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Headlined Show, As You Wish Talk Radio May 20, 2017

As You Wish Talk Radio with James Gilliland and G. Edward Griffin. Listen as they discuss the state of the world, too much government intervention & power, personal liberty (and the loss thereof), naming the elites, their organizations and their plan for world conquest. G. Edward Griffin's website is at:

https://freedomforceinternational.org/

 

Headlined Show, The Metaphysical Hour May 19, 2017

join me with special guest Tricia McCannon on her journey to this life as a clairvoyant, historian, author and teacher. Tricia has so much extraordinary information on ancient mysteries and the new earth - definitely one not to miss!!

Headlined Show, The People Speak May 23, 2017

John Pilger - filmmaker/activist, and Evan Greer - Campaigner for Chelsea Manning join Cindy Sheehan

Headlined Show, Insight Out...the Naked Truth May 16, 2017

 I know. I know. There’s so much troubling stuff going on---don't get me started.

But “Don’t Get Me Started” is our featured phrase of the week. Let’s face it, once we plunge into the multifarious dilemmas that confront humanity, we won't know where to begin, let alone when to stop.

Like our current political shenanigans, “Don’t Get Me Started,” or the endless analysis of the ostensible news by pundits, whoa....... “Don’t Get Me Started” on that, or our preoccupation with spectacular insignificance-- we could go on and on. “Don’t Get Me Started.”

On the other hand there are some things that we probably should get started on, like efforts to become more conscious and aware, more balanced and understanding, and especially not to take ourselves too seriously. 

We also might want to get started on an appreciation of how a viable spirituality can provide the context to better navigate our way to wholeness and healing.

So, join us our conversation tonight and we promise to sprinkle it with insights, humor, zany characters, music and surprises. 

We are 

Errol and Rachelle Strider

(Hey, we’ve been together for over 40 years, and in spite of all the challenges of relationship, we’re still talking to each other.........but then again......don’t get us started.)

Headlined Show, Hungry for the Truth May 16, 2017

Are manifestation multiple personalities in people a true medical illness, or the result of a strange spiritual condition?

 

Dr Lana and Det David Love discuss Dissociative Identity Disorder the psychiatric disorder formerly known as Multiple Personality Order.

 

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), or Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is a condition in which an individual appears to host two or more distinct personalities. These unique personalities can possess and control the host body for a period of time. The individual’s familiar personality seems to disappear and be replaced by an alternate personality, also called an “alter”. It is not known whether a person is born with these extra personalities or they appear after a certain life event triggers them to emerge.

 

​Lana and David examine the various possibilities that could account for multiple personalities including spirit possession and acts of higher intelligences.  They also examine how some characteristics of Dissociative Identity Disorder are similar and different in people who claim to receive otherworldly spirit communications. 

 

Are people with Dissociative Identity disorder the . . .

“ultimate doorway to all things unknown?”

~ Dr Fletcher

From the psychological thriller “Split” 

The People Speak Guest, Jimmy Walter February 23, 2016
Founder Walden Three Project

JIMMY WALTER was born in Tampa, Florida in 1947 and is unmarried with no children.

Mr. Walter has extensive experience in starting and operating small businesses and broad knowledge in finance and financial markets. He is skilled in writing and computer science and widely read in psychology, economics, behavior management, religion, and philosophy.

Mr. Walter founded the Life Skills Foundation in an effort to help people in lower socio-economic situations, of which those incarcerated and on welfare are a significant and problematic part.   Mr. Walter works for no salary and has provided  $2,000,000 for converting the  “Vital Issues Project” to a non-profit basis.

He is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Tampa, Institute for Ethics and Meaning, Democratic National Committee, Florida Democratic Party, Social Democrats of America, Social Democrats, USA, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), WEDU Foundation, WUSF TV Foundation, WUSF Radio Foundation, and the American Mensa Association,

Mr. Walter is a humanitarian whose basic philosophy is stoicism in its manifestation of Rational-Emotive-Behaviorism Theory. He enjoys aerobics, hiking, dancing, theater, symphonies, writing prose and poetry, reading, 70's and 80's pop music, traveling, skiing, flying, skin and scuba diving.

ABOUT WALDEN THREE PROJECT

The Walden Three Project has developed an engineering of a super-efficient, car-free, sustainable city that uses extensive recycling, permaculture, and integrated, co-generation, pollution-free factories to manufacture most of what its citizens consume. The project is based upon ideas from many different disciplines, which have been time-tested. The city is built with proven technology available today.

Anything that saves labor and resources makes us richer as a whole. Our engineering model is apolitical. It is just a labor and resource saving device. It frees them for whatever the political-economic body wants. Our model allows political systems to maximize their available labor and resources. Thus the underlying basis of economics: conservation. There is no need to "take" from the rich to solve our economic problems. This is a common economic fallacy. In fact, the rich will profit and benefit greatly from what we propose here.

Libertarians, socialists, objectivists, communists, fascists, capitalists, or a combination of economic systems can use our hypothetical city-factory-machine. Libertarians or objectivists could float such a city in international waters free of all governments and "freeloaders" (see abandoned novel - New Hong Kong). Communists and far left socialists can use it to eliminate capitalists. One of our plans is built from mud and starts in a prison (see current novel in progress: Walden Three).

While there is no one solution for everyone, most need and prefer some group's economic and political compromise. Our compromise has "radical", "middle-american", "conservative", "liberal", "capitalist", "socialist", "religious", "atheist" and other components. Anything that must be pure, must fail. A world wide system must allow for all.

Please comment. We invite you to play with the model. Please correct us. Give us your insights and add to it. Use what you like. Everything we create is free and without copyright. Why are we doing this? Selfishness! The founder, chief benefactor, and CEO of Walden Three realizes he does not need any more material things. He finds more money and things to take care of boring, while helping and seeing people change for the better is fun. A material thing can only give you a good feeling and has a cost. A spiritual act or gift returns a better feeling and, on average, a profit -- usually the beneficiary will return the favor or pass it along, which eventually comes back to the giver with a profit. Money is a merely a symbol, open to interpretation. Feelings are real. A better world to live in produces a cornucopia of good feelings, a huge profit.

Updated 7/13/11 .

Energy:

The city recycles “waste” energy from its factories and electric generation plant by piping steam to heat air and water for businesses and homes throughout the city. This is the same method used by factory towns of old New England. Steam is also used to power absorption refrigeration for cooling of buildings, the same basic process used in propane-powered refrigerators in motor homes. Thus, the city is heated and cooled essentially for free (there is the cost of piping, maintenance, etc.) and the electricity normally used by cities for heating and cooling is saved, more than quadrupling efficiencies of today’s public utilities. Electric power required for motors, engines, electronics, etc. is generated with combined-cycle gas-turbine technology fueled by synthesis gas made by converting biomass and organic waste materials in a plasma gasification unit.

Transportation and Freight:

Standardized packaging and a collection system designed for long-term use and convenience maximizes recycling efforts. There are no automobiles or trucks within the city though there are rental companies on its perimeter. Recycling, freight delivery, and personal transport is streamlined with a computerized, luxurious, and extensive mass transit system. Transportation needs are further minimized by home offices, video conferencing rooms, and super high-speed Internet facilities.

Health Care:

Insurance, as well as supplemental programs like Medicaid, would not be needed because Walden Three considers healthcare, from cradle to grave for all conditions, a necessity. Instead of taxing businesses, the city provides and manages healthcare through its community service system.

Hospitals would be available for serious procedures like surgery, however, the emphasis would be on nursing stations located in each building and at-home care. Using the city’s Cybernet, which would have the latest, reliable medical information and remote observation and data collection, nurses and physicians would make initial evaluations. Nursing stations are located in each building for more thorough initial examinations and scheduled exams by physicians.

In sum, Walden Three provides quality care to every citizen, not sub-standard care that views each person as a group of risk factors or ‘the best care [your limited] money can buy.’

Education:

Education and training from pre-school to post-graduate is free. The school system is based on the student’s worthwhile, realistic life goals which they set for themselves with the aid of counselors. The life goals are made relevant to the person's age. Of course, those goal will mature as the child matures. If a child wants to be a fireman, the teacher says, “Okay, we will start training you to be a fireman, but to be a fireman you’ll have to know all about gases, heat energy, combustion, etc. To learn that, you’ll need to know math, reading, etc.” Thus, school would be more personal, exciting, and useful. From the beginning, children are not schooled in classrooms, but at home using programmed, computerized learning systems. The theory they learn on the computers is combined with skill training learned by participating in running the city, where it is safe for them.

Employment, Avocation, & Leisure:

Every individual can have a job that he or she enjoys, for life. The members of the community work at jobs running the city, their community service in return for the “free” items the city provides. Since the city produces the majority of what citizens consume, all citizens are guaranteed employment. Because of the huge increase in efficiency brought by rational planning and technology that minimizes waste, the citizens need only to work a small part of today’s work week. Their much increased free time can be spent starting a new business, working for someone else, with their family, on artistic endeavors, sports, education, travel, or whatever they desire. Moreover, working together to run the community builds a bond and an understanding of the city's problems and advantages among the citizens. With the citizens’ working knowledge, continuous improvements to the city come naturally.

Business/Economics:

We conclude that the solution lies in a mixed economy, an intelligent combination of capitalism and socialism tended by people who receive incentives based on the quality of their work, the best of each system. In fact, every country uses a mixed economy. All families from the beginning of time have shared work, rewards, and facilities among the family, a socialism system. Social Security, education for all children, child abuse laws, protection of the environment, work safety regulations, etc--all elements of socialism--would be preserved. Every citizen is guaranteed health care, education, food, clothing, housing and utilities in return for their part-time labor running the city.

No Taxes: The Walden Three Project has no sales, income, property, tangible, or intangible taxes, nor fees. People who want non-residential locations pay a fixed rent (no percentage over-rides or escalation) to offset construction costs and maintenance. The city fosters new businesses by providing online support and efficient customer service that waits on you, not you waiting on them. Citizens can apply for an available “bricks and mortar” business location, or pay for the construction of a new one using materials produced locally at cost. Each apartment and business complex has a state-of-the-art office support complex for printing, copying, etc., as well as secretarial services, meeting rooms, and catering facilities. Designers, engineers, inventors, machinists, sample-makers, factories, artists, and writers are connected online. Thus the city assists businesses in turning new, important ideas and inventions into reality.

Since needs, by definition, must be met, the city is the single supplier providing citizens with all utilities, waste processing, transportation, and housing in return for the citizens’ community service time without the unnecessary costs of promotion, duplication of facilities, accounting, legal assistance, etc. The city maximizes service by redirecting this previously wasted labor towards improving the quality of its products or services. The system rewards those that do their job well with vigorous, positive feedback, social prerogatives, and reduced work time. The cybernation of services (computers and high speed internet in every home and business) combined with ample staffing reduces wait time to a minimum.

Life Skills, Philosophy, Psychology:

The city guides people to set realistic and worthwhile life goals. Part of a realistic goal is a realistic plan to achieve it. The school and socialization systems train citizens in Rational Emotive Behavior Theory [REBT], the modern, scientific combination of Stoicism and Epicureanism. This teaches rational acceptance of life and one’s self, and how to control emotions, preventing or correcting emotional and thinking problems early.

The city improves behavior by helping people find and set practical life goals. They are then trained to reward themselves as they accomplish short-term goals to that end.

Law/Crime Prevention:

George Washington said, "The firmest pillar of democracy is the true administration of justice." Note that he said justice, not law. Recall that it was illegal to be a Jew during the Nazi rule of Germany.

The city's civil law system is based on giving "value for value received" using bona fide [good faith] contracts, not "let the buyer beware" in which the clever defraud the average. When a person enters into a contract, it should be with confidence that the legal outcome will be fair. The legal system is streamlined with legal aids staffed sufficiently to give everyone fast, equal legal protection.

Since everyone is provided with necessities, crime would be greatly reduced, the remainder of crime would largely be caused by mental problems. Mothers and fathers would never have to steal to feed or take care of their babies.

The city’s solution to preventing crime is the same as a small town or village: Watchful eyes--everyone knows what is happening. All public areas are viewable from any computer terminal, open-access video observation, so anyone in the city can see through any public camera at any time. However, there will not be cameras in areas where there is an expectation of privacy: dressing rooms, public restrooms, at home, or in the car. The system allows a parent to "follow" their child to the playground or school room and report any bullying or accidents to the authorities for immediate attention. Parents can watch what their children are being taught and how they are handled by their teachers. All of the city’s government buildings, bureaus, and meetings would be viewable at all times, true “government in the sunshine“.

The system interrupts anti-social behavior at its start, swiftly, without revenge. The city's socialization (corrections) system does not lock up one disturbed individual with three others in an eight-by-ten foot room for decades and expect them to come out knowing how to get along with normal people. Rather, the city assigns police officers and councilors that stay with the troubled or violent individuals at all times during their socialization, physically and electronically, until the offenders can control their emotions and function well in society.

Thus, the criminal system will be swift and sure, but never harsh. As behaviorist B. F. Skinner discovered, punishment is a poor teacher, a last resort. Skinner’s experiments proved the certainty of the reward or punishment determines its effectiveness, unless the punishment is so brutal it damages the subject for life. If someone gets away with something ten times, they have been rewarded ten times. If police then get lucky and catch him or her, whether they punish that person or not, the net effect is ten rewards and one punishment, a net reinforcement of the unwanted behavior. The offender knows the punishment is a fluke, and is not likely to happen again for some time. However, if the person gets punished and the reward taken back each and every time, that person will stop the unwanted behavior quickly.

Spirituality:

We have observed that all the major religions have a universal message: Love and help each other. Acceptance, mercy, and meaningful work are prerequisites to happiness. There is no wealth without happiness.

Walden Three is a work in progress. We invite criticism, comments, improvements, and suggestions. The burden of proof is upon us.

http://www.youtube.com/user/parodyrecord

Anti-war campaign

Walter had been opposed to the Vietnam War, a source of contention with his father, but had not used his money to act on his convictions. On February 27, 2003, Walter spent US$125,000 to take out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times attacking Secretary of State Colin Powell's justification for the impending 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was headlined "Powell Lied?" describing Powell's February 5, 2003 speech to the United Nations Security Council—the New York Times insisted on adding the question mark. Walter took out similar advertisements in English and Spanish in local newspapers in Santa Barbara, California, where he was living. His stance was unpopular; posters he attached to his house were torn down, and a rock was put through his car's window. Walter did not repeat the advertisement.

Walter also created a "Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief" design mocking George W. Bush which he put on t-shirts, sweatshirts, and a full costume. In May 2004, a Williamstown, Vermont middle school student gained national attention when he wore the t-shirt and was required to cover parts of the design depicting Bush drinking and snorting cocaine. On August 30, 2006, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the school was wrong to censor the shirt, and on June 29, 2007 the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal, allowing that ruling to stand.

Reopen 9/11 campaign

Walter began a series of advertisements about the September 11, 2001 attacks in October 2004, which included full page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and 30 second cable television spots on CNN, Fox News, and ESPN. They implied that no plane flew in to The Pentagon, and that 7 World Trade Center was brought down by internal explosives. They called for a new investigation into what happened on September 11, and referred viewers to the website reopen911.org.In conjunction with the campaign, Walter sponsored an October 2004 Zogby poll, which found that 66% of New York City residents wanted a fuller investigation of the events of September 11.

Walter's theory is that the hijacked planes were replaced by remote controlled drones that were crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, while the buildings were brought down by preset explosives,to create a pretext for the war in Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the web site, Walter offered a US$10,000 reward for a mathematical proof of how the World Trade Center buildings collapsed from the fire and impact, the way the 9/11 Commission said.By 2005, the reward had grown to $1,000,000 for proof that explosives were not used in the collapse of the World Trade Center.

On November 10, and November 11, 2004, Walter appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, where he debated journalist Gerald Posner about the claims made by the campaign. On May 9, 2005, Walter was featured on the "Conspiracy Theories" episode of Showtime cable television program Penn & Teller: Bullshit!,

As of December 2004, Walter estimated the total cost of the campaign at more than $3 million; by December 2005 it rose to $5.5 million.

In May 2005, Walter financed European tours of speaking engagements for William Rodriguez and his lawyer in the Rodriguez v. Bush lawsuit, Philip Berg. Rodriguez claims that he saved hundreds of people in the World Trade Center who were trapped behind locked fire escape doors.

In 2006, Walter traveled to Malaysia with Rodriguez, appearing at a conference with Michael Collins Piper. Rodriguez and Walter also traveled to Venezuela.

Confronting the Evidence

Walter produced a video documentary called Confronting the Evidence in 2005 and distributed over 300,000 free copies on DVD, including one to every household in Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency.Confronting the Evidence was broadcast on Italian Rai Tre television on September 24, 2006 at 9:00 p.m., during the Report program.

Universal Soul Love Guest, Jay Hall February 23, 2016
Author, Speaker, Theorist, and Professor of Mathematics

Jay Hall is Assistant Mathematics Professor at Howard College in Big Spring, Texas. He has a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma. Hall has 53 credit hours of Science courses in various disciplines. He has taught at the High School, Technical School and Community College levels. He also has experience in the actuarial field for a number of insurance and consulting organizations.

Hall has previously published Calculus is Easy: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Easy-Jay-Hall-ebook/dp/B00B3YWYNI/182-5965211-3145837?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 and has a paper on MathWorld:

He is also a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

You may contact Jay Hall at YoungEarthScience@yahoo.com

Galactic Connection Guest, Jeff Godfrey February 23, 2016
Healer, Master Craftsman

In 1983, Jeff began an active search for more spiritual connections to life, and was introduced to Reiki trainings. The following year began a two decade immersion into a Bhakti Yoga meditation path, profoundly transforming his inner landscape. In 1997, Jeff learned the Merlin based lineage of VortexHealing, and mastered those skills quickly.

By now his own innate power to heal began to evolve, along with a developing awareness of galactic presence. A deep longing pulled him daily into this great expanse, further pushing the boundaries of his awareness. An inner dialog had begun, from which Jeff came to intuit his own healing discipline, and multi-dimensional understanding of reality. This conversation continues, as the ongoing work of our universe unfolds and each of us plays our part.

It is Jeff's wish to share his gifts of transformation and healing at the fundamental levels of our human experience through the Heart of Oneness. It is time.

A creative master craftsman, Jeff lives in southern Arizona. With 3 decades working in both custom furniture and cabinet shops, Jeff is accomplished at most phases of kitchen remodeling. His work has included full kitchen/bath design, cabinetry installation, fabrication and installation of solid surface countertops. Currently, Jeff works a kitchen/bath field measurer. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Jeff went on to expand his talents into welding kinetic sculpture and nature drawing.

 

Life Changes Show Guest, Chase Bell February 22, 2016
American pop songwriter and composer

CHASE BELL

Chase Bell is an American pop songwriter/composer who performs his original cinematically driven pop music in LA with his sister Emma Bell and virtuosic violinist/film composer Darius Campo. Chase has also performed in Europe and Africa with his Rock/Pop band in Italy Chase Bell & White Licorish, as the Lead Singer.

In 2015/2016 Chase released a 3 song cinematically inspired pop EP called “Whatever Love Means.”

Currently Chase and Darius are performing in LA and finishing another cinematically driven EP featuring female pop singers.

Learn More About Chase Bell at:

https://chasebell.bandcamp.com/releases

Chase Bell & White Licorish website:

https://www.facebook.com/Chasebellandwhitelicorish

https://twitter.com/chasebellmusic

https://www.youtube.com/user/cbellandwlicorish

Life Changes Show Guest, Stephanie Lodge February 22, 2016
Light Worker, Healer, Reiki Practitioner

Like many light workers, Stephanie Lodge didn’t find the light, the light found her. For the past twenty years, Stephanie has spent hundreds of hours researching spiritual methodologies, healing modalities, ancient mythologies and truth movements in order to acquire enough knowledge to understand the real purpose of life.  It wasn’t until she stopped searching, however, that the truth finally came streaming in with little effort. Over time, the information she received in “channel” would be validated in different ways, giving her the confidence she needed to guide others with the knowledge she received.  Not only were her channeling sessions informative, but soon she was guided to do a new method of healing that combined several rays (or streams) of light specific to balancing the planetary “shift” of human consciousness.

She calls these rays “angelic” because the term “angel” comes from the word “angle,” which is an important aspect of light – its geometry. Angels are simply concentrated beings of light, like mobile stars or starlight if you will, that can stream their divine consciousness into a human mind in channel. Through this mind the “angelic light stream” flows, providing light as knowledge, healing frequency, sound vibration or any other form it chooses to create.  It is a power and a privilege that Stephanie feels honored and humbled by.  She’d like to say that there was some “miracle” or specific event that was the precursor to her suddenly being able to channel in angelic wisdom, but truthfully it was simply her intention and desire that connected her to the light and its emissaries.

Today, she uses her connection to the “stream” to provide healing and guidance to individuals and groups, with often profound effects. As founder of Angelic Light Stream, Stephanie is constantly revising the ALS programs as new information emerges, currently completing the Halonetix System for Ascension and perfecting Conscious Light Training techniques that allows others to begin their own journey into streaming directly from Source.  She is also working on a series of young adult novels to help the next generation of light workers begin their own journey into enlightenment.  On a practical side, she’s a certified Reiki I Practitioner, and is currently exploring other certifications, like Integrative Energy Therapy and Quantum Transcendence to learn additional techniques to enhance her existing intuitive methods.

John Barbours World Guest, Richard Belzer February 22, 2016
Comedian, Actor, Author, Political Conspiritist

Guest Biography From: http://www.belzerbook.com/index-5.html

RICHARD BELZER is a stand-up comedian, actor and author. He is best known for his current role as John Munch on the hit NBC show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He is also famous for his acerbic wit and astute political commentary: “90% of the American people believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. The other 10% work for the government or the media.” He has written such books as UFOs, JFK, and Elvis (2000), and the novels I Am Not a Cop! (2009) and I Am Not a Psychic! (2010).

Dead Wrong is a study of the scientific and forensic facts of four assassinations of the 1960s (President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black Panther leader Fred Hampton), as well as an examination of new and incriminating evidence indicative of murder, not suicide, in the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, White House Counsel Vincent Foster, U.N. Weapons Inspector Dr. David C. Kelly and bioweapons expert Frank Olson. It also examines the cases of two murders directly linked to Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States.

Frank Olson-
One of the clearest cases of a “national security” assassination in history: Forensic evidence reveals that the CIA’s Director of “Special Research” was knocked unconscious and then pushed through a 10th-story window in New York City. The so-called suicide was actually a textbook murder taken right out of the CIA Assassination Manual and was even used as an example of perfect assassination in Israeli Intelligence training.

Henry Marshall-
In a vivid example of future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s political clout, even a man shot 5 times with a bolt-action rifle is officially ruled a suicide.

George Krutilek-
Another victim of LBJ, Krutilek also got in the way of Johnson’s political plans and also paid with his life.

Marilyn Monroe-
It is scientifically impossible that Marilyn Monroe committed suicide by swallowing pills, as most people mistakenly believe.

JFK-
The best combat sniper in history tried and could not match the shooting attributed to the alleged killer. Why? Because it never happened that way to begin with!

Dr. Martin Luther King-
Ballistic and forensic evidence prove that Martin Luther King could not have been shot by the man in the location that the Official Version purports.

Robert F. Kennedy-
According to the U.S. Government, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was killed by 14 shots from an 8-shot gun, and at point-blank range by a man who never got that close. And they didn’t let the facts stop them from prosecuting the wrong man.

Fred Hampton-
Was murdered by a special police unit -- and ballistic and forensic evidence prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt. He was totally unconscious during the entire police raid – but that didn’t stop the government from lying about it.

Vince Foster-
We can’t say with certainty how Vince Foster was killed but we can say with certainty that the Official Version is dead wrong. The forensics tells us he was shot with a gun different than the gun found in his hand and at a location other than where his body was found and that his gunpowder burns were defensive.

Dr. David Kelly-
One of the smartest people on this planet was asked what would happen if Iraq is invaded and he answered with seriousness: I’ll probably be found dead in the woods. Iraq was invaded and he was found dead in the woods. Now would you say that’s a red flag? But we’re expected to believe that this brilliant individual marched off into the woods to kill himself, armed only with an old pruning knife that had a very dull blade. Yeah, right. Sure he did.

Shadow Politics Guest, Mary Clare Rietz February 21, 2016
Artist and Community Organizer

Selected from a national pool of artists to lead a guided walk in Washington, D.C. Feb. 6, Mary Clare Rietz — a fine arts student at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture Arts and Planning — will address the issue of D.C. statehood. 

The College Art Association (CAA) selected Rietz and one other artist to put together a guided walk that will take place during the College Art Associational Annual Conference.

Rietz plans to showcase the movement for statehood in D.C. by breaking it down at federal, local advocacy and eventually individual impact levels. Areas and local guides along the route will represent these levels of engagement.

Mary Clare Rietz - Who Is She?

My background in community organizing combines with my art practice to fuel a strong interest in engaging with people and materials in what I term aesthetic action. At the core of my work is an aesthetic of relationship.  I am most interested in creating opportunities for people to connect who otherwise would not, or I use materials to show connections among people – and dis-connections – that might otherwise go unobserved.

My work begs the question, “How is ‘connection’ defined?” I address this in my art in two ways – first, with my own understanding of “connection,” and second by including in the design of my works ways for participants to define connection for themselves. As I see it, connection among people exists along a spectrum: from simply being together in person, in body, in the same place at the same time; to having a casual conversation; to having a more in-depth, intellectually, emotionally, politically, or spiritually engaging conversation; to approaching and breaching perceived barriers to understanding and sharing experience, even if that means risking conflict; to sharing an experience of being in active, perhaps even seemingly un-resolvable conflict. And in all of these there are scenarios where the connection is short or longer term. My work addresses various points on the continuum.

I work at honing the craft in the people processes that I design and facilitate. This calls for as much aesthetic attention as the object making I do – there is a careful assemblage, sculpting and shaping that is required for artful, effective human engagement. Questions I ask at the start of any work: To what performance of cooperation or interaction am I inviting people? Whom will I invite, and why them? What will most allure participants? What does the work offer to non-participant viewers? Scoring an interaction in the Fluxus tradition is something I have recently added to my practice – simple text that invites and gives guidance but also leaves room for participant improvisation, even fulfillment of the work completely independent of me as the initiating artist.

And I ask: What materials will I use? I do not work in any one specific medium; the envisioned interaction drives decisions about what needs to be made, of what, and how, and often the making is collaborative. My goal for the objects I design and make and the digital media I use is that they support, and conceptualize, the associated social participation. In this way, I hope that they can both be useful, and stand alone as conceptual pieces.

Currently, I am pursuing a Master of Fine Arts Degree at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, & Planning (DAAP), University of Cincinnati. A lifelong Ohioan, I have lived in Cincinnati for twelve years, with my husband Mike and our teenage daughter.

Quyns Empowerment Hour Guest, Dr Teesha Morgan February 20, 2016
Sex Therapist

Increase your sexual confidence, expand your sexual repertoire and get the real down-low on oral sex.

Why?

Because when you know better, you blow better.

Heads Up is an edgy-yet-educational, entertaining-yet-accurate book written by two Clinical Sex Therapists and Couples Counsellors on a mission to demystify and de-stigmatize sex and sexuality… specifically, the blowjob.

Dr. Teesha Morgan and Constance Lynn Hummel, MA, provide practical, no-nonsense advice for fabulous foreplay, chock full of tangible tips and ideas guaranteed to stimulate a sensational time in the bedroom. An alternative to the run of the mill “How to” guides, Heads Up will empower you to create a sex life that truly reflects your sexual choices, while still leaving you laughing (and blushing) along the way.