Podcast appearances and mentions of Craig R Smith

In this week's episode of Parallax, Dr Ankur Kalra's guest is Dr Craig R Smith, Cardiac Surgeon and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. In 2020, The Wall Street Journal called Dr Smith the pandemic's most powerful writer. Each day throughout the COVID-19 crisis, Dr Smith provided the faculty and staff with updates on pandemic response and priorities, offering both vital information and unwavering support. This month, Dr Smith released his book, 'Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon's Path'. In this inspiring episode, Dr Smith delves into the story behind his book and the motivating circumstances that led him to become an author. Dr Kalra asks Dr Smith about his experience as a leader during the pandemic as a surgeon. Dr Smith shares the story of his unconventional journey into medicine, emphasizing how hard physical labor built his resilience and prepared him for his residency. Dr Kalra also asks about Dr Smith's experience as a surgeon for President Bill Clinton in 2004. We learn more about some of the highlights of Dr Smith's book and his advice for listeners aspiring to become writers. Nobility in Small Things is available for purchase here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250278531/nobilityinsmallthings Questions and comments can be sent to “podcast@radcliffe-group.com” and may be answered by Ankur in the next episode. Guest: Dr Craig R SmithHost: @AnkurKalraMD and produced by: @RadcliffeCARDIO.

EPISODE 1778: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Craig R. Smith M.D., author of NOBILITY IN SMALL THINGS, about his life as one of America's most celebrated heart surgeonsAs a surgeon at Columbia University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Craig R. Smith has been no stranger to pressure—fromperforming President Bill Clinton's quadruple bypass, to openly massaging patients' hearts. But when the COVID pandemic shut down non-emergency operations at New York City hospitals, Dr. Smith was presented with a different purpose. He began writing daily email updates from the front lines of the pandemic battle. The updates—designed to inform and reassure—became a balm to his colleagues, and when theWall Street Journal published them in April 2020, they were immediately recognized as essential dispatches from “the pandemic's most powerful writer.” Dr. Smith has now written a deeply thoughtful new memoir, NOBILITY IN SMALL THINGS: A Surgeon's Path (St. Martin's Press; on-sale October 10, 2023), sharing what goes into the impossible decisions he must make on behalf of his patients. President Bill Clinton has already praised it as “much more than a medical memoir; it's an elegant work of literature.” Diane Sawyer has called it “a book of staggering reach” from a “fearless explorer of what it is to be human when the choices are hard, the stakes high, and courage is the only choice,” while Senator Cory Booker says “[Smith's] story, his journey, is a compelling narrative of a servant leader who in times of trial emerged as a humble hero.”Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

In The Call: Eloquence in Service of Truth, my guests Craig R. Smith and Michael J. Hyde offer a rare examination of a rhetorical phenomenon referred to as “the call,” which is closely linked to eloquence. They explore this linkage by examining various components of eloquence, including examples of its misuse by George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump. The case studies here, include examples drawn from addresses by Barack Obama, Daniel Webster, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Chase Smith, Susan Collins, and Mitt Romney. Smith and Hyde examine religious rhetoric, too, including the Epistles of St. Paul, the writings of St. Augustine, and the preaching of Jonathan Edwards. Finally, the book explores eloquence in films and in communication between artists and writers, concluding with a study of how Annie Dillard evokes the sublime with eloquence and awe.CRAIG R. SMITH is the director emeritus of the Center for First Amendment Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught for twenty-seven years. In 2010 he received the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award from the National Communication Association for his contributions to rhetorical theory.MICHAEL J. HYDE is professor and University Distinguished Chair in Communication Ethics at Wake Forest University. He is a distinguished scholar of the National Communication Association, a fellow of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and a recipient of national, state, and university research grants for his work in “the rhetoric of medicine.”Craig R. Smith and Michael J. Hyde is available at msupress.org and other fine booksellers. You can find Craig on the History Rated R podcast. You can connect with the press on Facebook and @msupress on Twitter, where you can also find me @kurtmilb.The MSU Press podcast is a joint production of MSU Press and the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. Thanks to the team at MSU Press for helping to produce this podcast. Our theme music is “Coffee” by Cambo. Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi people. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.Thank you all so much for listening, and never give up books.

Motivation Report fans!! I'm debuting my new podcasting here to help move any of you who still have love in your hearts for ol' Will Sterling. Head on over to the History. Rated R. showpage on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts, subscribe, rate, review, you know the drill. Don't miss out! We have DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson slept with Sally Hemings, a biracial enslaved woman that he owned (and fathered the children of). So, John Adams tells his son to spread word of this to the papers to try to do Jefferson dirty. In retaliation, Thomas Jefferson accuses John Adams of procuring prostitues for the Czar of Russia (fake news). How did these former friends and founding fathers become bitter rivals in their race for the Presidency? Plus, the history of the martini! Want to sip along while you listen? Here's Craig's recipe for our shared cocktail of choice. Dr. Craig R. Smith's INFAOUS Gin Martini In a shaker with ice...a splash of vodka (calm down!), half a cap of dry vermouth, two ounces London dry gin. Shake twenty times. Pour into chilled martini glasses. Garnish with a stuffed olive, lemon twist, or slice of cucumber.

We have DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson slept with Sally Hemings, a biracial enslaved woman that he owned (and fathered the children of). So, John Adams tells his son to spread word of this to the papers to try to do Jefferson dirty. In retaliation, Thomas Jefferson accuses John Adams of procuring prostitues for the Czar of Russia (fake news). How did these former friends and founding fathers become bitter rivals in their race for the Presidency? Plus, the history of the martini! Want to sip along while you listen? Here's Craig's recipe for our shared cocktail of choice. Dr. Craig R. Smith's INFAMOUS Gin Martini In a shaker with ice...a splash of vodka (calm down!), half a cap of dry vermouth, two ounces London dry gin. Shake twenty times. Pour into chilled martini glasses. Garnish with a stuffed olive, lemon twist, or slice of cucumber.

Lowell Ponte is the man for all reasons. A veteran think tank futurist, he worked as Roving Editor of Reader's Digest for 15 years and has done investigative reporting in 33 countries. He hosted radio talk programs syndicated to 300 stations. He's author of The Cooling, , and co-author with Craig R. Smith of Crashing the Dollar; The Inflation Deception; The Great Debasement; The Great Withdrawal; Don’t Bank On It: The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking; We Have Seen the Future and it Looks Like Baltimore; and , China White Paper FREE, POSTPAID call (800) 630-1492. Our topics will include “Who’s Behind the Rioting and Looting”, and “The Outlaw Left and the Roaring 2020’s” www.WND.comFollow @ErskineRadio on Twitter

Lowell Ponte is the man for all reasons. A veteran think tank futurist, he worked as Roving Editor of Reader’s Digest for 15 years and has done investigative reporting in 33 countries. He hosted radio talk programs syndicated to 300 stations. He’s author of The Cooling, and co-author with Craig R. Smith of Crashing the Dollar; The Inflation Deception; The Great Debasement; The Great Withdrawal; Don’t Bank On It: The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking; We Have Seen the Future and it Looks Like Baltimore; and, MONEY, MORALITY & THE MACHINE & China White Paper FREE, POSTPAID call (800) 630-1492. Our topics include “Democrats Weaponize Dr. Fauci” and “Susan Rice Memorializes the Day: Which Book?” www.WND.com

Lowell Ponte is the man for all reasons. A veteran think tank futurist, he worked as Roving Editor of Reader's Digest for 15 years and has done investigative reporting in 33 countries. He hosted radio talk programs syndicated to 300 stations. He's author of The Cooling, and co-author with Craig R. Smith of Crashing the Dollar; The Inflation Deception; The Great Debasement; The Great Withdrawal; Don’t Bank On It: The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking; We Have Seen the Future and it Looks Like Baltimore; and, MONEY, MORALITY & THE MACHINE & China White Paper FREE, POSTPAID call (800) 630-1492. Tonight, Democrats new symbol “the Vulture” and “In time of Plague”.www.WND.com

Lowell Ponte is the man for all reasons. A veteran think tank futurist, he worked as Roving Editor of Reader's Digest for 15 years and has done investigative reporting in 33 countries. He hosted radio talk programs syndicated to 300 stations. He's author of The Cooling, , and co-author with Craig R. Smith of Crashing the Dollar; The Inflation Deception; The Great Debasement; The Great Withdrawal; Don’t Bank On It: The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking; We Have Seen the Future and it Looks Like Baltimore; and , MONEY, MORALITY & THE MACHINE & China White Paper FREE, POSTPAID call (800) 630-1492. Tonight, “Democrats Biological Warfare”, what’s left for Democrats, Biden or Sanders? www.WND.comFor updates follow @ErskineRadio on Twitter

Lowell Ponte is the man for all reasons. A veteran think tank futurist, he worked as Roving Editor of Reader's Digest for 15 years and has done investigative reporting in 33 countries. He hosted radio talk programs syndicated to 300 stations. He's author of The Cooling, , and co-author with Craig R. Smith of Crashing the Dollar; The Inflation Deception; The Great Debasement; The Great Withdrawal; Don’t Bank On It: The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking; We Have Seen the Future and it Looks Like Baltimore; and, MONEY, MORALITY & THE MACHINE & China White Paper FREE, POSTPAID call (800) 630-1492. Tonight, “The Seduction of Mitt Romney”. www.WND.comFor updates: Follow @erskineradio on Twitter

Lowell Ponte is the man for all reasons. A veteran think tank futurist, he worked as Roving Editor of Reader's Digest for 15 years and has done investigative reporting in 33 countries. He hosted radio talk programs syndicated to 300 stations. He's author of The Cooling, , and co-author with Craig R. Smith of Crashing the Dollar; The Inflation Deception; The Great Debasement; The Great Withdrawal; Don’t Bank On It: The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking; We Have Seen the Future and it Looks Like Baltimore; and , MONEY, MORALITY & THE MACHINE & China White Paper FREE, POSTPAID call (800) 630-1492. Tonight, “Outlaw” Left and the Roaring 2020’s plus Impeachment: Lynch Mob Politics, www.WND.comFollow @ErskineRadio on Twitter for updates.

Lowell Ponte, Why confiscatory taxing of the wealthy is a hate crime, genetic blueprint of some predisposes them to being rich,#richgenes, #americanexceptionalgenes, “billionaires should not exist,”, social communism GODLESS Atheism, No One is Created Equal, All of Infinite Value, Social Demand All Are Equal, Communists Kill the Exceptional, #communistskillexceptionalpeople, #socialintoleranceofgifted, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,https://www.nutrimedical.com/product-category/epigenetic-song-of-dna-therapy/,Why confiscatory taxing of the wealthyis a hate crimeLowell Ponte notes genetic blueprint of some predisposes them to being rich WND, October 17, 2019URL: https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/confiscatory-taxing-wealthy-hate-crimes/Imagine socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in a political debate saying: “Black people should not exist. I propose that we impose a confiscatory 97.5 percent tax rate on them to make their survival impossible.”We would be outraged at any politician who made such a racist and hate-filled statement. Sen. Sanders has never said any such bigoted thing about African Americans.But earlier this year, newly minted millionaire Sanders declared that “billionaires should not exist,” and proposed imposing a discriminatory tax of 97.5 percent on them so that such rich people would quickly cease to exist.You might think that people choose to become wealthy, but that you and I do not pick our race. What we call race is vaguely defined by a set of factors such as skin color imposed on us by genetics, our inborn DNA over which we have no choice or control. It is unjust and racist to hate and punish us for what our genes created.But recent research at Kings College London and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, finds that 37 to 48 percent of the tendency to be an entrepreneur is genetic. “The tendency to identify new business opportunities,” reported Inc. Magazine about this scientific research, “is in your genes.”“Being rich and successful IS in your DNA,” wrote the U.K. Daily Mail in July 2018, reporting new scientific findings at Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina that “Being dealt the right genes determines whether you [are] … upwardly socially mobile.”Business success, I once argued in the Wall Street Journal, is at least partly based on genetics. “Have you noticed,” I wrote, “that wealth tends to run in families?”In that column I also proposed adding to the list of forbidden topics that made a crime into a hate crime a new item – hate based on class. Bernie Sanders and all the other Democratic presidential candidates who scheme to destroy billionaires via a “wealth tax” merely for being rich should be as guilty of a hate crime as one who attacks people for being black or homosexual or female.If becoming rich has a genetic component, then Richism – hatred and envy of the rich – is just as immoral and should be just as illegal as racism.Too bad for the Democrats, socialists and Marxists that their ideology and hence their political power has been built on preaching that we need to “soak,” hate and assault the wealthy.My proposal to expand hate-crime protection to a person’s “class” is urgent because new polling by the Cato Institute finds that the belief that “it is acceptable in some situations to be violent toward the wealthy” is growing. The Cato polling finds this attack-the-rich view in 35 percent of those under 30, 36 percent of those identifying themselves as “liberal,” 47 percent of self-identified “socialists” and 17 percent of “Americans in general.”Most other countries have few rich people, and those rich usually made their money not through entrepreneurship and free markets but via something like crony capitalism – enriching themselves through government influence.Think of Hunter Biden raking in $50,000 per month in Ukraine from a gas company only because he has a politically connected father.Hunter’s company also reportedly raked in $1.5 billion from a company run by Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army, after flying into China with his dad at taxpayer expense aboard Air Force Two and arranging a meeting between Joe Biden and the head of this company.Hunter says he is quitting his company title, but analysts discovered that he is keeping his rich privileged crony status as co-owner. Decent people are right to despise this kind of obvious political corruption and greed. Joe Biden is morally unfit to hold any office of public trust in America.“American exceptionalism” exists because for centuries those with a craving for freedom and opportunity have brought their DNA here. As Craig R. Smith and I documented in “The Inflation Deception,” those self-selected pioneers came here with an exceptional proportion of what UCLA Psychiatrist Peter C. Whybrow surmises is what geneticists call D4-7 dopamine receptor alleles in our DNA.Americans with this genetic blueprint, we wrote, “carry traits of energy, enthusiasm and ambition that could help explain our nation’s enormous success at business, entrepreneurship and innovation.”Our DNA helps explain why President Donald Trump loves America, and why the radical left that has hijacked the Democratic Party has a racist hatred for America. The non-crony rich are island havens free from socialist groupthink domination. # # # # For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lowell Ponte, THE DECEPTIVE GREEN DIRTY DEAL, Social Godless Totalitarianism Religion, No Exceptionalism in USA Socialist America, End of Autonmy with LEFT, Everyone is Racist Accuses LEFT, The Four Horse-Women of the Apocalypse, SQUAD Attack Dems and Trump, End of Dialogue with LEFT, Rise of Economy Autonomy Resposibility, Green Dirty Financial Scam, Not Environment but Money Power Control of LEFT, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show, HEAT OF THE MOMENTTHE DECEPTIVE GREEN DIRTY DEALLowell Ponte whales on politicians who have most to gain by destroying capitalism WND.com, July 14, 2019URL: https://www.wnd.com/2019/07/the-deceptive-green-dirty-deal/Lowell Ponte is a former think tank futurist and retired roving editor at Reader’s Digest. He is author of the book “The Cooling” about Earth’s climate, and is coauthor, with Craig R. Smith, of “Money, Morality & the Machine: Smith’s Law in a Lawless, Over-Governed Age.” Ponte’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and otherpublications. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lowell Ponte, Call 800-630-1492 Free Copy of New Book, Money Morality and Machine, HOW TO ENFORCE ETHICS ON UNETHICAL LAWMAKERS, brilliant suggestion to stop Democratic bullying, Durham Working with Horowitz, Investigation Deep State FBI CIA DNI Five Eyes, Criminal Indictments of Demon-Rat Democrats and Media SOON, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show, THE SWAMPHOW TO ENFORCE ETHICS ON UNETHICAL LAWMAKERSLowell Ponte offers brilliant suggestion to stop Democratic bullyingWND, May 12, 2019 https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/how-to-enforce-ethics-on-unethical-lawmakers/These times are so uncertain. / There’s a yearning undefined. / People filled with rage. / We all need a little tenderness. / How can love survive in such a graceless age? / Ah, the trust and self-assurance that lead to happiness / They’re the very things we kill, I guess. …– Don Henley song “The Heart of the Matter”The Democrats who failed to destroy Donald Trump with smears, a fake dossier written with Russian collusion using funds from the Democratic National Committee, a biased two-year Mueller investigation and endless unproven accusations from the leftist media all failed.But as poet William Butler Yeats foresaw, “the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Instead of quitting, Democrats have turned to an endless Inquisition of Stalinist show trials to be held before not one, not two, but SIX committees of the only elected body they won by hook or crook in 2018 – the House of Representatives.In the center ring of this circus at the moment is New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler, who for many years waged personal vendettas against Trump. Nadler is the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and has issued demands for endless documentation touching on President Trump from 81 different individuals and entities.Nadler’s committee has been fully weaponized to wage propaganda warfare designed to end the Trump presidency, either via impeachment or 2020 reelection defeat.Weaponized? Democrats seized control of the House with only roughly a 53 percent majority, which should be reflected in the ratio of Democrats to Republicans on House committees. Nadler’s Judiciary Committee, however, reportedly has 22 Democrats to only 12 Republicans, giving Democrats a rigged 65 percent committee majority with almost two-thirds of the votes and partisan opportunities to speak and ask questions.Televising lawmaker interrogation before such a committee would therefore present a fake impression that Congress is overwhelmingly against the Trump Administration. But Chairman Nadler has demanded that Attorney General William Barr come before his committee in an even more theatrical setting.Nadler – contrary to more than 200 years of House rules – is demanding that Barr be interrogated not by elected members of Congress but by the Committee’s partisan attorneys, as is done only in special procedures such as impeachments. This would create the atmosphere of a criminal prosecution of the U.S. Attorney General, and might be manipulated to guarantee that no Republican members speak in Barr’s defense.Democrats have at least two reasons for this unethical tactic. One is that the Attorney General is vastly experienced, articulate, has a sterling reputation and is at least 20 IQ points smarter than any Democrat on the Committee. If congressional Democrats question him directly, most would come off looking like demagogues and fools.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knows that her Democrat officeholders are walking a tightrope. A majority of Democrats either want Trump impeached out of foaming-at-the-mouth ideological hatred, or out of the fear Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) voiced: “If we don’t impeach this president, he will get re-elected.”Impeachment is a radical political act, now that the Mueller Report has cleared Trump of wrongdoing. Pelosi’s majority rests on 31 Democrat representatives who won as moderates in districts Trump carried in 2016, which is why she wants a television spectacle that looks like multiple impeachments, full of fire and fury condemning Trump, but actually orchestrated to satisfy Democrat emotions and drive down the president’s approval numbers without mobilizing Trump supporters in 2020.Speaker Pelosi is aware that Republicans control the Senate, without which Trump cannot be removed from office by impeachment. But Republicans have been the “stupid” party. Days ago, Senator Richard Burr, chair of the Intelligence Committee, subpoenaed Donald Trump, Jr., giving Democrats another opportunity to smear the president’s son.Burr, up for reelection in 2020 in a hotly contested North Carolina, is the 12th cousin of notorious Aaron Burr, who, after an electoral vote tie, colluded with rival Federalists in an attempt to steal the presidency from his running mate Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton, who backed Jefferson, was later killed by Burr in an illegal duel.Honest Republicans should assign a Senate committee to do tit-for-tat to Democrats whatever is done in the House to Republicans. Subpoenas should demand that Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and all Democratic chairmen surrender 20 years of tax and other records and testify under oath why, with their party’s 2016 Russian collusion, any Democrat should be trusted with a security clearance or any public office. Sauce for the populist goose is sauce for the leftist gander.Lowell Ponte is a former Reader’s Digest Roving Editor. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other major publications. His latest paper co-authored with Craig R. Smith, “Protecting Your Wealth in Today’s America: How You Invest Your Savings Requires New Thinking,” shows how to rethink several areas of investment to protect and grow your savings in our new schizophrenic politics. For a free, postpaid copy, call toll-free 800-630-1492. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lowell Ponte, THE ‘GODS’ OF A RESTORED NOTRE DAME?, what kind of ‘diversity’ will accompany rebuilding of cathedral, Collapse of Dialogue and Descency, Universities in USA and West Indoctrination Centers, Maggot Colleges and Universities, Eat Intellectual Defacation of Professors to Graduate, Collapse of Democrat Common Sense, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris Defense Voter Rights for Murderers and Rapists, End of Dialogue with LEFT, Global Alliance with Islam and LEFT Will END in Disaster, Attack on Family Via Abortion, Alternative Lifestyle Supported to Reduce Fertility, No Reality Analysis of Toxic Cause of Gay and LGBT Science, Demon-Rats Demand to Subpoena to Congress Thwarted by POTUS Trump, Rebuilding Notre Dame as Symbol of Trans-Global Pseudo-Religion,Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show,FAITH UNDER FIRETHE ‘GODS’ OF A RESTORED NOTRE DAME?Lowell Ponte questions what kind of ‘diversity’ will accompany rebuilding of cathedral WND, April 21, 2019URL: https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/the-gods-of-a-restored-notre-dame/Easter Week saw the 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral in Paris partly consumed by flames, which may or may not have been ignited by anti-Christian terrorists.“The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” declared Harvard University architecture historian Patricio del Real.But with French President Emmanuel Macron pledging to rebuild Notre Dame within five years, and with donors quickly pledging more than a billion dollars for its restoration, another question has arisen.As Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger put it, will political forces demand that this church built by Christian Roman Catholic faithful be rebuilt today to reflect modern Political Correctness by including other religions and beliefs?The pressure to do so would demand equal space inside not only for Protestant and Orthodox Christian beliefs, but also a place for France’s fast-growing Muslim population.This Progressive egalitarian idea of “sharing” religious space appeared in antiquity. When the Greeks occupied ancient Israel, ruler Antiochus Epiphanies insisted that the Jewish Temple include a statue of the Greek deity Zeus to worship. Pigs were sacrificed on altars to Zeus.This “abomination of desolation” sparked a revolution led by Judas Maccabeus that liberated the Jewish people from Seleucid Greek rule. This victory, and the miracle of the long-burning oil that helped re-consecrate the Temple, is remembered in the “Feast of Lights,” the Jewish holiday Hanukkah.Judas, like Jesus, grew up in the Galilee. Several of Jesus’ disciples had typical Maccabean names. The Maccabean symbol was the palm tree, which may be why supporters threw down palm branches before him as Jesus rode into Jerusalem before his crucifixion and resurrection.But now the pagan progressives are back, proposing more abominations. Consider the “gods” and faiths they might now try to impose on Notre Dame:(1) Marxism and its near-identical pagan cults such as Socialism, Nazism and Fascism. We too easily forget that these “ideologies” are actually fake religions that claim to control the keys to history and human destiny. Marxism and its near-twin socialisms sought to replace faith in God with the “humanism” that the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “the religion of man,” with humankind as the measure of all things.Marxists believe that an elite of superior humans will usher in “heaven on Earth,” a new Garden of Eden, in which a new god (the state) will create a redistributionist paradise. Their pseudo-scientific predictions have always failed.As the old saying goes: when someone loses faith in God, he does not believe in nothing. He believes anything, any crazed cult such as Marxism. America today has as many non-churchgoers as it does Roman Catholics – roughly 20 percent of our population.(2) Science … or Scientism, the cult that worships science and the priesthood of white-robed scientists as an ideology that can objectively determine how and what people should believe.Genuine science is open-minded, always allows reconsideration of any theory, and modestly admits that its realm is empirical, the physical but not metaphysical universe. Scientism is dogmatic, authoritarian and silences those outside its “consensus” (a meaningless term, as Galileo showed). Politicized “science” is scientism, the opposite of what real science tries to free humankind from. (3) Gaia, the ancient Greek “Earth Mother” goddess. This is a pseudo-religion of environmentalism. Worshipped by watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside), this is the cult of global warming. Nobody should be surprised to learn that “Earth Day” began on the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, and has been celebrated on this murderous dictator’s birthday ever since.(4) Wicca, the religion of witchcraft. President Bill Clinton imposed Wiccan chaplains on our military while his wife Hillary ran the coven at the heart of the Clinton “New Covenant.” Many leftists tried to attack President Donald Trump by casting witchcraft spells against him, just as an earlier stoned-head leftist generation tried to use magic to “levitate” the Pentagon.Thousands of such “religions” – from the Nation of Islam (whose leader recently described himself as Jesus) to the Temple of Satan – would be installed in the restored Notre Dame to make it truly “inclusive.”The reason for Europe’s “bare ruined choirs,” its churches full of tourists but empty of worshippers, happened largely because its governments imposed state religions. American freedom of choice has kept our religions vibrant, despite the left’s effort to denigrate and destroy religion.We should keep leftist statist dogma out of the renewed Notre Dame, and exorcise this abomination from our churches as well.Lowell Ponte is a former Reader’s Digest Roving Editor. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other major publications. His latest paper co-authored with Craig R. Smith, “Protecting Your Wealth in Today’s America: How You Invest Your Savings Requires New Thinking,” shows how to rethink several areas of investment to protect and grow your savings in our new schizophrenic politics. For a free, postpaid copy, call toll-free 800-630-1492. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lowell Ponte, HOW LOW MIGHT DEMOCRATS GO?, DAY OF INFAMY 2001, 911 As An INSIDE Job!, Special Activities C.I.A., Mossad Contractor Micro-Nukes RDX, 911 Security Officer Marvin Bush, Bro. Geo Bush POTUS, Omar In Danger of Demon-Rat Martyrdom, Opening 911 Mulim Lies of Towers Fall,Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show,DAY OF INFAMY 2001HOW LOW MIGHT DEMOCRATS GO?Lowell Ponte asks if party has ‘pre-targeted’ Rep. Omar as socialist martyr WND, April 14, 2019URL: https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/how-low-might-democrats-go/“Ilhan Omar’s life is in danger,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Friday. “For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress. We must speak out,” she said, against this “dangerous incitement” by President Donald Trump.Rep. Omar’s life may now indeed be in danger – God forbid – not because of President Trump or law-abiding conservatives, but because of far more sinister forces.Last month Omar, 37, a Somalia-born Muslim first-term Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, gave a speech in which she described the mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, by Islamist terrorists only as “some people did something.”President Trump last Friday tweeted a video of Omar’s words along with footage of the 9/11 attack and the caption “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!”This is what Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and some of her media comrades dishonestly described as a “targeting” of Rep. Omar’s life – Omar’s own words juxtaposed to images of the “something” of which she spoke so belittlingly.This is not the first time Ms. Omar’s extremist words have elicited rage. She is a virulent anti-Semite who advocates the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel. She has attacked Mr. Trump’s White House adviser Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, as a “white nationalist,” and said that “white nationalism” has caused the illegal immigrant swarm crossing America’s southern border.Rep. Omar makes no secret of her hatred of the United States, a nation she describes as “founded by genocide” whose global power today comes from what she calls “neocolonialism.”Like her fellow socialist Ocasio-Cortez, Omar supports the Cuban-backed leftist dictatorship in Venezuela, opposing U.S. efforts to restore democracy there. Also like Ocasio-Cortez, Omar is under investigation over accusations that she illegally diverted campaign funds for her personal use.But Rep. Omar is in danger because the Democratic Party is headed for defeat in the 2020 elections. One reason is that Omar is living proof that the Democrats have become a party of fanaticism, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, radical leftism and corruption. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked a resolution condemning Omar’s anti-Semitism by name.Ocasio-Cortez, in the latest controversy with Omar, absurdly likened President Trump to Adolf Hitler, conveniently ignoring that she and Omar are the anti-Semites and Trump’s part-Jewish family is pro-Israel. In 1930, Josef Goebbels of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party blamed the murder of thug storm trooper leader Horst Wessel on Communists and created a Nazi martyr with his own song.Ocasio-Cortez has conveniently conjured the horrid implication that some right-winger (captured or not) could be driven to murder by President Trump’s words, and might – God forbid! – wound or assassinate Congresswoman Omar.Such a nightmarish act could overnight turn Omar’s terrible political liability into a propaganda asset. CNN and MSNBC would endlessly blame Mr. Trump’s “words of hate” for “killing our democracy.” Absolute gun control would be demanded. All criticism of Democrats and other leftists would be silenced as “dangerous.”Rep. Omar could become a Democratic martyr.Nothing like this happened when a crazed Bernie Sanders supporter shot and nearly killed Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana. The truth is that almost all political violence nowadays comes from the left – from antifa thugs beating conservatives, to campus radicals shouting down free speech. The mob that attacked Fox host Tucker Carlson’s home while only his wife and children were there chanted about “pipe bombs.”Comic Kathy Griffin held up what looked like Donald Trump’s bloody severed head. New York Central Park actors depicted stabbing Trump to death. Snoop Dogg and Marilyn Manson videos showed shooting a Trump look-alike. Madonna talked of “blowing up the White House.” Johnny Depp proclaimed that “maybe it’s about time [that] another actor assassinated a president.” These psychopathic haters encourage mentally unstable imitators.A Boston Globe op-ed days ago urged waiters to “tamper with,” and perhaps even poison, food served to Trump officials already attacked in restaurants.Hillary Clinton gave 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Russia, after which her Foundation got $145 million. Russia then sold nuclear reactor fuel to Iran. If a future 9/11 (again, God forbid) involves Islamist terrorist atomic bombs, remember how low Clinton, Omar and the Democratic Party have been willing to go to rule-or-ruin the United States.If the assassination of a troublesome Democrat derails Trump’s re-election campaign, remember that leftists have now pre-targeted Omar as the next socialist Horst Wessel martyr after their Russian-written phony Trump Dossier coup d’etat attempt failed. Their lust for progressive power is unlimited. Don’t be fooled again.Lowell Ponte is a former Reader’s Digest Roving Editor. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other major publications. His latest paper co-authored with Craig R. Smith, “Protecting Your Wealth in Today’s America: How You Invest Your Savings Requires New Thinking,” shows how to rethink several areas of investment to protect and grow your savings in our new schizophrenic politics. For a free, postpaid copy, call toll-free 800-630-1492. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lowell Ponte, BRAVE NEW WORLD, OVERCOMING THE DEMOCRAT MATRIX, Lowell Ponte urges people to consider red pill/blue pill options, Image of Revelation Beast System AI Rising Now, Options for Humans to OPT OUT NOW!, Prolife Issues, Social Atheistic Communist Satanism or GOD and Christianity Saved As Verb and NOT a Noun Only,Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show,BRAVE NEW WORLDOVERCOMING THE DEMOCRAT MATRIXLowell Ponte urges people to consider red pill/blue pill optionsWND, April 7, 2019 URL: https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/overcoming-the-democrat-matrix/Twenty years ago, on March 31, 1999, on the eve of a new millennium, a movie transformed the thinking of millions around the world.“The Matrix” depicts a future Earth in which most of humankind has lost a war with their own proudly-created artificial intelligence computers. These machines have imprisoned humans in both pods and an illusion – The Matrix, a virtual-reality dream world controlled by the machines that most people mistake for reality.Deep underground in a community called Zion, a few thousand free humans such as Morpheus fight to survive and liberate a hypnotized humankind from this machine-conjured Grand Illusion.“The Matrix,” which won four Academy Awards, centers on one computer programmer known as Neo. You feel that “something is wrong with the world” we perceive, Morpheus tells Neo, a thought that “is like a splinter in your mind.”Morpheus offers Neo the choice of a blue pill, from which he will awaken the next morning back in the illusion as if nothing had happened, or a red pill, which will let him see the artificial construct of The Matrix, after which he can never go back. Neo takes the red pill, and we see his old world dissolve, and reality and his destiny take its place.Would humans prefer to be ruled by computers? Many apparently would, according to a January 2019 poll conducted by the Center for the Governance of Change at Spain’s IE University. More than one in four of the 1,600 Europeans polled said that they would like an artificial intelligence to “make important decisions about the running of their country.”These respondents, wrote Gizmodo, “are more than ready for the robots to give up the pretense of serving man and just take over.” In Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom, almost one in three people wanted A.I. to take over political decision-making. In the Netherlands, 43 percent – close to half the adults polled there – preferred computer rule.Given the dishonest, arrogant, smug and self-serving stupidity of power-hungry human politicians and Eurocrats nowadays, we can understand why many would prefer Artificial Intelligence to no intelligence at all. A September 2018 Pew Research Center poll, reported Gizmodo, found that the median level of trust in human legislatures was only 43 percent.We have already seen artificial intelligence control stock trading. Flash crashes can happen when computers – programmed to beat competing computers by thousandths of a second – react with a huge cascade of buy or sell orders because of another computer’s mistake. Craig R. Smith and I, in our book “Don’t Bank On It! The Unsafe World of 21st Century Banking,” analyze how A.I. computers do not “think” like human beings when trading stocks.This is one reason why entrepreneur Elon Musk warned that A.I could prove to be “more dangerous than nukes,” and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned of such computers “out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.”When looking into the humorless, radicalized, mesmerized eyes of today’s brainwashed young millennial socialists and Marxists, we should remember the warning of Texas A&M University-Commerce computational linguist Kiki Hempelmann that artificial intelligence computers do not understand jokes, one of the highest abilities of the human mind.“Teaching A.I. systems humor is dangerous because they may find it where it isn’t,” says Hemplemann. “Maybe bad A.I. will start killing people because it thinks it is funny.”Today’s young leftist utopians are hot-headed but cold-hearted, utterly bereft of human compassion, tolerance, fairness, feeling or the ability to laugh at one’s self. They seem either to be zombies or machines, ready only to hate, control, silence or kill anyone who disagrees with them. Many seem inhuman and insane.Nowhere is this more evident than in left-leaning social media such as Google, which just eliminated its A.I. ethics board after only one week. Like Facebook, Google wants to become The Matrix, controlling an artificial reality where leftist views are amplified while conservative voices are silenced. These Silicon Valley tyrants pretend that objective algorithms impose political correctness fairly – but biased humans write the algorithms, which Google and Facebook refuse to let outsiders analyze. Facebook was originally designed to act like an addictive drug on young minds.Computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence, even when well-intended, conjures its own biases such as racism or partisanship from the tiniest glimmers of conscious or unconscious prejudice in its human programmers.The leftists’ desire to be society’s “Dominatrix” is the essence of the Democrat Matrix, the dictatorship that red-pill-choosing humankind must overcome. #### For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 89, originally published in April 2012. Join Jason Hartman and Craig R. Smith, Chairman of Swiss America Trading Corporation, for a discussion of the U.S.'s monetary policy, distorted pricing, creating money out of thin air, the outrageous national debt, inflation, and more. Craig says he is thoroughly convinced that governments around the world will print their way out of debt and it will destroy the middle class. He is very concerned about the current state of things unless politicians take a different stand. Craig also talks about how the gold and silver industry is unregulated and encourages investors to be fully aware of the risks and costs associated with buying coins. Big runups in gold have brought the crooks out, and Craig highly recommends investors do their homework before investing with a company, including being in business for more than ten years, a solid delivery policy, etc. Jason and Craig also discuss gold and silver manipulation by Central Banks, in which banks can go in to the markets and buy or sell large possessions of gold. Gold and silver are a threat to the fiat money system, so the banks are antagonistic of the markets. Lastly, Craig touches on the subject of hyperinflation, relating how past tools to fight inflation no longer work because it would cripple the economy. Sadly, Craig feels the only way out of our unbelievable national debt is a total collapse or a systematic collapse by inflating currency slowly over a long period of time. The Swiss America Trading Corporation is an investment firm specializing in U.S. gold and silver coins. Mr. Smith founded the company in 1982 out of a bedroom in his home with $50.00. It has since grown into one of the largest and most respected firms in the industry known for its dedication to consumer education and safety. Craig is an expert in many forms of tangible assets including oil, precious metals and United States numismatic coins. He's a student of history and author of four books, The Inflation Deception: Six Ways Government Tricks Us… And Seven Ways to Stop It! (7/11), Crashing the Dollar: How to Survive a Global Currency Collapse (10/10), Black Gold Stranglehold (11/05) and Rediscovering Gold in the 21st Century (8/01). Mr. Smith is sought after by national media for his insights on breaking news because he instantly engages audiences with his common-sense analysis of major political and economic trends. He is a former columnist for Worldnetdaily.com, and writes economic columns for Swissamerica.com Mr. Smith does not go to Washington D.C. often, but when he does he always comes back with a fresh perspective on why self-government is key to solving our modern crises – not more government spending. Craig understands that fellow Americans want solid answers to the tough questions, having hosted two national talk radio shows during the 1990s: “America Talks” and “World Economic Perspective.” Mr. Smith's free market economic worldview offers Americans a breath of fresh air amid today's failed ‘big government' approach. He believes we need a revival of self-government and free market principles to help rebuild the American economy; unlike the current administration's belief in multi-trillion dollar “cradle-to-grave” government dependence. Website: www.SwissAmerica.com

Capitalism seems to have more bad than good reputation among people. Breaking down some reasons why it is misrepresented is Chairman of Swiss America Trading Corporation, Craig R. Smith. He gives his thoughts about capitalism and the relevance of money in a laissez-faire capitalist society. He talks about China, the government, and what they have been doing to the markets. Helping those who are still grappling with the monetary system, Craig defines sound money and why it is important. He also reflects about humanity, equality, and where we are headed in the next ten years with our current situation. Ultimately, amidst everything going on in politics, he reminds us how we, the people, are the government. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join The Wealth Standard community today:

Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 204, originally published in February 2014. Craig R. Smith is the Chairman of Swiss America and author of, The Great Withdrawal: How the Progressives' 100-Year Debasement of America and the Dollar Ends. He joins the show to give good examples of progressives today. Smith explains how important the next Election cycle is to the future of the world. He thinks this can be the end of Progressivism if the Democrats keep getting their way. The conversation then shifts to how American citizens can decentralize and diversify their lives to survive and prosper. Smith shares some ways that people can protect themselves and their families in today's shaky, vulnerable economy. Website: www.CraigRSmith.com www.BuyGold.com

How prepared would you be if the false alarm that Hawaii received over the weekend was real? Here to talk about this is Lowell Ponte, the co-author (with Craig R. Smith) of numerous books, including "Money, Morality & The Machine" and "The Future Looks Like Baltimore." His diverse background includes being a reporter in Washington, D.C., a legislative aide in the California Assembly, one of two co-owners of a successful Hollywood public relations firm, a consultant and speaker for various corporations and trade associations, and dean of a distance-learning university.Image credit: shutterstock.com

Craig R. Smith will join the program discussing a different outlook on the stock market currently hitting new records; How are you being affected by the stock market the past several years?; Sound Clip of Wisdom; Plus your calls at 855 - 712 - YNTS

Craig R. Smith is the Chairman of Swiss America and author of, "The Great Withdrawal: How the Progressives' 100-Year Debasement of America and the Dollar Ends. He joins the show to give good examples of progressives today.    Smith explains how important the next Election cycle is to the future of the world. He thinks this can be the end of Progressivism if the Democrats keep getting their way.    The conversation then shifts to how American citizens can decentralize and diversify their lives to survive and prosper. Smith shares some ways that people can protect themselves and their families in today's shaky, vulnerable economy.    Find out more about Craig Smith at www.craigrsmith.com. Buy gold from him at www.buygold.com.

Craig R. Smith is the Chairman of Swiss America and author of, "The Great Withdrawal: How the Progressives' 100-Year Debasement of America and the Dollar Ends. He joins the show to give good examples of progressives today.    Smith explains how important the next Election cycle is to the future of the world. He thinks this can be the end of Progressivism if the Democrats keep getting their way.    The conversation then shifts to how American citizens can decentralize and diversify their lives to survive and prosper. Smith shares some ways that people can protect themselves and their families in today's shaky, vulnerable economy.    Find out more about Craig Smith at www.craigrsmith.com. Buy gold from him at www.buygold.com.

John Bejarano is a Brand Strategist with over 14 years of marketing and branding experience, best selling co-author of the book “Game Changers” which peaked at #1 on Amazon's marketing category, and the CEO of First Class Alliance - a strategic entertainment-marketing agency based out of Miami.  Joseph Morstad  is a best selling author, sprint triathlete, RKC and nutrition certified fitness coach.  Kristen Eckstein highly sought-after publishing authority, two time best-selling author and award winning international speaker who has started 45 publishing companies and published 133 books and eBooks. She is founder of the “I am Published!” Ghost Publishing program, the Self-Publish On Demand training program and the 21 Ways  book series.  Craig R. Smith Chairman of Swiss America Trading Corporation, a national investment firm specializing in U.S. gold and silver coins. Craig is an expert in many forms of tangible assets. He's a student of history and author of five books, The Great Debasement: The 100-Year Dying of the Dollar and How to Get America's Money Back.  

Join Jason Hartman and Craig R. Smith, Chairman of Swiss America Trading Corporation, for a discussion of the U.S.'s monetary policy, distorted pricing, creating money out of thin air, the outrageous national debt, inflation, and more. Craig says he is thoroughly convinced that governments around the world will print their way out of debt and [...]

Why are companies choosing the International Trade Commission over district court litigation for patent disputes? On this edition of IP Counsel, host Attorney Peter Lando, partner at the firm of Lando & Anastasi, LLP, welcomes Attorney Craig R. Smith, partner at Lando & Anastasi, LLP, and a leading intellectual property trial attorney, to talk about why companies are choosing the International Trade Commission over district court litigation for patent disputes. Peter and Craig give an inside look into ITC investigations, and tackle a number of issues including recent holdings and other activity that have made the ITC a more popular forum.