Podcast appearances and mentions of Donald Fraser

For those who know Combating Cult Mind Control and my work, you know I was in the Moon cult. However, if you are under 50 years old, most people have no idea what the Moonies are about.  Allen Tate Wood was a four-year member of the Unification Church–aka The Moon organization. He was the Chief Political Officer of the Unification Church in the United States, commander for the state of Maryland, workshop Director and Chief lecturer for the state of Maryland, and an expert witness for the congressional subcommittee investigation led by Donald Fraser into the Korean CIA infiltration into the United States. He also authored Moonstruck: a memoir of my life and a cult to warn people against cult dangers. Wood said he left in 1973 because “they were making people into fanatics.” In addition, he testified in The London Daily Mail lawsuit where the newspaper wrote that the Moonies brainwashed members and separated them from their families. The Daily Mail won the case and the Unification Church had to pay some 2 million dollars. Perhaps most importantly, Wood testified before the US Supreme Court in 1979 and 1981in the case involving Moon's conviction of conspiracy to defraud the US Government. Mr. Moon was sentenced to 18 months and served 13 in a posh prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Mr. Moon died in 2012, and two sons fight with their mother over billions of dollars. Sean Moon claims to be “king” and has created a religious cult called the Rod of Iron Ministries. He claims that God wants people to own and know how to use AR-15 assault rifles. Sean Moon went to the January 6th coup attempt at the Capitol and tweeted that Antifa was making the attack- a lie also pushed by Moon's newspaper, The Washington Times. His brother Justin Moon owns a gun factory in Pennsylvania to make assault rifles and train people for civil wars. After Biden's inauguration as President of the United States, his predecessor Moon went to the January 6th coup attempt at the Capitol and tweeted that Antifa was making the attack- a lie also pushed by Moon's newspaper, The Washington Times. Trump, Pence, and Pompeo all appeared for a virtual event for Hak Ja Han, endorsing her. Trump received 2.5 million dollars for this. This was just a few weeks after the attempted violent coup. The Washington Times has been the center of 50 years of climate science denial according to David Lipsky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Graham and Scott hear from Donald Fraser who is looking to do 2000 pushups for the CMHA; majority of drivers prefer driving at night; Petes dropped one to Oshawa last night; it's Groundhog Day

While The Front Page is taking its summer break, we are shining a spotlight on some of the biggest podcasts and news events from the New Zealand Herald network over the last year.   Cold cases are relatively few and far between in Aotearoa. And that's what makes the case of Donald Fraser stand out. 90 years after Fraser was shot dead in his bed at the Racecourse Hotel in Christchurch, questions linger about who was responsible, and why no one was ever brought to justice. Open Justice journalist Ric Stevens has been looking into this case for over a decade, and in this special series for the Herald's Chasing Ghosts podcast, does he have an answer to this nearly century-old cold case?  Listen to the first episode of Chasing Ghosts: Murder at the Racecourse Hotel now, and find the full season in the Chasing Ghosts feed on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the podcast, you'll hear  violinist Kerstin Tenney talk about her upcoming debut album, LIGHT. We spent a lot of time talking about the long arc of her project - and if you have a project, a concept, an album in your heart that is not yet in the world, you will love this conversation.  Kerstin Tenney is a professional violinist based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an active freelance musician, Kerstin works frequently on recording projects, does solo work, and performs regularly with the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. She has toured with the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra on stages across the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Vienna Musikverein. Kerstin was the featured violin soloist on the soundtrack for the award-winning documentary, Bears of Durango, currently playing on PBS. LIGHT is Kerstin's debut album, for which she commissioned 4 new works and 8 new arrangements. The album was produced by award-winning classical producer and sound engineer, Simon Kiln, and British Award winning composer, Donald Fraser. I really loved talking to Kerstin and hearing how much her heart and her vision led the way throughout the ten year process of bringing this album into the world. She was patient with the project, she let new ideas in to guide her as it developed, and she took the actions to make it happen.  Follow Kerstin at her website and @kerstintenney on Instagram! This episode is brought to you today by Happiest Musician Coaching. You are amazing, and I believe in you. What are you trying to create?  What do you need your career to be and do for you? What are you not seeing that you need to do and work on?  I love these conversations and supporting musicians like you. For a limited time, I'm offering a free 30-minute call to get you some clarity around your next steps, and see how I might help you get unstuck!  Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical!  Theme music and audio editing by DreamVance. You can join my email list HERE, so you never miss an episode! I'm your host, Jennet Ingle. I love you all. Stay safe out there!

Joanna MacGregor and Donald Fraser are tenant farmers at Farm Ness, on the Dochfour Estate, outside Inverness. Joanna left behind a geography teaching career to join Donald on the farm. Series 5 of BBC Scotland's This Farming Life charts their efforts to open a farm shop.

Alan Smith, co-founder of Capital Asset Management in London, talks about how he and his business partner Donald Fraser built the firm into the success it is today. He also discusses the UK's changing advice landscape and why his firm charges fixed fees.

Our veteran politics panel — consultant Lauren Hunter, journalist & former mayor Sylvia Sutherland, businesswoman Jenny Lanciault, editor Donald Fraser and Curve Lake Council member Sean Conway — starts the new year by unpacking the seismic political events of the first week of January in the United States. They assess what the surprising victories for […]

Yule – Part II This week we hear Anonymous and Traditional works and works by John Dunstaple, Thomas Tallis, Alessandro Striggio, Heinrich Schütz, Nicolas de Grigny, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Holst, Marcel Dupré, Benjamin Britten, Ariel Ramírez, Jiří Ropek, and Donald Fraser. 170 Minutes – Week of December 07, 2020

Three of our veteran politics panellists — Curve Lake First Nations Councillor Sean Conway, consultant Lauren Hunter, and writer & editor Donald Fraser — hop across borders as they share their reactions to the September 23rd throne speech delivered in Ottawa, then catch up with U.S. election campaign and the impact of the passing of […]

Our veteran hockey panel — playwright, math teacher & current hockey player Tim Etherington, writer, podcaster and loyal Habs fan Donald Fraser, hockey broadcaster, sports commentator and host of the “Mercier ‘n Crew” program on 90.5 fm, Jordan Mercier and sports journalist and hockey program host on CHEX TV, Katrina Squazzin— looks at the Petes (and […]

Sylvia Sutherland, Lauren Hunter, Sean Conway, Donald Fraser & Tim Etherington weigh in on recent events affecting all of us in Peterborough. The panel starts with an examination of potential planning problems in East City, then assesses the first year of the Ford government and ends with troubling conclusions about the level of public discourse in our federal election campaign (so far).

A week after the redacted Mueller report’s release, Democrats weigh the risks — and imperatives — of impeachment. On this week’s On the Media, why our founders gave congress the power to oust the president in the first place. Plus, the forgotten roots of May Day, the international workers’ holiday. 1. Paul Waldman [@paulwaldman1], columnist and senior writer for the American Prospect and the Washington Post, on the politics and virtues of impeachment. Listen. 2. Jeffrey Engel [@jeffreyaengel], the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, and coauthor of Impeachment: An American History on the the history of impeachment. Listen. 3. Zephyr Teachout [@ZephyrTeachout], author of Corruption in America, on how our nation lost its original anti-corruption zeal. Listen. 4. Donna Haverty-Stacke, [@DHavertyStacke], professor of History at Hunter College, CUNY, on the U.S. origin of May Day and how it has come to be forgotten. Listen. Music: Time Is Late by Marcos Ciscar   Jeopardy: Think Music (in style of Handel) by Donald Fraser, Merv Griffin, Donald Fraser Here It Comes by Modest Mouse Liquid Spear Waltz by Michael Andrews Tymperturbably Blue (Live 1959) by Duke Ellington Into the Streets May First: written by Aaron Copland; performed by Jon Hanrahan (direction, piano); vocals by Alana Casanova-Burgess, Leah Feder, Micah Loewinger, Brooke Gladstone, Karen Frillman, Jim O’Grady, Philip Yiannopoulos, engineered by Irene Trudel  

Alumnus David Grand is the founder and CEO of Muskoka Grown, a 65,000-square-foot, top quality cannabis production facility, as well as a former member of the Trent University Board of Governors. Using the latest technologies, he is trying to create the gold standard of cannabis companies. Mr. Grand took TRENT Magazine’s editor, Donald Fraser, on a guided tour of the facility and followed it up with a conversation that tackled the science, economics, and social aspects of marijuana. We interviewed him in December, via Skype, and featured excerpts of this conversation in the March TRENT Magazine.

Our politics panel (Sylvia Sutherland, Lauren Hunter, Tim Etherington, Sean Conway & Donald Fraser) comments on the mosque shootings in New Zealand, the Liberals' handling of the SNC Lavalin affair, Doug Ford's education reforms and Jason Kenney's election campaign.

Our expert hockey panel -- Tim Etherington, Donald Fraser, Sean Quinlan, Meg Thurston & Jordan Mercier -- looks at the state of The Game and explores why hockey still matters in Canada in 2019

Our panelists (Sean Conway, Tim Etherington &; Donald Fraser) look at Doug Ford, Donald Trump, the Toronto election mayoralty race then they analyze our municipal election campaign here in Peterborough. This podcast is a fusion of the previous two podcasts (#30 & #29).

This panel discussion has been uploaded in two segments. This is Clip 1, wherein our panelists (Sean Conway, Tim Etherington & Donald Fraser) look at Doug Ford, Donald Trump & the Toronto election race.

This is the second segment of a two-part panel discussion that was too large to upload as a single file. This segment focuses on the municipal election here in Peterborough. Panelists: Sean Conway, Tim Etherington & Donald Fraser

May 30, 2018 - Tim Etherington & Donald Fraser's analysis the Ontario election campaign so far. The Ford juggernaut, strategic voting, the collapse of the Liberals and the rise of the NDP. How did we get here and what is going to happen on June 7th? Minor technical problems with Tim's microphone resolved 8 minutes in.

May 9, 2018 - A complete recording of Diane Therrien's mayoral campaign launch speech of May 3, 2018, following with an analysis by guest panelists Tim Etherington and Donald Fraser

There's more in Loch Ness than one big mystery animal. This week we look at a few smaller mystery animals lurking in the cold depths of the lake. Further reading: Here's Nessie: A Monstrous Compendium from Loch Ness by Karl P.N. Shuker The goliath frog: The Wels catfish (also, River Monsters is the best): An amphipod: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Back in episode 29, I dismissed Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, as probably not a real animal. But this week we’re heading back to Loch Ness to see what other monsters might lurk in its murky depths. WHAAAAA? Other Loch Ness monsters??? Yes, really! See, ever since the first sightings of Nessie in the 1930s, Loch Ness has been studied and examined so closely that it would be more surprising if no one had ever spotted other mystery animals. The source of most of the information in this episode is from zoologist Karl Shuker’s book Here’s Nessie! A Monstrous Compendium from Loch Ness. Check the show notes for a link if you’re interested in buying your own copy of the book. Our first non-Nessie mystery dates from 1934, but it happened, supposedly, sometime in the 1880s. It appeared in the Northern Chronicle, an Inverness newspaper, on January 31, 1934. The article relates that a ship in Loch Ness hit a submerged reef called Johnnie’s Point and sank one night. Luckily no one died. The next day a local diving expert named Duncan Macdonald was hired to determine if the wreck could be raised, but he couldn’t spot the wreck during his dive. Later that evening, some of the ship’s crew who had heard stories about strange creatures living in Loch Ness asked Macdonald whether he’d seen anything unusual. After some urging, Macdonald finally admitted that he had seen a frog-like creature the size of a good-sized goat sitting on a rock ledge some 30 feet, or 9 meters, underwater. It didn’t bother him so he didn’t bother it. There are a lot of problems with this account, of course. For one thing, we don’t know who wrote it—the article has no byline. It’s also a secondhand account. In fact, the article ends with this line: quote “The story, exactly as given, was told by Mr Donald Fraser, lock-keeper, Fort Augustus, who often heard the diver (his own grand-uncle) tell it many years ago.” unquote Plus, of course, frogs don’t grow as big as goats. The biggest frog is the goliath frog, which can grow over a foot, or 32 cm, in length nose to tail, or butt I guess since frogs don’t have tails, which is pretty darn big but not anywhere near as big as a goat. The goliath frog also only lives in fast-moving rivers in a few small parts of Africa, not cold, murky lakes in Scotland, and its tadpoles only feed one one type of plant. In other words, even if someone did release a goliath frog into Loch Ness in the 1880s—which is pretty farfetched—it wouldn’t have survived for long. The biggest frog that ever lived, as far as we know, lived about 65 million years ago and wasn’t all that much bigger than the goliath frog, only 16 inches long, or 41 cm. It had little horns above its eyes, which gives it its name, devil frog. Its descendants, South American horned frogs, also have little horns but are much smaller. So what might Mr. Macdonald have seen, assuming he didn’t just make it all up? Some species of catfish can grow really big, but catfish aren’t native to Scotland. It’s always possible that a few Wels catfish, native to parts of Europe, were introduced into Loch Ness as a sport fish but didn’t survive long enough to establish a breeding population in the cold waters. Catfish have wide mouths, although their eyes are small, and might be mistaken for a frog if seen head-on in poor light. Plus, the Wels catfish can grow to 16 feet long, or 5 meters. Then again, since the article was published during the height of the first Loch Ness monster frenzy, it might all have been fabricated from beginning t...

Time to get FOODIE. Tonight on the PTBO PJ SHOW, we have local food guru and Farm to Table: Culinary Tour host, Donald Fraser on to dish about all things yummy and in season.

SPEKTRMODULE 37 Endless And Lightless 41 minutes and 31 seconds   This is an ambient / haunted music podcast curated by Warren Ellis, who is a writer from England. @warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com Please tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.  We are #SPEKTRMODULE. It lives at spkmdl.libsyn.com     1. logotone by Dirty Knobs   2 "Invocation of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche" - Ghost Affirmation  (found: http://concentricdronecult.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/ghost-affirmation-angelmaker-eyes-that.html )   3. "Locomotion (Ghost Train version)" - Donald Fraser ( https://donaldfraser.bandcamp.com/ )   4. "the brotherhood of saturn" - black lung & spiderface  ( http://ant-zen.bandcamp.com)   5. "Dulcimer Music 4" - Plinth     (album: Dulcimer Music http://iamplinth.bandcamp.com )   6. "Find" - James Murray(album: Loss http://eileanrec.bandcamp.com )   7. "Acceptance II" - Lake Mary     (album: There Are Always Second Chances In The Mountains http://lakemary.bandcamp.com )   8. logotone  

A slightly claustrophobic show tonight with excellent cuts from Loscil, The Advisory Circle, Donald Fraser, Luke Abbott and many more. Gig guide and a shout out to the excellent kickstarter campaign about Suzanne Ciani. All engulfing.

Donald Fraser ist Professor für Erdwissenschaften an der Universität Oxford und verbringt derzeit als Gast von Prof. Bernd Michael Rode ein Sabbatical in Innsbruck. Gemeinsam mit den Chemikern um Rode möchte der renommierte britische Wissenschaftler den Geheimnissen um die Entstehung des Lebens auf die Spur kommen. Experimente mit Peptiden und Tonmineralen versprechen neue Erkenntnisse.