has been Artificial Intelligence – he has worked for years helping to bring human intelligence into computers, with doctoral students scattered in many places around the globe taking his understanding of AI into really real world scenarios!
His teaching in spirit has been propelled by his forced entry into trance channeling – wherein he opens up to Divine Source and lets unexpected and unplanned beautiful words
flow into his consciousness.
Chris’ current focus are many:
1. The Soul Engineering Website – a major revision coming soon – soulengineering.com
2. Two new books, both in 2nd draft and to be done by the end of the year.
a. One is the Biography of his wife, Starr Porter –
b. The second is a book on deep romance
3. Involvement in a new movie that starts shooting in January and should be out by the end of the year that shows the common ground between all people in a drama set in Iraq.
4. The Human Operating System – what we do not know DOES HURT US! Perhaps the most important thing that Socrates ever said were those two words – KNOW THYSELF As we learn more about HOW WE WORK IN THE BODY, we gain control, compassion, delight, love, and expansion for our lives.
5. Muze from Senso Laboratories – a new technology that takes information on a person’s individual biometrics to HYPER-Personalize how your life can be made better by computer technology.
We are all in this together!
The time is now for those of good heart to come together – the world needs our interconnectivity and support NOW!!!
Singer Songwriter
MICHAEL BARNUM
Michael Barnum is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Long Beach, California. Fusing sounds of pop, rock, and soul, Barnum’s sound is all his own. With a strong presence in the Los Angeles and Orange County music scenes, he has performed at events and venues across Southern California, including the 626 Night Market, the Moon Festival, a residency at Kafe Neo, The World Famous Doll Hut and The Mint, among others.
The Mint in Los Angeles hailed Barnum to have, “…the unique ability to bring his pitch-perfect voice from a delicate almost whisper, to a roar, all without losing that desirable tone and pitch all singers strive for.”
A self-taught guitar player, he grew up in a musical household playing piano, singing and acting. As an actor, Barnum has appeared in many productions from rock musicals like Spring Awakening and Next to Normal to classics like The King and I. He graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a degree in Theatre Arts.
While performing locally as a musician and actor, he found his biggest audience through live streaming apps, Periscope and Krue, where thousands of followers world-wide tune in each week to watch live broadcasts of his concerts. It was these fans that encouraged him to full-heartedly pursue a music and songwriting career.
Barnum released his debut album Trust in September 2016 after a highly successful crowdfunding campaign—with an outpouring of support from his fans around the world he made 122% of his goal. He co-wrote the entire album which was produced by David Chua Boon Ghee (Andy Grammer, Jessie J, Rachel Platten, One Direction). The songs on Trust are deep, meaningful and based on Barnum’s own personal experience. They explore the journey of finding one’s place in the world and trusting in the path that you’re on.
With uplifting melodies, powerful lyrics and stirring vocals, Barnum delivers a sound reminiscent of artists like Ed Sheeran, Andy Grammer and John Legend. On the heels of the release of Trust, Barnum is planning a West Coast tour and album release concert to-be-announced.
Attorney/Educational Columnist
Wendy Lecker is a senior attorney at the Education Law Center, where she oversees ELC's school funding and school equity work in New York. Wendy was a staff attorney at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), plaintiffs in New York’s landmark school funding case. She has also worked as a consultant in education finance and policy for The Rural School and Community Trust and Connecticut Voices for Children. She is currently an education columnist for Hearst Connecticut Media Group.
Investigative Blogger and Citizen Journalist
Jonathan Pelto has been actively involved in Connecticut public policy, advocacy and electoral politics for 40 years.
Presently, an investigative blogger and citizen journalist, Pelto uses blogging and social media as advocacy tools to educate, persuade and mobilize people with a focus on issues related to public education and the Corporate Education Reform Industry’s growing efforts to undermine and privatize public education in the United States.
In addition to writing a daily blog, which has become the most read commentary site in Connecticut, he has also written a number of articles about education reform issues for media outlets including The Progressive Magazine and Truthout.
In conjunction with education advocate Diane Ravitch, Pelto created and continue to manage the Education Bloggers Network, a confederation of over 238 bloggers and commentators from around the country who share a belief in public education and a willingness to use their time and energy fighting against the Corporate Education Reform Industry.
In 1984, Pelto was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives as a senior at the University of Connecticut and, over five terms, rose to the level of Deputy Majority Leader. Pelto was a long-time member of the Appropriations and Education Committee and chaired the Appropriations Sub-Committee on Higher Education.
Since leaving the Legislature in 1993, he’s worked as a communications strategist developing and implementing sophisticated public relations, media relations and advocacy programs aimed at educating, persuading and mobilizing targeted audiences. His clients have included many of Connecticut’s most significant non-profit organizations, corporations, associations and unions, as well as Native American Tribes.
Over the years he’s also managed or worked on numerous political campaigns at the federal, state and local levels including campaigns Chris Dodd, Gary Hart, Connecticut gubernatorial and congressional campaigns and many state legislative races.
In 2014, Pelto was a petitioning candidate for governor in Connecticut running as the nominee of the newly created Education and Democracy Party. Pelto’s running mate was Hartford Connecticut educator and policy activist, Ebony Murphy. Pelto and Murphy were not able to collect the necessary signatures to get on the November 2014 ballot.
Writer, Author of ET:101 The Cosmic Instruction Manual, Satirist, Cosmic Humorist
Diana Luppi wrote the underground sensation, ET:101 The Cosmic Instruction Manual, over 25 years ago. It has created an enormous ripple over the years, and is now making an international "comeback". Translations in many languages are being prepared, as the "new wave" hits the shores.
The first time I read it, I could hardly believe what I was reading - was it a "tongue-in-cheek" quasi-satiric poke at the human condition, from the viewpoint of our "Cosmic Family", who were reassuring us that they are here for us? Those who have read it know the exquisite feeling of recognition and relief, knowing that in this whacked out, crazy hologram, there are others of like frequency, "out there"... you and I are not really crazy - or alone. Funny, bordering on hilarious, this treasure of a read is always fresh and always enlightening!
A vast Inter-Galactic Family knows what's happening here, and lets us know that the old paradigms are truly on their way out - for good!
Author, Metaphysician and Entrepreneur
Rev. Mary Linn Clarke, founder of the Inner Light Metaphysical Center since 1975, was raised in this philosophy. It was the only Metaphysical Center to be invited to be a member to the International Council of World Churches. She has done extensive study in this field under the late Dr. Enid Smith and Rev. Lillian Dee Johnson. She studied extensively at Harmonia College in St. Petersburg, Florida, as well as in Chesterfield, Indiana. Rev. Clarke is noted for her healing abilities, as well as her teaching in the development of Metaphysics and what it can do for your spiritual development; mentally, physically and spiritually. Currently Rev. Clarke resides in Ellenton, Florida, with her husband Rev. Thomas Clarke. They continue to guide and teach others this philosophy at various Metaphysical Centers in the area. Rev. Clarke enjoys helping others and hopes this book will provide spiritual enlightenment to all who read it.
Mary Linn’s facebook page https://www.facebook.com/cosmiccenterofspirituallight
Mary Linn is currently holding her weekly 10am Sunday Spiritualist Service at the Cosmic Center of Spiritual Light in Sarasota.
Activist/Author
Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author. He has published eight books: Canada in Africa — 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, The Ugly Canadian — Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy, Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping — The Truth May Hurt, Stop Signs — Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (with Bianca Mugyenyi), The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards), Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. Yves was born in Vancouver, where he grew up playing hockey. He was a peewee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montréal before playing in the B.C. Junior League. After being suspended from Concordia University, he turned to research and writing, but he’s still a fan of the great Canadian sport.
The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy
by YVES ENGLER
About the book:
This book could change how you see Canada. Numerous studies have found that Canadians' self-appraisal of their country's foreign policy is more positive than any other country. Most believe Canada's primary role has been as peacekeeper or honest broker in difficult-to-solve disputes. But, contrary to the mythology of Canada as a force for good in the world, The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy sheds light on many dark corners of Canadian foreign policy: From troops that joined the British in Sudan in 1885 to gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean and aspirations of Central American empire, to participation in the UN mission that killed Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, to important support for apartheid South Africa, Zionism and the US war in Vietnam, to helping overthrow Salvador Allende and supporting the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, to Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan today.
Praise for Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy:
We bear responsibility for what governments do in the world, primarily our own, but secondarily those we can influence, our allies in particular. Yves Engler's penetrating inquiry yields a rich trove of valuable evidence about Canada's role in the world, and poses a challenge for citizens who are willing to take their fundamental responsibilities seriously. --Noam Chomsky
Engler has done for Canadian foreign policy what I tried to do for United States foreign policy in my book "Killing Hope" -- cover each region of the world, showing how "peaceful, benevolent, altruistic Canada" has, on numerous occasions, served as an integral part of Western imperialism, particularly the American version, helping to keep the Third World down and in its place. From Vietnam to Haiti, Canada has served the political and economic demands of US foreign policy and the multinational corporations. The picture that emerges is not the image of Canada the world has long admired. --William Blum
Producer and director
Thomas Baldinger is a producer and director, known for Two Sides of Love (2014), Who's Jenna...? (2016) and Two Sides of Love (2013). Who’s Jenna, which screens at this year’s Golden Door International Film Festival, stars Tracey Birdsall as a young woman whose new boyfriend suspects she might be an adult film star.
Who’s Jenna?– cast/crew, Thomas Baldinger (director), Tracey Birdsall, Bill Sorvino






